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$10,000 Bribe
Charge Made
In Vice Probe
??.ter of Former Deteetive
Aggerts Police Official
**Above a Captain" Ready
t? P"1 ITP $20,000 More
$100,000 Graft Share
Ionian Gives Prosecutor
Location of 12 Alleged
Disorderly Apartments
An officer of the Police Department
of higher n.nk than captain has offered
* detective $10,000 not to tell what he
knows at the inquiry into alleged vice
T-raft in the department which followed
?he indictment of John J. Gunson, one
of Inspector Henry's detectives, accord?
ing to a letter which Assistant District
Attorney James E. Smith, who is con?
ducting the inquiry, received yesterday.
The letter is from a former detective
-_o has been sent back to the uni?
formed force. He writes that not only
has the detective he names received the
? $10,000 offer for his silence, but that a
.till higher police official is ready to
?ad $20,000 to that offer, if necessary.
This official is said to be the center of
the graft ring and to have made
$100,000 in the last two years.
Detective's Letter
With names omitted, the letter fol?
lows:
?_-has been offered $10,000
not to squeal by a man higher than a
captain. - is in conference
??very right with ?-. Get him
to squeal, and. oh, what a sensation
will be in this to*->n!-has
made over $100,000 the last two
years, and he will give $20,000 to
I_If necessary."
Another loiter was received by Mr.
Smith at h ?.i home address yesterday,
Ft was from a woman living in the 4th
?nipection District, who said she was
the mother of "growing" girls. This
mother gave the addresses of twelve
?partman? houses which she declared
are filled with disorderly flats.
Mr. Smith refused to give the ad?
dresses of these apartment houses, be?
cause, he said, they are under observa
non. According to his information
"these houses are honeycombed with
disorderly flats."
The letter says in part:
"You should be commended, in?
stead of being reproached for your
fight to make it possible for the
fathers and mothers of this city to
reside with their daughters in apart?
ment houses that have for tenants
, only respectable occupants.
"I think vou are modest in your
statement that there are but 2,000
apartment? in this city occupied by
social outcasts. I have lived in this
vicinity for the last seven years and
1 have had to change my abode more
than ten times because of the brazen
and shameful actions of the tenants
of some of these buildings and in
order to protect the morals of my
daughters. Many other families have
had to do likewise when repeated
complaints to the owners of the
buildings were of no avail.
"Strange to say, the owner of all
of these buildings is one -. He
must have some wonderful influence,
as neither he nor his buildings are
ever molested by the police.
"You may rest assured that at the
proper time, if it be necessary, you
will receive a list of heads of fam?
ilies who may be summoned before
the grand jury to give evidence in
reference to buildings mentioned."
Sandwiches at $15 Per
Chicken sandwiches at $15 apiec?
will be among the things investigated
by the grand jury in the vice probe
with special emphasis upon the high
cost of living in vice resorts along the
Great White Way. -When the victim
of the high-priced chicken sandwich
protested, he was arrested on the
charge of extortion.
To prove this case copies of testi?
mony given in the 7th District Magis?
trate's Court before Magistrate Joseph
E. Corrigan September 14, 1917, in the
? case against John R. Crowley, will be
introduced. When Magistrate Corri?
gan had learned of the circumstances
of the case he immediately discharged
Crowley. The case is now in the hands
of investigators of the District At?
torney's office.
In his testimony before Magistrate
Corrigan, Crowley swore that he ac?
companied a woman to her apartmenl
in .Vir.ety-seventh Street, near Broad?
way, after a taxi ride. Crowley said
after he had given the woman $15 and
got oniy a chicken sandwich she forced
aim oat of the house with the aid oi
? man who displayed a police badge
?nd fortified it later with a drawn re?
volver.
According to Crowley, he-gare the
?oman a $5 bill with which to buy
* package of cigarettes for herself
?nd a $10 bill with which to buy a loai
of bread. The loaf of bread, it turned
??t, was the one from which she after?
ward cut two slices for the chicken
??ndwich.
