September 12, 1913
On the plea that he was not in any of the pictures taken by Sam H. London’s moving picture company, Harry Prince, who was arrested Wednesday in connection with the taking of “red-light” district views by that company, was released from custody yesterday morning.Prince stated that he was in an automobile watching the making of the pictures. He told Police Captain W.D. Greet that other El Pasoans had been employed by the New York company to appear in various scenes, but that a majority of them got away before the detectives appeared.
In a letter to the Times, Rabbi Martin Zielonka of the Temple Mt. Sinai, denies the claim of London, who told Police Chief I.N. Davis that he was taking a series of moving pictures for a Hebrew society of New York. Rabbi Zielonka writes as follows:
September 11, 1913.
“Editor Morning Times – In answer to many inquires I wish to say that Mr. S.H. London is not connected with any ‘Hebrew’ society of national standing and according to the best information I am able to obtain the pictures were not taken for ‘a Hebrew society of national standing to be shown in civic societies throughout the United States in a crusade against the white slave traffic,’ but it was the work of a private corporation organized for profit. At the same time I wish to say that Mr. London is not the author of a book dealing with the white slave traffic, at east no such book has seen the light of day.
“Sincerely yours,
Martin Zielonka”
With the release of Prince the case is closed. All the principals of the “movie” company having left the city and the film made by them, which was confiscated by the police, will be destroyed.
The police force has been instructed to watch all people carrying Kodaks and no one is allowed to take pictures on Broadway. One man who said he was a tourist was stopped yesterday by the two patrolmen on that beat and made to open up his Kodak. He was not allowed to proceed until he had shown them that his Koadak did not have a film in it.
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