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Show Kidnap Racket Worries Police New York Underworld Terrorizes Ter-rorizes Victims Into Silence Si-lence About Crimes. New York. New fork's most recent nnderworld racket It may or may not bare been broken np by three recent re-cent -.rrests hus producer! - nt least fievcn kldnapings, about which the police po-lice know something and probably has produced more. It Is a merciless, crnel racket, but It la based, as so many nnderwor.d activities are bnsed on the tendency of "honest' business men to get rich quick by activities that are just outside the law. At tenst seven brokers have been taken from their homes In the last ' year. They have been held for a day, two days, or sometimes three, until ' they paid a ransom demanded by their captors. Then, to bind the whole In-, cldent In security, the kidnapers have become blackmailers and have agreed to say nothing about the business Indiscretions In-discretions of the brokers If the brokers brok-ers say nothing about the kldnapings. No Complaints Made. So carefully have the kidnapers worked In selecting victims that not one formal complaint has been made to the police. Detectives trying to find out exactly who Is In the "racket" "rack-et" were balked before they started. In two cases the kidnaped brokers were victims of torture, one so vlclons that It recalls those old days of the Spanish Inquisition. But the victim of this last case refused to make a complaint, com-plaint, even though Commissioner Whalen himself asked him to do so. In that particular case, according to Commissioner Whalen, the men responsible re-sponsible for the violent torture are under arrest, and have been In Jail nearly two months. In this connection, connec-tion, perhaps, It Is Interesting to note that the racket Is entwined with all the outstanding events of the underworld, under-world, and that In the arrest of the .men said to be responsible for the torture, there Is a connection, easily traced to the murders of Arnold Roth-steln, Roth-steln, Frank Marlow and Frankle Yale of Brooklyn. Detecilves do not hesitate to say that they believe bootlegging, gambling, gam-bling, laundry racketeering, kidnaping racketeering, murder, and assault are all closely Interwoven, and that the three murders already regarded as outstanding are In some way, however Indirect, connected-Three connected-Three Under Arrest-Dave Arrest-Dave Grosso, Mike McDermott and Charlie Green have been arrested. It Is curious to note that all three were arrested In murder cases and that no charge of kidnaping or racketeering of that sort will be made against them. Yet Whalen says that Green, who wa picked up In Chicago, was one of the leaders In the kidnaping racket, and that both Grosso and McDermott were active assistants. Green 13 charged, under Indictment, with participation In the Hotsy Totsy murders. Grosso and McDermott are held as material witnesses In the Frank Marlow murder. It has been learned that Grosso and McDermott missed a charge of murder In that case only because one person could not remember a motor car license. There are brokers In New York S who make big money on semi-bucket shop deals. They take money from outsiders and Invest on quick turnovers. turn-overs. If they win they keep the profits. If they lose they are not Interesting In-teresting to the racketeers, there are other brokers who have dealt In nn-dercover nn-dercover transactions and made killings. kill-ings. These are the men who become victims of the kidnapers. The brokers couldn't afford to have the details of their business made public. So closely are they watched that when they make a killing It Is known. They are kidnaped. And they pay the ransom demanded, usually usu-ally half of the killing they have made. |