The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-12

tieS?'
 1T am"
 Query-"Do you believe you are men tally able to perform those duties?"
 T do."
 Query-'During your police caree
 have you ever been under charges?
 Never"
 Query-"Have you ever been calle'
 before the police board and repri
 manded?"
 NO, sir.'
 Cross xamined-Witness denied eve
 having been called before the polic
 commissioners when MT. McGann wal
 on the board, and reprimanded. H'
 had always considered Commisionel
 Shannahan a friend who would not in
 jure him or wrong him in any way. Sc far as witness knows, there was no req
 son why anything but friendliness
 should exist between him and MT
 Shannahan
 The same he said was true of his | relations with Commissioner Landers I whom he expected would look out fol his interests in the police board | Nothing was said in a conversation
 with Commissioners Landers about re-
 tiring the witness permanently on a
 pension.
 The witness was invited by the com
 missioners to go with them to the sparring exhibition referred to above. | Witness reported to chief of police that sparring exhibition was to be ] given at that hall. He told me to let | it go on but said he would not coun- tenance it by having any officers there and advised me not to go there myself.
 "State the reasons for your transfer from Grand avenue station
 Tt was at my request. l asked Con- missioner Hubbard to bring it about, as I was not supported by the commls- sioners while at that station. Chief Wrinn testified that he had me trans ferred for cause He had nothing to do with it. He was then simply captain at station 1. Treadwell Smith was su- perintendent then. While l was cap- tain at that station there never was complaint of a gambling house in that precinct. When a policy game was at one time discovered there 1 had an of ficer put in front of the place to pre- vent it. There are liquor violations all over the city but no more there than elsewhere considering the population.
 Police Sergeant Bergin, another of the deposed officers, was next examined. He testified to his duties at his pre- cinct on Howard avenue and to having been examined by physicians as to his physical and mental condition; that his physical condition was good, and that he first learned of his transfer from a groceryman who called at his house. Witness had been twenty-eight years, lacking one month, on the police force and had never been reprimanded or brought before the commissioners on charges.
 Query-"Have you ever had any | troubles with Messrs. Shanahan, Lan- ders. Avery or Clarke?"
 No, nor have I any knowledge of | their being unfriendly to me.
 Witness saw many men getting soft | snaps as desk sergeants, and thought he would look for such a place. For that reason he had a conference with Captain OKeefe, but denied that he said he was getting along in years and wanted an easier job, or that his limbs troubled him.
 Captain James P. Brewer, another of he deposed officers, testified to having been thirty-flve years connected with he department eighteen years of which he was a detective. He was for hree months sergeant and ten years lgo was made a captain.
 Query-"Were you ever talked of for superintendent?
 +o J mt 1lnun1 | Six weeks before witness had heard umors of his probable transfer. Con- missioner Clarke told me, Captain, l hink it looks risky for you, and If you ont go now you'll have to go a year rom now I said, Whats the matter 1ith me? What are you giving me% bought he was fooling and he walked { way" The witness then repeated an inter few with Commissioner Avery over he telephone in which the commission r assured him of protection. ( Commissioner Clarke called at my { recinct at one time and said: Cap ain, what is the matter with you? You I re raising Cain down here I said, i What do you mean?' He replied, You i re pulling all the administration sa- ,ons and leaving the McGann saloons one.' t.II 'l replied that I didn't know anything bout that; that I was trying to sup ress illegal sales so far as l could MT. I larlze asked if I would meet Mayor r riscoll if he would make a date with V e. I agreed and date was made and ! called on the mayor" ? This meeting with the mayor was ex- g uded from the testimony. t Witness testified he never had been c lled before the board on charges, h ough Lawyer Goodhart had threat t him with charges. His precinct cov- t ed half the city and is densely popu- W ted. It has more saloons than all I her parts of the city combined When O e witness took that precinct fourteen u onths ago he had forty-nine men un- q r him. They had since been cut down a
 forty-two He had done a good h 1rk in suppressing illegal liquor sell R E and houses of ill-fame in his pre- W lct.