Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1912 — SOCIETY WOMEN HIT [ARTICLE]

SOCIETY WOMEN HIT

DETECTIVE INVOLVES NEW YORK’S “400" IN VICE GRAFT. Many Are Found to Be Large Owners of Buildings Used for Gambling and Disorderly Purposes. * _______ New Vork, Aug. 9.—Members of the ’Four Hundred,” leaders of the highest and also the lowest society circles of New York, were the Objects of investigation started by Detective William J. Borns into the gambling and ilSorderly places and the vice district aearly a year ago. A committee of prominent citizens financed Burns' work and it was done thoroughly, with the result that Burns now has a long list of prominent men and also women, whose reputations have been above reproach, but whom he charges with being the owners of property used for vicious purposes in the underworld. This was the biggest development in the Rosenthal murder and graft inquiry, and it sent a wave of terror through some of the “best people” of the city. “When the proper time comes for the mass of evidence I have collected to be put before the people of New York they will be startled by its disclosures,” said Bums. The names of all these property owners who have leased their buildings for gambling and disorderly houses will be made public, according to Alderman Curran, who is heading he aldermanic investigation.