The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-01
LAST EDITION.
NOW KNOX
RAPS Martin.
IntimateS There Is Crooked
ness in the Police Hell
met Contract.
sPEllMAN Gets THE ORDERS.
He Charges 1926, Although
Knox's Regular Price Is
and Has Been So.
TREATED SHABBILY, ALSO.
Knox Says He Paid Barney Mar
tins Campaign Expenses and
Political Assessments.
sPEllMAA Gets THE ORDERS,
TREATED sHABBILY, ALSO.

With the threats of ex-Police Capt.
Doherty ringing in his ears, and with
public opinion focused upon him in a
most uncomfortable manner, Police
Commissioner James j. Martin Is called
upon this morning to answer another
and unlocked for charge. The COM
claimant in this case Is Knox, the
broadway halter, who declares that
through Martins agency he lost the
with helmets, contract which he had
enjoyed for years. and who supplied
helmets which no one ever objected to
until James J. Martin became Po-
lice Commissioner.
What the public and the patrolmen
are particularly interested In, however,
the helmets to the Department. charges
Is cents more for each article than Knox
had been In the habit OF harging. and a
like amount more than he Is willing to
twenty-five cents additional for each
hat does not seem very much to look at,
trolmen wear out from four to FIVE = and nd
six helmets year, and that about 10000
are purchased every year, 1t
@ mase the er Sa are eSe aStg yeay
than they formerly paid.
What makes Mr. Knox particularly
angry Is that he regards the whole anair
the first place, he blames Mr. Martin for
everything, and has hired Lawyer Louis
+. Grant to, get the, facts before the
credit OF having taken Barney" Mar
tin. brother OF the Police Commissioner,
from the depths of obscurity and given
to have paid "Barney's" first campaign
Later, that he paid his political assess;
got the nomniatio for Coroner; that he
wife died; that Jimmy" Martin swore
not been able to ,' Collect from .'Barney."
now Police Justice Bernard J. Martin.
ever, since and that generally he Is
The story Of the change in contractors
for supplying helmets. which Mr.. Knox
tells. and which an examination of the
For years Knox supplied them to the
finest at 81 each, and he admits having
made fair profit at that: Then James
J. Martin doomed upon the scene as a
Commissioner, and a great change
came over the scene.
Until Mr.. Martins arrival at the Mul-
berry street building Il had ss -, been nth, the
for giving out the contracts to advertise
for bids. Mr.. Knox goes further and
says that every halter In town was no
could get ready and send In samples:
With James J. Martins appointment
as Commissioner, however. according
At the corner of Park Row and New
Chambers street ]. II. Spellman keeps
a hat store. 1t may be that he has a
present time few persons seems TO have
been aware of its existence. The hat
store adJolns the liquor store which
Patrick Divver-now Police Justice--kep'
for years. ,,,
It is well-known fact that Diver
aid Spellman were and are FAST iriena us
Of1Cek
OF Herman Bolte, one of DIVERS lieu
tenants, who was elected Civil Justice
last Fall. This is the Spellman who nov
supplies the helmets to the Police De
partment.
When. after Martins admission to tn,
Police Board, the time came around To-
the giving out of the contracts Tor mel
NETS, Mr.. Knox says he put in BIZ
at the old rate of 81 In spite of the fac
that the contracts had not been adyer
that spellman was the successful bidder
and stranger still that his price was w
II was then that MIR. Knox began t,
think, and think pretty hard at that
but he was powerless TO do any
james ], Martin several times to asl
what II all meant. but got no satisfac
tion. Next year, although the contract
were not advertised, Mr.. Knox put II
his bid. as of old. for 81 per hat: II wa
q waste OF time, however, as Spellmal
again got the contract at the old rat
OF s2.25. He has enjoyed the contrac
ever since.
When Commissioner Martin arrived a
Headquarters this morning. and wa
questioned. he refused to say anythin
to the newspaper men present beyon
asking them II they had gone into tn
hat business.
This whole story Is silly" he added
and am not going to discuss II at all
Then he walked upstairs, and beinI
Joined by Commissioners Kerwin an
Murray, proceeded to hear the com
plants against policemen In the tria
From Major Kipp. Clerk OF the Board
u was ascertained that II has not bee
the practice TO advertise nor to let on
hat contracts. 1t was stated that tn
Commissioners did not handle a doila
q the money: they simply passed mPo
had decided that the spellman hat wa
the best. II. was claimed that the oni
privilege he had was the use or the hat
room. He deliyered his hats at Pollc
HEADQUARTERS and sold them to the me