Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — BURNS EXPOSES HIGHER-UPS [ARTICLE]

BURNS EXPOSES HIGHER-UPS

Lists Owners and Patrons of New York Gambling Houses and Sums Paid for Protection. New York, Aug. 13. —Detective William J. Burns exploded a verbal bomb In the camp of wealthy New Yorkers when he announced that he had secured a list, not only of the gambling houses, their owners and the amounts they paid for protection, but of the patrons of these places as well, Further announcement was made that, these players at the wheel of chance will be asked to appear before the grand jury. If they fail to comply with this request they will be arrested and forcad to testify. Burns went before the grand jury today and began the unfolding of the long story of the union of the police with the vicious elements of the underworld. Step by step he will carry the grand jurors through the mass of evidence he has secured concerning police graft and the Rosenthal murder.