The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-09-01

goods business in New York was mostly
IN the hands Of James McNally and Fred.
erick Hadlick. These two men MANAGED
rival concerns and were known as tbe
hackers" Both had police protection
Circulars were sent out TO- 600 aday) and
arrangements made TO meet the victims
and swindle them. The hackers had
agents in the telegraph Offices and in tho
postoflice, who were paid to see that circu.
lars and messages were properly delivered
Men called "stcerors" were employed To
escort the victims TO the Office" These
steerers were well known to the police
Appo himself was well known to them
They escorted their victims under the eyes
of the police with impunity. The hackers
guaranteed protection in this city to those
i'm their employ and held back percentapa
of each mans pay for the purpose Of pay
ing the police Apo said that McNally
had been in the green goods business in
New York for eight years and had never
been arrested. The other men who were
employed in various capacities in running
the business were known as turner's. 9,
"tailers, - RINGERS" and odd gentle
men, each one performing his allotted
task.
Men who tried to run the business on
their own account in this city, Apo said,
were driven out of the precincts, even mur-
der being attempted to get rid Of them.
jobs being put up for that purpose There
could be no doubt, the witness said, that
the regular men in the business were pro-
tected by the police, and as proof Of that
he added with the utmost nonchalance
that If he attempted to pick pocket he
was Immediately arrested, but that not
withstandng his picture was in the rogues'
gallery and the fact that he was well
known TO the police he was allowed to
steer 'guys'-that is, victims Of the green
goods men-through the street and under
the very noses of the police, who often rec
ognized him while doing SO, with impu-
nifty.
According to his own statement, George
Apo was born in New Haven 3s years
ago. His father was Quimbo Apo, a no
torious Chinese Desperate, who died in
Sing Sing prison, where he was servinga
life sentence for murder. His mother was
low white woman. Young Apo was
taken to New York while a child and
reared in the slums.
The first fruitful result of his bringing
up was the propensity, which developed at
the early age of II, that he had for picking
pockets. He first came to grief on May
81, 1873, when policeman nabbed him at
the corner Of Broadway and Fulton street
while he was in the act of extracting o
purse from woman's pocket Recorder
Hackett sent him to the penitentiary for
two years and six months. He served bis
term and three times since then has been
sent to prison for similar offenscs.
For a number of years Apo has en-
gagged, evidently with success, in the green
goods trade 1t was in an effort to steer
two guys, in the person Of Ira Hogs
head and his father-in law, Ephraim Cas-
sell OF Greenville, 5. c., on Feb. II, 1915
that he lost one eye and nearly his life
On that date he met the two southern.
ers by agreement at the New York hotel
in Poughkeepsie His intention was to
steer them to this city, where the exchange
was to be made. The men, however be-
came suspicious, and Hogshead shot him
while in row at the hotel All parties
were arrested. The southerners claimed
that Apo threatened them, and that u
was done In self defense. They were us
charged. Apo served l 1 months.
seven years ago Apo was shot IN 'ns
stomach. Since then he has been cut anu
siashed in various places while handing
green paper.