Weekly journal-miner., 1916-04-05

i following the suggestion of a girl friend of Alice's.
 Mildred King. the next witness. re- peated the story told by the Keescc girl regarding the want ad which had attracted all of the girls to the house on Hill street. Miss King said that she had been told the same things re- garding the money to be made in the work, the respectable reputation ot the dance hall. and that all sine would be expected to do would be to dance with the men and sell drinks. She had intended accepting the offer, she said, but was dissuated from doing so [ by her mother, who, she said, was suspicious of the offer.
 | Much amusement was furnished by the testimony of Carrie Kalfa, pres ty girl, who spoke with decidedly Teutonic accent and frequently in- serted a girlish giggle. She was m attractive and willing witness and told practically the same story as the other girls regarding their visit to the boys and Mir. and Mrs. Johnson in Los Angeles. She had been doing housework. she testified, and when , told that she could wear diamonds and own an automobile after working in the dance hall but short time, she eagerly accepted the offer. That night. she said, she went to the home of Alice Keesee, spent the night there and left the next day with ner chuin and the boys.
 Miss Kalfla appeared to take the entire affair as a huge joke. In dc- scribing the trip across the desert, she burst out laughing, and told of how the car had run out of gasoline, and Freese had walked. eight miles to replenish the supply.
 Her testimony regarding the trip and the first few days in Oatman was practically the same as that told by the first witness. When questioned regarding the character of the girls who frequented the dance hall. how ever, she testified that all. excepting she and Alice Keesee, had made money in other ways than dancing and selling drinks. On many nights. she said, she had been approached by men with improper requests, but had always turned iler back to them, told walked away. She soon found, she said. that the dance hall was not the kind of place she cared to work in and had returned to Los Angeles. She testified that when she and the Keesee girl had gone from the old to the new dance hall in Oatman, Arnr't had taken a tent but few feet from theirs.
 Alice Buser, who with Miss King had refused to go to Oatman. gave testimony similar to that given by the latter.
 Freese took the stand for the prose cution late in the afternoon. Tall and awkward, he hunched forward in his chair and slowly answered the qucs- tions put to him. He said that hc was of German descent and had lei his home in Foristell, Mo, and gone to California. At Needles, ne testified, he had met Arndt, who was working in a garage, and they decided to go to Oatman. For a while, he said, they worked in a show after arriving at the mining town. and became ac- quainted with a MT. and Mrs. Ben nett, who were running the dance hall. When he and Arndt planned to go to Los Angeles, he said. Bennett suggested they bring back some girls for the dance hall, giving them tne address of man named Duke Ham ilton in the Angel City.
 After arriving i1 Los Angeles, ilr said, they looked up Hamilton but the latter was unable to get any girls to go to Oatman. Through Hami:- ton, said Freese. they met Mir. and Mrs. Johnson, who suggested that an ad be inserted in one of the newspa- pers. Freese testified that he had driven Johnson and Arndt to the newspaper office but that ne had re mained in the automobile while they went inside
 He was cross-examined by Attor ney Bollinger and admitted that he had paid for the ad but denied having written it.
 Deputy Sheriff Tom Hunter, of Mo have county, and Special Officer Pink ney, of the U. s. department of jus tice, testified to having visited the dance hall and as to its immoral repu- tation. Pinkley said that the tents in which the dancers lived were situated =.