The evening world., 1894-10-10

THE
2o3s 2oi6 FRS, avenue, zoos Second avenue. anu
ain not vrsnK to appeal to Harkhurs, and
olher so.lrtteS. bu. sun believe In the ctn eur,
o. the Police Department pnl | am willing 10
nlt myself a, any lint under the protection ol g.
Yours respectfully CHARLES NNHhN
,, NEW YORK, Aug. !, 1891
Dear slri On TIC s'th % NIHu t,uN the i,tty
10 car your attention tn a lot ut pouuy shops u
existence in my neighu,rhood- located at 2OiS
First avenue. sUi6 First avenue, .uU5 Sccond
nue. and 1880 Second avenue thinking thai the
fearless way In which you always performed your
duty would encourage yOu to attempt to close them
up. but up to the present time they are san
in existence, carrying on their low. lived business
OF robbing poor people Of their hard earned money
The worst ot these places Is located at zoos
| he people in the houses in the vicinity Of his
place encouraging poor mems wives to play their
| earnestly hope that | viii not have to scud
copies OF these letters to the newspapers. tut that
! NE Police Department. in witch am hrir bc .
never rs long AS 1t remains under the ghdan'e u
fearless and honest men like yourself vial ,iust
these dlslcputablc places, thereby giving to every
citizen the protection which the laws NJ this state
| entiile him. Yours truly, ell HARDY
The reading of the two letters pro-
Noked roars of laughter from the spec
tators, In which the Committee and the
witness joined.
The latter stated that they were con-
cocted by. his assistant. who was a
young college man, and whom he be-
iieved to be the smartest young man in
As result OF the second letter" said
Majewski, "Smithy, the ward man, came
around few days after, and Said that
| the Captain had "A suspicion that | had
been sending letters downtown.
Il asked him what made him think
so. and he told me that the old man
| mad been to see ByrneS, and the latter
shown lNi VI
| in almost the same handwriting as the
ones ] had written to the Captain.
| that | had never written the letters"
An adjournment was taken ut this
point.
The Policy shops StiII Running.
After recess Majewski took the wit
ness stand again. and stated that all
four OF the policy shops about which he
had written to Supt. Byrnes, were still
in operation in fan blast. The place
which he had been running. however
was closed up.
The other places are now run by diff
ferent hackers, and not all by Morton.
as formerly. The witness said that he
had won 500 recently in one OF the
shops. liquor dealer in First avenue
had also won money In a shop at 2o3S
First avenue. He produced number
of policy slips. which we're examined
| by the Senators with much interest and
| curiosity The liquor dealer had given
ms slip to the witness to collect for
Sept % Majewsk said he went to see
Parker, the hacker. to try to get the
money. Parker refused to do this, and
struck the witness, abusing him with
violent language.
Afterwards Parker offered him $50, but
Majewski said he told him he wanted
I the 500 or mont at all.
Il then went to see Supt Byrnes and
| told him that | had wining slip on
which ! could not get the money, and
asked him what to do.
He asked me in what captains pre-
| cinct 1t was AM ! told him Capt. Wester-
yelt,s, Then he said all right, you'll get
| your money"
were at 29S Elizabeth street, and he
| called iii two detectives and told them
| TO go with me to the place to get eVi-
dence. went out in the corridor with
entrance for fifteen minutes, while The
other man went to the front of the
hal. and spoke with some men.
Then we went to the policy headquar-
tiers, but found no one there. | saw one
of the men belonging to the policy head
quarters running away from the Central
Office. one. Of the officers with me
AT the headquarters of the policy men
! the door was locked, and watcher
was stationed outside. elf said there
was no one inside"
II then reported to Inspector WILL
iams."
Did you know Williams"
on yes. | had known him for years.
| Ever since he was in the Thirtieth street
| station. | have been around to all the
gambling houses and other places and
seen all the curiosities."
| You regard Inspector Williams as one
OF the curiosities?"
| Police Worse than Siberin.
The, witness shrugged his shoulders.
He related an experience with the police
at ball which he attended several
years ago, at which he said the police
had treated him, worse than he had
Deen treated in Siberia when he was an
exile there. They had beaten and
| choked him and robbed him Of s..
Williams was captain of the precinct
| that the captain told him never to run
killed.
When I saw Williams" resumed Ma
policy, and when ! had told him he sent
fer Capt, Westerveit When the latter
came in he and Inspector Williams had
a tax IN the corner. The Captain gave
the inspector a cigar.
spok" 10 lnc ana told me to come to
the station next day, and he would see
about getting evidence about the places
| had reported"
Did you go up them"
did not | was not going to walk
into the lions den. 1t was after that
$50 for my hit which called for 500.
The policy slips shown by the witness
We're dated as late as oct 4 and : In
answer to Senator Bradley he said the
police used to come In every day ami
play policy in his shop in one Hundred
ana Nineteenth street 1t made no diff
ference whether they We're in uniform or
not. Frequntly they would be allowed
to hang up their accounts.
10 you know where the money paid
by policy men for protection goes?'
ITO the Captain. Usually the ward
man collects It, but sometimes the Cap
tain will go around and get the money
himself"
What captain did you ever see col
lecting money!
Boherty Did His Own Collecting.
capt. Doherty. He came to the head
quarters one night and saw Pete Ward
the manager. and asked for the stun i"
" What did Ward do?"
" He handed over the Doodle"
And you saw the Captain take it,"
" Yes, and Ward said to me: There's
| another $50 gone
DID you ever hear OF policy men be-
ing arrested?'
Not very many
What Is usually done with them"
Usually the complaint Is dismissed,
but sometimes they are fined"