The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-11
THE CASE GROWS WARM.
GAMBLING AGENTS SAID TO HAVE
CONFESSED.
Whitney and Burgdorf Made Sworn
Statements to District Attorney
Which Are Believed to BE of Com
siderable Importance.

Which Are Believed TO BE of Con-
siderable Importance.
New York, Aug. 1o.-The arrest of
the alleged business agents of a gam
bling combine for aiding and abetting
gambling, on the evidence of agents
of the Society for the Prevention of
Crime, who charged that these men
were the go-betweens between the
gamblers and the police in arranging
and carrying out a system of police
protection. was followed quickly to-
day by these two men-Edgar A. Whit
ney and Ernest Burgdorf-making
sworn statements to the district attor-
ney which are said to be in the ma
ture of confessions and the contents of
which are withheld from the public
until the statements made have been
investigated When Justice Jerome
came out of the rooms after the con-
ference, which lasted from 2 to 8
o'clock, he said:
After a conference with the district
attorney, both of us feel that to make
any statement concerning the inquiry
would be to impede the district attor-
ney in the prosecution of further in
quiry. 1t will naturally occur to you
that such case as the district attor-
ney has before him is suggestive of
many things that may require careful,
and, it may be, extended investigation
and even to intimate their character
would render that difficult and perhaps
defeat their purpose.
Il can say that the defendant en-
deavored apparently with great sin
| certify to do all in his power to atone
for the wrongs that he has done.
suspected the value of the inquiry
would require that no information be
given out without danger of hampering
or impeding the action of the district
attorney"
Whitney and Burgdorf were arraign-
ed before Justice Jerome in his cham
| bers this morning. Several motions
| made by Emanuel Friend for the dis
missal of the complaints on the GROUND
| Of insufficient evidence were Denied
and Justice Jerome held the prisoners
in $4,000 bail each, and they were tax
| en- to the TombS.
Soon after noon Whitney agreed to
make statement, and Justice Jerome
returned to his chambers. Frank Moss
counsel for the Society for the Pre-
| Vention of Crime, was summoned, and
Whitney was brought over from the
Tombs Then in the presence of Acting
District Attorney Schurman and AS
sistant District Attorney Garvan, and
despite the protests of Emanuel
Friend. who advised his client not tc
talk, Whitney made a deposition which
was taken down in long hand. Burg
dorf was also examined. and his state
ments were reduced to writing. The
prisoners, especially Whitney, looked
thoroughly broken UP when they Were
| taken to the TombS.
Police Commissioner Murphy made
a statement concerning the accusation
that Whitney had notified poolrooms oil
impending raids through the police
telegraph system in which he said thai
he would make a most rigid investi
| cation. There were fifteen men in the
telegraph bureau, he said, and If ont
or two men attempted to do such {
thing an expose would certainly fol
| low.
He characterized the charge abou
the public use of police telephone wires
in notifying poolroom keepers of pro
posed raids, as preposterious.