The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-08
The POLICE OFFERED A BRIDE.
THE REV. COR7LAND MIERS'S
AGENT (OtLD NAME MS PRI(E.
30 Says the Minister. and Ne Regards u
A. signincan, That the Orer Was Made
Just Before the Suspension Of Two
Of BrOOkl!n's Police Captains.

clergyman, who has been conducting q
crusade against the gamblers of Brooklyn
came out yesterday with hat-footet
statement that an attempt had beer made
by agents Of the Brooklyn police captains
who have become seriously involved be-
cause of the cergvnans Success in break
ing UP pooroom, IN their precincts
to bride Sup, Joseph NJ Britton o
the Society for the Enforcement Of the
Criminal Law, who has been in charge o
the work of collecting evidence for thu
clergyman According to Mr.. Myers thu
attempt to bride Britton occurred onWednes
day. and the detective was told to name hi
own price for dropping the crusade that
Mr.. Myers started
The offer was made, according to MIR
Myers, just about two hours before Pc liz
Commissioner Greene announced the sus
pension on charges of Capt. Samuel Hardy
OF the Lee avenue st al ion and Capt. Thomas
+. Maude of the Stage street station, In
whose precincts poorooms were found in
full operation by Mr., Myers's detectives,
Mr.. Myers takes the alleged attempt to
bribe his detective as an indication that the
police force in Brooklyn is panic stricken
over the revelati ions he has made and the
ers whom the police have allowed to flourish
wit hout Interference, and he was inclined
to be very juh!lant over the sit uation yes
terday.
Coming just before, the suspension on n
DR. Myers yesterday, III is.evdentt that the
idea was to save those officers if possible
from the predicament in which they. now
find themselves. The men who did the
talking in this thing openly said to Mr.
oil .ltcs.
captains, and they gave the names OF these
captains, which are now In my possession.
From "A look at the names ii is easy for ms
to see that as well as thinking of Capts::
Hardy and Maude. they were thinking OF
themselves and what the future may hold
in store for them.
-These woud-b4 bribers, as l under
stand it, had IN. tip from Police Head
quarters in New York that something was
about to fall. and that : why they were
70 anxious to get OH the right side OF Britton.
They didn't know on just whom the CEN
cure of the Police Commissioner was going
to fall, and thy wanted to get cut from
under. Without the slightest hesitation,
they told Britt"n To name his own price
for calling his DIET ctives on aud dropping
all work that nas b, IN done against pre-
cinct commanders. Britton told them that
the national d, bt twice over wasn't enough
to stop this crusade, and it isn't We will
60 OH To the end. ! can assure you.
This incident shows an appalling con-
dition OF affair, III the Police. Department,
in the borough OF BrooklyE. these very
men who are paid to punish law-breakers
help them to break the law, and when they
think there is danger of punishment com.
ing to them they offer fabulous sums of
money to buy their prosecutions on. Once
more l want to serve notice on them that
I am in this thing TO the end; that l am
going to see it through and that nothing
can stop me Major Ebstein is going 10
Europe.
takes bis place responsible for the
of the borough. Individuals are
not hing to me. What | propose TO do ia
to try to the best of my ability to make the
police do their duty. and if can't do il any
OF her way l will continue to show the public
that their protest atiOns are false by doing
as a private citizen what they say cannot
be done.
IF the police Go not do their duty why
! will 60 10 the Police Commissioner. II
that does no good, will go to the Mayor.
and if that is equally futile. will 60 10 the
Governor of his State and lay the matter
before him, | am in the thing TO stay, and
there is no money or Influence that can buy
me or any of my men of
. AS for the HANDS Mat go up when | say
partment, they ar. rhe hands of people
who do not kn,w, The department is
with bribery. Where do all
these retired police captains get their horses
and carriages and land. Does any one
suppcs- for a moment that they save the
money ont If their salaries The fact is
that bril-ry and corruption arr 20 common
tat captains no longer raakc auy great
secret 81 tie fact that they give and take
unlawful money.
when Srrt Rrirton Of The Society for
the Enforcement Of the Criminal Law WIS
asked about tho attempt to bride hin, lie
said he was very sorry that NJ. Myers mad
chosen TO make the matter public, as il
would probably spoil a itt!e game he was
arranging To "2,ch certain police cap
tain
The fac. OF me matter is" said Britton,
that the men came to seq me here in this
office and frankly told me that they repre-
s'.nted certain police captains They made
me an offer 10 drop the cases and told them
to send the captains themselves to see
me. That's all | have 81 say about the
matter now"
Mr. Myers said Yesterday that he had
been request ed by Commissioner Greene to
help him clean up Manhattan and that he
had agreed to furnish the Con- missioner
with "A map showing the location Ofall pool
rooms in this borough
Gen. Greene said yesterday that he had
made no such request OF Mr.. Myers so far
ar he could remember. although he had
requested an interview with a Brooklyn
EtW Ne' HfiRdStNl WIN VII! Myers III Tue WOTh
Of cleansing Brooklyn.
Mr.. Myers scored another big victory
in his fgh, against the gamblers yesterday
when William }. Ehe Of As Stockholm street
was convicted cf bpokrnaking in the County
Court. Ebrl hid chance TO plead guilty
after Mr.. Myers had secured his first con-
yic1ions. but declined to do so. Albert
Winters, the member Of the Young Mems
Christian Association whose testimony
convicted former AsEemblvman Sanford
last Tuesday, testified that he bet 81 with
Ebel on horse called DR.. Scharf on April
20, Other Witnesses corroborated Winters,
and after a conference. of fifteen minutes
the jury brought in a verdict Of guilty
1t is not believed that any of the other
bookmakers indicted as result OF Mr.
Myerss work will demand trials. All are
expected to step up, plead guilty and take
their punishment
Detectives Brady and Mccormick Of the
Adams street station arrested Peter Mad
den Of "a First street last night on a charge
Of making a handbook on the races. The
complainant. who swore out the warrant
for Madden, is John F. Leary Of ~ Court
street who says he made several bets
with Madden on Fulton street
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