New-York tribune., 1916-07-12
HONOR DETECTIVE
HELD In GRAFT CASE
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Honest Dan" Costigan entered the Is.
Branch Detective Bureau. He came
over to Enright and gravely said:
"I've got warrant for your arrest
whats that" said the detective.
Costigan showed him the warrant,
which had been issued a short time be-
fore. following the indictment for per-
Jury handed down by the grand jury.
Bill Enrght Strengthened up, then he
repressed an effort to speak and put on
his hat. He was quickly brought to
the Tombs and locked up. At late
hour last night no bail had been fixed.
No message reached his wife, who sat
waiting up TO a late hour, with supper
all prepared.
"Why don't he call up?" she asked,
when one of the newspaper men who
knew Enright had called her on the
telephone several times during the
night. "I'm worried; he always calls
me up; is there anything the matter
with him ?" Enright's wife was not
informed where her husband was. An
effort to reach him through a message
conveyed to the Tombs authorities
failed.
Inspector j. Bolan said last night
that he did not care TO talk about the
case.
Those who remembered the arrest of
the three men a month ago, who by
their confessions implicated Enright,
said that for more than a year ugly
stories had reached them about the
pernicious activity of squad OF de
tectives working for the so-called
white slave squad" No attention par
ticularly was paid to these reports, as
they came from sources which under no
circumstances could be produced IN
court to verify stories of graft among
women of the Twenty-third Street dis
trict and lower Tenderloin of Manhat-
tan. Then came the arrest OF the
three men, two of whom confessed and
were freed on suspended sentences.
One is now serving a five to ten year
sentence.
District Attorney Swann's Office has
had a number of men working up the
various clews. II was not until one
of a gang received a long term of years
for the part he played in the graft plot
and for representing himself as po-
liceman. that the other two indicted
men awakened to what was in store Tor
them. A week ago some one sent word
TO District Attorney Swami.
Accused Men Tell All.
"WeIl talk. Well plead guilty, but
90 light on us. Is it go?' That was
the substance of the message which
they sent. Representatives of the Dis
trict Attorneys Office had long talk
with Red Levine and his pal. The re-
suit was long statement which step
by step unfolded one of the most amaz-
ing recitals of underworld history.
Their confessions were thoroughly
Investigated. The fact that they. had
the reputation of being police inform
ers and Of their own part in the system
of grating presented a serious ques-
tion whether the stories could be verl-
fed. Corroboration, however, is be-
lieved to have been obtained.
Last night it was said that the Police
Department was about to experience a
shake-up that would involve number
of policemen and would again show
that the System built up before
Becker's time, but so successfully used
by him, had again gripped some OF the
policemen who had been given the con
fdence of Police Commissioner Woods.
Swami Silent on Case.
District Attorney Swami would not
throw any light on the arrest OF En-
right yesterday. 1t was learned, how
ever, that Deputy Assistant District
Attorney Smith and an agent OF the
Society for the Prevention of Crime
have been working on the case for some
time. II was learned that Mr.. Swami
had had talk with Enright few
hours before he was arrested. Enright
will be arraigned before Judge Null
queen in General Sessions to-day. at
which time, Mr. Smith said. he would
ask that he be held in $4,000 bail. 1t
was said that another detective. one
of Enright's aids, had been indicted,
and that a bench warrant had been is
sued for his arrest.
Acting Police Commissioner Cooley
said last night that Enright's arrest
was the result of information obtained
by Inspector Bolan.
Friends of Enright last night main
tanned that his arrest was the result
of a frame-up. This was the cry that
Enright raised.
"Why. they've nothing on me- he
said. "They tried to do it before.
They tried to get me on a frame-up,
but it didn't work, and it won't this
time"