The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-11
LEXOW WORK IS RESUMED.
ATTORNEY COTE MAKES DETEC-
 TIVE HANLEY SQUIRM.
He Made Him Acknowledge That He Had Bought Fine Watch Cheap from a Pawnbroker-How Was Also Intimate with McNaily, the Green-Goods King.

It's sittings in the superior court room this morning. It is now more than two months since the committee adjourned. The result of the evidence taken before the Lexow committee was evidenced in the recent trials at the police head quarters, when four police captains were dismissed from the force. as well as several wardmen.
 The present session of the senate com mittee will not be a long one. as 1t will last, 1t is said, onfy three days. when an adjournment will be taken until the week after the republican convention at Saratoga, September IS. Charles A. Hanley, a detective in the central office was the first witness. That's a fine watch you have" said MT. Con, as he took the witness watch from the chain.
 "Where did you get this watch?"
 T bought 1t for $50 from Pawnbroker w. A. Glover. Glover told me it was an unredeemed pledge. The pawnbroker said he knew the person who pawned the watch"
 "The pawnbroker did not give back the watch to the owner?" asked MT. Golf. "No, sir"
 Now, is 1t not fact that the police stand in with the pawnbrokers in such matters as stolen property that is pawn ed?" T don't think so.'' Isn't 1t a fact that the detectives are in collision with the pawnbrokers and that the owners of stolen property have to pay the pawnbrokers the amount of money advanced?" "It Is not?'
 Where did you get the watch you had before the present one?" q bought it from dealer on the Bowery."
 What became of it?" q pawned 1t at Stearns', Thirty-first street, between Broadway and Sixth avenue, for $sO." MT. Golf questioned Detective Hanley as to his acquaintance with one Jimmy McNally.
 "McNally," said Hanley, lis thief and a green-goods man. arrested him on December 2, 1887. The case did not pass the police court" Hanley admitted being in McNally's room when two wardmen came in, two years after he had arrested him.
 "Then you admit your acquaintance with thieves? J..- Yes, sir. they are useful to us in giving information to the detective bureau"
 And all your detective triumphs come from information supplied by thieves and criminals?"
 "Yes, sir" replied Hanley.
 The committee then elicited the fact that the owners seeking stolen property were informed at the detective bureau that they could not recover their property unless they signed g. card agreeing to pay all advances.
 Lawyer Golf then made the witness admit that he only got out one search warrant for valuable property during his ten years service.
 "In other words you compelled the owners to sign the cards?" "Well, the pawnbrokers would not give any help unless the cards were signed" was Han ley's reply.
 "Now isn't it fact the police get half of the money paid the pawnbroker by the owner?" Tt is not"
 "Did you ever get any of the money?" "I have received small compensation from the owner."
 'The cards are sent out," queried Sem ator OConnor, "so that the pawnbrok- CTS may come to the bureau and inform the police?" "Yes, sir"
 Hanley then stated that Mr. Thomas of Hoyt and Thomas (since dead) had once given him little check for re- covering stolen property.
 Isn't there a provision in the penal code forbidding officers to accept pres- ents for services?" T don't know, sir"
 , Here Mr. Golf confused the witness badly about the present from MT. Thomas, after which he put in evidence rule No. 142 of the police department, which forbids officers receiving pres ents for the discharge of their duties.
 A recess was then taken.
 After recess Alonzo Sloane, a book maker, said he had been in the green goods business off and on for eight years with Jim McNally. He had never paid the police for protection. He was a writer for the green goods men and was never arrested because he was warned to keep out of the way of the police. A@letter was read from Sloane to McNally in which Sloane rep rimanded McNally for writing to George Appo. The writer said he had left McNally for good, and said the machine and books were in Bridgeport. The machine and books were the copy ing press and the addresses of the guys. Chairman Lexow asked the wit ness if the game could be worked in any other city save New York. "Yes, sir," he replied promptly, 'both in Philadel- phia and Chicago" ...- .4
 MT. Sloane was then allowed to leave the stand. J. W. Garfield, bookkeeper in Kirkpatrick's jewelry store, took his places.
 MT. Golf handed him the cash book of the concern and said:
 q turn to the date January Il, 1892, in the cash bok and find the name of Inspector Williams, $165. What does that mean?"
 "That means that Inspector Williams bought articles of jewelry to the value of $1s5."
 W. H. Applegate then took the stand He said he was a brother of Lou Ap- plegate. #ts
 "Where is your sister Lou now?' "She is in Paris with Jim McNally."