New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-23

the graft money, drove the proprietors
and girls from one house to another,
were matters which We're always under
discussion at these meetings.
May lndict Inspectors.
Charles Muller. the janitor OF the
West 5Sth street apartment house in
which Mrs. Goode and other women Of
the scarlet army piled their bust
ness" will go before the gsand jury
again to-day. lie was witness before
that body last Monday. and it was ru-
mored last night that Maier and Du-
Waller might get chance to save
themselves from prosecution and fur
ther trouble by following Muller on the
grand jury witness stand.
Although the District Attorney is not
expecting immediate action In the way
of grand jury indictments, it is be-
lieved that when indictments are forth
coming they will not be against the
patrolmen now under charges at Police
Headquarters. but against the captains
and inspectors who have been the re-
ceivers of the graft collected by pa
trolmen, plainclothes men and old
fashioned 'wardmen.
The evidence which has been coming
in TO the District Attorney has been so
far along the general lines of the big
beneficlaries Of police graft from the
social evil. but within the last twenty
four hours the names OF dcserters from
the ranks of the underworld have been
brought to Mr.. Whitman, with the in
formation that from them he could
gain specific evidence against some Of
the captains and inspectors who have
been widely known in the underworld
circles upon whom they have levied.
1t developed yesterday that the Blu
reau Of Municipal Research, which has
been the agent through which the do
nation Of John d. Rockefeller, jr., has
been made OF service TO the Curran
committee. had n fund Of information
on police administration on hand before
inc retfIt ulSNIOSui'" III tii' ''iN' ~
partment sent the grafters scurrying
TO cover.
Card Index OF Houses.
Among other things IT developed that
the Bureau Of Municipal Research had
at one time freer access 10 the Police
Department records than the alder
manic committee could gain when it
made a personal visit to the West 47th
street station Oh Friday
These earlier investigators from the
Bureau of Municipal Research were
able to put in their reports the fact that
the Tenderloin stations of the city had
al that time records not only of the dis
orderly houses in their precincts but
also lists and descriptions of the girls
that inhabited each such house These
records. it is said, were so carefully
kept that the captains and inspectors
knew when girls were transferred from
one house to another, as frequently
happened. and by the records they kept
were able 10 gauge the exact possbili-
ties of the graft on each Of the dis
orderly houses in the district
Henry Bruere, director of the Bureau
of Municipal Research, said last night
that although he could not recall ex-
actly whether his investigators had re-
ported that the police had "a card index
system Of the disorderly houses and
their tenants, he had recollection
that something of that nature had been
reported.
Something like that is on the fringe
OF my memory" said Mr.. Bruere, but
l cannot say positively"
Mr.. Bruere explained that several
years ago Arthur Woods, then ENJOYING
his Sabbatical year as teacher in
Groton, came TO the bureau and Of
fered his services. He was delegated
to make report on the police system
from the standpoint Of general bust
ness efficiency, more than with the idea
of disclosing graft, and in that capac-
ity Mr.. Woods got in touch with Gem
eral Bingham. then Police Commits