Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-08
GRAFT LEADS
POLITICIANS
Gamblers Story Involves
Men Higher Up"

| New York, Feb. S.-Ibe CurrHn c91a
mittee heard from James Purcell. for
nearly seventeen years In the pcoiroom
RAd gambling business In New York.
how. when and where and to whom he
had paid $50. 009 In protection money In
the Ian ten years.
II took more than tws hours fer the
slender. studious appearing gambler to
tell It all. In that time the names Of
policemen. inspectors. captains. dets.
tives and wardmen fell from his lips
with almost every sentence along with
those Of aldermen and former alder
men. n Tammany leader. the brother
Of Charles r. Murphy: Lieutenant
Becker. Sergeant EGgers and bis squad.
saloon men and other gamblers. to say
nothing Of two agents for vice societies.
Summed up. Purcell said that he had
paid protection money Of from $50 to
$120 a week to the wardmen Of In
spectors William Mclaughlin and Cor
nelius Hayes. He had not been able to
do business with Inspectors Harley
and Smiling Dick" Walsh.
He had paid the wnrdnen Of Captain
Thomas. now dead: Captain Delaney.
dead: Captain Martens. still on the
force: Captain Maude. still on the
force: Captain Cannon. retired: Cap
tain Naughton. Captain Cochrnne. Cap
tain Burns and Captain Patrick ].
Cray. who IL Charles F. Murphy's
brother-in-law W.
He could not do business with Cap
! tain Nathaniel Shire. retired. or Cap
tain BERNARD KeiIher. still nctive. He
mentioned twenty-five policemen under
the rank Of captain. alleging that he
had done business with all squads. with
the exception Of that commanded by
Honest Oar" Coxtixan.
Had Dealt With Becker.
He had dealt with Lieutenant Charles
Becker and the ~iatter's man. White.
He had paid william ERgen. who n
hend ed a sqund under McAdoo. tie
had paid Policeman Ciif. wbe WINS
Commissioner BnRher's man. He Ind
paid to Sheriff Harvey Of Queens. who
WAS Democratic bops. succeeding Cas-
sidy. 500 Z week. with the understand
ing that $50 Of II WAS to 70 TO the dis
trict attorney. He had only Harvey's
word for this.
He had paid a man by the name 81
society. a regular fee. and also n man
by the nnme of Brftton Of the Society
For the Enforcement of the Criminal
LAW for the same purpose. He had
done business with Tammany Leader
Michael T.. Cruise. He had got the
late John +. Murphy to intercede with
Captain Z. J. Cray to allow him to
open. He had n friend In Alderman
Butch Lewis and a hacker In ex-Alder.
man Thomas Woods. He was a part
ner once OF Herman Rosenthal. but
Smiling Dick" Walsh would not allow
that gambler to come uptown in his
precinct.
He had fought the police and had
been with them. paid and got nj of II.
District Attorney Whitman and At
tOrneys Moss and Rubin have known
about Purcells testimony for several
months. He wac brought back to he
II witness against Becker. but was not
needed. He had been chased out Of
town.
Ing to the assistant district attorneys.
had been checked up and was turned
over to Attorney Ruckner of the Cur
run committee because the investiga.
lions have reached uch Il point that
there was no objection to Purcell's
story being made public.
The corra!1rntive facts are all we'll
In hand and will he put before a grand
| jury without any fear of sidetracking
the evidence. Purcell IL now employed
by the rarkhurst society and Is being
used by the district attorney.
Evidence Against Sweeney.
Justice Golf. sitting ais n common
magistrate in chambers. cipched the
case Of bribery against Inspector Den.
mis- Sweeney. when. by force of the
power Of his office and his own per
suasiveness. he showed Patrolmau
Hartignn why 1t was to his best in.
terest To tell the truth. Hartigan. thus
impelled. confessed that Inspector
Sweeney. at the time when George A.
StIip was preparing to go before the
grand jury as Il witness against Cap
tain Thomas w. Walsh. handed him
CHartiganI an envelope containing $3.50
to be transferred TO Sipp.
The object was to get Sipp to leave
town and remain away in order that he
might not have to give testimony be-
fore the grand jury. Rribing IL pro
spective states witness to refrain from
testifying Is a felony.
Hnrtigan's statement was confirmed
~ the wife of C:<tain Walsh. She
knows I'll about h transaction. 1t
tool Justice Goff about al hour to get
Mt the root of the facts. and then Ii
was a%nuDunced that the cast against
Sweeney was ready for presentation
tn fba yspuI ipry an NuuIny