The sun., 1919-07-19
side DOOR TEST
AIDS ACCUSED COP
Discrepancies Found in Shoo-
fly Mans Story Against
Leonard.
DOOR DIFFERENT TYPE
Evans Also Thinks Ancient
Steps Were Not There on
July II.

In the cataract of rain that cascaded
from the roof Of Brooklyn Bridge ter
minal into the cobbled pavement OF
North william street below stood A.
Drum Porter. Deputy Police Commits
sioner. yesterday afternoon with three
cops at the family entrance to Furth-
mans place Of business.
The door opened and Phil, the one
eye Ganymede. stuck his aproned self
into the rain for a moment and barked:
Hey. yez guys. II yez want anything
go around the Park Row side. They's
fixing this side of the bar"
Which invitation Mr.. Porter, his sec
rotary. and Lieut.. Evans Of the First
District supremely ignored. They were
not hanging around the side door for
seidel Of dark ale but were investigating
the case of Policeman Patrick Leonard,
charged by Evans with being handed a
high collared schooner out this door on
July IL.
Leonard himself was there with his
lawyer, Samuel Greenbaum of 81 Park
Row. A lot Of other plain clothes men
lowered around, and pretty soon the
barkeeps along the other side of North
v
tract the only crowd that the street has
seen since the great drought
I'VE give a bigger glassful here
called Oscar from over the swinging
doors of Gutenberg's dispensary. and all
four soda clerks in the Municipal Cafe
advertised their places all during the in
vestigation, as II was with difficulty that
the officials standing in pouring rain
heard Evans explain how he saw the
side door trick performed.
II am standing up there by Simp-
sons" he says, land what do 1 see but
this here officer poke his stick in the side
door and out comes a whopper OF mug
of beer. He drank 1t with seeming salts
faction, walked down the street and
placed 1t on the wall near Brooklyn
Bridge. Then 1 went over and asked his
shield number"
The story amused Leonard. who Is a
big, likely chap-one Of the tallest men
on the force. For nine years he has
been down on that beat without COM
plant.
THE first l knew of this man." he told
Commissioner Porter, was when he
came up to me and said he saw me
drinking. That was a hot one, for 1
never drank in my lie. but / thought
I'd get line on his act, and asked him
who he was. Then he told me he was
Lieut.. Evans.
'I recognized him as shoo-fiy cop,
with the rank of Lieutenant, who tried
to get me on a complaint some years
ago. and when his charge was found to
be groundless, he threatened to get me.
He said that for a young fellow / was
getting away with murder. This Is a
trumped-up charge. but ridiculous
In the first place, the shoo-fy cop
says Leonard poked in n swinging door.
There never was one on the family en-
trance of Furthman. Evans also
thinks that the short stairs to the door.
which have been there for years weren't
there when he saw Leonard rap for a
drink As Commissioner Porter saw
yesterday, 1t would take a pretty tall
cop to lean over the stairs and push in
the door.
What seemed TO amuse the crowd more
than anything else in Evans's tale was
that Leonard after drinking most OF the
beer walked down the block with the
glass in his hand, In plain view OF the
hundreds OF people on Brooklyn Bridge.
But Evans says the glass was there sure
enough. for didn't he walk along a half
minute later and taste the liquid, which
was something like 2.75 per cent. more
or less?
Furthmans, by the way, has grabbed
fair share of the Park Row liquor
trade for the last twenty years, and
Furthman himself says he never had to
sell side door glass of beer in his life.
nor has any of his bartenders.