New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-15
POLICEMAN'S BRUTALITY.
MRs. DUFFY SAYS HE ARRESTED HER wITHoU

MRS DUFFY SAYS HE ARRESTED HER WITHOUT
CAUSE AND TREATED HER OUTRAGEoUsLY.
Another serious charge has been made against .
policeman by a woman who asserts that he not only
arrested her without but used her brutay Tue
woman who makes the charge Is Mrs. Margaret
Duffy. Of No. 467 West Thlrty-secondst She made
an afndavt on Wednesday night before Inspector Nc
Avoy at Police Headquarters. and yesterday morning
she again there and met the policeman Christopher
Quinn OF the Twentieth Precinct He failed TO make
IA strong defence.
Mrs. Dury's story, she told 1t TO a Tribune re-
porter yesterday, Is follows on sunday at noon
she was standing In front Of the tenementhouse In
which she lived talking with q Mrs. ODonnell, who
lives In the same house QUINN the accused police
man, was proddlng drunken man with his club
on the other side Of the street near Tenth-ave The
two women were laughing about something which had
no reference 10 him. but he Immediately crossed The
street swinging bis small billy" and senhg MIS-
Duffy said "What the - are you laughing at ~
On her answering that they had not been sngring at
him. he called her foul name and selling her by the
throat, pulled her from the steps and piessed her
against the railing. she showed the marks on her
throat yesterday. He had raised his club to strike
her when 1t slipped from his hand, and bis little
sister coming up Just then seized II By the strap ana
screamed For Heavens sake, Christie don't hit her,
II Is Mn. Duffy lie then struck Mrs. Duiy with
the hand that held the club. causing an abrasion on
her forehead. Despite the muttenngs OF the crown
which had gathered he dragged her to Tenthave then
to Thirty hIrdst He caught her left wrist with his
left hand pinched her left until she screamed Win
agony and twisted it behind her. and with his right
hand prodded her continually with his club ier
waist torn from top bottom that her arms aud
shoulders were bare. At Thirty -thirdst. another
policeman along and assisted Quinn to take his
prisoner to the Twentieth Precinct station In West
Thirty -seventhst. when the second policeman came
Mrs. Duffy appealed 10 him TO protect her from
Quinn He did SO. From the Twentieth Precinct
station she wus taken TO the Nineteenth Precinct
There she WINS charged with dlsorderly conduct and
locked up. Her husband and Mr.. eastman, O prop
erty- who owns two houses opposite No 401
West Thirty ST. offered bail at once but 10 was
not accepted on the plea That no bail could be
taken before y. IN. Mr.. eastman offered bail DO
cause he had seen the and knew that tho
assault WAS unprOvoked Later In the afternoon
Mr.. Dalton, who Is said TO be friend Of the police
man, appeared In the station house and gave bail
for Mrs Duffy. Immediately upon her release a
physician sent for and she was confined to her
bed for two days, and is still unable to so out. Her
left is badly swollen and bruised that It Is al
most useless and IL Will be time before she will
regain her health.
She had been notified at the station 10 appear for
trial In the Jefferson Market Court Thursday morn
Vt the house and told her TO be ready for trial on
Wednesday morning. and TINT day she was ar
ragned before Justice White at jefferson Market Police
Court. As soon the papers were handed 10 the
Justice he. without asking her single question, dis
charged her promptly. she then went 10 Police
Headquarters and made the charge which appears
sbovc. she says that she has a number OF witnesses
who will all swear that the assault was most brutal
aud altogether uncalled for