Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-12
They PRO1[C|[D.CR|k[
The New York Police Are Frifht.
ened by Whitney's Whole.
sale Confessions.
Men In High Office To Be Pros.
ecuted.-Many Of Them
in Hiding.
Officials Implicated in the Pre-.
lection of Poolrooms I'm
masked by Clever Ruse.
Officials Implicated in the Pro.

him, but without avail.
Glennon's arrest is but matter of a
few days. Probably he in turn will tell
all he knows, like Detective Bissert, now
awaiting sentence for blackmail. and
Private Detective Whitney, In that
event the identity of John Dee will be
settled at last
Whitney and his business associate.
Ernest Burgdorf. will be examined be-
fore Justice Jerome this afternoon.
Whitney says that the twenty EIGHT
pool-rooms with which he was con-
nected paid for protection as follows:
To agents for information concerning
prospective raids, per month, $500.
To police and others as special as
sessments." per month, $500.
To police as regular payments. per
month, $3.50.
Total per month, $780,
This does not, of course, include tele-
phone or telegraph tolls, rent, or pay
for the three extra men assigned to each
pool-room by the Tammany district
leaders at So a day.
Police Commissioner Murphy re-
NAMED at Far Rockaway. He had not
ordered to make an investigation in the
telegraph bureau as to the bogus pool
room tips Frank Moss sent over the po-
lice wires on Friday. Col Murphy, in
telephone conversation, said he expects
to get the report today.
Until then" said Col. Murphy, 81
don't see that 1 can do anything, AS
soon as get Inspector Brooks report l
will send it to District Attorney Philbin
Accompanying the report there will be
communication from me based on the
report, whatever it is. 1t will then be up
to the district attorney to begin what
ever criminal proceedings he may see
fit. He has the grand jury at his dispo-
sal, and he can get the aid of the police
department in fixing the responsibility
for the conditions alleged to exist. The
district attorney knows that will do
1 all Lean to assist him."
| Frank Moss, of the Parkhurst society,
spent the day at his home. He was in a
cheerful mood and said he had decided
| not to leave town, as it was impossible
| TIC tell when his men might need him.
I'VE are simply resting on our oars"
said Mr.. Moss. I'VE have matters in a
satisfactory state and will go right
ahead. We are going just as far as we
4 possibly can go and that is all there is
to it,
And going as high as you can go?'
i was suggested
Yes; just as high as we possibly car
go"
Does the confession implicate any
persons high up in the police depart
4 ment?'
81 think we had better not discus.
that"
Senator Thomas c. Plat talked freel,
at Manhattan Beach, and his statemen
that he has no intention of pushing /,
state police bill next winter was takel
as eliminating the question of home rul
as an issue in the coming municipal
campaign.
DO you think, senator" he wa
asked, that the head Of the police de
partment will be removed as the resul
OF the recent expose?"
Removal would do no good" he re
piled. THE situation shows the need o
9 state bill. When urged the passag
of state measure last winter l antici
pated just such disclosures as have com
to light"
will the state police measure be re
neWed next Winter!
81 shall not renew It," the senator re
piled, with some emphasis. ut is TO
the governor to do that if he sees fiji
Such measure would have passed las
winter, but the governor would no
sign it,"
Frank Moss, superintendent of the So
ciety for the Suppression of Crime, aide
by Agent Dillon, who pretended to be
tray the organization, has exposed tn
police of New York and claims to hay
| proved that the entire police force. fror
patrolmen up to the front Office
leagued with the pool-room men of tn
city to protect them, and that high pc
lice officials act as agents and divide tn
spoils with the gamblers.
Dillon. pretending to accept pay fror
Edgar A. Whitney, who claims to be
member of the firm of Bergdorf & Whit
ney, secret service bureau, got inside tn
police plot, agreeing to warn Whitne.
who was authorized go-between for tn
police and gamblers. of all raids contem
plated by the society.
BY this means Dillon secured a list Z
the pool-rooms paying for protection
and by sending fake warning thru pc
lice telephones, according to the COD
furnished him, found that every polio
station in New York was practic;
agency in the plot.
Those directly involved by the tes
are the following, but to prosecute a
implicated would be to leave New Yor
almost wothout a brass button:
Deputy Commissioner Devery.
Captain Flood, of the Tenderloin.
Captain Delaney. of the East Thirt.
III fifth street station.
| Captain vredenburg, of the Oak sire
station.
Captain Moynihan. of the West Twel
tieth street station.
Sergeant Schulum, of the East FIT.
seventh street station. "a
Sergeant Shields, of the Tenderloin.
Policeman Dwyer Of the Tenderloi
i Telephone operators at police hea'
quarters.
Whitney and his partner, Bergdorl
were arrested. Whitney, when seize
made an attempt to throw away pape
discriminating him and hundreds OF p