Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-19
CLASH BETWEEN OFFICIALS
OVER CUSTODY OF PRISONER
Police Commissioner Seeks to Take
charas and Is out.~ittsd by District
Attorney Whitman-Thrss '"o'ee'
ment. Of Men "Hisher Up" Predicted
a., Nearby Development.

| York from Albany TINS AoreHooh o'Ao
was taken to the west t-side prison
where he will be placed in cell. AL
tho held only as a material witness
District Attorney Whitman, who came
down from Albany with Schepps. said
he would be arraigned in court as
matter Of form.
There was a clash between the dis
trict attorney and detectives from po-
! lice headquarters as soon as the train
pulled in. Detective Haggerty, who
! said he had been sent up by Deputy
Commissioner Dougherty, tried to take
charge Of the prisoner, but Mr.. Whit
man would have none Of 1t and insisted
that the district attorneys office alone
should have charge.
When asked If he had told all he
knew concerning the Rosenthal case to
the district attorney. Schepps grinned
and replied:
I'VE didn't discuss anything like
that; we just had a nice chat
It is known. however, that Schepps
substantially .corroborated Jack
Roses story.
Three Arrests Soon.
The district attorneys office has
obtained the connecting link between
the crooked inspectors and the power
full police department official for whom
they worked. Within three weeks this
uniformed official and two inspectors
will be indicted for extortion."
That statement was made by one of
District Attorney Whitman's conni-
Dental aids. ~ ..s
On Saturday night this assistant dis.
trict attorney discovered who had been
collecting graft for the influential Of
ficial of the. police department. At the
same time he uncovered the collectors
book account. covering the period be-
tween December. 1911. and August.
1912. In eight months the collector de-
posted $4,000.
1t was the method Of transferring
cash from the bank account Of the col
lectors to the pocket Of the police de-
partment official that supplied evi-
dence against the big man.
Started Inquiry in December.
The assistant district attorney says
that ever since December the district
attorneys Office has been after a po-
lice official, uniformed or not uni
formed, who has been named as d
CRATER to the district attorney since
the murder Of Rosenthal, and that fol
five months every one OF these men has
been under surveillance.
He says that even II Rosenthal
hadn't gone to Whitman and made ac-
cusations Of police crookedness-alle-
cations which brought his death and
20 ho nd j,,v1, a
Of the crooks-the district attorney
would sooner or later have trapped the
grafters.
The information was coming in slow
ly before Rosenthal set fire to the
the information has been pouring in
Roses Bluff Fails to Work.
The story goes back to December
1911. just about the time Lieutenant
Becker was becoming, active In the
Tenderloin.
I'm that month";" said the assistant
district attorney, Jack Rose, already
pretty we'll known as Becker's collect
or, went to poker club made up OF
we'll known politicians and demanded
on behalf Of Becker that the club put
up $3.50 a month for the privilege of
playing poker privately In its own
rooms.
This club had been in existence fif-
teen years. and wasn't gambling
house. Few people outside of its mem
bers knew that poker was being played
in its rooms. The members were
amazed when Rose walked in and made
his cool request.
LOOK here. you CRATER said one
Of them to Rose. you go back and tell
the man who sent you that II he ever
makes a play Of this kind again TIL
spend the rest Of my life putting him
in stripes. AS for you, get out or you'll
be helped OUT
Rose went In hurry and never re-
peated the demand. One Of the mem
bers of this club was SO mad that he
told close friend Of the incident and
the friend happened to. be connected
with the district attorneys office.
Murder Aids Graft Disclosure.
"From that day this office has been
after Becker and other grating police
men,, Before Rosentha1 was shot down
we had been getting evidence slowly
After the murder we began getting It
fast.
Little by little. out Of mass OF In
formation. we have built up case
against some Of the biggest grafterS
that will be as strong AS tho murder
case"
Aren't you afraid the men to be In
dicted will skip town. or afraid at least
that some Of the important witnesses
against them will run awayT' was
asked.
Frankly we are" he replied, ''but
these men are more closely watched. II
they run they won't run far. and. any
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