The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-10
AMONG THE TENDERLoINERS
Mazet COmmissIOn LIZ Making Inquiry
Regarding Robbie ries.s

Regarding Robbie ries.s
New York, Aug. 9.-Almost all Of the
testimony elected at the Mazet legislat"
i've investigating committee today was
for the purpose Of showing how fire.
quently men are robbed In this city
while paying visits to the Tenderloin,
the Bowery and other sections Of the city
where groups gather after the midnight
hours. Mr.. Moss had difficulty in obtain
ing witnesses for today's session. The
men who have been victims Of this sort
of crime appeared decidedly averse to
appearing before the committee and tell
ing about It. Two hundred and fifty sub
poenas had been issued for men who had
been robbed by women. Not quarter
of these men could be found. Neverthe-
less, Mr.. Moss was able to put witness
after witness upon the stand and secure
account after account Of robberies al
legged to have occurred in disorderly
houses in this city. Occasionally the
witnesses under oath told OF facts that
appeared to show collision between the
police and the female robbers. Mr.. Moss
announced that similar testimony with
variations would be produced before the
committee tomorrow. The variations, It
is understood, refer to an investigation
of the opium dens Of the city.
Mr.. Moss opened proceedings today
with the statement that the book kept
by the chief Of police showed that IN the
eighty police precincts of the city there
were but eighty-thres houses suspected
of being disorderly, forty-four places
where policy is played. twenty-five pool
rooms and eleven suspected gambling
houses.
Lewis NJ. Picker told Of q burglary at
his residence. The detective assigned to
the case told him that the stolen proper
ty had probably been taken to Hester
street, and II his suspicious were correct
there was no good, looking for it.. Picker
made a search for, his goods and thought
he had traced them to place in Bayard
street He watched the place for time
and saw many wagon loads Of goods be-
ing taken from IT, The goods were adj
dressed variously to places In Kentucky
and Baltimore. The store itself was a
notion store, giving no indications OF do
ing any business to Justify the wagon
loads of material leaving It. Mr.. Moss
said that he had issued go subpoenas
for persons whose names appeared as
compliments on the police blotters. The
subpoena-servers had failed to find many
of the witnesses at the addresses gf9en.
Counsel said he agreed that 1t was not
pleasant testimony for men to give IN
public and did not think It necessary to
add more to the statements already made.
Mr.. Moss had a record Of arrests Of
women for robbery in the Nineteenth
precinct since January 1, 1855. These
were 160 In number and the amount Of
their depredatlons was about $4,000. He
also read a list of seyenty-nine houses
in the precinct which were resorts for
thieving prostitutes and where robberies
had occurred and arrests been made.
Only nine Of these places were on the
book Of suspicious places. Mr. Moss said
the precinct book showed only eleven
places described as resorts for prosti-
tutes and thirty-three houses suspected
Of being disorderly.
Adjourned until tomorrow.