The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-13
RIVAL OFFICERS IN RACE FROM
 NEW YORK ID SECURE CUSTODY
 OF SCHEPPS WHO IS STILL HERE

gray automobile is gray automobile, and there might be a mistake. but there are no duplicate numbers in New York"
 Schepps places the blame for the downfall of the network of graft that has been worked over New York in two things, but blame centers most in one thing, and that is the greed of the men who furnished protection.
 'lt got to be awful" said Schepps. T haven't been in New York politics for years. stole an election by 16 votes from one of the most honest men Il ever knew, for that gang. They had me to do the dirty work because l wouldn't be suspected. have work ed with the men who needed protec- ton, and the latter are responsible for all the trouble.
 If they were getting twenty five per cent they wanted forty. And if they were getting forty they wanted fifty. Then when they got fifty they wanted seventy five, and then if they saw poor devil who was coughing up all he could already buying bottle of wine for a girl, or riding in taxi cab, they thought he was doing too well financially, and would come along and squeeze a larger per cent from him.
 That was where Rosenthal fell out with them He represented the op- posite type. Rosenthal made fortunes in New York but played them away against faro bank. Then when he got started again he realized how much money he had poured out for protec- ton, and the decided that he wouldn't give up anything. He was fighting all the time and we could not get the matter squared
 Schepps was asked if the gamblers working under protection of the police operated openly. He smiled 'eNo, they work behind four and five heav- fly barred refrigerator doors. They don't have to have open doors or signs out in New York Why a man can make fortune in a little while in heavily barred gambling house Through only the few men he would tender an invitation to come to his place, and he needn't have such a long invitation list either. They pick the good ones. men who have plenty, or who make plenty easy, or who are taking a desperate chance, and they come in and are glad to get in"
 Speaking of his getaway from New York, Schepps said: q guess I am the champion automobile kid of the world. The gasoline wagons are fine on cross country runs l beat it out of New York until I got far away enough to take it easy, and then I used autos for pleasure rides, jumping from one to another, When l got to Webber and Vallons gymnasium in Sullivan csounty took rest. and then took some long rides into Buffalo. They did not recognize me because they were bocbs. They were there hunting around cheap lodging houses for me and was in the Iroquois, smoking cigarettes and puffing the smoke al most in their faces. l went up to one and asked him for match. but he was one I was certain didn't know me though l had known him for long time"
 Something of the White Slave traf- fife that exists so widely in New York is referred to by schepps. In talking of Rosenthal, whose memory he des- pises, Schepps calls Rosenthal a dirty "poacher"
 And what might poacher be-"
 Well. you know we fellows all have lots of girls, and they are put out in districts, and they do the best they can.
 "Of course there is some revenue, and Rosenthal was always a guy to grab another fellows girls, instead of working in his own fielis. The girls would have cards which would give them an 0. K in their district, and of course lots of the boys had a string of girls. and Rosenthal wouldn't let the other fellows girls alone, but would try to take them for himself"
 Schepps never confessed that he himself was the proprietor of card system and string of white slaves working in his district. but his inti- nation was that all the boys" hai them, and that if Rosenthal hadn't