'VICE QUEEN OF NEW YORK'

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17526, 22 July 1931, Page 5

'VICE QUEEN OF NEW YORK'

WILLING TO TELL SECRETS VIVIAN GORDON HER PUPIL NEW YORK, May 6. New York's "Vice Queen of: the Underworld," Polly .Adler, has surrendered to the investigators appointed by the Appellate Court to inquire into the working of the Women's Court. Sensational disclosures are anticipated. She is believed to possess the innermost life secrets of one of her most successful pupils, Vivian Gordon. The latter, it will be recalled, was killed when she was on the point of revealing these, secrets to the official inquiry into the "vice racket."

The authorities have been searching for Polly Adler for months. She is ruler of the city's "commercial |ovo market." Eleven times has she been arrested for plying her trade, and eleven times has her case been dismissed by various magistrates. Yesterday, through the enterprise of u popular newspaper, she was cornered. The authorities have known that if the woman's taciturnity could be overcome she would be the "key" •witness in disclosing the .workings of the vice graft ring, which has corrupted the Women's Court, and pointed the linger of suspicion at man}' men high in the life of city government. folly Adler's tale, it js believed, is one of millions in graft, of gilded palaces of shame operated with the connivance of the Police Vice Squad, of the most sordid depths of New York, ol! gangsters luvrbored in the luxurious boudoirs of "Polly Adler's girls." She is described as :t woman whose word was law in the underworld, and as the silent directress of the Police Vice Squad.