New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-26


" the so-called 'strong arm squaus'
vent directly to Mr.. Waldo. and that
al orders for raids came directly from
aim.
They found that scores Of reports OF
rambling houses that went into the oi-
ice OF the Commissioner never came
n,t-more than that, that many spe-
uHc reports on particular houses ripe
ar raiding were pigeonholed in that
,fice, and died there.
M intination was made to the SrahG
urv that money. in any FORM e%erted
,ch q tremendous influence in the 70
ice Department, but the intimanon d'u
.onoe 10 them that certain gaihOll's
interests were protected for poiiticai
easons.
Costigan laid bare his every act IN
connection with his work on gambling
{ is understood, and spared no one
,igh or low. He recited facts' iacIs
hat have been known in police circles
md that have made. him feared in
rambling circles as man VINO couiu
not "be reached"
Some Of these facts, il is known
we're that he had made three separate
reports 10 Waldo that Canflelds ola
house I'm 44th street was running at
9ifferent times during the last year.
out that he could get no permission
rom Waldo to make a raid on the
place: that he had been interrupted III
several OF the jobs he had undertaken
by having the houses subjected 10 raid'
by Becker's squad while his COST
gan's) men were in the places collect
ing evidence and preparing for RAID
He made no bones about admitting
TO the grand jury that he believed
Becker's raids in those instances were
made with the deliberate intent OF
spelling his work, and thereby saving
The gambling interests in question.
EffeetuaIIy Sidstrseked.
Within the last year, it became
known. Costigan made out a list OF all
the houses which he had reason 10 be"
lisye we're being operated as gambling
parlors, marking those on which ne
then had sufficient evidence to make
raids with stars. This list, he sald'
went 10 Waldo. and on it ne expectel
TO get orders to make raids on various
specified places, but no such orders
ever came out TO him.
The District Attorney framed ono
question to Costigan, which was based
ON Waldo's recent letter to Mayor Gay
nor. In which the intimation was strong
that gambling was being rapidly
crushed cut. He asked Costigan
whether this was true, and Costigan
replied that, on the contrary there
have never been SO many gambling
houses operated in New York AS there
have been in the last year.
1T was pointed out yesterday in cor
roboration Of Costigan's evidence that
Waldo, in his letter to the Mayor, said:
These lieutenants." speaking Of the
men In command of the gambling
squads, Operate independently OF each
other, and report directly to the Com
missioner"
Costigan asserted that at the time
Of Rosenthars murder, in spite OF the
cutlery against gambling raised by the
charges that had just been made, there
were not less than hundred and hfty
rambling houses operating in Manhat-
ian alone.
In view Of the Costigan testimony
the grand jurors have asked that Conf
missioner Waldo be given an oppor-
;unjty TO appear before them as soon
Is they have heard Lieutenant Charles
f,ecker, who was named by Rosenthal
as the receiver Of % per cent split
from his gambling house in 10th
Street.
: "paao Frank" in Tolls.
Detectives Cassassa, McKenna. Nc
Manus and Upton arrested last night,
1t No. 523 West bath street. the long
sought "Dago Frank" one OF the four
East Side gangmen charged with COM
plicity In the murder of Rosenthal.
The prisoners real name is Frank
rirofci. He lived, he said, at No. 36O
East 1S4th street, The Bronx, and was
y steamfitter. He is known 10 the po-
ilce also as Frank Palmer.
(. Deputy Dougherty said last night the
police record of the prisoner showed
ihat he had been arrested In this city
on November 8. 1905, on a charge OF
burglary, and the next month had re-
ceived an indetermlnate sentence TO
sElmira from Judge Cowing, in General
Sessions.
With "Dago Frank" who said he
was twenty eight years old. the de-
receives arrested at the game time as
witnesses Rose Harris, alias Regina
Gordon, aged twenty-three, and Abra-
ham Lewis, twenty-four years old,
both Of the address at which the ar
rest Of Frank Cirofci was made. They
seemed, all three Of them, Dougherty
'opined, to be under the influence OF
iopium and in consequence he was able
10 get little resembling a coherent tale
from them. He established to his own
satisfaction, however, that this "Dago
Frank" was the associate Of "Gib the
Blood" alias Harry Horowitz, and Of
Rosenberg alias Lefty Louis" two