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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1913)
TTTT3 TMYVRXTNCr OKKfJONTAN. FRIDAY. NOVEMBITR 21. 1913. BULK OF CHARGES CENTER Ofl SLOVER Plots, Counter "Frame-Ups" - Plots and in List of Offenses Charged. NO FRIEND SPEAKS WORD Tel low-Officers, Patrolmen, Civilians and "Scarlet Women" Take Btand Against Former Head of Department. 1 (Continued From First Page.) Though, many testified against him, none came forward in his behalf. I "Hlarb.er-lTps Not Accused. I' Only by Indirection were 'higher tips' above Slover Involved in the In vestigation. The name of ex-Mayor Rushlight was mentioned by several witnesses, but without any direct bear ing on the testimony in hand. The gambling Investigation elicited little that has not already been brought out. with one Interesting exception. This was In regard to the attitude to "ward playing a little game of poker for stakes as a citizen's abstract right. Jaken by Captain Klley. "I don't see anything wrong in play ing a game of poker for money when the game is square," opined the cap .taln. The hearing was conducted before two of the three members of the Civil Service Commission, A. E. Clark and Cleorge W. Caldwell. John F. Logan, the other member. It was announced, had been unable to leave St. Helens, Where he is one of the attorneys in the Pender murder case, k Pressey Is Bright Spot. One or two bright spots in this nad iflenlng mess, though, stood out. One of these was the way In which a pa trolman "stuck" to a lie he had agreed to tell to the extent of making a false Affidavit and making himself liable to perjury, because he had promised. The officer was A. L. Pressey, a police sergeant involved In the gambling KcandaL and the fact of his false af Ildavlt developed In the course of his .testimony yesterday. Pressey, on the stand, yesterday, said that he had talked to Riley before Koing to see Commissioner Caldwell, and understood that all were to "stand rat." He did so. When he told Riley that he had done this, he said. Riley was dubious and asserted that he should not have done it. "That is a hell of a note for you to say that now, asserted Pressey. He stuck to his story until on the stand yesterday, when he told all the facts of his own and others' connection with games. Captain Riley said that both Pressey and fchirmer had misunderstood the stand-pat" agreement, which he said was that none of those in it were to peach" on others. Murphy Supplies Comedy, There were two or three comedy touches in the hearing. One was sup- piled by Patrolman James E. Murphy, who said he had caught Captain Slover asleep. Murphy himself was "on the carpet" to report to Slover for neglect of duty. Here is Murphy's testimony verbatim: Q. Did you report to Captain Slover? yen. ' Q. Where did you find him? A. Asleep In his office. W- were you reprimanded, or was be reprimanded. A. Neither one. VJ- was that all there was to it? A. That was all. . Q. That's all, Mr. Murphy. ' At another time, Mrs. J. Helms, wife of Patrolman Helms, was testifying rel ative to the appearance at their house of Anna Gillette, wearing a police star. say tnat she wanted Patrolman Frey, then on her beat, transferred, and either Helms or Patrolman Crowe substituted. Of more than EO witnesses subpenaed Six testiried in the morning session and 13 in the afternoon, the rest ap pearing at me mgnt session. II. H. Hawley, detective sergeant for many years in charge of the Boys' and Girls' Aid Society and general child rescue work, was the first witness. Hawley said Chief Slover had directed him to pay the room rent each week of Kena Moran, or Moorman, the woman whose testimony against Captain Jlalley was wanted. She lived at 308 Pront street. Hawley said he got the money from Sergeant Casey and paid It to a man named Hall, taking a re ceipt for it. He said he paid for about three months approximately ?3.t0 or XI a week. Clif Maddux, the ex-patrolman sent by the chief to stay with, the Moran Woman and keep her constantly in eight was the principal witness of the morning. j. Maddux Tells of Plan. On the morning of January 13, 1912. fas nearly as he could remember, Mad dux said the chief sent for him and asked him if he would care to do a lit tle special work directly under him. He said yea "Then he went on," said Maddux, "to say there was a woman up here who has been before the grand jury In the Ualley case. He said Hawley knew all about her and would tell me what to do. Hawley came into the Chief's of fice then and the Chief told me to take my Instructions from him. "Well," continued Maddux, after re lating that Hawley had directed him to stay with the woman and keep her constantly under watch, "I went to the house about 9 o'clock that night. 