The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-08-24

and that while there Smith, whom he did not know pro
vious TO this dculty came DIP 70 him and SAID ne tne
had 10 Hs
latter met him again the following day. and exnonea
such evidences OF insanity, and made 30 much ouDe,
he was compelled take him to the station house neo
he was locked up The next morning he took MN 70
court and Judge Ledwith sent him down 10 tne iomDs
surgeon to be examined as 70 ms mental ocar was
the Tombs the man was discharged Inc o"ooi We"
thought TO have acted right In the matter.
charge made against Doorman Eblng, OF the seven
teenth precinct sne ascs '1 prisoner while IN
his custody The complainant was sne d
To- He stated that his name was owen McManon, saa
that he resided at No 1Sl avenue that on the ngn
Of the 10th inst he locked up IN the Seventeentn
precinct station house. and that IN shaking ,ne cen aoos
he happened to break piece on sne csws down stairs
md took him out of the cell and dubbed nm ABOUT ne
head causing the blood to flow profusey from MS nose
and and ns him t Ss he saw Ebng club the
prisoner but did not see the latter doing anything
warrant the punishment .,..h,,s
President Acton-You saw MIN cup na'
President Acton-And the man was DONG no'n'ns ~
the timer
Presdent Acton-I think that We have had enough OF
this. I think, Mr.. Ebling, you had oe'ter gov S''''
Ebing did not deny clubbing the man; put sad ~
excuse that the latter very abusive IN ms
and said nobody could lick him, and he toe door"an'
wished to show him TO the contrary. A..
President Acton responded by saying that whiie lne
Board would uphold the officers In the proper discharge
OF their duties, they would not allow tnem 70
their duty and club prisoners In station houses ths
officers never to clubs except ID ngns onu
then they were to use them freely .,,.,,
Tho evidence showed that the clubbing was entireiy
unustihabe but the decision Of the Board Ia reserved
Ocer Busteed Fourth District Police Court wa
complained against by citizen John Stowel OF NO
Third The charge was that Busted had takel
some pawn tickets from prisoner and given them V
stowe, who had redeemed the goods for Busteed tne
latter having kept the same instead Of making return
thereof to the property clerk Mr. Ignatus Flynn ap
peared for Mr. Stowel and asked for adjournment
the case on the ground that some OF his best
absent at the funeral Of the late Mr. Justice McCar
thy. This was granted but as Mr. Busteed's witnesse
present their evidence taken to save them tn
trouble Of appearing second time The case Is one
very little public importance, although counsel promised
that some developments should be forthcoming mex
week. showing the interior workings OF the Police Court
Citizen Charles Johnson who resides at No. 81 Unio
street. Brooklyn appeared as companant against once
Fnerty of the First precinct To use complainant
own language he said:-'T was walking In Whitehall
street. waiting for boat when Fnerty came up benin
me and hit me- and fell dead got up again In lttl
while and ne struck me again ana om e 70 snv
and was not drunk
Before officer Fnerty could reply to the charge gcn
teman up and said that although he knew nothin
about this particular trouble, he would like to call tn
attention OF the Board the fact that the officer and tn
complainant were relatives This made the matter as
sumo at once the aspect Of family quarrel IL wa
shown however, that citizen johnson came upon FINER
ty's post about two O'Clock in the morning and scrun
lied the officers about there evidently to see winch wa
Fnerty He stayed around there about three quarters
an hour, when Fnerty, who had previously heard tina
citizen johnson had threatened his iiie asked MN wna
he was doing his post at that hour This led TO som
words complainant becoming disordery that flnert
was obliged to call assistance and take him IN Durln
the struggle Fnery acknowledged that he used MS clut
bly be exonerated This closed the budget for tn
week