New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-11
protection money matters Of the in

The story told Yesterday 10y Rosie
Hertz. while not accepted as of any
great legal value until thoroughly cor
IOboratcd. proved 10 be one of the most
detailed exposures of the workings i
the underworld when orc of it, deui-
zens is caught by the law that the
District Attorneys Office mas yet heard.
Facing an almost certain conviction
on mcontrovcrtible documentary eVl-
dencc, Rosie Hertz WaVered for months
between a desire TO save herself from
punishment and an apparently equal
desire To be classcd as one who WouId
not "squeal' under any pressure. Shc
maintained this attitude after her con-
viction and sentence to a year in the
penitentiary.
Her last possible card an appeal for
"a certificate Of reasonable doubt. was
denied last Friday by Justice Lehman.
in the Supreme Court. and within hall
IN hour after that decision had been
announced. she sent word to Mr.. WHIT
man by her husband that she wanted
10 confess.
She showed MI Whitman pawn
tickets TO the value Of about S-.oOo'
the most of which. she said. she had
sent TO Jacob Reich. who had promised
TO fix everybody concerned in her
case. When it was put mp 10 her mat
Sullivan had been in the Tombs prac-
tically all the time since her own ar
rest last summer, she explained she
had dealt with him through a former
Tammany ASscmblyman. who repre-
scented diSordcrly house proprictors in
tho New York Independent Benevolent
| Association.
rs proof of her assertions with re-
gard 10 Jack" Sullivan. she gave to
Mr.. Whitman a note. written in Yid-
dish. which she said Reich had sent TO
her As she translated il. it was TO
the effect ;ha, everything was fixed If
she kept her mouth shut. that Reich
would be out of jail in a couple of
weeks. and that he would got her out
in quick time as soon as he was re-
leased himself"
sullivan is now i'm the Tombs. He
was arrested last summer in the court
room Of Special Sessions. where Coroner
Fcinbcre was conducting the prclimi-
nary hearings in the Roscnthal murder
case
Bares East Side Wee Graft.
He was identified by Louis krcSe,
the waiter who saw the murder, as one
of the men who had been hanging
around the Motropolc a few minutes
before the murder. and was later in
dicted for the murder a. the same time
a blanket indictment was found against
Becker and the four gunner.
Rosic's story of police graft on vice
on the East Side was the story of one
who had been on the paying end Of
that situation for the last twenty years.
AT one time she was proprietor Of nine
different disorderly houses, strung out
from the Battery to 1ith street She
/ is the reputcd owner of three valuable
pieces Of property. on each OF Which
] there was until recently a disorderly
/ house.
4 She told the District Attorney the
names of six policemen. VINO. she said,
are on duty as collectors for captains
/ in that section. together with the
names Of civilians who will corrobOrate
her stories Of graft payments. Sub
punas for policemen and civilians were
issued last night, and a determined
effort will be made TO open mp the graft
trail of the East Side red light" dis
tricts through her evidence.
Its nicer now than il used TO be,
f was one Of Rosie's contributions TO the
disclosures of the afternoon; "you don
have 10 go to see the captain now. as
Won used 10. lie sends man to see
YOU al your house or place Of business
now"
{ The woman will not lie called before
/ the grand jury as a witness unless the
! most convincing corroboration Of her
/ story is obtained. As 1t stands now
/ Mr.. Whitman is not disposed 10 put
much faith in confession not obtained
until after the last possible legal delay
| had been resorted to. He admits no
one in the disorderly house business
possibly has had longer and more in
! innate. from graft standpoint, rela-
| lions with the police. but because OF
her notorious and long connection with
/ that business" he intends 10 have any
cases that grow out of her evidence
presented in way that shall be as
nearly aS possible Independent OF her
} testimony
Annie Grey to Aid Whitman.
! According to the promise made iast
| week by Robert f.. Ullner. the former
policeman. who married Annie Grey,
| that queen Of the underworld VIII re-
, turn from Atlantic city this morning
prepared TO lay what Information she
has before the District Attorney. In a
more fashionable stratum OF under
world society Annie Grey il reputed 10
have sustained as close relations with
/ the graftcrs Of the police force as
/ Rosie Hertz did on the East Side. and
| II she discloseS those relations il is
! certain police officials Of the upper
Tenderloin for fifteen years past would