The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-14
Every Form of Gaming and
Vice Levied On
At a Prescribed Rate by the
New York Police.
SCHEDULE OF PRICES FOUND
Ranged From 500 a Month to
a Thousand.
One Inspector Said to Have Ac-
cumuIated a Million.

New York. Aug. 14.-In the search
for evidence to convict the rnurderers OF
the gambler, Herman RosenthaI .he
states attorney and the grand jury
nave unearthed a wealth of informa-
ton showing that gamblers and keep
ers of disorderly houses paid sums ag-
gregating hundreds of thousands of
dollars yearly for police protection.
Evidence now before the grand jury
shows that every form of gaming and
vice paid prescribed toll and that these
tariffs varied according to the location
in the city. The monthly tariff paid to
the police varies. First class uptown
gambling houses paid $1,000; middle
class gambling houses paid $500; East
side gaming houses paid anywhere
from 500 to $500; high class pool
rooms, $500; white poker dice games
paid 5000. Uptown diSorderly houses
paid $500, while East side resorts paid
500.
With the cooperation of all the
banks in the city districts Attorney
Whitman has been able to obtain the
names of four police inspectors whose
bank accounts run into several hun
dred thousands One inspector is said
to have accumulated a million dollars.
The indictment of these officials are not
being pressed at this time as the states
attorney is devoting his chief atten-
ton to entrapp1ng the murderers or
The hunt for other bank accounts
of Police Lieutenant Becker was re-
sumed today by District Attorney
Whitman who, with the aid of the
banks has disclosed that Becker ac-
cused of murder, has within the year.
deposited $5S,S45. The states attor-
ney believes it will be disclosed tnat
Becker has accumulated about $780,
900.
Jack" Rose in his story before ;he
grand jury, is reported to have in
voIved Jack Sullivan, the "Newsboy
King" and close friend of Lieutenant
Becker, in the murder plot Rose is
said to have declared that Sullivan af-
ter riding around the city the night Of
the murder with Becker went to
Bridge Webber's gambling place and
seeing that the gunner were there
went to the Hotel MetropOie to locate
Rosenthal.
It is further said he told the grand
jury that sullivan then returned l,sso to
Rosenthal could be found.
Clearing House Helps.
Powerful banking interests. acting
through the New York clearing house
committee, came to the aid of District
Attorney whitman in his efforts to lay
bare the alleged corrupt alliance be-
tween the police and the gambling
fraternity founded on graft and black
mail
A virtual command was given by
the committee to all banks in the clear
ing house to furnish the district attor-
ney with a record of deposits they
may have received from any of the
high police officials whom the district
attorney suspects of having been col
lectors of blackmail from the disorder
w clements of the city.
AS a result, records showing that
within the last eight months Police
Lieutenant Charles Becker, charged
with the murder of Herman Rosen-
thai and accused of gambling graft. has
made deposits in four banks of $5S,S45
in his own name or that Of his WIFE,
were placed in the hands of the pub
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