Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-12
CHIEF SETS NET
FOR NEW VICE
SUSPECTS
Scores Detectives for Alleged
Laxity in Reporting Cases.
Arrests Due Soon.

As the result Of the increased sc-
tivity by the detective and police de
partments. following the grilling
given the detectives Friday afternoon
by Chief Beavers. five new arrests
were made by a squad Of officers
shortly after noon Saturday in a raid
on boarding house at No. 1914 IL
Peters Street.
The persons under arrest gave their
names as Lulu Bell, Maud Wilson.
Mrs. Lee Bernstein and L. W. Berk
stein Efie Drummond, a 22-year- old
country girl, who has been in At
lanta only four weeks, is held as a
material witness.
A man whose name IS given as Joe
North escaped through a back win
dow while the police were raiding the
place. A general order has been is
sued for his arrest The raid was
made by Oficers Brannan, Monorief
and Baker
More Arrests Probable.
Chief Beavers declares he has evil
dence that the boarding house, which
was run by the Bell woman, is an i'm
moral resort The quintet probably
will be tried In Police Court Mon
day. The Chief intimated after the
arrest that other arrests are probable
within "a hours as a result Of devel-
opments Of the days investigation,
which have brought out the follow
ing
Dora Rothstein has made a new
statement, duplicating three more
men In her downfall, and naming
half dozen girls as victims Of the
ring
The detective department follow
ing severe grilling given them by
chief Beavers Friday night, Is seek
ing evidence against the vice ring
with renewed vigor
Business Men Aid Chief.
Two prominent business men, in
terested i'm the welfare of the little
Rothstein girl. have entered the case
and are aiding chief Beavers in Sc
curing evidence.
Information has come TO chief
Beavers OF a house where young
girls are taken 10y men and ruined,
and then taken TO hotels or immoral
resorts.
The dragnet has been thrown out
for the son of one of Atlanta's most
prominent business men, named by
Hattie Smith in her story of immo-
rality at the Cumberland Hotel
Four persons Hattie Smith, Mrs.
Lola White, Paul Estes and Hoyt
Monroe-were held for the Grand
Jury Saturday morning on new
charges. following the Smith girls
story Of a 10y ride" Estes has
said that he viii make a confession.
In which he will involve men hither-
to unsupported.
Girl Promises Confession.
Corinne Wilson, one Of the victims
of the ring. told Chief Beavers that
when she Is placed on the witness
stand Saturday afternoon she will
make a complete confession, impli-
eating more than a dozen men and
half q dozen young girls
Chief Beavers attaches great I'M
portanCe TO evidence already obtained
by the two business men who have
Joined him In the crusade. These men
held "a conference with the Chief Sat
urd8y morning and told him OF the
existence OF the house where young
girls are taken and piled with liquor
until they lose their senses
The new statement of Dora Roth
stein was made to these men. The
girl who charges that Corinne Wilson
lured her into a life Of shame, named
three more men with whom she has
had Illegal relations, and also fur
uished the names of half a dozen girls
who. she declared had trodden the
same path as she.
Chief Beavers now has the names
Of between fifteen and twenty men,
and more than a dozen young girls,
furnished TO him by Hattie Smith,
Dora Rothstejn and Corinue Wilson.
He said, as can be found. they viii
be brought into court. and cases made
where there is evidence enough to
justify such a course. Those against
whom cases are not made will be
summoned as witnesses and forced to
tell what they know.
one Of the startling incidents Of the
Investigation came in police court
Saturday morning. in the hearing Of
Hattie smith Mrs Lola White. Paul
Estes and Hoyt Monroe The Smith
girl heretofore one Of the main
sources of evidence. fatty refused 10
talk when placed on the stand She
would neither affirm nor deny that
she had taken an auto ride with
Estes and Monroe and that she had
had Illicit relations with them
Startling Story Expected.
The stories of the other three, how