New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-31
Alleged Guides of %
Women 90 Texas Halted
by Prosecutor.
MORE ARRESTS
ARE EXPECTED
Victims Said To BE Bound
for Border Towns May
BE Stopped.

Thomas Lorgc said 60 be known for
-.-, chan twenty years 60 the police
.f-.s Tendcrloiu. and May Martin. a
..-.- OF many aliases. were arrested
.. cupboard yesterday as they were
,hoa. 20 sail Tor Galveston by orders
. a tar, District Attorney James
smith. With them ON the san
Is,rto were twenty-five women. who.
+. t. asserted. were being taken to a
.s.5sr.' resort in San Antonio, Tex.
These. through fear OF making a mis-
,.se r identification, were permitted
70 proceed.
Ior-c's arrest was later declared by
v- smith 60 be the most important
vol made in tie white slave inquiry.
Since che inquiry began Jorge had been
rrter watch. and through hum and the
Martin woman 10 is expected others
a. be arrested
Should the character Of the women
,.u c- route be established TO legal
CERTAINTY. the Mann white slave law
.H be- invoked. The women viii be
trccntcd by Federal agents if tele-
.rm. which were sent from New York
Esd rcnt have 'hc effect the senders
t.rcc.
10 BE Questioned BY Grand jury.
m tH, District Attorneys office
ioce and the Martin woman were
.t 40 atfcnpt was made 10 force
f- to talk. and they were taken 90
..-.r.tc prisons. 90 be held until this
m.ru.rg. when they viii be taken be-
... che grand jury They viii be
.U 90 tell what they know about
ro-e chan twenty pawn tickets found
.earch of a woman's fiat IN a
N..- Nineteenth Street. These tickets
r. c. wl look up to-day. Safe de-
r..+ -.u.ts were rented by the couple
. .r. West Side Bank and the Hud-
.u TRUST Company. the police allege
r.I'ut- FOR rent Of these vaults and
bans book on the Germania Savings
Sowing several hundred dollars
ls.r..-cd were found in the fiat. Bail
r- Fixed 90 $4,000 each for the man
..a oman.
several years ago Lorge was SEN
.nc.d hy District Attorney Swami,
t..r Judge in General Sessions. TO
>rc sing for four years and a half for
grand larceny. He had also served IN
the Worahouse.
DIM che underworld. 10 is asserted by
tHe uo. ce. he is best known as the man
whose women on the occasion Of Il
Hunl-C Changes visit 10 New York. more
than twenty years ago. robbed the
Chinese statesman and a prominent
Ia vol
40 the time was not recovered. but the
police did recover the massive time
n.ece and the long gold chain belong
.rr O. ii and the less DrctentIous watch
o the American. There were no prose
cations boo this case.
Watched Two Weeks.
T..o weeks ago a tip was received by
t.. District Attorney that because Of
t.. presence Of so many thousand
troops Texas there was a big demand
I.. women. and that Lorge had the job
o implying them. Lorgc was watched,
..I alter. the police said, it developed
f'.t le was using a hotel in Long Acre
SQUARE and restaurants further north
on Broadway for meeting women. The
a.ucn who went TO these places. it was
said. were told that in Texas there was
o.. opportunity Of coming money.
The arrest Of Lorge and the Martin
woman was announced by Mr.. Smith
a.. . meeting in the District Attorney S
Office of "a committee of twelve headed
bt Mrs William Grant Brown, and
formed 90 aid iu the war on white slav-
,ry Nr. Smith said that Lorge was
the most important person yet caught
.n the net.
Gustavc Schultz, member Of the
Grand Jury Association, asked what
mad become Of the Mortche Goldberg
case of two years ago.
Nr. Smith explained that this man,
SHOWN as the king of white slavers
. now "a fugitive from justice IN
Bucnos Ayres. trouble having been eX-
per.enccd in getting witnesses against
him.
"They feared Roseuthal's fate he
said. "and Alice Henry, who finally tes-
tfed against him. was nearly murdered.
Now we are able to protect witnesses
and have no such difficulty"