The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-17
Gotham Police Commissioners TO BE
Placed on the Stand After Few More
Minor Tribute LEVERS Are Examined.
FRAUDULENT REGISTRATION
Mr.. GOff on the Trail Of Tam
many'S Notorious Vote Swellers.
A Policeman with 'Palr" aud Other
Witnesses Examined-Prison Keeper
Who Bled People Under His Care.

NEW YORK, Oct 16.--There was a de
mand made at the session Of the Lexow
investigation committee to-day for the
members to $50 up higher" BY this Is
meant that some OF the members of the
committee are tired of the investigation
of policemen and minor criminals and that
the police commissioners and leading poll
ticians should be placed on the stand. This
demand was expressed by Senator Lexow.
who said that il was time to go higher up.
Senator OConnor echoed his sentiments in
still stronger language. He said that
enough testimony had been produced
against the rank and file of the police;
that it was now the duty of the commits
sion to find out just how far the higher
officials of the force had been derelict in
duty. Chairman Lexow said that the pub
lie demanded this. Mr.. Goff, in reply, said
that he was not quite ready TO "go up
higher" but that he would soon be ready
to call the police commissioners TO the
stand.
One other point OF Importance came out
at the investigation to-day. Mr.. Goff came
in and announced that he had written 10
superintendent Byrnes and the commission
ers of charities and correction with regard
to complaints of alleged fraudulent regis
tration by the inmates OF Blackwelrs island
institutions. Mr.. Goff said that Superin-
tendent Byrnes had replied 10 his letter,
saying he would do all he could TO main-
tain the integrity of the ballot box and
that on election day the police would be
especially vigorous in prosecuting inquiries
to that end Mr.. Goff said that there was
a subject that he thought should be inves-
tigated at once During comparatively
recent period fifteen hundred Migrants
had been committed to the island. Only re-
Gently eight hundred OF them had been
released merely on the recommendation or
clerk in the employ of the commissioners
of charities and correction. He then re-
ferred to the matter Of politicians controll-
ing lodging house loafers for political pur-
poses.
Policeman CaIlahan's pull" was The SUBJ
ject of the earliest inquiry to-day by the
Lexow committee James Smith, Who keeps
a restaurant in Greenwich street. told the
committee how the officer came into his
place intoxicated last week, Threatened him
with a revolver and otherwise conducted
himself in disorderly manner, concluding
by taking the witness to the police station.
Lawyer Moss told the COMMITTEES that at
the proper time the police corniilss.t ners
would be called on 10 explain why Callahan
and other brutal officers were Iermiit ted to
remain on the force undisc,piinsi.
Joseph F'rankel, a saloon keeper. tod OF
protection and OF having been arrested
on a trumped-up charge and bulldozed into
paying 500 for the assistance II silver
Dollar Smith to save him from state
prison. Frankel was discharged without
hearing from the police judge.
After counsel Golf had assured the COM
mittee, as Mr. Moss had already done, that
when the time was rIoe they would be
asked to consider the of enses OF the higher
ofn1c +ha Fefaftn l1sEfC farrrn
Johnson, an inmate OF the TomDs, was
placed in the witness box. lie related hat
when first arrested ne was Ioosei in The
Jefferson Market prison, where keeper
Leach insisted with curses that he must
engage a lawyer 1amsd GatIin tn two
privilege OF walking il ths corridor. mis-
was the custom. Leash sold whisky 10 :le
prisoners for about four times its value.
Leach was called 10 the stand
DO you know wnat perjury is?' asked
Mr.. Con.
NO don't" said Leach. nervously. The
nature of perjury was explained TO him,
and he was forced 10 acknowledge that he
had received money from prisoners and that
he had recommended lawyers Gatnn and
Pentecost TO prisoners.
Chairman Lexow then succeeded in get
ting the witness TO admit that 1t was the
custom of the keepers to share lawyers re-
tainer fees, but Leach strenuously denied
tnat he ever sold whisky 10 prisoners.
Patrick Mclaughlin said he was first
cousin OF joan B Mclaughlin, aud that his
army. This puzzled the committeeman,
and they probed into the conflicting tesu-
mony. 1t was found that there WAS har6
feeling between the cousins The witnesE
said his cousin came TO him and said ne hao
secured discharge paper from the army
from friend Of MIS- and he was going 10
use IL 10 help him 10 get on the police IOrce.
Policeman Mclaughlin was recalled TO the
stand. He described the different parts ok
a gun and the duties of an artilleryman.
Chairman Lexow said he believed the offi-
Ger was telling che truth. The cousin per-
sisted in his assertion tnat the policeman
had never been III the army.
lone OF you ought to be in the State
prison for perjury, commented Senator
OCOnnor.
Moses W Hamilton, a business man.
brought the days proceedings TO "a sOme-
what dramatic close. He Identified Captain
Martens, who was present, as the officer
he had paid SIS to two years ago. his was
TO secure the privilege OF letung his store
for registry and polling place. The city
pays $50 for these stations, and IL appears
TO have been the custom OF the police 10
demand SIS out OF IL.
Police Captain Berghold testified that he
examined Quinlan's Hotel and found evil
danca of an atrempl TO cOlOnZe voters