New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-04
MR.. WALLING'S PROBABLE SUCCESSOR
SORROW AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS OVER THE AS

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MR.. WALLING'S PROBABLE SUCCESSOR.
SORROW AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS OVER IhN AS
sEMDIY INVESTIGATION
1t was SAID by we'll informed persons az ro ,;U
Headquarters yesterday that IN case OF Super,n-
tendent Wallings retirement the Polce Solhi us
sioners would either select some man OUTSIDE ol The
department promote one OF the Ispeeec,vpls,, ano
choire among the inspectors was said TO lilo between
INSPECTORS Thorne and Murray. Inspector DlIks Is
regarded as ineligible on account OF ms adya'cGu
aye and failing strength although his mlnd Is
Vigorous Inspector Byrnes, who has won a reputa-
ton for unusual executive ability by his manage
ment of the detective force wishes 10 keeR us
present place. IN aIH' e. to an inquiry pX = ihlb-
iINr reparter he sai;i. ! am not candldate ior
Superintendent and shall not be II Mr. waning
retires. don't wish TO be put IN ihe t DO 10
not desire further promotion: My present place IL
secure so long as can fill it satisfactorily ana
would not accept the Office of Superintendent Il
If the Police Board should appoint you without
reference 20 your wishes what would you aoi
II would positively decline, II could 90 that anu
remain IN the department."
Mir. Waiting went Oh Wednesday to his farm at
Newport n. j. where he will rest for a few days.
He has not made any promises 10 inc Coihlssioheis
that he will retire. .,..4,o,, ,,,.t
The Commissioners had long consultation with
Inspectors rhorne, Byrnes and Murray yesIeruay'
concerning tie testimony which Is to be taken 70
day by the Assembly Investigating committee. -
was learned hat the committee had sent suDp0-
mas to number OF lottery pocy ana Ir1 to
testify to-day are Marcus cicero SlahIey' Fl ~,
Luthey and Jacob Shipsey, well known p9ncy
Gaming honse ut No IO2 West Thirty second stand
other faro-bank keepers. President French sald
that il the committee sought Information from
known volatOIs of the law their course might wen
be construed direct insult to the Police depart
ment. ,, No..
Thomas and George NJ. Randall, resigned yesterday
without apparent cause, and IT was said that tney
expected to be witnesses before Dir. Roosevelts
committee.
THE GAGGING IN THE SLOANE BUILDING.
MISS HARVEY TELLS THE STORY OF THE ASSAULT
HER AssAILANTs APPEARANCE.
The trial of Jesse Williams, the colored man. who
Is charged with burglary, assault ana srInu
larceny committed in the Sloane apartment mouse,
In West Thirty-second-st, was begun yesterday be-
fore Recorder Smyth i'll the Court OF GeneIal oes-
sions. The prisoner, mulstto, about tWenty-one
wears of age, listened unconcernedly to the testl-
nony. Gertrude L. Ash, who Is indicted on the
same charges was also in the courtroom ,
Miss Maggie Harvey TOLD in low voice the story
Of her experiences on the night of March g., She is
the sister of Mrs. George H. Sloane. ana she IiVed
with her sister. The family occupied one OF the
APARTMENTS on the fourth floor OF the house owned
by Mr.. Soanes father, who has large store on the
ground floor Mr.. and Mrs. sloane, the witness
said, left the house at about o'clock leaving
her with a servant and an infant child Inc serv-
ant Gertrude l.. Ash. retired few minutes before
10 o'clock. The witness continued:
dnlngroom in which had been sitting at
The infant child who slept with me was disturbed a.
got into bed and tried TO hush It, had been only 1e"
minutes in bed when heard slight noise IN the closet
was lying my side with my back toward the closeL
turned my Ihead about and man come out OF the
closet and approach the bed he struck me IN the Inos
and said IN Kill that baby II you don't keep IL sun
tried TO quiet IT, Then the man seized me by lhe throat
and dragged out Of ted. He threw me on IRE noor'
but kept himself behind that could not see nm
He tied my hands behind me and gagged Inc with some
kind of a cloth Then he asked II Mr.. Sloane had le-
turned told him he had not come upstairs. lie tlen
asked mo where the keys kept, but told MN ala
moi know lie drew toward the door into the hall,
and then tainted.
The witness identified pair Of oyershoes belong
inc to her sister and a handkerchief belonging to
herself She said that at first she thought that her
assailant wore a mask but she Identlhed the
prisoner by his size ami his voice
Mrs. Sloane testified, that when she returned homo
at about 1890 D. m. her foot struck against some
object in the hall. which she found to be money.
Her suspicious were aroused, and she went INTO her
sisters bed ROOM and found her unconscious on the
floor The dinmg-room was i'll confusion. .
Mir Sloane cOrrObOrated the testimony OF ms WIG
and sister The trial will be continued to-day.
THE CHAMBER or COMMERCE AND COREA.