The New York herald., 1874-09-18
THE POLICE RUFFIAN.
Trial Of Officer Graham for the False
Arrest Of Two Young Ladies.
A SIMPLE ORY.
An Evening Ramble, a Night in a Cell
and Disgrace in Public Pen.

before commissioners Disbecker and Duryee.
Graham was charged with arresting two young
ladies. Miss Nora Hasey OF No. 157 Madison street.
and Josephine White, of No. 400 East Seventeenth
street, taking them to the station house
Of the Twenty-ninth precinct making a
false charge against them and causing their
detention over night. The first person called
in the case by Commissioner Dsbecker
was Miss Halsey. She stated that she
worked at No. $50 broadway, and on the night In
question had not left the until nearly half
past seven O'Clock; she then, In company with
young friend named Josephine White, went up TO
Fourteenth street. to Jewelers., ior the purpose
ef changing pair or bracelets she had purchased.
The evening being fine the young ladies continued
up Broadway as far as Twenty ty-slxth street, where
they turned of toward the east side, as MISS Halsey
had arranged to
SEE HER FRIEND HOME
70 Seventeenth street. When they got into
Twenty-sixth street, between Broadway and Fifth
avenue, they stopped, Miss Halsey having COM
planned OF pain in her side. They took advan-
tage of a duh moment in the street, and then,
while Miss White screened her, Miss Halsey retired
against house. and, slipping her hand under her
CLOAK, loosened the string OF her corset, the tight
ness of which had caused the pain. They were on
the point OF moving out of the block when Otilcer
Graham dressed in citizens clothes) went up to
them, took each one by the arm and
arrested them. The girls were very much
alarmed and demanded to be set free.
Graham informed them he was a policeman,
ana they considered that in that case
they would go with him peaceaby. He led them
through Twenty sixth street to Broadway, up that
thoroughfare to Thrteth street, and across to the
station house. AS they approached the house the
girls observed two men standing on the stoop,
one OF whom they recognized yesterday as Ser
geant Schultz AS soon as he noticed the party
going toward him Sergeant Schultz retired and
took his place behind the desk. Graham arraigned
acting the parts OF indecent women IN the streets.
The girls protested. told the sergeant who they
came came to D'i be 'A' arrested, but @ all w to no no
purpose Their Names ages, places OF residence,
entered aS in the poter and the girls ordered 70
be removed INTO the back room. They were
allowed to remain in that place for some lew
minutes and were taken TO cells and
LOCKED UP.
The Sergeant visited them few minutes after
they were put into the cells aud entered into
conversation with them. The girls asked him II 1T
would be possible Tor them to get out. He said ne
would see after d little. Miss White then inquired
If their names would get into the public prints
and the Sergeant very ooligingly desired to be
informed il they had given their right names.
Both girls at once replied that they had and
the Sergeant again took IL upon him to travel out
OF the character and dignity OF his office to let
them know that they should have gwen him
wrong names, as 1t would have been all the same
to hiin. Later on in the evening, according to
the testimony OF the young ladies, a man who
seemed to be In authority, dressed In gray clothes,
called on them. He opened the cell door they
were both In the same cell) and inquired into the
nature OF the case. Miss Halsey told him the
whole story, and took the bracelets out Of her
pocket that she had exchanged at the jewellers
Tor those originally purchased, in confirmation Of
Ats truth. THIS man, whoever he was, LEFT them IKE
the Sergeant, and tney were Kept In the cell all
night. In the morning they were vanded with all
the other prisoners taken the same night and con-
Quoted to jefferson Market Police Court. There
tnieves, drunkards and uniortunates TO be. dis
stOP do and af hinh
through the action OF Mr. Graham, they formed
part. The pen was wen filled, for IN 1t were Gagged
the prisoners OF night fr0m several stauon
houses. and IN the midst of
THE FILTHY CROWD
stood these young ladies' In the regular order
tbey we're arraigned before the magistrate and
promptly discharged. Miss White told exactly
tine sane csssy 0y a
becker, did not vary In single point. Wnen
MISS White had concluded her testimony John
White her brother, approached the stand 'front.'.
ing The Court and desired permission to make
statement The Court expressed It's Willingness
WIN naturally understand, your Honor, my family
and myself lelt very aggreved over this matter;
this is the first time my sister pointing to her)
has ever been out IN the evening when either my
sell or the young man to whom she is engaged to
stways M Afr,ee been % in the @ habit @ Of M going to
the store for her and bringing her
home; that evening as something ngo unl9rtu
had no opportunity OF sending word OF The fact OF
my absence to her intended husband and TINS is
asked for his version OF the case, and he said that
on the evening in question he was standing on
Broadway, near Twenty-sxth street, aud he saw
these young ladies walking up ana down the
block, between Broadway and Fifth avenue. He
saw them address three separate sets OF men, and
he went over TO them and arrested them. While
taking them up Broadway, Tearing one OF them
either tried to run from 6lm that one would be
locked up, but he would let tue other go.
Neither attempted 70 @ APE and the the valiant
house with both prisoners. lie charged them at
the desk to the Sergeant with endeavorlng TO at
tract the attention OF gentlemen on the pubic
highway, and they were locked up. Roundsman
Kipp OF the same precinct, was called as witness
for Graham. He knew nothing OF the arrest or the
manner OF IL, but he had seen the girls, he said,
three or four times in the Twenty-ninth precinct,
and on some OF these occasions they were commit
ting the offence charged against them by Offlcer
Graham. Inc roundsman gave this evl-
examination the Court called him second time.
The roundsman, little suspecting second over
hauling, permitted the first tale he told TO slip
from his mind, and when he got on his leet again
ne natly contradicted himself. By the time Com
missioner Disbecker had finished with him the
Toundsman seemed 70 nave growing disposition
TO give the young ladies' an excellent reputation
not only for modesty and regularity OF lie, Tor
ProsEg around the precinct s and saS
offences, the roundsman got down, under tue bur-
rowing adrotness OF the Court, to having
sort Of remembrance that ne saw Miss
Halsey about three times before yesterday and
Miss White twice. The last time he had the hap
piness OF meeting Miss Halsey she was talking to
gentleman. The change in the roundsmans
manner becoming aS evident as the change III the
quality OF his testimony, the Court asked
"IIave you ever seen these young ladies, or
either OF them, do anything your wife sister
might not do with proprietyr'
''No sir Dever-not in the least,n answered the
roundsman
MIR Halsey the brother OF the complainant, then
made statement to the Court, IN when he ex-
planned the daily routine life OF his sister and
THE ALARM OF HIS FAMILY
during the night she was away from home through
the negligence OF Of1lcer Graham.
charge, growing out OF the other. having been
made
by the Court at the same time as the one against
Graham. The complaint against the Sergeant was
that he did not make . proper lnVestlkatlon INTO
the to ascertain the truth OF the young ladies'
statement before ordering their Incarceration, as
was his duty as a police oficer, and with peerlng
at them while before him at the desk aud
making remarks 70 them intended to con-
vey an Improper meaning. Sergeant Schultz, in
his defence said that the young ladies told him at
the desk exactly the same story as they had Just