Evening journal., 1891-05-23
per j. r Kerr,
ASS. lSic. } Snpt. I"

per D. II hefIs
Ass. (Sic) Supt."
This communication with the accom-
panying document, was read in City
Council at the stated meeting October 9,
1887. On motion of Mr.. Baynard the
matter was referred to a special commit
tee The chair appointed Messrs
Baynard, Norton aud hession the special
committee.
This special committee reported the
next meeting night, October 10. The
members of the committee evidently
conferred with the city solicitor during
the week between sittings of Council
The preamble stated that while the
Couacil Committee and the community
st large would like to have the Every
Evening remunerated, .he legality OF
such an appropriation on the part Of
Council was a matter Of grave doubt.
The resolution appended was as follows
Resolved That this Council petition
the honorable Levy Court of this county
to pay TO the Every Evening Printing
Company the amount expended by them
out Of the fines collected by the county
treasurer in the policy cases
Mr.. Baynard moved the adoption Of the
report and that the clerk be Instructed TO
send copy Of 1t and the bill of the
detective sgeney to the Levy Court.
Mr.. Quinn amended the motion that
the com nittee wait in person upon the
Levy Court and urge the payment of the
bill. The motion, as amended, was
adopted and the committee fol-
lowed out its Instructions. That
was all City Council had
to do with 1t, but as Merris Tsy
lor of the Evening was at that time a
member of City Council 1t is believed
that be played lone and hidden hand In
the matter and used Mr.. Baynari as a
cats paw TO pull the chestnuts out of the
fire for his employers.
The Levy Court Proceeds.
In compliance with the request of the
City Council, the Levy Court appointed .
special committee to take the matter intC
consideration. Henry D. Hickman wa.
made chairman of it. He was interviewed
this morning by an EVENING JOURNAL
reporter
"Were you chairman of the specis
| committee of the Levy Court. to whom
was referred the matter of paying the
Every Evening Printing Compony for its
warfare against the gambling dens and
policy shops in this city in 1887" was
the first question asked.
Yes
"Did J. M whitford treasurer Of the
Every Evening Printing Company come
to you In reference to the matterp
"He did?7
without request or solicitation upon
your psrt2"
ut certainly was"
"What did he say in substanceY
"He asked me If the bill before this
Levy Court was in the right shape"
What did you say to himt"
II said that | did not know much
/ about the bill now In the hands of tbs
committee That is all the conversation
we had and he went away and afterwardl
wrote me q letter. | never asked hin
for facts or figures"
"What did you do with that letter.
You will find it pasted up on th,
inside Of door in the third story Of tn,
store here"
May go up and see itf"
Certainly.
TIE reporter toiled wearily up th,
golden stairs and found three document.
pasted upon the door. One was Whit
| ford's letter to City Council, another
was the receipt from the detectiv,
agency, both of which are given above
the third was as follows:
| "WILMINeTON, Del, December 16, 81
"HARRY D. HICKMAN, ESQ chairman
Special Committee Levy Court, New
/ Castle Co.
DEAR SIM: In compliance with you
verbal req nest respecting the matter OF
the amount paid by Every Even
ing Printing Company to tbs
Mooney s. Boland Detective Agency
for services rendered En arres ting
and convicsing the gamblers in this city
would say the amount paid by this com
pany was 81, 003 az, the receipt for which
we forwarded to City Council at then
request pursuant to resolution adopted
by that body on September %, 1887.
Very respectfully yours.
"THE EVERY EVENING PRINTING 70.
~. M. Whitford, Treasurer.
When the reporter came downstairs
Mr.. Hickman said:
"~hose papers laid here in my desl
for a year or SO. After that i pastel
them up where you see them. The re.
ceipt belongs to the Every Evening. Il
it wants It it can come and getit."
"What did the Levy Court commit
tee do2'
1T never reported. The talk of tn
committee was that the bill should nege
be allowed. 1t seemed to think tha