New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-07
REYNOLDS TO SUE AGAIN.
REPLIES TO M'AVOY.
Reads from Lerozc Report-Colonel
Thwston Stops One Charge.

Brea thing defancs against Deputy Police Com
missioner McAvoy ana Colonel Nathaniel d.
Thurs.on a former deputy, Thomas L. Reynolds
who hopes to wrest the Tammany leadership Oh
the 9th Assembly District from James }. Martini
last night, at meeting OF the Lohsacre Dciho-
cratic Club. replied to the charges made against
him. McAvoys charges OF attempted bribery. ne
said, he would answer with another suit for SIAN
der He countered by reading from the report OF
the Lexow investigation Captain Schmittberger
testimony paying brbe-money to inspector
MsAvoy-
McAvoy, Reynolds says. is after him simply be-
cause for three years he fought the deputy COM
missioner in his home district Victorious there,
McAvoy following him into the 9th. allying him
self with ex-Commissioner Martin. From now on
Reynolds says, he intends to wage war against
both and will make the fight in his district the
hottest Tammany has seen for years.
McAvoy's statement at Martins club on Tuesday
night, that Reynolds had offered Colonel Thurston
200 a month for protection for the gambling IN
terests in this city in the presence of AdJutant
General Henry. Detective Sergeant Valley and one
or two other persons, denied yesterday by
Colonel Thurston.
Reynolds never tried bride me-" said he Il
only wish he'd tried it. What happened was this:
1 heard stories that he going around town.
very chesty, saying that he had big pull with the
administration. and that he could square the gam
bers, and that he knew just where to place the
money to do it. l sent out Sergeant Valley. with
orders to get Reynolds if possible. Valley worked,
Out get the eVlOeIlCe SSHI IOl
to come to the office. General Henry and some
others there l told him what I'd heard, and
L gave him good lacing, can tell you. Then
ordered him from the office
Reynolds getting loaded with material all
day. and when it time speak last night he
exuded anti McAvoy- Thurston- Tammany sentiment
from every pore. He said:
I'm going to show this man McAvoy that he
can't charge me with crime and get away with it.
he says tnat tried to bride Thurston. Why, I'd
be a pretty specimen wouldn't l. TO try to bride a
says that's not true. but that he heard reports
about my saving had power with the administra-
ton. Ia Ike to know where Thurston heard those
reports, Why don't he tell that?
Thurston says he took to his office and dressed
out Ia like to see him try it in this room He
that He's my superior officer in 1 tbe ~ N 20 9
Guard, and didn't want to say anything about
r R1 un''i heard that he thought had right to
This man McAvoy who discovered that he was
that | had money. tries to get me mixed up with
want f'e yo Ge4 a. mar easily explained but first
James jar , j. Martin, the leader in this district. I'm
was sworn to before the Lexow committee.
Then he read Captain Schmittberger's testimony
about paying $3.50 or SITS month to Inspector Nc
Avoy and protecting dsorderly houses in 46th-st
because Commissioner Martin told him TO Ieave
them undisturbed.
IT'S easy enough to explain that note business
that McAvoy's making such fuss about" went
on Reynolds, ''and I've got here the men who We're
in with me. Here's Lloyd Perry, old lawyer in
this town. who to asking If I'd buy two
notes for $4,000 by a worth 100000 if I
could get them 50. | said l would. If liked
the notes. | asked my brokers, Potter & Co, IL
they would take the notes. They referred me to
Benedict 81 koft. and l made arrangements to
place the notes at AZ, making about $4,000 on the
deal. Meantime Mr. Perry, his client, Samuel 7.
Bondhus who intended to get the notes, and l ar
ranged to meet the man who going to sell
them. all having agreed on my price, s.. That man
never showed up. and when Mr.. Schubert, man
ager for Potter & Co. asked the concern which
was supposed to issue the notes about them he
found that that company had out. That
were forgeries, and, l guess. went to the police
about 1t. McAvoy, police official gets hold
of some of the facts and uses them in a campaign
speech"
Mr.. Perry and Mr.. Bondhus told the club men,
bers about their parts in the bond deal. Mr..
Bondhus declared himself the only sucker in the
gang. for he lost $25 to the agent who vanished
with the mythical
Elk Commissioner Martin was much interest ed
in the Reynolds meeting and the speeches.
hmtttbeTger? Every knows who Schnftt-
berger Is said he That LeXow investigation Is
eleven years old. Schmittberger was in the tolls
and he was saying almost anything TO make good
1 guess the committee In no doubt as TO the
part played when they had examined me several
times.
This man Reynolds is stranger in the dis
trict. He lives really, told in 146th-st
where he keeps his family, and only has a nominal
residence in this district for political purposes
He has come down here to get control of the dis
triCt so he can organize the gambling interests
and make 4 fine thing out of it,