The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-08
John D. Rockefeller Jr., is Backing tho
Proposed Cleaning up of Vice
and Graft In New York
City.
OPERATED DECoY HOUSE
Tcnderloln Got Real Shock When
1t Heard That Standard OIL
King Was on Its
Trail.

limited Press Leased Wire service.l
NEW YORK, Aug. S.--The tender
loin got real shock. when 1t became
known today that one Of the chief
aides to District Attorney Whitman
in his campaign to obtain evidence OF
police graft, and the existence Of the
system" Is John ID. Rockefeller, Jr.,
social settlement worker and Sunday
school teacher. who, backed by hts
father, the Standard OIL king. operat-
ed a pretended disorderly house in the
heart OF the white light district to get
evidence against the police depart
ment and white slave traffic
Whitman admitted that Rockefel-
ler's experiment was wholly detached
from the murder OF Gambler Herman
Rosenthal, whose assassination pre-
cipitated the present upheaval, having
been begun year ago. But the EVIL
dence produced by the Standard OIL
decoy resort In 45th street 80 coin
cides with the police graft evidence
resulting from the investigation OF
the Rosenthal killing, that 1t may be
used in the prosecution of Police Lieu
tenant Charles Becker, now facing an
indictment for first degree murder,
and possible other indictments charg-
ing extortion in the collection OF "sys-
4 tenn" graft from the gamblers.
! The Rockefeller experiment was be-
gun in the interest of social reform,
and It's evidence was not submitted to
the district attorney until the trial OF
the Rosenthal murder pointed to thu
police department.
7 The white slave traffic. 1t was de-
clared, is regular trade In New
York, girls from the country and i'm
migrant girls from the steamship
: steerage being taken to the resorts by
, their masters and offered at auction
( like black slaves in Africa.
| 1t was learned today that District
Attorney Whitman had found new
, witness who would swear that Jack
: Sullivan, friend of Becker, rode away
In the Shapiro murder car following
, the murder of Rosenthal and a conrer-
2 ence with the accused lieutenant.
I Those close to the district attorney
. said today that Whitman had found at
least ten men who would corroborate
, the supplemental written confession of
] Jack Rose, prrporting to give facts in
a for the police department under the
supervision OF Becker.
I Twenty witnesses were waiting
s when the Rosenthal grand jury re-
e convened today after weeks recess
e and in the office Of District Attorney
Y Whitman, it was said that further In
dictments were expected in connec-
g tion with the gambling graft-murder
. scandal.
s The evidence of police graft OBJ
2, tanned through a decoy disorderly
:, house established on the order and
T. with the money Of John D. Rockefel-
e Ter Jr, 1t WAS said today, blazed a
e trail that led up to high police of
ficials, being especially damaging to
one Inspector. 1t was said that Sthe
Rockefeller house paid $500 month
i Ito this inspector and Starr J. Murphy,
e. who acts for the Rockefellers In their
r charitable and social welfare work
At did not deny the correctness of the
story
ID Asked what cognizance, If any, the
le police department would take Of the
e. alleged Rockefeller disclosures which
ut District Attorney Whitman will pre-
n sent to the Rosenthal grand jury
o. Police Commissioner Waldo said
n II do not know of my own knowl
id edge what Mr. Rockefeller has done
le or what he has found out, but hope
that Mr.. Rockefeller has been sue
ut cessful in obtaining evidence that vii
ep enable the department to dismiss an.
ur rascals that may be guilty of wrong
'V- doing
We It was learned today that Inspecto
We Edwin P. Hughes, who headed tn
Catskills expedition that conducted
three day mountain hunt for Lefty
Louie and "Gyp the Blood, is suffer
e.l ing from pleurisy and threatened wit
or pneumonia as the result of exposure
tic Four of the twenty detectives VII
III formed Hughes posse are similarl
his i'll.
,ed John F. Mcintyre, chief counsel e
to Lieutenant Becker, after confe
md ence with his client in the Tombs I
,rk day announced that he would leaS