The evening world., 1894-03-16
100000
IS MISSING.
Committee Estimate that Me-
Kane and HenGhmen Are
that Amount Short
TRACING 100000 OF BONDS.
Ex-Czar's Friends Promised to
Explain, but Have Been
Unable to Do So.
OTHER OFFICIALS INVOLVED.
Exposure for McKane Means that
They Also Will Be Held
Accountable.
OTHER OFFICIALS INVOLVED.

Tho Committee investigating the
Gravesend accounts to-day roughly es-
timatcd officially that between John Y.
McKane and his henchmen the tax
payers LAY been cheated out Of over
100000 at the lowest figure.
How much Of this amount went d.
rectly into the pockets of McKane is
not known, but it Is believed that he
received most Of the money.
The most valuable Information given
to the Committee is coming from persons
who heretofore were regarded as Nc
Kane's closest friends.
From such a source the committee re-
ceived new information to-day which
was at once paced in the hands of
their counsel. George F. Elliott. The
facts furnished the committee relate to
McKane's private excise fund.
McKare established a new office in
1885. known as inspector of Licenses"
and appointed one OF his policemen,
James H. Cropsey. now an indicted
election inspector, to fill the position.
1t was Cropsey's duty in Summer to
collect the licenses from hacks at Coney
Island and also 500 apiece from the con-
cert halls.
The committee nave learned that there
are twelve concert halls taxed 500 each
and o seventy-fve hacks. which
they understand McKane taxed at s.
enue of $1,575 at the lowest figure.
The books Of the town show that since
} lsam M deRasrs S onIly .n turned Ssct over ESQ
Thia amount. the committee believe,
should be at least $1,000 for the eight
Information has been given to the ef-
feet that the concert hall and hack
owners were not taxed regularly, but
at WHEN The sweet fse G XII, Of d MHSsn money, It ia
Enquent licenses" and was instructed
sult tas sem anS Of he ne haeRme ss'i paid "a { ah efr
license fees four OF five times during q
season. "
Sometimes McKane. for appearance
l1lrer from the license fees. but imme-
Ea t!so' pay srs town 9u' b %SFs ina IN ,s o. rSf. er in;
etances McKane turned over sas975. and
Immediately after drew out $3.50.
thoroughly investigated by the Commit
fee. and will, it is said. play no small
part in the big exposure which Is prom
The first official announcement regard
ing the bonds which McKane has not
end Board OF Audit
There Is no nongua use tsyins Mr to o S9nfeai
.Those bonds have not been accounted
for. and something must be done II
James McKane does not keep ep his prom m
promised that such a report should be
placed before the Board meeting yes
seTISsSY' q but ssie at the m aass @em Ssssi ms for for
a few days longer In which to- get mat
tiers In shape: ooo -
so ,.nse o %is shes @ nSnas am Tslssa to On 'ss tssss
mately. but 7 should ike to know
Young McKane and O'Rourke were
trying to trace the bonds sold by Nc
Kane. They visited banks in New York
and Brooklyn for that purpose yester-
I understand that in the report they
Are fixing .n up they Sor want aba to s ss9% 3 thai aa
town improvements, That may be taken
for what it Is worth.
viii The MdHK ssson for or t Persq peturn 1%es 81 tbeas
bonds or their equivalent will be held &C
countable for them. -,
as he pleased with the money from their
The Board Of Audit was forced to &C
cept his report-such as 1t was-without
I'm many instances the bonds were
issued one month for a certain improve
uleHt anu again duplicated.
1.-THE report Of the Investigating, Com:
mittee upon this subject will be OF
great interest to the public. and the
the truth will be of little or no avail.
Il know positively that the money
raised on these. bonds was spent lille
Mr.. overton wal then asked to say
something about the methods of the
Police Justices in filming men and fail
Ing to turn the fines over to the County
II Know positively that any number
Of fines We're collected by the police jus
tees, and ! was surprised to learn that
no money had been turned over to the
County Treasurer
II inquired into the matter and learned
that under the law the justices had the
right to purchase stationery with the
moneys collected by fines. Evidently
they have used about $50. 5000 worth Of
Nobody knows the amounts of the
fnes collected by the justices because
they kept the disposition of each prisoner
This record would be interesting, but
Understand that the Police Justices,
show Il to the Committee"
At thl: point one of the hangers-on
At Police Headquarters in Coney Island
snes had ever been collected by Justice
sutherland, who held court there, for
me reason that Nickname had ordered
"aS.nond Street jail.
That is not true said Mr.. Overton,
and nobody need attempt to place the
responsibility with ex-Warden Doyle.
last summer one of my employees,
named John Buchanan, was arrested.
he was arraigned before Sutherland on
a charge OF fighting. He vas fined So,
which paid to Sutherland, and obtained
,,'This is one of the many cases now in
me hands Of the Committee, who pro
pose to make the Justices account for
every penny OF fines collected"
From other sources II was learned
that the missing bonds, which McSane
has failed to account for. are a great
source OF worrlment 10 his friends who
are still trying to shield his accounts.
There are no records to show how he
stent the money raised on these bonds.
LIZ bOnh' naHf Tsh.tealaxs ~ L. Aalia.,oI that