New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-12
CRAFT ON $4,000
WOMEN, SIZE SAYS
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the more they use il for getting money.
Put US under control Of committee
and let us cooperate. We will report
to the committee when girls under age
come into our circle Of society; we VIII
report the oirls who are working on
the streets for cadets, and, Mr.. Buck
ner. every one Of these girls is a tnief'
You've investigated this thing all over
the country and what have you accom-
pIished? Nothing
"What's the matter with the police
asked Mr.. Buekner.
"Oh, I don't know" said the woman
YEARLY. Tho size Of seekers pocket
book has driven them money MAD
When they found out how much Becker
had they went crazy. why ask
woman 500 for getting her out OF
station house unless tho lieutenant
splits the money with the bondsmanr
"How do you know that this com,
mittee Of citizens you propose "ou'o
not graft on these womenT asked Mr.
Buckner.
"wen." replied Mrs. Goode, there
are ten thousand policemen and on th's
committee there need be not more tnsn
a dozen or so Of citizens. You can mo
men CT such character as wou'o NOT
take graft, but ten thousand policemen
are hard to control
Mrs Goode, at the outset of her tes-
tImony. told of opening a house on
West 5Sth street, near Eighth avenue
and having the police $50 month pro-
toction money. month after month she
said ebe gave the money to Emmanuel
Mas. at his place Of business peer
battling establishment at No. 34f East
49th street Mas, she said, collected
from disorderly houses downtown, anu
she added he sold beer TO most OF the
disorderly houses below 69th street.
Fake Raids in Good Houses
Last July" said Mrs. Goode, there
we're two fake raids in house next 70
mine. The women who ran them were
menhers Of the trust That afternoon
wont 70 see Mas. Although | didn't
buy beer from him | paid him 800
month. I asked him If that money was
going to protect me from a RAID lie
told mo 10 come back at 8. In Tear l
went 20 see my lawyer, Mr.. Halligah'
and asked him what had better do.
well Mr.. Halligan said, you are
not in the trust and they will probably
give YOU q real raid II you stay You
had better go to the country unu'
things quiet down.
Mrs. Goode said she followed. her
lawver's advice and went to sullivan
County.
.You keep on referring to a trust
said Mr.. Buckuer.
"There is a trust said Mrs. Goode'
The people in it are all foreigners
s;o people in il are Strauss, Sondheim
and Goldberg. They wanted me TO take
= woman as a partner last spring, but
refused
"You were not popular with the
trust?" asked Mr.. Buckner.
mo" said the witness, because
never hesitsted to tell them what
thouoht Of their methods. They spoiled
our neiqhborhood on the West Side by
ooino on tho street. They solicited
fri.nds Of the Pauiist Fathers, and the
pauIist Fathers started IN TO clean up
the district
She said that after she returned
from Sullivan County she saw Mas
again. and that he told her then-it
was August shat because OF the
RosenthaI murder everything was
closed temporarily, and he advised her
10 go 10 New Jersey FOR a time. She
went 10 Atlantic City.
Il came back late in September and
saw Mas again. He advised me TO go
uptown and try Manhattan avenue.
There | met Or. Hamburger MASS
cousin. Or. Hamburger is physician to
the houses from which Mas collects
! the trust houses