The evening world., 1894-08-28

MI. House called the names OF n dozen
other reputable builders. who were in
dieprove Builder Kilpatricks statement
tnat he could not find two builders who
had not paid blackmail
Mr.. Welman said: II object TO these
people coming here to testify to the
things they haven't done, and the things
they wouldn't give away II they had
done them"
This brought a vigorous protest from
House. who declared 1t G~shame for the
commissioners to permit Mr.. Weilman
to thus assail citizens who stood higher
IN their profession than he did in his.
There was murmur. then a rumble,
and then a small roar Of approval from
the mouths. hands and feet of the 100
people, mostly policemen who filled the
President Martin threatened to clear
the room. The builders went away, and
Mr.. House called Patrick White, of 20
Chrystie street, to the witness stand.
months in the house of Rhoda San
ford. "a Bayard street, including the
three months when Inspector Nc
Laughlin was the captain In command
Of that precinct. and Burns was his
ward detective.
White said BILLY" Hoyt was Mrs.
Sanford's partner in the business. He
had seen Burns try to get into the house
and fall. There were no lights in the
hall or parlor,- and the blinds were
closed and the doors locked.
the house" said White. ut was my
duty not to let any one in unless /
knew him to be friend. l had key
to the basement door
Officer Burns and another man came
to the house nearly every night in
March, but l wouldn't let them in.
They were In citizens dress. and never
knew that they were policemen. told
them there was nobody In the house
and that 1t was closed"
White identified Patrolman Nugent as
the man who came with Burns, and
simply because he didn't know them.
When he wasn't there another man
named Boyle was the monkey jumper"
jumper" was the technical name given
to the watchers outside the disorderly
houses.
Mr.. House next asked about a man
named Graham, who lived at Mrs.
money. Mrs: Sanford had denied know
Ing any such person.; and denied that
When Mr.. Wellman objected Mr.. House
said he was going to show that Graham
had 5000 In cash; that he left the
Bayard street house in cab with Mrs.
Sanford and woman named OBrien
and went up to Billy Hoyt's williams
bridge road-house; that Graham died
mysteriously up there. and that after
that Mrs. Sanford was flush with
But after Graham's start in the cab
with the women, White knew only by
hearsay. and his testimony was ruled
Now isn't it fact" Mr.. House asked,
that Mrs. Sanford paid for that house,
"a Bayard street, and was able to take
up those notes before they were due
with, the money she got from that dead
mans body?"
This was ruled out. and by Mr.. Well
man advice, so was Commissioner Shee-
hans question as to whether Mrs. San
ford had lots of r.:oney after Graham's
disappearance.
said he had been six years in New York,
spen: two months as subway laborer
and had since then been room clerk"
at the Fourth Ward Hotel. where Old
"Frenchy," the ripper: peddled peanuts
and bananas and had done little Of
asked him how he knew who
to let ia and who to keep out Of Mrs.
Sanford's house, II he had never worked
there before and didn't know who were
and who were not customers.
White was stuck by this question, but
he maintained that Rhoda paid him 81
jumper" and let in only friends of the
house.
TO Mr.. House White said that Mrs
Sanford told MIN that he must be very
closed, because Capt. Mclaughlin would
not allow her to keep open.
To a question from Commissioner
from ";silver.Doiisr" smith to r. ''' F.
Crmmins, the subway contractor, when
he got his job in the trench.
Mr.. Wellman asked questions faster
than White could answer them. Then
Mr.. House protested. President Martin
tried to call House down.
'I'll not be called down" said House.
II am here, not by the courtesy of
this Board, but by right
II shall make objections when ] like,
and you can't make me do otherwise,
Mr.. President
well, we'll see about that" said Mr..
well, then. We'll see about that" re-
tortsd Mr.. House.
After recess Mr.. House put In evidence
q record showing that RErns was de.
tailed to the Eleventh Precinct from
I u to April 49, lsS3 and that, that Capt;
june y 10 A Wsf u f. eG iss there fro"
Isidor Kranshaar, the Division street
dry goods merchant, from whom Mrs.
Schubert claims she borrowed 500
Burns In behalf of Capt Mclaughlin.
testified. as in the Cross case, that he
never loaned Mrs. Schubert one dollar.
in the Cross case he said he would look
up his friend Jacob" To-day he told
Mr.. Wellman he could not find him.
again, and then asked him IL he would
he surprised II told that Jacob" who
bailed Mrs. Schubert, was Paulina
Jacobs, woman.
kranshaar said he would be, for Jacob
was a man.
old Joseph Levi. the money-lender,
again testified that he loaned no money
TO Rhoda Sanford, as she has testified.
Frank Mullins. of IS Third street. tes-
tilted that he knew Rhoda Sanford four
years, and Billy Hoyt two years as
Rhodas business partner.
He was an Elevated Railway fireman,
and his sweetheart, Daisy Smith. was an
inmate of Mrs. Sanford's house during
the Mclaughlin Burns administration.
The house had the appearance OF being
empty. and was closed and dark and
Mullins said he had 10 get the monkey
jumper" TO open the basement door.
THE house was doing no business at
ALL because Capt. Mclaughlin was so
strict" said Mullins.
"Humph And you want us to believe
that that house was not allowed to do
business by Capt Mclaughlin, and that
Mrs Sanford, who was the house
keeper. liked this so well that she laid
out S4,OO0 in buying the business of its
owner and graduated from housekeeper
To proprietor" Mr.. Wellman asked.
Mullins didn't know Then he adj
mitted that he had done no work in five
months. He explained that he used to
have to work to support his parents but