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The evening world., 1912-05-06
Noted Maine Woman Dead.

AUBURN. Me-. May s.-Miss Julia
Harris May. an author and pne OF the
best known women of Maine. died
suddenly to-day. She was born at
Strong in 1883. She was graduated
from Mount Hoiyoke College In 1856
ana was a teacher of classes In art
and literature and prominent In club
work. Among the books OF poetry
shs wrote were Songs from the
Woods OF Maine n Looking for
the Stars"
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WALDO HEARD ALL ABOUT spy
ING ON SECRETARY.

Mr.. Waldo then told what Mr.. Shee-
han had told him the day after the
visit OF the private detectives to Shee-
hans home
Y. Did you tell Capt. Keliher you were
disappointed at his brother putting your
secretary under surveillance? A. I mover
said I was disappointed and I'm never
disappointed.
Mr.. Waldo was questioned as to the
duties OF Mr.. Sheehan. He said his
secretary had absolutely nothing to do
with handling the uniformed force or
special details. The janitor OF the
building, the Commissioner said, hs
the only person who reports to the
secretary. Sheean's duties are entirely
clerical.
Mr.. Buckner thea took up the matter
OF the organization OF tho special
gambling squads.
O. DO you recall that the rst OF your
special Central Office squads was COM
manded by Lieut.. Becker7 A. Yes.
O. Who had the secondf A. Lieut.
Costigan.
@. DO you recall any special con
versation with Costisan7 Did you tell
Costigan to make report TO Mr.. shee
han? A, Mo- (angrily). never told
any man to report to Sheehan.
q. And didn't Costigan say to you
''Mr. Commissioner, ] will not report &c
Mr.. sheehan"' A. That is not true. fol-
I never told Costigan to report to Mr.
Sheehan. II ! had told him 70 do SC
| he would have done so.
| Here Mr.. Buckner said he had reached
the point where he was about to re
sumo examining Commissioner wald,
relative to police administration. ant
asked for an adjournment until to NOR
row morning at II o'clock. which wa,
ordered.
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WALL STREET

With American Can issues the way,
the early stock market to-day scored
fair sised advances In nearly all Sc
curities Overcoming initial hesitation
the list began to work upward when
q number OF specialties developed
strength. Chiof among these shares
were the American Can stocks. both
the common and preferred scoring
large gains.
Subsequent dealings ruled firm.
Dealings In American Can securities
monopofized afternoon attention. Both
these tissues. responding to IA heavy buy
INK demand ro.ss to the highest price
ever recorded. Steel continued the best
o; the active features with q rise
to Asst
Late realizing shaded the list at clos
Ing time. but small fractional advances
predominated nj the finish.
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COULDN'T HELP WALDO 0E7
THE coMMlss,oNERsHlP.

