New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-20
Names of Captain Mckinney
and Five Detectives Brought
In by Two Witnesses Before
AIdermaniC Committee.
HAYES DENIES CHARGES
Former Sheriff on Stand De-
nounces as Lie Story That He
Was Interested in Raines
Law Hotel and Fought
Competition with Pull.

Ex-Sheriff Nicholas Hayes. named by
George A. Sipp in his testimony on
Wednesday as a partner in the Harlem
Hotel, took the stand before a crowded
aldermanic chamber yesterday to deny
Sipps story. Hayes declared brokenly
that he was humiiated to have 10 come
before the committee to chase the lie
Of a filthy beast" However the most
important feature of the session con-
cerned the alleged grating OF the police
on fences" These are places where
thieves sell their plunder.
The Tammany leader was evidently
deeply affected over the position in
which he found himself. tie said he
had left a sickbed against the advice
Of his physicians to give his~testimony.
Following the brief denial by Hayes,
Emory r. Buckner chief counsel to the
committee, put Nathan j. Michaels on
the witness stand. Michaels is one OF
Inc smaller stockholders in the
NANNY" Maas-Ma Hochstim crowd.
which bought Sipp's Baltic Hotel and
is the man whom Thomas J. Dorian,
formerly assistant manager Of the
hotel. testified was manager Mlchae!S.
pasty faced, shifty and nervous. when
be took the stand, lost no time in pro-
claiming himself nothing more than an
tmploye Of the corporation. and not an
officer
He asserted fatty. i'm spite of Buck
ners warning about the possibility Of
perjury. that he knew nothing OF the
protection" money payments made by
Dorian. and went a step further and
asserted that uo such payments were
made
Took What Traffic Would Bear.
Aichaels shifted about from side to
side If the chair when he made that
statement, and then. fairly charged
up." as cocaine users say. with his own
nervousness. jumped suddenly 10 his
feet and sat down again in the tiash o.
an eye.
With The subject of di-orderly hotels
and their tribute TO police graft lald
aside for the time being, the committee
turned to new line OF graft. As the
story of this new method Of police
blackmail was unfOlded by three not
impressive witnesses it appeared thai
the system was to get fence an"
take from him as much as he Wouid
stand for without squealing.
The beauty Of this graft which gives
il more strength than even that OF the
disorderlv houses and the excise viola
tors. is that the CRATER is always deal
ing with a criminal who may be sent up
for a term of years If he threatens to
squeal
Michael ]. Weiss. Louis Kaplan, Nor
ris Smirling apd Mrs. Smirling were
The witnesses who told Of the fence
graft. Smirling is under sentence or
two years and five months for receiving
stolen goods Kaplan is In the tolls OF
The law for similar offence, and Weiss
admitted yesterday that he, as kap-
lan's partner. was the man VINO had
purchased the goods for less than $500
valued at 5000.
Follow Bypaths of Graft.
However, in spite of the undeniao bic
fact that these men did not make
forceful impressive witnesses, they
named very clearly a group OF de-
,ectives whom they accused OF carry
ing on a regularly organized graft hunt
among the merchants of the East side
Acting Captain Charles II. Mckinney
in charge Of detectives Of the I'd In
spection District: Richard OllVer' inc
Waldo chauffeur who was advanced III
surprisingly quick order TO the rank
and nav If first grade detective, and
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