| Show LAVIN HAS BEEN PLACED ON TRIAL mahanay damaging evidence against him chicago sept 13 today witnesses were summoned before the city civil service commission to give evidence relative to the charges that have been preferred by chief of police colllns against inspector patrick J lavan who Is accused of conniving at crimes in bis district allo a police captain the chief evidence aganet lavin was given by patrick P mahoney a former patrolman under lavin mahoney testified that he was intimately acquainted with a brother of lavan who was a police sergeant and that patrick J lavan then a captain called him into a private room in the police station and declared that he was about to take the examination for promotion to police inspector and that it would aid him in securing this promotion if ho could do a good job of work before the examination was held lavan then said according to the witness there Is a dutchman over here on wentworth avenue near fiftieth street who gwng a jewelry store with to worth of stuff in the safe now you know some handy fellows who can touch the place off it will be worth to me to have the job pulled off and then turn back the stuff as though it had been re taken mahoney said that ho agreed to the proposition of lavan and made arrangements range ments with james dark and thomas barry to rob the place sev eral boxes of jewelry according to the witness were carried from the place and some money was secured which was divided between the men and him self the jewelry was concealed in the basement of his own houe mahoney declared the next he went to the station anil the captain whispered to him asking if he had secured the stuff he whispered that he had and the captain then asked him in a loud voice if he had seen any suspicious characters around the jewelry store during the night 1 I told him said tho witness about dividing up tho money and he laughed and said that tho dutchman be lucky if he got part of the jewelry back bernard J hagaman the jeweler who was called the dutchman by the witness preceded mahoney on the stand and said that his place had been ribbed as mahoney afterward described bed and said that of the jewelry taken some valued at 1 00 had never been returned |
