The evening world., 1893-12-29
PARkHURST SPEAKS.
His Opinion of Police Commits
sioner Sheehan's 0vertures,
Reasons for Believing the Tam
many Official Was Sincere.
Meeting OF tho Board
Likely to BE Interesting.

Rev. DR.. Charles II. Parkhurst, Prcsi-
dent of the Society for the Prevention
of Crime, contributes his chapter this
morning to the interesting story begun
exclusively in The Evening World +"
yesterday, about the overtures made to
him by Police COMMISSIONS John c.
Sheehan. He puts a widely different
cons truction upon the subject which Is
agitating political circles. and while in
du gins In no harsh language he leaves
but one reference to be drawn-that
John c. Sheehan was anxious to divulge
all he knew, to get In out OF the rain.
as 1t WERE, before the storm broke in
oil Its fury.
Shechan and published in yesterdays
Evening World' the Police Commits
sioner denied that he had any informa-
ton to give away and that such a thing
as telling tales out of school was never
furthest from his thoughts. He only
wanted a little social chat" Just to
convince DIR. Parkhurst that he was
wrong In forming such a bad opinion of
the Police Commissioners-that the lat
ter, were really angels in disguise who
had been very much abused.
He went further In a second statement
given cut late last night. and denied
ana snat b Hicha arc Croker had anything to
hurst. lie did no more. he said. than
every other Police Commissioner was
willing to do. Citizens generally. ire
statement with the perennial grain of
believe 1t at all.
The reverend gentleman was found at
by an Evening World" reporter this
morning, having. just finished perusing
Mr.. Sheehan.s latest. After greeting the
reporter ne said the time had come for
MN M Sc 9s Re e n Meet more onF %o1 ,has Samm,s-
sionsr sheehan has said all he had to say
on 9 the matter. In fact. he has spoken
o%blisations, implied or otherwise, upon
me to keep silent have been removed. i
want to tell lust what construction /
pus 9pom the whole matter Of the pro-
and am still. When i inca heard MI that sh be- was
saaiSas 10 abo sse Il me e. ! ar. thought Ebsr nothing hi Hs
me matter serious consideration. l would
not haye reached the conclusion l did
to see him-had l thought for a moment
that he wanted merely to explain that
the Police Commissioners were not re-
sponsible for the corruption in the De-
partment, or to convince me of their good
CndTdCtcT.
81 certainly. believed tina his visit i'm
piled a good deal more than that. I was
satisfied that the many things which we
wanted, to know would nave been unfold
tered in to The spirit Of the affair. 1t
scarcely seems unreasonable to any man
that / woul have met him him for any
other purpose.
that no one asked him to come to see
me- that 1t was a voluntary action on
MS part no n else being behind. That,
IN Itself. is SUFFICIENT to sustain the view
wanted to Sc me only for myself. what
could have been his purpose? do not
think II was to tell how good all the
other Commissioner were.
He says he wan,ed to show me that
the Board of Police Commissioners
would be only too willing to cooperate
with me. Yet he SAYS he came Without
the advice of anybody else to tell me
that the same Board treated all our com
plants with disdain, ignored us alto
gether; or blocked us with departmental
The fact. as he says, that he did
want to see me. and that without the
conniance Of others. clearly demon
strated to me that he was a man with
wanted to get rid of It. II | did not
think so ! would not have entered into
the negotiations at all.
ne HNpw' made ! want 1s,s 1t m nnasrstO9 Da,, that u !
" ''tS ~ pipllC VI
dropped the least clue Of it to any onc.
He has made 1t public himself. / think,
however. that. l should be set right be-
say at present about Mr.. Sheehan."
DIR. P~arkhurst hopes within q very
short time to lay some startling facts
before the, public about police irregularl-
ties and alleged crookedness. A number
Of men are at work making out a report
OF the Society's work during the past
six months. It will show the number
the reports made upon them and sent TO
the various police officers, but no action
being taken. The report will also con-
tain a mass of other Information, and
When Commissioner Sheehan said that
Boss Richard Croker had not in
structed him with reference to his pro-
posed visit 10 Rev. DR.. Parkhurst sew
eral people who knew better smiled
"Weil, what do you want him to say?"
said one who was in the secret to an
think nfSsn nat S wG aaa aa TsIRoT nowq b" bS, 4 yG IS
true, just the same"
Mr., sheehan should have a better
memory or drop making such state
asking II It was not a TACT that the
real reason for Sheehan's seeking DR..
Parkhurst was TO try ana convince him
fault: that Mr.. Croker had been consult
ed, and that the scheme was part OF
the plot to GUST the Superintendent.
Even though Mr.. Sheehan may deny
It, such is the fact. Lawyer Moss may
have been rlght after all In thinking
there was a plot.
DR.. P~arkhurst also said this morning
that he would not appear before the
dence he felt justified In giving had been
submitted. Evidence, however, is accu-
mulating. The latest document he re-
celved was an afidavit from a witness
who saw money actually paid by the
proprietress OF a disorderly house to n
certain police official.
Mayor Gllroy would not discuss to-day
the statement made by Police Commits
sioner Sheehan yesterday, but he re-
iterated his declaration OF a few days
ago, that he would order an Investigation
OF the Police Department or II other
city department II charges We're made
on which an investigation could be made.
The Board OF Police Commissioners
| will, this afternoon, hold q meeting. at
which interesting, II not lively develop
| ments are looked for.
Supt. Byrnes Is expected TO make a re-
| mort on his investigation RI the charges
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