The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-19
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fhe three Aerhts Fefe Williatu \ fnEntiS,
whu bail u tuvihe commission, awl Who,
ActofdGng ~ frsttert irhn " Lindsay,
was mt dismissed, irtt nlluwed Nv fealeni
thafles Utunnuf, attached ~ The ioth'
willie ts,ilce Wrufi aod holm " o'Connrh,
atiactei ~ tho Wrp, stir ciift, llTy
havr locn 9th tho auciotv sis, 'htrc nnd
i've wars, fratecttv"ly
The graft ehatses we're made hy O'ton.
nnll, who IN W hr had lrrn unable w. learn
anv frnapn Tor his disuisa1l unless " Wns
l-tausp The Officials n The sooioty s%usIrcird
him ~ lrnning towarl tho Hcatsi move.
ment and Nerr TunlshinR him lecnuar
he wouldn't identify hlmaalf with tho Tam
many Organization IN tho Scycnth district.
whete he lives.
O'Cnnnall tipClat ri alao that u dispute
over n saloon krejpf'sarrrat let wcen Agents
O'Cohnor and foearty, which took place
In The agents room In the United Charities
Building last Thursday night, prcCirt'atcd
the trouble. President Lindsay heard ~
the clash bet ween tho Two n both O'ton-
nor and ~Fogarty we're CALLED 10 his Office
TO explain The next morning O'tnnncll
was also called up on tho carpet and WA
asked. he says, II he had been making as
sertions TINT certain agents Of the society
were graftcrs, O'Connell said that he
hadn't, and he was then asked;
Did You say that you had a good thing
to give out TO the press that would he worse
than the exposure Of the s. 7. c. A."
NO, but ] did say that IL tho state Of
affairs was exposed 1t wouldn't he well for
the society" replied 0'Connell.
A few minutes later Assistant Superin-
tendent Moore announced to O'Connell and
O'Connor that they had been dismissed
and told them that the president had Foo
garty's case under advisement. Shortly
afterward he old them that Fogarty had
also been dismissed.
President Lindsay was asked about the
dismissal of the three men last night.
Il won't have anything 10 say about that
he replied. "Fogarty handed in his resig-
nation
The president also refused to say what
the charges were against O'Connor and
O'Connell, but said that politics had nothing
to do with their dismissal.
O'Connell gave out last night n copy of a
letter he sent Supt. f.. Fellows Jenkins of
the Gerry society last year in answer to
certain questions asked him, Of which the
following is a part
In reply to your questions az TO what my
relations are with the Hearst movement aud
II | know Paddy Keahon. the Tammany
leader. will say | know nothing about the
Hearst movement and am not Interested in
the success of any political organization.
Concerning Paddy keahon. can say have
known him for seven years. Shortly after
I cam into the service Of the society | was
approached by Charles Culkin. the Alderman
from the district and n relative of keahon.
and was asked to join the jefferson club,
OF which he is president. When declined
l was told that it would be to my interests
to Join the club. l replied that l didn't think
80, and was then told that / would aud out
some time.
AT least a dozen saloon keepers, after
they have been arrested by me for selling
liquors to minors, have protested against
it, because they said they had been paying
added O'Connell. "One IA told me of
being approached for protection money
by a certain agent, and of refusing to give
it, because he knew that the agent who de-
manded it was not in charge of the district
In which the saloon was located. After
that this gent houndedhim but could never
get a case against him.
sIn the last year or so, It has been in
timated to the agents that the society doesn't
care for the saloon cases because they make
trouble with the liquor dealers. Com
plants against twenty-five saloons in Har-
lem have been sent 20 the society, but only
two arrests were made. All the other
complaints were pigeonholed. Any sensi-
BILE person knows that the first object
Of the Children's society should be to prose-
cute the liquor dealers, because they are the
men who cause most Of the privation and
misery for the children that finally wind
up in the society rooms"