1 fetayed until 8 o'clock in the morning, and lor several mornings afterward." He said he did not sleep there, but In a downtown hotel. "Did she ever say anything about having protection?" inquired Commis sioner Caldwell. "Yes, yes, oh yes," was Maddux' em rhatio response. "There was no chance for her to be arrested at all. If she was arrested she was to ring up the chief at once, she said, and he would have her released." Maddux said the chief himself di rected him to buy the woman what she Wanted. He was given funds at the chief's orders by Sergeant Casey. Mover" Instructions Given. Captain Riley said the Gillette wo man used to be at the police station almost every night, sometimes as late as midnight, to see Slover. "She said she had a pull with the administra tion," said Riley, "and that she could change any officer she wanted to, and Bhe did, too. He asserted that the chief Instructed him to keep his hands off Chinatown following some raids there, and that Sergeant Kienlen would be in full charge. A little later, he said. Ser geants Harms and Wise raided a Chi nese gambling game, running openly, In lower Fourth street. "The chief saw me before court next morning," said Riley. "He said that In this very place were five or six Chinese gunmen tnat Kienlen and Cap tain Baty were planning to gather In.' had afterward told him they didn't know of any gunmen In town. He declared Slover had been reluct ant, also, to permit the Wolff apart ments, which Riley asserted was a no torious place, to be raided. - There was a decided stir when Rosa Babcock, alleged consort of the noto rious Sam Krasner, asserted that Slo ver, on March 24, 1913, told her to swear she had paid protection money to Sheriff Tom Word and he would have her released. She refused, she as serted, and got 75 days In Jail. "If you don't, you will ' be ' arrested every day," she said he told her. "And he kept his word," she added. Detective Sergeant Tom Swennes was unfavorably mentioned in her tes timony. She asserted that on one oc casion, while Max G. Cohen was on the Municipal bench, she had paid Cohen $10 to be released, and that Swennes had handled the deal. L' 1, .1 . : 1 1 . I f, I . 1 el. l-i l - . m i . . uio sjLuciLiiuiiii nuiei, it L xnira ana Everett streets, prior to becoming Chief. A girl there, a friend of hers, told her, she said, that Slover gave her protection. Power of Woman Karrated. Patrolman and Mrs. Helms testified as to the ability exerted by Anna Gil lette to have policemen transferred. citing the case of Frey, and his re placement by Crowe, for whom Bhe had asked. Detective "Sergeants John E. Abbott and Frank Snow, Detective B. F. Smith and Captain of Detectives Baty all testified about the plan whereby mem bers or the force were to favor the politics expected of them by the ad ministration, by getting 10 subscrip tions to the Daily News, a total of S3. It was Abbott's flat refusal that caused a countermanding of the order after the chief had accused Abbott of "knocking" Mayor Rushlight. Abbott testified to his part In this transaction. Snow told how he and his partner, Tom Coleman, had dug up $3 out of their own pockets to pay the News, taking names at random out of the directory, and Smith related how he had done the same, and how he had been "broke" from detective sergeant to detective, at a loss In salary of $25 a month, he alleged, because he had done things disliked by the administra tion. One of these things, he said, was his pinching" of 37 pawnshops for not living up to the ordinance requiring reports. He also went over his part in the famous attempt to bribe Deputy District Attorney Collier. Captain Baty substantiated the tes timony of other witnesses about the Dally News affair. At first $3.50 was the amount set. but this, Baty said, was later raised to $3. Patrol Sergeant W. E. Robson told of a conversation, while he was still a patrolman, with Slover, asking him to "get" Captain Bailey. T told him I didn't think it was my duty as a patrolman to do anything of the kind, and that I didn't want to do it," said Robson. Slover Insisted, he -said. Slover had promised to make him a patrol sergeant. Later John B. Coffey, the Police Commissioner, Introduced him to Mayor Rushlight, who told him to return next day, he said. He declared that Rushlight told him he understood that as Jailor he had favored certain attorneys when pris oners wanted a lawyer. Robson said he denied this. Ten days later he was made sergeant. Patrolman J. W. Morelock, Jailor on Captain Keller's relief, said that Slover would often go to sleep on duty. "Sergeant Jenkins told me we would be sent "to the brush by Slover," he said, "because he thought we had been 'peaching' to Chief Clark." T didn't peach," Morelock went on, "but I got sent 'to the brush." I was sent to a beat in Albina." Slover did it, he declared. Gambling Testimony Given. Little new evidence was brought out In the gambling testimony. Among the witnesses examined were Sergeant Grif Roberts, who was not Involved in the affair at all; Patrolman August Schirmer, Patrolman