New-York tribune., 1912-07-13
SAYS COP WAS PARTNER
IN GAMBLING HOUSE
Hard to Stand a Raid to Protect
Man in Police Department,
Owner Ayers.
PLACE GUARDED FOR WEEKS
Whole Thing Framed Up, He De-
clares, Applying for Warrants
for Inspector and Captain on
Charge of Oppression.

protect a silent partner in the Police De-
partment. Whatever kind Of an estao-
lishment you may have set up around
the corner from the glare of the lighted
way, where the lovers Of good sport eX-
pectantly roam at night, even in the not
weather, one would not expect to be dis
turbed under such circumstances.
Herman. Rosenthal said yesterday he
felt that way about it because OF the
situation which has arisen at his house.
In West 10th street. between broadway
and Sixth avenue, which has been
guarded by an officer OF the law ever
since it was raided as gambling house
last April.
Rosenthal told yesterday the story OF
how he submitted to the April raid with
.out a whimper because Of the interest
which a member of Commissioner
Waldo's strong arm" squad had IN his
place. He declared that the interest
of his police friend had included sure
enough partnership in the business.
Says Friend Put in $500.
He put in 1880. and l gave him a
mortgage on the furniture and other FUR
inishings," Rosenthal said yesterday.
I'VE opened up. and everything ran
nicely for a while. Then in some way
word reached the boss at Police Head
quarters, and things got so hot that my
friend said there would have TO be
raid to save his own bacon and make
things look right The raid was pulled
off on the night Of April II, and was
frame-up from start TO finish.
Il was tipped off and was not at home.
The officers who swore they had been
gambling in the house had never been
inside of the place They had TO take
somebody. so they arrested Herbert Hull,
a seventeen -year-old nephew of my wife.
and charged him with rolling wheel.
Believe me, he wouldn't know a wheel II
he saw one He had just dropped in 10
see my wife on the night the raid took
place.
"Afterward they wanted me to pay
small fine for the boy and turn the case
out, but l refused to do that, because it
would be the same as a conviction, and
would blight his reputation for life. He
was expecting TO take a Civil Service ex-
animation, and it would prevent him
from doing that, too"
Rosenthal said that after the raid his
"officia" friend turned the 81, 500 over
10 him as compensation for the trouble
he had caused, and the mortgage on the
furniture he saw destroyed in the Office
of the lawyers who represented his
friend.
In the Rosenthal domicile yesterday
sat large man in his shirt sleeves in an
easy chair smoking a good cigar, or
good sized one at least, behind the steel
lattice work which barred the windows
on the second floor. 1t was Patrolman
William L. Rehan, Of the West 47th
street station, putting in an eight-hour
peg duty, as other officers had done in
eight-hour shifts since April -.
Rehan's large revolver lay on the top
Of a beautifully inlaid teakwood side
board, which, like the graceful mahog-
any chairs and thick Brussels carpet in
the room, had fallen into |.Juse and was
covered with a layer or dust. There
were high chairs and low chairs mirrors
and rich electric chandeliers, a compre-
hensive ventilating system installed and
a thick outside door with a panel slide
in 1t.
Police Admitted Without Trouble.
The proprietor Of the premises made no
bones about admitting the newspaper
tn hot arf ~ ha ,1,hi il
family did not occupy. Rosenthal put
aside his belligerent attitude toward the
policemen on duty in the house yester-
day and went to court. When Patrol
man Frank Tomney appeared at p. m
to relieve Rehan the latter did not have
to cut his way out with an axe, nor did
Tomney have TO break in, as had been
threatened when RosenthaI barred the
doors at the early morning shift Of
patrolmen.
The policeman on duty within the
house could not get out, and Lieutenant
Ross, of the West 47th street station,
hurried TO the scene with several men.
They questioned their right to break into
the house, and were about to throw a
rope TO their comrade inside with an axe
and crowbar attached 20 it, that he
might break his way out, when Rosen-
thai capitulated, by advice of counsel.
Rosenthal applied TO Magistrate Butts,
in the West Side court, yesterday for
warrants for the arrest Of Inspector
Hayes and Captain Day. of the West
. 41th street station, on the grounds of
oppression. Magistrate Butts promised
TO take up the matter this morning.
Rosenthal said. He declared he was
willing to maintain a truce until the ac-
tion or inaction Of the court was de-
termined. Joseph Rosenbach, Rosen-
thal's counsel, called at Police Headquar-
ters yesterday, so RosenthaI said. to in
tercede with Acting Commissioner Nc
Kay TO have the officer withdrawn from
the house. Rosenthal said Deputy Com
missioner Mckay refused TO see his law
yer. but sent out word that he intended
TO keep a patrOlman on duty at the
establishment.
Recently policemen have been stationed
at night in front of several of the alleged
gambling houses in the White Light dis
trict II was said that some OF them had
been running wide open lately. and word
had gone out to ease down a bit. Other
places were tempted to open up, to ac-
commodate the summer trade. II was
said, and the police attitude was strongly
against such a move, which accounted
for some OF the recent activity in In