Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-09-03
POLICE LIVE EASY
ON UNDERWORLD
VICE TRUST
STARTLING DISCLOSURES ARE BEING
MADE BY ALDERMANIC INvESTI-
CATION into new YORK UNDER
WORLD.

New York, n. Y. Sept. 3.-Some
startling evidence on the subject o1
police graft in New York city is likely
to be revealed in the reports of the
Aldermanic investigation committee
just beginning work here.
Evidence has been submitted to the
committee within the last 2t hours,
covering period of three years and
involving 8 police inspectors or cap
tains and numerous lesser officers in
graft charges.
1t is said that two police inspectors
ii Manhattan Districts, II police cap
tains of the same borough, one police
captain in the Bronx and four in
Brooklyn, have been enriched by the
toll from disorderly houses and
gambling dens. Further, it is as
serted that several police Of officers
had confidential relations with pick
pockets and thieves
The criminals, is said, have been
permitted to ply their illegitimate cal
lings on percentage basis. One half
OF the proceeds of their loot, paid
out at any one of dozen fences
throughout the city. is understood to
have been turned over the graft col
lectors.
1t is announced that w. J. Flynn,
chief of the local secret service, has
accepted the post offered him by the
Investigating committee. He will act
in an advisory capacity.
On the application of States attor-
ney, Whitman, the case of Police
Lieutenant Charles Becker, charged
with the murder of Herman Rosen-
thai was transferred today from the
court of general sessions to the cri-
minal branch of the supreme court
before justice John w. Golf, sitting in
extraordinary term.
Becker, when arraigned, still re-
fused to plead, acting on his coun-
sells advice that the indictment had
been improperly and illegally found
BY direction of Justice Golf, tech
nical plea of not guilty was entered
for the prisoner.
Counsel for Becker protested that
he was not ready to go to trial, but
Justice Golf quickly overruled four
motions for delay and set the trial
for Sept. u.
To the surprise of all, Becker's
lawyer did not ask for change of We
nue.. He requested, however, that the
trial be set for some time about the
middle of October when the present
Ihysteria and clamor" should have
subsidized.
Aside from the arraignment OF
Becker, most interesting of the days
developments in the Rosenthal case,
was the discovery by the district at
torneys office of two alleged hiding
places for possible state witnesses
conducted by the so-called, "Vice
trust" in Hoboken, N. j., and Centre.
vile, N. " and the report that much
Honey belonging to Becker had been
traced to Port Jervis, N. Y.
Thomas Coupe, met today by de-
tectiyes at Liverpool, is one of the
few actual eye witnesses to the muir.
der of Herman Rosenthal. He left
INC" IOlh ldoI uCSOdy Oll IuS l/uSl
tania District attorney Whitman said
at the time he feared attempts to
spirit away witnesses.
Liverpool, Eng, Sept. 3.-Thomas
Coupe, witness to the murder of the
murder of the gambler, Herman Ros-
enthal in New York, was met by detec-
tives when the steamship Lusitania |
docked here today. He was not plac-
ed under arrest
Il am not going back to America"
said Coupe today at the police sta
tion. ''The only people who could
protect me are my enemies and
doubt very much whether they are
really anxious to get me back. can
tell you there is hardly single po-
liceman to be relied upon. Certain
ly am not going back to America
unless my friends advise me to dc
So" Ii