O. Didn't the detectives report strike
YOU as interesting A. Interesting be-
cause | was out OF II.
Q. When were you In ~ a. was
never In II.
.. Did Won ever have any conversa-
lions with Mr.. Waldo about his being
Police Commissioner? A. Yes. ] met
him one day In West Forty-fourth street
and he asked me TO help him get the
commlssionership I told him ] couldn't
help him; that he could help himself
more than I could.
This ended Mr.. Hayes's examination.
and Detective Cooney. one OF the po-
licemen sent for by Secretary sheehan
to arrest Private Detective KeNher, was
called. lie waived immunity.
q. DO you recall anything that hap
renei last December In connection with
Secretary Shchan7 a. About 10 j.. NJ.
Detective Mcmahon and myself were In
the Forty-seventh station when the
Lieutenant In charge sent US TO West
Fifty-ffth street, where. he said. some
one wanted to see us In reference 10
some suspicious persons. When we ar
rived, Mr.. Sheehan said: 81 am Mr..
Winfield, Sheehan. The superintendent
Of uhe building tells me two men are
here tampering with my mall. | want
You to investigate and take whatever
police action In necessary" went
IN and talked TO the two men. They
said they were looking for John c
Sheehan. One OF the men. who showed
n special deputy sherlfr's badge. raid ht
wac named Kelly. The other said he
was named Clark. went up to Mr.
Sheehan's apartment and told him wha
the men told me. He said: els thai
alp said; Yes. sir" He sent m,
down to bring Kelly back up to Sc,
him. but Clark said: III Kelly goes up
stairs. go up" So Kelly did not &,
M and told Shoehan so. Then Mr.
She chan came downstairs and said 4
the men: "Do you want me for any
thingT They said: mo. we are look
Ing for John c. sheehan." AN right.
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hotels and saloons in the city.
These places had long been subject
to extortion by those who ruled
over the police, IN connection with
certain outside persons or influence.
Tho moderate average sxtortion OF
S20 o month from each would
amount TO about $4,000, 900 . year.
But tho gross sum Of the extort!on
was probably much more.
This was done away with. Instead
OF permitting every officer or member
to go into these places at will. espe-
cially on Sundays. and deal with them.
and take money OF them. the enforce
ment OF the liquor law in the way
prescribed by that law itself was put
into effect for the first time in the city
OF New York The old faw was n
way designed to levy graft by en-
tering and threatening or making ar
rests on the spot without n warrant.
instead OF reporting each case to the
District-Attorney for him to get war
rant and arrest and prosecute. all as
prescribed by the statute.
"Seventh-For many years before
became Mayor. the police had been In
the habit OF violently smashing into
houses without warrants. The force was
not to blame for this. The blame was
with the persons in rulership over the
police. They made the police 10 these
unlawful things. They made use OF
these unlawful entries to collect graf
from houses all over the city. The Con-
stitution and the laws forbid the entry
OF houses except under a warrant OBJ
tained from a Magistrate. We put this
In force and stopped all these lawlass
entries. They were called by the lawlsss
name OF raids. II the prescribed graf,
was not paid a raid followed This was
notice to all others In like case to
my I'm
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suit by Bingham against Mayor Gaynor
was settled. and who made Il In
Waldo's presence and with his aid
was seen at the Macdougal street police
station to-day by an Evening World re-
porter. The Evening World wished TO
know why Capt. Reith was willing TO
pay soVW Tor promotion when Il would
take more than ten years to save the
price out Of his salary increase OF 800
year, and what made him mako out
an amdav't telling Of the proposed
money Transaction. when his name was
before Com missioner Bingham for con.
aderation.
At frs, tho o,n,aI, r.,,..a ..
snv ss,su.r, %, ,,,,,,o.,,..
...,.., o.. - o"' as ~
,"e 'u''s VI inc ronce Depart
'ae"'' put "hen ne was CONFRONTED with
the statement that he had attempted to
please Commissioner Waldo by reflect
inG on Gen. Bingham's administr alton.
he became indignant and exclaimed,
That's a lie, II Ia unjus, 40 ,n.,r,,,.
.uch n ,h,,s Thu, .o,a..,. -.
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% ". Doth st.. New York CITY, NY
baby was taken With m irritating brsahing
out on his fscc. Az he always scratched.
the soss would foster and nnslly oosed OUT
pus which made moro sors. This made
him croo and ugly. purchascd the Cvti-
curs Soap and Cuticws Ointspent In three
months his fsce vas completely cured. Sc
tsigncd) J. II. johnson. Dec. 81. 1911.
Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment ara
sold throughout the world. Liberal Amp,e Of
each mailed FREQ. wtth 32-p. Skin Book. Ad-
drcss postcard "Cutacura. Dept.T. Boston. &c
ATTnder-fsced mcn should - Cut1pass
Soap Shaving Stick. 25c. Sample ffsa.
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said Mr.. Sheehan. II am through with
YOU" and then we all went away.
q. Did you tell Keliher Mr.. Sheehan
had telephoned to Sheriff Shea about
him A. No.
q. md sheehan's companion tNorton)
come up while you were there and
wiring his hands and say Those men
know me-" A. No. sir: the men did
not come in while was there.
never heard any such statement at
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"Tenth-We have entirely eradioated
from the department all graft In ap-
I.ointments and promotions. For many
years they had been paid for. We re-
sorted TO the simple expedient of ap-
pointing and promoting from the ell
gible list In numerical order. Under
that system II Is impossible to sell APP
pointments or promotions.
eleventh. come now to a mournful
subJect-namely. that Of unfortunate
women. They were In the world at
the beginning OF history. yes. at that
borjeriand where fable scarcely ceases
and history hardly begins. and they
are here yet. They wall continue to be
here until. by the aid Of moral teach
Ing. the hearts and propensities OF men
shall be subdued and made better.
These women are what men made them.
"Dexiing with them 10 q routine. i
have never made any change In that
routine. In other words. have never
adopted any new policy In respect OF
them. did only one thing in respect
O. changing the method OF enforcing the
law with regard to them. Before ! be-
came Mayor It had for years been the
custom to send policemen to drink wine
and eat with such women. and take
, them to the rooms of the houses IN
which they lived. and have them UNI
dress. This was to get evidence.
~ issued orders that no police
man should be assigned to any such
degrading service. To subject po-
licemsn to such temptation ana de-
gradation was an outrage.
"But let me forbear. The subject Il
| one to weep over, rather than to brinr
into politics. And yet In this city little
| politicians and investigators every few
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POLICE CAPTAIN REITH
DENIES AFFIDAVIT WAS
TO "PLEASE WALDO"

