New-York tribune., 1894-10-31


request of the district captains. ,h.t bofore he
woa beeye such testimony would Ike bSt to hssr ss
Ryans side of the case He also sald tnhe h sse are
Commissioners had nonsE on Election Day If Com
missioner Martin had testifei 10 .nS d han mis-
sac. sasn Il" he 1eelared that he had not followed tne
testimony taken before the coI,''',es zee nre ~ the
heads Of the Police Department. haye not foiowed e
the testimony which has dealt WIN s,4 fo,low the
tesftIaony closely in the beginning but did not
read all the reports of it later because 1 rnous Of
some men who we're implicated by the the tesumohy'
and wanted to be in position IeStons? 10 ADe.
cidedly
DOESN'T RECALL OUTRAGEOUS CASES
O-An officer of your department testified that
when he put a loafer out of polllng-place he was
ordered by his captain to leave the polling-piace
ard watch n fence in First-ave., and that ne was
transferred from the precinct ten days later Dd
you read that testimony? Al don't recall II. a
Q.-Woud you be Going your DUTY IL you irqurs ss
into such IA case? Ayes II my attention Was
Q-Was your attention called to the revolving tes,
H~What was that case? don't RECALL it. ~.
read Hussey, ii is too late to open primary
school for your Instruction ao. .,
Q.-Did you hear of the records of the cases OF OF
brutal clubbing by policemen which were presented
to the committee? Al heard that one SIDE was
presented. The men had no chance to explain. ,ore
Q-The records of your own department Were
used. Do you want to say that the records were
OF was shown that the Commissioners had
passed judgments in all OF the cases. has any, any
thing been done since then to eradicate the evils
shown by that days proceedings? A-No. -
Q.-Attention was called then to men . VINO ,'', nad
been found guilty OF brutal ciunnng anu ho ,sfS
the force Have you done anything ABOUT 'i''''
HE TRIES TO sQUIRM OUT OF 1T.
Commissioner Sheehan tried to make an explana-
tlon instead of giving d direct answer. and NJ
Gon continued to shout: II will not hear YOU! un-
Ill the witness stopped Then the counsel and Wit
ness we're garng each other as If they were
Mr. Gon~If you would stop your bulldozng man
ners you would be better on: - .o -
The Witness. II l am bulldozng, we are TWO CT
The i' question was repeated by the stenographer'
and the witness answered; Il have not os,
you spoke Of the 2H charge d maze aaS
BY NJ abSr c ebSrge? of 'rand rhey may nave
but | want to say that Mr. Taber was foreman -! -!
a Grand Jury which made no Indictment IN support
u o'"po YOU Know the difference between an in
dirtment and a presentment? Al 90 -, -.
0C,"f'e 0Piease W tell us the difference? Al will not T
O-Isn't IL because you don't Know: a. ~, ~
with Increased rage) Mr. Con- you can iear" lie
az! Mr r''''i Go cwi:h a sneer)-You might be taught
something. G-aughter)
HE THINKS Sl5.OOOOoO LITTLE LARGE.
O-An afternoon newspaper recently puoished
computation that the amount OF police placA"'aii
was about S5G000(0 year What have you 10 say
10 that? Al think they were mistaken.
O-You don't call the newspaper Har' Al
"%S" Jby aid von cali Mr. Taber a liar? Al will
antl!ty mat He was mistaken. :. ..s
had to say that booksellers who had gore out OF tne
business gentlemen and he sad hH naa 2 heard ara
auaintei with any OF the booksellers; .,,,..
'Q."iiow abou, the po.cyshops? Al personally
N'tS~ Whit do you say the testimony Lately
given here that there were & beyin tb,t
ID q iBy Senator Lexow2-Has anything been don, done
ehu m he A.
know what the Superintendent has done
GETS ANGRY. AS USUAL.
@. (By Mr. Goft)-Is there anything left for
Commissioner to do? UaughterJ A. With rising
anger)-Yes. great deal TO DO.
o oBy Senator Lexow)-Suppose there was riot
in the city and the superintendent failed 10 take
missoners sit sui IN their offices and DO nothngE
ES ndS % hs' nSsng %GGi s s aaty ana ana the Goms
soners would take steps TO put another man IN MS
o (By Mr. Gofr,-You don't think many policy:
shops could be kept open as we're testified to here!
One might i0S be S9pened OUT on Broadw4y minute
Ar Con produced polcysP whGn ne decaTIfs
precinct on Monday, and had been shown after;
he lid not know what action had been taken in the
cation such a case he said but would refer II 10
the Superintendent for investigation.
STRIKING PARALLEL
Mr. Con- asked the witness a number of questions
about the need OF n better poceslgnal system for
the city and Mr Sneehan sad New-Nork had been
behind the other large cities in its signal system
The sum OF $4,000 had been appropriated in 1885,
and II htI n1t been used The witness had made
report on the subject the Police Beard. and the
9}tFa @ s4 n1a ns benz an san lie had not
mendei any particular system he SAID and ne did
Nrw-Yorkers were Interested in the system repre-
sentei by the Municipal Ssnal system Company. OF
Nr GoH read passage from the C,ommissioner,s
report stating mat IN no othcr depHr,hIent me- nr Sl
ress IS in tha, Of the police" Then he read Inc
same passage from the prospectus OF the Boston
company There was much laughter in the court
room Mr. tOf continued - r,at alternateiy from
the report ami the prospectus other Identical pas
sage. ana it was evident that the deadly parallel
was being used - show the source from Wnich
many statements in the Commissioners report had
senator oConuor-Is this any worse plagiarism
from from Tcm More r,cSnty? d.aaghteT)
Mr. G2on Mo9rS dioa oo,e so .ni fIo 4So bm ina' II IS
quite different mater to Gi m1ke % S5;Si9n rom m
,alSc quotations from the advertising circular OF
signal company.
HOW Is THIS FOR PLAGIARISM?
Commissioner Shechan explained that he had
found similar statements In the circulars of other
companies. and THAI the report had been prepared
in part by the Superintendent of Telegraph at me
Central Once. The Boston company. he thought,
had the worst system OF any which he had eX-
amined
senator O'Connor-The Commissioner. among his
other offences. ~ accused Of literary piracy.
Mr.. Gor-lf the piracy was confined TO literature,
there would be- no necessity for the committee 20
4 published interview with Commissioner Shee-
han Oh December Il. 1898, was read by Mr.. Con, /
and the witness said he had made the statements
in that interview. The statements included those
to the effect thai the shake up OF the police |
captains had originated with the commiss !oners,
that there had been reports that some OF the cap
tains had been taking money from iquor-dealers |
and ii had been thought best to change ;he cap |
tains about 10 stop that practice.
Q.-Whcn DID yod hear such reports? Al !
hearI before became IL Commissioner that some /
II the l!Quor dealers were paying money 10 the |
police captains After | was appointed a Com |
lnssiono. gent tOr some OF the liInor-deaiers
but not one OF them would admit paying money 10 !
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