The evening world., 1894-07-02
last EDITION.
Apo SAYS
HE'S BOUNDED.
Declares the Police Mean to
Drive Him from the City
or to Jail
ID n LUZ NIL hIIllhU0Lu !
Alleged Trap by Which He Is
to Be Arrested for Pick
ing a Pocket.
SUPT. BYRNES IS WORRIED.
Preparing Charges Against Accused
Policemen Is Gigan.
tic Task.
!UPT. BYRNES IS WORRIED.

Inc pfOteCtlOn OHereQ TO Witnesses Dy
the Lexow Committee. while no doubt
wholesome restraint upon any open
Efforts at intimidation by the police,
has not been an absolute shield from
molestation in the case of at least
one of those who went before the in
vestigators as an acknowledged former
criminal.
According to the story told by George
Apo. whose testimony regarding the
sreen-goods business created sensation
al the session Of tn. Lexow Committee
on June IA. the intimidation to which he
is now being subjected is entirely in line
sbe for police extortion a. immunity
from retribution to become q lucrative
source of income.
The system, according to him, 10
this: Whether now engaged in ne
farious calling or not, should the crook
become obnoxious to the police. he is
compelled to quit the city or go to
State prison.
OF course. 1t Is possible that the Of
fender may not want to quit the city
NOR yet to abide behind bars, but
usually II Is OF little use. A Job Is put
/ up and the criminal is found with the
booty OF theft in his possession or in
some such predicament, which means a
SURE conviction.
This neat little trick. says Apo, Is
the means by which the police intend to
send him from the city, and at the same
time. remove from the path of Green
Goods King McNally and big Patsey"
Hadlick a man whom both have reason
to wish elsewhere.
He has been I'D that a Central ONCE
detective boldly announced that at the
| first opportunity which offered he was
10 be made the centre of a crowd upon
some thoroughfare in which a man was
to lose a watch. An cutlery was to be
made and the stolen 'super" was to be
found in Appo's pocket.
Owing to Appo's reputation as a pick
pocket and the incontrovertible presence
OF hot" watch In his pocket, there
would be little use for a defense and a
point would be scored by both the green
goods people and the police. This
plant" Apo says, has been worked
before to get rid of obnoxious people.
The loser of the watch is. of course, a
part of the trick.
That some such plan as this described
u under way Apo firmly believes. and
color Is lent to it by the fact that he
has been Swallowed ever since his ap-
pearance on the witness stand.
Upon several occasions he has been &C.
eosted, and attempts have been made
70 draw him into conversation, but his
tense.
TT This story was told by Apo to. an
Evening World" reporter this morning:
Ever since / finished my testimony"
iait he, II have been followed about.
immediately after my appearance be-
tore the Committee number Of persons
ots me suddenly interested in me. Peo-
we whom | never saw before would APP
Sroach and ask me how l was getting
could nanId hardly shake them.
sasur ss3set wss s standing aSenas
s Nnan tall, dark man, dressed in a
m mo said Hello 1 told him he had
made {. mistake. but he said that he
papers.
Then he wanted me to drink. which
teefTused, and when / walked away he
followed me to Fourteenth street. Here
!U,0arded car and evaded him.
ms morning while coming out OF the
Sssstaurant at Fourteenth street and
A. h avenue, l was approached by q
~ne.looking man, with iron-gray hair,
ss.e3sriing a black coat, white waistcoat
NJ %SI fashionable trousers. He exclaimed:
W, my, GeOrge. how are you? How are
s ssS getting on7'. / told him that / had
f fssr seer seen him before. and that l didn't
dole then tried an old bunco-steering
IN Rke; and insisted that he had met me
h tnleago. / answered that I guessed
and mad az =, been reading the papers lately.
feant oade him good morning. We had
lnS TIen Eighteenth street by this time.
ioIIoaa crossed to walk east. The man
Ixayw co. and ! turned quickly and got
.o SuUhbtinuing. Apo told how he had
essbiii.tto purchase goods at a Chinese
Wbsraai sment at Doyers and Pell street.
proprgieh,eerh mad traded for -four. years, The
shsst.,h as did ali other Chinese mer-
hitted , ~ M quarter. They, tacitly .ad-
upon mat the police had placed a ban
" II Apo in the district In fact, one
that IN. Is said to have informed Apo
lirest ne ward man OF the Elizabeth
~. station had threatened to crush
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