Police Captain John T Reith. who
startled the Aldermanic Investigating
Committee yesterday by saying that he
was willing to pay 10000 for promotion
TO a captainey for the sleep at night"
II would give him, to-day denounced as
false and malicious the report that he
had drawn up his affidavit to please
Commissioner Waldo and discredit
Gen. Bingham.
The captain. who made the afffdavit
last February when the sl0o.0ov libel
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POINTED FROM YOU
SNAPSHOT CAMERA
TAKES YOUR PHOTO
German Scientist Looks Away
From Subject While He
Gets His Picture.

Herr DR.. weissenberGer of Berlin.
who is visiting with the German doc
tors. is somewhat Of an amateur de-
tective along scientific lines Part OF
his equipment consists Of q camera.
which Is calculated to deceive even the
most wary subject DR.. WeissenbergeI
has photographed every member Of the
German physicians party he wanted
to. and none OF them knew q thins
about II. He lifts what looks like q
small telescope to his eye and looki
away from the very man he wants &c
snapshot His interest seems to b
centred at right angles from the sub.
ject. but II the man who IL unwittinEly
photographed CHANGED to be swif
enough he might catch the instant
CLEAN OF a powerful little lens set In
the side OF the rounded barrel Of the
fake telescope. As the operator Of this
camera looks APPARENTLY out &c sea, fol
Instance. the image OF things beside
him are focused clear before him.
His finger 10 on q hair spring and q
pressure records what was on the finder
Detectives In Berlin are being equipped
with the cameras. which cos about 500.
30 finely constructed are they. The sue
cess met with In taking suspects fol-
comparison with existing police photo
graphs has proved the value OF the
crafty little instrument.
So deceiving Is the apparatus that the
reporter who snapped DIR. weissenbergei
using the camera did not think until
afterward when he was told by the doc
tor that he would exchange picture.
with him that he himself had been snap
shoted In return.
INCOMING STEAMSHIPS.
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THEN THEY ALL WENT OUT
AND HAD DRINKS.

Q. Where ala you go after Sheehan
got through with your A. The two
men. McManus and I went out and had
a drink
Thomas Hs~ett. mentioned promi-
ncntly in the sfidavit OF Police Captain
Reith. was called. He said he was now
confidential adviser TO the supervising
engineer. He was park commissioner
and chief clerk under Mayor Mcclellan
and later secretary to the Board OF AL
dermen.
Q. no you Alfred Johnson A. Yes.
q. DO you know Police Captain
Reith7 A. Never heard Of him until
yesterday.
Q. Did johnson bring IAeutenan,
Reith to your once when Reith wal
seeking promotion' A No. never
saw Rei.h In my life.
Q. Was any man seeking promotion
ever brought to your A. No.
. VIII you say Mr.. Johnson never
brought ReIth to your once. thenf A.
never saw Reith.
Mr.. Buckner then read Reith's am.
davit in which the oficer swore he
had been taken to Hassetts Office by
Johnson.
II cannot recall such a visit" said
1Iassett.
'It IL probable. then, that q police
man seeking promotion might ask YOU
10 see the Mayors secretary"
The Mayors secretary at that time
was John OBrien.
II cannot recall any such thing" SAID
Uasse,t. who was then released ant
Commissioner Waldo was recalled 4
the witness stand. Mr.. Buckner ex
amined.
O. Did you ever hear that Mr.. John.
son had hired private detectives to keer
your private secretary. Mr.. sheehap
under surveillance? A. 7 did.
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ASKED THEM WHAT THEY
WERE DOING. THAT'S AL.

