The evening world. Newspaper, August 12, 1901, Page 3

MONDAY EV NG, AUGUST 12, 1901. THE WORLD: — @se<st-o =) MAN WHO TRAPPED CORRUPT POLICE OFFICIALS, cS-<~» | ARTIST POWERS INTERVIEWS FRANK MOSS Jo p-e Speaking of Col. Murphy as an Orator, He Says: ‘‘His Voice Is Good, but His Hands Are Dead.” Says He Is Fighting a Syndicate of Crime That Is Backed by the Most Powerful Political Organization in the Country. if THIS AS AUS Tw INVESTIGATE. Frank Moss’s special mis- sion in Itfe seems to be to fight the police. For years he has been on the trail of men who use their brass buttons to al extort corruption money from 4, Cor! lawbreakers. He knows them aa Couonen as 155 SUCH AH ‘stimately too, for he has been « Police Commissioner, and there are few methods in the department of Which he is not aware. He says that it ts hard to fight this organised syndicate of crime, Which he declares is backed by the most powerfal political organiza- tion in the United States. But he is keeping at it, as he tells Artist Powers. ORATORY POLICE DEPARTMENT TELE Phone DIRECT To ALL Poot,Rooms This {s Frank Moss, who hos discovered the missing ink connecting the police force with the Gamblers’ Combine. This sketch was made in Mr. Moss's office on the third floor of the Bennett Building. When asked what the outcome of all this would be, Mr. Moss replied: ‘Well, we = By T. E. Powers. With the blood of the slaughtered Po- can’t say as yet, but we mean to KEEP AT THEM-—to keep on charging them like a Uce Department on his strong, fat regiment of cavalry until we strike a stone wall ’ hands, I caught Frank Moss for an !n- As he spoke his left arm flew out with fist clinched as though the enemy were even \ terview. I had been told by somebody then within his reach, and he showed those same white teeth to which Johnnie Sexton that Frank Moss has been fighting the go strongly objected during the sessions of the Mazet Committee. police ever since 1885. He doesn't look the part. Few of the persons I have . known who began to fight the police at an early age and kept {t up are at large. : eee pie peni ee abies . J Commissioner Murphy says: “Tf these charges are true I have bee® (f i grossly deceived and will carefully investigate, . ‘a in thy Fe ae re ee etree eneae When Mr. Moss's opinion was asked he replied: ‘The Colonel is a Bennett Building when I met him. 1 thought at first he was holding the top of his head on, but hts friends assure me that the handclasp on his dome of thought ts his characteristic attitude. 1 am not sure that his characteristic at- titude Is not largely responsible for the famine of hair that yails above and abaft of his forehead. Surrounding Mr. Moss on every hand were large, portly detectives, Anybody could tell they were detectives. 1 knew great ortor—superb—beautiful!” the Commlenioner, Chief and everything ) hard to, convict a police captain. Now else, 19 Willinm 8. Devery. as for Whitney, of course we have him “Possibly you noticed that when Com-| dead. His confession, too, will be @ missioner Murphy arrived at Headquar-| great help. But you put a captain om ters early Saturday morning he was|the stand, and he's got about 4,000 wit- brimming over with righteous Indigna- | nessesto prove that he was in Oshkosb, Ba tion. He tatked about 13-inch shells nnd | Siberia, Punxatawney or somewhere ‘throwing them out’ untile we all ex-| when the alleged crime was committed. pected to nee Kory heads flying from Inra to Stop Corruption. ‘ every window of Headquarters. But “It looks easy to get out and te when he gave utterance to thoughts! ston to this corruption, but when you again at noon he was sreatly sup-|it0 to* consider that the whole poger Pressed. The wor man dodged and] 5+ tne most powerful political organisa: auilrmed and tried to put off his plain| tion tn the United Btates te behind tt: | y onto everybody else. s ss mp tet “The time has come for Gov, Odell to| fren Tout Stop to consider that a palies take cognizance of the New York Pollce| extortion to a fine art stan@p as «-umit }—~ Department behind every accused man, sa will bp Odell May Step In. forced to the admission tha@vwe are up . “He has becn asked to do tals before | against a hard game.” the press and the public. [do not] phts, however,” I interposed, “will” “how he can avoid taking actlon] in no way deter you in further efforts i; i now,” to bring erring poltcemen to book.'