Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-07-31
"BaId jack Rose Tells District
Attorney Of Huge Corruption
Fund Collected from Gambling
Houses and Resorts.
FOUR DISTRICTS FOR
HANDLING DOODLE
Men Higher Up" Got Large
Sums After They Had Been
Gathered in by Guardians of
Law in New York City.

ny Morning Journas Special Leased wirs. !
New York, July 30.-Sworn state
ments tending to show that the an
nua graft collected hy high police
officials in New York city from gam
bling houses and other Illegal resorts
has amounted within the last year to
S2,400,0Oo are in the hands Of District
Attorney Whitman tonight.
The statements were m w. to the
district attorney today b 4 jack
Rose, selt-accnsed graft g. tor for
Police Iieutennt Charles liecker. head
Of The strong arm squad. who to-
night began his second day of incar-
cerauon IN the Tombs as an alleged
nstigator of the murder of Herman
Rosenthal, the gambler.
This annual Yield of $2.400, 600 pro-
lection money wss equally divided
according to the story OF Rose, among
four high officials of the police de-
partment, one of them being Becker.
and from other evidence the district
attorney has collected, he has reason
70 suspect that each 5000, 900 was
further distributed. In other words,
there We're four separate systems or
headed by high police official.
Mr.. Whitman, is Was learned, mas
the names of the other three police
officials and his further efforts viii
be directed toward strengthening the
evidence against them. one OF The Of
leias inamed. il was learned. holds
position at headquarters and is in
strici sense II civilian einploye.
The name of a former prominent
city official has been brought to the
attention of the district attorney as
having been closely connected with
the graft system" but is under
stood that the evidence thus far So
turcd against HIM is not tangible. The
evidence however, is being closely
followed uy tho detectives in the .nl-
ploy Of the district attorney.
II became known tonight that IL
lieutenant Becker will tell all h
lnews. not only in respect To, his own
allesed completely in the murder bat
VIII unfold The inner WORKINGS Of rhe
graft system, insofar as ii may in
NolNe the men higher up no effort
Will be made to enforce the extreme
peralty far the crime of which he
now stands accused-the murder of
ltrscnthal--but he Wi. be granted
leniency on that condition only.
Tho alleged fact OF the >2.4"o,
coo graft fund was told To hiln by
Becker, Rose said, in IA sworn state
inent today Becker he said, told him
That he handled SbO0.000 year and |
mat equal amounts were handled hy
three other officials. This, he said. |
IN, n limo
houses, pool rooms houses of Hire !
pute and the like.
Part of the business between the
gamblers and the police, the district
attorney was told, was boldly done by |
checks, but his efforts to secure evil
dence in this form have proved fruit
less
'I'ridgie' Webber, the gambling |
house keeper, who has confessed and |
whose story largely resulted in the ar
rest OF Becker, promised Mr.. Whit
man. il was learned to corroborate
Rose's statement in regard to the coll
lections. incidentally Webber today
admitted to the district attorney that
$4,000 was the sum which he received /
TO pay the men who actually fired the
shots that killed Rosenthal.
In regard to the murder itself. Rose
told Mr.. Whitman that the reason it
was done so openly and that no ef
Tort was made to cover the number of
the big gray murder car as it drove
up to the hotel Metropole was that
Becker was relied upon for protec-
ton
In addition to the men higher up.
District Attorney Whitman is investi-
eating the records of two members
OF The strong arm squad who help
ed Becker in some OF his so-called
lake gambling raids.