Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-24
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heard OF II. am sure It would have
been fully invcst,"atcd'
TELLS OF CONFERENCE
WITH MINISTER'S AND OTHERS


hcia between committee Of the board
and ministers ia lsi2 on the subject
"f prev"n'in: the sale OF liquor IN
houses in the see"ccat"d district. and
orders bein. given u the Police chief
riGid!y I" enforce tho law He re-
f"rrch also 10 q letter received from
tn" Ministerial Union later. in which
the ministers expressed their desire To
c"-op""nte with the Police Board in
"rri a" for tn. suppression OF dis
'.nuit,'e houses and Sunday liquor
sc!iir-
.A-hei o"cerninc the wiling out"
az CHIEF Werner by Commissioners
''""dc, Mr.. Gordon said ne had never
heard "f il until the Investigation
began
~ had, nc said. and believed
t;"oi' va. serious. would have re-
n"r''d him I" the board and to the
Mayor
rolc- Commissioner Henry NJ. Boy
Kin @as II the witness chair nearly
half aD noui. telling chiefly ~ the
nrihrns Of procedure ~ the board and
actions .. the Supervision of Force
Committee. q! which he is chairman
Colonel Roykin reading from the
records. showed that NJ had personally
reported number Of suspected houses
az which Information had come to him
through different citizens Al different
times. and said that the chief had taken
action In these cases. He agreed with
Commissioner Gordon that the force
WAS too small.
BONkIN SAYS POLICE
FORCE Is TOO SMALL
we hav" LIS men. rank and file. he
said. we hav. hgurcd out that we
need 225 properly To police the city"
He said he did not countcnance drunk.
enncss among the police. Il consider
y drunken policeman a menace Ia the
city
Asked why he had voted fo- the re.
instatcmcut of Bolton. he explained
that ~ regarded I; As an exceptional
case. R.lton's record WAS excellent for
years. When he was dismissed IL was
difncult for him TO secure other work
because h" had devoted so much OF his
! life 10 police work Belten'S record
since reinstatement proved that his
Judgment in that instance was good.
Joe Wcinstcin. who conducts pawn
shops In Richmond and Roanoke. and
who had been summoned from Roanoke,
was called To the chair by Attorney
Smith. He testified that Detective
Sergeant krengsl paid him Sos for the
diamond and sapphire ring, instead OF
/ SIS. krenEel was reported as having
! said he paid SIS. The object In bringing
| the pawnbroker from Roanoke was oh
( viously 10 further dscredit the detec-
( tive sergeant. whose evidence against
the accused commissioners is regarded
as more damaging than that of any
! other witness.
| Attorney Robert f. Scott. In a state
ment to the committee. announced that
! Detective Sergeant Wiltshire desired
permission to make n statement to the
| committee. hut was i'll In bed and un-
able to come until n later session. The
permission was granted.
I Policeman GoldSby, recalled to the
chair. chung to his previous testimony
that ne was misGuoted in the Vice
Commissions report both as to a con-
| versation he had with We'll about Nam
ME Coles house md his remarks about
! Mccarthy. discrepancies of no impor-
tance save for their bearing In the
question of the absolute accuracy OF
the report.
Replying to other questions. Goldsby
said he did not know how many names
of houses and women were on the re-
port he gave the Vice Commiss ion.
included the names Of women who
were In houses that were only sus-
pccted. He did not desire the list
made public for that reason. The list
was called for and filed with the COM
mittee for consideration in executive
session. There are ninety-three houses
in the list.
KNOWS OF ONLY ELEVEN
HOUSES OUTSIDE OF DISTRICT
Mr.. Rogers said: What want Is au-
thoritv for the statement that there
| were found outside OF the segregated
district 100 houses" He asked Goldshy
how many Of the ninety-thrce he could
say Of his own knowledge were dis
reputab bile houses Goldsby examined
the list and replied:
Eleven"
Councilman English: Did you re-
port these elcven"'
"'Some of them were reported.
know that four OF them we're reported
Patrolman Galhraith and Campo
doniCa gave un.mportant testimony, eX
planning apparent discrepancies be-
tween statements before the Vice Com
mission and the Investigating body
Asked by MIR. Mcclure about n state.
ment he he'd made which was at va
Rance with the report Of the Vice
Commission. Galbraith stated: II did
not say TO the commission that 7 had
been before the Police Board but tina,
! understood my name had been before
the board"
CITY Attorney Pollard, shortly before
the recess gave notice that he would
put on witnesses in rchuttal AT the
next session. The investigation ad.