The Washington times., 1921-05-21
SIREN |NRE|D
CASE GNESUP
Mrs. Warner Surrenders to Dis
trict Attorney-Home Was
Trap for Rich, Police Say.

Reid, surrendered to District Attor.
ney Glennon of the Bronx yesterday
afternoon
HUGE RLACKMAIL PLOT Barred.
Shortly before the woman walked
in on Mr.. Glennon new information
had reached the prosecutor which
shooting case. He had been told
that Mrs. Warmers bungalow in Uni
versity avenue had been freQuented
by men involved in = series Of gi-
Yantic blackmail plots.
VICTIM SEEKS RELIEF.
This had been hinted before. The
tim Of the blackmail gang called
Assistant District Attorney oliver by
telephone.
This man said he had been bled
many times through repeated threats
of exposure. He wanted to know IL 1t
would be safe" for him, In view Of
the police activity stirred up by the
Reid case. to refuse further payment
Through other channels 1t had been
charged that q blackmail brotherhood
had made Mrs. Warmers bungalow a
regular port Of call and had victim
ized dozens of rich and socially promi-
nent men.
Mrs. Warmers visitors in some cases
are alleged to have been involved In
conspiracies engineered under the
Mann act by "Dapper Don" Collins.
sought as Reid's assailant. Since the
Government made the Federal law a
more dangerous one to tamper with,
the band has found the ocean fertile
field Of operation.
OCEAN A FERTILE FIELD.
Taking their schemes to sea re-
quired only minor changes. Beautiful
women Of the same type who en-
Ieouraged the advances Of wealthy
men ashore and lured them across
State lines were put aboard transat-
lantic liners, II Is charged. They
kept much to themselves until the
right man came along-as the plot
tiers always saw to IT they did.
When time for the levy came 1t
was not = Federal agent" but an
indignant brother" who came on
the scene. That was about the only
difference. Instead of arrest and ex-
posure the threat was:
PAY or be shot!'
In the light Of developments the
line of questioning will be consider
ably amplifed when Mrs. Warner 10
taken before the grand jury next
Tuesday for which time she has been
subpoenaed. When IL was accepted
that the shooting OF Reid was in
ispired by jealousy the big point
which the District Attorneys once
hoped to establish through the wo-
man was the identity of the assailant.
Now it is the motive that will be
stressed.
Mrs. Warner was detained only a
few minutes yesterday. A surety
company's bond for $4,000 to guar
antee her appearance before the
Grand Jury was quickly accepted, and
she rode away with her lawyer. Will
lam J. Fallou. In an automobile.
VISITS WOUNDED MAN.
The FIRST stop made by the big auto
mobile in which the two Travelled was
Lloyd's Sanitarium. One Hundred and
Fifticth street and St Nicholas place.
There Mrs. Warner visited Reid, who
despite the Ave serious bullet wounds
from which he is suffering, has also
been put under bond as q material
witness.
Mr. Oliver said last night he hoped
the Grand Jury investigation would
result in wiping out 'as rotten
lot of blackmailers and badger work.
ers as ever defed the law" He
added:
1--WE will get an Indictment of
Tourbillon. or Collins. or whatever
other name he may take in his dirty
trade. We may not get a conviction,
for there may be efforts to balk
justice. But any rich man who per-
mits a man to pose as the indignant
brother of a woman he may be wrong
fully acquainted with hereafter will
have himself to blame.
-
] was advised today by phone. When
] realized the man in question really
was paying blackmail, in INSTALL
ments, l saw the seriousness of the
thing. This man had already paid
$2S000 and wanted to stop the bleed
ing process. I told him to see the
district attorney in his county. The
case is not in the Bronx.
This investigation now Is not an
inquiry into the characters of these
people 1t is an investigation OF the
shooting on last Sunday in the best
residence section of our county.
GANGS GET AWAY WITH 1T.
an that investigation = great deal
has come out that shows a gang. IL
fact two gangs, have been getting
away with blackmail and extortion
through the badger game. or a vari-
alton of 1t, right in Manhattan.
"All the evidence that has cropped
out in this case we have turned over
TO District Attorney Swami and
Police Inspector Coughlin,' command
ing the detective force. The crimes
j refer to were committed in Man
haitian and Brooklyn. 1t is for the
police to round up these crooks. We
will be obliged to be satisfied with
Hhe conviction of Tourbilloon or
Collins. for the shooting of Reid, If
we can get it."
When Mrs. Warner arrived at the
district attorneys office at ESQ
o'clock she was accompanied by her
lawyer and an agent for the surety
company. She had given the Uni
versity avenue house as surety 10
the company. The party arrived in
. car provided by the company.
LIKES TO DE PHOTOGRAPHED.
The three were ushered through
the crowded corridor to a waiting
elevator, and nobody was allowed to
enter with them. On the NTH floor
the woman looked about in an