Show VICE SQUAD MAN IS INDICTED FOR EXTORTION N. N NY Y Detective Preyed on Keeper of Disorderly House Is Charge I NEW YORK Aug 5 The The grand jury which is considering charges of graft made against policemen by District Attorney Swann handed in an indictment charging Joseph Horn a plain clothes detective attached to the Brooklyn vice squad under Lieutenant McDonnell McDonnell McDon McDon- nell with bribery and extortion I Horn who is 31 and lives with his I wife at East Eleventh street is isone isone isone one of four members of the Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook Brook- II lyn vice squad who are alleged by bythe bythe bythe the district attorney to have crossed the bridge when not otherwise e employed employed employed em em- and held up keepers of disorderly disorderly dis dis- orderly houses in the Tenderloin Three Accused Horn The particular charge against Horn Hornis is that in August last he accepted 15 graft from Benny Blum who told the grand Jury he was paying toll toU tor for Mrs Florence Ross ROs who kept a resort resort resort re re- sort on East Seventeenth street ll Sear ar Third avenue witnesses Other were Mrs 1 Ross and Mrs Sadie who maintained a house two doors from that operated by the Ross woman According to the testimony of the three Horn and his fellow officers suggested that payment of money I might forestall raids As they had raided houses in that vicinity before they were transferred to Brooklyn the women believed they were still working in the district and paid money Assistant District Attorney Smith who is making the investigation says Horn went to Mrs Rothenberg whose house he had raided several times gave her his home telephone number and asked her to make an appointment appointment appoint appoint- ment whereby he could meet Mrs Ross The testimony of Blum and Mrs Rothenberg went to show that Mrs Rothenberg made the appointment at her own borne J but that when Horn Honi arrived there the next day he was met by Blum instead of oe Mrs Ross Blum Jhen then handed over the money Same Method in Other Houses The district attorney has evidence tending to show that the Brooklyn squad men used the same methods of collection in disorderly houses on Twenty-first Twenty Twenty-second Twenty and Twenty fourth streets between Seventh Sev Sev- Seventh and Eighth avenues Smith says that as soon as the police in charge of the district discovered what was going on the Brooklyn men would begin begin be be- I gin operations in another section I The district attorneys attorney's attention was called to the case of a poli policeman eman who is charged with having misused a year sixteen-year-old girl and after her downfall sending her to collect evidence evi evi- dence against the Denver hotel in inVest West Vest Fortieth street It is expected that perjury indictments will be brought against this policeman and three others who used the girl for a stool pigeon As a result of or evidence the girl obtained ob oh tamed against the Denver hotel Edward Edward Ed Ed- ward Duffy clerk was convicted in special sessions At the trial the three policemen swore that until the raid they had never seen the girl Hot Hotel 1 Clerk Exonerated If District Attorney Whitman was not not satisfied that the officers ers told the truth and began an investigation This developed the facts now in the possession possession pos pos- session of Swann A retrial was or or- dered The girl turned Informant and Duffy was exonerated As soon as Horn had been indicted a bench warrant was issued by Judge in general sessions and Honest Dan Costigan went to the One Hundred and Thirty fifth II street police station where he served the warrant shortly after 4 o'clock Before he could reach the criminal courts building Judge had gone one so Horn was locked up in the Tombs The district attorney expects that ten indictments in addition to the eight already found will be brought before the investigation ends One may be against a police captain whose name has not figured in the inquiry I hitherto |