The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-17
FOUR CAUGHT IN RAIDS SENT TO
 JAIL BY COURT
Cases of Two Nolled After Hearings Following Po-
 lice Vice Crusade
CROWD OF CURIOUS
 STORMS COURT ROOM
Detective Declares the Local White Slave Center Is
 In Main Street

SOss~S
 White Slave Center Is
 In Main Street
 Severe sentences were imposed by Judge Frank Wilder on four of the women arrested yesterday in raids upon alleged vice dens in this city, ordered by Capt E. o. Cronan fol- lowing the sordid story of abuse re- lated by Stella Farraro. IT. of Phila- delphia, who was an inmate of the establishment at TO State street.
 But eight of the total 27 cases were disposed of. this morning all the rest being continued until next Sat- urday. The bonds ranged from $500 to $2,500. and many of the women defendants were unable to furnish surety.
 Lena De1tora, ss Gilbert street, was found guilty by Judge Wilder of senenced to jail for five months. A fine of s25 and costs was also inn posed. She appealed the case and was held in bonds of $1,5oo. Cora Aube, o4 State street, arraigned on the same charge as the Delteras woman, was given 60 days in jail and fined $1 and court costs. She ap-a pealed and bonds were fixed at $1. 900.
 Florence Melody 103 State street, received a 50 day jail sentences and was fined $50. She was charged with k4epdng q dasorderly hoase, The lawyer asserted hat the defandant was suffering intensely from the dn- roads of tuberculosis.
 Judge Frank Wider imposed a fine of $50 and @. Jail sentence of 30 days
 He then stated tfate if Dr.. Stevens, the county Jail physician after an ex- animation, would write a certificate proving the claim of the attorney he would revoke the sentence and have her sent to the Shelton Sanatorium. The case of Lillian Anderson. ,25 Drouve street, charged with being frequenters was nolled.
 IA crowd of n1orbidly curious tammed the court corridor throughout the morning and every available seat in the court room was occupied. The disposition Of the case of John Stein hoff, who conducts a studio at 1,03o Wntn street, and according to the po- lice Is a brother of the Rev. Robert C.s Steinhoff, pastor of the Berean church. was quickly made.
 The police allege that SteinhoR pho tographted girls in the nude. His studio was raided and, two dozen plates were confscated by the police following the arrest yesterday morn. ing of Charles Smith, a colored dental attendant, alleged to be trying to dis pose of obscene pictures to passers- by. Smith was, arrested at Main street and Fairfield avenue outside the den-' fo1 .Js,y- <r lice steinhon had given him the pic lures to sell.
 Both defendants waived examine ton and were heFt in bonds of $l,O00 each flor trial at the September term of the superior court Jennie Hub bard. 1S years old. 704 Broad street, whom the police say they recognized as one of tho studio subjects, had the breach of the peace charge against her nolled- She will testify against Steinhof.
 Brnest Cozza, rep1ted to be wealthy and engaged in the contracting bus mess, was held in bonds of s2,50o. Cozza was said to be one of the oc- cupants o6 the automobile which car ried Jennie Cavaaieri to Stratford where she was shot to heaAh. Capt. E. O.. Cronan charges that Cozza has waxed prosperous in the white slave business and is now conducting three disorderly houses in this city. GIis arrest was brought about through the revelati1ns of Stella Far raro, who told Capt Cronan she had been brought here by a white slave cadet from Philadelphia and placed in the house at 70 State street. The police assert that Josie Ross, who was arrested with Cozza yesterday, con | fh>< 1,14rI !, e. Is charged with living off the pro ceeds of a wornan's shame and run ming the State street resort
 l The Farraro girl says she was abused and beaten, thrown out of the house and her baggage pitched into ;the street The court held her in bonds o6 $500 and the Ross woman s case was continued in bonds of g, 800. The following women were held in
 bonds of $500 for hearing next Satur-
 day charged with keeping disorderly
 houses: Annie Wilson, 93 State street
 Mary Matz 447 Water street; Annie
 Bates, 444 Water street; Annie Miller 97 State street; Cora Davis, "A State
 street; Annie Faral1e, 439 Water
 street: Rosie Rock, 435 Water strett;
 Emma Miller, s2 State street. On the same charge the following
 were held in bonds of s2,50o for a
 hearing Saturday for running disor-
 derly houses: Jenni Marco, 25 Drouve
 street; Molly Bruno, <z5 Thomas
 street; Frank Bizzio, State street; Eugene Magrano, 659 Main street; l Frank Cozza, 857 Main street. Charges l of frequenting against Helen Wilson S57 Main street were nolled. Blanche
 Weldon, 25 Thomas street, charged
 with frequenting was held in bondf
 of $500