Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-10-10
LtxOWITES STILL At WORK
MANAGER COPE KEEPS STIRRING
UP THE ANIMALS.


New YORK., Oct. a.-lhe l.cHQW com
mlttee resumed operations today.
Among those who gathered early IL
the court room were several police cap
tains whose faces asG net bsen seen
there before. a cost Of f.ssh witnesses
was also on hand. including 4 Eiaa
who wanted TO be policeman and
vas swindled in tine attempt. an iron
moulder WAC says hs was robbed ny .
policeman and an aala,eur deceive.
who will have lots to say aaout scandal
ia the Egsax marhei police court.
Warden Martin told about certain
houses which lie was lnves eating. T..
Forget. Of the French steamship line.
testihed that MS company psid S505 10
the police Tor extra services. Tae po-
ncemea on the pier were paid $40 PER
week and sscV went 10 the other police
officials. one OF the company books
watch was produced showed thar Ia
/ November. lssl s6y0 had been paid for
special surveillance on the pier" Mr..
! Forget could not remember to whom
the money was paid. Mr.. GoR asked
/ Mr.. Forget II Policeman Degan had
been removed from the pier because
he refused to divide with the captain
the money he received from the com
pany. Degan was present in court and
MIR. Forget identlAed MIN. SIR. Forset's
memory again failed him and Mr. COT
prohed it without avail.
Policeman Louis Degan testified that
he was stationed on the French line
/ pier Tor ten years and the company
paid hlm $40 a week fol wofEiug over
! time and his day of In 1881 Mardman
Vail told MIN he was to pay $40 q week
TO Captain Schmittberger. Degan re-
fused, saying he was already paying
the captain 50 a week. He was prompt
ly removed to another beat. All the
policemen, he said. shared their extra
money with the captain, Superlntend-
eut West Of the French line company
testified to Degans efficiency. When
Degan was transferred Wardman Gan
non demanded the $40 week formerly
paid Degan.
william II. schatt. passenger agent
followed. He did not know OF anythlhg
of his own knowledge,
MIR. Forget was recalled ana uhdeF
adrylt questioning by Mr GOT al
mitted that friends OF Captain Sehmitt-
berger had app "a shed him and begged
him to deny that Schmittbergcr got
500 or 1t would ruin him. he SAID he
could not remember who had approach
ed him. 1t was represented TO him that
the captain would be dismissed II the
$500 story cane out, ana for the sake OF
his family he was TO Keep 1t dark.
Mr.. Forget, Rpologizing for his i'm
perfect knowledge Of the English Ian
guuge. said he did not want TO 30 on
record as saying that he had been APP
preached only in Captain Schmltt-
berger's behalf Some one, he could
not remember who, had In the last Two
weeks asked him not to testify against
any police official, 4 man named
Wolfe, two weeks ago, In the hotel
Martin, asked him not 10 TESTIFY
against schmittberger. MIR. Gom and
MT I.exow wanted to CLEAN further
particulars about Wolfe, but failed.
Mr.. Forget only knew Wolfe had
spoken to him on several occasions
Among Mr. Forget's impressions
was one TO the effect that seven men
had shared In the $500. There ms
impression" faded. Mt Gou begBed
the witnesses memory and brought to
mind the fact that he had written a
private letter to the directors OF the
company explaining the expenditure
of the $500 He had not Kept copy
OF the letter and the contents had es-
capped his memory. Senator LeNow
asked the witness TO cable for the re-
turn of the letter. That would cost too
much. 25 cents a word. said Mr.. For
get Counsel Goff then got the witness
to admit that he had written the list
of seven names and told his cashier TO
divide the $500. Then Mr., Con laid
cable message blank before the Wit
ness
"Now. write the message; we viii
pay the tolls
20 ha
"Wiu YOU swear you don't know
who got the S5o02' was asked by Mr.
Cor.
mo"
Gene here tomorrow after you have
slept over the testlmony,' was the
counsels parting shot as the witness
was leaving the stand.
Policeman John Corrlgan was called.
Mr.. Con had broken locust in his
hand and CT nrged the giant policeman
with breaking the club over a small
mans head. The small man was ON
the stand by the side of the policeman.
who lowered above him. The police
man denied that he had broken his
club on the prisoners head, He said
he shattered the locust across an iron
railring which the small man had
grasped,
Peter Edward Quinn, the small man.
Is laborer. His clothes were IN rags
from the rough treatment he had re-
oeived at the big policeman's hands.
He said Corrigan struck him IN the
face when he reached the station house.
talk.
James Clifford testified to the brutal
treatment Quinn had received. When |
tne witness protested he was dubbed |
ana thrown into cell.
James Hughes had tried TO buv n |
roundsman off nom preventing a dor |
night He gave the officer IS. He baS |
thought Herman Wise was the round,.
man nut now he thought otherwise
Koundsman Wise was called ana DO. |
MED the IS incident. he also denied mat
ne had threatened 10 commit suicide
IN the presence OF Police CnntaIn
Westervelt, II charges were preferred
against him to the effect that no ba5
entered citizens house and bs,5
improper relations with a woman ~
,he FAMILY He admitted that ne bnd
oeen accused OF doing so
Nellie Weinberg testified TINT she
otered Alderman Silver Dollar;' smith
SsnV Tor protection for a coffee saloon
money. 'e'useu the
That IL the nnoat ast,,teht,