The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-01-19
SECOND CHAPTER
CRAFT SCANDAL
s,u.rAs.n POLICE CHEF It'd HE
ARRaIGNED IN THE MI
NlciPAL COURT.
Charged With Systematically eoi'
lerting Weekly Tribute from
Indesworiti---Seserai
Arrests Made.

CHICAGO. Jan. II - ohafgea
With belng the Invisible czar OF q
graft squad which Systematically
combea the dives and brothels Of the
underworld for weekly tribute, Ponce
Chief Charles e. Heaiey was TO APP
pear In municipal court for preiiinl-
nary hearing here today
ON the heels Of Healey' arrest on
a warrant sworn out by States At
toney Maciay sEoyne ten days ago
rafre revelations OF Healeg'a aiieged
system of police graft rivaisng DIS
closures Of police rottenneas II New
York after the murder 81 Heiman
Rosenthal BY Lieutenant Becker )
gunner.
Hoyne. who eampafgned ard was
elected on 4 "cleaB up the police
platform, and who has waged bitter
aud relentless var on Heales ever
since. charges that Healey. With the
aid Of police sergeants aud lleuten-
ants and underworld gaaRsters. has
operated with mapped and card
indexea record of hrothels. dives, sa-
looms aud fIy-by might hotels, thieves.
gamblers and other crooks, and that
his income from his business,
which Hoyne says was run on strict
efficiency basis, has been not less
than 100000 g year
In the spectacular midnight catch
in Hoyne's carefully cast net there
were brought to the surface Of Tues
day mornings daylight. In addition
to Chief Heley:
Tom Costello, alleged to be the
men behind the police chief and him.
self an active collector Of bribes
and graft:
william A. fRllly) skiamore.
called the King of ths West Side
levee;
Mike the Pike Heitter. who for
years has been leyee king and said
to operate a string Of gambling
joints and brotheis;
Lieutenant Martin White. com
mander OF the Lake street station.
Also since arrested or to be ar
rested. Lieutenants Edward Grady
of the West 18th street station,
Lieutenant John Hartford. North
Halstead street station, and Sergeant
John Naughton, Heaiey's eonfiden-
tial secretary.
All the warrants charge conspira-
cy TO commit extortion, bribery, and
to open disorderly houses and gam
bling houses
This clique. according to Hoyne,
made business of once a week col
leotlng brides from brothels, thieves.
gambling men and other crooks.
amounting TO $1,000 a week; also
from saloon keepers for not inter-
fering with illegal liquor sales; also
from policemen desiring promotion
from the ranks or lleutenants desir-
ing promotion to captaincles. also
from property owners desiring tax
reductions.
Hoyne charged police officers who
objected to the system were intlmi-
dated by being transferred from their
home sections to undesirable pre-
cinets far out in the suburbs.
Hoyne also charged the clique
planned a trust to control all prison
contracts at Joliet in the event
Healey was appointed warden.
Hoyne chose the psychological mo-
ment TO trap his men Regular col
lections were made, he said, satur-
days and Sundays and on Monday
] nights the spoils would be divided
1 II was Monday night, January 8.
when Costello, Heitler and skid
more were arrested in raid by
iFoyne's men on Costellos office
while the three were engaged, Hoyne
says, in dividing $1,000 in bills on
the table before them, Several Of
these bills. Hoyne says, were marked
and traced from the brothels from
which they were extorted. to the ta-
Bile before the trio"
Hoyne also claims he has evidence