The New York herald., 1879-03-19
CAPTAIN WILLIAMS.

AhAAL Or LIE C6Alp0fo AdAlN5I HIN DErx<AASH
UNTIL NEXT MoNDAY-ADDyTIoNAL ACCUSE
TIoNs AND ALLEGATIONS.
At o meeting of the Board Of Police Commissioners.
held yesterday. the charges of President Smith and
the affidavit of Mr. Blake in reference to the assault
upon Mr. Blake at Gilmore's Garden by Captain
Williams. on Tuesday evening. were presented and
the trial was set down for Monday at two o'clock.
MIR. +. A. Robinson. young man. respectfully con-
nectcd, residing at Chicago, called at Police Head
quarters yesterday and said that he regretted that
he was compelled to return home before the day
fixed for the trial. but desirous of making the
following statement:-.1 was at Gilnore's Garden
on Sunday night when the public were admitted to
witness the walking match. l was i'll the crowd
seeking admission. The treatment Of the people by
the police. and especially by man who was pointed
out to me Captain Williams, extremely brutal.
and would not be tolerated in Chicago for five
minutes. / attended the match every day
during the week for several hours each day, and
saw good deal of unnecessary cruelty by the
police. saw tho same man who pointed out to
Captain Williams hit with his stick the young
man whom have since learned Mr. Blake I
Mr. Blake pass quietly from the gallery into the
arena and then saw Williams strike him with his
stick and push him along. The young man was
going away quietly. and there was no need to push
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said but he looked to me like who in so
violent a temper that he did not know what he said
did"
NJ. aREENE's COMPLAINT.
Mr.. Clay NJ. Greene, the wellknown journalist and
playwright, who claims to be one of the sufferers by
Captain Williams brutality. expressed his ndigna.
ton in very emphatic terms last evening in o con-
versation with the writer:-
Il was," he said "a witness to number of incl
dents during the week of the walking contest that
impressed me with the truth of what had heard Of
Captain Williams unftness for his position and
can help on the movement which see is in progress
to give him chance to look for new job shall be
glad to do it,"
'were you not sufferer yourself?" he was asked.
81 was On Thursday evening went with Mr..
Harry Becker, of the Associated Press and Mr. j. W..
Simonton, TO the Garden, and on arriving at the
door we found the usual jam Of people around the
box Office. There would be lines formed out on the
sidewalk, but in the little lobby it all crowd.
and you had to get at the box Office for your tic
the best way you could. We crowded up with the
rest. Among the crowd were number of ladies,
some Of whom were standing next to me-. While we
there saw Captain Williams in an alteration
with young man, or rather boy. He was crowding
up with the rest to get his ticket aud Cap
tain Williams ordered him to get out. The
boy did not want to go, and showed his money say
ing that he only wanted to buy ticket and 20 in.
He was doing nothing out Of the way any more than
all the rest OF the people there were doing but Cap
tain Williams. without saying anything more.
raised his club and struck him. The first blow was
| blow OF the club struck him on the shoulder and
glanced of. striking full on my nose. hurting it
badly in in fact nuTTing T g It da somewhat called out
| that concluded 1t was best to move on"
Didn't he apologize?'
| mot much. He glarcd at in a manner that
seemed to say, You'd better look out I'll hit you
again. But he didn't sly a word. was pretty mad
| but Thought the best thing to do was to move on
| My bleeding badly, and went inside and
| attended to it, Inever had idea OF how unpopu.
| lar he was" continued Mr. Greene. ''until Heard
him Kissed at tae Garden. He WIS on the track one
evening" Rowci's cottage. when he Missed
He glared around hut he couldn't go for the whole
crowd; for there were thousands Kissing But there
were number of gentlemen standing on the track
not far from the cottage and he walked up to them
and, without telling them to move away, he began
to lay hold on after another and throw them aside
One man he threw that his stomach struck against
the railing, and he doubled up and turned somer.
sault it. Then, after dispensing that little knot
he passed on to the door of the cottage and seemed
| to order away two or three gentlemen who stood by
the door, say seemed to, for could not hear any
thing said. could only see u sort of pantomimc
| The gentlemen-I judge they Englishmen-
| seemed to demur, when he suddenly caught hold OF
aside when some one came out Of the cottage and
said something other. Captain Williams then lei
go of the gentleman. and he and his companions went
| into the cottage"
"Did you see any other acts of vioenceT
| WHEN THE GALLERY BROKE DOWN.
mo, excepting at the time OF the accident, when
| the gallery broke down. The way he got the CROWD
out OF the way was something marvellous, but he
did it with his club He didn't tell the people to fall
| whether they would do il on being told to. He
Is certainly very expert with it. but although club
| is good thing when 1t is properly used, don
think Captain Williams is the proper kind OF man
| to use one"
| sDo you know Of other cases ?''
"Only by hearsay. One man, whose name do moi
know, told me he reading q newspaper bulletin
| on Broadway, in Captain Williams precinct. when
| the Captain came up to him and told him to move
on. There had been. it seemed. some kind of
| fracas across the street He replied that he was
doing nothing but reading bulletin, and without
| IN
club. The blow knocked him down. and as lie rose
Captain Williams kicked him. OF course there was
nothing tor him to do but to pocket the kick and
! walk off,"
Mr.. Becker told tho writer that he with Mr.
| Greene when the latter struck. He had not
his friend say Don't strike me-, and that his
nose bleeding. Instead of saying he was sorry
he would at least have done ii he had been man,
said Mr.. Becker. Captain Williams only glared ut
him. as II threatening him with another blow. and
We passed on"