The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-09
STARVE OUT BONDSMEN.
MAGISTRATE AND POLICE PLAN
TO REDUCE GRAFT.

Only Keepers Of D~isorderiy Houses TO ne
acknowledgements for inmates
-One Bond From Ono MA n &C One Time
Vice syndicate Bouncers scored.
Magistrate Steinert, Inspector Gross and
Capt. Russell Of the West Thirty-seventh
street police station had a conference yes
terday In the West Side police court as to
the best way OF checking the evils OF the
professional bondsman business. The con-
ference was tho outcome of the Magistrates
refusal to accept certain bondsmen who had
been presented 70 him for the prisoners
In several raids on disorderly houses that
Capt. Russell had made. The Magistrate
discharged all the inmates of the houses
except the ~housekeepers for the vice syndi-
cate hat ran the establishments and two
men who were attached to the places as
hangers N.
. The housekeepers were sent to jail and
the cases OF the two men cam up yesterday.
They gave their names as Max Bergman
and Isaac Sazk. Capt. Russell testified
that when he started TO raid a house on
West Fortieth street on Tuesday Sazk
blocked his way n shouted:
Here comes the captain"
They had a tussle and Sazk was placed
under arrest on the broad charge Of dis
orderly conduct inc also for interfering
with a police officer. Magistrate Steinert
gave the men a sharp dressing down. de-
~nouncing their calling. and said he regretted
that he could not send them to prison for
long terms. He also denounced the pro-
fessional bondsman business and declared
that he would do all that he could TO break
it up. He fined the men $40 each. which
Leon Levy, who appeared IN their behalf.
paid.
The vice syndicate that runs the houses
on West Fortieth and West Fiftieth streets
is composed of two me who were formerly
in the same busine 50 on the East Side and
moved uptown for a more profitable field.
Their lawyer and professional bondsman
appear constantly in court in behalf Of the
women whose earnings the syndicate con-
trols. The bondsman has become o offensive
TO more than one Magistrate. and Magistrate
Steinert has shut down, so far "a he could
legally, on his operations.
The result OF the conference with Inspec-
tor Cross and Capt. Russell was an under
standing hat in any future raids all the
inmates of the houses should be discharged
at once, with the exception of the house,
keepers, 50 that the bondsmen would ave
as little business as IL was possible for him
TO secure. twas also agreed not TO accept
this man as bondsman in more than one
case at one time. The Magistrate issued
a warrant for another disorderly house
raid and gave the police officials sum-
monses in blank to serve on the inmates
other than the housekeeper.
Magistrate Steinert said he wished the
Board OF Magistrates would take some
concerted action on the bondsman matter
and would seek cooperation with Police
Commissioner Bingham. He thought that
instructions should be given to the police
10 arwaaf ovIy fhOaa IN nhar1a 80 kka ko,aoa
and TO serve the other inmates with sum-
monsee to go TO court the next morning.
tn Magistrate said such a system would
be similar TO the one in vogue in England
and he was in favor of giving il a trial. He
declared that any system that would ret
duce the evils Of the professional bonds
mans grating would be superior to tha-
now followed generally in the po lice courts.