The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-02-27
GRAND JURY HUNTS
RICH VAMPIRES WHO
LURE YOUNG GIRLS
Begins Investigation of Grim
inal Charge Against Brook.
! lyn Sons of Wealth.
ENTlCED BY JOY RIDES.
Daughters of Good Families
Lured by Organized Clique
to Drink and Worse.
ENTlCED BY JOY RIDES.

Srhe Kings County Grand Jury he.
gan to-day to delve into the secrets
OF coterie Of wealthy young Brooklyn
society men who, possessed Of motor
care and well-lined pocketbooks, but
lacking moral balance. have for more
tnen year been making their pastime
the scientific degradation Of young girls.
With their autom obiles and their as
surances OF an exciting evening at the
cabaret shows as the bait. these youths,
who have drifted together into a more
or less formal organization. have lured
many girls OF good family astray and
the police believe that the mysterious
disappearance OF at least a dozen girls
now officially missing might be
traced back to them
Evidence against two OF the men IL
now in the possession OF Assistant Dis
trtct.Attorney Louis Goidstein and will
be presented TO the Grand Jury in the
near future. In the meantime further
Investigation will be made by Mr.. Gold
stein. who learned OF the existence of
tho debauchers' clique through his
of,icial connection with the case of
Martha Kohler. the seventeen year-old
schoolgirl daughter of James Pollock
kohier. a lawyer and politician Of prom
inence. on behalf of whom a serious
charge has been made against Walter
h. Doyle. a young real estate operator
who until recently had Offices at No. 16
Court street.
sTAMPEDE IN THE RANKS OF
THE CLIQUE.
The activity Of the District-Attorney's
Office and Of Central Office detectives
ranks OF the clique. Many Of those
whose appearance was desired before
the Grand Jury and at the arraignment
Of Doyle in Flatbush Court next Tues
day morning. have left Brooklyn. and
subpoenas issued for them remained I'M
served.
Mr.. Kohler. who 10 secretary TO the
Tax Commission and has his own law
ofiices at No. ~ Court street, was sure
to-day that representations had been
made to his daughter by some member
Of the clique. The girl. who accused
Doyle in an affidavit she swore to last
October, and who for q time seemed
willing to press the charge against him.
has changed her attitude. She has told
her father and her brothers. one Of
whom Is Philip Kohler. Mayor Cay
nor's personal secretary. that she will
not testify to anything which may
harm Doyle.
MIR. Kohler Is also much mystihed as
10 who financed his daughters trip to
Atlantic City last Saturday. She was
10 have appeared against Doyle on
Tuesday in the Magistrates Court. but
ON Saturday evening she disappeared in
company with Miss Sadie Hermalin. n
school teacher only year or two older
than herself. Someone provided Miss
kohler with 500. according to her
father, who brought her back from At
lantic City Tuesday.
In conversations with her father and
brothers and with Mr.. Goldstein and
Dstectives States, Downey and sullivan,
who have been assigned to break up the
Clique, the Kohler girl has given the
names Of several other victims. She
also has mentioned several young men
or wealthy families, one OF whom is the
son Of a man who once held high po-
litical ONCE.