New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-19
Jnformer Tells Swarm How
Rebellious Girls Are
Blacklisted.
REFEREE DECIDES
GRAFT DISPUTES
More Policemen Named in
White Slavery Inquiry
Clerk Seized in Raid.

Revelations concerning the opera
tions of the "vice combination which
closely resemble those of industrial
trusts that conduct business IN re-
straint of trade, were made yesterday
TO District Attorney Swami by fushe
Botwin. the procurer, who has PLEADED
guilty 70 five indictments charging
white slavery.
All disputes between the police, re-
sort keepers, inmates and procurers
were referred to referee When al
inmate disputed the decision of the
referee regarding payment of a certain
percentage of her earnings, she was
placed on the BLACKLIST" BotNin said
The referee usually was saloonkeep-
or.
$50 great was the power Of the police
and the procurers that the resort keep
or who employed a girl on the black
list was driven out of the city, sald
Inc District Attorney. "Botwin has
furnished us with the name Of one OF
these women. She is believed 20 be
in Atlantic City, but he has agreed 10
get her back to New York by Monday
and he says she will tell US all she
knows"
More Policemen Named.
For the first time since he pleaded
guilty. Botwin talked yesterday about
pavment of bride money 10 policeme".
He mentioned several policemen
whose names have not cropped our
heretofore in the graft inquiry. Al
these were formerly assigned to the
Third Inspection District under In
spector Morris.
Botwin gave details as TO how the
resort keepers escape arrest, and, II ar
rested. how they escape conviction. lie
cited instances where resort keeper
employed only women who were
agreeable" TO the police.
"The policeman's greatest fear WAS
the girl who talked" Botwin said. The
girls frequented certain cafes along
Second Avenue and some OF them
talked eXtravagantly as to their earn
inos in this or that place. This grated
ON the nerves of the detectives who
were taking graft money and they gen
orally succeeded in getting the talka-
tive girls shifted TO other districts
cast or west Of Fifth Avenue. or north
or south of Fourteenth Street
A raid that Assistant District At
torney Smith says will mean much IN
this investigation was made early yes
terday morning on the Hotel Du Nora,
Mt Irving Place and Fifteenth Street,
Just south Of Gramercy Park
Night Clerk Arrested
Lieutenant Honest Dan" Costigan
arrested. Louis Frid, night clerk. Frld
was held by Magistrate Krotel in $500
bail for examination next Thursday on
p charge of keeping a dsorderly house.
"Three months ago the Du Nord was
rsided by Detectives Dallas anu
O'Brien, but the case was dismissed
because of insufficient evidence" SAID
Mr.. Smith. "Dallas and O'Brlen arc
under Indictment on charges of eXtor-
ton and bribery. Process servers from
this Office we're inside the hotel with
women when the raid was made. Lieu
tenant Costican had to break throug
several lines of lighthouses, as police
lookouts are called, before he got IN
side"
Among the four witnesses before the
grand jury yesterday was one woman
Dora Bloch, alias Annie Wiener Ii
IS asserted she boasts that she kept Z
resort in the Third Inspection Dis
trict for ten years without having beer
convicted She was released on Thurs
day i'm $4,000 bail from the House o.
Detention. Her release, the District
Attorney says. was brought about by
the influence OF certain East Side poll
tcian, who holds 2 state Job.