The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1861-09-12
THENEW YORK SUN.
THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 70, 1851.
P.,,ee ou,rsse-Ase,her In-tnimeut.


We have been kindly furnished by the Clerk
Of the Police Commissioners. with the recorded
evidence in the trial Of Policeman GALLOWAY
for the outrage on Mr. JoHN J. BgNSErr, des-
cribed in the Sun yesterday. h,. we known
that this authoritative record was at our service,
We should have used il in pr, ference to the vol
untmy statement yesterday published. The
official evidence sustains our informant in every
important sense and will I've published in the
SuN tomorrow, leaving out the erpdrte st lte-
msnts Of the sufferer and the offender as uece,-
arily more or less himself. and a needless tax
mon our space, sine .i, 10, lair was dis
tinc,ly seen ami described by uumb,r Of di'in
ed witness,
On reading the evidence, the public VII have
full materials Tor Judging our charge agains
the Police Commissioner Of az least leaning
grossly to the support Of extreme police author .
ity against private rights, in their ac1uittd Of
GALLOWAY. and thu. making Themselves par
ties to fragrant and incNcuable outrage upon
citizen. To that tribunal We submit the
charge.
And here We repeat that w. have no unfrend-
lines toward the Police System or the Com
missioner. We do not impusu their general
upriphtncss Of intention, even while we charge
them with seriou, Offences asaiu.. the liberty
Of the citizen. Assuming that they acted in
this matter according to their idea of police au-
thority and privilege. We submit to the public
evidence that they have sieiuy mistaken their
duty, and need an authoritative correction Of
the course they are steering, in order to pre-
serve the metropolitan police - stem, Of which
We are earnest supporter. from ultimate over
throw.
Nor arr we in any degree ill-iispo-cd toward
the rigor of salutary authority, or ready t.
second frivolous AMI v,Stious complaint
While the SuN is di-tiucti,cly, if it is any
thing, the advocate Of the common man agtns
the privileged man. aud Of personal right
against the Entertainments Of power. in all con
irovcrsics, yet it will prosecute for il client
simple justice, nothing less Or m,rc. II the,
arr in the wrong it will aim to measure theii
rebuke, and it they are guilty. their punish
ment. In thi, spiri, We roH call in question
the principles, perhaps now in their infancy,
which are growing up in Oh" management %
the police; believing that tn department Ia.
now been long enough in operation to dcmln
overhauling and examination with ayicw 60 tn,
correction OF erroneous principles and practices
however honestly cherished in it, admini,tra
tion.
We now turn our attention according /
promise, To the little account which the publ
have to sctlc if We are not strangely mi,m
formed. with Mr.. Justice O-roESr.
Mr.. BENNErrs ENrEmEN,g ~ 4 NEw.
TANGLED rpLi,E COURT.
At about 10 O'Clock on the morning Of IN
18th, a. already stated. the u1i 'cr who had g.
saultcI AMI afterwards arrested the p'tcril Az
gray-hafcd farmer brought him forth from th
cell and nrraignod him--wo were about 20 .iN
before MIR Justice O,ruTNE. Bltup as tn
officer and his prisoner entered the presence
they wcrc motioucl aside o. "a desk where sat
youth, upon whose shoulders cert unly no 81
mine had been laid Wy authority ui ''thc prop'
III the State Of Nuw Nwk" however r,ccutl
they may have iclt the iupo-,lun Of PATTERN
Justice. Not to put too iuc = pnnt upon il,
was the judge on AMI Judicial n-...iin'.
JusrICE q. EpHNE Jr., then proceeded toll
trial of the ease. which consisted. nr'uuling
our information, in listening tn Il rl,prr iru
the officer Sentence was then pissed -'' You q
lined ten dollar, or ten day "n Ba.I,w J
Island"
II wa in vain that the agcl American eli
zen pleaded hi right h,iutr that iuyru.lr tr.l
nal, To trial, and the cNH umttilu IT hI- "
ncsscs. The pcrcmp'ory answer was, Y
have no with, -sc- h,rc. The ease is Dlu,,d. y
can pay Your tine, Or 70 20 the lSlml at M
an hour. Officer, lock him up. And d,'
he went again, scarce able 10 stand, to the lit
cell.
Mr. Bennett had not hal'th lin. ON hi. II.