New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-17
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
GRAVE CHARGES AGAINST A POLICEMAN.
STRANGE ADVENTURES OF WOMAN FROM NEW
Jersey IN BRoOkLYN.

GRAVE CHARGES AGAINST A POLICEMAN.
STRANGE ADVENTURES OF a WOMAN FROM NEW
JERSEY IN BRookLYN.
singular case in which n reputable policeman Is
charged with an outrageous crime appeared III , ei,o
police and court records in Brooklyn yesterday.
The policeman, Patrick Hackett OF the weltb
Precinct, was arrested aud locked mp IN kaiNmQ3hu
Street jail, whittier lie was sent 10y justice "nnn.
johnson of Iaiayettc. New-Jersey suburb of
jersey City. She IS respectable. moues|apPeal-
ing Irish woman. about twenty-five years oi age;
AZ an early hour Yesterday morning she was found
by Policeman White. of the FIRST mrecinct' IN
appeared to be lost the policeman questioned her
and she related strange story. Her husnahu sue
Where She had been for a month with him. Satur
day he took her to Lafayette and Monday she
ing sough6 the house of her uncle, Thomas Farley,
at No. 1856 Columbia-st., Brooklyn. She had not
finding where he lived. She expected to pass the
night at her uncles house. but i'll the course OF the
evening they quarrelied over some family matter
and Mrs. Johnson said that she w0uld not stay
under the roof of such a man. There upon she left
the house, intending to return to Lafayette. She
thought the time about 1880, p. M, but her
uncle says it was i:3O a. III. Unable to find her
way the ferry to this city. she accosted police
show her the way and walked with her for half an
hour. When they, came to lonely street. shaded
with thick trees. he took her i'll building in pro-
of erection. There, she asserts, the policeman
attempted brutal assault upon her, and tried to
mouth AS she succeeded in screaming and broke
from his grasp he ripped her mp. lie then pulled
a
book. which contained nearly S.; When She
attempted to escape he again caused her to stumble
and fall. Finally her screams were heard by a
milk boy, who asked what the matter was, and was
told by the policeman that it was only drunken
woman" The policeman then started to go away,
when the woman demanded her property lie
returned the ring. and as he did so she saw that
the number on mis- straw hat was l49 After he
went away Mrs. Johnson wandered for some time,
nnill she met the policeman at Smith-st. and
Atantc-ave.
Upon hearing the woman's story this policeman
took Mrs. Johnson to the Third Sub Precinct Sta
ton, her uncles house being in that precinct.
Sergeant Kellett listened to her statement and re-
ceived confirmation of the first part of it from her
uncle. Yesterday morning the woman was taken
story as at first, and rigid questioning failed to
confuse her i'll regard to the details. IL was soon
found that No. 149 was Policeman liackett, OF the
Twelfth Precinct, He was called to tue Central
Olice. aud placed in row with dozen or more
numbers numbers concealed Without any hesliat when
brgt before the ROY OF Rs ai Ha
i Is short stout man, and his description TALES
with that given by Mrs. Johnson beforehand.
The most extraordinary part Of the affair is that
Hackett was patrol i'll the Twelfth Precinct,
nearly four miles from where Mrs. Johnson's uncle
lives, until midnight Then, he asserts, he went to
his home, i'll Reid-ave near Chauncey ST, only a
few blocks from the station, reaching there at
1870 a. H., and went to bed immediately. He wore
for straw tr hat When he vent home This last
statement is corroborated by Captain Folk, Of the
him to the house in the night, but does not know
at what time. AS soon us Mrs. Johnson had idcn-
where two charges were preferred against him. lie
was sent to Jail without bail. Mrs. johnson was
held as a witness. and in default of $3.50 bail was
also sent to the Raymond Street Jail
There special police shield of the same mum
Der as Hackett $, No. lac worn by Janitor Murtha,
of the Industrial Savings Bank Building, ut Court
and Livlngston-Sts. Murtha is an old man and does
not correspond ill description with Mrs. JohnSou's
alleged assailant, who, she asserts i'll full
police uniform. All the cews in the matter were
industriously followed yesterday. The detectives
were at loss to see how Hackett, surprising him
guilty, could have reached the vicinity OF Mrs
Johnsons uncies house at the time she mentions
and how, if he is innocent, she so readily picked
him out from the policemen among whom he was
standing. The manner in which Mrs. johnson told
her story and her straightforward bearing III the
court IoOm impressed those VINO saw her with heI
truthfuness 1t ls not suspected that she was III
liquor Monday. Sue asserts that one glass of soda
water all she drank during the day. Her hus
band is engineer.