Show P Of I h PATRICK LAVIN How o w a Chicago Police Captain Is Alleged to Have Secured Post o of Inspector 1 PUT P UP P 10 JOB B ON 0 A JEWELER PATROLMAN PATROL TELLS T LS STORY TO COMMISSION COMM Chicago Sept 13 Today witnesses were summoned summoned before the city civil civi service commission to give evidence relative to to the charges that have been I preferred by bj Chief of or Police Pollee Collins against Inspector Patrick J Lavin who w ho is accused of conniving at crimes In his district while a police pollee captain The rhe chief evidence against Lavin i was given by Patrick P Mahoney a i former patrolman under Lavin Mahoney Ma Mahoney honey testified that he was Intimately acquainted with a brother brothel of Lavin who was a police pollee sergeant and that Patrick J Lavin then a captain called him into a private room in the police station and declared that he was about to take the he examination for promotion to police inspector and that it would aid him in securing this promotion if it ithe he could do a job of police work before 1 the examination was held Lavin then said according to the witness Asked to Rob a Safe There Is a Dutchman over here on Went Wentworth worth avenue near Fiftieth street who owns a Jewelry store with or worth of stuff in the safe Now you ou know some handy fellows who can touch tough the place off It will be worth to me to have the job j pulled off and then turn back the stuff as though it had been retaken Mahoney said s ld that he agreed to the proposition of or Lavin and made arrangements arrange arrangements arrangements ments with James Clark and Thomas Barry to rob the place Several boxes of jewelry according to the witness were wee carried carrh d from the place and somo som money was secured which was divided divide between bet the men and himself The jewelry was concealed in the basement basemen of his own house Mahoney declared Bluff at the Station I The next morning he went to the sta station stai station i tion and the captain whispered to him hl I asking him h if he had secured the th stuff He whispered that he had and an anthe d the captain then asked him in a loud lou louvoice d voice if he had seen any suspicious characters around the jewelry store the th night before I told him said the th witness about dividing ups up the money and he laughed and said the Dutch Dutchman Dutchman Dutchman man would be lucky If he got part of o othe f the jewelry back Bernard J Hagaman the jeweler who was called the Dutchman by the th witness preceded Mahoney on the th stand and said that his place had been bee n robbed as Mahoney Mahone afterward de described described described scribed and amI said that of the jewelry jew lr taken some valued at 1400 had never neve r been returned |