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Show GAMBLER WILL TELL OF GRAFTING James Purcelle, Ex-Gambllng Houie Proprietor, Comes to Whitman's Whit-man's Aid Now York, Feb. 7. James Purcelle, Pur-celle, for 17 years n gambler In New-York, New-York, unfolded todny to tho alder-manic alder-manic commltteo Investigating graft ft talo of paying for pollco protection during all thnt time. Testifying under un-der oath ho gavg names, dates and plnccs. Ho declared that ho had paid tho police many thousands of dollars. Smooth fillnvon nntfllv ilntuan,! It. n suit of bluo nnd wenrlng eyeglasses, eyeglass-es, Purcello read from a pnd of papers pa-pers on which ho had written the history of his dealings with the pollco. po-llco. '. First Money Paid "Tho first protection money I paid was In 1897," ho snld. T paid a policeman po-liceman named Jerry Murphy $10 not to disturb a racing gamo I was tunning. After that I began paying Inrgor Bums. The noxt was $G0 every ev-ery two weeks when I was running n gambling house $fi0 for Police Capt Delano' nnd $10 for Dick Cnhlll, the policeman who collected It." Purcello declared ho paid $100 a week to Sheriff Harvey of tjuoens-county tjuoens-county In 1909 for tho privilege of running n pool room In Long Island city. "I offered him $50 n week nnd ho said ho would havo to tnko caro of tho district attorney too. "Well," I Bald, "we'll mnko It $100 a week." Wo hnd been running three weeks then. "How about tho money for those threo weekB?" ho asked. So tho noxt night I brought him $400 nnd I paid him $100 n week thereafter till wo left, threo months lator." "Did yqu mnko any money thero? "Wo made $4,000 on the crap game, $2000 In studd and lost $400 In tho pool loom. Wo mado about $5,000 clear in tho threo months nnd threo weeks." Purcollo hns been under cover for months over slnco tho beginning of Charles Decker's trial for tho murder murd-er of Rosenthal. Ho was ready to corrobornto In ninny details Jack Roso's story of graft told in tho Decker Dec-ker trim, but was not called a8 a witness becauso Justlco Goft ruled out testimony through which tho stnto was to prove that Decker had collected graft. Purcelle will now toll his story, giving tho names of men to whom ho mado payments, dates on which thoy wero mado and many other details. Pollco Commissioner Waldo snld today that notwithstanding tho refusal refus-al of District Attorney Whitman to pel nut Pollco Cnpt. Welsh to disclose his confession to tho police, tho Investigation In-vestigation by tho pollco of his story would continue without Interruption. Inspector Sweeny, suspended as a result of Walsh's confession, has niado no statement. |