New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-04
INVESTIGATION RESUMED.
POLICE AGAIN UNDER FIRE.
A WITNESS BEFORE THE LEXOw COMMIT.
TEE ADMITS COMMITTING PERJURY.
FATHER DUcEY PRESENT AND REMARKS THAT
HE WILL CONTINUE TO ATTEND THE sEs-
sIoNs-MR. GoFF SHOWS UP MIKE
RYANs RECoRD-INTEREsTING DIS.
CLOSURES ABOUT PADDY"

Testimony before the Lexow Committee. in the
investigation Of the Police Department, was ~
sumed in Part of the Superior Court yesterday.
and some important Information was added to
the store from which the Committee will draw
the facts that will form the basis for report to
the Legislature next month. The first witness
called astonished the Committee by confessing
that he had been committing perjury every year
for seven years in order to allow the keeper OF
an alleged dsorderly house at Lexington-ave. ana
Thirtieth-st to retain 2 license for the sale q
liquor The pace is the Hotel Tortoni. about
which recent witness testified when he declared
that William S. Andrews, the Tammany Com
missioner Of Street Cleaning, accepted a bribe OF
$500 years ago, wnen he was an EXCISE
Commissioner August L. Lewis. the witness OF
yesterday, Is the to whom the license Tor
the place was issued and Of whom Mr.. Andrews
wrote that he was a respectable merchant ana
personally vouched for by Judge Andrew ]. White.
Lewis declared under oath that he knew neither
Andrews nor White He admitted he had made
affidavts that he had bought the place from
Louise Cnaude. the real proprietor, and he had
sworn year after year that he was the pro-
pretor when in fact he never had an interest
in the place. Senator Lexow felt obliged to tell
the witness that he was confessing to crime
for which he might be sent TO prison for fifteen
years
Mike" Ryan, one of the "greengoods' swim.
dlers of the city, who had refused to obey SUBJ
poena from the Committee, was caught In the
Courthouse by surprise aid obliged to testify.
He refused to admit that he knew anything
about the swindling business in which he had
been engaged. taking refuge in the plea tnat MS
answers to the questions propounded py Johh
w. Goff would tend to degrade or incrminate
him. Mr.. Goff made the man tell enough to snow
the nature OF his business by inference, and at
the close OF the session Ryan was arrested Tor
his previous refusal to obey the Committees SUBJ
poena. 1t was shown also that Ryan had been
present in Jersey City recently when william
Applegate the witness who had exposed the
methods Of the swindlers. had been tricked into
signing an affidavit DENYING the truth OF MS
former testimony The affidavit was drawn by
Joseph A. F:annery. young lawyer OF TINS
city who had been employed by Police captain
Meakim Flannery was in the courtroom ana
would gladly have got out OF the way. put ne
compelled to go on the witness stang anu
gate also testified that h. had received S2O0, ana
that job at $40 week for signing the docu-
ment which the lawyer had given into the hands
OF Captain Meakim, had been promised to him.
Charles Harris man who lately was released
from the Erie County Penitentiary. testifled thae
he was in the city the time of the Presidential
campaign Of 1892 and was induced TO register IL.
legally at several places by the henchmen OK
Police Justice Paddy" Diver. and that Jimmy
Diver a son of the "Jedge," paid him for the
illegal work. Later the witness had refused 10
identify young Diver In court. He had tnousht
young Diver would do something Tor MN, ne
said "and." he explained, ''he did He bor-
rowed $40 from his father Judge Diver. VINO
was in court at the ume, and gave 1t to me-
After the witness was sent to the penitentlary
no wrote To Young Diver, asking his aid, but
there reply. ,.
Father Ducey. who was regular attenoant
at the sessions Of the Committee before tne e,ec-
,ton and who was admonished by Archbishop
Corrigan was present at the session yesterday
and expressed his purpose to be spectator IN
the investigation whenever he saw III. J9hn
Burns. the English labor agitator ana Member
~ parliament was also present 10 hear the testi-
mony The Committee will continue the invest-