The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-12-07
HOT SHOT FROM BYRNES
New York's Police Superintend-
ent Scores DR.. Parkhurst.
SCHEME TO DISGRACE THE MAYOR.

The whole Crusade Alleged to Have Been
started by the Minister and Several Of
His Congregation from Motives of Re-
venge Detective Gardner Held for Trial
NEW YORK, Dec. THE statement
made by Police Superintendent Byrnes
last night in regard TO DR.. Parkhurst,
president of the Society for the Prevention
of Crime, has caused as great a sensation
as did the revelations made in court last
spring when the minister was on the
stand
The head of she police force intimates
that the Doctors motive in attacking that
body is one of revenge on behalf of one of
his congregation, and that his parishioner
put him up to " all his investigation of
vice. DR.. Parkhurst, he says, has tried to
entrap the Mayor, Judges and even Mr.
Nicoll into compromising situations
Said Mr. Byrnes
81 am busy arranging series of facts
relative to the accusations made in gen
eral way by Dr. Parkhurst but cannot
complete them now. Against DR.. Park
hurst l have up to the present time re
Trained from saying a word. He makes
accusations without evidence to support
them-acCusatiOns which he himself does
not honestly believe.
a."This whole matter was conceived bv
him in connection with certain members
of his congregation in relation to a divorce
suit brought some nine or ten months ago
just before he began to assail the police
At that time he and his people endeavored
TO get certain police officer to swear to
thing that the officer could not conscien-
tiously do.
"Parkhurst then became very angry in
the interest Of one member of his church.
the person who brought the divorce suit,
and who finally succeeded in securing a
decree
'He then started persecution against a
certain house in this city, and that is the
commencement Of the assaults upon the
police l am reluctant to say even this
much.
a have letters showing that Parkhurst
and certain members of his congregation
have rpsorted to everything that seems to
be dis.i 1rable to get evidence of any
kind %, rutraaJer through the intrigues Of
women TO compromise the chief magis-
trate of tuis city, the judges Of the higher
courts, the prosecuting attorney of this
county, and many other of the high Off
Cials OF this municipal government. These
letters have been copied
''lhese letters will show the instructions
Parkhurst left and what he expected to
get on his return from Europe. They will
also show everything that occurred up to
within the last two or three days All
were written by the person interested in
the divorce suit, who is Parkhursts 5 friend
and chiefiadyiser in his church. This per-
son is getting the material for the purpose
Of supplying Parkhurst with his sermons
preached on Sundays assailing public men
from his pulpit.
"Of his letters l may say that to a COPY
of each is appended an interview with the
party to whom the letter is addressed
They name the public men to be followed
and ascertain whether they went to dis
reputable houses They show that efforts
were made to ring in a woman on these
public men, and so try to get them into
compromising positions. And all this has
been done through a certain woman.
"TO illustrate the character and high
mindedness of Dr. Parkhurst it is only
necessary for me to tell of a little episode
that came to my attention and the details
oi which l can fully prove when I feel
like so doing. - hae
mony in the Hattie Adams case he went
to this woman referred to in the divorce
suit, and asked her if she could not yet
him some French pictures. He said he
thought they would be useful to him
when giving his testimony, They would
refresh his memory. The poor soul was
so modest he could not remember the
filthy things he had witnessed.
THE woman obtained the pictures of
the third party who figures in this case
and brought them to DR.. Parkhurst's
house. The Doctor thought moment
and then said:
Suppose some inquisitive iuryman
should discover me looking at them and
asked where got them. / would have to
tell him.
"Io satisfy his conscience ON this point
he told the woman to take them home
and send them to him that night by mail
lie did this so as to be able to truthfully
swear in case he was asked any questions
tnat he did not know where they came
from.
This is the calibre of DR.. Parkhurst 1
am sorry for the woman who has allowed
herself to be dragged into this thing. She
has been misled She is one of the our
Hundred and stands high in society"