* By this time Mr. Mo: bearings were ‘Not in the least,” was the reply. beginning to smoke. He showed his| we are going at this thing like the ed Light”| teeth and snapped them ike castanets. | charge of @ troop of oavalry. Noth- More and more did I congratulate my-1 ing can stop us but a stone wall, and self that T avolded the temptation and the stone wal{ ta not now in sight.” eo easy road to wealth that comes| jnaividuals of mysterious aspect Bad before I was told, ‘They were there to mike (heir reports of thei night's work, I suppose. Happy detectives, who can stay up all night and seek Vice tn ite Inir and kick it in the chin ana get pald | for It! Cool De This amile ts Mr. Croker'’s only sewrce of wort! it now. ite the ifeat. es MH Mz. Mors wore no coat nor waistcoat. sae 7 HD He had on a biue-and-white striped nex-| of wreaking trreparable damage in any| the-minatrel-show Isugh. I don't think pa Ngee shirt that looked as though {t was|fleld he burrows In. Witneas the pollce | he Jokes much, making Its second appenrance for al field. | sits wotce 1s good,” repiied the re- day's work. He wore suspendera over| He disposed of the reports of ‘hia .te-| former, “but his hands are dead.” | his broad shoulders and looked cool de-| tectivos in a manner that shows him to! 1 protested that this anawer wan some- aylte the heat in the stuffy little oMce. | be possessed of considerable exccutive | what allegorical, and asked for a chart. What Impressed mo most about him| ability. Ho gave his orders in the same! Are you establishing a connection bes was the combination of his mild, almost| way. He made up his mind in a hurry,|tween Orator Murphy and the volce ‘of Protest from jaw. eho ah ratolaneg oe sstaea fe ante i ri coasoeancayet sa fepienay te benteh ori Roa i te: have we had a man more unadle (| through running a pool-room. Uttle office all Ww. < Moga | {mmedinte! he coneidera: z 2 Ir ou -room. 2 o a ja should hate to have Frank Moss ly to ee lon of | quired. carry out anything that should be cat-| st suppose you will have these cap- yen fentherog sorlthek utile jomee¥all after me If 1 had stolen a watermelon | Something else, | Mr, Moss seemed to understand, some- or robbed a mint or anything like that. Comments om Murphy. what to my surprise. I have alnce been He Is a man who will never glve up) When he came to consider me he em- told that he {sa Bible roholar of emt- | when he geta started. He does not re-| barrassec mo somewhat by remarking: | nence. 4 mind one-aa mos: forceful, determined} Oh, yes, I have read your pictures.*| "Not exactly that.” he responded. men do—of a bulldog in the cut of the! “Mr. Moes," eatd I, “what do you|"What I want to Imply {s that not? Jaws and head. [I think a comparison of] think of Commissioner Murphy as an! sinco the days of Demosthenes have wo! Frank Mosa and a mole ts about asj orator? had a more eloquent voice crying out close as one could corfe to It—energetic,| He laughed—a sof:, pleasant, ttle! for justice and truth and goodness, and | secretive, powerful and game; capable! laugh, a aurt of shrinking-minister-at- ‘not since the days of the Cardiff Glant ried out tains and other pollcemen In th stone | nut 1 have been thinking ever since of Devery Ie in the Way. house below Ossining In time to tae | ths lucky detectives who get paid Sor “1 don't suppose it is entirely hia|thelr Thanksgiving turkey there?” TI) vunting vice. fault. I think he would do things If he | suggested. ‘The average producer !s compelle@ te } very 1s in the way. Devery| A look of pain took possession of Mr. ‘ettusively for guch vice as he is eae hands ted. Moss's features. He massaged the top ey le fo: uncover, "end ia not bard for nae i . i hy jucer to “That {san absolute fact. They didn't] of his head. x the: producer.ste, uncover tt eT : put Murphy in there in earnest.) The| “I'm sure T am unable to say," he re- rain because they get pald for a so ching theo Wardman. Gee inating factor in Mulberry street,| marked sadly, “You see, it’ awfully! and it feela like work. vy the! QFF TO FIND SOUTH POLE. | pis,sr¢ pene, the,minter, If nothing Kenintant | search expedition will be sent out. i 7 “Nana ‘Rurer, formerly of the (German Expedition Under Drymal- |, 7 "american line, is captain of aki Leaves Kiel. Gauss. SILVER DOLLAR MISSMGHANHADOEATH COT (MRS, ATION AL CARRIERS. ===" SUNT, SERED CLUB A VICTIM; TRIED SUICIDE; GRAND PRUE.’ AT AT AGAIN, LOSEA FIGHT. :sesasrm= 2 Gacreins: OSES TR i - | The Workingm Herr Rothe, Under Secretary of the (speaielslirwcCewsahetwenas | | Hundred held a meeting Iast ni) Interior, wished the expedition g0d- gop ANTON, Pa. Aug. 12—During @ TREASURER VAMOOSED WITH JOHN ADDELSON FOUND HANG-|SEIZES UPON WILLIAM C.syE sMASHES LIQUOR BOTTLE |JERSEY CITY MEN ASSESSED |(‘ivle Mall No 125 Hast Beet) elknth speed on behalf of Emperor William and severe electrical storm, which passed THE OUTING FUNDS, . | ING, REVIVED. NOW GONE. FRANCE, THE HORSEMAN. IN A PULLMAN CAR. | BY POLITICIANS. THEY SAY. | *tiret. vnd deciied ( . ON over this section yesterday two women ompanying the ex- ext von Hoeffen, of Were inatantly killed. 7 at Ulmer Park, Benson- }ner on Dr | |hurst, in honor of Henry George fy 5 e ~ , = sty t and botanist; Dr. Hans || Harvey Compton, a prosperoup farmer. Dend Man Was One of th inat | Wooley.| Sheakers will be Jonn F. Altgeld, of Df Munich, pacteriologist: Dr. living at Long Bridge, his family and @ penne NRC OLE ey ne of the Original | Whiskey In Spilled Over Wer Dress | Santstant aster OF y+) cntcago: Lee Meriwether, of St. Touts; ppt, of Breslau, geologist, and young boarder, were seated in as Hin Wife Hina Kept Up a Ce wners of the Logisiana he tn th Ane- Chairman Republican Cam- James B. Reynolds, of the University h Bidlingmaer, of Lauffen, Bars Fost ieee tes aeoe m—Was Ont yaLere Sev mtunt Search for t Work and» Children, ‘ ries ist. palgn Committee, Gnina a View) coiiement; John 8. Crosby and Samuel) rps’ Gxpedition will establish a base at and instantly killed Mrs. Co: Seabury | Kergueien, push as far south as possi- her elghteen-year-old daughter to Discard Seoured, Garment. The members of the Silver Dollar Ciuh, of which Tony Smith, son of the late Silver Dollar Smith, and known to his! intimates as Half-Dollar or Fifty-Cent| Smith, ts president, had. an outing y. terday, To-day they nave resumed th John Addeleon, who Hives with} William ©, France, millionaire, owner | «stike" Reardon, H. F. Allen and ven children at No, 2083 Second |9f fine horses, and promoter and part | amen Scanion, Indlanapolls mef, who| The National Clvil-Service Reform has well-nigh given up hope of | Prowrictor of the old Loutstana lottery. |naye trotting horses at Brighton Beach, | League, through Wililam Dudley Foulke, Kher husband sgata, but she goes|!* | His pdventurous life had an encounter with Mrs. Carrie Na-|mude pudiic o nbravely in the searen for alm, which|Dreuxht to an end last night in the lion white on the way to New York, [data in Ghar oranyatnes Raver mt hel eo begin Cour weeks As home of his brother, Albert France, No. when he dine ating the police in locating Robert |“? some tnteresting 5 ; mite tae THEBIG STORE ROTPINTISELP ITETIDSFISTA Cane e See Rechelon ey ‘They were In the smoking compart-[ efforts to put a stop to the Be 00s i el appearen Para Ase Tney toad PY tment of a Pullman car and were talk-[orcion of Jeraey, City letter-carriors ddelso1 J been moody for days, e co . | es are 0 calmes been compe ° = Henning, formerly chief barkeeper in the a ‘il ies nae) ae ie re (Oran ayes The decensed, was born In Rockville, |!M When Mra, Nation entered and ated who calm: ne P Smith hotel in Essex street. [eat £ is - 32 y "la bottle of whiskey on the washstand i files BU q had been tn the same dexpondent condi. | Ml. # shore distance trom Washington, | spitle of wiikey Om Tae manne | oaimaster E,W. W ; \ Henning was custodian of the funds i D.C, in 188, He ver of fine oeethe tbllean. Ce ¢ of the Silver Dollar Club, and when tion last March, and the climax came 1} Was a lover of fine} y ichet, ts Chairman of the publlicn ant rnc : ; a A SHEN whem he was found hanging In his rece, | Horses and was at one time the greatest [ULC sald Allen | Committee In Jersey SUaT AVE. WOErSTS, ee pte ma nieelvestersay at Syrian wee Although almost dead he was brought | O%MeF of blooded stock In the country. | | Have ae eens ae mat Otice Department Investigated (AMET BE AD THE FOUNTAIN. ev lee as if the outing was off anliheliaenéy tol around and his luck chinged, He got] He made several millions in the Louis: | % SES Hin USL plainta that the carrlers had ts pay $ o 5 om 5 Jana Lottery busine: sfore the posta nad 5. ‘aachitolthe rbites pay for the tallyhos and the refresh-| “Fk and for two months the Addel- Pee eaeegtnn before the postal!” si-5, Nation xmilingly accepted, lttea| tach (9 the T tea She B : he Bost American authoritles succeeded tn suppressing the or submit to vartous In June, however, ments was not In sight. Then Mrs.