Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-08
AIDS POLICE INQUIRY
J. D. Rockefeller, Jr., Gets Evil
denCe in New York.
INSPECTOR Is INVOLVED
Said to Have Gotten 5000 Monthly
From Evil Resorts.
ROSES STORY CORROBORATED
Several Gamblers Have Told District
Attorney Whitman They
Paid Blackmail.
ROSES STORY CORROBORATEI

NEW YORK. August S.-By far the
most interesting development in the
| many-sided investigation into the muir
der of the gambler. Herman Rosen
| thai. and its surrounding musk of po-
lice graft is the news of John d.
Rockefeller, jr's, quiet complimentary
inquiry into conditions in the under
world, particularly as to the sO-calied
white slave traffic
While Mr.. Rockefeller and his
agents decline to discuss the matter
and District Attorney Whitman will fur
nish no details. it is generally credited
that, through the establishment of what
purported to be a disorderly house in
the Tenderloin. agents for Mr.. Rock
efeller have gathered great deal of
valuable material.
1t was gathered primarily for reports
to Congress and the legislature a
basis for corrective legislation deal
ing with the traffic in girls, but CO.
incidently it dovetailed with the
present inquiry into the ROSenthal
case in that. it is said. evidence was
obtained that police inspector was
getting $500 month from such re-
sorts for protection. This data will be
at Mr.. Whitman's disposal to use along
with the confession of Bald Jack"
Rose and others.
1t is thought probable that the dis
trict attorney and Mr.. Rockefeller will
hold conference some time this week.
Ignorant of Details.
II know nothing of the details of
this matter said Mr.. Whitman today.
ut is true that John D. Rockefeller. jr..
has been of great service to the COM
munity in the white slave investiga
ton
The evidence in question was collected
prominent in the Chicago vice crusade
in cooperation with Assistant District
Attorney james e. Reynolds.
Whether any of this evidence will be
presented to the grand jury now in Ses-
sion could not be learned.
Police Commissioner Waldo seemed
pleased with the news that John ID.
Rockefeller jr~ had been endeavoring to
secure evidence of police grating. The
commissioner said:
II hope Mr. Rockefeller has been sue
cessful in securing evidence which will
enable the department TO dismiss any
rascal that may be guilty of wrongdOing."
Inspector Hughes Ill.
Chief Inspector Edward P Hughes.
head of the detective bureau, has broken
down under the strain of the ROsenthal
case and is seriously i'll, at his home in
Brooklyn, of pleuro-pneumonia. lie
caught cold on a hurried trip into the
Catskills with squad of detectives,
made in the hope of roundinS-up the last
of the murderers.
Cumulative evidence piling up before
the grand jury investigating police black
mail is said today to involve four or five
high police officials. Witnesses exam
ined by District Attorney Whitman have
furnished much cOrrOhOrati On tn the n
fession of "Bald jack Rose. who gave a
list of names of gamblers upon whom, he
charged, Police Lieut. Becker levied
blackmail
lie prosecutor and unwiliingly admitted
that they had paid blackmail to certain
inspectors. One of the witnesses told
Mr.. Whitman that he had been threat
grand jury and gave information about
the police. These witnesses said that
these inspectors dealt directly with the
big gambling houses. leaving Lieut.. Beck
er to attend to the small places.
MI Whitman said today that evidence
would be presented to the grand jury
against several police inspectors. One of
these inspectors is said to have kept such
close watch on the gambling houses that
he even examined their books and made
profits.
Weber Is Threatened.
"Bridgie'' Webber now admits that he
also collected toll from certain uptown
gambling houses for police inspector
Webber's life has been threatened and
Mr.. Whitman Has provided him with a
special guard.
Rose has sent word to the public prose-
cutor that he is prepared to identify the
four murderers of Herman Rosenthal
Until now Rose was not ready to say
that he could positively identify the gun
men.
Friends of Lieut.. Becker expressed
qualification today over the conviction of
two men on evidence obtained by Becker
men in a raid he himself conducted on a
pOOlrOom maintained at Sam Pauls place.
the Sans Souci. The policeman Herman
Schwartz, of Beckers rading squad, tes-
titled that Becker gave him money and
told him to go to PauTs and get evidence
Schwartz bet and caShed some of his bets
He then arrested the two men behind the
cashiers window, David Levine and
Morris Golden. They are now in the
TOmbs awaiting sentence.
Three other men arrested i'm a pre-
vious raid on the same place were dis
charged for lack of evidence