New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-11
PAID TO CAPTAIN MEAKIM.
BRIBES FROM "BUNCOn MEN,
SENSATIONAL TESTIMONY MARKS THE
REoPENING OF THE SENATE INQUIRY.
STORIES OF Police PROTECTION TO VARIOUS
cRIMINAIs-THF IMMUNITY WHICH THE
KING OF GREEN-GOoDS swINDLERs'
ENJOYED-How PAWNBROKERs ARE
ABETTED IN BLACKMAIL-
ING OPERATIONS,

After a vacation of ten weeks the Lexow Com
mttee. appointed by the StI,e Senate to investi.
gate the Police Department in this city. re-
sumed opera tions at the Courthouse yesterday.
Despite the unusually warm weather. which
made the air In the courtroom almost unbear.
able when the room was crowded with witnesses.
reporters and others interested in the invest.ga-
tion Mr. Gof. Of counsel for the committee.
showed a determination 70 set killing pace at
the start. If he had been allowed to have his
way, he might have kept the Senator'S sweltering
at work until late holr in the evening, being
apparently moved by a fear that some OF the
witnesses who had been called might not return
again
The evidence presented was calculated to show
how protection is sold by the police alike 10 tne
pawnbrokers VINO allowed to trade III s'o'e''
property, at the expene of the owners Oh 'n'
property and to the "green-goods' swinoie'S'
Some Of the testimony was OF a highly sehsa-
tonal character. and implicated Police CdP'a'"
Meakm, Of the West Ore-Aundred-and-t"ehty-
ffth-st. station. to whom l man who mas pee"
known as the liking Of 'gieen-goods SWIM
dlers' in this city declared 10 nave p"i~
money for permitting the swindlers TO ply '"e''
Illegal trade.
New light on the methods employed by Gem
property was shown in the examination OF
| Detective Sergeant Hanlcy who has been max
ing frequent visits to the pawnshopS Iof .e"
years He was obliged 20 admit that tne own.
ers Of stolen property were nooumn u,onnw which
they declared they had advanced 70 thieves
The system had advanced so far that ~ne"
people who had been robbed Went u tne 80,
trail Office to get the aid of tie police tnsy
were asked to pay for postal cards sent 70 tne
pawnbrokers and agree TO pay any au, ant. ~
which the pawnbrokers had maze !" '"'
| thieves. ,.r a, Canal.
Joseph NJ Reisenschreiber, printer IN Cama,, har
! St. was forced to admit that ne hau pees
| printing the circulars which the swindIers nau .
| heen scattering through the mails In all Parts
| of the country. but before the ADMISSION W., We
| wrung from him he had made so mams nam sEaS u,,
| statements under oath that Mr.. Con was askea
| 70 have his perjury called to the attention OF
| the Grand Jury. , ..ur,or.,,ods''
The paraphernalla or the rs ~. Will
| svindlers was shown to the senators ~ >-u,,
iar, Annlegate n former employe or McNaiy,
who testified that he had gone 10 tne po.sSe an
station in West One-hundrea-dinddiLaar wantad "a
CT with McNally when the s"lhuIc, Wa'Sa ~
nav a surc of money TO Captain william Me-
kim for police protection. the witness o'I Lay. ~
| rnnu how much money was PAID put ne @ K.ew
| that the swindling operations were not ihes NJ
| tnrad with by the police after the WISH OF NC
| Nail, to the captain. McNaily Is now hvnt s..
| iife of ease in Paris beyond the reacn Vi IL liz
| arn,ttee and of the police. TINS was naae
oIaI' nv the testimony of a downtown lawyer
| Who owns some houses at Eighth-ave' anu ,G.. 80
| bur drei "A d-S
| huhuI i. uIeu H. had been obliged to make per-
sonaI complaint to Police Commissioner Mac. sn,.
Lean to have the swnders driven Sonsss away if0"
| Tho neighborhood of the Harlem houses. ...
'he nels @ sleeve another man who had peen
IN tbe employ of McNally. testified to the pro.
~ ,nctinn which had been given to the swinuiet
| ~ t ,bn Tw.nty-second Precinct when captain
| III ,,, une ras in command OF the police AT tne
staton in west Fortyseventh-st There Is S.n' 70
be more testimony on the same nne' aVd witness
| IT., Weakim is likely to appear as witneso
.a''i ID ha was subpoenaed TO hear the testimony
assterdav' as my The committee will sit again. a'
| IN 40 n M to-day.