The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-09
NEW ELEMENT APPEARS IN THE NEW YORK CRAFT INvEsTIeA.
 TON BEING MADE.
MILLIONAIRE GETS EVIDENCE
Whitman Has Information That Po- lice Inspector Received $500 from Disorderly House-No Other
 Arrests Made.

New York, Aug. S.--It became known today that John D. Rockefel- Ter, Jr., has been instrumental in ob- taning evidence of police graft which he has turned over to District Attorney Whitman for use in connec- ton with the investigation of alleged corruption among high police off cials growing out of the murder of Herman Rosenthal.
 While Starr J. Murphy, MT. Rock efeller's attorney, denied today the published report that Rockefeller had been conducting a disorderly house 1 to obtain evidence of blackmail against the police, he let it be known l that Mr Rockefeller who was about year ago foreman of the grand jury that investigated the white slave | traffic, had placed in the hands of the district attorney information bearing on the police situation"
 'Mr. Rockefeller. having become interested in white slave matters while foreman of the special grand jury, has since been securing statis- tics with regard to the social eyil, | reads Mir. Murphy's statement. Whatever information was secured i bearing on the police situation ha, been placed at the disposal of the district attorney. The statement that MT Rockefeller has representatives who have been conducting disorder l ly house is entirely without founda- tion."
 This information. it was learned to- night, will be presented to the grand jury in conjunction with the rapidly increasing mass of similar evidence which the district attorney and his assistants have unearthed since Bald" Jack Rose made his z first charges involving high police officials in gambling graft.
 Along with the publication of the report that Mir. Rockefeller had been conducting a disorderly house for the purpose of trapping the police, it was | reported today that detective agen- cy had been operating a gambling house for the same purpose. If this is so, 1t is thus far news to Mir. Whit man, who has received no reports OH the result that may have been ob- tained As far as Mir. Rockefeller Is concerned it was learned tonight that | the young millionaire is prepared to furnish all the funds necessary to en- able the district attorney to conduct sweeping investigation designed to wipe out theP alleged corrupt alliance | between the police and disorderly houses.
 The Rockefeller evidence was giy- en to me by Starr J. Murphy, MT. Rockefeller's personal representative, said District Attorney Whitman.
 q was told by hinr r;at MT. Rocke- | feller Is interested in the develop ment of the Rosenthal case and wants me to use, if possible, the evidence he has obtained.
 T understand in a general way | that the pretended Illegal house was conducted without Mir. Rockefeller's knowledge. l was told that Detective Rose of Chicago and other agents to l MT Rockefeller had supplemented the information obtained in this man. ner by quiet work among real re- sorts"
 l MT Whitman added that informa- tion had come to him that police inspector had received S600 a month l from disorderly house. This house, 1 it Is understood, was one of those in vestigated by MT. Rockefeller's repre- sentatives. MT. Whitson said also that one of his assistants, Jas. Rey- holds. had been working with the Rockefeller agents for the past few months. Possibility that the sealed doors of the so-called system might be opened wide was strongly suggest ed tonight when it became known that counsel for Lieutenant. Becker
 had visited the district attorney to day and discussed the question oi leniency for his client Not long af- ter Becker was arrested the district | attorney male it known that the po- lice lieutenant's only chance to escape
 efforts to convict him of murder in the first degree depenueu on his will ingness to tell all he knew about gam bling graft It was reported the law
 yer today made some tentative sug-
 gestions of great interest
 The district attorney had before
 the grand jury today sixteen wit nesses, one of them being Lieutenant
 Dominck Reilly. one of the "stronl
 arm squad" raiders, who is was learn
 ed testified that New York city hat
 been wide open" for a year and q
 half He was asked if he believed lthe police could close up the disor-