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Show Present Graft In New fl York Exposed By Mur- 119 der Was Surpassed fl New York, Aug. 1. Stops toward the corroboration of the confessions H implicating Police Lieutenant Beck- M er in the murder of the gambler. H Herman Rosenthal, are to be taken MH carefully and slowly so that as Dls- B trict Attorney Whitman says, the Hi "whole truth of the relations between HI the gamblers and the police will come Hftfl out." Satisfactory progress Is belnj wEtm made by Mr. Whitman in supplying MgjM tho links in the confession of "Bald HSI Jack" Rose, "Brldgle" Webber and fffl Harry Vallon, who In their stories to Kfl the public prosecutor said that Beck- H er instigated them In the killing of W Rosenthal. K Tho district attorney says he has WK obtained some important "testimony ffiB concerning Vallon and Rose's story MB that tney met Becker after the mur- Mf der. Two restaurant ehployes, accord- fK Ing to the district attorney, have glv- -HI en the Information that they saw H Becker talking with Rose and Web- m ber on Forty-cocond street- alter the B killing. jH Sir. Whitman, who has been advised 1 by several supreme court justices H to go slow, said today: KM "The court of appeals has held that Vl there must be some corroboration of afl the testimony of accomplices. The HI establishment of a motive Is corrobo- HI ration. There is no doubt in my mind H that the motive has been establish.- H Tho grand jury probably will not re- H sumc its investigation into the case H until the district attorney has more 'Kj needed testimony In hand. Whitman jH is investigating stories that Becker H; Is worth nearly a million dollars. H The appearance of Sam Schepps is Hr kcenly awaited at the prosecutor's Vj office. H Was Given $1,C00. jH1 Schepps, according to the story Bj told by Rose today, received $1,000 K In bills from Rose which Becker had HH handed him. Rose says Schepps gave lHfl this money to Harry Horrowitz, other- Hfl wiso known as "Gib, the Blood," and Hj Louis Rosenzwelg. mm Tho statement of Jack Rose, the Informer In the Rosenthal case, that K tribute of $2,400,000 has been exacted &. by the police from gamblers and oth- MEL ers for protection was not considered Mj extravagant by many of thoso famll- ; lar with conditions In the underworld HHj The amount stated is said to be $700,000 a year less than was collect- HI ed 12 years ago, according to an al- H leged expose of the gambling situa- H tion published by a New York news- m paper in March, 1900. This article mmm created a sensation at the time, al- H leglng that $3,095,000 was the yearly m tribute of keepers of gambling houses J H to the police and other authorities oi H the cltv "for protection." H The "statement that "men hi?h in n the councils of Tammany Hall" hart ! been participants in the money led ! to an investigation of the truth of the ,m charges. In his official report Mr. H Nixon said: jH "There is an organization oi men H known as the "combine" that Is or- :M ganlzod for svstcmatlc blackmail, and ; MM collecting money for the protection am they aro supposed to furnish In Its - mm name " j AH The men who wish lo open place3 H knew whom to see. and having fcunu H that certain men who act in deflanvC- . H of the "combine's" orders are guen fcmm short shifc, are naturally Inclined to jl:H believe that these men do collect this ; mon ev on account of Tammany Hall JH and that if matters reach a climax JM this organization will protect them. A "This accounts for the almost ue- Hn fiant attitude of the gamblers" According to one authority the Al amunt collected in 1S99 by the com- HI bine was as follows: 1HI 100 pool rooms, $300 each pn jWH mmith. $1.4-10.000. 500 crap games, $150 each per month, $900,000. M 200 gambling houses, $lo0 each per H month, $360,000. HH 20 largo gambling houses, 1,000 eacn HM per month, $240,000. SKf 50 envelope games, $o0 each pe month, $30,000 M Policy per year, $125,000. Total, $3,095,000. M |
