The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-08
MAYOR HEARS YOUNG DUFFY
AND 4 NUMBER OF WITNESSES
no HIS GOOD REPUTE.

Police Have Submitted Some Documen.
tary Evidence the Nature Of which
Ras Not lBccn Made Pubnc-Gen.
bingham Does Not Ask to be Heard.
Mayor Mcclellan concluded yesterday
afternoon his investigation OF the char ges
brought by Justice William j. Gaynor
AGAINST Police Commissioner Bingham | n
the Duffy case. Through Assistant Cor
p~oration Counsel William B. Crowell,
who acts as the Mayors legal adviser,
he announced that he would give a de-
cision on Judge Gaynor's charges by
next Thursday. Several afidavits pre-
pared 10y young Duny's friends remain
TO be submitted to the Mayor. and 1t 10
probable that the Police Department will
call the Mayors attention to evidence 1t
has gathered.
George B. Duffy. the young man who
went to Justice Gaynor for assistance in
eettins his picture out Of the rogues'
gallery, went before the Mayor yesterday
with his father and mother. the Rev.
Father j. j. McAteer. pastor Of the
church OF Our Lady Of Mercy in soher-
merhorn street. Brooklyn; George Slaugh-
tor, president OF tho Stevens Milk Com
psny, where Duffy is employed: A. Elsner,
foreman OF the company; Father Flynn.
an instructor at st. Paul's parochial
school, and several persons who testified
as to the young mans good character.
Mirabeau l.. Towns. the Brooklyn law
yer who represented Justice Gaynor and
youns Duffy. brought the young man and
his parents to the City Hall at 10 O'Clock.
getting them over from Brooklyn in a
taxicab. A good many people were
in and around the City Hall anxious to
ret a look at Duffy. He is a stocky.
strongly built young fellow, with red hair.
an uptilted p~ugnacious nose and freckled
face. There was nothing nervous or fur
RED in his manner when he was ushered
in to see the Mayor. He grinned right
and left as Lieut.. Kennel led him into the
Mayors private Office.
The hearing was CON Quoted in privacy.
None was admitted to the Mayor save
his legal adviser, Mr.. Crowell; Mr.. Towns.
representing Justice Gaynor and tho
boy, and the witnesses n at a time.
AZ the outset Mr.. Towns said he believed
that this was an inquiry into the charges
against Police Commissioner Bingham
and not a trial OF Duffy. The Mayor
assented.
The first witness was young Duffy
himself. Assistant Corporation Counsel
Crowell examined him and went into
his career with great particularly, the
Mayor putting in a question now and
then. Occasionally Mr.. Towns obiected
10 some line OF questioning and usually
the Mayor sustained his objection. For
the most part the Mayor sought to learn
whether Duffy had ever done anything
81 q nature TO warrant putting his picture
n the Mulberry street collection.
Mr.. Crowell asked Duffy IL he was ac-
uuaint~A with Alfred Collier, who vas
convic IA Of robbery and with whose
name Duffy's was coupled in the Police
Department records. Duffy said that he
lid not know Collier or anybody by that
name who had ever been in trouble.
Mr.. Crowell asked him IL he had associ-
ated with crooks or immoral persons.
He denied fatty that he had ever been
addicted 20 bad company. He testified
that he had always kept good company
and that he had never been guilty Of
anything save boyish pranks. Duffy
testified that after the first time he was
arrested the police seemed to have it in
for him and that on one occasion when
ne had Just come from church with a
young woman a policeman stepped up
ohm and said:
You are Red Leary. Come along
with me now to Headquarters.'
The Mayor wanted to know II Duffy
was the young man who had saved q
mans life al Coney Island. Duffy said
that he had saved two men from drowning
and that a Carnegie medal had been
offered to him. but he had refused it.
One Of the men, he said, was Jerome
Horowitz OF los Manhattan venue who
weighed 200 pounds. Duffy told the Mayor
hat he had to swim 200 yards 70 get the
man TO shore.
After Dufy's father and mother had
gone before the Mayor Father McAteer
Of the Church Of Our Lady Of Mercy was
Questioned. The priest said that he did
not know much about the young man
personally, but that he had made inquiries
about him. OF Mgr. Duffy among others,
and that he had been assured that the
boys character was good and his habits
steady.
George Slaughter. president OF the
milk company. told the Mayor that Duffy
has worked for him since April is. that he
has heen honest. industrious and ell
Gent. Foreman Elsner OF the company
said that he had found nothing wrong
With Duffy. that be worked bard and
kept his accounts straight. Father Flynn
IT St. Pauls paroohial school, testified
hat be wal satisfied that Duffy was honest
and steady. Andrew Sherman. principal
If Public School IS, said he bad "
spown Duhy to be guilty OF anything more
than mischievous acts and that he wa not
liar.
Mr.. Towns brought out testimony 70
show that when Duffy left school he went
10 work for the Commercial Union Assur-
snce Company at - q week. remaining
there a year. Afterward he went to
the banking concern OF Edward B. Smith
d Co. at Z Wall street and reoeived q
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