New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-05

1T IS not so. The boy had left here
long before your committee sat. He
took this position on the steamer on
the 18th OF July and sailed from here
OF the 27th, and viii guarantee YOU.
even though this committee may be
out OF existence, that when he comes
back | will produce him for you 20
examine nm. am not going to sub
nut tamely TO having my private af-
1alrs, my children stopped on the street
and asked by your process servers if
own the house in l15th Street, with
/ out striking back.
O. Come on A.~-Oh, I will come
on. all right.
GU arc down here supposedly TO in
vestigate conditions in the City Of New
ork. would like to ask you sir, with
Ali duo respect, to investigate il Re
publican district leader in Brooklyn,
Charles F. Murphy. did not receive
$1,000 to put the detective bill over.
lou find out, also, and summon their
back accounts, and see how much more
was got"
Lockwood Receives Praise
Q.--I hope, if anybody did anything
of that kind, there will be a commit
tee appointed to investigate it, A.-All
right, sir. You can also find out what
connection Senator Lockwood had, who
lives in the district with Mr. Murphy,
snd want to make it clear
Q.-l don't know Mr.. Murphy and
cannot speak for him, but the charac-
ter of Senator Lockwood is entirely
Dove, suspicion, to my personal
The contrary is q vile SANDER A.-All
right. You can investigate it,
Q.-l don't have TO- | know him well
and knew him for years; he is known
ty this committee
MI. Brown later corrected himself.
saying he did know tho Murphy re-
ferred 20, and that he served with him
IT the Legislature.
The Inspector then launched into an
attack on the press aud The Tribune
particularly, referring to the alleged
| activities OF Edward J. Denicc. for
mcr reporter for this paper. Said the
Inspector:
"To show what a malign influence
some of the press of this city have
en- the government, and call the news
papers the super government of this
city doubt whether this committee
dare examine their bank accounts. |
was up IN the Ath District some years
ago and there was man named Edward
Tribune. He came to me and asked
Inc If I would not put his brother to
work in plain clothes in my office, and
that he was d very good policeman.
! said | will try him out. and made
application and he was transferred to
nae. Shortly after | found that the
/ newspaper man Denicc was very friend
/ IS with disorderly resorts and gambling
houses and the touts that solicited bus
! mess for those places.
"Denice had al interest in disor-
derly resort known as The Green Tur-
tie. I learned afterward, and because
I I would not violate Mayor Gaynor's or
/ der to close oil such places by a. NJ
! in the morning, he became dissatisfied
l thought | had better get rid of his
brother and had him transferred away
Case Against Hotel
"W @ had case against the Hotel
Belmont Rose Barrick. keeper of it
was arrested and charged with keeping
and maintaining a disorderlv house
She tried to bride some Of my men and
she was arrested for bribery, paying
Of two others. Denice came to my de
partment and offered $4,000 If ! woult
tell nay men to throw that case If
court ! refused.
"He told ne was very foolish; that
Rose Barrick would beat it anyway;
that he had power enough in the Dis
trict Attorneys Office at that time tC
beat the case. That statement of his WAS
borne ont partly by the course o.
events, because the District Attorney;
Office canned the felony charge Of
cleancut case and accepted pleas o.
guilty on the disorderly house chargc
Q.-When was that? A~Proba bl,
about 1914 Shortly after that The
Tribune started what they called ar
exposure Of conditions in the Tender
loin.
Il went down and saw Mr. Mac
Alarney, who was city editor of Tho
Tribune at that time, and told HIN
that Denicc was grating in the Ten
derloin. ! told him Of Denice's con
nection with the Green Turtle ane
that he had continually tried to Dor
row money from my men, one particu
larly, Jones. The next day, as the re
suit Of that interview with M. Mac
A,arney, the city editor Of that grea
newspaper, The Tribune, founded b,
Horace Greeley, on the following da,
there was a more vicious article thar
ever about the conditions in the Ten
derloin
Editors Note-ln 1914 The Tribune
began an LEGATION Of rumors OF
Broadway being wide OPEN Tribune
reporters disclosed the existence OF
floating poolrooms' and gambling
houses. When the second story of the
series was printed, Inspector Dwyel
made charges, almost identical Will
those made yesterday before the Meyel
&C mmittec, against Edward J. Denice
Dcnicc, who has not been connected
Nth The Tribune for five years, wa
then the reporter assigned to cover
police news along Broadway. Dwyel
was under the impression that Denic,
was responsible for the expose prnte,
by The Tribune.
Robert f.. MacAlarney. then cit,
editor OF The Tribune, assigned tw,
members Of mis- staff to inycstieat,
Dryers charges. They were unable Il
find anything to gpbstantiatc tn
charges.
Much Of the evidence Developed b,
Inc Tribune wax Of u character whjci
wss considered unfit 20 publish Ar
thur Woods. then Police Commissioner
was acquainted with this evidence an,
Inspector Dryer aud ali his conGden
,al men we're transferred from th'
! Broadway district.
Inspector Dnycr nero began his a.
tack agans, former Governor Nhit
man.
80 Wa, u ray that your grent Gov
cgnor. Mr. Whitman, let that Hos'