New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-04
Three Former Keepers Are
Sought, to AnswerC Charges
Made by Women.
GRAND JURY HEARS
STORY; INDICTS FIVE
Carousing in Sheriff's Office, Joy
Riding. Visits to Picture Shows
and Saloons Told.
tBy Telegraph 20 The Tribune

By Telegraph 70 ne ltlpune
Mineola. Long Island March S.-Two Of
he FIVE men indicted to-day on charges
made by women prisoners in the Nassau
County Jail were arrested tonight. Inc
men were Winfield s. Box. OF bynorooh
A former warden. and Richard Miller, d
former keeper. Box was arrested at me-
home by Sheriff Petit and Constao'e
George Smith. who also took Miller into
custody at his home.
The men still at liberty are former
keepers Miles s. Rhodes. of Freeporti
William Clifford. of Roosevelt. and Jonn
Conrad, OF Port Washington. Rhodes let'
treeport this morning. carrying SUIT
case Sheriff Petit has been unable 10
learn his destination.
The indictments charged assault in the
first degree, and Justice Benedict at once
issued warrants. The penalty Is twenty
reimbursement
This does not mean that our invesuga-
ton has ended said District Attorney
Lewis J. Smith tonight, and it may oe
that conditions in the Jail we're much
worse than the evidence shows
What is counted on TO convict more GER
tainly than the testimony of the "ome"
are photographs in the District Attor
news possession. These photographs 1t ID
said. show the indicted men WIN inc
women. The pictures were taken py
Rufus Rhodes. q brother OF the former
keeper.
The women who make the charges are
Laura Movers, of Jamaica; her motheI'
Jennie Foster. and Annie Quinn. NIB
Movers and Mrs. Foster were sent 10 Tue
iail September S. 1918. for violating the
postal laws. Mrs. Quinn was sentenced
december 3. 1918, TO serve sixty days io'
,haft Tine three women were removed
yesterday 10 Raymond street JAIL BROOK
lvn. TO be detained as witnesses.
The orgies are alleged TO have oeguh
subsequent TO November 10. 1915. wnen
Sha,ies Charles De Mott was i'll. The jail
uas then under Warden Box. Laura
Movers saws that clifford and Rhodes
went TO her cell and asked her IL s"S
drank when she said she did she was
taken TO the Sheriffs office and given
heer few days later Rhodes went 10
hor cell and sat on her lap. Inen lol-
lowed charges Of d moro serious nature
against Rhodes, Miller and Box. Other
charges told Of being photographed Vi
automobile parties and visits TO picture
shows and saloons.
Annie Ouinns AFFIDAVIT is similar TO |hal
az Mrs. Meyers. She was given peer Ill
she Sheriff's office, she said, ana there
~.s introduced by Clifford, Miller ana
ronrad TO Ralph NJ. Jacoby, icoerdi
nrisoner. who has since been freed. Her
charges involved clifford, Jacoby, Miller
and Nicholas Mast. who is now IN jail
Similar testimony is said 10 have peeh
given bv the women 10 the grand jury
IL was reported to-day that Jacopy con-
fessed TO william j. Youngs, Umteo
States District Attorney in Brooklyn, that
he was permitted TO go out at night 70
rob postoffices, stores and houses ana
that sometimes he got so much money IL
uas stored i'm the jail. Colonel Younss
ard p,strlct Attorney Smith denied this
evening that Jacoby had made any con-
fesSion.
At one time 1t was thought the tederal
government would take hand in the in
vestjgation and prosecution, but Coionei
youngs decided that the state was able TO
handle II. However, the fact that he IS
still interested was shown by his VISIT
IN Miueola to-day. He declined 10 say
anything about the matter.