New-York tribune., 1916-07-27
Enright Is Accused of Civ
ing Arrested Aid Money,
Demanding Silence.
TWO WOMEN CHARGE
HE FRAMED" THEM
Arrest Followed When She Re!
pulsed Detectives Attentions,
One SWears.

Ten people-men and women-put
into affidavit form yesterday stories Of
having paid protection money TO GER
tain policemen or of having been
framed up" by officers seeking to ex-
tort money from them. As a result
Assistant District Attorney James Z.
Smith said there would probably be
ten more indictments in the police
graft scandal.
Mr. Smith made public the contents
of three of the afiidavits, one made BY
Sadie Lipschitz, who says she paid De-
tective william j. Enright $3.50 to OBJ
tain the release of her husband after
he had been arrested with her on a
charge of soliciting and operating a
disorderly house; another by Max
Turkowitz, who has confessed he was
Enright's stool pigeon, and third by
woman who charges she was
framed" because she refused to pay
money TO Enright or to accept his at
tentions. The Lipschitz woman told
the District Attorney Enright had her
arrested and sent to Blackwells ISL
and for three months after she had
paid him to release her husband be-
cause there was some hitch in the pay
ment of another $3.50 for her own re-
lease.
Women Accuse Enright.
Cohen and Turkowitz were arraigned
before Judge Mulqueen in Special Ses-
sions yesterday morning and placed
under suspended sentences. Both men
have made complete confessions, the
District Attorney said, and will be wit
nesses before the grand jury.
The woman who asserts Enright tried
to frame" her because she refused to
accept his attention, and in pursuance
of the attempt arrested her maid. is
said by the District Attorneys office
TO be respectable. She has two chill
dren and has for ten years operated
a first class furnished rooming house,
upon which, the District Attorney said.
no suspicion ever had rested.
Swears Money Was Paid.
Turkowitz. in his affidavit, swears
that after he had been arrested with
David Cohen, June % last, and ar
raigned on charge of extorting money
from women of the street Enright gave
him some money and told him to mot
be afraid and not to tell anybody any
thing" This statement is corroborated
BIZ statements made TO the District At
torney by Cohen and By Patrolman
Conway, of the Sd Inspection District.
Both of them say they saw Enright
hand Turkowitz the money. Detective
har
right.
The alleged passing of the bills from
Enright to Turkowitz gave the District
Attorneys Office and Police Commits
sioner Arthur Woods their first clew to
the wholesale petty graft, which, 1t is
alleged, exists among coterie of de-
tectives led by Enright and Foley.
Turkowitz, in his affidavit, says that
only few hours after he and Cohen
had been arrested Foley visited them
in the Yorkville prison.
"Well get you out all right" Turko-
WITT says Foley said. Don't be afraid.
Enright and will testify for you and
we'll have these conplainants held for
perjury. The Deputy Police Commits
sioner said we could do it."
Turkowitz swears Foley told him En-
right had seen the Deputy Commis
sioner regarding the matter.
The next day, June 20, Turkowitz and
Cohen were indicted, and Patrolman
Conway rearrested them on bench war
rants as they left the Yorkville court
room. 1t was then the alleged passing
of the money took place.
zone of Enright's stool pigeons tried
to collect money from this woman"
said Assistant District Attorney Smith,
"and she told him she had done moth
ing wrong. Enright then arrested her
maid, on a charge of running a dis
orderly house. Enright offered to get
her a lawyer. She went with him TO
two lawyers Offices, but both de-
manded exorbitant fees after whis-
pered conferences with Enright. We
have the names of both Of those law
yers.
"a few days later Enright went to
this woman's house when her husband
to her. She says he pursued her
around a dining room table, trying to
embrace her. The maid was dis
charged when her case came up in
Special Sessions. We have the names
OF the men who framed this woman
for Enright, and they probably will
be brought before the grand jury.
Graft Involves a Score.
Sadie Lipschitz was disorderly
housekeeper in the Tenderloin for sew
eral years, but in 1913 she quit. En-
right arrested her and her husband,
charging her with running a disorderly
house and her husband with soliciting.
Enright told her he would get her and
her husband out of trouble for s7OO.
She was told to meet him at Sixth
Avenue and Twenty-fourth Street with
the money. She pawned her earrings,
gave Enright $3.50, and her husband
was released. Then she was told to
pay another $3.50 for her own release.
She did not do this Immediately. En-
right had her convicted. She was SEN
fenced By Magistrate Murphy, in Octo-
Der. 1914. and served three months on
the Island. She complained TO District
Attorney Whitman. and an investlga-
tion was made, nut what came Of it
we have not learned"
District Attorney Swami said yester-
day he is convinced the grating was
confined to not more than fifteen or
twenty men. The District Attorney
has received many letters from the
men of the department, urging him to