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LEVEE MAN SAYS JONES GOT GRAFT FOR POLICEOffice, He Asserts, Had Grated Window Like Teller’s in a Bank.Continued From First Page.the Monday following this proposal.Jones’ outbursts of indignation were not forgotten, and it had been planned to take no chances with Jo;.*s changing his mind or double-crossing the police after he had ,gotteu the $15,-000 and returning to this country, either to make an expose or be where there might be danger that he would. A plan was immediately formulated to have Jones indicted on a charge of white slavery or violation of the Mann act, a highly utilitarian instrument in this instance, in that a violation of the Mann act is a nonextraditable offense. Therefore after his indictment the government could not bring him back, and so his fear of conviction would not voluntarily allow him to return. For this purpose the police cornered a pretty girl named Lola, from whom they secured a confession that she had met Roy Jones in Indianapolis at an automobile race and that he had traveled with her from there to Detroit; that he had written her from Chicago, asking her to come here from Detroit, which she did, and that she was thereafter frequently seen in his cafe.This information was laid before the United States District Attorney’s office, in charge of Assistant United States Attorney Stansbury. The informants told the government prosecutors that they had not yet been able to find Lola, but would make efforts to produce her. On statements of the informants the government offered to prosecute if Lola would he the prosecuting witness. The police promised to make a diligent search for her, and It was planned to bring her into the District Attorney’s office on the following Monday morning at about the time that Itoy Joues and the policeman were to leave on the Twentieth Century for New York.Refuses to Promise.Early Monday morning Roy Jonesdelivered his ultimatum, stating thathe would not accept the proposition, that he would stay in Chicago and be a free agent. He made no promises of any sort nor at thut time any direct threats. He has been iu Chicago ever since until shortly after the shooting of Sergeant Birus, when he left for Detroit, where he is at the present time.He has been spending money rather freely of lnte. although at the time that his license was revoked he told his friends that he was without funds. Whether or not the police gave him the $15,000 or any part of It after he refused to leave the country is not known. The case of Lola has never since been brought to the United States District Attorney’s office because there would be no purpose in pushing that now. as the police wanted to use it to keep Jones out of this country, but do not want to make him any more antagonistic. Jones is said to have planned to start a sort of cafe and roadhouse in a suburb.The source of his capital is a mystery.The information which the police were anxious to have suppressed and which they feared Jones would divulge deals with both the payment and collection of graft in the levee. Joues, us the partner of George Little, was in close touch for years with the system of collecting in the main levee at the time that Little was the official collector for the Coughlin funds, which were turned in periodically to Solly Friedman in the office beDeath Ike Bloom’s barroom at Freiberg’s. When Little dissolved partnership with him and left these parts Jones for a brief period Inherited Little’s capacity as collector. More recently Jones was the receiver of graft which w’ent to the police andpolitical destinations. The money wasturned in to Jones between the hours of 5 and tJ o’clock in the afternoon in the office adjoining the bar in his saloon at Twenty-first and State street. In this office was a grated ticket window very much the same as that of a receiving teller in a bank. It was here that the moneys were paid periodically for the space of more than a year.Calvin His Partner.Roy Jones' manager and confidant and apartment mate is Jack Calvin, known as “Jack the Bookie,” a former race track and handbook man. The apartment was also occupied by Joe Haw, manager of Jack Jordan’s, who was arrested recently in a raid on Jordan's after he had openly defied Funkhouser and threatened physical violence to Thome, one of the morals squad. Calvin and Haw, because of their close relations with Jones, were thoroughly conversant with the graft system. Jones’ brother-in-law, Ollie Davis, who became proprietor of the Casino after Jones left it. and who w’as Jones’ financial manager, is also familiar with the details, probably more intimately than Calvin.Joues frequently took short trips, and during his absence Davis, as his representative, took charge of the collecting. A waiter named ‘‘Cairo,” alias “Carroll,” who was one of the witnesses before Iloyne in the Franche case and who is now working in the cafe for Bert White, Its present proprietor, also has a knowledge of these facts.Vic Shaw, while Inclined to he antagonistic to the po'lce, entertains a venomous hatred for Jones. She probably knows more about these affairs than anybody except Jones, and it is quite likely that she might waive her loyalty to the underworld in the event of a big chance to injure Jones.Harry Qizlk, alias Cusick, brother of Jack Cusick, who was questioned by the police in the Kirns shooting, was Jones’ former manager, and he likewise is thoioughly familiar with the system. Cusick Is now proprietor of a house in Peoria with Alma Baron.Jack Barnes, a former cab driver, later Cusick’s partner In a resort on Dearborn street, who is now living In Twenty-second street, also probably has information on this subject.
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Chicago Examiner
Chicago, Illinois, US
Sun, Jul 26, 1914
Page 12
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