New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-03
SEVEN ARRESTED
ON SLAVE CHARGE
Bail Fixed at $4,000
Five Others Detained
as Witnesses.
WOMAN TELLS PITlFUL
STORY OF CRUELTY
Asserts She Was Imprisoned,
Starved and Beaten Till
Nearly Demented.

Six men and woman were held IN
$4,000 bail each early this morning aI
the close of a midnight session before
County Judge Gibbs. of The Bronx, IN
what District Attorney Martin believes
ia the biggest cleanup yet made IN
the white slavery crusade.
Held also as witnesses arc five more
women. One of them is young and
pretty girl from Springfield, Mass.
Three others have been homeless VIC
tins Of their exploiters and are de-
i tanned on a vagrancy charge. Inc
fifth is the one whose experiences with
the band have resulted in the whole
sale arrests.
The prisoners under heavy bail are
Frank Massilotti, forty-seven years
old. a cafe proprietor, of 80 Westches-
ter av., Port Chester; Enrico Grasso,
! twenty-eight, of 1928 Mulberry ST.,
Manhattan: Victor Corta, twenty-one,
( of SO East 153d ST., Manhattan;. Emilio
/ Calfora. nineteen. Of 225 East l49th st.,
Manhattan: Michael Guanaro, no ad-
dress; VinCenzo Calfora, OF 225 East
} 10th ST.. Manhattan, and Mrs. Rosa de
Euro. no address.
The other women prisoners are MISS
/ Emily De Gray, nineteen. of q Park
st.. Springfield, Mass; Frances Per-
retts. nineteen, of 275 East l46th ST.,
Nanhattan; Corinne Hanson, OF ol9
East l35th St, Manhattan; Nora Muir
ply, eighteen, OF 275 East l46th ST.,
/ Manhattan. and Mrs. seymour n. Han
/ sen. twenty-nine, Of 644 Park ST.,
/ Bridgeport. Conn.
7 May &c. according to Mrs. Hansen,
she left her home in Bridgeport and
came 20 New York to visit Albert Car
son, of Brook ay. and bath st. She
/ left the train at the Harlem station
and inquired of man she met, ihe
way to Brook av.
lie escorted her, Mrs. Hansen says.
: to a cafe near the corner of 149th St,
where they had several drinks. They
left the cafe and Mrs. Hansen became
dizzy and at last fell unconscious.
/ When she recovered consciousness,
( Mrs Hansen says, she was lying in a
vacant lot at Mott av. and l6lst ST.,
with the morning sun shining IN her
face. Her clothes were disnevelled,
she was i'll and s53 which she had had
] IN a pockctbook was gone.
3 A policeman advised her to 60 some
/ where and clean up. She finally met
/ Calfora. she says. and he offered to
take her TO his mothers" house, at
. 80 fHSl l4DlH ~
/ There, Mrs Hansen says, she was
made prisoner. She was removed
! later from the house under the infu-
ence Of opiates and taken to Massc-
lotti's place in Port Chester, whore she
remained for two weeks, exploited by
her captors. Then she was brought
back to New York and locked up IN
house at 266 East l54th st.
81 in "a
place Mrs. Hansen says she was given
insufficient food and frequently beaten.
John Hochsng. a marshal, went to
the 15ith St house and heard pleadlngs
! in woman's voice from a locked room
I Hochsing burst in the door.
/ Two men leaped out Of window on
/ to a fire escape as he entered. In the
middle Of the room was Mrs. Hansen:
Her body was emaciated and covered
with bruises. She seemed half dement,
ed. Hochsing at once notified the land
/ lady. Mrs. william Dolan. and then
called an ambulance. Mrs. Hansen was
removed to Lebanon Hospital. where
/ she lay in a critical condition for sew
eral days.
/ In addition to Mrs. Hansen's testi-
mony against Calfora and Masselottl:
/ Miss De Gray accuses De Grasso OF
| having taken her from Springfield.
District Attorney Martin and As
sistant District Attorney Mork believe
that more arrests will follow to-day
and that the case will deal the local
white slave" traffic a hard blow.