The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-07-15
Report of a Citizens Com
mittee That's Been Busy
Uptown.
BURNS MEN AT WORK
Said to Be Getting Evidence
About the Gambling
Houses.
GAMBLERS FRIGHTENED
Angry at Rosenthal for Pushing
Enmity So Far as to leopard
Them All.

Police Commissioner Waldo will demand
to day an immediate investigation by the
District Attorney Of the stories that
gambling il wide open In the Tenderloin
and elsewhere and that uniformed police
officials have been taking protection
money from Herman Rosenthal and other
gamblers.
! If District Attorney Whitman is not
back in his Office Commissioner Waldo
will lay his demand before Assistant
District Attorney Mott. The scope Of ths
investigation will take in not only the
accusation made in an affidavit by Rosen-
thai that Lieut. Charles Becker Of the
strong arm squad" enjoyed 20 per cent.
of the profits of the Rosenthal gambling
business, hut also will cover various
charges that have Peen put forward that
police officials are fattening on easy
money received from gamblers.
/ One bf the main lines of the investiga-
ton desired by Commissioner Waldo has
to do with stories that have been persist
emily in circulation concerning the shift
ing Of gamblers from the Fourth lnspec-
ton district to the Third and back again.
The point of these stories has been that
certain police officials fixed up a scheme
by which there was to be lively raiding
in one district while the gamblers in the
other were left alone.
The District Attorney will be asked to
dig into the rumors that gambling has
fourished in the Tenderloin only because
police officials forced themselves into
parternership with the most prosperous
gamblers. Under this alleged arrange
ment the gamblers were compelled.
in order to do business at all, to accept
silent partners who We're able 10 give the
necessary protection and who received
so per cent. of the profits.
Ever since thee was an infIX of small
fry gamblers from the East Side 70 the
. Broadway and Wes, Side preserves
quarrels and alterations have broken
out in the Tenderioin. The members OF
the fraternity that had been enjoying the
field 10 thcmse ives before the East Siders
flowed iv complained that the small
fry were running the waoi, Business
by their treachery TO each other their
"squeals" to the police and their greed for
s,'"n po",, p',a,,,,, nvn,osior !, wa.
said
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say Becker Did Hts Duty.
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! ,;o''a a,hor ,hon ,bo, necler had done his
~. n,,a ,ha, oar,,,;nIy Rsrl.cr had 90,
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, ~ 80. ,i,., ,,o r,,,lnr s;,,,t;,n
, nos h,.r caused h,, pambiers who were
.,ro hscausa of the ncrsistent raidinp OF
n gambling houses that the Commissioner
has ordered
! The key to the present complaints.
it was said, has been the anger and un-
o certainty of the gamblers over Naldo'l
h tactics in not trusting altogether To one
squad Of raiders and gambling scouts
The Commissioner has used at least three
squads in the Tcnderloin and other dis
triots where games O. chance from stus'
{ to sky limit poker flourish. Lieut. Becker
had snooped after gamblers when he
;, wasn't busy chastising or gathering III
y street car rowdies and street corner
- hooligans; but Lieut. Costigan has oeer
on the job with his squad all the rim'