New-York tribune., 1903-02-03
LOOKING FOR GR4FT'ERS.
UvdLSh and DetectiUes lScOur Tender
ioin-Get Names.
WOMAN WHO COMPLAINED ARRESTED

WOMAN WHO COMPLAINED ARRESTED.
It was felt last night in the Terderloin station
that there will nc. within the next few days an
eruption in the precinct and that the 'grafters"
vino have represented themselves a the wa-dmen
Of Captain OPely will he cast UP. Besides the
stories Of grating printed yesterday Captain
O'ReiIlv received information that Of his new
roundsTnen had been seen grating on the hand
book makers while IN fun uniform along Sixth
last week The captain said he would investi-
gate il TO the end.
Acting Inspector Walsh and four his detectives
spent last evening visiting the hotels along
Broadway getting descriptions Of ''grafters, and.
it is said, succeeded in getting the names Of four
men who represented themselves the personal
and confidential representatives Of Captain O'Feilly
Who the men the acting inspector refused to
tell the ground tnat ne would have TO report
first TO the Commissioner. The members of the
acting inspectors staff even interviewed women in
Broadway. with a view TO finding out if they paid
toll in Broadway
When the result Of the acting inspectors in
vesugations is laid before the Commissioner it is
thought there viii he an upheaval-
On warrant obtained from Magistrate Flan1ner
At the jefferson Market police court Detectives
Quinn and Gilligan yesterday arrested Nettie
Smith. CoIored. Of No 10 West Thirty-frst-st,
charged with keeping disorderiy house
oh know what this is said the woman when
she was arraigred before the sergeant in the sta
ZION. You are after me because I won't give up
She complained At the station on last Thursday
that a policeman with No. $40 his shield had
told her unless she paid him 81 week she would
have to get out Of the precinct, and that if she
didn't pay him the first instalment at once he
would back I'D a patrol wagon AT her door
Captain O-Reilly investigated her story and found
that Policeman Doucourt whose shield bears the
number 31go. was on post the time the woman
alleged the call had been made. and the captain
recoIected that he had sent. Doncourt to tell the
woman that he would not allow her TO conduct a
disorderly house IN the precinct
Detectives Quinn and CTiIligan said last night that
the woman had been under surveillance for some
time. but that the evidence against the place on
which the application for q warrant was made had
been obtained on Saturday
When asked about the alleged "grafters'' Captain
O'ReiTy said:
an making an investigation The here
have known only four weeks or So and believe
they are honest capable set Of men ! don't
seuted ne are but If l find out they viii get all
that / give them. I have been twenty min"
years in this business without soiling my hands
with such money. and am TOO Old 70 DO thal sort
Of thing this stage Of the game
Acting Inspector Walsh said that IN was
suspicion directed against Captain OReily in the
investigation He believed the "grafters' had
worked their initiative
When Commissioner Greene orGereC his inspectors
yesterday 70 that lax patrolllng was stopped
every blackmaiIiIg wardman. or alleged waTdI1aeh'
L IS said. and that II any evidence Of such pay
r7eurS having been made reached MN ne would
until he landed the baCkmalleT n sing
ma ted that he held Acting Inspector Walsh re-
Suonefhe for the arrest Of the men VINO SdId tne%
represented Captain O'Refly and tried TO sell ms
favor to hotels cafes and dlsoroery houses IN the
IGuueriOIl