Displays Police Badge
When ordered to leave the apart?
ment, Crowley said, he demanded his
money back, whereupon the woman
?pened a door to an adjoining room
?nd a man, with a police badge,
?merged. The man, Crowley said, wai
B?t in uniform.
The identity of the man with th?
rolice Department badge was not re
'??led in police court, but Assistant
"?strict Attorney Smith said yesterdaj
a* has evidence to show who this mar
*?s.
Samuel Marcus, counsel for the So
"?y for the Prevention of Crime, de?
nned yesterday to make public a lettei
loe.society is reported to have sent t<
ant t Commissioner Enright bearinj
tri ? a contentions of Assistant Dis
C,?L Attorney Smith regarding vice
jMr. Marcus said that he personal^
te?n7!nn a "D-y t0 th* original let
?r oi Commissioner Enright, who askec
for*,.0- ty t0 Place at hls disposal in
a??it ?nL ]t has in ?*? possession re
Wn. J e vlce ?nation. Mr. Marcus
iitti. It0 dl9Cus? the contents of hii
,??. however Commissioner Enrigh!
??L? ?e.replied to this letter, ii
fc_2r?!t l8> "Ported, the society re
*?*to cooperate with Corami?.onej
?TOt In a vice investigation of his
<tcli???0* ?8l.oner Enri8-t yertercUj
5r*_Lto.B?k8 ?ubl!c hi? "M* t?
'?n-tite.' ? lettftr- Mr* Marcu* c?n*
t^g? wnh members of the society yea
of mint ra??n on tbe advisability
* ? ??Ja}\le ,Enrighf ? reply, but
*3\i r d V e*Ve tha matter en
ta? !Lc2m_n??M??n?r Enright.
U?1 P*"d iQry yesterday heard erJ
g?? >n connection with Che. cues ol
?BS sSi*1*"* Thomaa DoUn an<j
?sjsaed niuy**.' a traf?? Patrolmen.
?TCa?. i&f ^ Patrons. In th?
**?? p?Sl^?? Street and Lenox
*fcT'acr#,t,iWitn*"s" "?*? hoard.
_*id^t *5d W.ere ?"anally <?s
*_WS_2 ? Hel.?ht3 co?rt, on th?
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Firm Avenue * 37* Street
Clocks Bronzes Lamps
China and Glass
$100,000,000
?House Building
Plan Launched
-:?
Continue* from tea. ene
: 1.000,000 of the city's tenants to re
! sist to the utmost through concerted
! action further profiteering in the
homes of our people."
"We hope before May 1 to have suf?
ficient members to enable us to put
up a- formidable front against the
profiteers," said Mr. Gray. "The trouble
heretofore has been thai the tenants
were not organized. Their complaints
were futile. But there are enough vic?
tims o? profiteering in New York to
form an organization that will over?
power the profiteers."
Unions Push Rent Fight
The Central Federated Union, at its
meeting in the Labor Temple, Eighty
fourth Street and Third Avenue, last
night, decided to push vigorously its
campaign for alleviation of high rents.
: The organization plans to hold a mass
meeting at the Central Opera House,
Sixty-seventh Street and Third Avenue,
Thursday in support of the anti-rent
; profiteering measure introduced by
Senator Boylan and Assemblyman Don
ohue.
Tn? Mayor's Committee on Rent
, Profiteer-ing, which has approved the
bill, will be represented, as will many
other labor and civic organizations
Corporation Counsel Burr, it was de?
clared, has pronounced the bill highly
desirable.
A hearing will be held on the bill at
' Albany before the Joint Codes Com?
mittee of the House and Senate, or
March 23, it was announced. The Cen
j tral Federated Union and many othei
! unions will send delegates.?
