The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-29
LEFT THE STAND SMILIl G.
PREsTDEHr MARTIN UNDER THE
 FIRE OF ATTORNEY GOFF.

fHESIDENf MARTfN UNDER THE
 FIRE OF ATTORNEY GOFF. Since He Was Commissioner He Never
 Knew ofa Man Paying For His Appoint
 ment-Poiics Force Made the Stamping
 Ground of the State.
 New York. Dec. 2s.-The head of the police force of this city. President Mar tin. was placed under the fire of the battery of Lawyer Con before the Le1ow committee to-day. Several wit nesses were examined during the day. but their testimony was of no special importance. Finally Police Commits sioner Martin was called to the stand.
 Do you know" asked Mir Goff, "if the liquor dealers ceased payment to the police and paid Tammany instead2" T know nothing about it."
 MT. Golf asked If the witness knew . if notice had been sent to the liquor dealers by police commissioner ad- vising them not to pay the police.
 T heard that money was being paid by the liquor dealers to the police and spoke to Mir. Byrnss about it. He re- ported he could get no proof"
 Witness said the board had no facili- ties for making such an Investigation. He had only one policeman under his charge He believed the superlntend- ent the proper person to make such an investigation"
 You could call in the detectives?" could, but did not like to do that. thought could not get enough evidence that way"
 MT. Golf then asked the witness why as president of the police board he had not directed the superintendent to make the Investigation q could never get proof to base notice to the board"
 Witness denied that he had a con- ference with the members of the Liquor Dealers association or with Messrs Telusky. Seery and Dave Hol- land. Witness denied that he and Richard Croker met the representatives of the liquor dealers at the Hoffman. He said he never entered into an ar- rangement with the Liquor Dealers association, who instead of paying the police were to support Tammany. I
 ok h r saw 1t in the papers.
 Witness said there was never any formal action taken by the police board to discover A blaol<maA had been paid by the liquor dealers. ''We relied on the superintendent, whom we consid- cred active and energetic and able to find out these matters"
 Witness admitted that he had trans ferred policemen at the request of local Tammany leaders.
 "The transfers were made in the in- terest of the political organization" "Yes sir. I suppose so."
 The witness considered these trans fers injurious to the force. T would like much to be relieved from that job," said he.
 Witness admitted that he was a prominent member of Tammany Hall, but said he never was influenced by his political leandngs in administering the affairs of the police department He denied he and Superintendent Byrnes had had . TOW over the presi- dential election in 1892 regarding the issuing of instructions to the cap- taina
 Did you appoint Sergeant Aebers" p'Yes sir."
 "pid you hear before he was appoint d that his father paid $4.ooo?" T read 1t in the papers. Since was commis- sioner never knew man who nao to pay for his appointment"
 Witness said he had heard the rumor that the captains paid for promotion.
 .sYou know 1t has been testified that the pofice department is rotten. What do you say to that?" T say that was very sorry to be connected with 1t while such testimony was being brought out here. I also say that have in no way contributed to this state of affairs"
 Witness said he never knew Mrs. Thu row went on the bond of her girls He admitted that, all other things being equal, he gave the preference in ap- pointing policemen to his political friends.
 MT. Golf then read a list of men ap- pointed by the commissioner. He said that 14s men were appointed by MT. Martin on letters bearing Tammany in- scriptions, Al on senate chamber paper, 83 on assembly papper, 65 on aldermen ic paper, 25 on police justice paper, and the balance on other paper from vari- ous sources. J. N. Carroll was credited with twenty applications, Richard Cro- ker with three, Bourke Cochran and Roswell P. Flower with one each, and an excise commissioner and several oth- CTS with some more
 The witness said that the Lucy Nc Carthy extortion case was never brought up before the police board. x Don't you know that the $500 was divided to three persons-Munzinger, the police captain and man named Smith ?'' "We never had any informa- tion about 1t, and believe the police captain had nothing to do with it.
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