New-York tribune., 1910-01-26
GIRL STANDS PAT
REPEATS HER STORY.
Miss Dickof Says Bribe Vas
offered IN Clubbing Case.

In confederation of the statement that a
bribe of 5000 had been offered for the with
drawal of the charge of assault made
against Patrolman John Kelly, of the Stagg
street station, Williamsburg, Miss Anna
Dickoff told Deputy Police Commissioner
Reynolds yesterday in the trial room at
Brooklyn Police Headquarters that she
had seen Kelly riding in automobile
with the two men who, she had testified.
had offered the money to her parents, who
live at No 161 McKibben street, Williams
burg. Decision in the case was reserved.
Miss Dickoff was in the street near her
own home, she says. when the automobile
was stopped at the curb. The men with
Kelly, she testified, asked her to let them
drive her to her parents home, saying that
if she didn't want to be seen riding with
Kelly he would get out
The men. Miss Dickoff continued, had
called twice to see her, once at her
mothers home and again at her own, in
West 115th street They pleaded with her.
she said to use her influence to have the
case dropped, or to get the complainants
to refuse to identify Kelly at the trial.
Miss Dickoff told Mr.. Reynolds about
this, and he advised her to have kept at
home her brother, Henry Dickoff. ten
years old and Frank Jenny, eight years
old, of No. 161 McKibben street the boys
whom Kelly is alleged to have beaten.
William Adams Robinson. counsel for
Kelly, asked Mr.. Reynolds yesterday morn
ing TO exclude the other witnesses from
the trial room during the taking of test-
mony. Miss Dckoff became excited, and
spoke so volubly in remonstrance that the
stenographer was unable to record what
she said On the plea that the System"
might get in It's fine work. in some devi-
Gus way she objected especially to the two
boys being sent from the room. Finally
she was quieted and sent out.
Upon being recalled Miss Dckoff told Of
the automobile incident. One of the two
men in the automobile with Kelly, she said,
represented himself as a reporter and said
that if necessary he would give her $50 of
his own money. He also told her, she as
serted. that she would get s15O part of a
fee given to a lawyer acting for Kelly.
The self-styled reporter, according to Miss
Dickoff, told her to tell Mr. Reynolds that
mistake had been made in identifying
Kelly
Il told him | wouldn't do that sort of
thing for s15O,OOO," said Miss Dickofr.
Then the man appealed to me not to let
the officer hang as the latter had four
children. j can't help that, said |, for it
makes 1t all the worse. He's a father. and
shouldn't have attacked two little boys,
one my own brother" The boys reiter-
ated their testimony.
All three detectives of Inspector Nc
Cluskys staff who are on trial before Dep
uty commissioner Walsh. charged with
plackJacking a prisoner on the night of
January g. denied that they either carried
or possessed blackjacks when the trial was
continued yesterday. They testified that
Thomas F. Smith, of No. 504 West goth
street the young man who is making the
complaint, could not have come by his in
juries in the manner in which he stated.
Detective William p. Noll testified that
Smith cut his forehead when he rolled
down stairs
twenty patrolmen and half a dozen civil
1anS were called one by one to testify that
smith had bad reputation 1t was also
brought out that Smith made no complaint
or Ill treatment when he was arraigned in
court before Magistrate Kelnochan on the
night of his arrest Commissioner Walsh
reserved decision