In addition to pushing this measure
i the rent profiteering committee of the
j union was instructed to take up with
I Mayor Hylan and the Board of Esti
? mate a municipal building plan. Speak
j ers at the meeting last night urgec
;' that organized labor bring pressure
j upon the city authorities to emulate
' the plan of Jersey City to build houses
I at the expense of the municipality anc
I rent ,or sell them at cost. It was urgec
! that 'the city invest $20,000,000 in the
I project.
Abraham Lefkowitz, of the Teachers
i Union, said that no measures d?sign?e
; simply for the alleviation of the pr?s
i ent housing situation would do anc
j that, unless the city itself build:
homes and takes active measures te
promote building enterprises by othei
agencies, the housing problem coulc
not be solved.
Similar sentiments were expressee
j by E. J. Hannah, president of the Cen
? tral Federated Union, Ernest B?hm
i secretary, and other members.
Secretary B?hm announced that th<
j vote now being taken by the cent'ra
labor bodies of the city on the propo?
sal for the amalgamation of all these
I bodies shows ninety unions in favor of
j the plan and six against, with 100 or
! ganizations not yet having filed their
j returns.
100 Taken in Raids
On Alleged Poolrooms
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
ATLANTIC CITY, March 12.?While
the grand jury was in session at Mays
Landing probing allegations of a $300,
000 "slush" fund for protected gam?
bling and Sunday amusement privi?
leges here, Robert C. Miller, chief of
police, personally conducted raids at
two alleged p?olrooms.
? Racing chairs and wager slips were
confiscated and nearly a hundred wit?
nesses, many of them visitors, were ar?
rested. Both raids were made simul?
taneously in different parts of the city.
Eighty witnesses were taken in the
j raid of a former saloon, known as '
; Herman's, at Texas and Atlantic ave
[ nues. Robert Brady, Anthony Rose
and Andrew Campbell were arrested as
! the alleged proprietors. The witnesses
; were also taken/to police headquarters
' and later allowed to go on their own
: recognizance.
The other raid took place at the
Stag, another saloon on Atlantic Ave?
nue, near Pennsylvania Avenue. P. D.
Judge, a wealthy Philadelphia sports?
man, was taken as the alleged proprie?
tor. Here more than a score of wit?
nesses were gathered.
Practically all the places shut down
| when the rumors of the grand jury In?
vestigation came from Mays Landing.
Activities at the "Millionaires' Ctfib"
in fashionable Chelsea, credited with
being conducted by Charles Gondorf,
were ended abruptly. Curtains were
drawn and the word of "nothing do?
ing" to prospective patrons followed.
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De Valera's Dublin Home
Raided by BKtish Police
DUBLIN, March 12.?The police to?
day raided the residence of Mrs. Ea
, monn de Valera, wife of the Sinn F?in
leader, in search of Countess Markie
vicz, Sinn F?in member of Parliament
for the St. Patrick's Division of Dublin.
They were unsuccessful, however, in
their quest.
Countess Markievicz was sentenced
in June of last year to four months'
| imprisonment on charges growing out
j of disorders in Cork during May, when
1 she was alleged to have incited trades
j men to boycott the police and to have
i participated in an unlawful assemblage.
BELFAST, March 12. ? Constable
j Scully was shot at Glenmire, County
j Cork, last night. He was the twenty
! sixth policeman murdered since Jan
I uary 21. Two soldiers and several ci
| vilians also were killed by ga^ngs in
i the same vicinity yesterday.
?aks&<&mtpatjy
Will Place on Sale Saturday
1300 New
$5.95 Wonder Hats
the best values in trimmed millinery
ever seen in America
Gay Flowered Hats, Feather Brimmed Styles, Hair
Lace Hats for Dress Wear, Tailored Styles, Smart
Wing Hats, Turbans, and Fan^efTect Models that
turn gracefully off the face?in fact almost every
type of hat for both matron and miss predicted to
enjoy a wide vogue for spring.
In the face of the .present high cost of material and
labor, to offer stich beautiful chapeaux at $5.95 is re
? cnarkable, to say the least!
*?>*?r j$ak5&@antjtmty ?.**???
