New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-08-03
ALLEGED ATRoCITY BY POLICEMEN.


YOUNG GIRL ASSAULTED BY OFFICERS on THE
HArTERY AND AT nOTEL-EFFORTs TO SUP
pppss HER sTORY-IDfNTIFi AND ARREST
OF THE ALLEGED CRIMINALS.
An outrage of peculiar atrocity was brought
N light Sunday night IN the First Precinct Police Station
On that night pale, girl about 10 years DID,
with hollow checks and large dark eyes, entered that sta
tion and told Capt Petty most ptfu tale. She gave
her name rs Margaret Igoe, living in Thrtyninthst
near Tepthaye and her story in substance, fol
lows: On Friday last she visited Brooklyn TO see her
brother-in-law When she was returning about 10
o'clock at night abe accosted the boat by woman
named Jane-ber other name she could not remember
When they landed at South Ferry they asked the way to
the Tenth-ave. ears, and were conducted by
two policemen TO tho Battery Park. There the
officer whom Miss Igoe with suddenly
sezed her. closed her mouth, and outraged her, He then
told her TO keep quiet it would be worse for her They
were then eioned by the other two persons and the
officers took the girls to the Eastern Hotel in Whitehall
At where one OF them caused Miss gOe TO be locked III
voom After midnight he returned and again outraged
her The officer then left her In great terror she re-
maincd in the hotel all night On Saturday she was re-
70 the station-house but did not see Capt. Petty.
Returning Sunday, she told him her story. and he
her al the ferry she said She could The Captain then
summoned bis "oG meu" into the room. among them
being Patromen Terrence Finuy and James Mulvey.
both Of whom have for long time been the force,
and have been considered honorable and Trustworthy
when the girl said positively that they the officers
who had her AT the ferry and that fnnity
the officer who had attacked her on the Battery and at
the hotel.
FIinity and Muvcy brought before Judge Otter
bOnrg at the Tombs Police Court yesterday, and Maggie
Igoc told the story 10 the Judge that she had told TO
the Captain Her complaint wac taken and the Officers
held for further examination The policemen positively
their innocence and tn q they never raw tie
Girl before she came into the stationhouse on Sunday
Isst.
TRIBUNE reporter called at the First Precinct Police
Station last evening and Capt Petty and the girl
CAPT Petty said he did not wish TO prejudice the but
close Inquiries he hid ALREADY made he felt
yuced that the girl telling the truth. He had
finished his inquiries and would prefer at
Disclose additional evidence he had obtained in sup
port VI the girls story.
same story as befre She further said that when she
Eas from the Eastern Hotel Saturday she went
- she could find the place, 10 the New Street
Police Station She arrived at the station between and
O'clock and shown into the Cartan's rUom 10 wait
there for the Captains return. While she was In the
opened the window OF the Captains
and told her that her friend waiting outside
and wished her Surprising was the gi Jane"
she went out, and was taken by another officer
10 the corner of the street, where there
wss q hat STAND supposed by the description
10 be Beayerst and Broadway and there man tried 10
persuade her ~ get into carriage Upon her refusing
be told her they would walk, and then he took her 10
another hotel where she locked into her room On
Sunday morning the came ~ the hotel and told her
he could find her Il lend saturday night Again
eIpg her he would Ike her TO her friend lac walked
with her TO the Brooklyn ferry, which they cIuss.d.
and then lie tool her tie 10 CoDcy IslaUd.
Upon NO. finding friend 1T that place. abe attracted