New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-11
Swami Expects More Po'
lice Indictments After
BOtwin'S Story.
SAYS REVELATIONS
WILL BE WIDESPREAD
Authorities Seek 'FixerS' Named
in Confession as Pipe Line
from Force to Underworld.

Widespread revelations Of the white
slave trust" which, according TO us
triet Attorney Swami, will pave the
WAY for the indictment of many patrol
men. were made yesterday by fushe
Botwin. after he had pleaded to an IN
dictment charging white slavery before
Judge Rosalsky in General Sessions
His story, which was told to Assistant
District Attorney James Z. Smith, WILL
the authorities believe, result in more
important disclosures than did the
Rockefeller investigation.
Two powerful and wealthy men were
named by Botwin in his voluntary
statement TO the prosecutor. Through
these. who are known as "fxers," 1t is
charged. the police worked their pipe
line" 10 the underworld banks. This
pair is said to have dealt directly with
the police.
The nearest the county authorities
ever came to a man Of this type was in
August, 1912, when an indictment was
returned against Mortche Goldberg for
keeping a disorderly house. Goldberg,
however, jumped his bail and fed to
South America. In 1918 he crept back
10 New York, and in March, 1915, was
actively re-engaged in his old trade
when he got wind Of the fact that Dis
trict Attorney Perkins had indicted
him. He eluded detectives with war
rants and went to Buenos Ayres, where
he is now said to be hiding
Hopes TO Catch Successors.
BY Botwin's confession Assistant
District Attorney Smith thinks he is
put upon the trail of at least two OF
Goldberg's successors. In following
"leads" furnished by the confessed
SLAYER. Mr.. Smith expects TO be assisted
materially by Sam Kirsch, known as
"Sam the Pedler," who is now in the
House of Detention, and against whom
the prosecutor will seek indictments
for white slavery next week.
If Kirsch, the alleged go-between for
the detectives, confesses, the prosecu-
tor saws. he will have all the necessary
corroboration for the indictment OF the
"fxers." II is through them that he
eXpects TO hit the trail leading to the
men higher up in police headquarters.
Thus the investigation which was
aimed at two or three detectives I'M
plicated in graft charges by the con-
fessions of three of their former stool
pigeons has turned up the biggest
"vhite slave" operator ever placed
under arrest. According TO the prose-
cutor, it now bids fair to expose the
working of the police graft system
dating back to the underworld raids OF
District Attorney Whitman in 1872.
No "Poor Jew" in Cafes.
Botwin is fifty-seven years old, and
has engaged in the traffic for more than
twenty years Having nothing TO do
with the police, he openly frequented
some of the best known restaurants
and hotels on upper Broadway, always
in correct evening dress. When collect
ing his 10 per cent commission on the
East Side or in the nelghborhood OF
West Twenty-frst and West Twenty
seventh Streets, between Seventh and
Eighth Avenues, he appeared in shabby
clothes and was, to use his own words,
the poor jew"
"Botwin was probably the most sue
cessful white SLAYER in the country
said Mr.. Smith. an the last year he
and his gang have had more than hve
hundred women working for them on
commission, from New York TO San
Francisco and from Maine TO Florida.
He sent about two hundred women to
Panama. He probably made from $500
to 81 900 a week during the last few
years, but now says he hasn't penny