STORE HOURS 9.00 A. M. to 5.30 P. M.
-?i-1--,-. . SWl_~
Rand to Direct
Jury Probe of
Swann's Office
Jerome's Law Partner Will
Have Full Charge of
the State's Investigation
Against the Three Aida
Inquiry Opens Next Week
District Attorney Voices His
Approval of Appointee :
Predict^ a "Clean Bill9'
Colonel William Rand, Assiatan
District Attorney under William Trav
ers Jerome, now a member of the la\
firm of Jerome, Rand & Kresel, yester
day was designated Special Deputy At
torney General to act as legal advise
to the extraordinary grand jury.
Attorney General Newton, named b
Governor Smith to supersede Distric
Attorney Swann in the jury's investi
gation of its charges against thre
members of Mr. Swann's staff, an
nounced his appointment of Colone
Rand, who, during the war, was judg
advocate at Gefieral Headquarter
France, late yesterday afternoon.
Colonel Rand win have full charg
of the jury's inquiries, Mr. Newto
announced, and will have power t
name such legal aids as he wishes fc
the purposes of the investigation t
John T. Dooling, James E. Smith an
Edwin P. Kilroe, Assistant District A
torneys, against whom the jury, heade
by Raymond F. Almirall, has preferre
charges.
| Inquiry Opens Next Week
Dooling is charged with conspirin
to prosecute Gaston B. Means for tl
murder of Mrs. Maude A. King; Smit
with neglect of duty in presenting ev
dence against disorderly and gamblir
houses, and Kilroe with omission ar
neglect of duty in failing to ask tl
indictment of George F. Montgomer
The Rand appointment clears the w?
for the progress of the jury's deliber
tions after months of controvers
Colonel Rand will confer with Forems
Almirall shortly and the inquiry in
the District Attorney's office probab
will be under way next week.
The Rand appointment is thorough
satisfactory to the Almirall jury. I
had previously conferred both wi
Mr. Almirall and the Attorney Ge
eral.
Colonel Rartd will have the financi
and general support of the At.?prn
| General's office in his inquiry, a
probably will organize a special stj
of clerks, process servers and .'lete
tives to aid in the investigation.
That the inquiry may be broael
than indicated in Governor Smit
order, which confined it to the tin
assistants to District Attorney Swai
i was indicated by the Attorney (i<
j eral, who declared that he had no dot
j that if other persons in Mr. Swan
office became involved the Goverr
would issue extending orders to
I elude such persons.
Newton Praises Rand
"I made an effort to find a man c?
able and of unimpeachable integr
and known professional skill for t
i job," Mr. Newton said. "I wanted
I man in whom the people would hi
j confidence. I think I have found sue
? man in Colonel Rand. I have plai
i him in the driver's chair and he \
i take full charge from now on."
Colonel Rand had no statement
make yesterday, but said he would e
cuss the grand jury situation to-d
It was reported that he might name 1
men to assist him in his quest. Th
mentioned for these posts inclut!
Leonard M. Wajlsteln, counsel to the
Citizens Union, and Royal H. Weiler,
a former Assistant District Attorney.
"Colonel Rand is a good lawyer, and
any good lawyer will do," District At?
torney Swarm said, when he learned of
the designation. "I am not in the least
concerned about this investigation.
There is nothing for the gentlemen
who may be appointed to do. The facts
alleged by the grand jury do not con?
stitute an offense.
"Colonel Rand will proceed in lawyer
| like fashion, I am sure. I do not know
: his -politics, but I asked the Attorney
] General to appoint a regularly enrolled
Republican, a member of the Republi?
can Club. I didn't want any half-way
Democrat in charge of the inquiry.
'M wanted a Republican in the posi?
tion so that when the inquiry ends and
the time comes to give a clean bill of
health to the gentlemen so recklessly
maligned by Mr. Almirall no one might
? be able to say that the report was
i tainted by partisanship.
