New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-16
WOMAN TELLS STORY
LIKE MRS. GOODIES
Says She Paid "ProteCtion"
for House She Has in
Old TenderIOin.
WHITMAN NOT IN HURRY
District Attorney Anxious to
Get Evidence Sufficient for
observation-disclosures
Talks in Church.

dlho Ill Slt SAAs
Another woman who 1t is said has been
conducting a disorderly house in this city
through the connivance of the police, TO
whom she paid money for protection,
came forward yesterday and told story
rivalling Mrs. Mary Goodies TO one of
District Attorney Whitman's assistants.
Mr.. Whitman would not say who the
woman was, nor would he tell what she
said, but it was learned on excellent
authority that she named other police
men than those already mentioned and
otherwise swelled the list of vice graft
collectors.
The woman, Ii was learned, is a keeper
OF a disorderly house in the old Tender
lon, which is embraced In Inspector Will
lam j. Lahey's district. She gave the
names of several men she had paid pro-
lection money to and gave the description
OF others. whose names she did not know.
This makes upward of a dozen women
who have told OF their experiences with
grating policemen and their civilian col
lectors, and more than a score OF such
policemen and civilians have been named
by them.
Calls for Careful Investigation.
District Attorney Whitman said last
night he believed that all these stories
should be carefully investigated, with a
view to obtaining independent corrobora-
ton before submitting them to the grand
Jury, and 1t is not at all unlikely that
after a conference with Justice Golf to-
day the submission OF any of the vice
trust evidence may be deferred until late
in the week. instead OF the matter being
taken up the first thing to-day as planned
last Saturday after talk between Mr.
Whitman and Justice Goff.
This is known to be the District Attor-
neys wishes in the matter. He does not
want TO present any OF the evidence until
he has all the cases he is working up
against those named by the women in
such shape that indictments will Instantly
follow.
There were several conferences at Dis
trict Attorney Whitmans home yester-
day. but who attended them none would
say. II is known that all had to do with
the collision between the heads OF the
vice trust and their associates in the Po-
lice Department
One who is connected with the investl-
cation into the collision between pro-
moters OF vice and the police remarked
yesterday that every hour added to the
magnitude OF the undertaking OF those
who are probing into the matter. He
added that the scandal arising out OF the
murder of Herman Rosenthal by Police
Lieutenant Becker and his four gunner
would not be a patch upon the scandal
that would grow out of the present in
vestigatlon.
Curran Calls City Better"
Henry II. Curran, chairman Of the al
dermanic investigating committee. before
whom Mrs. Goode first told her story,
reviewed the work accomplished by the
committee at the Church OF the Ascension
last night Hundreds were turned away
from the church, which was packed long
before s o'clock, the hour set for the be-
ginning OF the services.
The Rev. Or. Percy Suckney Grant in
troduced Mr.. Curran, who began by say
ing that, since the murder OF Herman
Rosenthal. the city had grown better. He
pointed out that Rosenthal was shot down
at o'clock on the morning OF Judy TO-
when he was about 20 reveal the secrets
OF the gambling graft TO the District At
torney, but that Mrs. Goode was still
alive though she told her story, not only
TO the District Attorney, but to the public
at large when on the stand before the
aldermanic committee.
He said the committee did not seek TO
lay bare graft In the Police Department,
nor TO expose individual grating but TO
aid in the solution OF the police problem
and Ito make Becker impossible and a
Rosenthal murder an impossibility"
Mr.. Curran told OF the obstacles thrown
in the committees path by Mayor Gay
nor after the investigation was started
despite the protests OF the Mayor, the
misleading advice given the committee,
the intrigues that beset the committee on
every side and the shadowlngs of It's
members by detectives.
He held his audience spellbound by his
vivid recital OF the manner in which per-
jurers. ex-convicts, burglars. wife beat
ers, wife deserters, cutthroats and other
criminals had been appointed TO the force.
One of the great blows at the morale OF
the department, he thought, was the re-
mission OF fines and the reinstatement OF
policemen dismissed by previous commits
sioners after trials.
Mr.. Curran closed by calling attention
TO the story told by Mrs. Goode. which, he
said. spoke plainly o,the citizens Of New
York, calling upon them 10 find some solu-
ton for the social question.
After the services In the church were
over Mr.. Curran became the target for
auestions-mostly friendly-in the Civic
Forum held in the parish house. George
Gordon Battle fired several hard ones at
Mr.. Curran. who proved himself match
for the veteran lawyer.