New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-12
Police Get $3.50, ,00O from Man.
haitian Alone, Keeper of DlSOr-
derIy House TestifieS Before
AIdermanic Committee.
GIVES COLLECTORS NAMES
Mary Goode Swears Many Girls
Who Work for Small Wages
Utilize Spare Hours in Traf-
fc-Lawyers and Physi-
clans as Co. Betweens.

Clans as UO O-DcIWcSuo.
In Manhattan alone there are thirty
five thousand fallen women who are
paving tribute to the police, if the
sworn statement Of Mary Goode, one
of the sisterhood. is 10 be believed.
She gave the testimony before the
Curran AIdermanic Committee yester-
day.
\ city official said last night that
100000 would be a fair figure at
which TO place the amount Of graft
collected annually from disorderly
houses by the police in this one bor-
ough. One million dollars throughout
the city. said this official, is collected
from these women each year.
Mary Goode, who was modestly but
modishly dressed looked more like a
respectable middle aged woman than
the one-time keeper Of - house OF III
fame She explained she was driven
out of the business because she was
not a member OF the vice trust and
because she defaultcd in her payments
TO the police
She told her story in even tones,
that once gave way TO sobs when she
described a meeting with Police In
spector Dwyer in church IN o9th
street, where both were attending ser
vice
She told Of paying protection for
years to the police. and OF her I'M
munity until "Gyp' the Blood, now
under sentence Of death for killing
Herman Rosenthal. entered her house
with three other gunnien and robbed
her and the women who lived IN the
house and several visitors, after hold
ing them mp with rcyolyers.
Regular Rates for Protection.
She swore that she paid an average
~ $50 "A month as protection money TO
tho police. Protection for these houses
Of IN fame. she swore. was given only
on the payment Of a price fixed by the
police. and running from $50 a month
to 500. the rate being dependent upon
the amount Of traffic done.
In answer to Emory II. Buckncr,
counsel for the committee, the witness
said that under present conditions
L.,
Mayor nor the District Attorney could
stop the collection Of disOrderly house
graft by the police.
She asserted the police were rapa-
cious and insatab BILE in their demands
for money. and she said that the only
remedy for this condition Of affairs
would he the appointing of n com
mittee Of citizens to Supervise the
traffic.
She testified that recently several of
the unfortunate women who are not IN
the grip OF the vice trust, including
herself. wrote to Mrs. o. III. y. Belmont
for protection against the Ea pacity OF
the police, and that one woman, Mrs.
Palmer, called on Mayor Gaynor on
Monday and presented the grievances
Of the disorderly house keepers.
Mayor Gaynor. she had been in
formed told the women that so long
as there were no complaints against
the houses nothing could be done.
Commenting on the womans testi-
mony, Henry II. Curran. chairman OF
the committee, said that Mrs. Goodies
testimony, apart from its revelations
of police graft, afforded excellent ma
terial for those who were trying TO
solve the social question in this city
and elsewhere.
Police Money Mad, She Says.
Perhaps the most important part Of
Mrs. Goodies testimony along this line
was brought out by Mr.. Buckner when
he asked
"How many women leading immoral
lives do you think there are in New
York;"
II should say about $1,000 in Man
haitian" said Mrs. Goode. II have fig
ured il all out from my knowledge OF
the situation and my acquaintance In
my business. ! know about how many