Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-18

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gase a room at the Rome hotel and tele-
phone to Mr.. Polcar Of the Daily News,
who would meet me quietly. engaged
room S6 and telephoned to Mr Polcar.
/ was told by him that MIR. culver Of St
Paul, MINI. connected with the news
paper had been delayed, and that they
would meet me the next day
PoIcar Gives instructions.
Either that same afternoon or the next
Mr.. Polcar and MIR. Culver came 10 my
room Mr.. Polcar said that certain
faction was in control Of politics in Omaha
and that the leading spirit Of the faction
was man named Tom Dennison. He
said the agency had been engaged for the
purpose Of entrspping prominent mem
hers OF the faction and Of securing CON
victions. Tie said he did not believe any
agency could cntrap Tom Dennison. but
he wanted to get some prominent 'man
who was friendly TO him.
He named Commissioner John Lynch
as close friend Of Tom Dennson, and
1t was decided to have a man come here
and get close to Lynch and stand ready
to pay him a bribe II he should show
himself willing to take one. / returned
to Kansas City and secured an agency
for the Palmer Forced Feed burner. thus
obtaining what we called a cover for
my operations, secured an office in
the Brandeis thcater building. and imme-
diately installed a dictaphone.
DictnphOne Reveals Nothing.
"A disc to gather the sound Of con-
versation was placed under three pages
Of the calendar over my desk. An op.
orator named Grove, who was a stenog-
rapher was In the next room TO take
down conversation, and there was another
receiver for a witness when the converse
ton was important. The conver.~s on oi
every person who came to the office wa,
recorded.
only one county commissioner evei
came to the office, although | invited
them all The man who came was Com
missioner Best. None of the commission
ers ever approached me on the subject o
bribe, and l presume the agency wa,
dissatisfied since l obtained no results.
MY second meeting with Mr.. Polcai
was held Immediately after January /
He gave me list of names of men anC
women and a list of all the officeholderl
in the city
To Debauch Women.
'Polcar represented to me that the wifi
| of Commissioner Lynch was supposed {,
have evidence Of collections made from
the underworld, and wanted a man t,
get in with her and with Mrs. Loch T.
buy wine and get them drunk, and evei
debauch them, to obtain material to b.
used as evidence
| Il refused to do this kind OF work, an,
about a week later X. Bernard came her
TO DO II, and / was placed under him
Bernard was here five or six weeks.
know that he collected t25OO from PolcaI
this being the first payment for the worl
here. was paid 81 a day and expenses
"Gustafson came here every seven o
eight days and met Polcar and Re-narc
l was present at two of their meetings.
"Bernard's only work was TO debauc
the women He had nothing to do wit
my job at the court house.
Reports to the News.
i sent reports every day to the Kan
sas City office. Copies of all these wer
sent to Chicago and to the Daily News
I have tried to get my reports from tn
Burns agency and from Woodrough, an
both have refused TO let me have then
Until March the plan was that / wa
TO be in a receptive attitude toward an
official who wanted a bribe. This ha
failed since none had approached m.
After a meeting was held in Chicago, al
tended by PolcaT, Gustafson and eithe
w. j. Burns or his son, the plan wa
changed.
To Use Marked Money.
II received Instructions from Gustai
son TO feel out Lynch and see If he woul
accept bribe. ] was told to go an
length to get the goods on him under
stood that l was to put marked none
on his person and then turn him owe
to the officers.
According TO the plan : was 10 70
him in my office, pass him marked none
and turn him on into the next ROOF
where the sheriff and other prominer
men were to be waiting to receive hin
In April ! was away for a short tim
and was later instructed to abandon III
work here. After Hansen was arreste
came here with Gustafson to see II II
Daily News would go on Hansen's bond.
rOIcar Picks Ont lynch.
work by Polcar himself, Pickard said G
crOsB-examination. He also relterate
his statement that he understood h
later Instructions to be to get marke
money on Lynch's person, by any meat
possible.
Pickard said TO the News attorne
shortly after his arrest: 1T you col
duct the defense l suppose II will be Il
truth"
The reply was: The defense will I
, whatever I please l propose to make
, newspaper campaign for public sent
. ment."
After Pickard dropped Woodrough, II
latter suggested Bronze g. Bronze, q
torneys who are very close TO Joe Polcs
as his lawyers, the former detecti'
testified.
Lynch Takes the stand.
County Commissioner Lynch consult'
District Judge English and County Alto
ney Magney the day after Frank NJ. Pic