New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-02
Witnesses Wanted Here
Are Rounded Up by
Smith in Raid.
TWO MEN AND GIRL
TAKEN AT BEACH
MYSTERIOUS "Mr. Cheese
cake" Important Vice
Broker, Eludes Pursuers.

From . sts- Correspondent % The Tribune
Boston, Mass, Sept Twelve wit
nesses said 70 have important knowl-
edge concerning vice conditions in New
York were rounded up in Boston to-
day By a flying squad of white slave
crusaders from New York. consisting Of
James +. Smith. Assistant District At
torney; detectives, Federal investigat-
ors and agents of vice suppression So
cieties. who arrived late Thursday.
But one Of the twelve was arrested.
The others were asked 70 appear as
voluntary witnesses before the grand
Jury next Tuesday. and all agreed when
the alternative of returning as de-
PENDANTS was put up to them. Most OF
these left for New York to-day.
The Investigators made whirlwind
tour of the city this morning and in the
afternoon went 10 Revere Beach, where
they found three witnesses, two men
and a girl, on the beach. They said they
were after the big fish, but MADE no
arrests.
May Visit Providence.
Smith and his party left from the
South station on the SOB train Tor
New London. 1t is expected they Will
also stop over in Providence.
Joseph Schick, known to the lnvestl-
gators as a SLAYER, and his wife were
taken along with the crusaders when
they left Boston this evening.
Under the direction of Smith. as
4 Of - lnF
est Dan" Costigan's squad detail OF
police assembled outside house just
as day was breaking. The men bat
tered through doors and, rushing to
exits. stood guard while Smith, with
NcGlvnn and others. went through the
house from roof to cellar in search OF
evidence in the form of letters and
kilograms The first crash brought the
tenants from their beds in fright:
They rushed to exits, only 70 be blocked
in their attempts TO escape.
DRESS, and do il quick" was the
word, and they did
The party was bundled into a patrol
wagon and hustled TO the station house
where they were booked and locked up.
Assistant District Attorney Smith
refused to give out the names of all his
witnesses. The Identities of seven
were disclosed. however. They were
all members Of the party surrounded
in the house.
"Mr. Cheesecake" Missing.
Besides Schck and his wife they in
clude Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Bernstein,
Sadie Rothenberg, Dora White and
Jennie Price. They will appear before
the New York Grand Jury to tell what
they know of an alleged "slush fund
raised by white slavers for the defence
of policemen under charges of accept
ing graft from the white slave trust.
Nothing was said concerning the
identity of the trio located at Revere.
Smith said he was looking for Mr..
Cheesecake," a man known to the IN
vestigators by no other name.
In Smiths party were John Slocum,
Of the Department of Justice; Detec-
tive P.ilip McGlynn and Howard Bar
her. superintendent of the Society Tor
the Suppression of Vice.
Assistant District Attorney A. I.
Weber will continue the local inquiry
into the slave situation in Boston to-
morrow. Scores of persons connected
with or having knowledge of slave
deals in New York are thought TO be
in hiding in the south and west ends
Of the city.