The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-07

was true and he was not afraid to swear
TO it.
"now long have you known me?'' asked Rog-
ers.
about seven years"
"Havc you any particular interest in forcing
me out OF my position?"
's0nly ii you are not eligible don't want you
TO hold it. / have opposed you on certain
grounds that you and have talked over. have
opposed you all through; have done moth
ing to procure affidavits-only took them
when offered. i remember conversation in
which said: well, you've got there; and al
though I've fought you, personally l have
nothing against yov, and they will have q
harder time getting you out than they had get
ting you in, and will stand by you if you do
your duty and shook hands with YOU"
"What made you renew that opposition"
81 didn't oppose you until after notified you
OF gambling in the Glover Club; you said you
went in, but there was no gambling; was not
in the club: l didn't know myself there was
gambling; couldn't remember who told me;
thought one was Charley Muller, WHO'S gam
bier
Witness did not know of his own knowl-
edge there was gambling He believed
Mullen had an interest in other gambling
houses; knew that Rogers had cleared out
the Budweiser gambling rooms and
burned up the tools.
'Well, you have taken great interest in find
ing out whether am eligible; have you found
out anything against me to show that am not
eligible?'
~ have found nothing against you but what
] have stated: some things you have done /
liked others did not"
.'What don't you like"
asking for the discharge OF Kent and Bow
ers. You told me you didn't like them"
"Did /? Didn't / say had no confidence In
them; that | wanted men around me could
place trust in and who would work cordially
with my administration"
"Yes."
SIS there anything you have to find fault with
in my administration
''No; except about those men and the gam
bling house.
''But you did not know there was gambling
there except on the hearsay OF a man who keeps
another gambling house.
In reply to Commissioner Ledgerwood,
Captain Manning said he did not know
who paid for drawing the affidavit; he
paid the notary's fee; he was told Woolery
had arranged to pay for the affidavit.
.'Did you know of any other house except Nc
Crews where dancing went on?' asked Rogers.
mo; I didn't know dancing was going on
there"
captain Manning. did you have converse
ton with woman known as julia"
"Yes."
"Who went with you-was it Bowers? How
did you go in-was it by the back door,"
Eyes"
"What did she tell your"
'She said one of the officers struck her for $40
for the chief and the commissioners"
Chief Rogers said that was all the testi-
mony he wanted to put in, but he desired
to be sworn and make a statement.
For months have been fighting hobos, macs,
pimps, tin-horn gamblers and low down saloons.
have had to contend with bogus affidavits,
rumors and insinuations; aud these people have
dragged down one of the police commissioners
into back doors of disreputable houses and got
him mixed up with the lowest characters in the
city in order to blacken me. I'm tired of it, and
I'm determined to force this matter to an issue
right here and now.
The chief was sworn, and said he never
saw McKenna in his life before his arrest
in Seattle and never had a conversation
with him in his life except about giving
BAIL Rogers said there was not a day he
could not account for. He never even had an
officer put his hand on him and say he was
making too much noise. He denied that
''Dutchy" Brown ever wore star or made
an arrest except when he caught Brocky
mentioned in the affidavit) in the act of
stealing q pair of pants and exercised the
right of any citizen to arrest him.
Manning asked him if he had not let
woman go without trial.
"Yes, replied the chief "She said she