q. When you heard the charge that
the men wore tamperinR with the
mail. what did you do? A. Just asked
the men VIVA, they were doing. thats
all.
Put that on record" shouted Mr.
Buckper, that all he did was moth
ing"
o. DO you generally investigate q
case by asking the accused men II
they are guilty. A. No. but this case
was different.
O. Did you report this case 10 your
desk lieutenant a. No. sir. No crime
had been committed and J didn', think
II necessary
q. Then you suppressed this7 A.
Yes, sir.
vestigation about tho charge Of tam
pering with the mails7 A. Well. you
see. I hadn't been In the detective bu d.
reau long. I WIS novice and I didn't
know what n good detective would do
under the circumstances.
Q. II Is reported that there are a great
many cases on which detectives are
assigned which are hot reported to the
desk lleutensnts. and that, therefore,
the reports on which the Ponce Com
missioner makes up his statistics OF
crime In New York are not true. Now.
10 get light on this. want to know
why you did not repor, that caso7 A.
Because I did not think II was founded
on anything substantial.
Here Alderman Downing took up the
questioning:
Q. You DO no, report these nonsensi-
cal calls and clutter IN the records
with them. do you A. No. sir: but II
We fail 10 report any case which has
q foundation we will be instantly dis
missed.
Aldermen Dowling then objected 10 a
series OF what he termed hacking
ques tlons' by Alderman Es,erbrook.
who was asking Cooney about technical
entries on police blotters.
Whats the use OF hammering n po-
iiceman." demanded Downing. when we
are here 20 look after graft7"
Here Alderman Folkes interposed:
q. Did you take any stock In tho
story OF rifinx the letter box A. Yes.
sir: I did when I was called there.
Q. Didn't you know Sheehan called
you there merely 20 ind out who these
men were7 A. No. sir: and II would
not have mattered anyway. not even
for the Lord Almighty. would have
acted as my conscience dictated.
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houss. I tried everything recommended.
but without doing me any good until I
started TO uss Cuticura Soap and OintmsnA
They relieved mo Of the pain and gave me
Q peaceful night. After using Cuticura Soap
and Ointment for two weeks was cured"
(siGned) J. p. Pomajsi. MAJ. ~. 1913.
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pain and loss Of sloop for
more than . year. Tho
trouble nrst started with
pimplcs which I thought
would 90 away. but later
I had ny face and the ades
Of my neck fun Of black
heads and boils which dis
figured my face. I was
ashamed TO 90 out OF tho
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-09-19

DETROIT. Mich. Sept ls-Heavy
rain this afternoon caused the post
ponsment Of to-dsy's GRAND Circuit
race program uatil to.moyrau.
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.BLACKHEADS AND
b0|LS ON Face
And Sides Of Neck. Suffered Pain
and Loss Of Sleep. Started with
Plmples. Face Dis6gured. CUT.
cura Soap and Ointment Cured.

as East 73d s.. New York. N. "
"Cuticura Soap and Ointment cured me o.
blsckhoada aud boils from which ! suffered
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-09-19
NOT SURPRISED By CASE OF
RAIDER BECKER.

"Ths case OF Becker did not sur
prise me 1t al. Although We had
done much to remove grating and
make Il Impossible In the Police
Department, know very well that
It would In all probability crop out
In more places than one.
THE one instance which has cropped
out has enabled the degenerate press TO
characterize the whole force as a band
Of grafters, but I am certain that the
Intelligent community still have In mind,
and have had In mind all along. what
We have done In the way of reform In
the pohce force. In no other depart
ment has 40 much been successfully
done, Let me enumerSte some OF these
things.
'FSrst--The first thing was to do
away with unlawful batteries and mis-
treatment of citizens by policemen. All
over the city decent people had been
dubbed, mistreated and insulted for
years. Nothing had been done to stop
II. The evil grew all the time. l think
We have practically put an end to all
that. 1t was accomplished only by DIS
missing several from the force for I'M
lawful violence and rudeness The po-
lice now understand that they are the
servants OF the community, not their
masters That they had forgotten II
was not due to the men Of the force,
but to the arbitrary and lawiess way
In which they had been handled and
ruled for years.
'second-We then taught the force
not to arrest people and lock them ur
for petty things, but to take their
| names and have them summoned, n
even that was necessary. That is now
an accomplished fact In this city. Thes,
| petty arrests have been largely don,
away with. and where arrests .houId
be made for min,r ofyenses We h.v.
taugh, the force IN resor, m tho r,e,hoT
n, .ummopInp ubers tho aoousad ~
son, have , residence and ~. trnwr
In ,,is 80, .. 49, n,.as a,,'.
sanara,,v r., 49,, P ,osos '.',.,
Sr,,,,tnai, 80. Wy w
.,"... .'n.s"'' '"'' '" "
'''' .sr s'r VIC nsN' Jay
~ ~ snss ws ~
| u oSouns''ou y. sne pIo-
aonss 'vnas"sn, wA1en VS. tns
e y. s revenue 70 suc1
W. ,: cna 10 70 omo'sis In
-on0e Dsp.mens.
PHoVoGHArHiNG BEFORE CON
| VCTioN IL ABOLISHED.
"Third-The practice OF photograph
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SECRETSOF GRAND
Jury FED TOPRESS,
So GAYNOR WRITES


tire. police force might affect tho men
and make them Indifferent to tho per-
Torrance Of their duties. No one can
deny that all possible has been done
to break down tho discipline OF the
police force. But am glad to assure
you that from close observation 1 am
able to say that Il has had little or no
effect either on the police force or on
tho intelligent and decent community.
I Rm not able to say to you what effect
It has had upon the degenerates OF the
community.
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CAN'T RECALL MENTIONING
NAME OF SHEEhAN.

