The sun., 1916-08-30
REFUGE Is FIRED
BY SLAVE AGENT
Attempt to 1ntimidate Girls
Committed to Florence
CrittcntOn Home.
THREE MORE INDICTED
Amazing Tales Told by Vic
tins Of Traffickers and
Pleas by Mothers.

The Florence Crittenton Home. at 427
wes. T~wcnty-frst street. whittier sew
s-al girls figuring In the white slave in
oii-y have been sent by the District At
,orney. had a fire a week ago to-day. the
cause Of which was set down as 'un-
Known since then investigators have
found reason TO believe that the flames
were started by a young man pictured as
member OF a ring ~trafncking in women
on the lower East Side. and detectives
are now searching for him. His object
:. supposed to have been to terrorize the
sirl. IN the home and to scare them into
refusal 20 tell about the operations OF
the men who preyed on them.
The IRE was trifing, but II caused
twenty-five girls to run Into the street
and stay there until frcmen put It out.
II has been learned that the young gang
ser agains. whom suspicion is directed
was hanging about the front door before
the alarm was given. He is or was a
friend Of one OF the girls who has testi-
ned before the Grand Jury.
Al Girls Now Escorted.
All the women n girls who go to the
ONCE OF the District Attorney are now
being accompanied to their homes or the
missions that shelter them by detectives.
This Is for protection against men VINO
have threatened them.
Three more alleged white elavers were
indicted yesterday. but as they have not
been arrested yet their names cannot be
publ! shed. One Of them. a fur dealer.
was known as a respectable business
man" A second indictment was also re-
turned against David Parrish. known as
Siberia, who is in the Tombs. Since the
Investigation began there have been
thirty indictments. involving twenty
men.
Parrish was named by a Grand Jury
witness Yesterday as a man who had put
her In the way OF evil when she was l6
Years old. She Is now ia yellow
hatred, blue eyed girl whose comeliness
has not been destroyed. She said she
was standing on the stoop or her home
in the East Side one evening watching
the return OF a party OF excursionsts who
lad been on a boat ride. They were eat
Inc candy and frolicking. A middle
aged man. who she says she knew later
rs Siberia. stopped and said to her.
.Don't you ever go on these parties7'
She replied that her parents were TOO
poor.
Shaved for Yea and q Hall.
Siberia, she says. talked to her like
father and said ne would see that she
rad as good a time as the other girls.
The next day he invited her TO his room.
Presently the fatherly mask was thrown
on. lie put her into a house In Allen
street where he said she could make a
lot Of money. After W days OF this lie
she rebelled n Siberia took her to the
theatre. provided her with q place to
rest and then sent her back. After a
year and a half, during which time. she
saws. Siberia took her earnings. she was
turned over TO other proprietors.
One OF these was a pickpocket now
serving six months on Blackwelrs Island
for selling heroin. The girl said she
learned to use the drug and that her
owner made money by selling II TO other
girls. Eventually she fell into the hands
o, a gambler who forced her to work the
streets. This gambler Is one Of the men
Indicted yesterday.
Seeks Daughter in slavery.
One Of the mothers who sought out
Assistant District Attorney Smith yes
'.rday was Mrs. Ida Silberstein OF SUI
tolk street. She brought a picture OF her
daughter Ida. who she said was in
slavery" In May. 1915. said Mrs. Sill
h~erstein. the girl passed her sixteenth
birthday and was taken away BY a
group OF young men who promised TO
mako a motion picture actress OF her.
One Of these men, the mother said. was
Yuehe Botwin, who was indicted early In
the present investigation.
"They took her" said Mrs. Silber-
stein. ito a studio In New Jersey and
that evening she brought me $3.50 out OF
81 she had been paid. The next day she
said she earned So more told me the
movie people were going to take her Ia
California. But they didn't. HI mex
saw Of her she was in a Second avenue
cafe She told me she was more than lS
and her own boss and would not come
Tome. have seen her often since then.
She IL in the hands of a nan who has
beaten me twice for interfering"
This case is being Investigated. as the
District Attorney demands corroborative
evidence before going to the Grand Jury.
Another Mothers story.
4 woman with a somewhat similar
story was Mrs. Kathrina Boland of That
foid avenue. Brooklyn. She said her
daughter. II years old. was carried on
about a year ago by a man whose name
and address the mother gave to Mr.
Smith.
"All I could learn" Mrs. Boland said,
was that my daughter was taken out
q. the city. came here from Russia
and have tried to live a decent life and
bring up the children decently. The
nan who stole my daughter lived with
his wife in the same house We did
She gave the names Of three othei
erls FOR whose disappearance she blamed
this man.
Another visitor TO Mr.. Smiths ONCE
was Tessie Diamond. who said she was
a mlll!ner. She complained OF a mar
who she said put her into q disorderly
mouse 10 earn money for him.
Tie said we would be married wher
had saved enough" she said. when
had saved 500 he took the money
and wen into business. He was mar
led last March. and then he had the
nerve 10 come around to me with a
scheme for robb,ng men. He said he had
discovered a drug which he would put
men and go through their pockets wher
he drug knocked them out. Then
vas TO throw the money out OF the
window and he was to be down below
10 catch II. j refused.
Paid Him $500 . Month.
- had worked for his man two years
! Wa getting $40 a week and under
promise ~ marriage l made 5000 8
month for him" This man is the fui
"'f'hlnt indicted yesterday.
\ process server told Mr.. Smith yes