New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-24

rv., yot-NG MEN TELL. THE REV Or. WILSON
THAT THEY BOUGHT IT YESTERDAY MORN
ING At HUGH slEyIN's LIQUOR SHOP
THE POLICE INVESTIGATION.
'Thc Range OF Further Police investisaton was
the subject of the Rev. Dr. J. y. t. wilson pre-
lule to his sermon yesterday In the tlSh'een''
Street Methodist Episcopal Church Nheh ne was
about TO begin his address two young men, WHO 'o'i
him they were Prohibitonsts entered the chur'h
and handed him two bottles Of whskey. The young
men said they had bought me whiskey yesterday
morning at Hugh Slcvns saloon, at Fourteenth-s''
and sevcnth-aNe. The saloon IS reported 70 De
owned 10y the wife of Police superintendent Byrnes
SEWN is Byrnes's friend. it IS said. and vas re-
Gently "A member OF the Grand Jury.
The Rev pr Wilson spoke as follows:
Il may have escaped the attention Of most peo-
pie that in the LATE trials before the Ioce h,
in the case Of Captain Sslber;. Some time before
who, though believe was broken was reI's'aatu
ing the ground that the Police commissioners hau
n jurisdiction oyer me ne q, , b was amenabie
only to the criminal courts for ne aegei crime M IN
courts already before them a precedent, the in
vcstig1tors seemingly thorough. TOOK the same
course with precisely similar charges. and for what
purposo but to reach the same result. namely, the
reinstatement OF the broken oticers-after the eec
ton is over, Corroboration Of this opinion Is the
fact that while new and clean officers can never
be- more necessary than now, not one new captain
has been appointed to take the places Of the justly
dSsraded men and why BUT in fun expectation or
their restoration TO their places? And can any one
would have accepted their disgrace so quietly had
they understood ii as "A fnaty? Would they not
%s sN and to Whom? And With whom they
divided their plumber? can any one forget the rex
Commissioners decided everything IN iavor or me
prosecution? Had his sole purpose been to bunco
the public mind. could he have taken better it
method? i IS hard for citizens TO believe that the
bers on 1t. can. by any possibility act IN good
faith in dealing with their corrupt subordinates
jury FRO from the District Attorneys once? or Of any
bis found AGAINST them by the Grand Jury; md
Fellows, kindly inform the public? II reminds me
Of what genteman IN position 70 know sa ah
bad condition Of the Sixteenth Precinct lie said
1T Is not thc officers nor the captains nor the IN
saloon d!sorderly house and gaming place is known
on their. books and Is fsShered and fostered by
1t is quite apparent that. while every unworthy
subordinate needs to be exposed ana broken; yet
possible under the sweep of the LeXow search
ghand m9Te tnnt the Once or tne .ean or
pin!oned and gagged, should receive the same uni
T " It Sf na the UPON FOND '@s S
political campaigns. tho community should know
until the Mayors office and the courts are nvestl-
gated. If nothing disreputabe is discovered. all viii
command comma the e confidence cf the people
Not later than THURSDAY gentleman to;d me OF
but who is out on bail. Her case was taken from
the trial ca cnlar and ii seems impossible to reach
H. Such Is the power OF Tammany Hall and such
the honor among the thieves who run IL that even
the attorney employed by the firm which was
robbed strangely advises his clients to abandon the
case rather than submit to the increased rate OF
taxation and other petty and relentless persecu-
tions to which they Will be subjected .
Gentlemen of the LeXow Committee. We all believe
I'm you and yodr great attorney Mr.. GoT Don't be
in hurry. but don't delay Find stepladder as soon
as you ana go upstairs with your work, for the
people are with you. Gentlemen. turn the light
upon the Board OF Police Commissioners and Hnd
ont whether the District Attorney has forgotten his
GA or is asleep. and whether the Grand Jury has
gone Into innocuous deSuetude."