The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-10
ROBBERY BY NIGHT.
Lawyer Moss Looks
Into Its Great
Frequency.
THEFTS IN THE TENDERLOIN.
Few Arrests Made of Street
and Sidewalk Pill
ferers.
THEFTS IN THE TENDERLOIN.

New York, Aug. 9.-AImost all the
testimony ELECTED at the meeting of
the Mazet investigating committee to-
day was for the purpose of showing
how frequently men are robbed in this
city while paying visits to the Tender
loin," "the Bowery' and other sections
Of the city where groups gather after
the midnight hour.
Mr.. Moss had difficulty in obtaining
witnesses for today's session. The men
who had been victims of this sort Of
crime appeared decidedly averse to APP
pearing before the committee and tell
ing about it. Two hundred and fifty
subpoenas had been issued for men
who had been robbed by women. Not
quarter of these men could be found.
Nevertheless Mr.. Moss was able to put
witness after witness upon the stand
and secure account after account of
robberies alleged to have occurred in
disorderly houses in this city. Occa-
stonally the witnesses under oath told
of facts which appeared to show coll
fusion between the police and the fem
mine robbers.
Patrick Curry, a detective in the
Tenderloin precinct station, said there
were very few cases reported of rob-
berries by women, where no arrests
were made. Out of 300 prisoners he
had arrested for robbery were 100 wom-
en-. Mr.. Moss tried to get some
details concerning his efforts to
crest women accused of robbery, but
lie would only reply that the records
would show.
Have you any book showing the re-
ports of robberies in the precinct?''
| asked Mr. Moss.
Nothing but the blotter."
Look in the felony book and find the
entry of the case of Charles Brown
who was robbed of $4,000"
Witness failed to find such entry
rs it not a fact the police are afraid
to have it known so many robberies
are being committed, that they have
been ordered to keep quiet and say
nothing about these matters?" asked
Mr.. Moss.
Il never heard of such an order"
| Mr.. Moss had a record Of arrests OF
women for robberies in the 18th pre-.
cinct since Jan. l, 1898. These were 16(
in number. and the amount of their
ldepredations was $4,000. He also read
list Of 70 houses in the precinct which
were resorts for thieving prostitutes
and where robberies had occurred and
arrests had been made. Only nine OF
these places were on the book of sus-
picious places.
Mr.. Moss said the precinct book
showed only IL places described as re-
sorts for prostitutes and SO houses sus-
pected of being disorderly. Witness
Curry said that all the places named by
Mr.. Moss had been frequently raided.
Wardman Michaels of the goth pre-
cinct was next questioned.
The number of disorderly or suspi-
cious houses said to exist in the goth
precinct, like that of the Tenderloin
sent to police Headquarters. very
small" said Mr.. Moss. Denomination
Of the blotter of arrests made. how
ever discloses the fact that burgIaries,
rooperes IN houses, hold-ups in the
street are nightly occurrences"
Asked if such was the real state Of
affairs, witness replied that the pre-
clnct was a comparatively quiet one
and that he had only been a detectiye
there for five months. Adjournment
was then taken until tomorrow,