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Show New York Graft Ring-Charged Ring-Charged Stipulated Sums for Violations New York, Aug. 14. In the search for evidence to convict the murderers of the gambler, Herman Rosenthal, the state's attorney and the grand jury have unearthed a wealth of information in-formation showing that gamblers and keepers of disorderly houses paid sums amounting to hundreds of thousands thou-sands of dolalrs yearly for police protection. pro-tection. The monthly tariffs paid to the police po-lice vary. Ftrst-class uptown gambling gam-bling houses paid 1,000. a middle-class middle-class gambling house paid $580; east side gambling houses paid anywhere from ?100 to $400; high class pool rooms $000, while poker and dice games paid $300. Uptown disorderly houses paid $C00, while east side resorts re-sorts paid $100. With the co-operation of all the banks in the city, District Attorney Whitman has been able to ohtalu the names of four police inspectors whose bank accounts run into several hundred hun-dred thousand dollars. One Inspector Is said to have accumulated a million dollars. The hunt for other bank accounts of Police Lieutenant Becker was resumed re-sumed today by District Attorney Whitman, who, with the aid of tho banks, has disclosed that Becker, accused ac-cused of murder, has within tho year deposited $5S,S40. The stato's attorney attor-ney believes it will be disclosed that Becker has accumulated about $200,-000. $200,-000. 'Jack" Rose, In his story before tho grand jury, is reported to hae involved in-volved Jack Sullivan, "the newsboy king," and close friend of Lieuionaut Becker, In tho murder plot. Rose Is said to have declared that Sullivan, aftor riding around tho city on the night of the murder with Becker, went to "Brldgie" Webber's gambling plac, and seeing that the gunmen were there, went to the Hotel Metropole to locate Rosenthal. Rose, it Is further said, told the grand jury that Sullivan then returned to Webber's and told tho gunmen where Rosenthal could be found. : oo |