New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-13
SCANDALOVS OUTRAGE.

In the house Of Cap,. Wade. No sos Soherner-
borDs., Broosl,b officer Of Couct OF 5es., ms on
Weore,day las', left subpeoa for the spps4faose Of
Miss WAae at Court, before Judge N ore, the folo~ -
ing cay tCbu'sday). Nov Capt. Wade, who il at
presept has four sisters 10 married, ali OF whom
reside in Biz house ard three OF them ~ere a, hon.
when the officer called AZ the 50 open. specified n,
particular M.s Wade and the case 10 which the Oary
subpenaed being d" complaint OF Zoe Peopls agL
"Noye's, tthe owner Of Capt w .de's house, for
"bssiardy, all of the ladies oecoed p.yiog .ny e..
tenIon to the requisi,ion uniil ,de out mo def
Ditey. Toey inquired of the officer which Misc Wade
was wanted bur be could not tell thsm. only hs said
one of them must come to ,urt Tney replied tell.
iDs him tina, unless of them Was specially subps.
naeo peitb-r Of hem woud lake any notice OF the
suumons OF the C,nrt ard the off ,er left saying
that he would compel them to attend in the ,rhins
Yesterday morning be returned bu, va. not a& nl,ted
into the bouse the Mbses WADE parleying Nth him
through the door, AID expressing tn ,r wln kne.s to
appear in Cout in answer to a proper req is,tion.
The officer THEN went away threatening TO procure 40
attachment Of their persons upon the sabpsna -hch
be bad served the night before Soon .fter yard two
ofcers or persons representing Themselves as such,
came, ana, breaking open the outer basemeutnoor,
scene language, arrested the tour Misses Wade, using
q great deal Of violence in dong. Oae OF
tie lsdies, who Is sufferer from nervous
disease, was so alarmed st the conduct OF
the officers that abe fell down in a Ct, and va,
taken up to her room, where restorat,ves were
adniEisiered-'he attendants IN san wne, locking tue
cbsDber-door TO prevent inuu.i)n While the lady
in this stae the officers up Stars aad ours,
t,tn n tha hod, in 1ad,
partly nude, was dressing hersef Finding their
enor they then broke into the 10 which vas os
sick lacy. Here they insisted upon csryipg The fur
lac les 10 Court upon the authority Of the subpeu4
served on the previous day. The other sisters re-
mons'raied se ai'st the nbu add brutal conduc.
ofbe officers, and told them their violence light To-
sul, in the death Of their sick sister To this the
rufisDs replied with ostbs that they had seen to-
much of that kind of acting bsfore to be fooled
in that way. The sisters stili refused 10 &C.
kosledge tbe legality of the summ,os when
the officers produced handouts. aud threat
ened to put them upon the ajiss Tben selling hold
Of tie lady who absent on the das previous,
they dragged Der Of the to the street and
in reply 10 her eDueaties to be aO we'd to put q
bonnet and shawl, they vehemenrly swore that they
would see her 10 - ffst, and ia spue of her e4rs
aid enreaties they dragged her through the streets
In this CONDITION, for half mile. to the Guy II I
followed by a crowd Of persons who we're attracted
by the violent language and conduct of tho officers
She wanted to koow of them by what authority her
home and person had been thus outraged, aud the
officers told her that Juoge Moore 4d delegated to
them the power Mics Wads was put upon the stand
before Judge Moore, when she told him cha, she was
absent from home at the time the subpoena was
served; that she had been dragged away fro n her
home by force, and desired the Judge inform her
of the names of the officers who sd thss outraged
her. The Judge refused to do so. She was then ex-
aDDed TO the time the Landlord called at Capt.
Wades house in the previous fall for hi, rent for
the purpose Of fxieg Gate aud, she did not re-
member the tWe, she was told that nothing further
was waited of her