The sun., 1908-10-14
5000 A MONTH TO RUN A GAME
JEROME HEARS THAT THAT'S
THE PRICE AND DWHACKS POLICE.
Town Has been Wide Open. Hes Told
lie Can Shut the Houses and Does,
and so the Police Can. but They Won't
VIII Work With Bingham No More.

Ite uU Suut tuC HaouBtb anu DOto,
and so the Police Can. but They Won't
VIII Work With Bingham No More.
District Attorney Jerome. who has
been interviewing gamblers for a week.
said last night that he had been oredIbly
informed that gambling houses in the
Tenderloin. except the small fry. had
been paying the police $3.50 month, and
that il the money didn't stick to the
captain or inspector it went to somebody
else and the captain or inspector stood
for it, He took whack at Police Com
missioner Bingham, intimating that the
Commissioner was dlsloyal, and said
that hereafter he would consider it his
primary duty to make the police do their
duty and not to do police work himself
Mr.. Jerome. who had not been saying
much lately. gave'a long talk to the re-
porters on gambling and the police. There
we're eighteen suspected gambling
houses, he said. carried on the lists Of the
Twenty-third precinct. which is the old
Tenderloin. and he had interviewed the
proprietors or their representatives. He
refused to give their names. but Honest
John Kelly and Lou Ludlum saw him last
week. Frank Farrell. Sol Lchtenstein
and Dave johnson did not call, but sent
proxies.
Mr.. Jerome said that tbe.o gamblers
have consented that he shall examine
their places at any hour Of the day and
night. His men have been making the
inspections and will continue for about
sure that he will be able to report that
all the gambling houses in the Tenderloin
are closed. Then, he said, it would be up
TO the captain and inspector OF the dis
trict to keep them closed and take them
Of the suspected list or furnish evidence
that they were running, He would
call for the evidence and the Grand Jury
could act. Also. when he bad closed
ibe gambling houses in this precinct
the captain and inspector Of the district
would be asked TO explain to him why
they had not done il themselves.
The proprietors OF two or more houses
that are closed turned over the keys to
Mr. Jerome. They said they didn't want
TO pay for a caretsker. Contrary to the
general understanding, Mr.. Jerome did
not exact from them promise to let the
rolice inspect their places He had no
knowledge OF what the police were going
TO do he WAS going to keep the Keys OF
Chance he had. and II he could arrange to
have his men look over gambling houses
4 i. Il.
Old captains had told him that a gam
bling house couldn't last In their pre-
einets. seventy-two hours IL they didn't
want il
Il have considered in the past" said
Mr.. Jerome, ,'sthat il was my duty to do
Tolice work at times and to assist the
rolice The police are for the detection
Of crime. I am the prosecutor, l con-
slider it my primary duty now to make
the police do their duty. Give me ten
picked men and I'll close every gambling
house in New York and keep them closed.
LIE, ,iie citizens Of this city give me the
money and the force Of men and I'll do
il 1t is ridiculous for q Police Com
missioner To say that he cannot stop
gambling
At no time, Mr.. Jerome said, had he
been asked by the police captains to aid
in the prosecution Of gamblers. They
had never submitted evidence to him
Yet for FIVE years one house in the Ten
derlon had been carried on the police
lists and the police never got any evil
denee against it, Part Of the time the
place wRs closed
This has been a common practice
said Mr.. Jerome 'Canfield's was car
tied for years the same way
There was no reason why the police
couldn't get the evidence, he said. There
vas the baker. butcher. tho electric light
man. the gas man, all Of whom could he
subp9nasd Either the police were paid
or they were afraid In move.
Il have been told,' said Mr.. Jerome,
by man who is very well informed on
gambling in this town that the town was
never so wide open since the days when
John B Sexton was Police Commissioner
as it has been this summer. This man
knows gamblers and he CANDLES himself.
1t is matter OF common gossip In sport
ing circles along the White Way that the
gambling houses pay $50 month Now.
! don't know that: l don't know who
gets the money, but II is the general belief
that such is the case. IL the captains and
inspectors don't get II IL must 60 to some
body else and they stand for 1t, II the
captain and inspector in the Twenty third
precinct cannot stop gambling there is
mismanagement In the department.
Air. jerome said thai the police reports
we're joke. He had no trouble in finding
The proprietors Of places reported Owners
unknown"
lie said he was going ahead now without
tho aid Of Gen. Bingham or the police
When he started out last winter to clean
W gambling he supposed he had the CO.
operation Of Gen. Bingham. Then he
found that his squad was being trailed
10y squad four times It's size. His men
were only getting evidence TO he used in
Prosecutions. Three Of the men assigned
10 him from the Police Department |
Nasserman, Butler and Mara-had been
disciplined when the raiding squad
teaded by Edward Reardon, now out Of
Air, Jerome's Office. was broken MP
MIR. Jerome supposed they were dis
cpIined for the good of the service
But he thought there we're Other ways
oI disciplining policemen than by trans |
ierring them Wasserman has been trans.
ierred several times and is now at one