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Show 1 THREE MEN Hi GANG H ; Graft Syndicate Sold H y Protection to Crooks B tW and Gamblers. Hj ' New York. Aug. 13, Blackmail cx- M ' torted from gambling and disorderly H houses is said to find Its way Into the. H pockets ot three men "higher up, H who arc the heads of the graft sjndl- H cate that provldles police protection H , for a price to the undorwotld. H ' Information lias been given District H Attorney Whitman by private dctcc- H . thos working on the Rosenthal that H i these men "higher tip" are n lawjer, H u a hotel proprletro, who claims strong H political affiliation?, and a police offl- H J cial. Two police inspectors also are H j said to be implicated. H District Attorney Whitman now Is H ' . coninced that "Bald Jack" Rose told j . the truth when ho said at least 5.400,- B L 000 was collected from gambling H fr houses in one section of Now York H a! Clty aIone H It appears that for more than a H ,i year a system has been in operation H 1 by which all the gambling and disor- 1 fa 'deriy houses have been bled. H U The investigation has 6hovn alreadv Hj L that thorc ban been blackmail through H j j intimidation by which police officials H 5 fattened their bank accounts, but H n. when It was recently ' organized,"' H j better results weie shown B Private detectives report that under H c the present system the grafters were H protected from the claims of the vic- H 1 tims, it being the boast that ono of H. the men "higher up" wok influential j enough to present trouble H District Attorney Whitman .Is said H ts have been furnished with a list of nam 08 of prominent persons who 1 ' played, in gambling houses. It is said B j these persons may be subpoenaed to H srivo information. H . "Bald Jack" Rose, "nrldgie" Web- H I bcr and Hairv,Vallon aic to be t.ikon HU before the si and jur and if the woik q' of that bodv can be completed a Kf blanket indictment charging seven J men wllh the murder of Herman K Rosenthal will bo found y. Bernard 11 Sandler f counsel for h, Sm Schepps, alleged 'paymaster' of B the gunmen who killed Rosenthal, g n complicated the situa'ljon today hv, H hurriedly 'departing for Hot Springs nnd warning Schepps. not to start for New York until hi3 arrival. Schoppi had said he would 'walTo cxtradltlot and come home at once with Aaalstanl District Attorney Rubin and a dctoc-tlve. dctoc-tlve. Before leaving: for the southwesi Sandler sent Schepps this telegram: "Don't talk to Rubin or any person and don't leave for Now York until 1 arrive " Mr. Sandler offered no explanation of -why he had taken this action |