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New York Lexow hearing shrouds police graft in steamship payoffs
At Lexow hearings in New York City the session exposed a system where captains of the steamship squad collected monthly sums from railroad and steamship firms and split money with the police. Sergeant Taylor testified that Inspector Steers ordered 20 percent for himself and 80 percent to Steers, Allaire, and others, with envelopes marked street cleaning report used to hide payments. Officials including Superintendent Byrnes and Inspector McAvoy expressed astonishment as more witnesses described bribe flows spanning fifteen years.
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Creedetm
Goff
Byrnes
Taylor
Steers
Williams
Conlin
John Harley
Police Department
City Hall
Murray
Washington Heights
Creeden
Harry Hill
Governor Shepard
Strauss
East Sixty-seventh Street
John W
Allaire
Thomas O'Neil
White Star
Gannon
Sehmittberger
Beck
Providence Line
Wardman Vail Ton
American Line
Herman Intermann
Grand Jury
John O. Mahoney
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Sayler
Ward
Ten Vail and
Eugene Boylem
Taylor—west
Gastlin
Schimittberger
Inspector Steers
Station House
MoLaughlin
McAvoy
J. Williston Win
John Martin
Martin
Voorhis
McLaughlin
Steamboat Squad
Lexow
New York
John J. Taylor
John Taylor
Lexow Committee
John
Thas