New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-13
Independent Keepers of Disor-
derIy Houses Plan Exposure
of Partnership with the
Police and Politicians.
WHITMAN GETS EVIDENCE
Waldo Makes Light of Mrs.
Goodies Revelations Before
Aldermanic Committee
Nanny" Mas Denies
He's Graft Collector.

houses not in the vice trust" met las,
night at an office in Nassau street near
Park Row TO discuss the question Of
going before either the aldermanic
committee or grand jury and volun-
tarily laying bare the system" OF po-
lice blsckmai on the social evil
Following the revelations of Mary
Goode before the aldermanic committee
on Wednesday and her bail discharge
yesterday morning in Special Sessions.
IT is believed that the disorderly house
keepers who have been affiliated with
the "vice trust" will want to line up in
opposition.
According to the seven who attended
the meeting last night the women of
the underworld are getting the impress
sion that if they lay bare the secrets OF
what they call their business" they
can get aid in lighting police graft
After that, as to the fight with the
whole question Of the social evil with
the public, they are willing to take
chances.
Because Of police oppression aud
double-crossing. graft paid to the police
which does not protect them. they have
come TO believe that the time is ripe for
an appeal for supervision, regulation
and possible segregation of the social
evil by some civic body other than the
police.
More Revelations Expected.
At the District Attorneys Office 4
was learned that there arc now in that
office several statements from dis
orderly house keepers touching on po-
lice graft, and it is believed that the ac-
tion Of Mrs. Goode will strengthen
these complanants to the point of tell
ing their stories to a grand jury.
1T might be impossible to get evil
dence against any high police Official
was the opinion of city official whose
duties have brought him in close touch
with the keepers of disorderly hou-os.
because these proprietors usually i9r
their money to some one not n police
man. In some cases this money is de-
posted in an envelope in specified So
looms. Somebody, presumably con-
nected with the Police Department.
knows where to look for those envelopes
and gets them. Very few know through
how many hands that money passes to
its final destination, but one mana
Jew, outside the Police Department
does know. He owns several disorder
" houses, which are run for him by
women, and he has the reputation OF
never squealing. But the big fact is
that these houses that pay graft are
not bothered When they are raided
Il is fake raiding, and every one con
nected with the business knows it is
fake raid
Il developed yesterday that two po-
licemen had made determined effort
to dissuade Mrs. Goode from appearing
before the aldermanic committee 10
testify after they discovered that
Emory r. Buckner, the counsel to the
committee, had arranged with her to
tell her story on thu stand.
The two policemen told her to think
over Rosenthars fate, and added:
you'll never open a house In New
York again IL you don't keep your
mouth shut"
Mrs. Goode Replies to Waldo.
Mary Goode, i'll an amplifcation OF
her confession" which she gave from
the witness stand of the aldermanic
committee on Wednesday, laid bare
Yesterday in all it's sordid details, the
police connection with vice.
She spoke in a refined manner, en-
tirely at variance with the subject with
which she dealt, and appeared to look
on her business" in practically tire
same way shoe merchant or any
other kind of merchant would look at
his stock
without the slightest emotion or ex-
without even so much as
raising the level tones Of her voice.
she described the whirrings Of the
wheels within wheels by which the po-
lice levy blackmail upon fallen women
and how they cross and double-cross
each other in the effort 10 keep the
filth tainted money in their own hands.
Just one thing in all the world of
graft. she said, was too low for police
grafters-they had stopped their old
custom of taking small blackmail from
women of the street
She was told that Police Commis-
sioner Waldo in his letter to the
Mayor had implied that her entire
story was false because of the fact that
she was raided even when she said she
had paid police protection money to
save herself from raids. To this she
said:
According to his argument, then. the
seventeen other disorderly fats in the
same building with me were paying
protection. and l wasn't at that time,
because they were not raided, although
they had been doing business there for
before I moved in"
Explains "Fake" Raids.
For Inspector Dwyer. who was
Iuoted as saying that her entire story