Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-15
TAKING OF TESTIMONY
IS NEARING ITS END
Police Department Investigation May
Close With One More
Sitting.
DEFENSE CALLS WITNESSES
DEFENSE CALLS WITNESSES
Hopes to Offset by Testimony of
NeighbOrs Certain Damaging
Statements AS to Conduct Of Com.
missioner GOOde.

| Unexpected developments may pro-
long the investigation OF the Police
Department, but the situation to-day
Indicates that the taking OF testimony
neSses at 'hc sitting of the Council
committee following tomorrow nights
session.
| The attorneys representing the three
commissioners accused in the Vice
Commissions report will begin nut h..
/ ting on witnesses Tomorrow night A
catch OF thirteen who--tcstimony L.,
desired by tho lawyers Will be sworn
tomorrow.
WHO THE NEW
WITNESSES WILL. BE
| They are:
a. +. Granger. who conducts n fur
nished room house at SOS East Main
street. and who Is expected to give
testimony favorable to Commissi Juer
II. y. Goode.
{. w. Hodges. clerk in tho Rich
mond postofice. also said TO be n Goode
witness
L. Stagg Powell. OF the firm Of Powell
Brothcrs. ciothicrs. l54l East Main.
'ihose testimony is expected to Offset
that OF policemen who testified against
Commissioner Goode.
Sam Steiner. nawnbrokcr. from whom
sergeant krengel purchased jewelry or
PISTOLS which no sold to saloon keep
ers and alleged policy men
Mrs L. G. Woodruff. keeper OF tho
lodging house over Commissioner
Goodies store. who will testify to tho
conduct OF policemen who kept her
house under surveillance when they
suspected the place
ID. j. O'Ncil. saloon keeper. South
Fifteenth Street. and Alphonsus NJ.
ONcil, his son. who are oxpect.d IN
testify to conditions in the neishbor.
hood when Commissioner Goode was
protesting against the annoyance to
which policemen subjected the tenant
OF the rooms over his store.
Lewis Adkins, an Innocent bystandcr.
VINO CHANGED to witness trivial Incl :
dents which, II is alleged, havo been
magniied by policemen testifying
against Goode
j. j. Doran. horse sheer, whose shop
is mt Is South Fifteenth Street. n Wit
ness familiar with the neighborhood
r. IL. Temple. Observation-Disclosures OF
william Temple, Incorporated, commits
sion merchants. another neighborhood
witness.
+. ID. Caldwell. clerk. n GooJc w;.
ness.
Louis Biagi, saloon keeper. who pur-
chased one or more articles from Krcn-
gel. which krengel had bought from n
pawnbroker.
Louis Corrieri. saloon keeper, another
buyer OF articles purchased by krcn-
gel from pawnbrokers.
WILL PROBABLY BE
THE FINAL WITNESSES
These will be. in all proba bility. thu
hnal witnesses. although ut the session
following. City Attorney Pollard may
put on witnesses in rebuttal
The city Attorney is not prosecuting
any OF tho Police Commissioners or
any member OF the Police Department.
He Is merely guiding the investigating
committee In tho quest for evidence to
sustain or refute the charges contained
in the Vice Commissions report. His
function while sitting with the commit
tee is that OF an adviser. In the event
that the committees findings are un-
favorable to the commissioners, or any
other member OF the Police Depart
ment. then he may be called upon act :
ually to prosecute. That Will be on the
floor OF the Council crnmber. and after
the proceedings have passed from the
committee room, where the proceedings
now pending are wholly and absolutely
inquistorial.
Tho City Attorney will probably In
troduce in evidence at tomorrow nights
sitting the records Of the Board of
Police Commissioners. showing the
alignment of tho board members when
the vote was taken on different ques-
tons Of "expcdiency." and he Will oues-
tlon tho coincidence OF five members of
the board-Commission Bradley. Row
kin, Mccarthy, Goodo and Weil-votinp
together almost Invariably against the
three who are recorded as standing 10
gether on these same questions Com
mssloners Parker, Gordon an,
Thomas.