New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-10-10
MONEY PAID FOR LICENSES.
HOW PRESCOTT MoLLIFIED TIE POLICE.
TESTIMONY BEFORE THE SENATE CoMMITTRE-DID
BUCKLEY TAKE BgIBgf

TESTIMONY BEFORE THE SENATE CoMMITTRE-Dip
BUCKLEY TAKE BRlBGf
, INSPECTOR Thomas Byrnes of tie police detective
force testified yesterday before the Senate Commit
tee. He described the descent made IN January
last on Shang" Drapcrs place in Sixth.ave, and
at No. 5s West ST. t6s NO. Sao and ther
propIietors were well known, and their regulations
were bad. There had never been timo when the
Police Department not willing to give the
Excise Board information as to the character OF
the places where the raid was made. The gamb!ng
II hs SB AT h" there
gambling now going on IN The city that inc ponce
can stop. No orders We're issued last saturday 10
close Murray's "Shaug" DraDers, Costello S, and
othcr wci-known gambling houses, because there
was no necessity for 1t. Those places were not
open public gaming houses; that Is, open III tne
sense that persons could go III aud gamble: %, -,
Police Captain Anthony j. Allalrc OF the lentn
Precinct testified that he had stationed policemen
in the London Theatre and other places III MS pre-
cinct who're theatrical entertainments were g.t t
with orders Ia arrest any one w Onereu nquol lo
sale in the auditorium one Oh MS lnch instcs OF
terbourg decided that the proprietor hai IlsnC W
sell liauor in the auditorium wheE the curtain vas t
down II the INTERPRETATION OF tne iaw uet H. az e
committee that there could be no oar IN the sinie
building with a theatre were the correct ohe tlel,
Wallack's tie Grand Opera House. the casino anu
others wOald have to he closed.
Patrick ORouIke testified that he applied tor q
license for No ll3 BOwery. lie was unsuccessful
and told by Samuel Levy tat te ~
nav some one $500. The place was respectaoie' 81
much SO that it did not pay. ,oo w..
o. c. Prescott, who kept place at NO. lOo MtSt
Eighteenthst testified as TO the manner III whlc1
]e fitted up the place license had oeen uo 't ecu
him on the ground HAT the plaee was 70 io was
made carly in August. 1851. Comnissl"leI Mo,r,'
went there and Oh the following DAY maze an VII
favorable report. The application iof il'on'o ""'
finding mai could not get license, and having $500
nersoH' s name Waiter De Baum. friend, wac OF the
same opinion MI OF sao W MIS- m"G EreDinS Com
psny De Baum said that 1t was necessary 'ha Wa em
wees of John F. Brodsky be S0tant U tie e name OF
SeGnstz schuatz presented me o OF TVo W an
jnuucton obtaiued by the sosey for the o
Crime against music in tae place DE ban GOT ro
mn W,ms lie came back and said that it was all
right; that The music could on The music was gwen
The police This was face of the fact that two spies
OF the Society for the Prevention OF crime. VINO "a
made no complaint. police roundsman ana laTo ,
man, n@1 SSn Wtch to see Il there was sny viola
lion OF the excise law They did not trouble me R T
said t9at the place So4d a,e 10 Ue d II that was
ana snry run w"nd Get out On January q Of the
wear left tho place and have had nothing TO do win IL
wish 20 say here that nat ma ts sne p Dr.
This stood for Captain Williams; prWege %, S SO,"S
k ws@' o sS SAY T Captain mi
this money. But it ia very singular tha teIo,1 trs
trouble. Iaugh5er. When went to the Excise boaru
while / was irving 10 get license, could get no SANS
faction and 10 Information. while places Ike Tom
Gonlds aud the Ilaymarket were alGWeI 10 keep
onrn Il this free country speaking eXcltedY wien
these things go and mans property be destroyed
in this manneri
Tba witness denied tue statement of Commits
siouer Morris that the place was the resort OF I'M
moral people aGd was evidently fitted up for I'M,
moral purposes Commissioner MOTIFS relteIateu
what he had said and referred the Police and TX
else Inspectors reports corrobOrate what he had
asserted. r ~,
feel that ho gave $7j to Inspector Buckley. COM
missioner Mitchels brDther-in-law. to procure nm
a license Ho was arrested for a violation oil the
cxrisc law was refused license. and after some de-
Law SIR Buckley gave him back his money.