The morning call., 1895-02-17

equivalent to an investigation of all the
charges made against the Police Commits
sloner. In fact, much more trouble may
result, as the members of the Civic Fedora
ton are chatting under the charge that they
are talking wildly about matters of which
they know nothing. They are, therefore,
beginning to make specific charges, and
Commissioner Tobin may not be the only
one stung by their utterances.
In the threatened libel suits bitter war
fare may be brought on, as DIR. Ollie in
an interview yesterday, reiterated his
I charges and made even stronger use of the
expression to which Mr.. Tobin objected.
The paragraph which aroused the ire of
the Commissioner appeared last Sunday
morning. 1t was part OF the report of DR..
Dille's speech at the mass meeting held in
| Metropolitan Temple on Saturday evening,
the 9th inst, at which the Lexow commits
sion bill was discussed. The passage was
as follows:
The other victory is that the rows of houses
OF ill-fame near the County Jail have been
closed l mean the rows of houses that are
owned by Police Commissioner Tobin, and
which he has rented for years for immoral
purposes.
Mr.. Ollie closed by saying that Mr.. Tobin
had taken his gains from this source the
same as others who lived on the wages of
! unfortunate women.
1t is this last remark which stung Mr..
Tobin, and, according to his own state
meDt, nearly drove him to a rash act Mr.
Tobin was visited at his office in the Hi
hernia Bank yesterday. He was pacing up
and down and was not in q very amiable
mood. He said: at is my intention to
bring libel suit. Those fellows have gone
too far in their charges and | can stand it
no longer When I read that infamous
statement in the paper | felt like going
down to Dille's residence and having it out
with him, sick as | was. When I got UP
Monday last [ took a carriage for the pur-
pose of seeing Ollie and obtaining a retrac-
ton from him or of putting him where he
could not talk any more. / came to the
bank, however, and thought it over and
alked it over with friends. I concluded to
tappeal to the courts, and not take the law
! in IN V own hands.
"The words used by Ollie are grossly
| libelous and he has overstepped himself
All those fellows are making wild charges
for the only purpose of getting lot of free
| advertising. They seem to be hunting
notoriety, but | will call them to time.
They will regret making charges which are
untrue and which they cannot substantiate
| by evidence | have been here for fifty
| years. l was here before gold was dis
| covered and [ have never done anything
| for which | ought to be so vilifed.
| rented houses as soon as | was able, but I
''The truth about the Kearny-street
houses is this: | owned piece of property
| there, and on account of complaints being
made about the neighbors to my tenants I
bought another piece. In it were situated
| the dlsorderly houses. Madison & Burke
attend to the renting of my property.
They leased the houses at the corner of
kearny and Pacific streets to man named
Brown, who used to keep sailor boarding
| mouse. L understood he was to use the
place Tor grocery store. As soon as
learned that women were in the places l
| ordered them closed up.
i VIII sue the paper that published this
stun because 1T seems only too anxious to
| publish every sta tement it can get hold of
which is against the Police Department,
whether the statement be reliable or not
| Will not bring the suit Immediately /
Will wait to see what is done regarding the
investigating commission. There will then
De plenty of time to bring the suit l am
determined to ask for an invests CATION but
| want fair one. | do not believe the
| CIVIC Federation has any intention of m ak
ing fair investigation.
| When Commissioner Tobin's determine
tlon was made known to DR.. Ollie he
| showed no surprise nor alarm. He said he
had expected the libel suit as he had been
informed Commissioner Tobin had threat
| ened to bring it.. He said:
The words attributed to me by the
| newspapers are not exactly those which [
| uttered, but | was only slightly misquoted
did not say rows of houses, but row of
houses. [ did not refer to the letting of
| houses for years, as [ do not know how
long Mr.. Tobin has owned them. l know
! that he has owned them for some time and
that they have been occupied by disreputa-
bic women. | used the word to which