The evening world., 1893-12-18
.PARKHURST PLEASED.
Attempt to Down Byrnes Will
Hasten Police Revelations,
The Reformer Receives Startling
Information from a Woman.
Mayor Gilroy May Investigate the
Police Commissioners.

tho Police Commissioners to turn
down" Supt. Byrnes. and to make the
latter, as well as n number OF police
captains, scapcgoats for Tammany Hall,
and to convert the police organization
into Tammany adjunct. has evoked the
llveliest interest throughout the city.
The recent changes In the Department,
the fact that the Superintendent was not
once consulted on anything. that certain
captains openly boast OF their pull" and
laugh at the Superintendent behind his
back: the fact that the word of "A ward
leader is more potent with the captains
than Is the word of their own imme-
diate superior officer all serve to stamp
the story as true,
Already the breach between the Super
| intendent. and the Commissioners has
widened. and It Ia Increasing every day.
The news OF the turning down" process
has itself served to hasten the thorough
reorganization for which the public has
been anxiously looking. The rank and
file want to stand by the Superintendent.
| ana, with the people, as unit, say the
| Department shall not be run as an ad-
| tunct to any political machine. The
Commissioners say 1t Wilt must-at
least they, have done all in their power
The general uplnioh about Police Head
quarters, and among officials generally,
this morning. was that instead of the
matter being left to an Investigating
should himself conduct an investigation
| into the stories of alleged corruption.
While the Police Commissioners have the
power to put supt.. Byrnes on trial, as
well as all the Captains, the Mayor can
hear charges against the Commissioners
and remove them in case the charges
are sustained. Besides, the law says that
be public.
I" so far as l am concerned" Mayor
| ailroy said this morning. " | am willing.
at any time. to hear charges against the
Police Commissioners. II any citizen will
| come forward and make them"
Few persons are more delighted at the
prospects than the Rev. Dr. Parkhurst
is admittedly due lie has all along de-
| clared that II half dozen men connect
ed with the Police Department would
only make II clean breast of all the al
Justice there would be no need of an
| INVESTIGATING Committee from Albany
or anywhere else. He said three days
ago that he expected the men referred
| 10 TO NAL ke such n statement soon. He
said this morning to an Evening
World reporter, that the attempt Of the
wo,iJ wo,iGf nGmmissi"ners to oust Byrnes
He Is jubilant for another reason
mainly that proofs of the corruption in
police circles whicn he long knew existed
| are gradually coming to hand. Every
mail brings, information Of a, startling
character. This mornings mail brought
the greatest sensation of all
1t was letter written by the keeper
| OF one of the disorderly houses recently
closed. She, says she has, been robbed
right and left by the police, and now
having been turned adrift she Il anxious
to see the blackmailers ''downed."
/
New Workers., and If even one-half of 1t
Is, true-Dr. Parkhurst says he knows Il
for the Grand Jury for many months to
come The reverend doctor did not say
| he would 20 before the Grand Jury to-
day, but he did intimate that his Society
the question which promised sensational
developments. He showed "The, Evening
World'' reporter the woman's letter
stipulatlng that neither the name nor
the address should be used.
because" he said. the publication OF
such would ruin the very object we have
refer to particular case which we have
under consideration"
The woman begins her letter by be
wailing the fact that her house had been
| been paying blaCtmail for years. AS an
apology for keeping the house itself she
says It was of the most respectable
| kind and quietly conducted"
What we complain Of" she goes or
to say. is those dirty loafers taking
our money to save themselves treating
us like dogs.
one year ago last october every
woman that kept house was obliged tc
put up $500 or shut up. They were alsC
Obliged to pay $50 month. Before thai
time II was only s2j IA month.
- sincerely hope to God that some
thing Will be done to down the entire
Police Board and the thieves OF Tam
many. We do not dare to come to the
l.att to.
der the politicians are safe. Now. W,
poor women do not know what to do.
have paid my money for great many
years, ard on.y had three ladies' in m,
house. and then the police came and com
PEELED me to throw them into the street
The captains ARE raising ---- now tc
save themselves, but they are lot O.
as bad, They hlrd the last cent out %
us. sincerely hope YOU viii succeed II
downing the whole lot of them They
got my thousands, and ! have got moth
Dr Parkhurst went ON to say tina
other houses paid as much as 500
CoIIerton ] m was done in the airs rs, IS place b.
, a main guy" not the war detective.
'lf the women prov" reCalcitrant," h
added, and do not pay the main guy
or captains man, then the screws ar
, put ON and the ward detective come
around, They cover up their track
pretty carefully, 80 that it is difficult t
|
4 But we WIN get at that.
, "On" thing Is certain Whenever yo
sec man made captain look out for
| raid In the precinct he is put over. II
has to pay and pay heavily for hi
promotion Naturally his first desir
Is To get that money back. New deal
have to be made with the women. an
If they don't come down the raid FOL
T lows,
1 Il know FOR fact" he added. tina
/ Mr.. Croker and the Commissioners ar
, badly frightened. and the attempt I
: make Byrnc the scapegOat is making
= hol" too small even for such small me
1 To crawl through. While Mr.. Byrnes
not faultlcSs, the Commissioners are +,
- spOnsihlc for the Department, and I
I say now that they knew nothing of IN
p present rottcnnesg IL absurd. Tho NOR
they kick the worse they get into tn
= miro.
Their action in putting Capt. O'Con
nor on trial Is conclusive evidence q
, their blind groupings. II they conyiC
j him they convict themselves If they tr
{ him they must try others, and the NOR
n they try the more they convict them
II selves"
z Or Parkhurst denied that the trif
i Of capt, O'Connor had emanated fror
i his Society. lie said Il was yoIlntar
u net OF Commissioner MacLean, who wa
I the only Commissioner not In the RIM
g and he expected much more from him
;, Commissioner MacI.ean Is showing
p great amount Of activity lately. Yestel
! lay morning at $40 O'Clock he made