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around to say, ‘Fifty dollars will straighten this all out and we won't report it.’ They're doing a big business. It's scandalous. It's just terrible. I don't know why it's gone on so long, but it's just terrible.”

I said, “Is this a part of the outfit that they refer to in the Wickersham report?”

He said, “Wickersham didn't find out a quarter of it. They do refer to it in the Wickersham report as being an abuse of authority to raid these private places without a search warrant, but the Wickersham committee investigators didn't find out what else they do, which is shake them down and collect money. That's what these fellows are doing. This man's name is Garsson - Murray Garrson and his brother Henry Garsson. Murray Garsson is the worst one. Henry's just as bad, only he hasn't got as much nerve. Those two men don't dare come into New York City. Murray Garrson don't dare show his face in New York City. We'd arrest him just like that. We've got enough on him to arrest him here. He don't dare come into this town, but he's working for you in the Department of Labor in the Immigration Service.”

Henry was there too and he named them both, but he said that Murray was the smarter one. That was the first I'd heard of them. I accepted what Lieutenant Newman said as