The sun., 1884-05-04
CAPT. WILLIAMS'S OPINIONS.
ms WOULD IsOLArE THE SOCIAL EVIL
LIKE THE SMALL-POx.


Net . rs,seema~'s nss,a.ss "a Sneak A~sssd
G~r Evsdescs AsWisss L'swar D-ai~rs-
Ss-sss~ss~g s~sss of tie Psiics suswssws.
When tho time came for the assembling OF
tho Roosevelt Investigating Committee yestcr-
day morning. the parlor OF the Metropolitan
Hotel where tho committee sits wns crowded.
Police Commissioners Nichols. Matthews. and
French. Deputy Cicrk Kirp. Inspector Byrnes.
Capt. Williams and other CAPTAINS. several no.
lice surgeons and u dozen detectives. sergoRnts.
and patrolmen were present.
After an animated conversation about tho
walking match. tho committee WAS called 10
order. Ex-Judge Horace Russell and Col.
George Bliss were present ~ represent the Po-
Mr. R,osevalt said he had learned from tho
Mr.. Hagserty, had directed the committee TO
inquire into tho Yubscription now being raised
nnlong ~ ,:, tho police This ho would do "s soon
Mr.. Russell snid that tho subscription was en-
tirsiy %% voluntary %% one; engineered by low
was solely for expenses VI counsel. and not for
use ut Albany.
the inproner admission 81 incapable men to
tho police force. Mr.. Russell called M n witness
Pnsps i" fs
examiner in several OF tho cases which were
PASSED after the applican! had onco been re-
this. although such men were generally re-
lected the second time hut some got through.
had been rejected and then passed. the trouble
with the mnn was Of such nature that ono
He had examined Lewis yesterday morning.
and would uass him now AS a proper subject.
meres s "t to y" incrsass shar % ssshs W % ana chast
measurement, and thus enable themselves to
pass the examination after having been re-
Like ,.hs jumping frog" said Mr.; Miller.
Hardly that way" replied DR.. Phelps.
It.rht ,,f v.sipt I'M liau IN mn
would not disable n man fx police duty II
was quito possible that man might recover in
heart disease that people who have it do not
know 1t. and those who think they have IL DO
ers had never made my suggestion as TO tho
passing of nnv man under examination. and no
COMMISSIONER had ever senggrsied that any
favor be shown to any applicant"
On crpss-eNamnation Dr. Phelps said TINT
rule % required that no discrimination should
be nude nless by ordrr Of the C?mmssi22nSSrs
Clerk Hawiey had testified that he had made
Mr.. Russol said that although no certificate
had been written out. yet verbal statement
amounted TO the same thing.
John Mnnnix was rejected on May 4. 1888.
berauss OF detective vision. and WAS passed on
sy 10 he 8S Vi xisun %na "Ss
third eSaminaiion. DIR. Phelps said. was made
because Of rule that PASSED men. II appoint
must be rntxnmined Mannx WINS examined
for fp rth time. and passed on Nov: lG. The
Phelps said. s-em.d TO be peculiar either that
or his ability TO deceive two boards OF exam
for defective vision. he did not think he would
haye rassed him again,
Mr. \, Mrr r sandsd h ne i@nrth
mittce who passed him on this animation"
DIR. Phelps was SURPRISED at this. and said he
seemed to have done what he believed he would
Dr. sisnh~n @. Cook testib.d that Mannix
was foundrymRn. and II was o common thing
for u worker In molten metal to have tempO-
rarily defective vision.
| swsrink
| ter ~ an inch less in height at night than in
the morning. The body settles down during
io1nd 10 be a % pound nm and a half short lie said
he had had 10 breakfast and no dinner The
Capt. Alexander 4. Williams was called. He
said he was a. yenrs Of age. and had been on
;hirtesS H years. @ % he had % entered I the Mesropoi
tan police rs patrnlnlan and had been np-
a ronndsnnn:..
| How i0ng2"
He had been in the Twenty. ninth prrcinct
since Octob"r. 1876. except for eighteen month
o ss rse n
bounded by Fourth and Seventh avenues.
Fourteenth and Forty.second streets streets There ere
precinct nt present There has been change In
Twenty ,Sev-nth h street. He had procured twenty
in the street in uniform and In plain clothes to
watch the houses. Since the indictments the
a iantarn TO 20 through the street. The failure
20 bring the cases to trial was dlscouraxing;
| He had seen them plead guilty in General
Sessions and promise to move.
| Did they do so ~
Yes. they moved next door" uaughtcrl
The only effect fines had on the women was
that they were more active the next day. Clos
ing the houses in Twenty seventh street drov,
like taking small -pox from the hospital and
spreading 1t throughout the city. Some OF the
tenements In the Tenth precinct. In his judg
ment 1t WAS a good thing to localiGe them
rather than to spread the social evil
possible s+s% & seventh street As clear
a-w~ii Why did you not % j. hsfor-, At mu..
W hs5. .S wc :" x ,s SS s,sr and Tn
y no, II one place They VII IT, ?. in s,her: tn,
row ,S any Of Them would rsid It.
Captain Williams said further:
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Ss f:nSss ..,a .na s,.s ra:%sa .ss p%'tss%ss,
de,.oIiyt. st.srward nSi me and a'mit.ed iha, n,
|
| gamblers Brtt0n offered, II he was uiado defective
| sergeant. to down Comstock.
In my opinion" Capt Williams said fur
theI on. "C"mstock would rather testify to
le than not"
Capt; Williams also said: Where you lav,
sion orr jimmy DO n9. think the samCiin.
He knew Of q number OF alleged gambling
houses. but he had not attempted to close. be
cause he had no compai nts against them ia
WQR asked IL h0 did not know TINT liuuUr VIA
sold after hours at The Haymarket: the White
81 do not know" he said.
Ole NOT the bar ht tivs Hoffman House open ever
SUNDAY Alt II not
.0.isit NO, your duty To enforce the Excise law.
Alt IL duty To enforce the spirit and not the lete
of the law No iquor d.a"r lives fully up to the IL
else Law. IL u not the busincss 0f detective to
ApeAking around to catch fRerr of tho Excuse law.
Capt Williams said that two and three year
ego It would not hays been possible TO get IN
street. When ne Buekingham Palace was !,
| Twenty ty-seventh street. women did not fire
Iuent the areaways as OF late. When the Cap
| tain was told be might 90. he said:
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