The evening world. Newspaper, May 23, 1911, Page 2

—o Toon that these were the only possibilt- ties he was considering Mayor's Letter to Waldo. Out of courtesy to his retiring Police Commissioner Mayor Gaynor insisted that Mr. Cropsey had resigned of his own volition. Immediately after mak Ing this announcement the Mayor gavo out copies “of the following | he said, he had just forwarded by | special messenger to Commi Waldo at Police Headquarters Dear Mr. Waldo: Your fine service as head of the Fire Department induces me to ap point you to the headship of the Police Department. For years be- fore I became Mayor !t was gen erally understood that appointments and promotions in the Police and Fire Departments had been, with some interruption, by outs) fave oritiam, and even for money con Gideration, and this understanding was largely correc To do away ‘With all poselbitity this I it @ matter of poll that a ap poiatments and promotions should bs made in numerical order from the civil service lists, Instead of the appointees being picked out of cer tiled batches, by which the liste had been juggled with in the p You found this condition prevailing | in the Fire Department, but have | done away with it completely by | following out the new Dolicy, there. | by convincing the men that merit and faithfulness alone should count, | iorier and restoring their emulation and confidence im honest treatment, You will do the same in the case of the Police Department. You have forty-elght recent illegal appoint. ments to immediately deal with in the Police Department. 1 have di- rected the Chairman of the Civil Service Board to sit down with you about the matter. 1 want you to banish from the Police Departmen: @@ you have from the Fire Depart- ment, even the appearance of ap- ointments or promotions going by favoritism or purchase. No Finer Men in the World, There ts no finer or more falthful body of men, in the main, in the world, and my great wish is to treat them with benevolence and} There are a large number of vacan- cles to be filled by promotion. The delay in that respect has been Awainst my judgment and wishes, | Let that be one of the first things to be attended to, and I would lke ticipate when the promotions are conferred. When the civil service examinations for the vacanciés among the captains were being held 1 warned the candidates that no outside influence of money, politics or anything else would secure their promotion, and that they would fn numerical order trom the lst. I regret that the carrying | out of the Mayor #0 Wong delayed. Very truly yours, W. J. GAYNOR, Mayor. There hasn't been so much open soy ana good cheer in the Police Depart- ment for many years as that which radiated from Headquarters to the re- THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, DANIEL O'REILLY TURNS TABLES ON HIS PROSECUTOR Shows That He Never Signed False Testimony Given in Supplementary Proceedings. | | | ee | | THE GRILLING IS ENDED. Plass Goes Back on the Stand and Contradic S$ Statemenis of the Lawyer. about his testimony at an exar in supplementary proceedings ove O'Relliy in answer to the 4 life was upright and nis the testim and the jury that O'Reilly's signature in the supplementa no Journment of his examination The attempt on the part of Assistant Mistrict-Attorney Buchner to diser Dante! O'Relily, the lawyer who ts ac used of having unlawfully received the $55,009 worth of stock stolen from Aaron n the corridors of ¢ Exchange, transformed it {nto a full elzed boomerang when Avra ham Levy got a chance to-day to begin the redive amination of his clien uckoer bad taken up most of seste day afternoon in questioning O'iet ina judgment obtained aga’ n a net him by A modisic. In what purported to be a transcript of the testimony given by yn put to him by the modiste’s lawyer, Ja Buhler, O'Retlly was made to ss {iis memory was “bad” and that « |®00n as he got hold of a little money he spent it in the “white light’ distri In the present case he testified that his nemory good. The Tables Turned. The very firet thing "Abe" Levy did when he got his chance was to produce ny and to show to the Court Proceedings was Y. but to a formal ad- oO testin Justice Davis decided that the sig- nature had reference only to the ad- journment, and nothing whatever to do with the alleged testimony. When the trial was resumed to-day the prosecutor turned his attention to| the taxi ride during which Piass turned word has been | OVer the stolen securities to Lawyer suit van Q. Did Mr, Sullivan ask you whe: you were going? A. No, sir. | Q Plass opened up the negotiations in | the cab, did he? A. Yes, sir. Q. Plaws said: “Are you ready to do Motest precincts of the city when the, busines#~lave you got the money’ ‘—or| news came out that James 8, Cropsey was going out and Rhinelander Waldo Yes, sir, was coming in. Mr. Cropsey retires with the distinction of being the most unpopular Police Commissionor thot has | erved since the present system of administering police affairs was adopted, and he was not in office very long, either, The men at Headquarters made no attempt to conceal their elation. They shook hands with each other, patted each other on the backs and jubilated generally, As rapidly as possible the telephone operators sent the news to the various precin Tt is anticipated that there will soon be hing vold in the Firat Deputy Commissioner's office, which {is now | occupied by Clement J. Driscoll. It is| reported that Commissioner Waldo ac: | cepted the Police Commissionership | with the understanding that he is to me his own deputies. Cropsey's Fatal ‘23. Mr. Cropsey left Headquarters this afternoon after formally turning over the property of the Police Department in Ris possession to Commissioner Waldo, Observers at Headquarters noted a peculiar coincidence in the or- der of Mr. Cropsey's going. The number of his automobile ts 2,74. This is May 2%. The total of the figures in the license number of | Mr. Cropsey’s automobile ts 23. For the present Acting Chief John Kenlon of the