New Britain herald., 1920-03-05

the penalty This tale has promptly come back to the prosecutor, and he has a very fair idea as to who started it.
 How Protection Is Bought.
 One of MT. Smiths informants gave him an intelligent idea of the pro- cedure employed by a woman who wishes to run a disorderly house or apartment. If she is wisely directed she calls a lawyer, whose name is known to the district attorneys office. She lays the matter frankly before him, after paying a substantial re- tainer She then receives the neces- sary advice.
 She is informed that before she can do business she must stand for a collar.' In other words, she must submit to arrest. This puts her in the clutches of the police. if she is not there already. Following the arrest she retains the attorney now advising her. If she wishes to operate & house she pays him $500 and will be guar anteed that she will not be molested for two months. If she wishes to open a flat the fec is smaller. At the end of two months another pay ment must be made. It is asserted that those who have followed this as they paid up.
 It is said that there arc houses in West End avenue. Riverside drive and Central Park West, patronized by the wealthy, which pay much higher toll to lawyers-and are never disturbed. What becomes of this m oney is what MT. Smith would like to find out. He won't even admit he suspects the police get any part of it. Hc Cir ,N1x ments are forthcoming the police are strangely absent from the neighbor- hood.
 In MT. Smiths office most of the day, was the Malyado girl, Rose Con- zales and Estelle Young, who had been victims of the police, so they say, and who are needed as material witnesses against Gunson. They added to their already long state ments, and put the prosecutor on the track of additional evidence of a corroborative nature. The Malyado girl also is known as Billie Howard, having used that name at the time the detectives were involved in matter similar to that now under con- sideration. The detectives were ex- onerated, Billie Howard being one of the witnesses.
 Tells of Meeting Girl.
 MT. Smith, when informed that Gunson had denied ever having heard of Rebecca Malyado, produced a transcript of testimony taken Feb. 25, when the woman was up for jump ing her bail of $500. Detective Jo- seph Maloney, Gunson's partner, un- der examination, told how GunsOn had met the woman about two years ago. had taken her to a hotel, and of what happened thereafter. He said Gunson had picked her up" in West 44th street.
 In her talks with newspaper men, the Malyado girl stuck to the story she told the grand jury. She an- swered questions frankly, and admit ted she had been desperately in love With the detective. Told that he de- nied ever having seen her, she smiled.
 II guess he would recognize my pie ture if he saw it," she remarked. He certainly should remember my name, after having offered to elope to Lon don with me-
 Early in the morning MT. Smith caused the detention of two girls who told Judge Malone they were Jennie Carello and May Brown. Both have several aliases. Mir. Smith told the court that they were important wit nesses in the case against Gunson, and they were held in $5,0OO bail each. The prosecutor said they were present when Gunson and another de- tective frightened off a man who as- serted he had been robbed of large sum of money.
 GunSon Scored by Court.
 GunSon, since his assignment 70 Inspector Henry's staff on June 10, 1917, has been denounced by general sessions judges and severely criticized by other officials for his methods in arresting young women. He was tried by three deputy police commits sioners only after Mayor Hylan wrote l. to Police Commissioner Enright or dering him to investigate the charges against Gunson thoroughly in con- nection with his arrest of Misses SaHie Robin and Lillian Cohen, who were eXonerated.
 In reversing Magistrate Mancuso's decision against these girls, Judge Rosalslly said from the bench:
 Your sister and my sister are not safe If men like Gunson on the police force are allowed to continue this sort of thing without hindrance Un- der such conditions, no decent girl would be safe on the streets. There was not a scintilla of evidence to war rant the arrests or the convictions"
 Gunson arrested the two girls for talking on the street with a soldier in uniform. It was shown afterward