The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-25
FOOLED BY BOSS"
Girl Tells Story When White
SLAYER Married.
StenOgrapher by Day and a
Street Walker at Night.

New York Aug 25.-In the same
little wicker satchel in which she once
carried her hooks and lunch to the
Irving high school, Caroline Kauf-
man, pretty white slave victim today
carried to the office of Assistant Irs-
trict Attorney James Smith letters,
kilograms and pictures which will
serve as additional evidence against
Gustav Ku relman, alleged white slav-
er, and others, in a ring said by Off
GERS in the district attorneys office to
be the largest in the city. With tears
in her eyes because she had lost her
position as a result of the publicity
which had been given to her expert
ences as a white slave, Miss Kaufman
came to the district attorneys office
At the same hour Gustav Kugelman
was arraigned- in the court of gem
eral sessions and in default of $40, 300
bail was locked up in the Tombs.
In court today Attorney Smith de-
scribed the case as the most heart
rending he had ever had anything to
do with since he had held the pres
ent position.
Included among the letters and tele-
grams which Miss Kaufman turned
over to the district attorney were let
ters to Kugleman from prominent ac-
trsses of the legitimate stage and in
the motion picture business. Kugel-
man insists that the letters were gen.
uine. Miss Kaufman is 22 and an ex-
ceptionally attractive girl of medium
height, with coal black eyes and hair
and fine physique. In telling her
story, she appeared calm and never
used a coarse word or a slang express
sion.
Told Rich Father Story.
Altho reluctant to tell her story.
Miss Kaufman commented at the
opening that even now she did not see
he of
] Attorney Smith explained to her
! that her testimony will result in the
prosecution of Kugelman.
Miss Kaufman then told how she
met Kugelman thru girl friend.
/ The love making that followed did not
pass the bounds of propriety for more
than a year, Miss Kaufman said. She
/ became deeply in love with Kugelman
and believed his story that he would
wary her as soon as the rich father
he told her about died. In Novem-
ber, 1914, Miss ka ufnan began to i1ve
with Kugelman as his wife and then
she learned that there was nothing in
the rich father story and that Ku-
german had been married in atlanta,
/ Kugelman begged forgiveness and
added that he needed money. She
gave him the $40 she made each week
as a stenograpner but he said he need
| ed mere She refused at first to con-
slider his method of getting more
money but finally consented He in
structed her to woik on certain streets
| and 20 use certain hotels. She said
! she did as she was ordered and was
never moIested by the police
| Miss Kaufman told how she return
ed home every afternoon at O'Clock
and then at took her place on the
street She said she earned SO a
1 week as a stenographer and as a
slave averaged $50 a week She re-
tained enough for herself to buy food
and clothing and turned over the re-
mainder to Kugelman. She continued
this for two years without protest un-
til she learned that kugelman this
week married a woman in Brooklyn.
Then she consented to tell her story to
the district attorney