The evening world., 1894-10-04

And what did you give him money
because / had a house in his pre-
Sne p aaS Was there ssysS Single
complaint made against me-
Mrs. Martin enumerated many articles
OF jewelry which she had bought Tor
him. The furnishing OF Wilson's house
at 293 Grand street cost her over N,OOo.
HIS wife went to tho stores and
picked out what she wanted and
l,esldes al: this. she paid Wilson s25
and $50 a month, she said, as .ong as she
was in the precinct He had not been
9r eight years ee S
Capt. Alialre In the precinct, but Wilson
still remained there.
Il have know Wilson twenty years"
said the witness, but | never saw him
with a uniform on"
Who, did, you pay money to when
Capt Cassidy was there 800
that as long as / kept a cniet place
need not pay anything"
Who was captain after Cassidy
"McLaughlln."
How much did you have to pay him?"
His ward man, Byrnss, came to me
and said ! would have to pay $500 down
Did YOU pay it?'
Yes. | had to. for two months"
capt. Cross came after Mclaughlin,
dia a9 !. he?"
Gerry Society,"
Yes"
bought n stud for Ward Man Byrnes
The witness said that when Byrnes
demanded 5000 she hadn't the money, and
raise it. tT man en named soo ss "v Whom
she had often seen in Silver Dollar
Smiths place. came to her and told her
sho must buy a diamond stud for sls5.
Ward Man Byrnes had told her Solo
man would come with the stud and she
must buy it for him.
After she had bought the stud at that
price she gave 1t to Byrnes who threw
thing
Then her house was raided by the
Gerry Society Agents Becker EEK and Finn
The two girls who were living with her
BERTHE Brown both of whom were over
on the way to the station Becker told
one OF the girls she must say she was
under fourteen years of age. but she re.
fused. The Gerry men got SIS out of
her for a lawyer.
HE got man named Jacobs to go
on my bail, and paid $500 for security,
every cent could raise; ! had nothing
out of Jail. / don't know how he did
It: ] was very sick at the time.
Every. house In the vicinity the wit
ciety agents, 1t was well known that all
the keepers of disorderly houses must
pay the Gerry men. Capt. Cross knew
this. and yet he never tried to stop 1t. be-
cause he did not want to get Becker into
trouble.
How Becker and Finn Were Caught.
Mrs. Martin then described how Capt.
Cross and Ward Man Smith pnt i'm "a
Gerry agents. She was to meet them
at Twentty,-fesunrnth street and Second
avenue with $500 In marked money, the
sum which they had demanded.
when l gave, them the money I was
to drop handkerchief"
the Gerry men fell into the trap. Finn
was convicted, but Becker got off.
How was 1t Becker got off SO easily?"
was Becker's father-in-law, while Finn
was poor man and had no friends"
After this trouble with the Gerry So
Capt. Cross that she must get out of the
precinct. so she went to Newark and
opened a saloon there. She was pulled
after she had been open eight days.
I went back to New York and saw
Capt. Cross, to see II he could not help
me with the Newark police.
and the next day Silver Dollar Smith
and Detective Cosgrove came to see me.
| They said Capt. Cross had sent them.
They told me that my arrest was a
mistake, that 1t was the woman who
| owned the place before me that was
| wanted.
After that I had no trouble. and was
able to open my place in Newark. Sill
yer Dollar Smith had many friends in
Newark, and he helped me-"
Mrs. Martin said she had seen Ward
Man Burns only a few days before he
was broken. He told her he would re-
| turn some of the money she had paid
him II she would not make a complaint
against him.
She saw him several times. Twice
he gave her so. and then offered her
$25 and a ticket for Europe.
did you meet a man this morning ?"
Yes. n man named Billy Bowling. I
| met him in Grand street car. His
brother Is a policeman.
HE said 'Yoa are you going to get u
summons to go before the Lexow Com
mittee to-day. You had better not go.
| You shall 60 up to Police Headquarters
and see Inspector Mclaughlin. He'll
| send you away"
Bowling said that you should 90 and
see the Inspector"
Yes. But told him wouldn't CO."
A policeman named Noonan was with
| Bowling, Mrs. Martin said. when the
latter arrested her on the car.