Evening journal., 1912-08-08
WEALTH
AIDS HUNT
FOR GRAFT
Rockefeller, in DeCOy House,
Said to Have Paid $500
for Police Protection
EXPECT MORE INDICTMENTS
IN MURDER GAMBLING CASE

AAN NnOAaDAN fAAfA6A<AA'N
BY The United Press
NEW YORK. Aug. S.--The Tender
loin got real shock when it became
known today that one of the CHIEF
aides TO District Attorney Whitman
in his campaign to obtain evidence
Of police graft and the existence OF
the system" is John D. Rockefeller
social settlement worker and Sunday
school teacher, who backed by his
father. the STANDARD Oil King oper-
sted pretended disorderly house IN
the heart Of the white light district
10 get evidence against the police de-
partment and white slave traffic
Whitman admitted that Rookefel-
lor's experiment was wholly detached
from the murder Of Herman lRosen-
thai, whose assassination precipitat-
ed the present upheaval having been
begun q YEAR ago But the evidence /
produced hy the Standard oil decoy /
resort in Forty-ffth street so coin
cides with the police graft evidence |
resulting from the investigation Of
the Rosenthal killing that II may be
used in the prosecution Of Police
Lieutenant Charles Becker. now fac |
ins ar Indictment for first degree
murder ad possibly other indictments
charging extortion in the collection
Of system" graft from gamblers.
The Rockefeller experiment was
begun IN the interest Of social re-
form and its evidence was not sub
mitted 10 the district attorney until the
trial Of the Rcsenthal murder pointed
10 the police department
u is asserted that the Rockefeller
detectives obtained evidence that the
ordinary disorderly houses paid $500
a month to the "syetem.' more pre-
tentious houses paw more and there
IS a sliding, scale for houses Of lesser
prosperity
The white slave trafic. twas de-
clared, is a regular trade in New
York girls from the country. and inn
migrant girls from the steamship
steerase being taken TO the resorts
by their masters and offered at auc-
tion like black slaves in Africa.
II was learned today that District
Attorney Whitman had found new
witness who would swear that Jack
Sullivan. friend Of Becker. rode away
IN the Shapiro murder car, following
the murder of Rosenthal and had a
conference with the accused lieuten-
ant
Those close 10 the district attorney
said today that Whitman had found
at least ten men who would oorrob-
orate the supplemental written oonfes
sion of Jack Rose purporting TO give
facts in connection with his graft col
lections for the police department
under the supervision Of Becker.
Twenty witnesses We're waiting
when the Rosenthal grand Jury re-
convened today after q weeks recess
and IN the ONCE Of District ATTORNEY
Whitman IL was said that further in
dictments we're expected in connec-
tlon with the gambling ng-graft-murder
scandal
The evidence Of police graft OBJ
tsined through decoy disorderlv
house established on the order and
with money of John D. Rockefeller.
IT.. it was said today blszed a trail
that led Ut TO high police officials,
heing especially damaging to one in
spector IT, was said that the Rock
efeler house paid $500 month 70 this
inspector and Starr ' Murphy, who
acts for the Rockefellsrs in their
charitable and social welfare work
did not deny the correctness of the
story.
Asked what cognizanoe. if any
the police department. would take Of
the alleged Rockefeller disclosures
which District Attoreny Whitman will
present 70 the Rosenthsl grand Jury
Police Commissioner Waldo said:
"I do not know Of my own know
edge what Mr.. Rockefeller has don'
or what he has found out but hops
that Mr. Rockefeller has been success
ful in obtaining evidence that vii
enable the department 10 dismiss am
rsscals that may be guilty Of wrong
doing
II is learned today that Inspecto
Edwin p HUGHES. who headed hi
CatslSin expedition that conducted
three-day mountain hunt for Lefty
Louis ands"Gyp the Blood is suffer
ing from pleurisv and threatened wit
pneumonia. as the result of exposure
-Four Of the twenty detectives VIII
formed Hughes posse are similsrl
ill
John p Mcintyre, chief counsel 70
Lieutenant Becker after a confer
ence with his client in the Tombs 10
day announced that he would leav
town 70 be gone until next Wednes
day on a mission connected with III
Becker defense Asked about his fe'
MCINTYRE Indignantly denied the stoI
les that he would receive $4,000 bu
0qid that Mrs Pecker had given hiI
fdisnihed sum"
William J Burns, the detective, tc
~ admitted that men working unds
his direction operated one gamblin
house and two disorderly resorts
the Tenderloin district as a means {
obtaining graft evidence against th
system which II Is said Burns hs
placed in the hands OF District A
tornev Whitman
John p Rockefeller. Jr, toda
issued statement DENYING that :
nersonally had anything to do wit
the pretended resoft in Fcrtv-hfi
street. but he did not denv that suc
2 decoy house was operated or thl
It's operators were his agents