Mr.. hayes tnen sa,o ne nos. o..
hnypoay e'se wa -, ,.,,,n :
me ponee' ana cou,u no. 'e
Johnson ans'n,ns iu' ~, ,,o
" Dln you NJ Sh.ahan
'oli''iss'Vn.' hayo
win MI. sonnson ay man.
" now a. ~"
"y""R :" M 49,. ~. ,su. N, Mr.
Do YOU 80, f'ye
sneenan q. ""y Ne ch..h.n
ulscusseu ,"o "~"e
many , A. rr,, <,,,hou.. IN
, -, e,x,..r,h .,rs.t 7
one ~ a. na,.on. there
Nv hA's " '''"N'
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for the whole country and not
merely for the city OF New York.
ninth. Formerly the vice of gambling
was dealt with separately all along the
line by captains and inspectors OF the
Police Department. The result was much
corruption OF the force by the gamblers
and their allies. Corruption was posi-
BILE at every point OF contact. The seven
race tracks on which races were run
almost every day in and about the city
OF New York had been done away with
Just before became Mayor. The result
was that the army OF gamblers who
gambled on these tracks were put out of
that business and thrown on the city.
The police had a most difficult situation
to meet. We organized a special force
to deal With gambling. That special
force OF $50 men was put under the
Commissioner himself. Three lieutenants
were put In charge of them and made
subject to the orders of the Commits
sioner only.
"It happened recently that one OF
these Lieutsnants was found TAX
ing graft from the gamblers. Por-
haps should not say that unquali-
hsdly, because the case has not been
tried. But 1t 10 80 charged. OF
course, II was . painful thing to
in that way by one immediately
under him. hut the same might
happen to any Commissioner, the
same as defalcations OF bank Of
ncers ana trusted employers are CON-
stantly happening. It was painful
to me, although I fully expected
that some cases OF graft would de-
| vsiop. knew very well that Z
could not 1t once destroy the deep
seated graft OF forty years. stand
ing.
"In the midst OF the din and fury
kept saying to myself each day: Now
you must pc patient. A bad thing has
happened. But you must take II al
an incentive to work harder than evel
to accomplish what you have set on
to do Bend to Gods will and b.
content And that Is what tn
| Police Commissioner Is doing. He IL
Younger man. and probably felt tn
abuse and falsehood more keenly thar
4 ala.
I'm the midst OF all the nagging
and noise we have made Q most
careful investigation. not through
the newspapers, however, and
think we have our bearings. We
are going right on II We have
not received the help ana good
will we were entitled to, wo do not
complain OF It. To DO away with
the possibility OF these gamblers
and the sooundrsls who are allied
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with them corruptins police on
ciels here ana there 10 hard
thing. But I think We Will DO It.
We have already taken most Of
the 9rsft out OF the department.,
ana by patience and persistence IL
can all be taken ont.
GRAFT FOR APPOINTMENT AND
PROMOTION STOPPED.
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The Parsons Advice;
'1sss asd osss' = Cough pr0a'" &c. S''.'.'
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DETECTIVE FORCE NOW COVERS
COUNTRY.

"Eighth--Ths detective force has
been entirely rsorganizsd. All the
incompetent persons who were put
there by political ana like innu-
snoss have been put out and COM
pstsnt mon substituted In their
place. suppose you are aware
that IL has done splendid work,
and 10 recognised a. one OF the
best secret service forces In the
world. In fact, II largely does duty
for the whole country and not
merely for the city OF New York.
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INCOMING STEAMSHIPS.
DUE TODAY
MEXICO. vers C<uH. falnouia, Gibraltar.
Almirante Kinnton. kosnis Albert. Naples.
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"CAS-LUMv Cures Constipation, Biiiousnesa,
Headache; Vial sample BY mail &c. stamp. Al
drug counters. 10 and 2bc.. o. from
=. q. Ferguson Co.. box o. %2S 9th av.N.H.