The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-12
TIE POLICE KIDNAPPING.

An Effort to Show Mrs. Small, the Foster
Mother Of Teresa Small, . Panel Game
PractttiOner-Her Likeness from the
Rogues' Gallery OF Philadelphia.
The examinarloRupon the charge OF kidnapping
Teresa Small, preferred against Police Commits
sioner Gardner and Captain Williams OF the
Eighth precinct, was resumed yesterday in the
Supreme Court, Special Term. room. before the
same large and curious crowd that have attended
the examination from the beginning. United
States Commissioner Davenport still champions
the cause of the police officIas, but in the alb
sence OF Mr.. Howe yesterday the prosecution was
conducted by Mr.. Abe e. HummeL The child
Teresa was present under the escort, as hereto
lore, OF detective McDougal Her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Clifton, we're likewise In attendance
rs also Captain Will ans. Mrs. Small.
whose absence began with the previous session,
out Of mind, for all the testimony yesterday had
st u claimed reference to her, though gong by q
different name, and clearly shows the line Of de.
fence marked out by the accused police officials
THE ADDITIONAL TESTIMONY.
Oliver V. Stewart was the first witness called.
Municipal Police, attached to the Seventeenth
precinct Filth street and First avenue; know the
know her until the i4.h Of January sne was pre-
viously known to me as Mollie Rush docking at
a photograph produced recognize It as that Of
her while residing at No. se7 Bowery; several com
plants had been made to me OF robbery committed
IN Tits house during the time she lived
there; on the l4tn OF January q gentleman
complained 10 me that he had been
robbed at No. 367 Bowery, ana he described the
woman that roboed him; / went in 70 make the
arrest and found no one IN the rooms; the woman
Small followed me in the street and called me
her house, and dared me to take her to the station
house; she kept following me and abusing me on
my post; q crowd collected; sne wouldn't GO
away, and I took her to the station house for dis
orderly conduct. and Judge Flammer, at Essex
Market put her under $500 bail to keep the peace;
had seen the woman for five months before when
walking along the street; had seen the child
Teresa she used to stand at the door OF this num-
Der all The time; asked her a couple OF times II
she wasn't cold staying out on the street so much
and she said "nO;n she would walk back and for
ward from the corner OF Fourth street to this
house; when the woman Small was coming back,
II she bad a man with her, the girl wouldn't go
near her; but II not Teresa would run up and
take her by the arm.
Sergeant Joseph Haggerty, Fifteenth precinct,
testified that he knew the woman whose photo
graph was shown MIN as MOlie Rush; he arrested
one Rush on her complaint, and she then gave the
name OIL Noble Small, ne thinks; he never saw
her enter houses bearing the reputation OF being
panel houses, but she was known to the police by
reputation as panel thief; panel thieves do not
reside In the house where they carry on opera
tions Georgiana Way, noted panel thief was an
associate OF hers
On crosse Examination witness said when Mrs.
Small appeared at the Fifteenth precinct station,
in 1867 while he was there she was complainant
for assault and battery.
Offlcer Hugh O,Reilly, OF the Fifteenth precinct.
knew the woman whose photograph was shown
him as that oil Molie Rush, and ner general repu-
tation was that OF panel thief; he has seen her
soliciting men on the street, and has seen her
under arrest.
The further examination was adjourned to eleven
O'Clock A. NJ to-day.