New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-02-18
N which ll-eoyerned police force would never


get much testimony interest of all the parties
concerned rendering desirable them that the facts
false testimony quite readily to their lips as
truth Many OF these houses are conducted for
fact which cannot fail to be known to the police Yet
On Of The hss bedr the
no such places existed in his precinct and on the very
dfculty whatever. through Headquarters detective,
In finding five such houses In q row within one
eighth Of mile of that captains station-house.
known by the Coiamittee to exist.
The extraordinary contempt with which OF these
people look upon any efforts to suppress them IL well IL
iustrated in the case OF Sarah Meyers, whose
this subject before the Committee She lives in the Eff
teenth Ward and appears TO be the proprietor and re
sponsbe manager OF an indefinite number of dsreputa-
BILE houses in that neghborhood She has been fourteen
times indicted and twice tried on one occasion she re-
which she served out the second OCCASION the presl
ding justice deeming her III Object for mercy suspend
ed the sentence The manifestations OF her influence al
pear to extend In direction police magistrates let
were sent in to the prosecuting officers, were not sub
penaed ana the Duresqne OF the Whole mailer IS onnn III
THAT 1t Vas perfect piece OF persecution against tS
poor woman"
HOUSES OWNED BY RESPECTABLE CITIZENS.
Among the other curious elements that enter into this
subject OF prostitution the fact that number OF houses
in Eighth and Fifteenth Wards, which are let and oc
cupied rs low dens are owned by highly reputable
people, OF them pillars Of the church and State
Quite number OF these persons have been indicted
but the indictments appear to he mere mat ter OF form
one OF the parties against whom these indictments
had been found testified before the Committee that
he was then serving on me Grand Jury him ,,n;
these most dsrepuable houses should carry rst 10 the
thought for citizens of New-Ierk that an ndictmcnt
stands record against exMayor OF the city for own
ing a house OF prostitution.
GAMBLING.
Another phase OF crime depending for ts existence al
most exclusively upon the connvdnce or nehcencl of
the police gambling, which takes in the City OF New
York multitude OF phases There are, IT is claimed
places which are conducted honestly there
have been mutudes Of others known in police verae
lar as skin games then there absolute swindes.
sueh NJ :" bancO" and otnrs Itis the opinion
Of all the cOmpctent witnesses scattered hrunshuu tHe
length and breadth OF the testimony that gambling
houses could not continue in precinct without the con
the police force, unless II be IN The &c" OF
Yer! few places hose doors az coS'I anl mIitu ana
into whose doors person is admitted who not known
10 the dOOrkecprs. While very great Improvement
in respect To the number OF gamhnk houses mas
taken place, especially since the sessions OF th-
Committee began, cannot doubt that there
Is room for still further aneu"iatlon III me
condition OF The city IN this T. spcct; and
Gambling house for any ien..th Of tine in the precinct
captain Is made adrqua" cause for ms dismissal
Gated their willingness, subjected rule thar shall
hold their positions Responsive for The continued exist
is given them 10 suppress H. This Il suiJ CT "hch
ought 10 be treated with the greatest severity ny nu e.
Vile the COMMITTEE ho We thai il cannot be absolutely
possible to suppress gambling aogothcr. there + No
dnubt their minds mat lee far suppressed nat
unwary strangers who come 10 Tie city cannot be m into
an, sucn I'GG as ,hoar III Wc' 80 Hl , ,ry ,yTr
mat gambling house have been rn IN active collision
LOTTERY AND POLICY.
The lowest, -Ineauc,t, worst form, however, which
gambling takes in tire CITY Of NewYork i what is known
as policy playing. Policy playing is described pretty
thoroughly in the testimony OF Marcus Cicero Stanley
who undoubtedly knows al about II, having him
self been IN the business Il Is dcsctib,d by him
l,.f.r ~ flta I'm Z.
and correct In direct aud tg~ut violation of
law locrs which sid e. oc cha terra by r Log
aturc or lie state % Kentucky arc Advertised M many "t
tho lea linz Journals of tn City % New or au' their
dtily drawing puhshod through the same medium.
- Policy selling appears Q" iie betting by irdvid-
uals with policy dealers upon 'hc result of tn dolly
Il nynp Of the lotteries in kcntucky. II does not IN
volve the purchase of lottery ticket hui is mrrcS
private ger upon Tie rc-ur al lottery diawluE.
a number as loo al times although tins numb W. BE-
licvc - he an eXacccraiich but cc iay several huhi
reds are engaged n One business II selling POLIO IA u.
Cliy Of Nrn York aud vhc iil classes ~ tic c.muu
nity do less miuc'c in the purchase. vet by far
the greater portion Of tht purchasers are i9hd "nohg
the poorest los and Tia most icrani classes oi the
people ana 'mail S"otus''' i' u'iu", l.. -h'h' n9 ~
ysng tnoin - 10 lucky NUMBERS In tie testimony ~
e,uc1t f ho rorr,t.r ar pnty II is
ii-bt down incorporated s~InGc if"hi TIE word 60,
nj. iii ti,n aud ,,nI,ru take the au.-l,niks OK III.
men, and when they want 60 20 into business. where's
the money! II takes IA pennies Oh dcri mons '}ct
s.o.s some of them marked ES'han-c," with fcw
gold dollars in the window TO carry og tho idea; man.
of them small cigar stores of p,t} iuof stores some
scIib1is tckct. The majority 81 thc,c men do not do
business their account hut az. simply petit en-
plON e, OF The contra organization. IN, central organ
some hat misty iom, and clouds o; doubt unwil
lnEncss 30 testliy acc"mii' h-,rr 70. i'Ir Is j."
doubt that IT is subs'ntiry the sauc DOdy
Of men who own the lottery franchises IN
Kentucky; that they are Nl.cy hno"n To the
police 10 thc other authOf!ti,s % the Cily,
and many citizens; that they are wealthy, powerful
aud influential aud that te,r wealth. tac power, and
years not nny between themselves and punishment hu
between their brlings who svIude tn poor and the
Arrests have been made again and again OF policy
dealers In many instances. no donh The police force
other the police force S to have discharged
lOguo of sis although l'5 have been followed hy
hun reds OF indictments, your Commute have been
for years in the CITY Of NcWlOIR 80 pow -riul indeed
il the ccntra! organization. hat IL Il able to
dealers who choose the phrase is, To back Their
ana moi act as hirciings d others Capt Hcddtn
states that policy shops are 10 be found In nearly
about existed the Fifteenth Precinct alone when he
was command of it,. curious illustration of the IN
tense folly, say the least Of the in which courts
deal with pOncy Will also be found IN the tcsti-
mOny of Capt. leddcn Discnargng his duty ell
which it could be disc arcd he sent an officer IL plain
the dealer who was discharged by the court Oh the
ground that the police was q party To the crime
HORSE-CAR THIEVES.
Another phase of crime which depends largely for its
existence either upon tie connivance the utter nei
cheney OF the police force Is the horsecar robbery.
Eight or ten men, the same perfectly notorious 10
the notice whose names and residences ex-Detective
Marnot was thoroughly familiar WITH embark the
cars and hustle passengers about the platform, rob
them with the utmost else m9E , sosIGey any con
or IL he passenger they avail Themselves Of