Evening star., 1952-01-16

certain additional duties assigned
Ito you?
Il A. Yes.
! @. Will you tell the committee
Iabout it?
i A. was told to go and take a
school crossing from that time on.
/ @. Were you told why?
i A. The remark was that all
school crossings should be COW
cred from that time on, and even
a sergeant should take school
crossing, as we didn't have enough
1men.
/ @. Was 1t a usual thing to have
q sergeant on school crossing
duty?
A. I never had covered one be-
fore.
Queried ON Assignment.
@. How cid you happen to be
relieved Of this assignment?
A. Some time during that win
lter-I don't remember the date
Inspector Lutz was in No. IA. He
made some remark about school
crossings and he ordered me not
to take any more school cross
ingS.
@. After roll call. where you
were assigned, did Capt. Murphy
call you into his Office?
A. Yes.
@. Who was there at the time?
A. Mr.. Whitehead.
Q. Tell the entire conversation
that took place.
A. Well. Mr.. Whitehead was.
sitting in the Office in a chair
and the captain asked me to ex-
plain the circumstances of the
arrest. I told him I just locked
this man up the day before for
numbers writing and operating q
lottery. He asked me another
question, why, or the conditions
Of the arrest and said I'd rather
not make any more statements
in the presence of Whitehead.
@. Did Capt. Murphy say any
thing else?
A. Whitehead left the Office then
and Capt. Murphy and ] had some
discussion.
Talks With Murphy.
q. Tell the committee what that
discussion was. A
A. Capt. Murphy asked me the
conditions of the arrest and asked
where I had received the infor-
nation and I told him + wasn't In
q position TO say and asked him
to please excuse me from giving
information and the source Of in
formation. He very forcefully de-
manded that I give the informa-
tion andsI refused to do 1t. Then
he advised me not to make any
other arrest Of this nature unless
I first notified him.
@. Did he say, "I'd rather YOU
didn't lock up these men on the
spur Of the moment?"
A. I believe he did.
@. And he wanted to be ad-
vised first in this kind Of case2
A. ! believe he said gambling
cases.
@. Did he tell you or the men
In the precinct they must get his
advice on it?
Accused Of Inefficiency.
| A. He said the captain must
know about these things before
1they happen. Capt. Murphy said
|he thought I had acted in a very
|inefncient manner and that ]
didn't show much efficiency.
| q. Did Capt. Murphy ask where
the money was?
A. I told him it was in the safe
as far as I knew.
/ @. Did you make any other
numbers arrests in that precinct
latter that?
A. No. No that was the last one.
made some before that.
@. Did Capt. Murphy ask you
II you had any other information
lon numbers operators?
A. I advised him of one man
suspected Of numbers writing
operating on Minnesota avenue
and also advised him as to the
license number of the car and he
made a note of it.
Questioned on Simkins.
The committee developed the
following testimony from Miss
Hale about Simkins' numbers
operations:
@. Have you known Roger
Simkins in the past? Z
A. Yes, sir.
@. During what years?
A. Since 1910.
@. How long after 1910 did you
continue to see Roger Simkins?
A. From 1910 to 1945.
@. What business was he In?
A. Numbers business.
Q. Where was his headquar-
ters?
A. Wei. ! don't know where his
headquarters was. but he was
doing his numbers business at my
house at that particular time, at
|2026 Georgia avenue NV.
Operated for 5 Years.
q. How long did he continue
to operate there?
A. From 1910 until 1945.
@. Who worked up there with
you on his numbers business?
A. Well, I was one. And Odessa
Madre, Maurice Newsone, Sporty
johnson. Jack (Jack the Bear)
Thomas, Joe Rudder, Jimmy
Brown, Lefty Winston and Chee
Chez Charlie.
Q. What was your job?
A. was to see that the work
got in on time and to take care
of the cash and to pay OF hits.
@. How much money came in
in cash to headquarters in q day
in this period?
A. ! would estimate from So, 900
to $4,000 q day the first Of the
week.
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