New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-28
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
TRIALS on POLICEMEN.


Thoro we're about the usual number of de-
,.,a,ort, before Commissioner Brennan yesterday
,ono president Henry Bergh OF the Society for the
po,ert,on OF Cruelty to Animals made complaint
against patrolman John Burke OF the Fortysecond IRE
cinct obarRipg him with perjury he alleges tnat tho
officer was called arrest man who was driving an
ANNA, having running Oh his back At the trial
On Aup a. the officer positively that the SKIN OF inc
animal was NOT broken and the sore was not running
.tborgh savcra witnesses positively TO the con-
,rarv The case was adjourned to Friday next For
beine absent from duty for the space OF h'e
hours Patrolman VIM Qurk Of the Thlrtyirst Precnct
an Nebolas Rooney Of the precinct similarly
fined For standing in conversation WIN C,o ,o ~
being ten minutes late at t h0 P Ss Was ned
one days pay For being minutes late at roll call pa;
troan Gallery Of the Fifteenth PEeSlne was r nneu
one DAYS pay Patroman Thomas A. Hall OF the Forty
ninth Precinct was fined two days pay for being ate 20
minutes at roll call For eonverSng doT on Shuttle Of
the Seventeenth Precinct were hned iosee e
each FE tHs Of On the eOf RGh Pecn WAS ned three
days pay. For sitting down conyersng WIN ciaaen
e9an james RSds OF d the Third Tary OF SI po
Patroman Archibald Taylor Of Twenty Precinct
fined three days pay For ng on Precinct
was fined two days pay Charles McCarY or NO. h ySs
Third ave. made complaint tnas On te sa wie and
children. he occupied one swing, ana hounasn n
Fuller
using an adjoining swing Some words passed between
Fuller and the complainant ending Win ruler seZnx
n n SS dome aTythnr wrong to arrest him Fuller did
go and on the way the Station House. Fuler wtnou
his club on the head, shoulder. and hands, and also
struck the wife the complainant who had endeayored
was locked up. and on the following morning held to bail
the He DECLARED positively t that he t gas
the complainant was both drunk and dlsordery; dne
| ion with
dOre Purdy OF the Twenty Precinct was nne1 TWO
John Toomey of the sixth Precinct was fined twodays
pay. Patroman Andrew Whitehead OF the same pre-
snc for beng of post for the PIss 81 II
the Jenerson Market Police Court Squad complained OF
that on the ism inst he took prisoner from the
before Ills had been passed upon by the mag
ave The officer attempted prove that he had RECEIVED
the permission OF officer Mcpherson OF the Court SQUAD
10 take the prisoner from the court but this was
denied by that officer Fined two days. Parolman Har'
rison Wade Of the Twenty ninth Precinct, sitting down
while ON duty his case referred to the Board For
failing patrol his post for nearly one lour and lot
being engaged IN Soye Par Sn William IS Smith
| OF the Twentieth Precinct was nned three
precinct charged with being of post in liquor store
The referred TO the Board Patrolman Freder,
OF by Mrs Susannah Frazer keeper of small store In
Firstst. near Grandst, Williamsburgh. She charges
| In hafdressed condition to the Forty-ifth Precinct,
where Sergeant in charge declined to hold her IL
|
habit OF peddng tobacco and occasionally stood 10 front
Of the OF complainant Nettled at this and beeV'
ing that the boys were peddng without license Mrs
Frazer took of them four boxes Of abacco aud
gave II to the OF the District Potter, on being
told the circumstance arrested the woman ana TOOK
her to the Station House, where, 1t Is alleged by
| the woman, the Sergeant In charge refused
| TO receive the complaint. officer Potter, how
| ever insisted that the Sergeant told him in
case the tobacco returned TO his boy by the fol-
lowing day bring the again to the Station
House hence the arrest This statement was denied by
tile counsel the woman and order TO procure the
evidence OF sergt Hunt of FOrtyffth Precinct the
case was adjourned until to-day. For sitting down in
Cedar-st., while on duty, Patrolman Francis woodward
OF the First Precinct fined three days pay. For
similar ocnse, VIM Reid Of the Eighth Precinct was lined
| the same amount. Sergt Theron T. Thompson OF the
Eighth Precinct charged by Sergt McDeymott OF the
Jefferson Market Police Court Squad with failing 10 des
gnate the oenses OF certain prisoners his Court re-
| turn. The return produced, and tho ser
| geant admitted the offense. The case was
| referred TO the Board. Tbos. Allen OF No.
1877 Grand ST., complained Of Patroman George W. Ran
dali OF the Fourteenth Precinct for drinking glass OF
| ager beer while duty. IL elected in evidence
that the complaint made by Allen because friend
OF his had since been arrested by the officer. Commis
Brennan informed the young man tnat the Board
could not be used to crafty his private malice and ac-
cOrdngly dismissed the complaint There were num-
Der OF other complaints against officers but all OF minor
Importance, the parties being either reprlnanded or
| fined one days pay each.