The evening world., 1894-06-05
GRANGER IS
BACK AGAIN.
Commissioner MCClaVe'S Son.
in-LaV Appears Before
the LeXOW Committee.
IN CHARGE OF SERGT. .-AT-ARMS
Ex-senator Roesoh Asks to Be
Heard Regarding Mrs.
Thurow's Charges.
REV. Mr.. WILCOX A WITNESS.
SAYS He Saw a Policeman Get a
Roll Of Bills from a
Bartender.
REV. Mr.. WILCOX A WITNESS.

Members Of the Lexow Investigating
Committee were nearly all Of the opin-
lon this morning that Mr.. Goff in his
great act of making the fur fly among
the officials of the Police Department of
this city has surpassed all records.
Senator Saxton. who had not been able
to attend the last few hearings, came
down from the interior to-day.
"I have followed the accounts of the
last two sessions closely" he said, and
am amazed at the progress which has
been made. I must say that when we
began the investigation 1 hardly dared
20 hope that we would meet with such
success In getting at the bottom facts in
regard to the corruption and bribery
which were said to be rife.
"Of course, we may have been per-
fectly sure that that state OF affairs had
long existed, but the doubt in my mind
was whether We could get any witnesses
to testify to the facts.
''Mr. Con. however, has procured these
witnesses. and from whatever motive
they testify. they have certainly i'm
pressed the public that they have been
telling the truth"
Seven police captains. two of whom are
now dead. have been implicated in the
stories of blackmail told by the keepers
Of disorderly houses who have appeared
- witnesses. They are Capts. Cassidy,
Mclaughlin, Cross, Devery and Cort-
right, who successfully were In COM
mand Of the Eleventh Precinct, or Ed
ridge street station, and Capts. McCul-
lagh and Doherty. of the Fourteenth Pre-
cinet. OF those. Capts. Cassidy and the
elder McCullagh were not directly impli-
Gated, but their ward detectives were
the alleged agents for collecting black
mail.
Besides the Captains a score or more
Of patrolmen and ward officers have
been named as receivers of money for
the protection Of vice. and even judicial
officers and well-known politicians have
been gathered in by the drag-net Of the
That Mr., Con has many more wit
pesses of the same kind In reserve was
Svident this morning. A. colored man
and woman were brought in early by an
oficer of the Parkhurst Society. and
were given seats in the railed-in corner
The array of counsel for the police off,
cials was still further increased to-day
BY the addition of ex-Surrogate Rastus
o. Ransom, who. Mr. Nicoll announced,
would attend to the interests represent
Sd by him during his enforced absence
later In the month at the Constitutional
The Committee began its work
= promptly at II o'clock this morning.
TheN members present were Chairman
OConnor. Cantor and Robertson.
II appeared that some Of the witnesses
who were expected have failed to attend.
6chwartzenfelder, but there was no re-
sponse. Mr. Goff looked annoyed.
"a Rev. Wilcox the First witness.
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William Wilcox, who said he. was a
clergyman. residing at Platterkill, Ulster
County. N. Y He was modest looking
young man. and carried an umbrella and
Mr. Wilcox told how he had seen.
about two months ago. as he was pass
standing in front OF the side door OF a
saloon. between Greenwich and Wash
ington streets. What struck him as
peculiar was that he had his hand ex-
AS he approached he, saw man whom
he learned later to be the barkeeper
some bills in the hand OF policeman.
DID you see the bill?" asked Mr..
II took them to be bills. I could not
see very well at that distance"
The witness said he saw the policeman
close his hands on the money and walk
"I followed him and learned his name.
but cannot remember It now. have
9 memorandum OF Il at my home at
illustration OF the way protection
money was paid, and volunteered 70
give the Information 20 the Committee
memorandum with him the. next time
he came to New, York. He told Mr.
Eicoll that he did not regard New
many oountrymen supposed II TO be.
Civil Justice Roesch came In soon
efteI the, opening and sat down beside
After MIR. Wilcox left the stand there
vas more .kirmishing on the part OF
Mr.. Con- and his assistant. Then II was
euddenly announced that dldeor
Granger. the fugitive. had turned nI
n town and was ready TO go on and