1913 July 10 Atlanta Constitution 14 Pages Georgia

1913 July 10 Atlanta Constitution 14 Pages Georgia

Author: Atlanta Constitution

Year: 1913

Soda Water Stands, Chop Suey Joints and Automobile Rides Figure in Her Narrative. NAME OF BUSINESS MAN BROUGHT INTO SCANDAL Hattie Smith Says She Registered With Men in Cumberland and Brittain—Recorder Binds Over Three. A story of vice that is unprecedented even in the sorbid [sic] history of police court, was poured into the ears of Judge Broyles Wednesday afternoon, when Hattie Smith, the 17-year-old "Girl of the Streets," was called to the stand. She made no attempt to withhold anything. She gave names and addresses with startling willingness, and told of her own crimson career with a frankness so bold that color was drawn to even the cheeks of the most morbid courtroom frequenter. As a result, Lena Barnhart, alias Lena Levison, the good looking young woman whom the girl accused of being a white slave procuress, was bound over to higher courts under bond of $500, and Lige Murry, who was charged with having been the woman's ally, was bound over bond of $100. Three Hotels in Case. The names of three hotels were drawn into the girl's tale. They are the Cumberland, in which she was arrested and in which she declares she plied her trade, the Childs, a hostelry at Broad and Alabama st