Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-01-30

"What did you see, If anything,
| taken from that letterYn
81 saw % bank note taken out of it. !"
"Did you bring letters of a similar
appearance, in the same handwriting
to the chief after that occurrence?"
Eyes, sir. One or two after that. :"
"Did the chief have any conversation
with you about the bank note taken
form that letter."
Eyes, sir. He opened the letter and
| took it out in my presence and put it
in his pocket and said it was present
from this man Levy. spoke about it
| then to him and | said it would make
] trouble sooner or later and advised
him not to have anything to do with
Levy. He said it was not contrary to
the rules of the department to take a
present and he took this bank note as
present and he received it as such.
He said it was not given him in any
way to bride him in the discharge of
his duty
800 you know whether or not policy
was going on in this city at that timer"
"Yes, sir. 1t was going at times,
but not right steady like it was before
that. "
"Did you ever tell the Police Com
missioners about that occurrence?"
Eyes, sir. | did. / spoke to Mr..
Pyle, the president of the board. .
"Just explain why you told Mr..
Pyle about this bank note occurrence?''
because Mr.. Pyle came to me and
talked to me about this policy business.
He was kicking and going on and said
he had reported il here and that
nothing had been done with it. He
wanted to know why the policy was
not broken up and | told him as near
as could what was the matter.
"Why didn't you go to the Police
Commission at once at the time you
saw the money taken from the en-
velope?"
"Because / was friend of the
chiefs and l did not want to make any
trouble for him.
"Do you know whether Mr.. Pyle
communicated il to Mr.. Clarkson or
| not?"
sHe told me he went to Mr. Claskon
and laid the matter before him. And
before Mr.. Pyle left the board he made
proposition to Mr.. Clarkson. | don't
know that he did, but that is what he
| told me, and he said the proposition
was to prefer charges against the chief
for neglect of duty. =
| MT. lldThSDn SldLs'u. MIL Jit HtStl
made any proposition to prefer charges
| against the chief, but he did suggest
| to reduce the chief to subordinate
position That was about two weeks
before Mr.. Pyle went out of the board.
| ] suggested to Mr.. Pyle, in view of
the fact that he was going out OF the
board so soon, that possibly we had
better not make this radical change at
| that time. as it might be construed as
| a piece of spite work on his part. 1t
was Capt. Black who told me about
| the bank note in my Office some time
during the fall of 1901. y
Mr.. Reinhardt, resuming the exami-
nation, asked: why did you tell Mr.
Clarkson finally?"
because things had come to such
pitch here, and ii looked as though |
was trying to be forced out of here by
people on the outside, who wanted to
run this policy business "
"Were such attempts made to force
you out?n
Eyes, sir: and efforts were made
against me by policy writers.
On cross examination by Mr.. Nields,
Capt. Black denied saying to Chief
Massey "Why don't you get into this
thing and get all you can out of II.
You are accused of it, and would If
| was YOU He denied, also, that
Massey replied II don't care what |
am accused of, SO long as my con
science is clear.
On redirect examination by Mr..
Reinhardt, Capt. Black testified that
policy did start again after the
May term of court. He thought that
if Levy had been arrested when
met at the B. d o. station and some
inducements held out to the policy
writer's under bail at that time to
testify against him, Levy might have
been convicted, and he (Capt. Black
would have been willing to try it, if
the chief had ordered him to do So
AS the meeting January 2lst, Black
testified that he had seen letters adj
dressed to Samuel Levy go from the
office of the chief of police and had
mailed two or three. He had told Mas
sey of the talk in the newspapers about
policy, and suggested that policy be
broken up, whereas the chief said it
could be broken up without making
arrests. He mailed copy Of news
paper containing a policy story to
Levy, having been asked to do so by
the chief,
Bernard ]. McVey, the former State
detective, now employed by the People Is
Railway Co., denied that he said to
Patrolman James G. Shields, in the
presence of Patrolman Harry A. Pierce,
that Chief Massey was atfording pro
lection to gamblers and that he INC:
Vey) could put him out of business il
he wanted to. He denied also that he
attempted to scare Officer McGillon SC
as to affect his testimony, but ad
mitted cautioning him to be careful.
He denied using vile name concern
ing Black, or saying that every =
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