The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
CENTER ATTENTION ON THE GRAFT CASE Police Obtain Evidence of
 Resort Trust SUSPEND INSPECTOR More Banks Found Where Becker Had Deposits-Schepps Will Be in New York Early Mon
 day Morning
SUSPEND INSPECTOR

l New York. August 16.-Pending ar witness whom the grand jury wishes
 to hear before handing down indict-
 ments in the Rosenthal murder case the district attorneys office Is center | ing Its attention on police graft from dsorderly houses.
 It developed today that raids last | night upon 8 resorts was the result of a tip furnished by Jack Rose, the gambler, whose confession resulted in 1 the indictment Of Police Lieutenant
 Charles Becker on the charge of in
 stigating the Rosenthal murder. Jack Sullivan, one of the Rosenthai
 prisoners, according to the information
 given by Rose, was q collector of graf from these houses, which are declared to be operated by the vice trust" l Although the surface results of the raids was the holding of only four all lsgsd proprIetors on 5000 bail each Msistant District Attorney smith says 1 he is in possession of evidence tonight
 showing where the graft collected from | the trust" went. He has traced il, he says, to police inspectors. The pay
 ments amounted. Mir smith said. to about s25o0 month or on the basis of s10O a month for 25 houses running steadily.
 Smith Tells of Graft l Graf is going to the police also from two other combinations of higher class, 7 MT Smith said. one controlled by an east side gang leader whose name has been men toned in the Rcsenthal case. Mir. Smith also has the rsme of woman, the wife of one of the prisoners. against whom he says he has evidence that she was a collector of disorderly house graf. | for Becker.
 According to information by agents Of | he society for the preventioft of crime, i the trust raided last night known as the .big i've" nets annually profits of | 5000 over it's graft payments and con | trols about io0o women The graft, it was l said. was paid directly to police inspector | by the trust itself and not by the indi- viduai house.
 ,. While there was no fear of raids by 1 the rcice. it was said the trust feared the society for the prevention of crime I and the district attorneys office and for this reason always kept several of it's houses vacant as jumping ncuses in
 case others were closed
 Inspector Suspended 1 Coincdent with these revelations, Polics l t.o,nnissioner waldo today reduced m socctor Cornelius G. Hayes to the ranl 1 of captain end suspended him pending | his trial on charges that the inspectoi l falsely stated that Commissioner Waldo i, directed him not to obtain evidene, asainst disorderly houses except by or, der of the commissioner. and that bs l failed to suppress disorderly houses ir I his district.
 i The commissioner made public a letter
 re wrote to Hayes yesterday, calling his attention 10 reports that number O.
 these resorts were doing business openl, | in your district and holding the nspec | tor personally responsible for any .vo | la ation5 of the law"
 On the same night" Mir. Walso said evidence that number of disorderl, | houses had been running in the distric 1 was obtained by policemen from the DO lice commissioners office in name i tha; showed that they could have beei suppressed by proper and intelligent DO
 lice work.
 Hayes Makes Statement i Hayes statement that he had been or dered not to raid dixorderIy houses unti 1 told to do so by the commissioner wa. | made this afternoon to the commigsIone l, after a similar statement made public 1T an evening newspaper cominissione l -
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