The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-17
DELINQUENT POLICEMEN.


BEARING OF ACCUSED OFFICES IN The PRES
ENcE OF THEIR sUpERIoRs-- OF THE
mobile SIX HUNDRED"
One of the officers present ut the trials at Police
Headquarters yesterday complained of the black felt
hats which are required to be during the sum-
months He said that they were the Of
most OF the hot blood among the members of the
force. ''These clubbing cases were unknown" said
he. '.until they made these brain steam
ers.'" During the day witnesses OF both sexes
from the avenue side of town dropped in
Commissioners Smith and French presided dur
ing the morning hours The first case OF
any moment that Of Officer Mcclellan
of the Twenty-third precinct. charged by hia
superior officers with being intoxicated on the 2ad
OF June. Sergeant Spear said that Roundsman
Burns found Mcclellan under the influence of liquor
in lager beer saloon and he told him that he was
going to complain of him. whereupon Mcclellan got
excited and wanted to shoot some one Clements
the keeper the saloon in First avenue. said that
the defendant did not drink. but into his saloon
and wanted to fight and to impress the declaration
on the spectators he pulled off his coat Captain
Robbins reported that Burns did not properly report
the case. Burns said that it the Captains bust
ness to instruct him to that effect. His defiant man
ner and volubility made him appear like a. Tombs
Court lawyer. Said Roundsman Burns to his Cap
can't you conine yourself to my question? ask you
one question aud you answer three or fonr."
A MILITARY HERO ON THE STAND.
Commissioner MacI.ean occupied the bench in the
afternoon. Roundsman NIcKenna. of the Twelfth
precinct, accused Patrolman Mckenzie with neglect
Ing his post for than an hour while on duty in
Second avenue, in the neghborhood OF 10th street.
The time July 3, in the afternoon. Officer
Mckenzie has been fully described in the HERALD.
He is one of the survivors Of the brave "Six Hum
dred" who rode into the jaws of death" at Bala-
klava. He is u fine looking man. with piercing
a,rE and cfar mil tavsy hpa Ho prOce
examined his nccuser with recklessness that made
even the Commissioner smile. He had several
beat in search OF thief that he had fellow officer
to act his absence; that there piles of earth
from eight to ten feet high thrown up by the Ele-
waited Il" workmen in the avenue which prevented
the roundsman from seeing his substitute. The
stolen hy the thief whom he went to capture. rhe
remenant of the immortal six Hundred replied that
straw hats stolen and they were worth about
twenty cents. The Commissioner smiled, and asked
il it was not rather u small basis for the of the
word "felony" which Mckenzie had introduced into
m a1 frown and said that felony was felony
He knew no difference between felony Of Ave cents
Otticer Mathewson, Of the Tenth precinct. was
charged with insulting citizen Henry II. Parker. Of
No. rs Allen street. at midnight on the 2Sth OF June
Mr. Parker is Englishman with a big head and q
defiant, aggressive bearing not mitigated by his
short bristly hair and breezy check shirt of twenty
eight cent bingham. Az soon as he got inside the
rail he took full possession OF the the
Commissioner would allow, and he said i'll substance
that lie could not sleep on tnot nlSnI Dec4use his
Allen street neighbors making loud noise as
sisted by several babies and dog He put his head
out of the third-story window and shouted Police"
The accused came along and instead OF stopping
the disturbance, talked impudently to plaintiff and
threatened to arrest him. The officer produced sew
era witnesses who agreed that there was no particu-
lar disturbances; that the night was too hot to sleep
in the small tenement rooms and they were obliged
to camp out on the front steps to get air and rest
There was unsual noise.
AN UNDERTAKER's LITTLE DIFFICULTY
officer McEnroe, OF the Twenty third precinct
was charged by Mr.. +. L. Lautz Third avenue un.
dertaker, with interfering with business transac.
ton between himself and hack driver. He said
that on the 9th of June he was just sending out =
funeral procession. when the boy In charge OF car
riage wanted his back pay Of So, and would not be
content with the "a paid for the trip about to be
taken. Policeman McEnroe took sides with the boy
the undertaken got angry; the officer. he said.
clinched himself and wife, and in the alterca-
ton the 81 dropped on the floor, and the
officer walked off with it. In the scuffe the club
was used SO that his wife received q mark on her
arm The money was returned the next day, but
the undertaken would not accept it, he said, because
OF the ungracious way in which 1t was rendered.
He was of the opinion that the officer was In liquor
The ease went for day and the undertaker'was
anxious to have it postponed for longer period.
81 have" said he in underone OF business to MS
wife. ''two funerals for tomorrow and have had
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