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for these the witness said the monthly
charge was $20.
you Did psrS% Ss ss,ns to ts ss,i ff llSaST sGpls give e
license3" asked Senator Bradley.
q Certainly. II 1 paid for It." said the
Did you ever keep a disorderly
mo, SIR
The. witness said she had to close up
her place last Winter and had gone back
to work again.
The next witness proved to be an in
teresting one. He was Morris Jacobs, a
tailor, Of 1897 Third avenue. Mr.. Jacobs
Assembly District about eight years.
and had been a member of the Tam
many Hall General Committee.
Jacobs began his testimony by saying
the Committee. Policeman Ffnnerty and
two other policemen OF the One Hundred
End Fourth, street station had tried to
testifying before the Committee.
Says He Was Threatened.
."Finnerty. came into my store last
said Jacobs. II said to me: I hear you
are going before the Senate Committee.
II you do I'll arrest you the first chance
"He also said to me. You are a
our - head for you.'"
Jacobs said another policeman. whose
name he did not know, also threatened
him, Besides that, a friend OF his came
to him n told him that John ]. Ryan,
the Tammany leader, wanted to see him,
mentioned his name in his testimony he
would railroad him to jail.
rs Ryan In court?"
Yes, he is sitting over there" said
the witness. pointing to the Harlem
Statesman. He also said that William
A.. Baumert, brother of the Alderman.
was in the court yesterday watching
things.
HE. was told to watch me. too" said
the witness.
Jacobs said that Ryan had promised
him a position. and that was what
his friend told him the leader wanted to
Have you had any dealings with
Ryan IN your efforts to get on the police
Yes, I have an application which. has
obliged to spend hundreds of dollars for
Rysn,s aor rnY snno,n and I nsve r., have ave
to lay out my money for nothing"
Have o been threatened with
criWyina! prosecution for coming here?"
Chairman Iexow told the witness that
he would be protected in whatever he
said, and that nothing he said could
be used against him Afterwards.
Jacobs said he was one of the Tam
many captains at the last election. and
that the Saturday before election day
Ryan got all the captains together and
gave them their instructions.
Election Captains Instructed.
Boys he said, next Tuesday It is
the duty of each one of you to see that
T Te roll WV up as bsy large so e majority aSs slsc e. : pos 81.
spectors with us. so that every Tam
many vote must be brought out.
"'If you get into any, trouble, or II
arxF ~ $500 ,aNNAa ara FNt
will also have the police with you II
there are not enough, we will send for
more, and get a whole platoon. Never
mind about the Republican votes , or
won count on next Tuesday,"
Jacobs went IN to say that he had
some friends who belo lged to a German
associa ton uptown. There were many
In the association who we're not natural
ized., and who wanted to vote In the
election.
when my friends came to me and
] belonged to the TarImany Hall Cen
eral Committee. and they sale they
would get the whole vote of the III for
the organization II l could get them nat
u~raliZation papers.
Wholesale Naturnl:xations.
II referred them all to p. I. Ryan,
cation tickets. My friends went to see
Ryan and asked what they would get
for bringing in the vote of the Club, and
he promised them good positions after
The, witness said there was some
trouble about getting the naturalization
papers. but finally they were all pro-
their papers. Many Of the men thus
natural.zed could not speak a word of
English. he said.
tickets?" asked Commissioner Lexow.
They were little red tickets, just
like restaurant checks. only instead Of
having the price marked on them they
Ryan. Twenty-ffth District
ID you mean to say that those tick
ton papers?' asked the Chairman.
No. but they saved the man who APP
piled for papers so cents down at the
oh. the organization paid the fee?"
"Yes, that is the way 1t was done"
His Efforts a Get IN the Force.
Jacobs then went on to tell Of his
experience in trying to get a place on
the police force. He was induced to go
in for an appointment by Officer Wood
bridge, of the EiEhty-eighth street sta
ton, about o years ago. Woodbridge
was a friend of his, and promised to In
troduce him to some men who would
fix matters for him: ,ouou.,.
said Woodbridge, and It can be ar.
ranged without any trouble: only 1t
will cost you something
"WoOdbridge told me he a to pay,
and that | could get on the force for
about $500. I said I would like to be
appointed. and a few days afterwards
he introduced me to Theodore Saunders
and II man named Wolf. who made an
appointment to go down to Police Head
quarters with me the next day.
II YVES told by Woodbridge that the
men were agents of the Police Com
~missioners. and that they could get
me through all right.
II went down with Saunders and
Wolf. according to the arrangement.
and when We reached headquarters
about my pedigree and so forth.
He told me he was going to intro
drce me to the Commissioners. but he
didn't. was left outside in the corri-
dor while they went into the Commits
sion"rs' rooms.
"Then they came out and took me
down to n liquor store. where the In
troduced me to a man named Hasbrook,
who IL a clerk at Police Headquarters,
another fellow named Fletcher, and a
third named Johnny Dwyer.
Paid TO Get the Position.
'Dwyer was a messenger at Headoua
tiers. Saunders then told me l must pay
$50 down, and when ! asked him what
for he said that he had helped a lot OF
other people, who had gone back on
him, and that he needed the money to
use right away in paying for the doc