The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-22

Had you any conversation with any official about the money?"
 Yes, sir. I had with Mir. Steers. He said as there was hardly anything In the precinct he did not expect any thing"
 The captain then said he asked Com missioner Voorhis to transfer him up town. T was transferred" said he, ito the Sixty-seventh station, near Third avenue; the Twenty-fifth precinct
 Did you pay any money?" Not a cent No such thing was ever sug- gested."
 Witness stated that Campbell and Martin were wardmen when he went to the Tewnty-ffth precinct.
 Did you appoint confidential ward many" Yes sir. l made Cannon my confidential man to make collections in the precinct. I got Cannon transferred from the steamboat squad"
 The captain said the only sources of revenue in the precinct were the policy shops and the Bohemian Liquor Deal CTS association.
 There were ten policy shops In the precinct, and told Cannon they should each be assessed $20 month. A man named Parker ran the shops. The Bohemian liquor dealers paid $SO a month."
 How much did you collect ( month";" T got the balance after I paid Gan non 20 per cent The 'gyp' business did not flourish in the precinct"
 Did you give part of that money to any other official?" "Yes sir."
 ITO whom?" "To Inspector Will Hams"
 Explain all about It."
 Well, when Captain Cannon left asked how much he paid the inspector. Cannon told me he gave Williams be- tween $50 and $75 a month. He said he placed 1t in an envelope and gave 1t to Wardman Campbell, who gave 1t to Price at headquarters and for the inspector. I knew Williams well and did not think it necessary to have an intermediary, so I handed him the money myself in an envelope at head quarters"
 How much did you give him the first time?" "Fifty dollars"
 The captain said he paid Williams during the three months he was in charge of the Twenty-fifth precinct. T once gave Williams $1O0." said he.
 Why did you pay him the money?"
 "Well, it was in Williams power to send up men to raid the policy shops from headquarters. I thought it was prudent to pay him."
 And the money was paid to enable the law to be violated?" ''Yes sir"
 The witness said he paid no one but Williams.
 The money was paid by the liquor dealers to enable them to sell on Sun day. Witness made no reports to head quarters concerning the policy shops. He presumed that the inspector knew of the existence of policy shops. These policy shops were never raided. The witness said if he was not interested he could have matters hot for them. It was an understood thing that he was not to obey the law. He stated that he went to the Twenty-seventh precinct after leaving the Twenty-fifth. Byrnes was acting superintendent when he paid Williams. The witness collected about $500 a month from three pool rooms and ten policy shops. The pool rooms paid $200 month. He took Wardman Cannon with him to that precinct. The >pool-room keepers came to see Cannon. Captain Carpenter was there before the witness and the same arrangements were continued as under him. Witness did not touch the liquor dealers paid Tammany Hall instead of the police.
 Did you give any of the money col lected in the Fwenty-seventh' to any police oficer?" "Yes. sir, 20 per cent. to Cannon and $20O month to Will Hams. paid him the same way as be- fore, but he sometimes came to me and gave him the money there"
 Did Williams know the pool rooms existed?" ''He did, and knew the num- bers, too' .ls
 The three pool rooms, the witness said, were a matter of notoriety in the 4 precinct. Inspector Williams never in- ] quired about the existence of pool rooms. Witness never reported the \ pool rooms. and his headquarters re- ports were false. It was Williams duty to find out if they were false. The cap tain said he gave Williams during the nine months he spent in the Twenty seventh precinct about $1,800. It Y, IS the custom O. the captains of the ore cincts to pay the inspector of their dis tricta .. r $.e
 The captain said he was transferred because of row he had with liquor dealers. Superintendent Byrnes ip- structed the captains to make arrests for selling drinks, and not make false arrests. .-&
 T made twenty-tow arrests the first Sunday. The president of the local liquor dealers association told. the off, | cers who made the arrests he would | have me transferred and 1t was so The liquor dealers complained that I | made too many bona f1de arrests and was transferred to the Fifth precinct, where there were very few saloons. I l told Superintendent Byrnes 1t was a l shame and he said to keep quiet. and l things would right themselves in time. l Commissioner Sheehy, of Charities and l Corrections, told me President Martin | me. The witness said he re- mained in the Fifth precinct until | March, 1893. Two hundred dollars per month was collected from two pool rooms in that precinct s'A
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