Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-08-02
SYSTEM Of GRAFT
EXPOSED BY AIDE
ROSE SAYS NEW YORK POLICE
COLLECTED FROM RESORTS
100000 YEARLY.
ALL. DIVIDED, HE AYERS
-Four Men High Up In Department
Shared t-Decl<er Said He Hand.
led 10000 Every
s Year.

NOW 10TH, July Oh oWVIA oSOSO
ments tending to show that the annual
graft collected by high police ohcaai
In New York city from gambling
houses and other illegal resorts hal
amounted within the last year to a.
4OO, 900 are in the hands of District At
torney Whitman.
The statements were made to the
district attorney by BALD" Jack Rose
uelf-accused graft collector for Police
Lieutenant Charles Becker, head d
the ''strong arm squad" who begar
his second day Of Incarceration In thu
Tombs prison a. IN alleged instigatol
Of the murder Of Herman Rosenthal
gambler.
This annual yield Of $2,40o,000 pro
lection money vas equally divided. 40
cording to the story told by Rose
among four high oflicials Of the police
department, one of them being Beck
or, and from other evidence the dis
trict attorney has collected he has req
son to suspect that each 100000 wal
further distributed. In other words,
there were four separate systems OF
bureaus Of graft collection, each heal
Cd by . high police oficial.
Mr.. Whitman, 1t was learned, has
the names Of the other three police
oflcials whom Rose has named and
his further efforts in what now 10 the
most sensational police exposure that
New York has ever seen viii b d.
reotsd toward Strengthening the evi-
dencs which points against them. One
Of the omclals named. it was learned.
holds Q position ut headquarters and
10, in . strict sense, Gillian employe.
The name Of . former prominent
city cAacial mas been brought to the At
tention Of the district attorney as hav-
ing been closely connected with the
graft system, but 1t was learned that
the evidence thus far obtained against
ri mis- not Of 4 tangible nature. The
evidence, however, is being closely fol.
lowed by the detectives in the employ
Of the district tttorney.
It also became known that II Lieu.
tenant Becker will tell all he knows
not only in respect to his own alleged
completely in the murder, but will
unfold the inner workings Of the graft
system. insofar - 1t may involve the
'men higher up" no effort will be
made to enforce the exterme penalty
for the crime Of which he now stands
Accused-the murder of Rosenthal-
out he will be granted leniency On
hat condition only.
The alleged fact Of the 32,400,000
graft fund was told to him by Beck
Or. Rose said in q sworn statement.
Becker, he said. told him that he
handled 100000 year and that equal
amounts were handled by three other
omcers. This, he said, came in collec.
hons from gambling houses, pool
rooms, houses Of ill-repute, and the
ake.
Rose said he had collected gambling
graft for Becker for months and he
promised the district attorney that he
would obtain for him the rates paid
~ gambling houses. make tabulation
" what these receipts amounted to
monthly and yearly, and how the
money was handled.
That there were other collectors be-
tide Rose IL the assumption Of the dis
.rict attorney, who proposes to Men-
dfy them.
Becker told me that he was the
srince Of the police department" Rose
Said. He paid me iberaly out Of
ny collections, but never was able
70 keep what got. was fool gam.
sler and gambled It al away.
Part Of the business between the
gamblers ana Me police, the district
attorney was told. was boldly done
through checks, although his efforts
% secure evidences In this form have
proved fruitless.
Bridge" Weber. the gambling
house keeper who has also confessed
and whose story largely resulted in
the arrest of Becker. promised Mr..
Whitman, 1t was learned, to corrobo-
tate Roses statement In regard to the
collections. Incidentally, Weber I'd.
mitted to the district attorney that
$4,000 was the sum which he received
10 pay the men who actually fred the
shots which killed Rosenthal. ''-sE
In regard to the murder itself, Rose
stated to Mr.. Whitman that the REASON
why it was done 80 openly and that
40 effort made to cover the num-
Der Of the big gray murder car as it
lrove up to the Hotel Metropole to
get" Rosenthal, was that Becker was
relied upon for protection.