The evening world., 1893-12-28
The BIG BOMB.
A Police Commissioner Joins
Forces with DR.. Parkhurst.
Rottenness Of the Police Depart.
ment to Be Exposed.
Startling Inside Facts to Be Revealed:
To-day.

Before the day ia over the city win
to the Parkhurst crusade, In the form
of a statement under the signature OF I
~well-known police officiai-in fact. one Of
the Police OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the
whole story of his overtures to Rev. Dr. 4
Parkhurst will be laid bare.
The Evening World Is In possession
OF the main points Of the statement, but
as 1t has promised to withhold namcs
until the statement itself is given out
refrains from doing so. If the plan ar
ranged upon this morning is carried out.
and there seems to be little doubt that
1t will. Evening World" readers car
read the Police Commissioners state
ment in the last edition.
The Parkhurst crusade against the Po-
lice Department has grown so hot that
not ,nly the Mulberry street oficiuls
but every Tammany ofice-holder haA3
been, and these are all now sitting on
the ragged edge of uncertainty. They
have for long been looking for thar ter
rible something to drop. 1t is even
stated that several of them have been
running to DR.. P%arkhurst, anxious I'll
clear their skirts of the alleged corrup-
ton. and incidentally to tell all thew
know about the Department ana the
stories of blackmail and kindred topico1
which for long have edited the pubiic.
When 1t became known this murn.urJ
that among the number who had lbees
seeking the good opinion Of the rreSi-5
dent of the Society for the P~reyentso1
OF Crime was a Police Commissioners.
the dismay visible at Police Headuuar-a
tiers was ~laughable. The Commissioners,
however, Is not going to tell all he
knows. for the reason that the Overturned .
made have fallen to the ground.
There has been a hitch somewhere.
which he will explain later. At present.
the stumbling block seems to be In the
person of Frank Moss, DR.. P~arkhurst's<
counsel. The Commissioner referred to
Is INDIGNANT that anyone should imagine
States evidence.
In fact. he persists that there was MOTH
Ing for him to tell about his own mia
deeds, because he insists ne was guiitless
Of any wrong doing. What he was anxious
70 DO, ne says, was TO place the RESPONSE
6i!ity for the present condition OF Affairs
he admits, and every one inside. as
well as outside, of Tammany Hall knows
i TO- be a fact, that corruption and
practised in police circles for many years.
The argument is made That Tammany
ls only responsible for a few years
should be saddled with the misdeeds 81.
others. and want the story told. so that
every one should get credit for his fun
share.
Boss" Croker himself. according -;
the story told an Evening World" re-
porter this morning. was the first to sug-
gest that the Sommissioner referred T.
he Is incensed at the stand taken by P0-
ice Supt; Byrnes. who objects to being
He seemed afraid that the superintend-
emit might win his fight. and perhaps get
his story. and his alone. before DR.. Park
hurst and the public.
sloner mentioned held several meetings
with a well known newspaper man. and
Ia was decided that the latter should see
it was expressly stipulated that the Com.
missioner was not seeking the rev.
erend gentleman. but that tt would be
Should 81 aiSVa mees and % .! syesysod ayio iaas shey
were.
The Commissioners would assure DR..
P%arkhprst Of the interest taken in his
at their disposal to him. That the Com
missioner would demonstrate that. In
officials, he was on the wrong tack.
That the responsibility lay elsewhere. and
that the culprits would be exposed,
ready to jump at the offer. III did NOT
like to do anything without consulting
his lawyer, Frank Moss. who has an
ciety for the Suppression. Of Crime. Mr..
Moss's eyes trembled, but. lawyer-like.
he evidently thought a trap was being
laid.
He thought It would be q great thing
to get the inside history OF the Depart
ment from one Of the Commissioner
themselves, but
YOU" he said to DIR. Parkhurst. che
must see you only at n place. Your
This fact was communicated to thu
Commissioners. and suspicion arose In his
mind that, bad as his position was be-
fore. the fact Of his going e DR.. PARK.
would, In fact prt him in the pSsition q
would do nothing Of the sort.
a meeting place. The Commissioner Of
fered to meet DR.. Parkhurst on neutral
ground. He suggested several places.
where but DIR. Parkhurst's home. Mr..
Moss, however, was obdurate.
Then the Commissioners, through tho
have Mr.. Moss present at all The inter,
views. Still Mr.. Moss declined TO meet
anywhere save at DR.. Parkhurst's resi-
dence. Hence the negotiations have fai-
They seem now to be on ~altoeethor.
because, strangely enough, the Stories
published q, ae1St 8 hiEh Sfisisi %ssiRs
the Commissioner as referring to him
self, Now he is anxious TO tell all about
Stranger than all Is the fact that 70
an Evening Woriu reporter DIR, PafE
hurst stateo this morning that no oN1
had been making overtures to him.
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