New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-23
Maier and DuvaIier, Held in
$500 Bail Each on Attempt
ed Bribery Charges, Ex-
peCted to "Suueal."
VICE LEADERS IN MEETING
Keepers of Disreputable Resorts
Effect Closer Organization
Mary Goode Dinner
Guest of Leader
in Society.

lldNlN holti anu 0ldIItS DuNdllGl,
the two men arrested on Saturday night
charged with attempting To bribe
Charles Muller so as TO influence his
testimony before the grand jury. were
held in bail of $500 each yesterday by
Magistrate Appleton in the West Side
Police Court. %
They will be arTaiSned this afternoon.
and it was said last night that they
might have a chance 10 gain .i1munity
for themselves 10y going b-,re the
grand jury and revealing Wat they
know of police graft Oh vice. invcsu-
gators believe they can give valuable
Information about disorderly house
protection
William Murphy. who appeared as
counsel for the two men. said last night
that he had heard in an indefinite way
that Maer before taking up his pres
ent work as the representative of a
German glass company. had been con
nected with the disorderly house busi-
ness. and it is believed that the two
men can give valuable information TO
The grand jury if they see fit to take
the opportunity TO get immunity foc
themselves. Maier is now in business
AT No. 30 Church street.
Investigators who have been work
ing either as the representatives of the
private force set in motion by the
Rockefeller fund. or as agents of the
District Attorneys Office. asserted last
night that the more prominent DIS
orderly house keepers in the neIshbcf-
hood around and just north of Column
bus Circle have been holding reg iiIr
meetings three afternoons week, he
tW cen and / o'clock, in the bascmen.
of a Broadway theatre building n1Ith
II I'D street.
Underworld Leaders Meet.
Earlier in the day il was reported
that Assistant District Attorney GroehG
who appeared as prosecutor Of Maier
and Duvalier had told Magistrate APP
pleton that Maier's downtown office
had been used as meeting place for
disorderly house keepers, but MI.
Groehl later denied this. The other in
vestigators, whose work came TO light
partly as a result of the incorrect re-
port of Groehl's statements in court.
said that they had been working on
leads furnished in part by Mrs. Goode
and in part by another denizen Of the
underworld whose name has recently
been even more prominently displayed
than that Of the confessng disorderly
house keeper.
Before Mrs Goodies disclosures were
made public from the witness stand of
the alderlnanic committee these investi-
gators had learned that the loosely con-
structed organization Of disorderly
house keepers Of the uptown Tenderloin
had been meeting in building at the
corner Of 18th street and Seventh ave-
nue.. After Mrs. Goodies testimony was
given at the public session Of the al
dermanic committee, however, the
meeting place was changed TO the
basement room in the theatre building.
According to these Investigators, the
meetings of this upper Tenderloin
crowd have been held three afternoons
a week, between l and o'clock. The
organization is said to be loose one.
and not an agency for collecting pro-
lection money ana turning it over in
lump. rs was the vice trust" of houses
in 26th, 27th and 2Sth streets which
was exposed in last summers raids
Loosely organized as 1t was, how
ever, it is the belief Of the lnvestiga-
tors that Maier and Duvalier can give
the authorities information about the
protection money paid by the disorderly
mouse keepers in this crowd to the po-
Centinued on second mage, third column.