The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-01-30

tho district about lI6th street and
LenoX avenue. Altogether MIR Londons y
card index shows hfty-one of these
cafes in New York
With regard To resorts Of more
apparent Illicit character. where
women congregatc. Mr.. London said
that h" sought To- hay" his men enter
only those where the traffic was Com
m"rcialiAed.' according to the definition
upon which the Department uf Justice"
and his own inquiry based its work
tn" participation OF men in the pro-
Cc"ds of the traffic. Altogether his men
got into only 105 Of these resorts, he
said. scattered from furthest downtown
To 10Th street others which they
tried To get into refused them admis-
sion and others doubtless "" did not
know Of Mr.. London added.
In all the investigation" Mr. Lon
don said, Il never heard the question
of paying police protection money com
hat"d or denied, 1t simply went with
"ut saving that one couldn't open a re-
sort without paying those who could
make trouble for him"
ON the question Of police testimony
in court Mr. London said that on one
occasion he was told that word had
been received in "A cafe on Fourteenth
street or Second avenue-he didn't re-
call the cafe at the moment-that a GER
tain woman had been arrested. but
that things had been fixed for her.
and there would be no conviction. When
she was arraigned in night court. aC-
cording TO this advance notice to the
underworld, the policeman who had ar
rested her would be- unable to state
positively whether it was the woman or
the man with whom the policeman had
seen her speaking who had done the
accosting
Did it happen as planned Mr. Buck
uer asked
1t did" replied the witness.
is 1t possible that New York is the
only place where police graft is col
lected?" Mr.. Buckner asked.
NO. | think there's a worse place
than New York" Mr.. London replied
Il believe Chicago has the record for
graft. ! consider the situation there
much worse than in New York"
In reply to the question, Have YOU
ever seen anything to beat Chicago in
this respect" Mr., London replied. Il
have not"
The witness said that his observat ion
had been that police graft was reduced
TO minimum almost negligible in most
cities where segregation had been in
auGurated Chicago was an exception
To this but he named Portland. Seattle.
Spokane. Tacoma. Denver. Salt Lake
city, Fort Worth, Houston. Dallas and
several other cities where he had made
Investigations as backing up his theory.
He added that many of his friends and
associates disagreed with him as to the
value Of segregation From his own
viewpoint, however. he said he had
never known Of case where segrega-
ton increased the social evil and that
il certainly did tend tC decrease police
graft. 1t would even decrease the evil
To the extent that young girls of l.
years and up, many Of whom are on
the streets without the knowledge Of
their families OF friends. would not go
into segregated district because
knowledge of what they were doing
would reach those from whom they
were trying to hide their occupation.
The first part of the session of the AL
dermanic committee yesterday was de-
voted to an inquiry into the abseEce
from the rogues' gallery OF such widely
known convicted defendants as Lieut..
Charles Becker eX-City Chamberlain
Charles II. Hyde William J. Cummins ot
Carnegie Trust connections, and Joseph
b. Reichmann, former president Of the
Carnegie Trust Company. Inspector
Joseph Faurot, who had testified last
week was recalled as the first witness.
So far as Lieut.. Becker is concerned,
the inspector said. 1t was not the prac
tce to take photographs or other rec
ords of prisoners sentenced to death, as
it would only clutter up the files with
dead men"
Hyde. Cummins, Rechmann and
ORe!lly, Inspector Faurot said, had not
been photographed merely because the
Sheriff had not brought them To Police
Headquarters after their conviction.
The responsibility for Hyde Cummins,
Reichmann and O'Reilly not being in
the gallery having been passed by In
spector Faurot to the Sheriff. Sheriff
Julius Hamburger took the stand and
said that he didn't know who had ne
elected this part of his duty, but that
he would find out and would make
everybody to blame for 1t resign.
The committee adjourned until =
o'clock this afternoon.