Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-01
B|C FUND RAISED ID BUY IMMUNITY Detectives from District At torney's Office Made Startling Discoveries
 Yesterday.
TIPPED OFF BY WOMAN
fo'iee Try to Flock investigation and Make Charges Against
 isetectives.

NC" atfk, Aug. 31--With tw( committees in the sac government probing the vast graft web which sn tangIes the police and tse underworld of New York, with seven men jndiot ei TOT the murder Of Herman Rosen- thai, the "squeater" who revealed the graft sys em and men who form the vice trust which controls the dlsorderly houses and 1000 fallen women in this city, has subscribed $o0,oO0 to bay immunity rom present prosecution and to purchase further protection.
 Tais fund.- which represents ap- proXimately one weeks net earnings from g disorderly houses in one section of New York alone, has ba on placed in a safe deposit box in all uptown bank. The key to this box will be turned over to the men wfo prove to these captains of vice that he can deliver the immunity and protection they want.
 This startling information was pro- cuced by detectives of the district attorneys office this afternoon They have leaned the names of. t1e men who have Subscribed to the fund. they know the number and location of the safety deposit containing the money, and detectives are watching men and fund night and day.
 The secre, was revealed by a wG1n- an Of tGe underworld, who had been an inmate of the house prior to the raids carried on by the District At tolney's office. She told, imme diate- ly after the raids, tha5 she and her women would be expected 10 reim- purse the system for the loss of oper- a,ion fthe houses and for a part of the $50, 0,000 fund just as son as pro- lection was secured and the house reCpened.
 Frank Walsh, one of the witnesses of the Rosenthal murder. who was mysteriausly spirited out of town Wednesday, is believed to be in Philadelphia. Two detectives have gone to try to persuade him to re- turn to testify for the state. If he refuses to come the de eec,ives are provided with legal means Of foe ing him to return. Walsh is a tele- phone employe and a peer man. The District Attorney is also seeking in- formation as to where he secured the money for his sudden trip.
 Open war between she police de- partment and the District Attorneys office over the graft investigation was laid bare today when an attempt was made to discredit the probe into condition in the underworld by ac- cusing two of Mr. Whitmans. assist ants of having financial relations
 
 with keepers of discrderly houses.
 This plan Is said to have originated in the police department and to be intended to weaken the case of the state against the grafter by showing that the keeper of disorderly houses were in possession of lists of houses which were to be ralded.
 It is said a number of gamblers have threatened to tell all they know and have been bought off by the of ficials involved. Tn view of strong attempts which has been made to in- fluence witnesses of the RosentEal murder, who will testify for the sase, District Attorney Whitman today took steps to have these witnesse pro tected to the extent of personal guard if need be. from the approaches of agents of the system.