New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-09
Grand Jurors Hand Down
Five Counts in Police
Graft Case.
ACCUSED CALLED
JEkYLL AND HYDE
Dazzled Broadway Cabarets at
Night-Haunted East Side
by Day, 1t Is Said.

Five indictments charging white
slavery were handed down yesterday
against Yushe Botwin. an Austrian, OF
the East Side, who is regarded by us
trict Attorney Swami as the most I'M
portant factor in the investigation OF
police grating or the so-called Tender
loin "vice trust" BOtwin will be ar
raigned before Judge Rosalsky in Cen
eral Sessions to-day, and, because the
Federal authorities have been LOOKING
for him for three or four years, AS
sistant District Attorney James r.
Smith will ask that bail be set at slo,-
OOO
From his cell in the Tombs last night
Botwin sent word to the District Attor-
nsy that he wished to make statement
in the morning.
Among Botwin's accusers are many
women who have been drifting Tor two
weeks into the Prosecutors office to tell
what they know OF the charges OF
bribery and extortion against De,
tectives William J. Enright and DAVID
Foley. From one of them his name was
wrung by Mr.. Smith. In less than
week, Mr.. Smith says, enough evidence
has been obtained against Botwln 70
warrant five indictments and trial WIN
in a fortnight.
A Jekyll and Hyde.
As procurer among the class on
whom the police are suspected OF prey
inr Botwin is said to be richest and
most powerful. He monopollzed, MT;
Smith declares, the traffic in women ana
girls on the East side and upper Broad
way. Botwn, according 10 many wit.
nesses, held forth at night IN one OF
the best known restaurants or the
White Way. There, it is said, he gave
expensive dinners for women iured
from mills, candy stores and restau-
rants in neighboring cities: In MS
faultless evening clothes he has spent
il is believed, several hundred dollars
for dinner for FIVE or ten.
The interest on these dinner invest
ments, MIR. Smith says, was enormous.
He never collected less than 10 per
cent OF his victims earnings. In THIS
way the prosecutor estimates, botwln
Ind a regular income of from 5000 70
5000 week.
The "Mr. Hyde" phase Of botwlns
character was reserved for resort keep
ers. who transacted their business with
him by day along Second Avenue. They
sneak OF him as a shabbily dressed
man. merciless in his demand for a
commission and relentless in his
threats to "give them up" to the police
II they did not pay.
Lured Niece, Is Charge.
Thi, career he is said TO have fol-
lowed almost steadily since he came
here from Austria twenty years ago
witnesses have testified that not long
ago Botwin enticed his niece here from
Austria. The police say the girl after
ward escaped to Chicago.
The District Attorney looks upon
Botwin as he key to the elusive po-
lice grating that has been going on
for several wears in the old Third In
snection district. A confession from
him the prosecutor believes, would go
a long way toward revealing the iden-
tity OF at least one guilty captain IN
the Police Department:
One OF me indicted white slaver's
competitors, Samuel Kirsch, known as
"Sam the Peddler," who it is SAID
was the go-between for police extor-
TONERS. was sent to the house OF de-
tention in $4,000 bail yesterday by
Judge Rosalsky. His card showed that
he is associated with a man named
bernstein in IL, taxicab business IN
Fast Sixth Street. He was arrested
by Lieutenant Honest" Dan cGstigan,
who has been working with District
Attorney Swami in the crusade against
erafters in he police "vice squad IL
Is expected that indictments charging
white slavery will be returned against
Kirsch to-day