Evening journal., 1902-01-29

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was il not. to catch the chief consplr-
ator of the whole thing, and you Just
let him go, would IL have been betray-
ing anybody's confidence TO have ar
rested him then?
Not that know Of.
Would It have been setting any trap
TO have arrested him then?
No
According to your statement last
night, you did not think you were
going to meet Levy when you started
for the B. & o. station?
No.
And you say to this Commission THAT
you let the most important criminal of
all criminals, who are interested in
policy come to Delaware at a time when
you could have easily procured the ev-
idence against him, and allowed him
to 20 away without arrestng him?
/ don't know that we could have con
victed him.
Would not the other men whom YOU
had arrested in the raid Of March 30
have been willing to testify or turn
States evidence against Levy II you
had arrested him?
No, for this reason, in a raid / have
made where eight or ten were arrested.
could only get two who would testify
The others positively refused to open
their mouths.
Would not two have been enough to
have convicted Levy?
Yes, sir. One would.
Yet you were not willing to take the
risk of arresting him?
did not make the arrest
Why did you not?
say 1 can't answer that question
Was IL not because you wanted him
TO go on in connection with you at some
later date and carry on the policy?
say no.
In the different attempts that had
been made to approach you, in regards
to gambling since you have been chief.
you have given as your reason for not
reporting these approaches to the Com
the fact that you never
Thought of it?
never gave it consideration.
Could not there have been another
inference drawn from il?
There might be now. / can picture
now lot of things now that / did not
think of then. There is a lot Of things
said and done since this investigation,
which If had known before, it would
never have happened.
What do you mean by that?
mean there has been things asked
and said here That a person would not
think of at other times. ] would have
acted in another way.
If some crime, other than gambling
had been committed, and the criminal
escaped in Philadelphia, and you had
met this criminal at the b.
& o. station, in Wilmington, would
you not have arrested him?
I would have arrested any person we
wanted TO arrest
Then do I understand that You did
not want to arrest Levy?
did not say so. I did not consider
HIS arrest at all.
You said you and Black We're talking
over a question Of whether Sergeant
Tucker told anybody about Lefty
Smith in an engine house?
the captain told me that he heard
that Tucker went in the engine house
that afternoon and that he might have
told about the warrant for Smith.
Did you and the captain think that
Smith had been tipped at that time?
/ don't know. We were discussing
IT, We did not know anything cer-
tain.
Following this Chief Massey was
asked additional questions concerning
his interviews with Levy and in reply
said:
In addition to seeing Levy at the
Hotel Walton l saw him when I was
on Market street in this city
and he turned into the Royal Insurance
office.
Then the Hotel Walton interview Of
about four years ago and the time you
met him on the street. when he went
in the Royal Insurance Company and
the time you met him at the cOnven-
ton of 1900 and the time you saw him
at the b. & o. station. are all the times
you have seen Mr.. Levy?
To the best Of my knowledge
The Meeting OF January ?
At meeting of the Police Commits
sion held on January 21 1902, Captain
George Black was recalled and was
examined by Mr.. Reinhardt, who
asked:
In your direct examination at The
last hearing 1 omitted to ask You in re-
gard 10 any letters which you may have
seen addressed to Samuel Levy coming
from this office State to this Commits
sion what you know in regard to let
ters coming from the office of the chief
of police addressed to Samuel Levy2
I have seen letters go out of here on
two or three different occasions ad-
dressed to him.
Did you ever receive any letters from
the chief of police?
Yes, sir.
What did you do?
Took them down to the depot and
put them in the box there
On how many different occasions did
You do that?
Two OF three different occasions.
There was considerable talk in th'
newspapers in regard to policy playing
last winter. did you ever bring that x
the attention of the chief?
Yes, sir
What did he say?
suggested that We break u M.
What?
The policy playing going on at tha
time