The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-06-19
NOW FOK MORE BRIBERY.
Lexow's Committee Meets To-Day-New
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York foiice Collect S3.OOO,oo' fen'.
NEW YORK, June B-Never, perhaps.
has a legislative investigating committee
nor a court of justice, lifted the trap OH
such a sink Of iniquity as has the Lexow
committee selected by the Republican
Senate. 10 inquire into the metnods OF
the Police Department or this CITY. -
The committee win meet again on Iues.
day, and great sensations are pioiiiiSeu
during the coming week.
In the early days OF the life OF the com
mittee. when II was not thought tnat ~
would attack the Ponce Departneno ~
New York city, William A. Sutherland,
of Rochester, was its counsel. The cues
furnished to Mr.. Sutherland did not pan
out. and at the proper time John W. uon'
who had been an assistant district attor-
ney, was advanced as the great lawyer
of the occasion. Mr.. Goff was put Tor
ward as the representative OF Dr. PARK
hursts society, and just about the time
that the evidence became interesting Dr.
Parkhurst sailed away for Europe. Inere
are a great many people in New York
city who would have liked to listen 10
DR.. Parkhursts evidence from the WIZ
ness stand. But DR.. Parkhurst sails
away, and Mr.. Goff, the lawyer. produces
the evidence which is said TO have been
arranged for by DR.. Parkhurst and GER
tain high officials in the Police Depart
ment whose ambitions have become noto-
rious within the last few years. Up 10
date, and not going below the rank Of
captain. the following police officers have
been besmirched:
Commissioner-yohn McClave RepJ.
nspectors-William Mclaughlin (Dem.),
Alexander S. Williams Rep.).
Captalns--James X. Price (Rep), Jacob
Siebert lRep), Adam a; Cross (Kep2,
Michael Doherty (Dem), William >. DeVe-
Anthony j. Allaire (Rep), Michael J. Muir
ply Oem), Max +. Schmittberger Rep),
Thomas Killilea Dem2.
OF whom Mclaughlin and Williams are
now inspectors. is that they received
money from the keepers Of disorderly
houses in return for police protection, or,
in other words, that as long as the money
was paid the houses were allowed to do
business. These witnesses testified that
the usual fee to a police captain was
500, and that every new captain sent INTO
the precinct by the shifts made by the
commissioners received $500. In other
words, II a captain was transferred to
pI ecinct and remained there only month
he got his $500 and the incoming captain
got another $500. Besides the initiation fee
there was tax Of $50 a month paid TO
the ward men representing the captains.
The charge against some Of the captains
Is not that they received money from
these disordery houses. but that they
were paid to allow unlicensed saloons and
cafes 10 do business.
woman testified that she kept soda
water fountain on the sidewalk, and that
she had to pay the policeman on the
beat 81 per week for the privilege. IT is
also known that merchants who permitted
goods 10 remain on the sidewalks were
compelled to pay for the privilege.
one witness, Morris Jacobs, testified
that John j. Ryan, the Tammany Hall
leader of the Twenty-hfth district. and
Deputy Commissioner of Public Works.
accepted money from one Of his con-
stituents, promising that the constituent
should be made a policeman. Mr.. Ryan
has not yet been allowed to reply on
oath.
The total sum collected from all these
sources, including the gamblers and lot
terry policy dealers, is believed to be close
II is now made plain TO citizens how
police captains can afford to pay 5000
for their postions how they can have
city and country houses: how they can
have steam yachts; own $50, 900 buildings
and get rich on salaries Of not more than
$500 per year.
The inquisltor general Of the committee
Mr.. Goff. is an Irish boy. He is forty
Wexford where they fight like devils
for cOncilation and hate one another for
the love of God" Wexford IS the next
neighbor TO Kilkenny, within whose con-
fines it is the unwritten rule. wherever
you see a head hit it," William Travers
Jerome, Goff's partner In several legal
controversies, says that Goffs family was
for generations identified with the strug-
not a few Of them suffered on the scat
fold for their part in the various uprisings
that from time to time occurred. Con-
enemies in the police department feel that
he, too, should have remained in Wex-
ford and taken his chances of the moose.
AS a lad Goff was a telegraph operator,
and later on visited South America. In
1865 ne landed here in New York city and
obtained place with the dry goods house |
of Arnold & Constable. then in Canal
street From Arnold & Constable's he |
entered the employ of A. T. Stewart |
While in Stewards employ he studied and |
received instruction at the Cooper Insti- |
tute. In 1872 he left Stewards and studied |
law in the office of United States District |
Attorney Samuel j. Courtney He got no |
salary, and made his living expenses by |
working at night as a substitute in tele- |
graph Offices and by writing for the news |
papers. 1t has been said that Goff is a |
nogul in the Clan-na-Cael and that he is |
a member of as many Irish societies as |
REGISTER Levy is of Hebrew societies. |
They crowd each other In this respect
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