The times., 1899-04-25

precinct covers One Hundred and Twenty
fifth Street. on which several pool rooms
are said to exist He was unable 10 recall
the meeting OF the police captains callei
on the night OF February 90. by In psctor
Kane. All the meetings that Inspector
Kane had called. he said, were for the
purpose of squirting up the captains. lie
was not Interested in police lsgis att IN, he
declared In fact. the important DO ice
oiils that have been under consideration 1t
Albany. although they looked to a COM
piete reorganization of the Police Depart
ment, created not the slightest interezt,
apparently, among the commanding oficsrs
OF the police force
Sergt. Edward G.. OBrien, Of the Sew
entieth precinct. Bath Beach. was called
and asked about the ssrgeants' association.
out ne knew nothing about IL whatever.
not even Its name. O'Brien was trans
ierred from precinct in the borough of
manhattan about month ago to Bath
beach. Mr.. Clarke asked him IL he were
not transferred because he had objected to
the assessments for the sergeanrs' asso-
citation. O'Brien said he had asked 10 be
transferred to Brooklyn Mr. Clarke. how
ever, pressed him hard and O'Brien, very
uncomfortable. admitted that he had not
Joined the association and had objected
to it. In the course OF some badinage
Mr.. Clarke said
You were never on trial before me,
were you, sergeant"
No said O'Brieu. laughing. II hap
pened TO be on the right side OF the house
that time
Mr.. Clarke asked abuot n meeting of
sergeants held at the Murray Hill Lyceum
but O'Brien swore that he knew nothing
about 1t.
sergt. Oliver E. Tins said he was presi-
dent of the Sergeants' Endowment Asso-
citation, which was reorganized about q
month ago. Mr. Clarke showed the SER
geant slip of pink paper, the weil-known
otHcisl paper of the police department.
The paper contained call for a meeting
OF the Police Sergeants' Endowment and
Benevolent Association, to be held at the
Murray Hill Lyceum. ON March 2, 1895 and
asked the sergeants to send 81 IL they
could not attend. II was signed by-Oliver
z. Tins, president. Mr.. Clarke wanted to
know how the sergeants' organization
happened to be formed just at the particu-
lar time. The sergeant said he did not
know.
Sergeant Tins incautously fumbled o
packet Of letters while he was talking. AS
semblyman Faliows detected an envelope
Of the Assembly of the State of New York
Tins was finally compelled to produce the
envelope. 1t was addressed to Sergeant
Cans. Tins declared he knew nothing
whatever about it. Sergeant Tins got very
badly rattled. and Assemblyman Fallows
got possession of the entire packet of
papers. Chairman Mazet got Tins to say
that he gave them up willingly. and they
were marked in evidence.
DR.. O'Sullivan. counsel for the city de-
partment. precipitated a lively tilt by de-
manding that the papers given UP by the
witness be read. He said that Fallows had
gone through the sergeants pocket and
taken out ali he could find Fallows de-
manded that DR.. OSullivan be made to
retract his words. The chairman said that
DR.. O'Sullivan should retract his words and
apologize to Mr. Fallaws- Instead Of do
ing this. DR.. O'SuIlivan said:
Il said that the man had gone through
his pockets and given you everything he
could find"
Mr. Fallows insisted upon reuaetion,
but DR.. O'Sullivan showed no disposition
TO take hack his words or to apologize.
He said he regretted II il the committee
had taken exception to his words. MIR
Hoffman said the papers had been eonis-
| Gated by the committee, and Chairman
Mazet asked Sergeant Tins II he had not
| given up the papers voluntarily. Sergeant
| Tins said he had surrendered the papers
willingly. Later DIR. O'Sulliyan asked that
his words regarding Sergeant Tins pock-
cts be stricken from the record. This was
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| from the record.
| Continuing his examination. Mr.. Clarke
| asked Tins further about the meeting Of
sergeants at the Murray Hill Lyceum, and
| if he had not made a speech about the
necessity for raising a fund
No. SIR" replied the witness. .'only n
fund for beneyolence." He did rot remem-
| ber the reading of a letter from B-ook-
| lyn Assemblyman The witness got more
than usually tangled up a moment later
He testified that Sergeant O'Brisn. CT the
Seventeen precinct, was at the Murray
Hill Lyceum meeting. O'Brien. who had
sworn that he was not there was standing
in the back of the room. and shock his
head at the witness. Tins thereupou sail
it was another OBrien who was at the
meeting. The rest of the day was spent
in an effort TO learn more about the police
mems association. and their alleged pur
pose to influence legislation Little thzt
was satisfactory to the committee had been
learned when at 3:15 adjournment was
taken until May ..