Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1912-08-15
WEREPAlD
FOR PROTECTION
SUMS AGGREGATING HUNDREDS
OF THOUSANDS COLLECTED
YEARLY IN NEW YORK.

New York, Aug. 14.-In the search
for evidence to convict the murderers
Of the gambler Herman Rosenthal,
the states attorney and the grand
jury have unearthed wealth Of In
formation showing that gamblers and
proprietors of disorderly houses paid
sums aggregating hundreds of thou
sands of dollars yearly for police pro-
lection.
Evidence now before the grand jury
shows that every form of gaming and
vice paid prescribed toll and that
these tariffs varied according to the
location In the city.
The monthly traf1ics paid to the po.
lice vary:
First class uptown gambling houses
paid 81, 1000; middle class gambling
house paid $500; east side gaming
houses paid anywhere from 500 to
.$4O0; high class pool rooms $500,
while dice, poker games, paid $500;
uptown disorderly houses paid 5000
while east side resorts paid 500.
With the cooperation Of all the
banks in the city District Attorney
Whitman has been able to secure the
names of four police inspectors whose
bank accounts run into several hun
dred thousands. One inspector is
said to have accumulated a million
dollars. The indictments of these Of
ficials are not being pressed at this
time as the states attorney is devot-
ing his chief effort to entrapping the
murderers Of Rosenthal.
The hunt for other bank accounts
of Police Lieutenant Becker was re-
sumed today by District Attorney
Whitman who with the aid of the
banks of the city, has disclosed that
Becker, accused of murder, has with
in the year, deposited $5S,S45. The
states attorney believes it will be
disclosed that Becker has accumulat-
ed about 100000.
BALD Jack" Rose in his story before
the grand jury is reported to have
involved Jack Sullivan, the "newsboy
king and close friend of Lieutenant
Becker, in the murder plot. Rose is
said to have declared that Sullivan,
after riding around the city, the night
Of the murder with Becker, went to
"Bridgie" Webber's gambling place
and seeing that the gunner were
there, went to the Hotel Metropole to
locate Rosenthal.
Banks DivuIge Deposits.
Powerful banking interests, acting
through the New York clearing house
committee, have come to the aid of
District Attorney Whitman. A vir-
tual command was given by the COM
mittee to all banks in the clearing
house to furnish the district attorney
with a record of deposits they may
have received from any Of the high
police officials whom the district at
torney suspects of having been col
lectors of blackmail from the disor-
derby element Of the city.
AS a result records showing that
within the last eight months Police
Lieutenant Charles E. Becker, charg-
ed with the murder of Herman Rosen-
thai and accused of gambling graft,
has made bank deposits Of $5S,S45 in
his own name or that Of his wife, were
prosecutor.
First Deposits In November.
Three deposits, the record show,
were made in November, 1911, short
ly after Becker became head Of the
strong arm squad of gambling raid
ers and continued until the time that
Jack Rose says he was collecting graft
for Becker and until after his arrest.
The table of deposits as presented to
the district attorney was as follows:
Corn Exchange bank, November
21, 1911, to Aug. 1, 1912. .$29,615
Corn Exchange bank (branch)
May /, 1872 1880
Corn Exchange bank (branch)
April, 1912 -. ...... ..... 5000
Corn Exchange bank, (branch)
July, 1912 49,. ...... -. 10000
Empire Savings bank, Apr. 1912 $500
1912 -. Z. 5000
1912 800