In December, 1893, I was made Captain of the Tenderloin, and have been there ever since. But the glory had departed owing to the raids made after Dr. Parkhurst’s action. I did not get more than 200 dols. a month there. Georgiana Hastings’s house of ill-fame I was warned not to touch, as if I did I should burn my fingers. I was informed that certain public officials were in the habit of visiting Georgiana Hastings’s house--some officials that graced the Bench, and some officials that held commissions in the City of New York. One night, when a Bench warrant was sent there for execution, there were two officials, one a judge of a Court in this city--not of a Civil Court--in the house, and so that warrant was not executed (p. 5,374). She paid no protection money. She was protected inviolate by the law on account of the influential character of her customers. Last year I made a political contribution of 100 dols. both to Mr. Martin and to Mr. Sheehan, who were both Police Commissioners and Tammany leaders in their respective districts. I had nothing much to do with handling money in payment for promotion. I acted as go-between in the case of Martens. I took 1,600 dols. of his to Captain Williams, and he got him made sergeant. Martens afterwards told me it would cost him 14,000 dols. to be made captain. On the whole, I have been four years a police captain. In that time I have been in command in six precincts, in every one of which I found the custom of collections regularly established from of old. * * * * * It would seem that the tariff was fixed: the commission to the collectors, and the proportion for the Inspector. The figures were as follows:-- Sources of Collectors’ Total Time of Revenue Com. Inspectors’ Net Precinct Stay per Month 20 per cent. Share Receipts 37 13 months Blackmail on ships, $190 495 -- 1,975 25 3 " {10 policy shops at $20 } {Liquor dealers, $80 } 168 200 472 27 9 " {10 policy shops at $20 } {3 pool-rooms at $200 } 1,450 1,800 3,950 5 2 " 2 pool-rooms at $200 160 150 590 {Policy shops, $20 } 9 7 " {Houses of ill-fame, } 700 1,050 1,750 { $10, $25, and $50 = } { $500 } 19 12 " Houses of ill-fame, $200 480 -- 1,920 -- ----- ----- ------ 46 3,453 3,200 10,657 The ransom extorted from the vicious and criminal classes of a single precinct by the police would seem to be an irreducible minimum of a thousand pounds per annum. The Lexow Committee reported:--