The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-03
THE DISTRICT SAFE ROBBERY.
Some New Statements About the Anal

Some New Statements About the Affair.
Gath, writing from New York to the Gin
cinnati Enquirer, relates a conversation
with an acquaintance relative to the District
safe robbery, as follows:
III can tell you a good deal about that
which has never been printed" said my
friend. Nike Murray in New York fur
nished the person who robbed the
District Attorneys safe The safe
burglary was put up by two indi-
viduals named Williams and Harrington,
who were scatterbrains and thought it
would be a smart thing 10 have their own
safe robbed and charge it on some of the
there would be an attempt to get their
books; anyhow Mike Murray, who is
square man except in gambling matters,
was told that a fellow was wanted to do
little amateur harmless game of burglary.
He intimated that such a man might be
had. The fellow who went on and did the
lob is now q pickpocket in New York, and
mis- picture is in the rogues' gallery. He
never was of any good or stomach as bur-
gar. and was always too lazy to take any,
thing that involved too much labor"
"Who IS that Mike Murry?" / asked.
"Well, nike Murray is to-day the leading
sporting man in the city of New York, if
not in the United States. He has gam
bling house in Twenty eighth street, and lives
He is a stout man with fiorid face. He
was originally Troy gambler, like Morris
sey, and came down to New York city and
and went into business with John c. Hee-
nan and the Chief of Police of New York
city. That was the first time when a high
police functionary went into partnership
with gamblers. The man who did it has
now retired and is rich. They took q
house on, Eighth street, near Broadway,
nh oil nf0 In no ret
nOor was frst-class faro, ON the second
floor lower class faro, and on the third floor
keno, and-in the back part of the house
bacoarat roulette, etc. The police would
break up every house they could put their
hans on under the orders of the Superin-
tendent, who was interested in these games,
and that is the rule in New York today.
EVERY gambling house and every house OF
prostitution here pays the police. The
charge in all the firstclass houses of prosti'
| tuition is SIS month to the police for each
| girl on the premises. Back here on Sixth
avenue are set of dives that pay no license
at all, while the reputable places all have to
get licenses tits because the police get the
psy the city ought to have"
While my friend was telling these things
| listened with some incredulity, though
willing to let him proceed. He has lived
in New York, and is responsible in every
relation am acquainted with. Said 1: "Ii
is strange that have never heard of this
Mike Murray Wasn't be the man that had
something to do with getting Bill Tweed
oH2'
"Yes, that was the man You certainly
have heard of Mike Nortcr, now Civil
Judge in New York? Well Norton and
Tweed were Senators together at Albany
: Mike Murray kept hotel at Ooney Island
ith Norton. 1t is my belief tina
Bill Tweed was run down the night ht
escaped from New York to Coney, Island
and kept in that hotel or near 1t till one o
The fruit vessels, which Murray runs to thu
West Indies, could take him away"
Then" said /, Murray is in the frui
business, too, is he2"
Ives; he runs hotel, too, in Florida, an
: is down there now looking after it.. He is
responsible man, starting and continuing i
life as a gambler, but always having $500
600 to $2O0, 600 on deposit at Drexel, Morgan
& Co.'s. He will go into any kind of bust
ness you name if he can see money in II
Murray is the most influential man in tn
sporting line in the United States. Hi
house in Forty seventh street, where ther
is no gambling at all. is the resort of tn
most important New York State politician
from the county parts, and of several Unite
States Senators, some of whose names woul
assonish you. Dinner is set there ever
night for twenty or thirty people. and
. has such entertainments as Cnamberlai
gave in his palmy days here"