Guy E. Fuller, Sergeant A. 3U Pressey, Captain Riley and Sergeant C. J. Rupert. By the various witnesses these men were involved In the gambling for large or small stakes: Riley, Schirmer, Johnny Jones, Christofferson, Fuller, Thatcher, Whitesides, Hutchings, Pres sey, Mass, Cooper, Wise, Casey, Rabler, Hilton, Humphries, La Salle, Sloan, Ar. nold, Dillon, Vrooman, Reek, R. S. Nel son, Shadd, P. C. Anderson and Roxsie, of the fire department. Fuller told in detail of his poker transactions and those of others in volved. He said that Chief of Police Cox told the men he didn't mind If they played for small stakes, so long as outsiders were kept out of the games. Slover, he added, had never forbidden them to play for money. Captain Riley said that when he went In the department nearly nine - years ago, they, used to dismiss court some times to have a little crap shooting, and there was open gambling all over the city then. "In the clubroom we used to have a few poker games, though not many." he explained. "Mostly it was pitch, at 5. or 10 cents a corner, to make it interesting. Chief of Police Slover knew It was going on, and never said one word about it." INSPECTION ITEM UP Civic League Discusses Pro posed School Appropriation. EXTRA LEVY MAY BE MADE New Trade Building Would Call foT Assessment of One Mill Meeting of Taxpayers Is Scheduled for Tnesday Evening. The chief . point at Issue at last night's ; meeting of the-Oregon Civic League' In Room A of the Publla Li brary was the Item of $25,000 proposed to be added to the school budget to de fray the expenses of medical Inspec tion. The city budget, as adopted last Monday, contained an item of $4200 to provide for four medical .inspectors and one nurse for the schools. The original school budget contained an item of $25,000, but the School Board's attorney, Newton McCoy, gave it as his opinion that the Board had no author ity to make such an appropriation. When in the East Dr. E. A, Sommer, of the School Board, telegraphed Attorney-General Crawford for his opin ion on the legality of the question and received the opinion that the Board had authority to make the appropria tion. Upon this authority the item was restored to the school budget yes terday, the chairman of the board, R. L. Sabln, refusing to assent on account of the opinion given by the Board's at torney. On this understanding Mr. Sabln will refuse to recommend the appropriation to the taxpayers. Charles D. MahafTle, an attorney, asked Mr. Thomas for some extra in formation with regard to the School Board asking for a levy of 5.5 mills on an assessed valuation of $312,000,000, which would net $1,716,000, and from which the Board has deducted 5 per cent, allowing 2 per cent for delinquen cies and 3 per cent for rebates. He drew attention to the fact that the last Legislature had repealed the law with regard to rebates, so that the Board would realize about $52,000 more than was shown by Its estimate In the budget In order to provide for the proposed trade school an extra levy of 1 mill will have to be added to the budget. The taxpayers' meeting will be in the Lincoln High School Tuesday even ing, but if it is found that the assem bly hall of that building is not large enough to accommodate those who at tend the meeting, an adjournment will be taken to the Armory of the Oregon National Guard.- LA u False Affidavit Denied. Riley denied absolutely that he had advised anyone to make a false affi davit to the Commission relative to the gambling situation. The Captain made one sensational statement which he evidently re gretted immediately afterward. Com missioner Clark asked: "Do you know any other captain who played poker with his men?" "No," shot back Riley, evidently a trifle nettled.. "But I do know that they were graft ing and taking reward money they were not entitled to." "Tell us about that," said Mr. Clark. "Give me time," said Riley, "and I can tell you all about it. I haven't the details." When Clark insisted he backed down and asserted that he knew nothing more than hearsay. Police Sergeant T. J. Casey, called to the stand at last night's session. produced a memorandum showing that he had paid Patrolman Maddux- $128, in Tour payments, and Detective Haw ley $45.50. This was the money. Mad dux testified, he got by the Chief's in structions to spend on the Moorman woman, Hawley paying her rent. Chief Dowell, of the fire department, told of the transfer of Fireman Andy Miller from the firehouse at First and Jefferson streets. The transfer, he said, was made by request of Chief biover. He admitted that Annie Gil lette might have been responsible for tne transfer. Other witnesses at the night session were: Patrolmen J. M. Wise, John Wendorff, H. L. Stanton, L. A. Harms, f. J. Anoerson and Sergeant Jenkins. The Commissioners adjourned subject to call. Witnesses were told they would be supenaed if wanted further. TRAINS TO HALT FOR