The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-12
GRAFT COMPANY
IS INCORPORATED
FOR A MILLION
Higher Ups'Take No Money
But Stock in in Paying
Corporation
EXPECT TO ARREST
INSPECTORS SOON
Taking of Sleeps at Hot
Springs Is Great Surprise
to Police All Along
the Line

| NEW YORK, August 1t,-Never In
| its history has the police departmenE
Of New York been SO astounded as by
the arrest of sam Schepps in Hot
| Springs, Ark. and Schepps statement
that five policemen. all friends Of hin
AcnnniXed at his escape. The sensa-
ton of the capture of Schepps through
/ the agency of The New York American, IL
spread from the Office OF Commissioners y
Rhinelander Waldo to the beat of the
| lowest in rank Of the big force.
What will Schepps tell?" was tho 81
question on every lip, and the whol3
city wondered why, ii reporters could
locate Schepps in twenty hours, the a
city's police and detectives had not
been able to locate him in twenty five
days. The arrest OF the paymaster
OF the gangsters who murdered Her
man Rosenthal leaves only two men.
Harry Horowitz and Louis RosenwiE
lacking to complete the quartet OF
gunner who slew the gambler. IT ~
believed Schepps> confession will lo-
cate them.
The district attorney will begin work
tomorrow on requisition papers on the
governor Of Arkansas for schepps Z
though the latter has expressed his
willingness to come here without this
formally The district attorney also
sent positive orders that Schepps
should NOT he delivered to the police
L
| no circumstances will the prisoner be
| permitted to enter the custody of any
| but detectives sent from the district
attorneys office. Schepps is Desperate
and according to dispatches from Hot
! Springs tonight. it is feared will at
tempt to kill himself
Graft is Incorporated.
/ Following fast ON this sensation New
| York was awakened again by the lay
ing bare of "a ST. 100000 graft corpora
ton. formed to take care of the gen
tee grafters" who would not stain
| their hands with cash. but who took
stock in this enormously profitable
| company for their share of the Doodle
of the city. William r. Burns un-
covered the new Incorporated graft
scheme disguised as the moving pic-
ture corporation" The graters are
| all known TO Burns.
! The corporation, capitalized at ST.
! 600, 600, operates chain OF moving
! pictures throughout Manhattan, the
| Bronx and Brooklyn and even in
| outlying suburban towns, 1t Is reap
| ing a tremendous harvest of nickesS
| and dimes, which are split UP among
the biggest grafters in the history OF
| New York city. Graft exposures Ia
/ gambling and vice are not new, but
! the days of the old policy" Games.
| when Al Adams reigned are said by
/ a man close to Burns to be outdona
by the men who have been dividing
/ these moneys from this theater con-
| Germ Burns plans TO show that th0
| stock in this moving picture Grgant-
cation was issued to high officials in
/ the city administration as their shnro
OF police graft.
| People who would not take ,noreY
| were convinced that stock in this cor-
poration could not be traced, ii eyer
J the matter became public. In this
! way the tigher-ups got their money
| in the profits from this corporation. \
| which had an elastic charter and
| which covered every form of v,ca In
the city when the operatives desired
| u 'Isle It Go so.
Expect More Arrests.
Then came another startling dis
| closure. a well Informed official of the
city government stated that cfrtn{n
| l.olice inspector we'll known tn All
New York. may Jc.n Police Lieutenank
Charles Becker In the tombs Within
! a few days. This inspector wilt ~ y
,nalleu 1t is said. with instika-inE
ina mGl der OF Herman Rosenthai. Tho
| charge on which becker is held
| 1t is conceded thac Becker was n&s3.
| alone III his operations. and 1t ~ 49,
| ported that the district attorney hAnSs
| the names of two inspectors ana ONE
| civilian, who were Interested WIN
| Rocker in the collection and distrtbu~8
ton of the graft from the gambling
house and the dives.
So far not a single politician ham
appeared in this graft tangle, there
| bv revealing an entirely different sy4@E
tenn from those with which the Lex
! ow and other Investigations have hn6Ss
| tn deal In this present case the
| notice have fixed and collected tne4
| own graft. This same official stAta1
| that Becker's share of graft Tot M4##
| mast twelve months had been n0&s
| less than sl0s,o0o. ana u was Iea1ncsx Nh
/ this afternoon that since Beckers A!*$ss
! rest $4,000 had been drawn from A.
| deposits in various banks. gg2g
Rose Continues Life Story.
"Baldy Jack" Rose, the man wh09
| confession resulted In the txposurM
of the graft alliance between the n@&
| lice department and the under VOL SS
| of New York, will continue the st0s
az his life, inseparably interviews
| with the history or the system !9!ll
! this city. I5
| Rose tells of his second attempt
| escape from the gambling oct0N
| through a meeting with Henry LaAb
| that time a world famous impak4M
! ator and actor. who made several
| tunes and lost all of them thr0N
| Is passion for cards and the r0utN
| wheel He recalls night whenSx
| sitt;ng beside him at the wheel.
thousands of dollars. II pointed
/ II him" SAYS Rose, how tmp0om
hi was for him to win; that he wna
| seftest kind OF mark: thar hA1ke
| time he didn't know whether ~
| ar lost"
/ Then Rose. who had been Wiz
loaned Lee $1,000, and Lee pF0r
| IL him that they both fcrexwen1
| hlina forever. that HOSA ah0a4l
come his manager. ana INIT
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