The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-23
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WILLIAMS VILE TREATMENT OF A
NEWSPAPER MAN.
The Inspector Was Plainly Upset by
the Lnte Testimony Before the
ommittee-aIayor Giiroy ON the
observation-disclosures sheeban Also
Makes Il MISUNDERSTANDING
err Raised Row.

| New York. Dec. 22.-Police Inspector
Andrew S. Williams, was plainly upset
by yesterdays testimony before the
Lexow committee. A reporter who
asked MIN today for a statement regard
ling Captain Schmittberger' sworn
statement that money collected frdsz
law breakers had been regularly divided
with Williams and other police Of
| ficials. was the recipient of volley of
vile epithets hurled at him by the in
spector, who also advanced upon the
reporter with clenched and appraised
hand.
Get out of here roared Williams, ST
won't talk to anybody"
] A suggestion that he was the one
/ favored in being given an opportually
ITO clear himself in the estimation Of
/ the public merely angered the Inspector
! the more.
You're Cd 49, fool" he shout
ed. You don't know enough to take
no for an answer. Go out of here, or
III put you cut
l. Inspector AIclAvoy, who is also irnpIi-
tberger's testimony, asserts that
he never, received money from Schmitt-
berger.
| Byrnes Not Anxious.
superintendent Byrnes would not talk
of the incidents of yesterday, and took
refuge behind the locked door of his
private office.
People who generally have good fore
knowledge regarding police exposes say
there is a Well-defned expectation that
Inspector Williams will be heard before
the LeXow committee before it con-
cludes taking testimony. 1t is repre-
sented that Williams regards himself
as having been attacked by Schmitt-
berger with the purpose OF shielding
himself and Superintendent Byrnes
Friends of Williams are represented as
noting in this connection the long-stand-
{ ing enmity of the superintendent and
the ranking inspector, and the fact that
Schinittberger. once a bosom friend and
confidential wardman for Williams,
has been of late with Byrnes. These
people see throughout Schnittbergers
testimony evidence that Byrnes was
always in the captains mind and care
was taken from the first to the last to
shield the superintendent. Feeling be-
tween Williams and Byrnes is one of
bitter resentment and the theory above
recited is based on expectations OF a
counter-confession by the Inspector.
Mayor GiIroy Seen.
Mayor Gilroy was asked if he in
| tended to take any steps in consequence
of Captain Schmittberger's statement of
yesterday. He said:
Before taking any action charges
will have to be preferred against these
commissioners to me. being the jud ge
in the case could take the initiative. AS
yet the matter has not been Drought to
my attention officially. If the charges
were made and proven I could only
recommend to the governor their dis
missal."
Commissioner Sheehan was emphatic
in his denial of statements affecting him
embodied in Captain Schmittbergers
testimony.
A special meeting of the police board
will be held on Monday to consider the
Schmittberger testimony.
Lawyer Louis Grant, who is acting
for Commissioner Sheehan, said today
that Captain Schmittberger dare not
produce the letter which he yesterday
asserted had been sent by him to the
commissioner with relation to the man
Proctor in the gambling matter.
Martins story.
James ]. Martin, president of the
police board of commissioners, COM
plains that Schmittberger put in a
false light regarding disorderly houses
on west Fttty-thlrd street. club
friend of Martins who was interested in
the woman who kept the house, repre-
scented TO Martin that the police had
unwarrantably annoyed her, the place
being simply a private residence,
whereupon Martin instructed the cap
tain to investigate and if the club
friends statements were true to see
that the woman was annoyed no more.
Schmittberger reported that his men
had been mistaken. The commissioner
also denies that Sergeant Lieber paid
$4,000, or so far as he knows there was
anything ever paid for his promotion.
Other statements of Schmit tberger
which impugn the integrity of the
president of the board are, Martin de-
clares, absolutely without truth.
Commissioner Sheehan also makes
specific denial OF the allegations OF
Schmittberger in so far as they relate to
him.