TAMMANY GANG'S TARIFF.

Temuka Leader, Issue 5794, 23 March 1909, Page 3

TAMMANY GANG'S TARIFF.

American newspapers, ' representing euch extremes as Mr Hearst's New York American and the Conservative Evening Post, are now urging the police to exterminate the vicious gangs that infest the city's East End. 'These ganga are maintained by various lam many politicians, for the purpose ; of intimidating the voters on election day, and when there is no election thuggery doing, they indulge their criminal propensities in brawls / and street lights. If one of their number gets into trouble the Tammany leaders will protect him, and if possible the -Tammany judges discharge hlini. xhese gangs of street ruffians get rid of undesirable voters by the blackjack, or, if necessary, murder, and they do vote themselves. A man who went thoroughly _hito the subject of the New York gangs a few months ago estimated that they included a total membership of (5,000, and that they influenced at lest 20,000 votes on election day. The police say they could suppress the gangs within a -week if allowed a free hand, but certain disreputable politicians do not, favor a free hand. The police there are armed with revolvers and bludgeons, and they say all that is 'want- i ed is permission to wade in amongst the gangsmen " with number seven." The police are taught seven cuts with the bludgeon. Number one breaks the forearm, two barks the shins, while seven might fracture the skull or produce cqneussion of tho brain. Here is an interesting price list for services by the gangs, which may bo trained by others than Tammany po-i Jiticians., The details, copied from the original and accepted tariff of the Kelly and Humpty Jackson gangs, tho two chief gangs of Nwe York, were published here on Saturday : A sound punching 8/-, both eyes blacked 16/-, nose and jaw cracked £-2 black-jacket! out £3 15/-, deg or arm broken £i, ear chewed off £3 15/-, shot in the leg £5, stab wound £5, doing the big job £2O Tho last item spells murder Money down is always stipulated for, and there is no reduction on big order s. The New ,York Times denounces the erangs as America's "black hundred," whose lawlessness resembles the organised criminality of the Middle Ages.