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I want to tell you something. You're going to find an awful strange mess down there in Washington. It's very different from what it is here in New York where we've got everything nice, simple and under control. You're going to find awfully queer things going on in Washington. Terrible things. We can't deal with them because they're in Washington and the city of Washington is under the federal government. It's governed by a committee of Congress and anything goes. The police can't cope with their own situation. You'll find some awful messes there.”

I said, “ That's too bad. I shall miss you.”

He said,” I'll tell you one thing you're going to find. You've got something terrible right in your own department.”

I said, “What?”

He said, “You've got a couple of men, and there may be more of them too as there's quite a little gang - but at least two men who are the head of this gang - that have every kind of a bad record against them. They are plain crooks. When I say crooks, I mean crooks - shakedown artists and everything else. You want to look out for them. They are operating here in New York and they're operating all over this country shaking down immigrants, scaring them to death, making raids on their stores, their dance halls, their private dwellings. Scaring them to death that they're going to be deported and thencoming