New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-06-16
"d JOURNEY TO BOHEMIA"
YESTERDAYS INVESTIGATIONS OF THE
LExOw COMMITTEE.

yo,v roRrrGN LIQUOR DEALERS ORGANIZED TO
evc,.pr POLICE PROTECTION AND GOT IT.
rohn ". Gof said yesterday morning when ne
entered the courtroom where the Lexow COMMITTEES
"a holding It's sessions What is on the boards for
- 49, oh \ little tourney 20 the mountains OK
pohemia Mr. GoY took this picturesque way 10
CO.., tha, he would devote the greater part OF the
dav 10 the examination or lot OF o0"e"'.'
l,ouor dealers OF the XNth and NAlld Assembly
dtstrcts as TO their connection with the poAcS
,hereabouts Before the Bohemian journey was
entered on however. the committee maze a lew
,nouiries Of Bessie Butler about her place NO Oh
rldrdge-st. which, according 10 common report
was cosmopolitan in It's character
I,,,,a Vaddadv a Hungarian, the first wit
moss called sne could not speak English so
Marcus Braun was called upon to interpret Tor
her IN the Magyar tongue. Her examination was
a follows. Mr. Jerome asking the questions;
oUhat was your business lately? Al had
o coffee-bouse at No. 50 Aen-st l opened 1t in
November IS and kept open about two ana max
months
O-Dii you have girl walters? A-fes
Odd the police ever come TO your place? A.
YES. va. arrested once for selling schnapps
Ov,, arrested YOU? A detective named
Low. was discharged saloon keeper in Riv-
ington-st. baed me out at first
O.-Who got him to bail you out? A-One OF
my girls
Odd you pay him for 1t? A.-No.
MONEY PAID THE DETECTIVE.
Odd YOU see Levy afterward? Ayes. He
came 10 my place and told me got OF because
he told the truth l thanked him. My partner
said ne would pay Levy so We should not nave
any more trouble. didn't give Levy any money
myself. but my partner said that he paid money
to Levy.
O-po YOU know Levy's house in Stanton-st? A.
Yes: at No. 80.
O-Is It a disorderly house? Al don't know.
Q-Didn't some Of your girls come from Levys
house? Ayes; but they were very decent girls
They were servants in Levy's house.
O-Has Levy coffee house? Ayes.
O-Is II not the general understanding In the
neighborhood that 1t is a house OF i-repute? Al
have heard so, but my girls denied II emphaticaiiy
O-But the house has the name Of being disorder
" in the neighborhood? Ayes.
PROTECTION AT SIS A MONTH.
The witness then left the stand. and told MI.
Jerome privately that her partner had PAID sio
month as protection money for their conee-nouse
Bessie Butler, who figured recently In the tria OK
Captain Price before the Police Commssioners'
was then called 10 stand. Bessie did not go 10
the courtroom OF her own sweet will 1t took
formidable subpoena TO fetch her and even tnen
she gave a practical iustra;ion-a living picture a.
II were-of the old saying Anybody can leao u
horse TO water but whole army cannot make n'ih
drink" Even the powerful Lexow committee "iiie"
one witness on Thursday said she feared more than
the $500 policemen In New-iork CITY, could not
make Bessie tell what she knew
Bessie's husband used TO be a partner OF silver
Dollar Smith in the saloon business. and Bessie
used TO run No 81 Eldridge-st., which was reported
as a dIsorderly house by many police captains sne
was well dressed in black when she took the
witness chair. She looked right into MI MOSS
eyes when ne examined her. and denied everything
that was worth denying in a snappy tone ana hosthe
manner She glared at Mr. Moss as II she would
like TO bite him. Mr. Moss told the committee tnat
he had agreed TO keep the present home OF the
witness a secret Her husbands name was given
as Edward Butler.
Q-When did you give up your place IN E'oriuse-
ST.? A-About two years ago.
O-How close to the station-house was II! A.
You know.
Dwell the committee doesn't? Alt was IN