New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-10-16
VAN COLT GIVES BAIL.

Continued from nrst phte'
about six weeks. In return for this tney "e,e
20 VOTE The straight Republican ticket, It is az
80 These men. collected from Bowery lodg-
ms houses ana the Rialto. were Assembled ia
Warrington Square one night IN such NUMBERS
that they attracted general attention hichaIu
Van Colt hooked them over. and paid 70 hiS
agents money Cor them the afldavits recite'
Nat OF the houses where they were 20 be quar-
tered was handed to one OF the agents In van
Colts own handwriting. this agent Swears. THIS
Est IL now one OF the important pieces OF evil
dance which the Attorney Generals Office has.
In his defence Richard Van Colt maintains
that hs Is the victim OF conspiracy by Tam
many Hall At this particular juncture some
enc must be attacked. he says. and he happened
20 be the one. There may have been colonization
IN hts district. He didn't Go g. however and no
proof can be Rdducsd 20 show that he Gid. he
declares
INFORMATION FROM TAAINANY MAN.
The arst Information as 20 colonization In the
With District came 20 Superintendent Morgan Of
The Elections Bureau from Deputy Attorney
General Thomas T. Byrne. a Tsmnany man.
who Is attached TO the elections Office as legal
adviser. Superintendent Morgan and Deputy
Attorney General Cornelius T. Collins went to
work 70 run down the story. That he might not
be accused OF playing politics. Superintendent
Morgan. instead Of using his own deputies.
asked Police Commissioner McAdoo for Central
ONCE men Detective sergeants Carey and Nc
ca1erty were detailed to the case.
On Wednesday night several men who had
recently taken lodgings In the With District were
served with Superintendent SIorgans forthwith
Bubpenas. At his ONCE he and Deputy Attorney
General Collins examined them carefully. As
a result they were taken 70 the House Of Deten-
zion. Yesterday they. with several lodging
house keepers. were taken as witnesses before
Justice Wyatt in Special Sessions What they
told him caused him to issue the warrants for
Van Colt and McAvoy.
Concerned IN this vast fraud were Van Colt.
MeAvoy. who Is employed in the cashiers de-
partment In the Postoffice; Benjamin Levy and
Raphael Jones. who We're also employed IN the
Postofice. and ole or two others Deputy At
torney General Collins says. Van Colt ne de-
clares, was ''the power behind the throne"
Levy. who familiar With colonization meth
DDS. was employed to collect men from the Mills
Hotel and other lodging houses where the
employed congregate. and from the white light
district also.
These men. after inspection By Jones and Nc
AvOy. were taken in detachments 10 various
saloons In the district. thence houses indicated
in lists furnished, where Jones paid for their
was usually an understanding shat these men
were 10 meet Jones or McAvoy each week. to re-
oeive money for the subsequent weeks lodging.
Mr.. Collins says In addition to this money.
some OF them were to receive 81 when they had
registered and So for their votes
ONE MAN TURNS STATES EVIDENCE.
Benjamin Levy. self-cOnfessed go-between. has
turned States evidence. In his affidavit, which
Doe" proceedings yesterday-the first John
Doe" proceedings ever instituted IN any cleo
ton case-he said that he had been a Waterman
IN the POstofioe until readjustment Of Civil
Service places threw him out there. He ap-
pealed TO Richard Van Colt. and finally was
made elevator man there. Some time in Sep
TENDER he saw young Van Cott who wanted TO
know II he knew OF about one hundred boys"
he thought he did. and later went by dlrec-
tion 70 see NcAvoy, who said that Dick
wanted 20 know If you can get one hundred
men,"
Again Levy thought he could and arrange
ments were made with MeAvOy by which ne
was TO sound his men. then bring some OF them
70 meet McAvOy AZ a saloon ct Fourteenth-st.
and Ninth-ave. They met McAvoy. the men
proved satisfactory. and MeAvoy proceeded TO
quarter them" He gave one man 50 so to pay
Cor room az no. 152 West Eleventh-st.; an
other s. for room at No. 8 Milligan Place,
says Levy IA his affidavit. Arrangements were
made with this detachment 70 meet dcAvoy at
feminist. and SiXth-ave. at p. m every Friday
10 receive money for the subsequent week
Later q demand came FOR men in quantity
and Levy went TO the Lincoln Club one evening
70 see Dick" MeAvoy vas there, too Dick
said 20 Levy. according 10 that worthy's afi-
davit that he had a list OF fifteen rooms. which
must be hl!ed. and had the word Of a friend
with whom he hal been dealing for the last
twenty years, that he could get fifteen more
Ihese addresses were noted on yellow slips
which Van Colt gave 70 Levy. with an adnonl-
non not 10 lose them Then Levy said that
money would have 10 bs forthcoming for the
men. but that Van Colt would better have some
one else handle this detail. Therefore, Levy
says Jones was detailed TO pay OUT the money.
"hloh was IN single bills" for which the
cashier Of the club had 10 send The men IAN
awful mob.' were out In Washington Square AZ
rms nme attracting such attention that rumors
or their purpose got abroad among the resi-