"I am confident Colonel Rand will
proceed without regard to the personal
interests and private griefs of Mr. Al
! mirall."
As has been reported, the grand jury
I is anxious to move the locale of its de
I liberations from the Criminal Courts
i Building. While Governor Smith's su
< perseding order stipulated the inquiry
: should be held in the courts building,
i it was said that if the grand jury de
! cided to clear out of the building no
executive objection would be raised.
One report was that the jury would
i hold its sessions in the Murray Hill
Hotel.
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' Small Hope of Rescuing Any of
Trapped Mexican Workerg
MEXICO CITY. March 11.?Forty-two
j of the 13G miners who were caught in
i the main shaft of the El Bordo mine
at Pachuca, in the state of Hidalgo,
? were unaccounted for late to-night,
; thirty-six hours after fire had broken
: out in the shaft.
The mine was sealed to-day for a
1 period of twenty-four hours to smother
: the flames. It will be opened Friday,
? when the workings will be explored and
' an attempt made to rescue the missing
: men, although there is small hope of
' finding any of the forty-two alive.
The mine is owned by Spanish in?
terests.
Japan Considers 4Red' Offer
| Delays Reply on Peace ; to Ac?
cept Trade Overtures
TOKIO, March 6 (Delayed).?It is
j understood that the Advisory Council
1 yesterday recommended delay in reply
? in;i to the Russian Soviet Government's
overtures for peace, but gave approval
to the plan for reopening of trade with
! the Russian cooperative societies and
?for the evacuation of Siberia.
j Truck Breaks Warfield's Leg
1 LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 12 ?
David Warfield, the actor, was struck
! by an automobile truck here to-day.
*His left leg was broken and his face
. lacerated.
Wife Inherits
$500,000 From
'Love' Victim
?Will, Written During Time
Bleyer Associated With
Mrs. Randall, Leaves En?
tire Fortune to His Family
Widow to Attend Inquest
"Kitten Girl's" Savings of
Only $1,D00 Will Re
Given Over to Her Mother
Special Dispatch to Th? Tribune
CHICAGO, March 12.?A slip of
! plain white paper, making her sole
] beneficiary to an estate of $500,000, to
; day came to Mrs. Adrienne Bleyer as a
; symbol of restitution from beyond the
? grave. It was the will of Clifford
! Bleyer, who had neglected her in life,
! spent his time with Mrs. Ruth Ran
| dall, the woman who killed him, and
', made her suffer untold agonies of
! shame and grief.
The will was found by a boyhood
friend, of Bleyer, who was rummaging
in his desk, in an effort to learn if the
widow would be provided for. The will
consisted of a mere 100 words, written
in a nervous and scrawling hand. The
date on the will shows that it was
written" during the time when Bleyer
was associating with the "vampire
woman."
Gave Woman Big Sams
For a time it had been feared that
Bleyer had squandered all his money
on his "kitten girl," as he called Mrs.
Randall. Her apartment was lavishly
furnished and the stubs in his check
book, which were found after his dis?
appearance and first gave his friends a
clew to his affair with the woman,
showed that each month he paid Mrs.
Randall's rent.
? Entries in the personal diary of Mrs.
Randall showed large sums of money
from Bleyer. They had been given,
however, less frequently during the
last months, and it was thought the
woman had turned angrily against
him and shot him when she imagined
he could not provide for her in the
same old style.
Mrs. Bleyer announced she would ap
I pear at the inquest on Monday.
There are $18,000 worth of accident
policies, which will not be paid if the
jury returns an open verdict or de?
cides that Bleyer committed suicide.
It has not been definitely established
that the woman killed Bleyer, but there
are several things which point to this.
One is the strain of melancholy and
depression that runs through the diary
of the dead woman and her frequent
allusions to suicide. The Coroner's
physician, after a superficial examina?
tion, said that Bleyer died several
hours, possibly half a day, before the
woman. It is thought that she shot
him, wrote the last chapter in her
diary and then turned the pistol on
herself.
