New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-30
Testimony of School Chill
dren Also Involves
Notorious Parish.
ONE CHILD ENTICED
BY DESIRE FOR CANDY
Mothers Ask District At
torney for Aid in Recov-
ering Daughters.

The testimony Of mere children be
fore the white slave grand jury yes
terday netted four new indictments,
three against men not hitherto men
toned in the vice inquiry, and one
acainst the notorious David Parish,
VINO already was under indictments
enough 20 insure his spending the bal
MrCe Of bis DAYS in Sing Sing should
convictions follow. OF the men in
dictcd but not yet arrested one was
known by repute 90 the District Attor-
news office as a merchant of unlm-
pcachable standing
The indictments in these cases were
returned upon evidence which Assist
ant District Attorney James f. Smith,
case hardened as he is by years IN the
criminal courts, declared was "amaz-
ing beyond expression"
One of the girls Intercepted, little
thing with blonde hair, blue eyes and
clearly in poor health, told the grand
Jury how lack of pennies with which
20 buy candy had led her into the
power Of Parish, the ffty-seven-year-
old purveyor of slaves.
He Bought Her Candy.
Il was standing on the door step of
my house" she said. zone night, when
lot Of people were coming home
from an excursion. They had candy
and popcorn and canes and things, and
they were having a line time. | was
watching them when David came along.
"'Why don't you go to excursions?
he said.
"'Because I haven't any money I
told him.
"'Well, never mind said he, come
along and we will see if we can't get
some candy He took me 10 stand
across the street and bought me a
whole lot Of it. He also bought me
toy. lie seemed such a nice old man,
just like ones father, that l saw no
harm in meeting him the next day. |
Yhen he bought me more candy, and |
did not see any harm in going to his
rooms.
AT this visit" she went on to say, I
after describing what had occurred 4
there, che told me he could fix it for
me 70 have all the candy and things /
might want if / would only do as he /
told me. lie took me to a place, but I
used TO get ILL., Then he would take /
me out TO pictures and Coney and I.
places like that until | was all right /
again.
David Succumbs to Rival.
"Then ] met a fellow whom l liked 1
pretty well, and he told me l was
fool to give up all my money to David. /
He and David had fight, and David /
was beaten up. He didn't have any
thing TO do with me after that"
A mother living in Suffolk Street has
appealed to Mr.. Smith for aid in recov
ering one of Yesky Botwin's victims.
my little girl was just out of school T.
kaaA 80, IL, /,
told him. "when they told her they /.
would make moving picture actress |
out Of her. One day they took her over |
10 Union Hill, where She worked with |
other girls in mob scene. She was
paid So and brought home $3.50 of it. !
The day after il was the same. Then !
they told her she would be sent TO
California, and she disappeared.
81 next heard she was in a dive on
Second Avenue. l went there and asked
her 70 90 home. She told me to 20 TO
the deyil-that she was over sixteen
and her own boss. / see her in the
street once in a while, but she always
curses at me. And she was the sweet
est grill"
Daughter Taken from Her.
A Brooklyn mother complained that
her daughter was forcibly taken from
her by q man she named who formerly
lived with MS wife in the same apart
ment house she did.
"He brought her over here TO New
York" said the woman, "and put her in
a place on Avenue ID. Where she and
two other girls he took away from
their homes are now, God only knows.
wish / could only see her once more,
dead or alive; / want TO see her face.
One of the school children, who at
fifteen was led into slavery by means
Of gifts Of candy and soda from men,
told the District Attorneys aid of the
close connection Of drug sellers and
pickpockets with the white slave"
traffic
Pickpockets Deal in Drugs.
This girl" said Mr.. Smith in speak
ing Of her case, sis married to pick
pocket now serving a sentence on the
island for peddling drugs. Like great
number of such unfortunates, she is a
drug fend. a herOin user. Her man
made a big thing selling dope 10 girls,
and 10 is undoubtedly true that girls
who had no use for the stuff were led
into using il for the additional profits
there would be for the parasites"
In the case of mature woman,
known as Tessie Diamond the prospect
of marriage and a millinery shop of
her own led her in slavery, she told
Mr.. Smith She received neither we'd
ding certificate nor shop, for the man
in the case, after taking several thou
sand dollars of her illicit earnings mar
ried another woman and went into
business as a furrier.
Many Of those who have been in
volved in the traffic by the develop
ments Of the last month face deporta-
ton II they escape prison, and should
they be sent TO prison will be deported
az the end Of their terms, the Immigra-
ton Department having delegated an
inspector 20 see that this phase of the
Federal law is enforced.