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Show 00 WITNESSES III A WHITE SLAVE CASE A deputy United States marshal wa in the city yesterday and served subpoenas on several ikltsods, who will go to Salt Lake City today and testify In the federal court against William Selgel, charged with white slavery. Among thoso who were called call-ed as witnesses are Copt. Peuder. Capt Brown, Detective Robert Burk and William Wesley, a newspaper reporter. re-porter. Selgel Is charged by tho federal authorities au-thorities with hating brought a girl from Denver, Colo., to tlilu city for Immoral purposes. He was arrested as a vacrant In this city 011 October 4. In attempting to defend her lover, the man's companion, a Swvdlch girl, unconsciously got him into all kinds of trouble by testifying that Seigel had paid her railroad fare from Pi-river to Ogden, purchased her meals on the dining car and upon their at rival here had negotiated the transaction which landed her in ono of the resoita of Klectrlc Alley. Tho maji was sentenced to ninety day on a vagrancy charge, but the circumstances testified to by the girl were reported to the federal authorities. authori-ties. After an Investigation the latter lat-ter officials decided that there was not sufficient evidence. After serving serv-ing clfrht days of his sentence S.lgel escaped from one of the guards, but was recaptured In Salt La're City and returned to this city on December He then paid up the remainder duo ou his fine and was rdased. He returned to Salt La,e, where he was arretted a few dats ago by the police of that city, it Is supposed that additional evidence of white slavery was discovered, for tho federal authorities decided to prosecute him on that charge. The loral police officers of-ficers and newspaper reporter will therefore bo asked to tell of the testimony tes-timony at the time of SclgvTs trial on the vagrancy charge. nn |