New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-16
GRAND JURY ACTS
IN SLAVE INQUIRY
Six Witnesses, Two OF
Whom Are Women,
Are Heard.
YUSHE BOTWIN ADDS
TO HIS CONFESSION
Saws Dealers Used Code
Words in Carrying
on Trade.

A widespread inquiry into the or
eanized traffic in women was begun yes
terdav BY the grand jury at the request
Of District Attorney Swami. AT the
same time the District Attorney re-
ceived appeals from mothers in many
narts of the country, beseeching him to
find daughters who had fallen victims
TO white slavers. Six witnesses, two OF
whom were women, testified before the
grand jury, and at least one indiet-
ment charging white slavery will be re-
turned to-day.
Yushe Botwin, the Gsiician who con-
fessed that he had been collecting III
per cent Of the earnings OF sixty
women. supplemented his confessions.
Didn't you know you were doing
wrong when you lured school girls into
vice ~ District Attorney Swami asked
him.
81 know was making plenty OF
money-what should / carer" repheo
Botwin.
Botwin q Remarkable Type
"This man." said the District Attor-
new in describing Botwin, sis most re-
markable specimen of criminology' de
is APPARENTLY perfectly immoral You
can make no appeal whatever to him on
the basis of morality. In spite Of this
bowever. he displayed remarkaD4e
knowledge of human nature IN pleKlhs
ont his victims, especially among sehooI
yirls. always being careful to seIect
those whom he knew were just Wa'eF-
ing on the border line OF vice.
"The other day while In restaurant
he asserted his ability TO procure
large percentage Of poorly pald, nara
working girls, who desire TO MAINTAIN
q high regard for personal appearance.
lie said from his experience, eoNetins
twenty wears, that il was only a ques-
tion of nroportiOnate compensation.
White slave masters, OF whom BOY
wiz was a type. although taxing IN
nan 500 to $500 week on an aver
400 never rented telephones, MI
Syann SAYS. They always used pay
telephones in cigar stores ana saloons
In negotiating with disorderly house
keepers over the telephone the WO[u
"r,rl" or woman" was never used IL
was always "a box of cigars" instead
Slavers Feared Police.
I'VE were afraid of the police, after
al. although we paid for protection;
send me a box of cigars or 1 Will
send YOU a box of cigars were per-
fectlv safe and meant business TO busi-
ness people" said Botwin.
Assistant District Attorney James +.
Smith. who is in charge of the invesu-
cation. was asked by a hOtelkeeper on
,rtv Island to find his daughter, VINO
vas lured from her home last May by
AGENTS of white slave operators VINO
we're giving a picnic on the island. MI
Smith has subpenaed half dozen pro-
II oters of East Side dance halls ana
motion picture theatres, and is conn,
cent that he is already on the trail OF
the men who placed the girl IN as
orderly resort. d.. -
A hard working woman, llving on
Ninth Avenue, near Fortleth street.
told Mr. Smith that her seyenteen-year-
I'D daughter had been lured to the
Trnderloin last May. Night after night
The mother, after day of toll, walked
the streets of the Third Inspection Dis
trict in search of her daughter. By
getting acquainted with the women the
mother finally located the girl IN re-
sort on the Bowery. She succeeded IN
cetting her TO 20 home, but the girl
VAS soon afterward sent TO Bellevue
Hospital and is incurable.
The girl said she was entlced IN
motion picture theatre on the west
Side by a young man whose name is
known to the District Attorney. His
arrest may follow.