|°20" Were ha Jase to her peas if to drink, made Smith, the mother of Half-Dollar, ad.|t14de with his employer, Joi peat and, with the explanation, ‘it's | performance of thelr ¢ Wancedt halt bofliiercecssarereqen of Ninety-ninth street, near Third ——_——- 8 agen edi a “Martin. Engel owes me 425 for| UC fell off und Adelson wax again Window! A. xuntofllwind ei serene er gp) < . y tickets," sald Halt Dollar. “We will{ Without means to keep hin fami WHAT PHILIPPINES NEED. Dumentene anil ithe quor and drove Doninga ss 7 “nt MIU CS camp on his trail.” He began to brood und each night on it back. 3 ‘Tatt Snyw Congress Shoald Panal it (ck Mie % urning unsuccessful in his search fo: 9 Tarif-Reform Measures. “lam anointed with iniquity!" she Mr, Engel was found and, when th situation was explained, he produced) 1° ‘ Me kebihtl x rk, shut himself in his room aw Beividere Park, where the’ manos, wee| from hie family, wet) ANIUA\ Aug. 18 20ov) Taft, apeak- FS Hi Foy Yard. spent. { Mrs, Aaa fearing he would agall.{ing at a banquet given yesterday by Cal- partment she waa mopping her dress ? C. a Yar DROWNING CRY UNHEEDED. attempt suicide watched him carefully.| fornians to Representative Kahn, ¢ with a towel, ‘ i ficlal wh {On July 1 he arose very early and| San Franctaco, sad that to properly d te 1 that) per of 4 f . imi Goss tite Lost Thowmh Herp Waal RUE Mie fauntly was atlil aaleen wen:| velop the Philippinen satiafactory lexin- | : Mist { who had comple Although there were many big Dimity sales held in town this “6 vi no word a a HY } ind not re-| lation dealing with tariff reform munt ; i season, at which rare bargains were offered, none of them equalled ma. HAENUBK that MMERI, hia, wife, began al be gassed ut the next nession of Con: [Dinek drezn, nt (Ppecial to The Evening World.) NO trace of the man han| 8T¢88. He asserted also that Jaws pro- | ® tral BRIDGEHAMPTON, L. 1, Aug, 12—| been found, ———=— . htbiting the sale of public Muni: dd Anthony Manselll, the cleven-year-old| a AUas#on, was forty-two years old, tall| timber, Inwa providing for the incor-| PEACE ENVOY RELEASED. comple: sale will u ionably ‘‘break the record.’’ son of Mr. and Mrs, Joseph Manzellt, pentncene son: porating of American banks and laws nquestionably was drowned In Kelly's Pond yenterday was drowned In Kelly's Pond yesterday! KING'S CHEF ON STRIKE, | 27Untine franchises and) mining eights) andrles We sete Nes ‘ Only 30,000 yards will be offered at the price named. The teed him trying im, : Other members of the Philippine Com- : rp reafid ned wa ri and pretty, and as for the qualities, you Near at the : Aothat ’n 1898, just be 1 box wae pla: those of The Big Store for high qualities and low prices. But this B bled a confirmation of the wits only foollng and went on thelr way. at. Madrid. realy, Chief Signal OMicer, hasican i M advised that a achool of telegraphy he | of che releas the! boss: Mette etic utd | MADRID, Aug. 12.—Tho general feel-| established, connie a carriers concluded that th ‘With fish-| ing Jot discontent prevailing here haal!,,commissary-General Weston asserts! beon meant that all who handed up $10 te ond. and| reached. tho royal kitchen. ~ Tl t the reports of the friude in the] Weeacls A prisoner in Gen. the Republican campaign fund wou [ne body. will’ bel Gipal chet and five cooka at the slacal Soperacea:? The otal teas Go the asec tis Duta Fecently sunoad and ease Nave eEoiclantehin ge More Of the 3 J» to-day for! burial, palace have gone out on atrike, ae jov= th ently surprised and cap-| riers took the ernment turns) out to be only tured, The Postmaster-General has refused