The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1912-08-22
FURTHER GRAFT
IS UNCOVERED
DECLARED FUNDS COLLECTED
FROM "ylcE TRUST" GO TO
POLICE INSPECTORS.
10000 MORE REPORTED
This Sum Added to Vast Amounts i
Banks Under Becker's Name.
Schepps at
Buffalo.

New York, Aug. 19.-Pending the
,rrival here of Sam Schepps, the mat.
ial witness whom the grand jury
FISHES to hear before handing down
Indictments in the Rosenthal murder
hse, the district attorneys office is
entering its attention on police graft
rom disorderly houses. 1t has de
leleoped that the raids Thursday nigh:
ipon Is resorts we're the result of d
lip furnished by Jack Rose, the gam
|ler, whose confession resulted in the
Indictment Of Police Lieutenant Char.
es Becker on the charge of instigat.
ng the Rosenthal murder.
Jack Sullivan, one of the Rosenthal
aarderers. according to the informa-
Ion given by Rose. was collector of
raft from these houses. which he de-
dared to be operated by the "vlce
rust"
Although the surface result of the
s!ds was the holding of only four al
eged proprietresses on 81 900 bail
ach, Assistant District Attorney
'mith says he is in possession of evil
lcnce showing where the graft col.
ected from the trust" went He has
raced it. he says. to police inspectors
she payments amounted, Mr.. Smith
aid, to about s2.5OO a month, or on
he basis of 500 month for 25 houses
unning steadily.
Woman Alleged Collector.
Graft is going to the police also
rom two other combinations of "high.
r Glass;" Mr.. Smith said One con.
rolled by an East Side gang leader
whose name has been mentioned in the
tosenthal case. Mr.. Smith also has
he name Of woman. the wife of one
II the prisoners held for the ,Rosen-
hal murder. against whom he says
,e has evidence that she was a col
ector of disorderly house graft for
becker.
According to information obtained
~ agents of the society for the pre-
'ention Of crime, the trust" raided
thursday night, known as the big
rive" nets an annual profit of $780,
100 over its graft payments and con-
rolls about 1900 women.
Coincident with these revelations,
Police Commissioner Waldo reduced
Inspector Cornelius G.. Hayes to the
tank Of captain and suspended him
pending his trial on charges that the
Inspector falsely stated that Commits
soner Waldo directed him not to OBJ.
Jain evidence against disorderly
touses except by order of the COM
missioner, and that he failed to sup.
press disorderly houses in his district.
Besides the announcement that Sam
pchepps would not be brought back to
New York until next week. the prin-
sipal development in the Rosenthal
:ase was the discovery by represen-
atives OF The district attorney of two
more bank accounts of Lieutenant
Seeker. The names of to banks were
sot made public. but the amounts
otalied about $4,000, it was learned,
making the aggregate deposits about
H5,O0O.
Schepps Arrives In Buffalo.
BuffalO.-Sam Schepps. one of the
:entral figures in the ,Rosenthal mur-
der inquiry, upon whose arrival in
New York District Attorney Whitman
and the grand jury are awaiting,
reached here. Whatever secrecy had
been maintained as to the movements
of the party prior to arrival in New
York state apparently had been laid
aside. for Immediately after leaving
the train Assistant District Attorney
Rubin. the two detectives in the party,