The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-09-01
SAY HAYES FOUND ONE
CAPTAIN WAS GRATING
Gamblers and Politicians Have
1t That He So Reported
Higher Up.
NOTHING DONE ABOUT 1T
story Also That Police Official
Sanctioned ROsenthal
Reopcning.

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and little" gamblers to speculate yes
terday whether or not Hayes and his
counsel know all the details of and in
tend to bring up IL pushed at the Hayes
trial. scheduled for next Friday. two
things which gamblers and politicians
agree were actual happenings and which
seriously reflect Upon some Of Hayess
| superiors.
AS to ono Of these stories, the Ten
dcrloin authorities on police politics and
the gamblers insist that Hayes must
| know all about II, and thLt therefore his
| counsel. Thomas II. Thacher, must also
know Of II. AS for the second incident
which has to do with why Herman
Rosenthal rcopened his gambling house
about the first Of the year. after ne had
been closed by the police last fall, the
politicians and gamblers frankly admit
that they do not know how much OF the
happening. II anything, Hayes and his
counsel know at all.
| The first story which the politicians
and gamblers tell with a wealth Of de-
tail Is to the effect that Hayes, while
an inspector. was directed to investigate
complaints that a police captain wal
grating; that after an investigation
Hayes learned that the grating story
that had come to Hayes's superiors was
true: that Hayes thereupon reported Il
his superiors that the captain had beer
grating, and that the superiors to whom
Hayes reported took no action at al
against the captain.
/ The information OF those who tell the
story Is that after Hayes had finished
with his part OF the work nothing fur
ther was done because the grating po-
| lice captain Is the protege OF an ofilcial
OF a department other than the Police
Department and that this official is q
power In the city administration.
This is the story which. in the very
nature OF things. sources of informa-
| tion seen by THE SuN reporter yester-
| day say. Hayes OF course, and perhaps
| Lawyer Thomas d. Thacher, his coun-
sci, knew Of.
Tale of Rosenthal Reopenirg.
The second happening, or the story OF
| why Rosenthal again opened up after
his gambling house had been closed last
fall. concerns a high police Official and a
| very we'll known politician. The gam
blers and some politicians who claim TO
know the details. say that Rosenthal
opened second time only when the
| politician personally had obtained from
the police oficial the promise that
Rosenthal might reopen.
1t could not be learned definitely yes
terday that Hayes or Lawyer Thacher
| knows this story. Wise folk OF the Ten
derloln however, and politicians pointed
| out last night that inasmuch as the
story has gone the rounds OF certain
| circles pretty generally. Hayes probably
| has heard II also. The supposition
among TIE SUNS sources Of informa-
| tion Is that II when Hayes comes TO
trial at Police Headquarters next Fri
| day he and his counsel are in the angry
frame OF mind they were In last Friday
when the trial was postponed. and II he
Is driven to the wall hard enough
Hayes will fight back with this story as
his biggest bombshell.
| This story in detail is that Rosenthal
after having been closed and kept
closed for two or three months. went t.
the politician on a financial errsnd. In
talking things over Rosenthal COM
planned to his politician friend that al.
though a number OF the smaller fry
gamblers. whom ne named. that had
come up into the Tenderloin from the
East Side were being permitted to rur
their houses undisturbed. Rosentha
himself was being Disseminated against
He asked the politician whether OF
not the politician would use his influence
to compel the police to give Rosentha
as much opportunity to run his house
as tho gamblers all around him were
getting. The politician, say THE suns
informants, went to a police official ant
| pleaded Rosenthals case as the gam.
bier had asked the politician to do
When the politician came from the Of
! flcials Office he went to Rosenthal with
assurances that he could open up again
Hayes Ammunition.
| Rosenthal opened his DOORS therefore
about the first OF the year. The story
of his subsequent troubles when Lieut.
Becker entered into the case has been
told many times and has no bearing on
| the matter except that when Becker
first heard that members Of the de-
partment had decided to get after Ro-
senthals house again last sprins
Becker was surprised and expressed his
surprise to his intimates.
The details Of the police captain who
was not punished when ne was officially
| reported to be grating are tho ones
that the lovers Of sensation, among
those who tell Of II especially, hope to
see aired at the Hayes trial. And the
gamblers particularly hope for the ex-
plosion because the gambling houses are
not connected with It.
The cxpectant folk who already have
| their necks craned TO see tho f1revorks
| explode say that no one IL in a better
/ position to touch of the fireworks than
Hayes, because their version Of the
story connects the denoted inspector
| directly with the happenings.
! Hayes, they say. one day some months
ago was told by a police official Ia
make an investigation Of a complain,
that the police captain In question had
compelled the saloon keepers of his DO
lice precinct liquor dealers association
to pay the captain protection money In
exchange for precinct permission tc
cvade certain excise laws. Inspector
Hayes In said to have replied that moi
only had he done his best to stamp ou,
excise graft by lecturing tho police, but
that he also had gono to the saloon
keepers and told them not to be silly
enough to pay for protection which
could not be delivered.
| Found n Captain Takins Graft.
| AS his orders from the superior, how
ever. directed that he look into thu