The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-22
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that the pool room keeper should be allowed to violate the law. Witness said he was then transferred to the Ninth precinct, but made no collections. His detectives were Casey and Div- eney.
 "Did you make collections, In the Twenty y-second precinctY
 "Yes sir. collected from policy shops and some disorderly houses. There were about $500 or $500 month collected from all sources. The policy shops paid s20 month. The disor- derly houses paid some slo. some *2b and some $50."
 Had you any special order regarding the protection of certain disorderiy houses?"
 "Yes. sir. When I was appointed called upon Commissioner Martin. He mentioned houses on Forty-sixth street and said might let them alone until the schools were built. When the schools were built he said to put them out On another occasion Martin sent for me. I had sent Officer Casey to the house of e. woman named Sadie West, on West Fiftieth street., The citizens had complained about the house. When Casey went to the door the woman told him she was a friend of Commissioner Martin and 1t was better to see him be- fore he would do anything"
 'sThe officer told me and received message from Martin. went to see him and Martin said I should warn the officer and apologize to the woman the next day. protested, but he said l should do as was told. sent around Casey and he had to apologize to the woman for raiding the house."
 A buzz of astonishment passed through the court room at this testi- mony. The captain said the cases in West Forty-sixth street were in the Twenty-irst district, of which Commits sioner Martin was the leader.
 Witness then said that one Proctor wanted to open a gambling house. Proctor came to him with letter from Commissioner sheehan asking him to give Proctor what he wanted. One Maynard. a paymaster of the acque- duct commission. was to be Proctor's partner.
 Proctor was introduced to me as respectable man by Commissioner Shee- ham," said he. 'I told Commissioner Sheehan that the superintendent did not want to allow Proctor to open the gambling house. Superintendent Byrnes t.a +o,a ,,, n ,P r n o11ouua6 Droo&or to rDa,, he would break me. Then Commission CT Sheehan said if Proctor was not al- lowed to play John Daly would not be allowed to play"
 Did sheehan say Daly's was run ning?" "Yes. sir."
 The witness said he shared the pro- tection money with McAvoy, giving $15O to $175 a month. McAvoy asked me if the money came from disorderly houses. He said if it did he did not want it. $ i, Did you understand McAvoy to mean that?" "Yes, sir. He is a very relig- tous man." f : The captain said he reported none of the disorderly houses that were paying tribute.
 s. Witness was transferred to the Ten derloin December 5, 1893.
 That is regarded as the best paying precinct?" @
 ''That is mistaken idea. The best paying precinct is the Eleventh, I think"
 Did you collect in the Tenderloln?"
 "Only about $200 per month. The precinct was leased out almost entirely. The houses allowed to remain were al- lowed to remain without paying The committee was sitting and they were running low"
 "Did you ever hear of Georgiana Has, tings of the Twenty-second"
 "Yes, sir. She was exempt She is Q peculiar character and some of the gen. tleman who visited her house would not like to see their names in print. I got the tip from Captain Devery that if I interfered with her would burn my fingers, -s. .z-..-.
 Witness was informed that certain public officials visited her house. T do not want now to bring in names" said MT. Golf, because Geor- giana Hastings is under indictment. We have proof that one night when a bench warrant was about to be served two public officials, one of whom was a judge of a court, were in her house. The warrant was not served because of the officials influence"
 Chairman Lexow advised that pri- vate individuals should not be intro-. duced unless it was absolutely neces-. sary.
 The captain said he paid ex-Wardman Burns a percentage on the collections in this precinct, but nobody else.
 T direct your attention to the money ($5oO) paid by MT. Forget of the French line"
 "Mr. Forget gave that to me as a New Years gift and not as bribe."
 Did you know Lillie Clifton?" "Cap- tain Devery when he was leaving told me to take care of her, as she was of great service in the Gardner case"
 Did you ever pay any other money to police offlcials,?" T gave Comn,is. sioner Martin last year a political con- tribution of $l50, and I gave Commis- sioner sheehan $1oo. They were leaders of the district"
 Do you know of money being paad for protection2" "Yes sir"
 When Captain Martens was a pa- troiman he told me he wanted to be made a roundsman. I went to Wil- Hams and he told me if Martens paid $500 he would make him roundsman. told Martens and he gave me the $3{l T 1,andAd # fn vUfI1,o =. .,,a 1r,. 4