The evening world., 1894-06-08

for these the witness said the monthly
Did you think the Captain could give
you permission to sell liquor without a
..tI csrtai hised il Sf / PAID I'd f sa'H III i..id the.
Did. you ever keep a disorderly
house?"
NO. SIR
The witness said she had to close UP
her place last Winter and had gone back
The next witness proved to be an In
teresting one. He was Morris Jacobs, a
tailor, of 1897 Third avenue Mr.. Jacobs
said he. had lived In the Twenty-ffth
a Asie% Rady be eis'r a me aS4s1 e elea he yam yam.
many Hall General Committee.
Jacobs began his testimony by saying
t the' c s,nSs he re salisdm q sqFs }pn. from rom
two other policemen Of the One Hundred
and Fourth. street station had tried to
intimidate him and prevent him from
testifying before the Committee.
Says He Was Threntenedy
"Finnerty came into my store last
nit n,Eht J., and cnbs left !!ns the s., ether Re m tive outside"
are going before the senat Committee.
If you do I'll arrest you the first chance
l get
squealer and, a bowler and I'll break
Jacobs said another policeman. those
hnme Besides Be aIa hRs sa a friend a'iO OF fh hidsame
to him and told him that John ]. Ryan,
the, Tammany leader, wanted to see him,
nnd ians Ryan SIs nh haa S ia s,s .h .e.tI L SsSo Ss
would railroad him t. Jail. =.
Yes, he is sitting over there" aid
Statesman. He also said that William
A. Baumert. brother of the Alderman,
was in the court yesterday watching
."He. was told to watch me, too" said
the witness.
Jacobs said tina Ryan had promised
fis friend told him the leader Wanted 70
see him about.
Have you had any dealings with
Ryan IN your efforts to get on the police
Yes, I have IN application which. has
been pending two years. I have been
obliged to spend hundreds OF dollars for
r nye E 0a any appSinim aen He nfve 20. ha me
to lay out my money, for nothins.1. E
Have you been threatened with
criminal prosecution. for coming hereftt
Chairman Le.ow told thj witneys th.t
he would be protected iIl whatever ~
said. and that nothing. he said could
Jacobs said he was one Of the, Tam
many captains at the last election, and
that the Saturday before election day
Ryan got all the captains together and
gave them their instructions. o.
Election Cnpthini Instructed.
Boys he said. next Tuesday 1t Is
W the r CITY up Of as sf lsrs eH e G mayyo oa TO as see po ,ha.
BILE. We have got the election In
spectors with US, so 'that every Tam
many. vote must be brought out; - -.
"sVf yyntI cot into any fr0tth1n ~ ~
any Of our votes are challenged. you
will also have the police with you. III
there are not enough, we will 3end for
mind about. the .Republican votes or
won't count on next T~uesday.,..X
sc 1Se0 friends %s" wh on b eH s assd t to a.G &c nan
association uptown, There were many
In the association who were ~not,natural-
lied, and who wanted to vote In the
election.
when my friends came to me and
asked me how to vote 7 tod them that
l belonged to the Tarimany Hall Cen
would get the whole vote Of the Club for
the organization II I could get them nat
uralization ape
Wholesale Naturaltxations.
II referred them al to p I. Ryan.
brother Of John J. Ryan. to get naturali-
cation tickets. My friends went to see
f Ey" brl asH sT TX he w Hote 81 5ss Ike T clSSa, a Eei
he promised them good positions after
the election"
yided with tickets. and then they he p got
their papers. Many OF the men thus
Engltsh; he said. ., ~
tickets" asked fommiss,ener Lexow.
like RESTAURANT theeks, e only s'M instead Of
having the price marked on them they
said: STANDARDIZATION bureau, Tam
RRSnS tT %wenty S4a Tf pist 1lFaea John j.
dc you mean to say that those tick
cts were eSchangeable for naturaliza-
tion papers" asked the Chairman.
piled for papers 90 cents down at the
''Oh, the organization paid the fee?'
Yes, that is the way 1t was ONE
His Efforts 20 Get on, the Force.
Jacobs Their went on to tell Of his
the police force. He ~wasiinduced to 60
in for an appointment by5 Offcer Wood
bridge, of the Eighty-eighth street sta
was a friend Of his. and promised to in;
troduce him. tb some men who would
fix matters for him.
You would make a good policeman
tohh NoouDi EbV a"b Soh oS -
ranged without any trouble: only 1t
will cost you something.
"Woodbrtdge told me he had to pay,
and that l could get on the force for
about $500. I said I would like to be
appointed. n a few days afterwards
he introduced me to Theodore Saunders
and a nan named Wolf. who made an
appointment to go down to Police Head
quarters with me the next day.
II was told by Woodbridge that the
men were agents of the Police Com
m~issioners; and that they could get
me through all right.
II went Town with Saunders and
Wolf, according to the arrangement.
and when we reached headquarters
Saunders asked me some questions
about my pedigree and so forth.
HE told me he was going to intro
duce me to the Commissioners, u he
didn't. ! vas left outside in the corri.
dor while they went into the Commits
sioners' rooms.
Then they came out and took me
down TO a liquor store. where they In
troduced me to a man named Hasbrook.
who is a clerk at Bolice Headquarters.
third named Johnny Dwyer.
Paid to Get the Position.
"Dwyer was a messenger at Headouar-
tiers. Saunders hen told me I must pay
$50 down, and when I asked him what
for he said that he had helped a lot OF
other people, who had gone back on
him, and tina he needed the money n