Fire Department will act | at Commissioner, Speaking of tie | change of the Commissioner, Chief} Kenlon said: “The appointment of Commissioner Waldo as Police Commissioner is the best appointinent that vonid be made livan against Plass? A, Yer Plass handed them out? 1 am Bure he will be as successful with the Police Department as he has been | with the Fire Department. When 1 say that we are sorry to have him go 1 am sure I speak for tie 4,500 uni formed men of the department.” | “Ginger” O'Brien Dismissed. ‘The last official act of Commissioner Cropeey was the dismissal fron the Pohce Department of former Inspocto John J. O'Brien, better known in puiice circles as “Ginger” O'Brien, and ‘ois caused as much comment at Hesdquar- tere ae the appointment of a new Com missioner, The O'Brien case has been the wubject of much discussion O'Brien was Inspector in command Coney Island last summer, Walle Meyor Gaynor was inoapacitated by (oe bullet wound inflicted by the Wvuid- be assassin Gallagher, John Mitohel, the Acting-Mayor, « tigators to Coney Island, These feported that conditions on the Is were deplorable, Their descriptions of open vice and jicentiousness were sen- sational in the extreme. As & result’ of the in O'Brien was demoted to the captain and placed in charge of Macdougal street station. — charges were preferred against him and he was placed on trial on Sept. 2 before Third Deputy Commissioner When the trial started 0°! suspended ‘The trial lasted twenty-elght day Commissioner Walsh reserved decision O'Brien, under suspension, reported at Headauarters every morning, but his arently buried.’ Magistrate Corrigan. mentioned the O'Brien matter in his charge that Mayor Gaynor was responsible for the ation of the police force. It reed by Magistrate © an the administration didnot dare dismiss O'Brien because of fear fenndalous disclosures he imiyht The March Grand Jury, investigatn the Corrigan vice and crime chars went {nto the O'Brien matter but ¢ not mention it in the pr 4 tment handed to Judge O'Sullivan, The gens) eral supposition was that the tition of O'Brien spo- ould be left to Com- missioner Cropsey's successor. hb mething of that sort, didn't he? A. | Acting Against PI Q. And you were acting with Mr, Sul- » sir. Q. And Sullivan took the securities as) ¢e air, | Q. You didn’t touch them? A. No. gtr. | Q. Why didn't you? A. I didn't know | what securities were stolen. It wouldn't have done any good. | Q@. You w n't afraid to touch them? A. No, sir, Q. If you were acting with Sullivan | you knew it would be all right for you to touch them? A. Yes, sir, Q And if you were acting with Plass | it made no difference if you touched | them or not. A. I knew that. Q. Then why did you telt ed Russell that you never laid @ finger on them? A. That was the fact. i} The matter of the missing Smelter stock was again gone ipto, F ‘s had denied that the missing stock was | the envelope taken from Aaron Ban- croft, and suggested that George Ban: croft was a degenerate and probably knew the whereabouts of the Smeltor stock, Q. Why did you welcome the sug- gestion that George Bancroft was @ de. generate? A. I did not releo: wo didn't know it to be so. I did may to ivan, though, to follow up the sus gestion, but nothing came of it Q. Wry didn't you question Plass about the missing Smelters if you were acting with Sullivan? AI did question him Both Mr. Sullivan and I questioned him. I told Plass to look again, Sullivan Not Excited, Q. Wasn't Sullivan very mu over the missing stoc Was! Q. Didn't you say to Sullivan that you bad known Plas# a long Ume, and that ou could get him any time, as you had his telephone number? A. Teatd he had given me his telephone number, and that I would call him up Q. You knew Plass was a crook? A 1 di «now anything about him, Q. Didn't you know that day that Plass was guilty of receiving stolen goods? A. 1 didn't think so. Let us seo," said Buckner, and he read from O'Rellly’s statement that the copie he Was “in touch with" were erty badly frightened O'Reilly again denied that he expected to get anything more than the $30 feo he received from Sullivan Q. You stated yesterday that the $5,000 was to Ko eventually to the men who held the bonds, didn't you? A Yea, sir Q. And they were to met the money through Plans? A. Yes, alr Q. And still you didn't think Pla was committing a ert A. Tala not Q. Isn't It a fact that your activity, after being sent for by Inspector Rus- was that you were anxtous o account? A. No, it was to help excited A. No sir, he Plass; he came to e three times, Why did you dy that? A. To help the police. Q. Why, If you were working with the police, didn't you give Armstrong & telephone number? A. It wasn't telephone number, It was a number through whih he could be reached After O'Rellly left the stand former Police Captain Joon G, MeCullagh tes tifled to the accused lawyer's good © acter. Plass Back on Stand. Piass went back on the stand to ay t he had not gone alone to O'Reilly's office on the morning of March 16, but aad yone with Yates. He dented saying to O'Retlly when they stepped out of the taxicab that if either he or Sulll- van had made u false move they would a RESULTS ENTRIES eed A la Public Library Which Is Open To-Day; Some of Those Who Figured in Ceremonies s[ RACIN RESULTS AT LOUISVILLE. maiden two- $2 Mutuels Paid | of the Cutie GAYNOR $2 Mutuels Paid—Oracte, straight, Loula Katz, pA AAsineee sehen Miata ELECTRIC PARK RESULTS. | children since ree-yenr-olds and up, selling; 4Galanda, 113 (Grand), Time, 0.06 2-4, also ran and finished as RACE—Four-y were so. dlstign [cura Remedies that I had to wear g'oves ; Hedge Rose, JS BILLINGS SEO. LA RIVES. WAGNER STARTS LEAD ON DODGERS BATTING ORDER. that he had carried a gun he didn't expect cented on that day and therefore did not arm himself, in also took the stand aT Matied f Ointment, with 32. ‘O'Reilly demanded tt,” he raid The case will be given to the juty to- NEWLIBRARY OPENS (Continued from First Page.) 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