Show GIRL TELLS SECRETS OF BADGER GANG GANGI I METHODS NEW YORK Aug 26 That That waiters in some of the city's best hotels ar are are implicated jy in the vice vico combination acting as to entrap wealthy men from out of town in the badger game is among the statements made to James B B. B Smith assistant district attorney by a girl 18 years old who said she had been one of the tools The girl who declared she was en entrapped entrapped entrapped en- en trapped by a a. waiter soon after she came here from Odessa Russia two years ago said Many of the waiters have as many as six women working for them and in the smaller restaurants they make about a week In the larger hotels where the wealthier men are to be found some of the girls make as high as 2000 a week weel Mr Smith said that his o office CIce had received the names of many of the waiters from the witness and had nearly a hundred of them under The story of the girl was borne out by many of the complaints which have reached the tho district attorneys attorney's of of- of fice One Ono result of the story told by the theIrl girl Irl was the arrest of a waiter John Laredo alias Makis He was arrested arrest arrest- ed by detectives of Lieutenant Costigan's Costigan's Costigan's Costi- Costi gans gan's staff and was held In 1500 1600 bail by Magistrate Frothingham on the white slavery charge One of the matrons from the Magdalen home was used to trap the man The girl told the grand jury she was charmed by the suavity sua of the well dressed young man who professed his love at first sight Once trapped she said she was ashamed to return to her people and became the tool of the waiter who used her to fleece the victims victims vic vie tims he met in the restaurants She declared she became an expert at the badger game in which various men acted as her outraged husband In May she was arrested and sent to the tho Magdalen home There she was touched by tho the apPE appeals als of the matron and decided to reform Upon her discharge discharge discharge dis dis- dis- dis charge a place was found for her as asa asa asa a housemaid at 8 S a week There she alleges Laredo found her and on threats of exposure forced her to steal 50 from her employer That brought brough about her r return turn to the home She then told the matron matron- tho the complete story and It was given to the district attorneys attorney's office Smith said he was gratified at the developments declaring he felt sure they brought him nearer to the tho heart hear of the vice situation It was one day In which the police were not mentioned in the testimony of the witnesses The assistant district attorney said he thought the grand jury would return indictments soon for several more I white and policE policemen men |