Year: 1879

TWO YOUNG GIRLS DECLARE THEY WERE


FORCED TO LEAD LIFE OF SHAME.


Amelia and Selma Morrell, the seventeen. the
other fifteen years Of ago. disappeared mysteriousy
the 10th of juno last. They had left their home.
at No. 533 West Fortyfourth street. In the evening"
telling their mother they would be gone but .
short time. and nothing more heard of them.
The Morrell family thrown into high state Of
CONSERVATION in consequence and when days passed
and word camc OF them they communicated
their alarm to their friends and relatives and
an active quest for the absentees was begun.
The father OF the family and his eldest
son were particularly active. Such savings they
had freely paid to private detectives. all
of theories worked down and all sorts of re-
sorts visited But all in vain. No trace of the miss
ing girls could be discovered and when the ma
chinery Of the Police Central ONCE was set in mo-
ton it. too. down without clearing up the
mystery. 1t was only four days ago that = chance
meeting Sixth avenue unravelled the web.
Brother and sister each other there face
to face. James Morell like his father had been


forced to consider his sisters lost forever to them
and he on his way to business this day thinking
of other concerns than tho absent ones. face in
the crowd, near Fourteenth street, caught his
eve, and rs he turned in the direction his
younger sister Selma up and caught him by the
arm. Tho unexpected meeting aud recognition drew
from her impulsive confession which shame had
for months restrained She no longer the girl
he had known her to be. She eold her horrfed
brother she had just been released from q house Of
ill fame where she had been confined all this time,
and her sister Amelia had been separated from her
and sent to kindred resort up town. Morrell was
deeply panied by the recital but he hurried the girl
home ut once, whence. after her explanation had
been made. she accompanied her mother to house


in West Thrty-second street There her sister
Amelia found and at once professed her solicit
tude to be taken home. Their story there was SUBJ.
scquently recited before Justice Flammer. who at
once took measures to bring tho persons they
cused to justice.


On the evening of June 10, the girls said. when
they left home for u walk. they had gone down Third
avenue almost as tar us Ninth street. young
accosted them there who talked to them jocularly
frst and then proposed taking them to "a show
Ho would not detain them long. he said, and their
assentng he took them down town. and before they
knew the character of their destination had intro
duccd them into house in Bayard street, alleged to
be kept by man named Louis Kimbe. alias French
Louie.' Tho girls state that in this place y
close surveillance was kept over thom at frst,
till they found to be so overwhelmed with
shame not to dare to face their relatives. They
were less confined then and finally Amelia sent
to the house in Thrtysecond street. On their CON-
plant 'Frcnoh Louie aud n young man named
Herman Levy, alias Harry Leavitt, were arraigned
before Justice Flammer yesterday in the jefferson
Market Police Court. Tho latter, tho girls allegc,
was the person who dccoyed them into the Others
house. aud they state further that he paid $5
for 40 doing and received So their transfer
to the other resorts. Both prisoners were commit
ted by tho magistrate tor trial.