New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-10
As NEMESIS, S|PP
TERR|F|ES POLICE
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! hands OF the District Attorney and II
! Sipp was not available i'm the morning
he would adjourn the trial of Fox until
| Sipp could testify.
THE police have tried 10 do their
worst against me, and their accusa-
tions were thrown out by grand
| jury" was Sips last definite state
ment Yesterday. In fact, the officials
responsible, and by that | mean the
higher officials not mere patrolmen,
who were responsible. have a lot Of
explaining 10 do TO convince the pub
lie that the case was anything but a
| nasty framc-up.' I'm going back to
have my innings, and il won't he any
frame-up now. Ny soE Howard can
| corroboratc my testimony and when
he docs some of those police officials
will find out how felt behind the bars
from personal experience of their own
Mrs. Anna Strauss, who is said TO be
the woman referred to by Mrs. Mary
Goode i'm her testimony before the
Adermanic Committee as ono to whom
great latitude was allowed by the
police. was fined so in Special Ses-
sions yesterday as the proprietor of a
disorderly resort. She was arrested
by Patrolman Alexander r. Hall and
Cornelius j. Dwyer. who arrested Mrs.
Goodc. Mrs. Strauss's arrest took
place on the day that Mrs. Goode was
telling the aldermen that Mrs. Strauss
was one women who seemed immune
from real raids
information from Gamblers.
on the other side of the general police
graft inquiry-the investigation of tho
police levy on Rsmbling-it developed
yesterday that four we'll known gam
oilers have been giving information
No one but the gamblers and the Dis
trict Attorney knows exactly what is
back Of this move on the part OF the
men Of chance. II is rumOred that
some of them have been double
crossed" by the police. and also that
the prices charged for protection"
since the Rosonthal murder have been
doubled.
In any event. it is not denied that
there is a general movement of gam
blers who have heretofore been easy
prey for the police grafters to lay their
cases before Mr.. Whitman.
The stories they have been telling
implicate half a dozen plainclothes
men. two licutenants and two inspect
ors. 1t is said that two plainclothes
men have even been acting as steer
ers" for as many gambling places.
Three Of the four gamblers who have
talked TO the District Attorney freely
are big Tenderloin gamblers, men
whose names have been familiar TO
every one who has followed the New
York gambling situation. The fourth
is lust as prominent in East Side gam
bling circles, and all four names were
among those given 10 the District At
tornev by Herman Rosenthal before he
was murdered.
Rosenthal told Mr.. Whitman that
these men were sick" % the constant
double crossing" they were getting at
the hands Of the police. and that they
were ready TO make a clean breast OF
their dealings with the police to get
square"
"Steerer" from Force.
one of these men. who formerly ran
two gambling houses. said recently
that although there was uniformed
policeman standing guard in front OF
each of his former places he was run
ming another place in Broadway
hotel. for which he had, among other
"steerers," a plainclothes man from the
staff of the inspector of the district.
From these and other sources il is
known that the District Attorney has
ss much IL not more definite informa
ton on the ga lbling graft levied b.
the police as he has on the vice and
social evil graft. There is this DIFF
ference. however. that the gamblers,
while willing enough TO give informa-
ton privately to the prosecutor, insist
that their information be verified and
used as If it came from other sources,
and they will not go before grand
jury.
The District Attorney has been work
ing 10 confirm the information received
from the gamblers by such independent
means as will be available for use be-
fore the grand jury, and he is satisfied
that if the stories told 10 him can be
verified two inspectors and several po-
lice officers Of lesser degree will be
deeply involved.
NO CAUSE FOR THAW SUIT