The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-08
Famous Detective Operates
Disorderly Resorts and
Gambling Houses to Sc
cure Evidence Needed.
NELEGRAPHONE WAS
ALSO USED BY HIM
q. D. Rockefeller Also Aids in
Graft Fight by Operating
Pretended Houses of Ill
Fame In N. Y.
CNational News Association)

tNational News Association)
NEW YORK, Aug. 8.-Detective w.
u. Burns announced today that he had
furnished evidence that will enable
District Attorney Whitman to return
la score of indictments in the notorious
graft cases.
Mr.. Burns also admitted that he had
established and conducted two dis
orderly houses and one gambling in
stitution in this city in order to trap
the grafters.
ut is a fact" said Mr. Burns, that
] operated two disorderly houses and
the gambling places to get evidence.
] also had detectives acting as wait
ers in Broadway hotel who stood
near police officials and overheard
conversations concerning certain graft
deals. Not only this but had tele-
graphone installed in the room where
politicians played poker and we have
all their conversation. I have a great
deal of other evidence also"
Grand Jury at Work.
When the grand jury went into ses-
sion today it was with the intention
of devoting its entire attention to wit
nesses whose testimony was expected
to establish the relations alleged to
exist between Police Lieutenant
Charles A. Becker and Bald Jack"
Rose prior to the murder of Herman
Rosenthal, the gambler with whose
death Becker is charged.
1t is the plan of District Attorney
Whitman to begin today to establish
the truth Of charges made in Roses
expose of the alliance existing be-
tween certain members of the police
and the underworld by which police
officials and politicians grew rich
through! graft.
Detectives from the District Attor-
,ney's office had served summons on
a number of persons mentioned by
Rose in his statement and they were
instructed to appear before the grand
jury
With Mr.. Whitman practically di-
:recting the situation aided by two as
sistants and a corps of detectives,
evidence is piling up rapidly.
The district attorney is said to have
found a reliable witness who Is will
ing to testify that Jacob A. Reich, bet
ter known as Jack Sullivan, the friend
of Lieutenant Becker, the man who
rode up town with him on the morn
ing of the Rosenthal murder, fed with
the assassins in Libby & Shapiro's
gray automobile. The district attor-
ney expects the grand jury. to indict
Sullivan for murder in the first de-
gree upon the strength of testimony
which this witness will give.
Other evidence corroborating allie
cations of Rose is accommodating rap
idly.
Two police inspectors, it is report
ed, may be indicted as result of the
mass of discriminating testimony in
the hands of the district attorney. One
of the inspectors is said to command
one of the most important precincts
in New York; the second is not now
in command of any district, but is
said to exert great influence.
RockefelIer's Part.
It was learned today that John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., with the assistance
of James B. Reynolds, assistant dis
trict attorney, for the past year has
been operating a pretended disorder
ly house in the heart of the white
light district, for the purpose of Sc
curing evidence against police Off
cials, politicians and the procurers of
young girls.
Men who were debating its manage
meme never appeared at the house,
which is located in the West Forties.
The orders were carried out by a man
Rgeress and her assistants. One Of
the men associated with Rockefeller
is said to be Clifford E. Roe, of Chi
cago, who aided in the white slave in.
vestigation two years ago. Later Roe
went to Chicago and assisted Federal
District Attorney Sims in campaign
against white slave traffic there.
A sensation was caused by report
70 the district attorneys office testi-
mony showing that police inspector
and a civilian confederate of the lead
ers of the police system" collected
tribute.
Other evidence of police blackmail
was obtained, it is alleged.
District Attorney Whitman will
make a herculean effort to uproot the
police system and drive graft out OF
the police force.
First, however, he will not press
this campaign until after he has com.
pleted the Rosenthal case.