Held Love for Family
Bleyer's estate consists chiefly of
stocks and bonds, including some shares
in the People's Gas, Light and Coke
Company, Liberty bonds and the own?
ership of the Jackson Boulevard ad?
vertising agency. The life insurance
policies amount to about $75,000.
"It is plain that Bleyer never lost
his affection for his wife and two
children." commented Donald Wegg,
when he found the will. "Payment of
these policies, arranged so that Mrs.
Bleyer and the girls will receive a
monthly income, testifies as to that."
The savings of Mrs. Randall are
nlaced at $1,000 in a document filed in
the Probate Court to-day. Letters of
administration in the estate of the
woman, consisting mostly of bonds,
were issued to her mother, Mrs. Jennie
M. Vale, upon her statement that her
daughter had left no will.
Colonel Charles E. Bleyer, father
of the dead man, is hurrying to Chi?
cago from Cuba to arrange for the?
burial. Bleyer's body still remains in
an undertaker's morgue.
Police Officials Indicted
In $40,000 Whisky Theft
Deputy Internal Revenue Agent
and Seven Other Kentuck
ians Also Accused
FRANKFORT, Ky., March 2.?Ten
residents of Covington, Ky., including
L. E. Bullock, chief of police; Logan
Godson, city detective, and Robert
Goodenough, a deputy Internal Revenue
Collector, were indicted by the Federal
grand jury here to-day on the charges
of the theft of whisky from a bonded
warehouse.
According to Elwood Hamilton, In?
ternal Revenue Collector for Kentucky,
fourteen barrels of liquor were re?
moved through a tunnel driven under
a warehouse in Covington and smuggled
to Cincinnati, where it was sold for
$80 a gallon. The operation, according
to Mr. Hamilton, netted more than
$40,000.
March to Halt Massacres
Armenian Ex-Service Men Plan
New York-Washington Trip
PROVIDENCE, March 12.?Plans for
a march from New/York City to Wash?
ington by several thousand former
service men, all American citizens of
Armenian birth, as a protest against
the massacres in Armenia, were an?
nounced here to-night, following a con?
ference of prominent New England Ar?
menians. National headquarters for
the movement will be opened in New
York to-morrow.
HAS this happened in
your home?a refrig
erator full of food, no ice and
the ice-man several hoars
late?
| The Knickerbocker Ice
Company tries to make
every employee realize his
responsibility? knowing that
delay may mean the spoiling
of expensive food.
cAs Spring comes nearer try radishes vkh the
red fed cat down hit rose petals, served on a
mound of crystal-clear, crashed'Ksskkerinxiertee.
ifnicktnrfo.ock.er
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Company
! Chicago Women May Vote
Ruling of Attorney General Is
Likely To Be Disregarded
? ay Special Dispateh to Thr Tribune
CHICAGO, March 12.?Women voter?
| of Cook County may have an oppo'
? tunity to vote in the Presidential pre
, ference primaries regardless of Ay
^torney General Brundage's ruling tha'
Supreme Court decisions bar them.
' Four years ago the Election Commis
, sioners permitted the women to vot?
j in these primaries and there was no
| protest except from women in other
i parts of the state who did not hsve
; such a privilege.
The Board of Election Commissioner?.
i already has the question under con
; sideration and will probably announc?
la decision by to-morrow. The indica
i tions to-day were that the ruling of th*
.Attorney General would be ignored and
ballots prepared for women.
Sure
Relief
BI
6 Be LIMNS
Hot water
Sure Relief
LL-ANS
rom INDIGESTION
Saks &* Company Announce an Extraordinary Pre-Easter
Sale of $34,942.50 Worth
"Reita" Pearl Necklaces
1,072 Strings, in Matinee and Opera Lengths
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Less Than Half Regular Prices
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and as nearly indestructible as any synthetic pearl obtain?
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neck have all the grandeur of a string of pearls costing a
King's ransom.
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now 15.00
now 18.50
now 22.50
now 25.00
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