New Britain herald., 1916-07-26
POLICE PIRATES IN
 OTHERS TERRITORY
Abandon Own Beats to Collect
 Graft in Vice Area

of Manhattan's underworld. This situation of practical piracy is the newest outcrOpping of the joint in vestigation into graft conditions by District Attorney Swann and Police Commissioner Woods.
 As specific examples it is now part of the vice record that sleuths as- signed to suppress vicious conditions in Brooklyn and elsewhere abandoned their work to make raids in the ter ritory of the Manhattan grafters These incursiOns were resented by local vice crusaders of the police de- partment but as the invaders had knowledge of the grafters' work, they were powerless to stop them, it is pointed out.
 Threaten Their Victims.
 Tn the last ten days the outsiders, with the same thorOughness that marked their collection of graft, have gone through the different districts, exhorting, threatening and in some instances assaulting those they feared would take legal reprisal.
 The activities of these policemen have been checked up by the investi- gators of the district attorney, and by the squad of Lieut.. Dan Costigan, as- signed by Commissioner Woods to assist the prosecution. Not only Cos tigan's squad, but most of the 11,OOO men of the force are working to oust crooked policemen from their ranks. It became known yesterday that the efforts of force to purge itself from within have resulted in the dismissal of thirteen men in the last two years for dishonest practices. Three
 
 in jail.
 Furth ermore, in the same period more than 100 plain clothes mon against whom there has been sus- Dicion have been taken out of the area of temptation and put back in uniform. In the police department their names are on a "black l1st' which forbids their future assignment to detective work.
 Women Witnesses Missing.
 Indictments against bluecoats who have been under investigative fire for the last two weeks were forestalled yesterday because of the absence of three women witnesses. One of these has not yet recovered from injuries suffered at police hands; the others have not yet recovered from the fright excited by police threats.
 Nevertheless 1t was a day of full performance for District Attorney Swann and James +. Smith. his as sistant, who Is directly In charge of the inquiry. They had under exam ination a score of men and women witnesses and through these the work of the vice squad in Manhattan was exposed. Physical violence was the least suffering imposed, bankruptcy and jail sentences the greatest.
 One affidavit contains the story of a raid upon a woman and her enslaver When the raiders broke in upon them neither had sufficient money to meet the police demand. A bank book that represented the savings of the couple was found. This was confiscated.
 Next day the man bought his own immunity by giving the entire amount to the police. He permitted the Wo- man to go to jail because the police avarice was unsatisfied. The case against her in court was one of plain perjury according to the facts now known, discriminating exhibit having been pushed in the woman's pocket. Get $500 in Raid. In other cases men not of the Po- lice department entered houses and set the stage for the enhance of the police raiders. Generally the results brought from s20O to $500 to the po- lice in consideration of erasing the in cidents from their minds. Out of their graft they paid the agent, the reports say.
 These detectives carried with them bundles of warrants they had ob- tained by representing to a magistrate fictitious condition. These warrants afterward served to trap hundreds of dollars from the owners of the resorts against which they were directed When the warrants were turned back to the ma ag1strate they contained mis- leading information that terminated their value.
 An East Side politician who knew of the relations between the police and the underworld related all he knew. Another witness was Charles Rends- burg, manager of Arlington hall in St. Marks place, where the now notorious ball of the Arlington Boat club was held, It was at this ball that William J. Enrtght and David Foley, detectives assigned to uncover 'White slavery posed as officers of the club. Rendsburg said he saw Enright and Foley many times make a headquar- ! ters of a room in Arlington hall, where they held conferences with men known as "stool pigeons" by the l East side, Some of these men, Red ! Levine, Nathan 6iler, who took tick l cts at the ball; Harry Sussman chair man of the arrangements committee; l Max Terl<owitz and others, were iden- ttfied by him as visitors to the police 1 men,
 l Enright's Pay Check Evidence AS an exhibit that will be used in l the forthcoming trial of the two po- l licemen on charges of perjury and 1 bribery the district attorney has ta his 1 possession the pay check of Enrght 1 which was eashed by A. Hollender, ! proprietor of ArItnRton hall