The evening world., 1894-07-02
LAST EDITION.
Apo SAYS
HE'S BOUNDED.
Declares the Police Mean to
Drive Him from the City
or to Jail.
IS 4 PLOT ALL ARRANGED 3?
Alleged Trap by Which he Is
to Be Arrested for Pick
ing a Pocket.
SUPT. BYRNES IS WORRIED.
Preparing Charges Against Accused
Policemen Is a Gigan-
tic Task.
SUPT. BYRNEs IS WORRIED.

The protection offered to witnesses by
the Lexow Committee. while no doubt
a wholesome restraint upon any open
efforts at intimidation by the police,
has not been an absolute shield from
molestation in the case of at least
one of those who went before the in
vestigators as an acknowledged former
criminal.
According to the story told by George
Apo. whose testimony regarding the
sreen-goods business created a sensation
at the session OF ths Lexow Committee
on June IL the intimidation to which he
V now being subjected Is entirely in line
with those practices which made 1t pos
sible for police extortlon as immunity
from retribution to become lucra tive
source Of income.
The system, according to him, is
this: Whether now engaged in a ne
farious calling or not. should the crook
become obnoxious to the police. he is
compelled to quit the city or go to
State prison.
OF course. 1t Is possible that the Of
fender may not want to quit the city
nor yet to abide behind bars, but
usually 1t is of little use. A Job is put
up and the criminal is found with the
booty Of a theft in his possession or in
some such predicament, which means a
sure conviction.
This neat little trick says Apo, Is
the means by which the police intend TO
send him from the city, and at the same
time remove from the path of Green
Goods King McNally and big Patsey"
Hadlick a man whom both have reason
to wish elsewhere.
He has been I'D that a Central once
detective boldly announced that at the
FIRST opportunity which offered he was
to be made the centre of a crowd upon
some thoroughfare In which IA man was
to lose a watch. An outcry was to be
made and the stolen super" was to be
found in Appos pocket
Owing to Appo's reputation as a pick
pocket and the incontrovertible presence
of a 'hot' watch In his pocket. there
would be little use for defense and a
point would be scored by both the green
goods people and the police. This
plant" Apo says, has been worked
before to get rid of obnoxious people.
The loser of the watch is. of course, a
part of the trick.
Is under way Apo firmly believes. and
color is lent to it by the fact that he
has been Swallowed ever since his ap-
ptardnce on the witness stand
Upon several occasions he has been &C
costed. and attempts have been made
10 draw him into conversation, but his
Tense.
This story was told by Apo to an
I m
sad he, II have been followed about.
Immediately after my appearance be-
Tore the Committee number of persons
became suddenly interested in me, Peo-
PIE whom ! never saw before would ap-
proach and ask me how ] was getting
on, and then hang about so that i
On Saturday was standing at
Eighteenth street and Sixth avenue
SEnen tall, dark man. dressed in a
and said He Hell P'q~a told HfrR him 'f he had
made !. mistake. but he said that he
papers.
Then he wanted me to drink, which |
refused, and when / walked away. he
followed me to Fourteenth street. Here
boarded a car and evaded him.
This morning while coming out OF the
ssestaurant at Fourteenth street and
sixth avenue, ] was approached by a
nne-lookins man. with iron-Sray. hair.
wearing a black coat. white waistcoat
ana fashionable trousers. He exclaimed:
Why, George. how are you? How are
you getting on?' / told him that had
know him
He then tried an old bunco steering
fGodge; and insisted that he had met me
IN chicago. l answered that l guessed
ne mad been reading the papers lately
Ssa u oade him good morning. We had
sse reach Eighteenth street by this time,
I'M crossed to walk east. The man
.sSwiowed. and ! turned quickly and got
continuing. Apo told how he had
ss,nshi to purchase goods at Chinese
yhaolishment at Doyers and Pell street,
mere he had traded for four years. The
snprrletor absolutely refused TO sell him
chssn.nlng, as did oil other Chinese mer-
m,tts IN the quarter. They tacltly .ad-
un united that the police had placed ban
SoPoh Apo in the district In fact, one
mem is said to have informed Apo
ns at the ward man OF the Elizabeth
Heet station had threatened to crush
Continued on Third Pdgs.)