The Washington times., 1932-01-05
ORGANIZED VICE
s, RING KILLINGS
TOTAL 30
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business. Girls are moved from
point to point almost on schedule.
Booking agents arrange for
their placement.
Each girl also has a personal
representative, who gets a cut
out Of the Shiny business.
And back of the whole set-up,
unquestionably paying out thou
sands of dollars for protection, is
a little group of men answering
to the popular description OF
master minds"
At their bidding muscle men"
sally forth and rough-nouse estab-
lishments which do not do busi-
ness with the organization"
Should this prove insufficient
intimidation, the bomb squad or
the machine gunners are called
upon and there is violent death.
Recalcitrant proprietors of
houses of ill-fame and their in
mates are put on the spot
so BombingS, Murders
AS high as so murders and
bombings have been traceable-
without question, but without the
necessary final proof for a court
of law-to this traffic in human
bondage in the past two years.
Into this frightful sore upon
the body of society, the Federal
Government is now moving with
full force of its chief cauterizing
agent-the Department of JUS
tice.
Attorney General William D.
Mitchell has appointed Neil
Burkinshaw, noted for having
helped prosecute and convict
Harry F. Sinclair for jury tam
pering. as his special assistant
in charge of an investigation
that embraces, at the start, south
ern New York, eastern Pennsyl
vania. Maryland, Massachusetts,,
New Jersey, Connecticut, Virginia.
Rhode Island, Delaware, and the
District of Columbia.
Backing up Burklnshaw with
the entire personnel of his eff
cient body of secret agents is j.
Edgar Hoover, chief of the Bu-
reau of Investigation.
Reaches Far and Wide
Already more than a score of
arrests have been made, but the
surface barely has been scratched.
New leads coming in almost
hourly point to months of patient
work.
Evidence thus far adduced indi-
Gates that very sinister portion
OF the vice mob is working out
OF Philadelphia and Baltimore,
supplying girls for houses
throughout Maryland, the coal
mining regions of Pennsylvania.
portions of New York and New
Jersey and on through the more
northern States to Massachu-
sets.
First definite intimation that
such an Infamous traffic was
being conducted came to the
attention of Federal authorities
two months ago when a squad
OF gunner "muscled' into the
Colonial Tea House and stuck
up the place.
One Killed in Raid
Although there were a score or
more of persons present, the
bandits" confined their atten-
tion to Charles Doggy" Leavitt.
manager of the place.
A sum of money was taken
from him and an argument en-
sued. Suddenly gun play started.
A man named Anick was shot
through the heart. several others
were wounded and hysteria
reigned as the gunners beat a
retreat.
Police and Federal authorities
still are puzzling over the fact
that only Leavitt was frisked,
when il is the usual custom in
the hold-up of such a resort to
take the money and valuables
from everyone present.
Also, they are trying to piece
together the circumstances where
by an anonymous voice called
Casualty Hosr/yal several hours
before the shooting and advised
the institution to prepare for
casualties.
Already Federal agents have
found it was a shake-down or a
reprisal by the women traffickers.
Those arrested in connection
with the fray have shown an
almost uniform reluctance to
talk-obviously from fear of being
''put on the spot
Tomorrow'S article, exclusively
In The Washington Times, tOill
describe the machinery by Uhich
this "roGdhouSe racket" TloUeS its
OictintS from place to place on a
regular schedule and 1Oith perfect
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