The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-06-15

How Fortunes Are Made by viotimizing
CountrymeR with the Connivanoe Of
Ohicers of the Law-The Testimony of
' Professional Confidence Man.
NEW YORK, June 15.-Several witnesses
were examined by the Lexow committee
yesterday, and considerable interesting
| testimony was given, The first witness
/ called was Mrs. Maud Harvey, who testi-
fed that for ten years past she has kept a
| Furnished room house, for transient
| guests in the Tenderloin district. She de-
| clared that she had never paid for police
protection Edgar A Whitney, a Park
hurst detective, testified that the woman
had been paying for years.
Mr.. Whitney swore that he had been
inside the Homestead club, which he said
was a gambling house, at Fifty-third
street and Broadway, owned by "Mep
| Rickett The witness said he was in this
house one night when Captain Reilly came
| in himself and said "Comstock's men are
| likely to be around tonight; you must
clean up" Mr.. Whitney said he helped
, to carry the gambling paraphernalia up
! stairs and hide it. He said he saw Reillys
ward man receive S25 for protection in this
| place, and that on several occasions he
had taken the S25 himself to the precinct
| station
Mrs. Harvey was recalled and declared
that Whitney's testimony regarding her
house was false.
Miss Evelina Bull swore that for ten
years past she has kept disorderly house
at "A West Thirty-sixth street, in the Ten
derloin precinct, and paid to the police
I during all that time $50 a month. Each
/ Ia I,I 80
! ward men, She had never paid anything
to a captain personally. She always gave
patrolmen S. at Christmas.
Mr.. Golf called George Apo to the
stand. If a bomb had exploded in the
court room it would not have created any
more of a sensation than when the noted
green goods" man stepped to the bar.
When called to the witness box Appo
said: 81 want you to know that l am
here unwillingly. / am forced here"
Mr.. Lexow assured him that he would
be protected.
Appo described his various methods of
swindling. He said: 81 can swear that
| green goods men pay for protection"
Now, George, have not green goods
men their representative in the post
Officer"
George Frederick Hadlick, the second
largest and wealthiest green goods man
in this city, has his brother, Charles Had
lick, in the postoffice"
did Mike Ryan, leader in Tammany
Hall, get him there?"
"Yes, sir" answered the witness
"What does the man in the postoffice
dor"
"Sees that the green goods circulars do
not get stopped in the mails"
The witness told of James McNally, the
largest green goods man in the city. He
was formerly porter, and by money Sc
cured from the shame Of a woman went
into the green goods business. He is now
worth from ST5, 900 to 100000
The witness said when a victim de-
manded his money back he would some
times be taken to police station and the
sergeant or captain would scare the vic
tim and let the green goods men go. He
knew of several instances, but refused to
say where the station house was or who
the sergeants or captains were, as it
might incriminate them, and he had a
few friends among the police.
He worked McNally for a good many
years, and although the policemen and
detectives knew he was steerer he never
was arrested, because McNally had ar
ranged for protection. Fifteen thousand
green goods circulars were being sent out
from the city to rustics every day. Nc
Nnlly has exclusive rights in certain pre-
ciacts, and no other green goods game
could flourish there. When green goods
sharp who was not in the employ of Nc
Nally invaded the territory the police
would arrest him.
The only name the witness would di-
vulge was Detective Rogers, of police
headquarters He said Rogers, who was
stationed at Grand Central station, knew
that green goods business was going on.
The witness said he never was molested
by the police. He had saved friend OF
his named Tony Martin from being muir
dered by the McNally gang, who wished
to remain here, as he was competitor.
The police had nothing to do with this,
but the witness thought they winked at it,
because they did not arrest anyone.
All of the witness testimony, while eX-
tremely sensational in character, failed to
make the impression it would had he fur
nished names
The witness declared that New York
was the only city where green goods men
could operate with impunity.
The witness said that the only time that
he had personally given money to the po-
lice was one time he was arrested while in
an opium den owned by McNally in West
Forty-second street by two headquarters
detectives. He gave them $25. He refused
to tell their names