New-York tribune., 1901-10-05
SAY THEY HAVE BIG GAME.
TAAIAfANY POLITICIAN CAUGHT SIGNING
DISORDERLY HOUSE LEASE.
THE FIFTEEN'S AGENT SAT- AT TABLE WITH
JACOB HERTZ. PAPERS BEFORE THEM,
WHEN MONROE AND CANS ENTERED.

JACOB HERTZ. PAPERS BEFORE THEM,
WHEN MONROE AND CANS ENTERED.
Jacob Hertz, the well known East Side busi-
and politician; Isaac Shall, of No ID
First-st. and Morris Fluss. of No. 80 Orchard
ST. arrested on warrants issued by Justice
Jerome yesterday by Detective Sergeant Ryn-
ders of the District Attorneys office, who was
accompanied by Colonel Robert Grier Monroe
Assistant District Attorney Schurman, Deputy
District Attorney Cans and agents of the Com
nittee of Fifteen The arrests were made in the
parlor OF the Dry Dock Hotel, at the corner OF
the Bowery and Third-st, about o'clock last
night
The men. according to a statement by Assist
ant District Attorney Cans were gathered
about table. in the act of transferring the
lease and good will Of the property at No 10
East Thrd-st which Colonel Monroe said was
disorderly house. to Frank Curtis, an agent
OF the Committee of Fifteen. who has been ne
gotiating with them for some time. He now
acts as the complainant against the prisoners.
| The table Mr.. Cans said, was covered with
| the instruments of the transfer. all of which
| were seized by the men from the District At
| torneys office. Curtis was delegated to get d.
| rect evidence against the proprietors OF dis
| orderly house. and the men interested declare
| thet he has been successful.
| THE TRAP LAID.
In a statement given out last night by AS
| sistant District Attorney Cans. his findings in
| the case of the premises at No. - East Third
ST resulted in the trap sprung last night
Mr.. Cans said that Curtis discovered that
| Hertz the lessee of the property at No 10
East Third-st, and the owner of all the furni-
| ture and fixtures but that some time prior to
| August / last he had transferred the lease on a
| ccnsi6eratio of $4,000 to Shall and Fluss. who
| Gre at present, he says, the acting rropriet1rs
| Or the consideration, it is said. $4,000 has al
! ready been PAID to Hertz, and $4,000 is still due
Curtis. alleging. it is said. that he wished to
| purchase the lease and the good will of the
| business. which was also included in the opera
| tons between Hertz and Shall and Fluss, began
| negotiations with the parties about August Z.
On August %, it is said, Curtis paid Hertz
| $500 one-thlrd of which was account and
| the other two-thirds of which to defray
the rent for No. 10 East Third-st. for the month
| Of October, the final closing of the agreements
| and signing cf contracts to occur some time
| about October l.
Under this settlement. Mr.. Cans said. Shall
and Fluss were TO receive somewhat more than
| they had already paid to Hertz while the latter
was to undertake a larger debt from Curtis for
the balance due for the lease than he had
| ing to him from Shall and Fluss. Curtis to
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| for the property, after he had paid the balance
which was about 5000, under his agreement
with Hertz. The lease 1t is said. has about ten
years yet to run,
| The trap laid by Colonel Monroe and his
| agents, in conjunction with the District Attor
ney's office elaborate Curtis had told
| them of the arrangement TO have the negotia-
tions closed at the Dry Dock Hotel last evening,
| and the warrants were obtained. With Curtis
at the conference his wife. Mrs. Emma Cur
| It's. who was TO pay the money consideration 20
Hertz. according to the story which Curtis said
had been told Hertz. and Agent Breen, OF the
| Committee Of Fifteen, who to play the role
| of Curtiss witness to the execution Of the docu-
| ments.
About I O'Clock Colonel Monroe, with Mr.. Cans
and Mr. Schurman. met at Superintendent John
| McCullaghs office in Broadway. With them were
| Detective Sergeants Rynders and Mcknight,
attached to the District Attorneys office and
several agents in the employ of McCulagh.
Going into the hotel, the party went into the
room where the others were seated at the table.
| Curtis, rising from his chair. beside which sat
his wife. said:
There are the prisoners" pointing toward
Hertz Shall ana Fluss. who sat dumfounded as
| they realized the situation.
CHECKS IN HERTZ's POCKETS.
Another issue to the big affair upstairs had
| taken place in the office of the hotel on the first
| floor where Detective McNaught, with another
warrant, had arrested the clerk of the hotel. and
| he grabbed the hotel register.
| The prisoners were taken directly to Police
| Headquarters. where they were locked up. Later
all of them We're bailed out, under station house
bonds to appear before Justice Jerome for
raignment to-day at $3.50 a. m.
| Mr.. Cans says Hertz is the proprietor of the
Dry Dock Hotel. When Hertz seacrhed at
the Central Office, Mr.. Cans said that two checks
had been found In his clothes, one for 5000
! and the other for 81 600, both drawn to him by
Emma Curtis