Evening journal., 1902-01-29

threw in the waste basket. In REFER
enoe to officers being able to give tips
to policy players Chief Massey said:
In reference to the question OF Mr..
Clarkson about whether a commission
er and captain, or the captains, could
give protection without the chief,
will say in addition to what did say
that / think a street sergeant could do
more in that way than any other per-
son. for this reason: The men hand re-
ports to him and he could send those
reports In or keep them. II he sent
them in he could send word to the
people that it had been reported. Cap
tain Kane stated that the district men
could give tips to the people. They
could make report and then give a
tip. A few days after the raid Of the
30th of March the Smith business was
mentioned and il | remember right,
Captain Black said to me: have heard
that Sergeant Tucker went into the
Washy engine house that afternoon
and. he says. ne might have seen Smith
or he might have told somebody there
was a warrant for him. but that was
only surmise. / simply make this
statement in addition to what I have
said as I thought of them since.
So. in a measure. protection could
be given in that way?
Yes, sir. / don't want to infer that
any Of them did but 1t could be done.
SO far as you know none of it was
done? 2
! don't know that it was. No, sir.
In answer to questions from Mr..
Clarkson Chief Massey said that If a
police commissioner was In collision
with street sergeant that a wide
awake chief could find It out before IL
ran for long time. The chief said he
thought the presumption was that
Levy wanted to pay for protection.
Mr.. Clarkson asked:
That being the case and Levy having
made that proposition to you, don't
YOU think it would have been one of
the brightest things for you to do TO
have led him on and get him here and
then get the whole outht2 You had the
opportunity. why didn't you do It?
didn't think so at the time.
Chief. that being the case, why didn't
You take the Board of Police Commits
siOners into your confidence, when this
man made that kind of proposition
to YOU?
merely notified him that he could
not come in-nOt while I was here.
Why did you not consult the COM
missioners?
l can't answer that.
Mr.. Reinhardt then resumed the
cross-examination and asked
No nm Tn,.cto,,I r~1ts r,.~
Commission tonight that in your tes-
timony about the Hotel Walton inter
view, last evening, you forgot entirely
that that money was to be given to
- and ?
That did not appear to me at all.
What do you mean by appear?
! did not remember just what had
happened, as / said before tonight.
You mean 10 say to the Commission
that you do not remember the object
of your visit to Philadelphia to meet
him?
l mean to say that DO not remember
the details Of the visit.
You are very clear in your recollec-
tiOn that those three letters from Levy
we're received by you after the 30th of
March. 1901?
To the best of my knowledge.
Could not those letters have been
written shortly after you were ap-
pointed chief Of police to get in here?
They were not written then.
How do you know they were not?
know they were not.
Do you remember better tonight
than last night?
No; only in that way.
Do you admit that Levy did get in
policy down here after you were ap-
pointed chief?
l don't admit it. / admit there was
policy here because that was raided
and cleaned up.
Is it your opinion that Levy was the
hacker Of that policy?
That was the rumor.
You have already stated that Levy is
not in the habit Of backing policy un-
less he can get protection?
That is his reputation.
And yet you don't know whether he
was backing policy in this city last
winter?
I don't know when he came here,
but IL there was policy here last win
Ter. DtiltNt ht WIS lht udlhtl.
AT the time you made your raid on
March 30. were you then of the opinion
that he was the backer of policy here
I would say that l was of the opin-
ion that he was.
After that raid. was your opinion
made stronger by any evidence that
YOU discovered as a result of the raid,
or by reason of any conversation had
with people who were captured in that
raid?
l would say yes.
This meeting that you and Captain
Black had with Levy at the B. & O.
station last spring, did that occur after
the raid of March 30 or before that?
That was after the weather com.
menced to get warm
Was it before the May term of court
or after the May term of court when
the policy players were convicted?
could not say about that
Il might have been before or after
Yes, sir.
Whether H. was before or after thi
May term Of court. at the time Of tn
meeting of Levy there. you weri