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greatest Importance, and said that 1t
ought to receive the Closest attention.
Lawyer Moss Testifes.
Mr.. Goff then called Lawyer Frank
Moss, his colleague, to the witness stand,
and he went into the history OF the
early efforts of the Society for the Pre-
vention of crime and the Business Men'y
Organization, of which he had been a
member. to purify the Tenderlon Pre-
cinct in the days Of Captain, now In
spector, Williams.
This was recognized as the first gun in
the campaign which the Committee has
long threatened to inaugurate against
the higher officials Of the Police De-
partment.
The object of the Business Mems or
ganization." Mr.. Moss said, was to sup
press a number of disorderly houses In
West Tw,enty-seventh street. and in gen
neighborhood. That was In 1885,
He mentioned the names of the keepers
Of several houses of ill-fame maintained
there there am9ng them Madame Engel,
Crow Flats, and one house kept by
Emile Plattel. which was always known
5a, as the Captains House" This was at
l04 West Twenty-seventh street.
The Society, he said, held weekly meet
ings and interested large number of
the business men and residents of the
heig;h9orhood; ne INFORM Many efforts were made
these places, but without success, al
though they were run openly, and no
pretense was made of regulating them.
Charges Agninst Williams.
-" I'VE presented the matter to Mayor
Hewitt. and through his assistance
charges were preferred against Williams,
and he was tried in July, 1887. Although
many business men. several ministers
and a number of ladies testified at the
trial, proving beyond a doubt the bad
and disreputable character of the places
IA n u ctr Nd hot Nl.axt
had been permitted to run openly by the
criminal negligence of the Captain, he
was not convicted.
Mr.. Goff read the minutes of the meet
ing of the Board at which the charges
were acted upon after the trial. There
were nine specifications, and Commits
sioner Voorhis moved for conviction on
Commissioner Porter, but on every. spe-
cification Commissioners French and Nc
Clave voted for acquittal. The result
was a tie, and nothing had ever been
done to press the charges since then.
Afterwards Mr.. Goff read from the
record showing that when Capt. Will
Jams had been appointed Inspector, Com
his had voted for his promotion, while
Commissioner Porter had opposed it.
Others Tried, but Not Acquitted.
whom serious charges had been brought,
said Mr.. Moss, and they had been tried
but not acquitted. These were Capts
Mclaughlin and Carpenter. The charges
lected to proceed against gambling
houses in their precincts, and they had
been preferred by the Society for the
Prevention of Crime, of which the wit
ness was then counsel
When 1t came to vote of the Police
| Commissioners Noorhis and Mclean
had favored conviction. while Martin I'll
result was the same as that in tn.
case of Capt. Williams. The cases had
never been decided and the charges
were to be regarded as still pending;
that Mclaughlin had been promoted te
an inspectorship, while Capt. Carpenter
had been permitted to retire on a pen
| sion.
Mr.. Moss said that Capt. Killilea hat
also been tried on charges, which had re
| suited in tie vote by the Commission
ers. and that nothing had ever beer
| Now Comes Appo's Case.
When Mr.. Moss retired Mr.. Con- called
Policeman Thomas Coleman, who hao
watched George Apo In the Chambers
Friday night and from to ~ o'clock Sat
urday morning, as the next witness.
Coleman is the policeman who is re-
spOGsble for the story that appo haG
suicide. Mr.. Goff labored with him 6
long time to try and bring out the ex
act language used by Apo when hi
made this confession.
Coleman persisted in his story thai
Apo had made the confession about
O'Clock on Saturday morning. Apo wa!
raving all the night and had to be tle tlet
could speak inteligently in the morning
What did Apo say?' asked Mr.. Con-
II asked him, how he got cut, and hi
said he did it himself"
''\Vall give the exact words
He said I done it myself"
What else did he say%'
Apo Wished He Was Dead.
He didn't say anything there ther
Ra5 Rad." "SNeo f0' paper
ibid he say anything after that?"
Yes he said aida Wish what was Was deaa after h
had been reading the paper"
Coleman swore that he did not know
who Apo was when he went to water
him at the hospital. He was simply tolS
by the sergeant to go to the hospital
, that there was man there VINO had al
tempted suicide. He received slip o
paper from. Officer Rrunnell, whom NJ
went to relieve on Saturday morning
with Appos pedigree on 1t, and 1t was
not till then that he knew who the mar
was.
in the newspapers. and recognized hin
| when he heard his name. Mr.. Con wen
: over CoIeman's story of the night watcf
, with Apo several times, but the witness
persisted in his statement that Apo ha(
: told him that he had tried 10 comm
suicide, and that he was tired of life.
"Did you ever hear of the green good:
busIness?" asked Mr.. Con.
"Yes, but ! was not long In the pre-
t cinct. The Captain gave some instruc
"What were his Instructions"
e "Oh, he told us to bounce th';e steer
ers."
"were you ever convicted OF any OF
e fenses by the Police Commissioners? |?
S inquired Chairman Lexow.
= "Yes; l think So ~ -
e How many times have charges beel
e preferred against, ,you?'
n about sixteen
r Were you ever convicted of clubbing
any one?'
h Fined for Clubbing.
= ives. think I was convicted twice.
Mr. Goff took hold OF the witnes
U again and brought out the 1acI that ~
: had once been fined twenty DAYS pa;
. for clubbing a man named John casey
e and another time seven days pay 10
n assaulting Henry OFT. The hrst cas-
was a very brutal o2e, the evidenc
showing that Coleman had attacke'
Casey without any provocatlon'
J.. Mir. Goff dug out of his papers anothe
,e charge of assault against Coleman n
!, snecifcations alleging that he had, whil
"a intoxicated, knocked down a niue glI