New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-02
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
CROWLEY COMMITTED WITHOUT BAH

LOCAL MISCELLANY.
CROWLEY COMMITTED WITHOUT BAIL
rha examination on the charge of assault maze
nv Maggie Morris, seventeen years Vus VI . a.
Rfnrna'st against Sergeant ID. ii. crowley. AZ.
large crowd In front of Essex Market Court
Yesterday afternoon, and all the M W
co,,rt and examination rooms were hleu ~ pxuIde
toterested in the result Of the case. Justice
'n.ssided. Assistant Distrjct-Attorney Purdy APP
reared for the prosecution. he acleneT va rt;;
Quoted by Colonel Charles . op9hoe 81 the Central
Once was submitted, stating that the ~
had been subjected to violence III lile MALI III la
Legged and Frank Lemalie s iur last saturday
n,cbt in standard Hall, No. 100 Last Droad d
MAS called TO the witnesses chair lie statea tnI'
c.r,eanf Crowley called in there alter IL cioCk,
int he saw hnn in company with the girl he
could not tell where he met her. He saw the 3ei
eeant and Miss Morris go down sta[S % ssSent into
the street and saw Sergeant Crowley leave the
nlace by the front door, lie was in citizens dress
The complainant was next conducted 10 tho MI
ness chair She was neatly dressed, but looked
slIgbtly nervous She said that she went 70 tne Da
lasf Saturday night at Standard nan wItp yoans
male escort. She had been at balls In Walnal at
Hall. and other places before she saw oeIeeanI III
Crowley there and was niso asked her to take
refreshments down stairs. She leit the uaii-i ,t
with him ten minutes afterward. There We're ABOUT
thro9oh a narrow stairway down to the bar-room
IN the basement There we're about ten persons IN
the barroom at the time ana sne bspe was one
Sppei;rbt hnrninp in the bar-rOom. They were
Sbont twenty-ti minutes in the place wnen sii;
RI;nt was requested to furnish drlnks- lie went
ont and locked the door after him. but came back
i'm about five minutes with the drinks3w nskey anu
sarsapara He again locked tne n dSsr and o thew
were friendly About five minutes after Di M
went away she went M stairs ehe ealle9 az .ne
station house fifteen minutes after ana MADE com COM
nlaint against Blnt for locking her up IN room room.
Size made no complaint against crowley, Dilns
was locked up The next morning sno was ber
charge before Justice Duffy against sergeant
Crowley. o,o .,,o,, ,,oro b;s ver.
Standard Hall. and asserted soleDnly that ne was
innocent of the charge. =, s ,or 90
.Jnstice Welde committed the accused man 10
await the action of the Grand Jury without ball
PETER WOODS TRIES TO DROWN HIMSELF.
Ex-Assemblyman Peter Woods who keeps a
naint shop at No. 3l3 Third-ave, made an unsuc-
cessful attempt to drown himself IN the East kv 81
Yesterday He went the foot of Thirty fourth-St.
Island CIV. which soon started. The boat was
crowded with passengers who were lntehding 70
catch the a. m. train on the Long lsland hafoau
Woods loitered about on the deck until tne ooaS
was half way across the river and then Jumped
overheard Albert Riley, one of the deck han9s
nromptly sprang after him, and seized hlm III the
ipxetar as he was about to sink for second time
Woods was kept afoat by Riley until the 1eTry %
was stopped and backed near enough lVr lIo-llh9
w. he thrown out. Then the ex-Assemblyman and
his rescuer were dragged aboard Both were in AK
ing with cold. Woods sat In the CABIN untll t L
boat went back TO the NewYork side, and then ne
Was handed over to Policeman Gallagher, Oh Inc tne
Twentv-frst Precinct, who took him TO the ponce
station in Thrty-ffth-st. His teeth chartered and
his eyes rolled dismally, as IL he eApecteu Iap'in
RYAN to come in and club him. -
Woods made a show of himself last winter as
complainant at Police Headquarters against Cap
tain Ryan. He had been thrasbed severely , on
Sunday inj liquor,stOre at Ihlrdave ana ina MI
the proprietor, and he claimed that Captain u Ryan
had refused to arrest the assailant. When Woods
testified before the Commissioners ne appeared 70
be under the influence of liquor, and his own story
failed to support the charges that he had made de
described himself yesterday as wldower. -nIty-
three wears of age and refused to answer any ques
finns in the station about his attempt at suicide
His foreman said he had suffered recently from
Kidney trouble but had acted as sensible as usual
Yesterday morning, when he went TO the shop at
O'clock and gave orders to the workmen.
In the Yorkyille Police Court Woods SAID that
the did not intend to commit suicide lie had been
suffering from neuralgia, was in q dazed CONDITION
aud walked overheard accidentally. He was held
for examination as to his mental condition.