New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-15
TO KILL DIR. PARKHURST
POLICE IN ALLEGED PLOT.
or. Jerome Investigating Start
tng Disclosures LkeIy.

The fact that District Attorney Jerome was
investigating an alleged plot to assassinate the
Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst became known in
the Criminal Courts Building yesterday when
Magistrate Wahe issued several subpnnas for
witnesses to testify in the investigation It was
then learned that the investigation had been
going several days 1t was said there had
been arrests
Mr.. Jerome refused to talk about the case but
his manner indicated interest in it. DR.. Park
hurst. who did not appear to be surprised when
asked about the supposed plot to kill him, fatty
refused to give any information on the subject,
Frank Moss, long associated with DR.. Park
hurst in the Society for the Prevention OF Crime,
said he was under strict promise not TO talk.
Superintendent McClintock, of the society. de-
clined to give information. 1t was learned that
both Mr.. Moss and Mr.. McClintock had been at
Mr.. Jerome's office to talk about the case. and
there was some reason to believe that the in
vestigation had been started at their request.
The best information obtainable about the al
legged plot to kill DR.. Parkhurst was that it had
originated with some members of the police
force, who had been injured by DR.. Parkhurst s
activity in procuring evidence of police black
mail and extortion. These men, it was said,
had hired thugs to waylay DR.. Parkhurst, and
kill him with sandbag or blackjack" but one
of the hirelngs had weakened and had told OF
the plot in time to warn DIR. Parkhurst and
Illustrate the murder plan.
Among the witnesses for whom subpoenas We're
issued by Magistrate Wahle are Acting Captain
shiels of the West Tooth street police station
John Phelan one of his detectives at the same
station; Richard Wilson and L. Rogers. shiels
was acting captain in West 30th street at the
time of a raid on a den of vice in 33d street by
agents of DR.. Parkhurst's society several years
ago, and got into trouble along with Edward u.
Glennon. because of the raid.
L. Rogers was employed in the municipal cam
paign last fall by Robert ]. Kelly, an inves-
tigator in the pay of the Citizens Union. Be
coming friendly with Kelly, Rogers told him that
he had been asked by a policeman last summer
If he would take the job of killing DIR. Parkhurst
for $500 Rogers said the policeman assured
him an officer of the force was ready to pay
that sum to have Dr. Parkhurst put out OF the
way. Dr. Parkhurst was in Europe at the time
According to Kelly's information, Rogers went
to the police officer referred to by the patroman
and said he was willing to give DR.. Parkhurst
a good licking for the $500, but not to kill him,
but the officer said DIR. Parkhust must be put
out of the way.
Rogers then consulted with Richard Wilson
a young drygoods clerk, who also talked with
the police official. 1t is said the official did not
mention DR.. Parkhurst's name when talking
with Wilson about a plan to kill somebody with
a sandbag blackjack"
Kelly recently told DR.. Parkhurst what he had
heard about the alleged murder plot, and Su-
perintendent McClintock and Mr.. Moss were
consulted with the result that Mr.sJerome-NSas
drawn into an investigation of the story. Rog-
ers and Wilson were shadOwed for a time, and
on Monday, they called to Mr.. Moss's
office and interrogated for hours Then they
were taken to the chambers Of Magistrate
Wahle, where they made affidavits.
The witnesses in the case have been called to
testify in a secret inquiry before Magistrate
Wahle at p. m. to-day.
Acting Captain Shiels sergeant IN the
Tenderlon for years when Devery was the real
head of the police force. He was dismissed from
the force as a result of raid made on Laura
Mauret's house in 33d street by agents of DR.
Parkhurst's society, when he was acting captain
of the precinct, but he reinstated by the
courts, while Edward G. GIennon, Devery's
wardman in the precinct was convicted and
sent to prison.
James McAullffe. who lived next door to
Laura Maurets house was a witness against
Glennon. as was Mrs. McAuliffe. On the morn
ing of Sunday, February 16 1902. McAuliffe
found dying. with a fractured skull, on the
sidewalk III front of No. 500 Sixth avenue In
Vestigation. after McAuliffe died, disclosed that
ne had been prisoner over night in the West
47th street police station a charge of intoxi-
cation, and that man answering to his name
had been discharged in the West Side court an
hour before McAuliffe was found dying in Sixth
avenue.
The verdict of the coroner's jury was that Nc
Auliffe had been killed by accidental fall on
the sidewalk but District Attorney Jerome kept
up an investigation for months later the
theory that McAuliffe had been beaten nearly
TO death in the police station and that a
dummy" sent to the police court. while
McAuliffe taken in a cab to Sixth avenue
and left on the sidewalk insensbt. There were
several witnesses who testified TO seeing a man
carried out of the police station and placed in
a cab the Sunday morning in question, but
the mystery of McAulife's death never was
cleared up.
District Attorney Jerome said yesterday that
so far as he knew, DR.. Parkhurst had worked
steadily for a dozen years as the head of the
Society for the Prevention of Crime with the
constant purpose of exposing police protection
of dens of vice All the raids which had been
made by agents of the society with the sane
ton of Dr. Parkhurst, Mr.. Jerome asserted, had
been made more for the purpose of getting evil
dence against the police than with the inten-
tion of Furnishing the vicious persons who had
been paying police blackmail.
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