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Show San Francisco Chief of Police Solicited Hush Money San Fiancisco, July 23. The discovery dis-covery of an entry in a memorandum book belonging to Ng Fook, a Chinese Chi-nese placed on trial on a charge of forgery here yesterday, has unearthed unearth-ed a police scandal reaching back to the regime of former Chief of Police Martin, and which, it Is said, may involve in-volve high and low officials in the police department. The entry, written writ-ten In Chinese characters, by Ng Fook reads as follows: 'The chief of police demands some black silk, much or little. Send it on from Chinatown and It will be all right." On the same page was written' in English. "Joe P. Mnloney, polico of-ficor. of-ficor. Central statioji, San Francisco, Cal." Mnloney was assigned to duty in Chinatown in February, 1910, before the gambling expose which led to the resignation of Chief Martin, a McCarthy Mc-Carthy appointee. According to General Gen-eral John E. Gardner, of the federal immigration service, who made an official of-ficial translation of the entrj, "black silk" is a Chinese slang phrase for hush money. The memorandum book was introduced intro-duced b Attorney Greeley, representing repre-senting Xg Fook, the atcoVney apparently ap-parently believing the notation re-lerred re-lerred to a conversation between his client and Maloney regarding a civil service examination. Theodore Kytka, handwriting expert, previously had learned the true translation of the en-tr en-tr and Greeley was trapped into offering of-fering it as evidence Ng Fook is a member of a wealthy Chinese family, fam-ily, and a relative of Dong Wo, a notorious no-torious Chinese who has been accused of smuggling. Maloney is still a member mem-ber of the police force. nn |