DEAD "Whole Alton System to Pay Tribute to Charlton's Memory. CHICAGO, Nov. 20. Every train on the Chicago & Alton Railway system will be brought to a standstill and not a wheen will turn or a tool be lifted in any of its shops for three minutes to morrow while James Charlton Is low ered into his grave. The order was issued today that this honor should be paid to the veteran chairman of the Transcontinental Passenger Assocla tion. Mr. Charlton, who died here yes terday, for 28 years was general pas senger agent of the Alton. Similar tributes, it is said, have been paid only twice before by railroads in IDAHO SPECIAL COMING LEWISTON COMMITTEE ARRANGES FORTLAXD EXCURSION. Northwest Livestock Show Delegation to Visit International Exposi tion la December. LEWISTON, Idaho, Nov. 20. (Spe cial.) The executive railroad commit tee of the Northwest Livestock Show this afternoon affirmed its decision to accept General Agent Jordan's offer to run a special livestock excursion, as previously arranged by him, to visit the Pacific International Livestock Ex position in Portland. The special will leave here December 6, going via the Northern Pacific Railroad to Portland, and will visit Spokane, Seattle and Ta coma en route. Appropriate receptions will be given to the visitors at all these points and the stockmen will visit the packing plants, where they will be given full information as to the kinds of animals desired by the packers, the best method of shipment and the seasons of the year when the stock is most in demand. The special will return from Portland via the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Rail way, about December 10, but the date cannot be definitely decided until a majority of the excursionists have ex pressed their desires. Special trains are expected from Spo kane, the Coast cities and Southern Idaho to visit the Northwest Livestock Show, to be held at Lewiston the first week of December, and the Indications are that the number into Lewiston, this year will break all previous records. The Spokane excursionists and those on the special from Southern Idaho who may desire to visit the Coast cities, will be invited to Join the special from here December 6, and It is be lieved by officials of the Northwest Livestock Association and the citizens of Lewiston, that this excursion will be as large as the special they sent laBt year, which consisted of 237 per sons and required 13 coaches. MILITARY ARDOR VANISHES Patriotic Outburst of Admen Ends "When Enlistment Portends. When an appeal was made to the military spirit of the Portland Admen which had the appearance of a real enlistment hovering about it, the en thusiasm of the response was not nearly so great Wednesday as when two weeks before the entire member ship rose to its feet to express Its willingness to invade Mexico instantly. R. W. Raymond made the appeal yesterday In a burning address, asking them to give some sign if they really meant what they had expressed at the previous meeting. About 20 were willing to "stand pat" and rose to the occasion. When a military officer appeared in the room and it began to look Ilka an enlist ment, the embryo soldiers hit their chairs with a unanimity and force which came near wrecking some of the furniture of the Portland Hotel. OJV (On L veal dmwmi 5 i IP v 11 nil n h V ? S (LSatolhat mains Uiriisiial Ecxjnormr for tfiose ihoidte cjkaata0 Dependable Syringes At Special Prices 79c $2.49 SLSO Gray Enamel tf f 1A Bed Pan special itwl19 50c Hygeia BnlbOO Syringe, No. 1 else. . . . OOC 7Cc Hriclt Dnlb A Q rinse. No. 2 size. . . .x7 C 1 Packard Fountain Tf Syrinire, two-quart. . . v. $1.25 Packard Fonn-OQ tain Syringe, 3-q.nart OIC S1.73 Peerless Fonn- taln Syringe s, l CO two-quart wl mJJ 9 2.00 Peerless Fonn, tain Syrlng three quart S2.25 Peerless Com bination Syr Inge, d 1 TQ two-quart at iff X I Z 92.50 Peerless Com bination s 7 1 id(c, d i on three-quart, at. . . . U 1 aO7 93.25 AJax Combina tion Syrlnare, tin- () A f e.?$1.69 FRUITGROWERS TO UNITE Clackamas County Orchardlsts Will Join North Pacific Association. OREGON CITY, Or., Nov. 20. Fruit growers of Clackamas County will meet at Willamette Hall in Oregon City, No vember 21, to organize an association and Join the North Pacific Fruit Grow' ers' Association. Growers through the county com plain that there is no uniformity in packing and grading, and that any thing goes in the way of preparing the goods for market. They plan to Join an organization that has a standard of production and requires all producers to adhere to a fixed grade of fruit be fore shipment. ' BABIES NEED BLANKETS Albertina Kerr Xursery Home Makes Appeal to Public. An appeal has been made by the Al The Ajax Combination Syringe, two - quart, special . Atomizers AX SPECIAL PRICKS. 50e "Owl" Atomiser at O C the special price of...JOC 50c Pocket Atomiser, OQ. special at. 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