The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-04-22

LOS ANGELES, April a2.-George H.
Bixby, a millionaire OF Long Beach. was
served today with a subpoena demanding
his presence in the court Of Justice
Reeve next Wednesday afternoon as
witness in the case of Mrs. Josie Rosen-
berg. alias Mrs. Emma Josephine Good
man, arrested on felony charges con-
nected with white slave allegations, and
placed in the county jail in default Of
$4,000 cash bail.
That was the days most important
development in the sensational case
barred by the police department. in Los
Angeles, members of which declared
their Investigations tend to connect
some Of southern California's most
wealthy and influential citizens with
the alleged enslavement of Il young
girls
OTHER DEVELOPMENT
Other developments include the hold
ing by the police of Mrs. C. B. Badger,
proprietress of so called massage
parlor, in connection with the charges
against Mrs. Rosenberg and the SEN
fencing in the police court to six
months each on the rockpile of E. J.
Davis and Frank Copeland, alleged pro-
curers. who pleaded guilty to vagrancy
These men We're said to have been asso-
ciates of Mrs. Rosenberg and Mrs.
Badger.
Mrs. Rosenberg. according TO the
police, conducted in the downtown dis
trict so called lodging house known
The Jonquil." where many young
girls. gathered from department stores.
restaurants and other places of en-
ployment, were alleged to have been
Iured to meet wealthy men.
GIRL WILL TELL ALL
Among them the police named Mrs
Irene Marie Brown Levy, who will not
be II until June 1 next and who was
brought back here today from Red
lands. where she was alleged to have
been hiding in the home of her uncle.
Harvey Phillips. Mrs. Levy was said
TO have received several thousand dol
lars for leaving Los Angeles, but ac-
cording to the officers who brought her
back. she expressed a Willingness to
ke1l the truth about alleged revolving
acts in which she and other girls were
said to have participated at The jon
quill"
q Mrs. Levy's statements to the police
were said to involve. among others. a
prominent millionaire who was known
among his dupes and cadets as ethe
black pearl because of a setting of
a scraf pin he always wore. At times
however. he was said to have been
known simply as Mr.. King" a tribute
it was declared. to his majestic dis
regard for money
"PEARL" PAYS MONEY
The police said Mrs. Levy stated she
had obtained various sums of money
from him. but had always been forced
to divide with Mrs. Rosenberg.
The true name of "the black pearl, is
known to the police. but it is only un-
der that sobriquet that the officers have
limited at his alleged connection with
the case.
The detectives searched Mrs. Rosen-
bergs effects and declared they found
among them a note for 5000 signed by
one z. w. Galloway in favor of the
man known as the black pearl"
ATTORNEY INVOLVED
When Mrs. Rosenberg was arrested.
the detectives said. they found in her
pocket the photograph of an attorney
of this city.
1t was not until the Levy girl was
. brought back from Redlands that the
officers felt they had sufficient evf-
dence to warrant placing the felony
charge against Mrs. Rosenberg, but
when that young woman had told her
story the formality of lodging Mrs.
Rosenberg in the county jail in 10000
bonds was speedily accomplished.
Davis and Copeland, it was stated
expressed willingness to plead guilty
TO vagrancy and take rock pile SEN
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