The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-04-06
Magistrate Suggests Leads
for Further Inquiry on
Vice and Crime.
TenderloIn blottov Entries
Made Public - yeddo
November Held

WUvVuUOUU VOUOs
For IN hour and Q hak Magistrate Cor
rgan was . witness before tAs March
Grand Jury yesterday In The vios end
orime inquiry. He repsatsd many Of TIE
statements which he bod made publicly
and suggested some nsw linss for investi-
CATION.
Magistrate Corrigan recommended to
the attention Of the 0rand Jury The min.
utes In the qase OF Capt. John O'Brisn.
formerly inspector In charge OF Coney
Island. O'Brien was in charge OF the
Coney Island district last September whom
acting Mayor Mitchell sent IN inspection
squad from the ONCE OF the Commissioner
OF Accounts to look over conditions there.
Az result OF their report o'Brien was put
on trial at Headquarters. The trial
dragged along and about tho first Of IL
year Trial Commissioners Walsh reserved
decision. 1t is still reserved. In bis
speech before the City Club Magistrate
| Corrigan intimated that the reason for
withholding it would be interesting to
know.
District Attorney Whitman will have
the minutes In the case brought down
from Headquarters. They include de-
tailed accounts OF the investigators
search for crime and take up somc 5000
typewriter pages. Assistant District AZ.
torney Moss will 60 through the minut .
before they are presented TO tho Grand
Jury.
| Magistrate Corrigan also named several
policemen who he thought would be able
to interest the Grand Jury. They will b.
subp9naed. He was asked to give his
opinion on two points-whether iy was
| possible to enforce strictly the excise law
in the way the police are now attempting
to do II and whether he believed that the
decrease in arrests noted in the report
of the Police Commissioner was largely
In arrests for petty offences. Magistrate
Corrigan answered both questions in the
negative.
Two entries in the blotters from the
Tenderloin station. which when the
Grand jury saw them on Monday were
referred to as interesting reading
became known yesterday. One OF them
10 in the station house blotter for Marca
81. 1911. and is timed li:3S P. NJ. 1t is
signed by First Deputy Commissioner
Clement j. Driscoll and reads:
Clement j. Driscoll. First Deputy Police
Commissioner. visited the precinct and
reports that Broadway that portion
OF It in the Twsnty-third precincD was
being patrolled by many prostitutes and
that there were very many beggars stand
ing about"
The second entry the Grand Jury found
in the detectives book in the same pre-
oinct. 1t was made opposite the name
of a detective lieutenant. dated March
49, and said that First Deputy Polics
Commissioner Clement j. Driscoll re-
ported that between Thirty-fourth street
and Forty -Second on Broadway he had
passed many beggars.
DR.. George McPherson Hunter. who
has charge OF the mission Of the Ameri-
can Seamen's Friend Society at 6o7 West
street, was another witness He said
that he was familiar with fifteen sea-
ports on the Atlantic. In only one, DR..
Hunter said. was the shoregoing sailor
in more danger than In New York That
one, he said, was Rosario In the Argentine
Republic. DR.. Hunter gave eleven cases
of recent robberies and assaults COM
mitted upon sailors in the neighborhood
of the mission. One of them resulted
in the death of the sailor. In two cases
the sailor had been ursued to the door
of the mission before the attackers gave
up the chase.
G. Strassberger. q manufacturer on
West Forty-second street. who recently
had some correspondence with the Mayor
in regard to burglaries in his factory.
was another witness. Another was Po-
liceman Edward Collins Of the East i26th
street station. Collins caught John AM
tioo. who was wanted for murder. Al
though Antico fired four shots point blank
1T the policeman he did not even draw
his own revolver Antico was acquitted
on the murder charge. but is now doing
time for shooting at the policeman,
Lieut.. Henry Collins. who has charge
OF the record room at Headquarters, was
called. Inspector Russell and Capt. Nc
Elroy of the Tenderloin station were
present. but were not called.
The men who were caught in the raid
on Tuesday night on the cigar store at
Rivinston and Allen streets. to which
Magistrate Corrigan referred in his City
Club speech as a rendezvous for burglars
and other crooks. were brought before
u Magistrate Corrigan yesterday mornin ::
in the Essex Market police court Mags-
trate Corrigan could not finish the hcarlA'
because he was summoned before 60.
Grand Jury MaGistrate Herbert finishc.;
the work.
One Of the men. Jacob Rosenthal.
caught in the raid was held in $500 bonds
for good behavior for twelve months
because he was professional thief and
therefore guilty of being u disorderly.
according to section S9sa OF Criminal
Procedure. Assistant District Attorney
Medalie asked for the adjournment Of
two other such csses 80 that certified