New Britain herald., 1928-10-03
FIND NEW GRAFT
 IN PHILADELPHIA
Dseeva! Of Protection P,y' nat u,k6 0hels Seem Small

Philadelphia. Oct. N1A new form Of alleged police graft. which makes the protection" money said to have been paid by bootleggers look small in comparison. has been uncovered by District Attorney Monaghan. who is conducting the grand jury investigation of rum runners and gangsters' activities.
 The new system was revealed with the arrest of four detectives. charged with sxtorting money from the proprietor of a disorderly house. Each of the detectives was held in $2.5OO bail for trial.
 They were alleged to have col iected $22O . week from single disorderly house in police district in which 50 such establishments were reported by the district con- mander to have been operating.
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 Olga Barton, proprietor of one of these places. in testifying against the detectives. John Casey. Warren Robinson. James Kelly and William Dixey. declared that her payments for protection. starting at s%5 . week. had been raised on demands of the detectives until they finally had reached t220 . week.
 Assistant District Attorney Hermes told Judge Edwin o. Lewis, before whom the prisoners were arraigned. that each of the 50 establishments had paid similar amounts for pro- lection. or total of approximately &ll,O0O . week in . single police district.
 The arrest of two police captains. whose secret riches" were said by the district attorney to have been discovered by his investigators. was expected today. MT. Monaghan said one of these men had accumulated nearly s250,000 in the last two and half years.
 Examines Captain
 T examined 2 captain of police last Friday in the grand jury room.' . the prosecutor said today. "Yester- day l investigated and obtained an account in 8 stock brokers concern showing that Monday this same captain closed his account and with drew more than $24.O0O in currency, together with securities aggregating tlS,0OO in value-a total of more than $42.O00 in this one mans &C., count.
 My investigators also found that one captain of police during a pe- riod of two and a half years he has held that position deposited more than tS1.000 in banks and had se- creted in his home s2O,Oo0 in cash.
 Tn addition. in the last two and . half years, he has purchased seven parcels of real estate in which the equities are between $35,0o0 and $40,00O. This captain also had a saving fund account of $S,5Oo and he had safe deposit box for the storage of his valuable papers.
 ''The investigation has shown in ordinate police wealth. It hal shown immense sums paid to polio, officials by bootleggers and saloon. keepers. and yesterday we uncov. cred the most horrible form of DO. lice protection-disorderly houses in case which gives indications ol vast sums paid over to men sworr to enforce the laws"
 Charles c. Beckman, suspended captain of detectives was to appea, again today before the civil service commission in a continuation of hi, trial on charges of conduct unbe. coming an officer. The charges em. brace alleged acts of Beckman re vealed in testimony before tn, grand jury. which led that body tt recommend his suspension as "un mt to hold any public office.'