Weekly journal-miner., 1916-04-05
TELL HOW THEY WERE LURED
 ID OATMAN
FOUR PRETTY GIRLS GIVE TESTIMONY IN WHITE SLAVE CASE BEFORE FEDERAL COURT.
(From Wednesdays Daily.)

questions fired by attorneys for both the defense and prosecution, were the principal witnesses in the Federal court yesterday during the trial O Walter Arndt, charged with white slavery Edwin Freese, who was in dicted with Arndt on the same charge by the Federal grand jury last week, turned States evidence and was orc of the witnesses for the prosecution. The case occupied the entire day in court and was again taken up at : o'clock last night The evening ses- sion. however, lasted but an hour and a half, during which time Assistan; U. s. Attorney Samuel L. Pattee, fof the prosecution, and Attorney E. F.. Bollinger, for the defense, delivered their arguments to the juary.
 Court was adjourned until S:30 o'clock this morning, when U. s. Az: torney Thomas A. Flynn will deliver the closing argument for the prosecu- ton.
 Freese and Arndt were arrested at Oatman early this month charged with having violated the white slave act by transporting Carrie Kalfla and Alice Keesee, two Los Angeles girls, into Arizona for immoral purposes.
 After hearing in Kingman before U. s. Commissioner A1son H. Smith, the two men were bound over to the Federal grand jury.
 The testimony given by the girls yesterday disclosed the fact that, in Los Angeles. they had been told by Freese. Arndt and a Mir. and Mrs. Johnson that if they would go to Oat man and dance with the miners and other men i1 the dance hall they could make enough money in short time to wear diamonds, own automo piles and live in luxury. Each of the four girls. Alice Keesee, Carrie Kalfla. Mildred King and Alice Buser, testi- fled on the witness stand that such had been the alluring offers which had caused two of them, the Keesee and Kalfa girls, to go to Oatman with Freese and Arndt Miss King and Miss Buser said they had taken the advice of their mothers and had re- fused to accept the positions offered Tn the dance hall.
 Alice Keesee was the first of the four called to the stand. She said that she had went to a house at 23l South Hill street, Los Angeles, in an swering want ad in the Los Angeles Examiner. There she met MT. and Mrs. Johnson and the two boys. Arndt and Freese. Miss Keesee told of having been offered a position :n the dance hall in Oatman under the belief that she could make plenty O money there and that it was a re spectable place. All that she was told she would have to do, she said, would be to dance and sell light drinks, getting a big percentage of the receipts from the sale of both. When cross-examined by the defense as to whether or not Arndt had made any of the offers the girl said thai they all had talked it over," (Arndt, Freese. Mir. and Mrs. Johnson.) The three other girls also testified to this effect, but not one was able to re- member any particular thing that either Arndt or Freese had said.
 Miss Keesee continued her testi' mony with an account of how she. Carrie Kalfla and the two boys had started the next day i1 an automobile driven by Freese. for Oatman. No stops were made on the way. except to eat, she said. They arrived in Oatman the following day, she said, and endeavored to find a room. Un. able to do so. a partition was hung ,n the boys tent, she testified, the latter occupying one half and she and til: kalfla girl the other.
 She told of her experience in the old Oatman dance hall, describing the dresses of the other dancers and the conduct of the men who visited it Almost every day, she said, the men in the camp made immoral proposals to her, which she refused. On one occasion, according to her testimony Arndt came to her tent after she had left the dance hall, and awakened her She said that she had told him to go away and that the next morning. on asking him what he wanted, he had told of man in the camp who was willing to pay $l0 for her company. Here she was cross-examined by the defense, and admitted that Arndt had not told her of this until she had ask ed him, the morning after his visit to her tent, what he had wanted. Fur ,har taStin,o,,. brouorbt O,,t .ba fact