The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-03-25
FIVE MORE OFFICERS ACCUSED.
Citizens Making Complaint OF Needles. Ar
rests and Clubbing-.

Aftor tho adjoui niurut ~ ti.s wIii'~-a
trial yesterday. II. J. Carter. a clerk In q dry
goods store at Nineteenth street AMI Eighth
avenue. testified before Mr.. Erhnrdt the only
Commissioner who remained that on the 27th
ult Detective Woolsey of the Central ONCE
had. in the presence Of several persons. i'm
piled that witness hal committed crime.
The detective did not formally arrest him. but
the impression produced on tho persons
within hearing was the same as II he had. and
tho witnesses character has suffered accord
ingy The witness finally agreed to accom-
pany Woolsey. who said Lat an i. +. Carter
had forged the name . merchant at 1862
Grand street. and ttat. ms the witness
answered the description. he must come
down to Grand street and explain. On the
way down Eighth avenue. Woolsey stopped at
liquor store at Sixteenth street and aferward.
when they took car. said he only had five
cents and wanted Carter to pay his own fare.
Carter refused. and they got out and walked.
On reaching Christopher street Noolsey finally
told Carter that he was probably not tho man.
and that he might go. All this time Woolsey
4 witness named Haynes. who was present
when Carter was summoned from tho store by
Woqlsey. testified t9the laiier's apparen, nt9x.
had suffered from the apparent arrest made by
Woolsey.
burn OF tho Thirty seventh street police to
prove that he was not intoxicated nj l04 whilo
the Carter affair took place at IL O'Clock. In
his own behalf he testified that. owing to the
similarity OF names aud description, he had
felt called upon To ask Carter for an eXplana-
tion. and had relieved him as soon rs h. had
become convinced Of a mistake having been
made
Geo. Ambrose and Michael Cruly told how
patrOman Norton OF the Twenty second street
police had beaten them and knocked thom
down on Sixteenth street nenr Avenue \ with
out cause. He previously said 70 each OF them
brains s out" As thcy moved to grf out out Of the
way he assaulted them. Norton denied striking
| them. and claims that his Captain had ordered
him To get the street clear in front OF tho public
| school on Sixteenth street. which had became u
| trysting place for loungers.
| Alice Archer. a cOlOrcd girl living at l62 West
| Twenty-hith street, made am !avlt yoster lay
| that when passing through that street late Mon
day night PMrolman Kennedy of the Thirtrlh
| street police called her foul names and finally
struck her in the eye with his list, knocking her
Christine Goston made affidavit that when
| She left her room At 90 Crosby street on sunday
| night To get n disintectant 10 use over her dead
| street police assaulted her and beat her. Her
| eye bore witness To the brutal treatment which
she said she had received. Seims finally
arrested her, and. after being locked up in the
Mulberry street station all night, she was dis
| charged from custody in the Tombs Police
| Court yesterday morning. On account OF her
detention her husbands body still remained
Mrs. Elizabeth Stribcr and Mrs Maria smp-
| son of Minetta lAne accuse Onicer Tighe, also
| OF the Mulberry street police. OF assNuting
| Crosby street on Wednesday night last. They
| had been attending the wake Of u member of q
| colored veteran guards at 80 Crosby street, and
| were about to cross to the house of Mrs.
| Stribers mOthor-in- law at lO3 Crosby street
| They had hardly reached the street when Tighe
| assaulted them and beat them with his club.