The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-06-26

ETY., and just about the time that the
evidence became interesting DR.. Park
hurst sailed away for Europe. There
are a great many people in New York
City who would have liked to listen to
DR.. Parkhust's evidence from the wit
ness stand. But Dr.. Pa khurst sails
away, and Mr.. Golf, the lawyer, pro-
duces the evidence which is said to
have been arranged for by Dr.. Park
hurst and certain high officials in he
Police Department whose ambitions
have become notorious within the last
few years. Up to date, and not going
below the rank of captain, the follow
ing police officers have been be-
smirched:
Commissioner-John McClave, Rep.
Inspectors William Mclaughlin,
Dem Alexander 8. Williams, Rep.
Captains-James K. Price. Rep.
Jacob Siebert, Rep, Adam A. Crose,
Rep, Michael Doherty, Dem, William
S. Devery, Dem, Moses W. Cortright.
Rep Anthony j. Allaire, Rep, Michael
J. Murphy, Dem Max E. Schmittber-
ger, Rep, Thomas Killilea, Dem.
The charge against the police cap
tains, of whom Mclaughlin and Vii
Liams r now inspectors, is that they
received money from the keepers of
dlsOrderly houses In return for police
protection, or, in other words, that as
long as the money was paid the houses
wer allowed to do business. These
witnesses testified that the usual fee
to a police captain was $500. and that
every new captain sent into the pre-
cinct by the shifts made by the com
missioners received $500. In other
words, If a captain was transferred to
a precinct and remained there only a
month he got his $500, and the incom-
ing captain got another $500. Besides
the initiation fee there was q tax of
$50 a month paid to the ward men rep
resenting the captains. The charge
against some of the captains is not that
they received money from these disor-
derby houses, but that they we're paid
to allow unlicensed saloons and cafes
to do business.
A woman testified that she kept a
soda fountain on the sidewalk, and
that she had to pay the policeman on
the beat 50 per week for the privilege.
1t is also known that merchants who
permitted goods to remain on the side
walks were compelled to pay for the
prilivege.
One witness, Morris Jacobs, testified
that John j. Ryan, the Tammany Hall
leader of the Twenty fifth district, and
Deputy Commissioner of Public Works,
accepted money from one of his con-
stituents, promising that the cOnstitu
ent should be made a policeman. MI.
Ryan has not yet been allowed to reply
on oath.
The total sum collected from all these
sources, including the gamblers and
lottery policy dealers, is believed to be
close on to three millions of dollars per
year. It is now made plain to citizens
how police captains a afford to pay
S., 600 for their pc sitions, how they can
have city and country houses; how
they a have steam yachts; own $780,
600 buildings, and get rich on salaries
of not mere than s., 500 per year.
The inquisitOr general of the COM
mittee, Mr.. Golf, is an Irish boy. He
is forty. four years old, and came from
County Wexford, where they fight
like devils for Cancellation and hate
one another for the love of God" Wex-
ford is the next neighbor Kilkenny,
within whose confines it is unwritten
rule, wherever you see q head hit
it." William Travers Jerome, COTS
partner in several legal controversies,
says that COTS family was for genera
tions identified with the struggle for
the independence of Ireland, and not a
few of thRN suffered on the scaffold
for thea lrt in the various uprisiDgs
that frC& time to time occurred. COTS
enemies in the police department feel
that he, too, should have remained In
Wexford and taken his chances Of
the moose. AS q lad Golf was q tele-
graph operator, and later on visited
South America. In 1866 he landed
here in New York City and obtained a
place with the dry goods house Of
Arnold & Constable, then in Canal
street. From Arnold 6 Constable's he
entered the employ of A. T. Stewart.
While in Stewards employ he studied
and received instruction at the Cooper
Institute. In 1872 he left Stewards and
studied law in the Office of United
States District Attorney Samuel j.
Courtney. He got no salary, and made
his living expenses by working at night
as a substitute in telegraph Offices and
by writing for the newspapers. 1t has
been said that Golf is a mOgul in the
Clan ma Gael, and that he is q member
of as many Irish societies as Register
Levy is of Hebrew societies. They
crowd each other In this respect.
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