The morning call., 1894-12-05
PUT ON THE RACK.
Goff Runs the Torture
Chamber.
HAS STRETCHED ANDREWS
To That Gentleman's Manifest
Discomfort.
BEFORE THE LEXow COMMITTEE
A Police Commissioners Tells Several
Things He Would Rather
Have Left Untold.

NEW YORK, Dec. 4.-The first witness
called before the Lexow committee to-day
was Charles E. Damseux. bookkeeper for
the French Cooks Society. He did not,
however. have some of his books which
MIR. Goff thought necessary, and his exam
ination was adjourned until afternoon.
Edward Ii. Hoyler, real estate dealer, was
then called to the stand.
"How long have you been out of the
Oswego bond swindling business" he was
asked.
81 was never in II"
The witness stated that he had been
engaged In selling and buying Austrian
bonds for ten years. Mr.. Golf put num-
Der of questions designed to show that the
witness had been permitted by the police
to conduct swindling business. He was
dismissed, with orders to produce to-mor-
row the books used in his transactions.
Mr.. Andrews, Commissioner of Street
| Cleaning, was sworn and entered gen.
| eral denial of the charge Of bribery while
| an excise commissioner, brought by wit
| ness named Tomlinson. August Lewis
was called to the stand and contradcted
| statements as to the granting of the sale
| Of licenses. Then Andrews was recalled
and stated that he was not positive about
| the man, but that man claiming to be
| Lewis bad appeared before the board and
| that the license had been granted him.
| Mr.. Golf pressed Andrews for an ex-
| planation of why license should have
| been refused one person and granted to
another, known to be the representative
of the first, to conduct saloon upon the
same promises. There were several ami
mated passages between counsel and wit
ness. Andrews evidence was not con-
cluded when the committee took recess.
| After recess Mr.. Goff excused all wit
nesses except those connected with Com
missioner Andrews case until Tomorrow.
Mr.. Andrews resumed the stand. Mr..
| G0ff wanted to know IL there had been a
hearing before the full board on the appli-
cation of Lambert The witness could
net remember. Lapbert's application h4t
| been refused. Witness said there had
| been hearing in the Lewis case, but Mr..
Goff said he could find nc record OF it and
called a witness to show that he had all
| the records in the case.
''You said you always wrote opinions
for refusing licenses. Why was none
written for refusing the notorious Tortoni
and long one written of this Katt case ?"
Mr.. Andrews evaded the question.
| You granted the license on the Royal
Hotel on Forty-second street and Grif1th's
Hotel on Sixth avenue and Forty-fourth
| street?"
YES; no protests were made against
them"
"You always heard of the Royal Hotel
that it was a nice family hotel. did you
not?''
"Yes. sir; l knew respectable people
who lived there"
'Theu you regarded the Hotel Royal in
the same way you did the Hotel Tortoni?"
| "No. can't say did"
"And you thought the st. Omer Holel on
Sixth avenue was nice, clean, family
hote?"
II think heard something, some rumor.
/ think it was, concerning the St Omer
Hotel, but W hen the application was made
there was no objection and no protest was
made to the application, and so it was
granted" In the memorandum made by
the witness at the time he said that ex
Police Justice White personally vouched
for Lewis. Ex-Polce Justice Andrew
White was then put on the stand.
"Did you ever see that man August
Lewis before?" asked Mr.. Golf, while
Lewis stood beside him.
81 never did,
Ibid you ever go with him to this Excise
Board to vouch for nim?"
''No, sir, / never did"
White was then let go. He looked re-
lieveu. Mr.. Andrews took his place on the
stand. He reiterated his conviction that
White had vouched for Lewis. which White
again denied.
Mr.. Goff read letter Of June 27, 1885.
written by Andrews to Jos. S. Miller,
commissioner of Internal Revenue, in
which he Endorsed Tomlinson in the high
est possible terms. saying he was worthy
of any confidence and man of uuQues-
tionable integrity. He had known him
for eighteen years. Mr.. Golf then tried to
get the witness to explain why he had
come to think Tomlinson unworthy of
con nfidenee, thus leading up to the spite
| which caused mis- testimony against An
drews. The witness could give none.
There had been no change in his regard
for Tomlnson up to 1889. TomlinSon re-.
NAMED with the Excise Board after his
| withdrawal from it. TomlinsoD had been
a County Democrat, but changed to Tam
many Hall In 1888. Mr.. Goff asked him if
he had not accepted bribe of $500 for the
Tortoni license. Witness denied it. In-
spsctors Co ollins and Haggerty were COM
PEELED to resign from the Excise Depart
ment on account of theft and the sale of an
old license in order that the purchaser
| might secure a new one.
'How did these men obtain these
things?" asked Mr.. Goff.
II don't know"
| sEFhar esoIo shan, thav uor 0'1
II presume they did,"
And yet, after this breach of rules Of
the committee they were only asked to
resign ?" said MIR. Golf sareastically.
Eyes"
''And the matter was kept hushed up as
much as possible?"
II believe it was"
Mr.. Goff then turned bis attention to
Clerk Bisland, who secured, his position on
the Excise Board through the influence OF
Andrews. The latter admitted that Bis
land sent $500 year to his (Andrews)
| wife in California Ha al an admiLtad that