New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-23
JAIL PASSES At SALOON.
DIR MYERS'S CHARGES.
Melody and Ebstein Deny It
Stolen or FORCED, Says Sheriff.

The Rev DR. Cortland Myers, of the Baptist
Tennnle Third-ave. and Schermerhorn- st.,
Brooklyn made sensational charges
against the police and the Sheriff OF Kings
County last night He said a saloon had neeh
annexed to the Raymond-st. jail and that
passes to the jail signed by the SherlH were
sold at the saloon DIR. Myers further SAID
that yesterday afternoon he had gone to the
saloon with three detectives and obtained passes
TO the fail
Sheriff Melody last night denied that he had
ever authorized the giving out of passes in any
saloon. He intmated that bundle OF passes
had mysteriously disappeared from his drawer.
Warden Mclaughlin denied any knowledge OF
passes being issued in the saloon in question
Deputy Police Commissioner Ebstein had never
heard OF the passes in question. he said. and the
proprietor of saloon opposite the Jail refused to
discuss the case at present.
Dr. Myerss charges follow:
The Brooklyn police annex a saloon to Raymond
the ian door which mas Geen curse of the
OF the prison ana 1he ifY 6asses are kent
which admit the receiver into the jail jail THESE
They furnished to any man who buys his
drinks and makes application for TINS souvenir; ~ IN
the Jail and controls the doorway Of this famous
the day and night. More of them are given out
on Sunday than on any other day. -, -. o..
he SUFFICIENT crimnality to make the Commissioner
of Police ask his under specimens of negigen0s
or go to Berlin and study how TO make a city
decent and law worth the paper IL Is n9aT for
weeks and months and years The policemen hn1"
ing of the law and making criminals is not rapid
enough. and to it the holiness OF tae de cyl mas
lodged in the jail. For these passes In most IN
stances mean that the purchaser of them and the
flask of whiskey is to carry the liquor into the
Jail to some prisoner. - l., -, ~. ,s
g hsg n1 GrG % the e cE n ~ q! In
EMS name stop to think of it; tai and crlF IN
notorious Criminal maker the tickets of admission
enough e9 5hf to strike a horror nto the Of
bones and keep an eternal blush OF shame on our
duete Of criminals 6sssag Of bringing ;s dGab df
the Jail This is no novel feature of that jail with
a bad name. 1t has been in operation for a long
period of time. and no voice has been raised in
Now with the passes and the Sunday purchased
whiskey proof. protest in the name of humanity
and justice and will accept no himsy EXCUSE from
outra geous condition OF affairs and somebody must
bear the mountain OF responsibility. From this
lowing into Raymond street jail; It has been
ming sometimes at all hours of the might II there
ness and offciai completely with crime have yet
G Of Aca w Who IS to %
Is worthy the name 1t will with the speed of light
speed Of lightning lay the, penalty on the guilty
back. Before twenty-four hours have passed that
saloon ought to be forever abolished and its owner
brought to justice.
At the close of his sermon Mr.. Myers said
that in the afternoon he and three detectives of
the Society for the Enforcement of Criminal
Law. of which he is the president, had gone to
the saloon to which he referred. They had rep
resented that they wished to visit the jail. and
had no difficulty in getting passes, he said. The
evidence he had obtained, he declared, would be
laid before the grand jury.
w HfoIa trl,ar bic home
in Hooper-st last night, denied that he had
ever authorized the giving out of passes in any
saloon He said:
never issued passes to this seloonkeeper or TO
any other saloonkeeper to be given out in his
to and have never seen him. II passes have been
given out in this saloon know nothing about it.
About two months ago | noticed that more
passes were being taken up at the jail entrance
leave from forty to nifty passes in a drawer in my
desk in the office. 50 that they might be given TO
the Jail when i discovered that, more passes
being taken up be sT Gaed fod MADE mao t f IN
bundle of fifty passes had disappeared from the
AS people visit my Office every day t. lock
at the records it would not have been difficult
have made 1t a rule to leave no more than seven
extra passes that are being taken up az the 1alI
be either stolen or forgeries shall look into
this story.
Warden Mclaughlin of the Raymond-st. jail
taken up there had come direct from the
Sheriff's office. He denied any knowledge Of
passes being issued in the saloon in question.
Deputy Police Commissioner Ebsten said
that he had never heard of passes being given
out in a saloon and had never received any
complaint about the violation Of the Excise
law in the saloon in question
There is a saloon opposite the Jail at Lafayette
and Raymond SITS John Atkinson. who is said
to be the proprietor when told of Mr. Myers's
statements last night. refused to talk
Il will have nothing to say about that matter
Just now" he said
Some years ago in discussion of jail abuses,
IL was alleged that a saloon in the neighborhood
made a regular business Of giving out Jail
passes They were signed, IT was said, by for
nner chairman of the Board of County Super
visors and could be had for glass of beer