The sun., 1894-10-30
ASK BIRNES, SllS SHEEnlN.
The Superintendents Bus ness to
Discover Corruption.
NO DOUBT THAT IT EXISTED.

Confidence In the Detective Bur.sn-
Tried to Trace the Protection Money
watch ur Relieved was PAID, hut ne
to.id Not Ftnd Out who Got I,-Humor
Accused the Suprrintrndent, but n 40
cusrd the Commit s-iouer. Too-tIe Knew
He Got None Of the Moacy, aad Me
Bidnt Relieve Byrnes Got Any-onr.-
toned About the Delay In Brc,aiax tie
Cases orOt onuor and sievir A Byrars-
Williams Devery- Park hurst Episode -
PeiItIc- Intrude- Itseir Once or Twice.
Police Commissioner John C. Sheehan was on
the witness stand before the Lexow COMMITTEES
all day yesterday. In the course Of his exarnn-
nton the Commissioner stated that he had no
confidence in the Detective Bureau, that he lid
at one time believe that the pool rooms paid
money for protection, and that lie had investi-
gated rs far Us he could go rumors that the
money was finally paid to the SUPERINTENDENT Of
Police. He also In effect charged the Supern-
tendent of Police with negligence of duty in not
having discovered the cases of bribery and op-
preston disclosed by witnesses before the COM
mittee.
Lieut.. .-Gov. sheohan present in the morn
ing, sitting In front of the witness, and by tho
side OF the Commissioners attorney, Louis ].
Grant At the mornings examination Chairman
Lexow sharply reproved Mr.. Grant for signal
ling to the witness. Mr.. Grant made verbal
ue"'a' All" .on',"u'u III MS pace III 'ho a'eI-
NUM- u". .he I,eu'o'ia''-"o'einor was "oSen''
Mr.. Goffs first question was I" Did you preside
at the trial of Capt O'Connor2"
in. ,o,l"',e',one, ''-, nsu Vp.Sr',1ei, ine'n-
an sxnlann,inn r." Under sone oh,.c,inns hv NJ
Gofr, the witness read from a circular issued by
the law firm Of Sheehan a. Brown showing that
his part nershp with Judge Brown had been es-
tablshcd some time before he was appointed .
Police Commissioner And there Is another
matter" he went on.
Mr. Gof dnterrupting)-One moment, one
moment, please. don't want to establish the
precedent that you may make explanations
from written memoranda.
The witness was finally permitted to explain
concerning the check OF sheehan a. O'Brieu
submitted to the Long Island City Public I'm
movement Commission His memorandum
showed that a check for Ave per cent of tho
amount of surety required was demanded with
each bid admitted to the Commission. There
fore the amount Of the check was a matter of
no secrery and there could be ,thing wrong In
n pencil memorandum OF the amount on the
envelope enclosing the bid. However. the wit
ness said he did not know that such memo
rapdun was pencill,i
In the course OF these explanations there was
some acrimony DISPLAYED on the side of both
the counsel and the witness and Chairman
Lexow said: II suggest as far as possible that
you limit yourself. Mr.. Commissioner, to cate
gorical answers of ccunsels questions, otherwise
we will have endless disputes and a hundred
pages of record where one would answer.
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