New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-05
GARDINER EXPOSES POLICE
EFFORTS TO CLEAR HIMSELF DISAS-
TRoUS FOR THEM.
SEXTON PROSECUTED FARRELLs FOE
THOMAS ADMITS HE WAS MADE
SCAPEGOAT


THOMAS ADMITS HE WAS MADE
scAPEGoAT.
II is pretty certain that District Attorney Gar
diner has done Tammany Hall more damage by
causing the minutes of the March Grand Jury to
be made public than II would have suffered had he
allowed the presentment of the Jurors to stand
Judge Foster formally expunged from the records
OF the yesterday the part Of that presentment
which accused the District Attorney Of shielding
official lawbreakers from prosecution but 1t can
be expunged from the minds OF the people.
BY the same order. however. all the proceedings
OF the jury made public. and IT is there shown
on the sworn evidence Of ex-Chief McCullagh THAI
it was Police Commissioner Sexton who demanded
the transfer 10 Queens Borough of Detective Nc
Connell. who had the audacity to interfere with
Frank Farrers gambling house. McCuagh neg
lected TO obey this order and was himself removed
from the position OF Chief
Ex-Chief McCullagh testified about the proposed
transfer OF Detective Mcconnell, of Inspector
Brookss staff. to Queens Borough. He said Com
missioner Sexton had 10 him and told him
that Mcconnell was crooked" He asked the
Chief TO transfer him.
Why not prefer charges? / asked him.. said
the ex-Chief OF Police. He told me he preferred
to have him transferred" McCuHagh said De-
tective Mcconnell OF the men sent to
Frank Farrells alleged gambling house, at Sixth
and Twenty-ninth-st He had told Sexton that
IL he to transfer Mcconnell II would be against
Sections orders have and close the places
complained of. Some time afterward Commissioner
Sexton asked the telephone il Mcconnell had
been transferred. McCullagh said that he had not,
g there appeared to be reason for II. Commits
sioner Sexton then ordered him 10 make the trans
fer, and McCullagh declined. saying the Commits
sioner. one Commissioner, had no power to give
such order. He told him that Mcconnell was on
the sick list and the could go until he re-
covered
A day two later Commissioner Sexton met
Chief McCuilagh In Commissioner HamIltons office
and again asked him 10 make the transfer. He ac-
cused McCulagh of "stringing' him about McCon-
nell being ILL., and declared that this only a
ruse. A days later a resolution was introduced
meeting OF the Police Board transferring De-
tectiye Mcconnell TO the Borough of Queens. 1t
failed Of passage because Of some legal defect
short time after that McCullagh was retired from
the Office of Chief a pension.
Police Captain Thomas also revealed his delect-
able Chief Devery, in a strong light as machina-
who would make a scapegoat of q captain, and
Devery contributed another chapter to his own
tgnominy.
When Chief Devery called he said that he
had $500 men under him. He knew the nature OF
Indictment. and thought that Captain Thomas
ought 70 have the chance to before the Grand
Jury 20 explain matters. He said that the police
arrested anybody who was found violating the law.
You know that in Captain Thomas's precinct
there have been garnOllng houses! ne was asked.
There are alleged matters of that kind" he
answered.
do you know it of your own knowledge"
No"
AT whose request those arrests made
Yesterday" CThe arrests referred to being those
of respectable hotel managers for having music
with meas) Were they made by you or the Dis
trict Attorney
The District Attorney"
DO you know OF YOUR knowledge Of the
tstence the Tenaerloin precinct of any gambling
houses of 81 repute7'
81 know OF them. but not to my own knowledge"
He said such houses and places suspected are al
ways returned To the police records as suspicious
places. and lie thus knew of them. He said in
answer to question that it was not his duty to
visit suspected places. and moreover II would be
physically impossible.
Captain Thomas. IN explanation Of why he did
close resorts. said ne had new detectives as
signed 10 him who had Tot had time to fsmiliarize
themselves with TIE precinct any dsorderly
places st might contain. Foreman Putnam then
Has YOU attention eyer been called to the
Not until some tisae within the last few days
ogr term 6 in this r., d So hs amy the h
payment Of money TO officers under YOU
Nothing of the kind has ever dome &c my atten-
Have you any suspic,ons?'
want egs Nv saSl of
81 have no snch knowledge
PUT N TO Pc MADE A MARK Of
81 don't know I say they well founded
I want tC say right EeJe ! put ir there u
be made mark IF
What makes YOU believe that you were put
there To be made scareEoat OF"
They took tina: -e?o.t which is a copy Of the
report which handed by Captain Price
the report kept by him for the last year and
a half. the identical! report. The. report has
been put IN every week. and have continued 1t
until can get proper evidence"
The whole RECORD uE the March Crew. Jury was
put file in Clerk CAROLS ot9lcc yesterday
ing. X covers fou. hundred pages, and shows
that Superintendent Burr, Of DR.. FhrEaurst's
cety, the Of the first trouble betw cen the
called witness. and asked II his society
had any specific evidence against the dlsorderly
places He said that he personally had not bat that
his officers had. District Attorney Gardiner OBJ
jected this, and he had asked DR. ParkEurst 10
down with his evidence that they could
go through the huslress properly. He said that
Superintendent Burr had brought copy OF an in
sultnG letter HIM asking fer information, and
also a memorandum of instructions from the O.
ner to retire so that the Grand Jury could examine
the witness without his presence that of any
stenogra pher The District Attorney objected, and
said that ne unaware Of any authority for that
course Then ensued the trouble. which finally
eliminated in having Mr.. Gardiner put OF the
BY order Of Recorder Goff-
EDISON MANUFACTURING co. FORMED.