New Britain herald., 1916-08-30
LAYERS ATTEMPT
 REIGN OF TERROR
to Fire Girls Home to h. timidate Witnesses

tenden Home, at 427 West 8 nty-firs street, whither several
 Is figuring in the white slave in-
 -y have been sent by the district rney, had 8 fire a week ago today,
 cause of which was set down as .3 known" Since then investigators
 Be found reason to believe that the
 hes were started by a young man |2M ured as member of a ring
 licking in women on the lower East
 , and detectives are now search sM Tor him. His object is supposed
 nave been to terror1ze the girls in 8M home and to scare them into re-
 al to tell about the operations of
 men who preyed on them.
 he fire was trifing, but it caused M nty-fve girls to run into the street 8 stay there until firemen put 1t IN It has been learned that the
 Ing gangster against whom sus-
 lon is directed was hanging about 2 front door before the alarm was
 len. He is or was 8 friend of one
 N the girls who has testified before
 grand jury.
 @ II the women and girls who go to 1 office of the district attorney are
 v being accompanied to their
 hes or the missions that shelter 4z m by detectives. This is for pro- S tion against men who have threat
 Bd them.
 rhree more alleged white sIavers
 Ne indicted yesterday, but as they
 ge not been arrested yet their
 nes cannot be published. One of &.r. a. fur dealer, was known as a, &Aspectable business man." A second "a 1ctment was also returned against 3#vid Parrish, known as Siberia, who z.in the Tombs. Since the investga- g began there have been thirty in Mtments, involving twenty men. |sS arrish was named by a grand jury
 neSS yesterday as a, man who had lNC her in the way of evil when she H#s 16 years old. She Is now 19-a Flow haired, blue eyed girl whose 8nei1ness has not been destroyed. #e said she was standing on the 8op of her home in the East Side @s evening watching the return of a &rty of excursionists who had been N 8 boat ride. They were eating 8ndy and froIicking. A middle Fed man, who she says she knew Fer as Siberia, stopped and said to lHr: Don't you ever go on these arties?" She replied that her par sts were too poor.
 |#zSiberia, she says, talked to her Hike |Father" and said he would see that e had as good time as the other Els. The next day he invited her to @ room. Presently the fatherly mask f ara1 @ff L Suse in Allen street where he said she slld make a lot of money. After Ho days of this life she rebe1led and Nberia took her to the theatre, pro- Fled her with a place to rest and Fen sent her back. After year and #half, during which time, she says, 5oeria took her earnings, she was arned over to other proprietors. zone of these was a pickpocket now Ewing six months on B1ackwel1's Is Snd for selling heroin. The girl said se learned to use the drug and that ]. IT owner made money by selling it other girls. Eventually she fell into Ne hands of a gambler who forced br to work the streets. This gambler 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 Si1berstein of |1fo1k street. She brought picture her dauhter Ida, who she said was In slavery. In May, 1915, said Mrs. |Iberstetn, the girl passed her six Tenth birthday and was taken away a group of young men who pro- yoio R her. One of these men. the mother lid, was Yushe Botwin, who was in tcted early in the present investiga- on.
 &They took her." said Mrs. Silber- Rin. "to a studio in New Jersey and Fat evening she brought me $4.50 out f s5 she had been paid. The next day he said she earned $5 more and told 1e the movie people were going to ake her to California. But they idn't. The next I saw of her was in
 Second avenue cafe. She told me he was more than 16 and her own oss and would not come home. I ave seen her often since then. She s in the hands of a man who has eaten me twice for interfering"
 This case is being investigated, as he District Attorney demands corro- ,orative evidence before going to the zrand Jury.
 A woman with a somewhat similar story was Mrs. Kathrina Roland of rhatford avenue, Brooklyn. She said her daughter, IT years old, was car ried off about a year ago by a man whose name and address the mother gave to MT. Smith.
 All I could learn," Mrs. Roland said, was that my daughter wal taken out of the city. I came here from Russia and have tried to live a decent life and bring up the chil- dren decentIy. The man who stole my daughter lived with his wife 1T the same house we did"
 She gave the names of three other girls for whose disappearance sht blamed this man.
 Another visitor to MT. Smiths of eA T1o T-v1,o i,g T,