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Show DIFFERENT TURN IN MAO CASE SALT LAKE CITY, March 17 When Hazel, Ireuo and Pearl Raymond, tile three girls who have been held In the county Jail as witnesses in the caso of tho Btate against Lawrence Marsh, a negro attorney, on charges of grand larceny and a statutory offense, of-fense, refused to testify In his preliminary prelim-inary hearing this morning before Justice F M. Bishop, tho ca&o took a different turn. Complaints have been filed against the young women charging charg-ing them with tho offense of the samo nature as that charged against the negro. ne-gro. In the meantime, Chief Deputy Mnr8hnl Luclan H. Smyth is Investigating Investi-gating some ovldcnce which tends to show that the three girls were brought here from Kemmc-rer, Wyoming, by "Jack" Moore, a negro, and placed In a ncgTO club, conducted by J E. Mitchell, Mitch-ell, a negro, at 258 South Fifth West streeL It is probable that the proprietors pro-prietors of at least three negro clubB will bo arrosted and the United States authorities will attempt to prove that more than a dozen white women haTC been brought here in violation of tho Interstate "white slave" traffic law. The arrest of Marsh appears to have been the result of a fight between tho negro "whlto slave" tradora and the rtlscloslntr. of an organized gang to secure white girls for negro clubs for Immoral purposes. As soon as the evidence was obtained obtain-ed that these three girls were brought hero the United States officers Immediately Im-mediately took the matter up and began be-gan an investigation. If tho evldcnco Is true which reached tho government officials this morning It Is probatfe thnt steps will he takon to close every negro club In tho city. The evidence Is of a revolting nature and It appears ap-pears that tho "white slave" trade In white girls for theso negro ciuos nas been going on for months. The three girls were met at tho door of Justice Bishop's court this morning and instructed by tholr at-tornev, at-tornev, Wlllard Hanson, to say nothing, noth-ing, which they carried out. After being ordered to answer questions put to them bv Assistant County Attorney Jensen, and they still refused, Justice Jus-tice Bishop remanded them to the custody cus-tody of tho shoriff. They wero given until 2 o'clock this afternoon to answer. an-swer. If thoy rofuso whon Uie court convenes this afternoon, they will bo sentenced for contempt of court Hazel Raymond was tho first witness wit-ness called. She gave her namo and her address as the SL Cecllo rooming house. When she was asked whero sho was living on Februnry 28, she refused re-fused to answer. "Do you refuse to answer that question?" ques-tion?" she was asked by Assistant County Attorney Jonsen. "Yes, I do. If I answered it, I might 'incriminate myself," was tho witness' reply.- Judge Bishop ordored the witnoss U answer tho question and Attorney Soren X. Chrlstonaen, who represents repre-sents Marsh, took exceptions to the order by tho court. Attorney Chrls-teusen Chrls-teusen cited a number of authorities to show that it was privileged matter, and that the witness did not havo to answer If she feared it might incriminate incrim-inate herself, Sovoral cases wore cited nnd the question was argued at length. Justice Bishop still Insisted that tho witness answer. The girl refused to do It and she was remanded to tho custody of the sheriff. Tho other two girls took tho same course and each refused to tell whero she was onv the date of the alleged offensos. After all threo had been called and refused to testify, tho case was continued by Justice Bishop giving them time to consider their action.. In the meanwhile another complaint, charging Marsh with keeping a houso of Ill-fame was Issued by the county attorney against him and a complaint against each of the young women charging them with a statutory offense. of-fense. Say Evidence Is Ample. According to County Attorney Wll-ley, Wll-ley, evidence against the girls is ample, am-ple, they having admitted to tho charge In tho presonce of County Attorney At-torney Wllloy, his assistant, Nephl Jensen, and Detectives RIplay and Cleveland, Knowing theso facts, the county attorney's offlco extended to the women tho Immunity possible under un-der tho statutes If they would turn state's evldenco and upon tholr agreement, agree-ment, tho complaints Issued against Marsh, By Uolatlng their port of tho agreoment, tho young women laid thomselves liable to the complaints Issuing Is-suing against them this afternoon. In support of tho charges against Marsh tho county attorney declares the qvldence Is equally ample, the detectives, de-tectives, in searching tho premises after tho whlto women had loft it, Having found fancy hose and sllp-pors, sllp-pors, medicines and other paraphernalia parapher-nalia usual to houses of Ill-fame, tho articles of wearing apparel having afterward been claimed by the womon. Attaches of the county jail declare that the action of the flrla in refusing refus-ing to testify this morning was duo to their fear of belug kept in jail for several months, they having oeen Instructed that In ' the event of MarBh's being hound over, thoy would havo to remain In Jail until his caso came to trial, tho state holding them In this mnnnor to guarantee their appearance ap-pearance as material witnesses. According Ac-cording to tho statutes and tho inton- tlons of tho county attorney's offlco, thla would not have been tho case and they were to have been held only until tho preliminary hearing, their testimony testi-mony given at that time being admissible admis-sible In tho trial In the higher court. The threo girls wllL be held In Jail without ball, pending the Investigation Investiga-tion of tho government authorities Into the manner In which thoy were brought from Wyoming and placed In tho negro club for Immoral purposes. pur-poses. Tho girls will be questioned this nfternoon by the government's agents and tho Wyoming officials will also assist In the Investigation, probing prob-ing that end of the case. oo |