New-York tribune., 1906-04-12
ROYAL
Baking
Powder
Absolutely Pure.
BINGHAM SEEKS MYERS
GETS SUBPOENA FOR HIN.
Minister Has POOlr00m Information
Commissioner ActiUe.

Police Commissioner Bingham sent Mr..
Mathot, one of his deputies, to the Jefferson
Market court yesterday morning with request
that Magistrate Finn should start a JOHN Doe
inquiry and issue a subpoena for the Rev. DR..
Cortland Myers, of Brooklyn This action, il
was ascertained later. taken by General
Bingham because DR. Myers had written letters
asserting that poolrooms were being run under
police protection in the Tenderloin but had de-
clined to tell General Bingham the addresses of
the poolrooms confer with him about the evil
dence of police protection.
Mr.. Mathot escorted to the Jefferson Mar
ket court by Inspector Schmittberger and Cap
tain HGdgins. and after a consultation Magis
trate Finn issued a subpoena directing DR..
Myers to appear before him as a witness in pro-
ceedlngs against the mysterious John Doe. The
subpoena was returnable in the afternoon.
The subpoena was handed TO Sergeant Farrell
of the court squad to serve but in the afternoon
Farrell reported that he had been unable to find
DR.. Myers at his Brooklyn home Magistrate
Finn then issued another subpoena for the ap-
pearance of DR.. Myers day next week, and
it said the subpoena would be served on the
clergyman in his church Sunday if he
could not be found before then.
DR. Myers wrote to Mayor Mcclellan early
this year giving him list of fifty alleged pool
and asking him take action. The
Mayor it is said turned the letter over to Com
missioner Bingham and wrote back to DIR.
Myers, telling him of his transfer of the
to the police authority Nothing came of DR..
Myers's protest at that time
Recently DIR. Myers wrote a similar letter to
Commissioner Bingham and wanted him to do
something. According to statements made
yesterday at the office of the Law Enforcement
Society. of which DR.. Myers is member, at No.
lOS Fulton street, Commissioner Bingham made
no response. DR.. Myers again wrote to the
Commissioner, intimating that unless he did
something against the poolrooms mentioned
steps would be taken at Albany to cause the
Governor to remove him. It is said that agents
of the Law Enforcement Society have been in
Albany this week to see the Governor
After DIR. Myerss second letter to him. Com
missioner Bingham it said, asked DIR Myers
to over to his office and talk the matter
over. DR.. Myers responded that he did not
think himself called on to do so. that he had
told the police where the pooIrOoms were and
that it was up to them to find them.
Commissioner Bingham said late in the after
that he had received letters from DR.
Myers. and thought it would be a good thing to
get him to tell more of what he knew. All but
a few of the places DIR. Myers named General
Bingham said, We're already known to the police
"The question is to get the evidence he said
"Hells delight! It's thing to name a place
and another to get the evidence"
Are you going to summon to court every one
who has told you about poOlrooms or other
places where the law is being volated?"
Cant say" he replied, lit depends the
case
Isn't it a fact that you think DR.. Myers made
a bluff and you have called it?"
Well he replied. Il wouldn't put it 50 crude
ly as that; l would say that I'm trying to find
out what he does know, if anything.