The evening world. Newspaper, August 29, 1912, Page 5

POLICEMEN HELD CLUB MEETINGS AT BOULEVARD HOTEL Proprietor of Place Where Curran Girl Died Furnished Beer and Sandwiches Free; DENY PAYING MONEY. Mre. Busse Declares if Pfotec- tion Had Been Bought She'd Expose Police. Wor many months it was the custom ©@ mounted policemen of the Fourth Tampection District to use the dining feom of the Boulevard Hotel, at Broad- way and Fifty-seventh street, where Miss Julia Curran was beaten to death, aa & meeting place for @ sort of social club they had organized among them- selves. The policemen were furnished with beer and sandwiches by Reinhold Busse, the proprietor, and his wife, This fact was learned to-day through Mra. Busse, who cited it as evidence of the good character of the business s @ad her husband have been conducting. “But protection money! We never paid a cent for protection and were Never @bked to," she sald. Then, weep- iag, sho Jnelt in a dramatic manner and cried: “I hope I may be stricken blind before the sun eets, if this is not true! If I had paid money for Protection I would not be allent now. I would let the police suffer while Tam suffering.” “The policemen would come here in citizens’ clothes,” she sald, “every other Tuesday night for thelr meetings. ‘They would have a few glasses of beer apiece and I would serve them with sandwiches myself. Generally about twenty-five or thirty of them came, POLICE IGNORED COMPLAINTS AGAINST PLACE, SHE SAYS, “The proprietor of a big hotel near us, who has been attempting to ruin our business for years, endeavored to use this against us. He reported to the West Sixty-elghth street police station that twenty men had been seen leaving our hotel in @ body, about 1 o'clock in the morning, and that there must be a going on here. “A captain and two detectives came around and wanted to know about the report that we had a game on. My husband simply told him, ‘Why, it was only the mounted policemen meeting here.’ “The next time the policemen came my sop playell the piano for them and an- ether complaint was made. The police * Mrs. Busse declared that, whether the hetel's liquor license were revoked or | net, sho and her husband would not be 4m the hotel long. “What is the use,” she exclaimed tearfully. “Nobody comes here any more. We don't take !n more than a fifth of what we have to have to run the business. We hadn't been dotng much since spring. I had to pawn my diamond earrings in June to pay off the help. Now that they say a murder has | been committed in the hotel, people are either afraid to come or ashamed of being seen in such a place. You may be sure of one thing, Mr. Busse, would net apply for a new lcense when the one he has expires. property runs until 1915, AUSSE ARRAIGNED FOR BLOCK. | His ‘ease on the) ING VIEW OF BARROOM. Reinhold Busse was a defendant in| the West Side Police Court, this morn- | fgg, on by Patrolman Whipple of the West Sixty-elghth street station, The polices man made an affidavit that the Hotel Boulevard barroom was not exposed to view as required by law last Sunday, The policeman testitied in court that ® complete viewsof tho barroom yot be had unless one stoop: #ed looked under some immova namental glass at the front of the pl Magistrate House instructed Busse to rymove the objfectionnbdle ornament: work, so that all of his bar could be plainly seen by any one who passed ‘The Magistrate, however, dismissed the charge against Busse. WAITER ARRESTED AT HOTEL 18 SAILED OUT BY BUSSE, win nein, a walter at the Boule- vard, ja under $1,000 Lond as a result ef vistin_pald to the hotel \. Mothes rien from the West Sixty-el street station. One the detectiv wA¥s he went to the hotel with a woman nd obtained a room for which he pait He and the woman left and a returned in company etective, he says, and ened to the same s $1.50 for tt acting under could down le o room Busse, the At the We evident nearer than hey ha . sulution of the crime. . . Mrs. Kusse o thing which prever of funds consent bis morning Ung and games of the Buteh: t Council of New York, Brotherhood ¢ Workmen of sid Monday at Don- Point, L. 1. The a charge made against him | THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1912. ‘‘Better Goods for the Same Money or the ‘MAIN BUILDIN| A Historic Book at One-Tenth Its Price The Russo-Japanese War 98c Published at $10; Tomorrow at. A complete description of the great stru jiled and written from official reports of com: see, rom letters, etc. Over 500 illustrations, taken from ach lg paintings and h An unusual opportunity for librariens and h (MAIN Batiding, Pourth Floor.) 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MAIN BUILDING: Continuance of the Sale of Men’s and Women’s Good Umbrellas Values to $1.75, * Tomorrow, at 89c Serviceable and sightly. A great variety of new styles; fancy or plain handles. Children’s Umbrellas, 39¢ Made of fast black cotton and fitted with neat natural wood handles, Better grades at 75c to $2.25. (MAIN Bullding, Main Pioor,) ———— MAIN BUILDING-————, $5.95 Suit $4.50 Cases, at Manils Reference Books of All Kinds also at special prices. (MAIN Building, Fourth Floor.) 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