New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-02
Al Insuector and a Captain
~ n Be implicated by Four
Women Who Will Cor
robOrate Mrs. Goode.
POLICE RING WILL FIGHT
n;etrict Attorney Learns of Or
ron;zed Effort of Underworld
Witnesses to Discredit
the Testimony Against
Sicily and Others.

Sicily and others.
instruct Attorneys office learned
.,ordav that an organized and care
[,r, manned effort was being MADE ny
IVA" ,deruorld forces connected with
- ,olice ring OF grafters TO discredi'
,,idence which Mrs. Mary Gooie
~ Given ana intends 10 give 10 the
prosecutor ,,--,...so
A. the same time Nj. Whitman : aS-
.,s,ants received assurances that Ioni
~ women of the scarlet army that
"a Maid police graft levies on the So
10, evil will be ready to-day TO 'e''
,or;es Of police blackmail that Will
rroborata those already obtained
,ro,n rho Goode woman. These stories
implcate. besides Policeman Skelly
md the go-betweens. Mas and VOL
=, inspector and a captain, who have
40, vet been openly charged with
grating.
Tho organized effort 10 discredit Mrs.
coode began almost Immediately after
,be told her story before the Curran
.dermanic committee but it Is not eX-
oected that it will hamper The criminal
prosecutions To any extent. and III fa@t
/, has strengthened her revelations by
dsclosing that the underworld and ITS
police connections actually fear the eff
fect Of her evidence.
Naier and Dubeller. who were first
assigned TO this mission of discredit-
ine Mrs. Goodies evidence. and who
made such a failure of the job that
they were arrested for bribery. really
furnished the trail that led the Dis
,rict Attorneys men on the centre OF
The plot.
"Red" Seidner Just Dropped In.
When those two men were arraigned
in the West Side court one "Red'%Seid-
ner. who hangs out around Bornsteins
restaurant. on Seventh avenue. ned.
SNh street. and who has long been
known AZ a sort of lobbygow of the
underworld. was observed slipping
quietly into a back seat.
Just dropped in he explained TO
court attendant who knew HIM.
.Do YOU know Maier and Duheler?"
he was asked.
NO ! just like to look on in "a
courtroom once in a while" explained
Red
Maier and Dubeller were sent 10 the
Tombs day or SO later. and on Christ
mas Day. within an hour after they
arrived there. the same Red" Seidner
wOn, there and saw Dubellcr. That
was just after it had become bruited
abroad that Dubeller was likely 10
~squeal." while Maier had announced
that he'd take FIVE years before they'd
get anything out Of HIM"
Apparently Red" brought The mes
:age to Dubeller that his friends would
.Oon bail him out. and soon after they
made good for Dubeller was bailed out
n Saturday.
At BOrnstein's restaurant yesterday
/ was said that Red" Seidner had not
oeen around since the night before.
Every one there was interested in
the state Of mind OF Mailer, however,
and when told that Maier was very
sore because he had been left in jail.
while Dubeller was bailed out, a mes
sage was Immediately sent out TO
Red ~ go down and see Maier and
Tell him that his bail would be raised
as quickly as possible.
Restaurant Long Suspected.
According to the District Attorneys
Investigators. Red" was responsible
also for the production Of Ruth Bailey.
who attempted to discredit part of
Mrs. Goodies testimony in the Skelly
trial at Police Headquarters. The res
'aurant where he is usually 10 be
found also came in for the attention
Of the District Attorneys men last
summer, when ii was found that sand
"ches and other light eatables for the
olsorderly houses promoted by the
vice trust" were sent IA by that res
laurant.
Altogether. the investigators believe
hat they have checked most Of Reds g"
usefulness 10 the disorderly house po-
Ice graft ring in the present emer-
sency, and his activities from now on
VIII be carefully scrutinized
The question of the efficiency OF
"aldo's Checks and counter checks"
IN grating police officers, which the
commissioner assured Raymond y.
rosdick were so perfect that he felt
's''hed In ignoring Fosdick's warn
"ss about Becker's activities. will
''ooaoly come up for extensive con-
''eiation 10y the Curran committee as
'oVn as the present routine examina-
''On OF captains. inspectors and other
'"clss Of the department is finished.
ar Waldo's claim To Fosdick and
So 10 the committee itself was that
"S system of special squads: work.
Jug directly under the orders of the
,onmissioner checkmated any posi-
'"i'y OF grating by inspectors. cap
hs OF precinct men. because one body
:. men watched the other But the
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