Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-28

goods business in New York was mostly in tho hands of James McNally and Fred erick Hadlick. These two men managed rival concerns and were known as the "backers." Both had police protection. Circulars were sent out 900 day) and arrangements made to meet the victims and swindle them. The packers had agents in the telegraph offices and in the postoffice who were paid to sec that circu- lars and messages were properly delivered.
 Men called "stoerers' were employed to escort tho victims to the office" These steerers were well known to the police. Appo himself was well known to them. They escorted their victims under the eyes of tho police with impunity. The packers guaranteed protection in this city to those in their employ and held back percentage of each man s pay for the purpose of pay ing the police. Appo said that McNally had been in the green goods business in New York for eight years and had never been arrested. The other men who were employed in various capacities In running the business were known as turner's" "tailers," ringers and 'old gentle men," each one performing his allotted task.
 Men who tried to run the business on their own account in this city, Appo said, were driven out of the precincts, even mur- der being attempted to get rid of them, :, jobs being put up for that purpose. There could be no doubt, the witness said, that the regular men in the business were pro- tected by tho police, and as proof of that he added with the utmost nonchalance that if he attempted to pick pocket he was immediately arrested, but that not withstanding his picture was in the rogues' gallery and the fact that he was well known to the police he was allowed to steer "guys"-that is, victims of the green goods men-through the street and under the very noses of the police, who often rec ognized him while doing so, with impu- nifty.
 According to his own statement, George Appo was born in New Haven 3S years ago. His father was Quimbo Appo, mo- torious Chinese desperado, who died in Sing Sing prison, where he was serving a life sentence for murder. His mother was a low white woman. Young Appo was taken to New York while child and reared in the slums
 The first fruitful result of his bringing up was the propensity, which developed at the early age of IA, that he had for picking pockets. He first came to grief on May
 
 the corner of Broadway and Fulton street while he was in the act of extracting a purse from woman's pocket Recorder Hackott sent him to the penitentiary for two years and six months. He served his term and three times since then has been sent to prison for similar offenses.
 For number of years Appo has en- gagged, evidently with success, in the green goods trade. It was in an effort to steer two guys" in the person of Ira Hogs head and his father-in law, Ephraim Cas- sell of Greenville, $. O., on Feb. 12, 1893, that he lost one eye and nearly his life.
 On that date he met the two southern CTS by agreement at the New York hotel in Poughkeepsie His intention was to steer them to this city, where the exchange was to bo made. The men, however, be- came suspicious, and Hogshead shot him while in row at the hotel All parties were arrested. The southerners claimed that Appo threatened them, and that it was dono in self defense. They were dis charged. Appo served II months.
 Seven years ago Appo was shot in the stomach. Since then he has been cut and slashod in various places while handling