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DRUGGED In DRY DOCK HOTEL.
BUFFALO VICTIM TELLS POLICE,
ACCUSING OWNERS WIFE.
She's Locked Up Charged With the Drug.
ging and Robblng Him When He With
stood Other wiles-Police Gleeful
Over an Arrest Despite Justice Gaynor.

Over an Arrest Despite Justice Gaynor.
On the statements OF a man who says
he is Bernard Rice Of o. Walton avenue,
Buffalo, travelling salesman for bicycle
concern and an intimate friend Of John G..
Milburn, Mrs Rosie Hertz Of the Dry Dock
Hotel was arrested last night and locked
up In the Fifth street police station on q
charge Of grand larceny. Rice staggered
into the police station yesterday morning
apparently still under the influence Of some
drug. While telling his story to Capt
McDermott he tainted twice.
Rice said, according to the police, that
he arrived in town on Monday night and
was passing the Dry Dock Hotel about 10
O'clock on the way to his sisters home,
in West Fourteenth street, when a man
stepped out OF the hotel doorway and asked
him II he didn't want nice room for the
night Rice looked the place over, and, as
it had O decent exterior, said he guessed
he did
He was taken up to the Office, where a
woman, whom he has since positively
identified as Mrs. Hertz, was at the desk.
He asked for a nice room, and she charged
him IS for it. He was taken to a room on
tho second floor facing the Bowery, and had
just removed his coat when. as the police
say, Mrs. Hertz opened the door and
ushered in five young women
Now. young fellow. guess you can
have a good time all right, eh?" the police
saw Mrs. Hertz remarked to him. Take
any one you want
Rice who is a married man and father,
told Capt, McDermott in the police station
that he ordered the women away, but they
didn't go. Mrs. Hertz left the room, how
ever, and while the girls we're trying to
jolly Rice returned with tray Of glasses
containing whskey. This she passed
around and invited every one to drink Rice
according to McDermott, said that he took
scarcely more tran sip Of his, but i'm
mediately lost consciousness and knew
nothing more until he awoke at o'clock
yesterday morning.
He found himself lying across tbs bed
very sick. When he could move he
found that his gold watch, worth SIS, about
$sS, and suit case containing clothing
were missing. Putting on his hat and coat,
he went down and complained to Mrs
Hertz, who was in the ofice. :,
THAT'S all right she said, according TO
his story: Don't say anything to the police
about 1t and We'll fix 1t for you.
railing 10 Ret IuTtneT sdtiSlhcCloh
left the hotel and got bootblack opposite
to pilot him to the police station.
Capt. McDermott turned Rice over to
Detective Sergeants Barnes and Gilday,
who kept him N tow until last evening and
then took him TO the hotel. He identified
the room aud who gave him the whiakey.
Mrs. Hertz declared she hadn't been in
the hotel the night before. but she was
taken to the police station and locked up.
She said she was As years old, Hungarian,
and gave First street as her address:
the Dry Dock Hotel for a long. time with
small SUCCESS was delighted last night
over the arrest.
Mrs. HERTZ is the most notorious woman
In this CITY," he said. "She and her husband
-Jakey' Hertz, who was arrested by agents
prietors OF the Dry Dock Hotel, and both
have been a source Of trouble to the police
for years and disgrace to the community
Capt. McDermott, in his pursuit OF the
Dry Dock Hotel, has rough. housed it,
in police. parlanee. on several occasions N;;n
men in uniform d}tailed at the door. The
Hertzes in June obtained from Supreme
Court Justice Gaynor a temporary iniuno-
ton. recently made permanent, restraining
the police from interfering in any way with
their business.
Meantime Mrs. Hertz had been arrested
on the charge Of assaulting a policeman
who was on duty at the hotel and had been
placed under bonds to keep the peace:
In his decision making permanent the
temporary injunction against keeping uni
formed policemen at the Dry Dock Hotel
door Justice Gaynor pointed out that such
lawless methods had frequently been used
by the police as means Of extortion and
strongly condemned them.
He said also that the Dry Dock Hotel
appeared, on inspection like all hotels in
that and similar localities" from which 1t
was inferred that the Justice had personally
inspected the hotel The Justice e decision
handled Capt. McDe,lnotts lawless meth
Rice promised the police he would be
on hand in the Yorkville police court this
morning to prosecute Mrs. Hertz. The
police say he hoped to have Mr.. Milburn
q "a hia coInael