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Show GRAFT STORY IS CONFIRMED Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars Obtained By Swindlers Swind-lers Under Protection of Police Department. New York. N. Y., Nov. 14. District Attornev Whitman confirmed today the report that he had obtained from a gang of wireless wire tappers con fesslous Involving the payment of graft for police protection to a civilian civili-an In high authority at police head quarters, a police inspector and at leaBt two lleuteni-nts Many hundreds of thousands of dollars Mr. Whitman said, had been obtained by the swindlers swin-dlers under police protection Ten per cent of this num and a fixed retainer re-tainer of ?2500 a month, according to the confessien. had been divided among the police officials Involved George McRae. confessor-tn-chlef of the gang of five, who have bared their records to Mr Whitman is authority for the statement that a Chicago woman wom-an whoBe Identity is known to the district attorney, was fleeced out of $400.u0ii during several months b the gang In this city and that the police received 10 Der cent of thla sum More Startling Revelations. Still more startling revelations are expected today In the confession of two other wire tappers who have indicated their willingness to tell the district attorney all they know about money being paid for police proter Hon. According to the story told by Mc Rae and his confederates, th police were notified by the gang In advance whenever a deal was on Giving names and dates McRan told the dis trlct attorney that the police would station a man outside the building to which tho victim was taken and that after the wire tappers had got his money, payment of the 10 per cent commission was made Immediately to the police representative waiting outside out-side This, McRae charged, was ta ken to the office of a police Inspector and either retained entirely by him or divided with his superiors. In ad ditlon. the wire tappers. McRae said paid a man at police headquarters a monthly retainer of ?2500. McRae'n i onfesslon and the result ant revelations are the outgrowth of an accidental meeting in Los Angeles Ange-les last September between McRae and a representative of the district attorney's at-torney's office who was In that city on another case. |