Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-09

New York. Aug. S.-The fact be- came known today that John R. Rock efeller, Jro has been Instrumental in securing evidence of police graft which he has turned over to District Attor- ney Whitman for use in connection with the prosecutors investigation of alleged corruption among high police officials that has grown out of the murder of Herman Rosenthal
 Denied Conducting White Slave
 House.
 While Starr J. Murphy, MT. Rocke- feller's attorney, denied today the published report that the oil million aires son had been conducting a dis orderly house for the purpose of ob- ta1ning evidence of blackmail against the police, he let it be known that MT. Rockefeller. who was about a year investigated the white slave traffic, had placed in the hands of the district attorney information bearing on the police situation
 MT. Rockefeller, having become in terested in white slave matters while foreman of the special grand jury, has since been securing statistics with re- gard to the social evil.'' reads MT. Murphy's statement Whatever in- formation was secured bearing on the police situation has been placed at the disposal of the district attorney. The statement that MT. Rockefeller or his representatives have been conducting a disorderly house is entirely without foundation"
 Evidence Filling Up.
 This information, 1t was learned to- night, will be presented to the grand jury in conjunction with the rapidly increasing mass of similar evidence which the district attorney and his as sfstants have unearthed since Bald Jack Rose made his first charges involving high police officials in gam bling graft.
 Along with the publication of the report that Mir. Rockefeller had been conducting a disorderly house for the purpose of trapping the police, it was reported today that a detective agency had been operating a gambling house for the same purpose. AS far as MT. Rockefeller is concerned. it was learn ed tonight, that the young millionaire is prepared to furnish all the funds l necessary to enable the district attor- ney to conduct a sweeping revolution designed to wipe out the alleged cor rupt alliance between the police and disorderly elements of the city.
 Real Resorts spied Out
 The Rockefeller evidence was given to me by Starr J. Murphy, MT. Rocke- fellers' personal representative" said | District Attorney Whitman tonight T understand in a general way that l the pretended disorderIy house had 1 been concerned and that 1t was con | ducted without MT. Rockefeller g ! 4A15 Rose of Chicago and other agents of MT. Rockefeller had supplemented the l information obtained in this manner | by quiet work among real resorts"
 Monthly Graft $500
 Mir. Whitman added that the infor- nation had come to him that a police | inspector had received $500 a month from disorderly house. This house, 1t is understood, was one of those in vestigated by MT. Rockefeller's repre- sentative. MT. Whitman said also i that one of his assistant district att torneys, James Reynolds, had been working with the Rockefeller agents for the past few months.
 Discussed Lenieney for Becker.
 The possibility that the sealed doors of the so- called system" might be l opened wide was strongly suggested l tonight when 1t became known that counsel for Lieutenant Becker. who is charged with instigating the murder of Rosenthal, had visited the district attorney today and discussed with nim the question of leniency for his cli- ent. Not long after Becker was ar rested the district attorney made il known that the police lieutenants g l only chance to escape efforts to con vict him of murder in the first degree 1 depended upon his willingness to tell all he knew about gambling graft.
 Sensational Testimony.
 The district attorney had before the grand jury today Is witnesses, one of them being Lieutenant Domick Reilly one of the strong arm squad raiders who testified that New York City had been wide open" for year and . half. He was asked if he believed the police could close up the disorderly. re- sorts and said that the best evidence of this was that there was not Q gambling house in operation at tht present time Reilly, it was reported criticized severely the methods of the police in getting evidence. which was of such a nature. he declared. thai the courts could not convict.