The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-03
LOCAL WOMANS
 STORY LEADS TO TWELVE ARRESTS
Mrs. Della, Hanson of Bridge port Beaten and Held
 White slaver's Prisoner
HAD GOT MONEY FROM LAWYER IN THIS CITY
Tells Story of Being Drug ged and Beaten By a
 Strange Young Man

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 As the result of the kidnapping of Mrs Della Nea1y Hanson on the even ing of May 26, when she left her 1odg- ings at 648 Broad street to visit a. friend i'm New York city, the police of New York today have twelve persons under arrest upon charges of white slavery. Four girls, besides Mrs Han son, found in captivity and being 'bruta1fy treated are held as material witnesses against a. band alleged to be of the police who, it is said, wifi be shown to have made a. regular bust ness of enticing girls and women into. a life of shame and later supplying them to houses of il1-fame in Man ha.ttan, Brooklyn Harlem, Bridgeport and other towns in New England. Dis trict Attorney Martin Of Bronx Coun- ty, N. r.. stated today that the arrests already made are only the beginning of a clean up which will extend all over the country.
 Investigation in Bridgeport today showed that Mrs. Hanson had lived recently at the home of Mrs. James F. Gate1y, 64s Broad street. She had occupied one of the upper rooms for some months On the morning of May 26, she informed the family that she
 
 she was going down town to get some money As she was in arrears for her room rent Mrs. Gately Accompanied her to the office of a prominent law yer. from whom she got $25 in cheek At the bank, the teller refused to cash the check and it was necessary for the lawyer to Identify her
 Mrs Hanson then purchased a new suit of clothes and a hat and returned to the house. She is not believed to have had a very large sum Of money but called up the taxicah service af EtheFbert Hart, and a driver named ssElmer,,' according to the inmates of to the Bridgeport station. That was the last seen Of her in this city
 It is stated. however. that Elmer called g. week ago last night at the house and demanded her clothing, which included the new suit and hat, which, for some mysterious reason she failed to wear in her hnrry to get to New York.
 Mrs Gately refused to give up the clothing and the driver of the taxi went away. It is believed that some communication between Mrs. Ha0son or her captors and persons in Bridge4 port were maintained
 At the rooms of Mrs. Hanson last night, it was disclosed that she was very intimately acquainted with the proprietor of a New York saloon named Albert Carson living in the, Bronx. that she had left hurr4edly from Bridgeport and that she was formerly a domestic working in New York city Her dress suit case was but partly packed
 At the offices of the lawyer who furnished her with funds. it was stated that the payment was made upon be Tr,JF rzf 4IS frA he r-Ia 5Tr7z made by Mrs. Hanson in connection with a. suit she was about to bring in the courts the notoriety of which would have been very unpleasant
 The history of the Kidnapped wo- man in this city had been filled with many episodes that brought her to the attentior~ of the police She is the daughter of Patrick Nicely, employed as a fireman in the works of the D. M C. Co. She was married to John Hanson, a mechanic, who later died in the Shelton sanitarium after he had become estranged from his wife. The couple had four children, two of whom are said to be in the county home in NorwaIk, one with a. sister of her former husband on River street, and another one boarding on South avenue.
 She lived for some time with a fam fly named WIlmot on Broad street, but prior to that had for two years been a housekeeper for Sheriff Thomas F. Hamilton on Arch street. On many occasions she became inebriated to such an extent that she created a dis turbance and was placed under re straint by the police
 It was only recently that she as sauIted a. prominent man on Golden Hill street and prior to that time was forcibIy removed from the. Hamilton household owing to a disturbance while employed there as a domestic.
 Her record at Headquarters discloses arrests on February. 10, 1910. for breach of the peace, and July 25, 1910, for a similar offence Both times she Jumped bail On October 2S, 1910, she was fined $15 and worked out her fine in jail On August 12, 1913, she was held for investigation and turned over to the charity department and on April Il, 1914 she was apprehend- ed for disturbance but discharged by the superintendent of police.
 The prisoners arrested in New York County Judge Gibbs in the Bronx All were held when Mrs. Hanson had re- told her story
 Mrs. Hanson, who is twenty-nine years old, went to New York to seek a place as a mail A1ighting from a train at One Hundred and Twenty fifth street, she lost her way. She guide her. but drugged her when she consented to take a soft drink with him.
 She remembered nothing more un- tfI she found herself in a park. beF clothes torn almost off She went to a coffee house for cup Of coffee
 Two. men followed me to the street