The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-02
GRAFT CHARGES FOR SLEUTHS.
INSPECTOR FLOOD SAYS TENDER
LON NEEDS CLEANSING.

Cook and Krecht Likely to BE Tried as
Result Of julie Dupre's Arrest-war
Declared on Professional BOnhsmen
Seven Raines Law Hotels shut Up.
Inspector Flood preferred charges with
Commissio ner McAdoo yesterday against
Detectives George w. Cook and Henry
Krecht, accused by Julio Dupre Of 4s7
Seventh avenue Of accepting money
from her for protection" He recon-
mended to the Commissioner that the de-
tectives be tried for assault on the Dupre
woman, for unjustly arresting her and
for grating
-Never In my connection with the Police
Department" said the inspector, shave l
come across 80 barefaced a case Of grating
as these two detectives are implicated in,
IL the statements made to me are true
l went into the case carefully. examined
the Dupre woman her maid, Marie Forgues;
the maids husband, Andrew Forgues. and
P.J. Cabot and Vincent Roxan, friends OF
the Dupre woman. They told me that
under instructions from Julie Dupre the
maid paid Cook and Krecht $50 two weeks
ago. The woman apparently was used to
being shaken down.
Marie Forgues told me that her mistress
gave her the $50 and told her whom to pay
to. She went to the Cafe des B eaux Arts.
at Sixth avenue and Fortieth street. She
says she met the detectives there and handed
over the money. Her husband testified that
he saw her give the money to Cook and
Krecht The other men said they, knew
that Julie Dupre had been paying for pro-
lection for q long time.
"The Dupre woman said that onsW ednes-
day night Cook and Krecht went to her
house and demanded $50 more. When she
argued the matter they grabbed her and
handled her roughly, she says. They GER
tainly dragged her to the Tenderloin station.
Text morning they preferred a charge Of
assault against her because she resisted
arrest. The whole affair calls for a thorough
examination and have preferred char ges
to that end.
Il am satisfied Flood went on, that
grating has been going on in the Tender
loin, and 1t has got to be stopped. don't
care whose head hit, this thing OF prey
ing on unfortunate women won't go on in
district where give orders. have been
informed that very close to the Dupre
woman lives q disorderly house keeper
who has been paying $500 a month for pro-
tection-and getting it, too. Her house,
am told, has not been interfered with.
am going to make it my business to find
out who got the money and why
Information has reached the inspector
he says, that streetwalkers are accustomed
to being shaken down" for IS a week by
plain clothes men In the Tenderloin.
Il am not sure about that, said he. "No
matter what you and may know. we have
to have complaints to get into action. l
shall look into that dirty business, how
ever. and 1t will be sorry day for any
officer who find has been committing
that sort OF petit larceny.
Another business am preparing to get
after Is that Of the professional bondsmen
in the station houses. shall issue orders
to sergeants that they shall make certain
bondsmen show enough equity In real estate
to qualify as bona fide bondsmen or they
will be put out Of the station house. When
say put out mean both sergeants and
bondsmen.'
The inspector said that he was told yester-
day that the visiting physician Of q disorderly
house in West Twenty ninth street Is police
surgeon.
Il shall find time to investigate that Also
said Flood we can't drive all evil out Of
the Tenderloin, but We can stop police graft
ing. When policemen force money from
these women they force them to steal, and
every man who takes money OF the kind
knows It. The women have to steal to meet
the demands on them"
Acting Captain Robinson, who is In
charge Of the Tenderloin station while
Capt. Cottrell il away on vacation, refused
to comment on Inspector Floods statement
last night. Around the station house there
was an atmosphere Of anxiety. Some OF
the men on duty said:
Cook and Krecht don't belong to the
Tenderloin. They were assigned from The
Bronx and Harlem on five day duty"
Seven Raines law hotels went out Of bust
ness yesterday under the provisions Of the
Amber law. or the seven, the Parker
House. at Sixth avenue and Twenty-eighth
street, and the Arsenal Hotel, at 40 Seventh
avenue, have figured most In police stories.
A squad Of Tenderloin cops cruised about
the district seeing that the new law was
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