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Show ! SfSil James Purcell, Partner of the Murdered Rosenthal, Tells of Paying Money to New York Police. INVOLVES NUMBER , OF HIGH OFFICIALS 9 Former Sheriff Harvey, Inspector In-spector McLaughlin . and Half a Dozen Captains Are Accused. NEV YOttK, Fob. 7. llorninn "Rosenthal's "Ro-senthal's onc-timo partner iu gambling picked up the broken threads of '.Rosenthal's story today to-day and told tho aldormanic eomrait-mitteo eomrait-mitteo investigating graft a tale of money paid for police protection oelips-iug oelips-iug that of Jack Kose, Charles Becker's Beck-er's collnctor. .For sevonfeon years James Purcoll said he had paid for the privilege of running a gambling house, making a hand book or conducting conduct-ing a poolroom. In all. ho gavo the police, more- than $50,000, he declared, in this period. Former Sheriff Harvey of Queens county, Police Inspector McLaughlin, half a dozen polico captains, including a brother-in-law of Charles R Murphy, tho Tammany leader, and scoros of ward heelers and policemen, boiuo now on tho force, others off, wero among tho men who got tho money, ho said. Once, ho said, orders camo "indirectly' "indirect-ly' ' from Murphy himself to close up. Ho raovod at. once. Charles Becker, now in tho death houso at Sing Sing for tho murder of Rosenthal, got $350 .from -him. for-"fix-, ing"' tho evidenco agaiDst him and five others taken in. a raid. Becker made on his gambling house, Purcell declared. de-clared. Becker was then head of tho 'strong arm" squad for tho suppression suppres-sion of gambling. One Honest Officer. "I have paid money to every srpiad that, was over detailed to headquarter headquar-ter to suppress gambling, except one," Purcell testified. "They all took it, except Costigan's. Costigan was on the level." Costigan was referred to during tho 'first investigation of the Rosenthal case ao the '''honest policeman." ! In return for this protection money. 1 Purcoll said, the police generally let him alone. When they had to act ot complaints from tho outside they "tipped him oft'," ho declared. He always moved to anothor house when thus informed. For a while he moved every day. Onco he defied tho police. For nine months, when he had Jack McAuliffo, former lightweight champion, for a partner, they ran a gambling houso on the upper east side without lrlakiug the weekly payments to collectors. Tho police stationed two men at the door of his establishment, he declared, to warn nil customers tbat It wa a gambling; house. Beat the Game. j "But Jack, beat that Mchcuio," bo said, "tf thu two policemen forgot to Italic or talked nice, he gave them 5 apioce a day. If they didnfc they got no money. They generally talked nice." Polico commissioners, inspectors and captains camo and wont duriug tho tlmo Purcoll was operating in the tou-derloin, tou-derloin, ho raid, but it mado u tlif. feroncc. Collectors for tho "system" camo around regularly every week or every month, Whon he was making a hand book ho paid them $25 a week; when ho was running a pool room or gambling houso ho paid from $(30 to $J00 a week. Whan he was doing noth. ing, ho paid nothing. Thero woro oue or two captains and one inepoctor who didn't "do busi. noss" with tho gamblers, Purcoll asserted, as-serted, but they didn't como along together to-gether in hhi precinct. Thus, whon tho captain waa "on the level," the inopec-tor'a inopec-tor'a mon camo around, and vico vorda. On inspector, he thought incorruptible, incorrupti-ble, he Haid, was Richard Walsh, dnbbefl "Smiling Dick." Talk in Tenderloin. What becamo of the money after it reached, tho hands of tho enptaina or iuspoctore, Purcoll didn't know. He had an idea galnod from talk among his fellows in tho tondorloin, that some of it went "higher up," but ho couldn't any, he testified, as to that. Purcell said ho oporntcd for twolvo years in ono police precinct tho Twon. iy-first and probably did business (aoutinucil .oil. Pjiso Two.) Criarlea F. Murphy, wliouc name liao been Lrouglit into tke ainasing graft revelations made by partner of murdered Rosen-thai. Rosen-thai. j MURPHVS If IS PROMINENT I THE (Continued from Page One.) during that period at half a hundred places. JCaming the mem who collected protection money from bim each week, he said lhey acted for Police Captains McClintock. Gannon, Delaney, Moland, Cochran, Burns and Cray. Tho last iiamort is a brother-in-law to Charles F. Murphy. "I got permission from Mike Cruise, a Tamman v leader, to open a gambliug house in Thirty-third street." Pur-coll Pur-coll said. "Cruise wanted $50 a week for himself, the same for Captain Cray and $10 apieco to the two men who came to collect the money each week. So for a while 1 paid them $320 a week." "Tlow long did you pay this money?" Closed Up by Murphy. "For fivo weeks: then a friond of miue called ou the telophone and said Murphy had ordered my place closed. Murphy 'b word was good enough for mo. I closed up at once." Purcell said Becker raided his place in 1911 and arrested fivo men. Jamos A. "White, Becker's lieutenant, caused the raid. At court, Purcell said he askod White and then Becker to help him. " 'All right,' Becker said. 'I'll do what I can. But you lenow 1 ain -'t in this for my health.' Bo said he wanted want-ed $500. I laughed at hiiu. Later 1 offered him $350, White told me afterwards after-wards that it would bo all right aud I paid it to White. The cases were dismissed." dis-missed." Purcell was one of seven or eight gamblers in his police prcciuct paying regular weekly amounts to the police, he said. Kept Complete Record. Smooth shaven, nattily dressed in a suit of blue and wearing eyeglasses, Purcell rend from a pad of papers on which ho had written the history of his dealings with tho police. "The first protection monoy T paid was in 1S97." ho said. "I paid a policeman po-liceman named Jerry Murphy $10 not to disturb a racing game I was running. run-ning. After that I began paying larger sums. Tho next was $60 every two wccks when T was ruuning a gambling house $50 for Police Captain Delanoy and $10 for Dick Cahill, the policeman who collected it," Purcell declared he paid $100 a week to Sheriff Harvey of Qtieeus county, la 1909, for the privilege of running a poolroom in Long Island City. "I offered him $50 a wook and he said ho would have to take care of the district attorney, too. 'Well,' I said, 'we'll mako it $100 a week.' We had been running ihrcc weeks then " 'How about the monov for those three weeks?' he asked. So the next night I brought him $400 and I paid him $100 a week thereafter till we left, throe months Inter." "Did you make any money there?" j "We made $4000 on the crap game, ;$C0O0 m stuss and lost $400 in the ! poolroom. We made about $5600 clear 'm the ihree months and throo wooks." |