New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-11
DETAILS OF THE HEARING.

More than one hundred patrolrren II uniform
filed the seats reserved for witnesses when the
session opened yesterday. They came from all
parts Of the city. from Coney Island 10 The Bronx
Among the civilians present was William J. Kelly
the lawyer who represented certain Councilnen IN
the Supreme Court proceedings lately finished
NJ Moss Immediately called Mr. Kelly 70 the
stand Before M Kelly took his seat Mr.. Moss
read the letter written by Assistant Corporation
Counsel Blandy oboecting TO M. Kelly represent
ing the Municipal Council. Then he decided not 70
examine Mr.. Kelly and let him &c. Mr. Moss said
he considered II only fair explain that the con-
tention Of the Councilmer in retaining Mr.. Kelly
vas that the Corporation Counsel had not repre-
sented the Council. but was really representing
The other side in the matter Of the Pierce contract
and the disputed bond issue.
M Moss then said that the only book furnished
him BY Captain McClusky's detective bureau show
Ing robberes was record OF property recovered
The properly appearing therein does not appear on
the Chiefs book Mr.. Moss read from the book
tbA value Of the property recovered. II showed
that property from al over the United States was
brought 70 New-York and disposed OF In pawn
shops and other places. 1T appears from this
said Mr. Moss. that thieves VINO 1--we here 20
irto the outlying districts 10 commit roboeres and
then bring their plundsr TO THIS city ana get rio
o. IL here
According to the records property worth $4,000
recovered 1895. and thus far this year goods
worth $4,000 had been recovered by the ponce
copy OF this book in evidence
CHIEFS RECORDS A FARCE.
yesterday" said Mr.. Moss I'VE put in evidence
tb record ~ me complaints of loo citizens robbed
n two precincts by women Now offer tran
script from tho record showing 80 other sucn Too-
berries reported 70 the police IN four precincts
NJ Moss then read a list OF the eleven sus-
pected gambling houses az shown by the record
KEEP, BY chief Devery, and d further list Of fifty
oruhl
since discontinued or vacated he called attention
70 the fact that the Chiefs list shows no suspicious
pace IN the Twenty-second Precinct, While the
evidence OF the committees detectives WAS II4dI
they had gambled in a dozen sucn houses IN thaI
precinct alone In the Twelfth Precinct the Chiet
LIST showed twelve places suspected OF oelhs as
orderly houses ard FIVE suspected OF peins poicy
shops
John R Wood one OF the committees detectives
took the stand. and Mr.. Moss asked MIN II theIe
were any opium joints in New-York- he sald II
would surprise the people II they knew the great
Increase in that vice.
About Il o'clock last night" said the witness
M Harris and went 10 Nos 70 and % West
sixty-second-st. and got by the two iooAou's a"
hight. There was Chinaman present aho II
large room there a large NUMBER OF men an
women smoking opium. There were about hity
men and women lying on hunks haf nuue 4"o
place is fitted up in Oriental style
DID you have any talk with the people IN charge
OF the placer" asked Mr. Moss
Yes. sir The owners said everything was al
right as long as they up with the long green
and referred 10 Captain Moynihan, VINO comhaHoS
the precinct the West Sixty-eghth-st station as
e good fellow" The witness said they were th@Ie
from y 30 D. m 20 ! o'clock in the morning ne
bought some cooked opium there. which ne pro
duced.
Replying 10 Mr. Mazet the witness said men aho
women were living about together, the women na.I
undressed some OF the men were young, less tnan
twenty years Of age.
NO TROUBLE TO BUY OPIUM
The witness next told OF the purchase o. opium
~ No % Bowery kept b. "Scotty LaVeiIe' MI