The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-05
VILLAINY OF POLICR
How Tammany Guardians G..
Blackmail From Vice.
EVEN INSPECTORS sHAarn
More Revelations About the Dsu..
Government In New York ana u.-
Tammany Men Grow Rich.

NEW YoRK, Oct. 4-''Commodors O..
has sailed in here under full blast ana !.
now running down this COMMITTEES bsc...-
in stray puff of wind 1t ran acro~ n.
bowsprit yesterday. l would respsctfsll.
suggest that when he comes hsf...
the COMMITTEES he come with 4 pllo.
who is familiar with the rocks and shosI.
with which he is evidently unfamlliars
1t was in this facetious and nautical f,.A.
ion that Chief Counsel Golf alluded To a.
refusal of Commodore Gerry, president =
the Society for the Prevention y
Cruelty to Children, to take :,
oath at the hearing today. Mr.. Gerry hsa
prepared long typewriter statemsn.
and he insisted upon reading it. Mr.. Go6
insisted that the evidence presented 4
the committee must be sworn =
Then there was war OF words
Mr.. Gerry accused the memhsn
and counsel of the camm!ts~
of assaulting the work Of the society. NJ
Golf insisted that the secretary had not
been attacked, but he thought Ia
powers given to Mr.. Gerry and his =.
sistant were arbitrary. Mr. Gerry ssM
Mr.. Golf was trying to make politl
cal capital out of the attack, IL
name of the first counsel having ben
suggested for mayor by the ansi-Tan
many organization at q meeting lsss
night Mr.. Goff retorted that II he vas
candidate Mr.. Gerry. whose name he'd
been mentioned in this connection, would
do well TO lock after his own chsnces
Mr.. Gerry finally went away vithout
reading his statement.
The clubbing of Thomas Luce By POLES.
man Dunn was taken up bv the committsa
Luce's employers testified as to his good
character. The policeman found 1t did.
cult to explain why he had used 90 much
force.
story which implicated Capt. Schmftt.
berger aud some of his men. She wss
Sarah Brown. of West Thirty-fourtA
street. who had . suit for damages
against Isaac Cohen. . lawyer An
other woman had advised her 10
drop the suit against Cohen. a. h
was friend OF Capt. Schmittbsrger. The
captain, she said. would arrest her. Later
two policemen called and advised her 70
drop the suit. One of the policemen tried
to criminally assault her daughter. Then,
Mrs. Brown said, she was arrested fof
keeping a disorderly house, and Policeman
Callahan told her that SchmittbereU
would settle for $500.
At the afternoon session little woman
dressed IN black took the stand. Mr.. Gof
prefaced her explanation with the state
ment that an attempt had been made 70
get her out of the country. Mr.. Gof drew
from the witness how she had lavishsd
her money on ex-Wardman Frank VIII
son. formerly under Capt. Affairs.
She was keeper OF . house Of
ill-fame on Elizabeth street. Under
threats of pulling the house." he scs
from her everything she possessed.
She furnished his house. bought :
silver set, diamond rings for bis
wife and clothing for his children. VIII
son. she said, resigned from the force ths
dap the committee opened its campaign.
He was now in Philadelphia
Inspector McLaughiin's name vas
dragged in. Mclaughlin was formsfiJ
captain of the Eleventh precineh
The woman swore that she paid
$500 initiation fee to Mat Burns,
under Capt. Mclaughlin. Every monsA
she paid $50 to Burns. When Burma
wanted diamond stud he got si6S from
her to purchase IL. She said she was nov
penniless; that her money had gone into
the police Golfers.
Referring to the Gerry society agents.
she said they collected money from aii
houes where girls under age we're kept
She told how Capt. Cross arrested CERT
Agents Becker and Finn When thsy
took $50 from her. The men were broueht
to trial. Becker was acquitted, and finn
was sent TO prison for nine months. Becker
escaped. she said. because he was son-in'
law of Superintendent Jenkins. Of ~
society. When she left New York and
opened saloon in Newark 10 was raidsd
by the police. She went to Capt. Cross
and he sent Smith. of this city. and ~
police there gave her protection.
This morning." she said, "a man oams
up to me- and said: You are subp@nssa
before the Lexow committee 'IIov %
you know | asked. Il know he ss'
ssered. You 20 right up to Inspsetof
Mclaughlin and he will buy ron o.
Don't 20 before the committee Irsfuse
his advice"
When asked by Mr.. Golf how much -
had paid the police she answered aooss
s. 600 or $4,000.
Warden Lsdwith, OF Jefferson msfs~
prison, Was then hauled over the cosis in
visiting David Fender. green eooas
man, on. BlAckwelps island. fsnas
was mentioned in the testimony
Apologize. aud IL appears that the -
den, who is friend Of Detective hassy,
interested himself 10 get statement ne
Fender that would help Hanlsy.
Taylor Townsend, q despsrass ~
murdered his brother Harry aud snosss
negro named Cranshaw near Wetnmes