The evening world., 1893-11-29
IS DEvERY INDICTED?
Rumor of a Bill or Presentment
for the Police Captain.
Rev. Or. Charles H. Parkhurst Said
to Be the Complainant.
Possible Sequel to the Little Clifton
Gardner Episode.

1t leaked out in General Sessions to-
day that Police Captain William S. Dew
cry, of the Eldridge street police sta
ton, would probably be presented, pos
sibly indicted this afternoon by the
Grand Jury for criminel neglect of
duty on the charges preferred by Rev.
DR.. Charles II. P~arkhurst, of the So
ciety for the Suppression of Crime.
The Indictment, or presentment. which
ever 1t is. was drawn up late last night
by Assistant District-Attorney John d.
Lindsay.
In it Capt. Devery Is accused of hav-
ing, Aug. l last, been made aware of the
character of certain houses in his pre-
cinct and requested to abolish them, but
did not do SO, the houses being in full
operation to-day.
DIR. Parkhurst, it is said, told the mem
bers of the Grand Jury when he asked
for the indictment of Capt. Devery that
he had complained to the Board of Po-
lice Commissioners against Capt. Dew
cry, but that the Board refused to en-
terrain his complaint. He had therefore
brought the matter before them and re-
auested them to indict Capt. Devery.
DR.. Parkhurst, when seen this morn
ing, refused to discuss his visit to the
Grand Jury.
When asked If 1t was true that he had
asked the Grand Jury to indict Capt.
Devery he refused to make any reply.
A friend Of DR.. Parkhurst, however,
had this to say:
THE report of the Grand Jury to-day
will be probably be in the form of an
Indictment. DR.. Parkhust has been
treated very shabbily by the Board of
Police Commissioners, and resolved to
submit the matter to the Grand Jury"
Supt. Byrnes this morning declined to
talk regarding the possible indictment
OF Capt. Devery.
At the Eldridge street police station
the sergeant in charge said that Capt.
Devery was on his vacation and was not
In town.
Supt. Byrnes was before the Grand
Jury yesterday after DIR. Parkhurst and
Capt. Wishart had been before that
body.
District-Attorney Nicoll was not at
his office this morning. Assistant Dis
trict-Attorney Wellman. acting in his
stead, said that he knew absolutely
nothing about Capt. Devery's possible
Indictment.
You will nave to wait and see Mr..
Nicoll," he said.
Assistant District-Attorney Lindsay
refused to either deny or affirm the re
port.
The firing of DIR. Parkhurst's latest
bomb into the camp of the municipal po-
lice was by no means unexpected, and il
has long been believed that the projcc-
tile would be aimed directly at the head
of Police Capt. William $. Devery.
Ever since the General TERMS reversal
OF the conviction of Charles W. Gardner,
the Superintendent of DR.. Parkhursts
Society, who was tried and convicted or
Attempting to extort money from Lille
Clifton. the keeper Of a disreputable re
sort at 1876 West Fifty-third street, the
visits of DIR. Parkhurst and his chief
detective, Capt. .Wishart, Gariner'a sue
and the Grand Jury room have been
regarded as of especial significance. ,
Capt, Devcry has all along been held
responsible by the Parkhurst people for
the arrest OF Gardner and the conse-
quent scandal that was brought upon
the vice-suppressing society.
In the bitter fight which DR.. Park
hurst ,wagcd against the police shortly
after the memorable circus at Hattie
Adams's resort, the celebrated rcformer
had apparently been an easy winner,
especially III MS ntNSIdltI
with Supt. Byrnes, until Gardner, nde-
coyed,' as he and his friends insist
voluntarily, as the police into
Capt. Devery's big net.
But the Gardner episode was a severe
setback for the Parkhurst people, and
thereafter, so to speak. they campo on
Capt, Devery's trail
When he was transferred from West
Forty-seventh street, where he was In
command when Gardner was arrested,
TO Eldridge street, they followed him ia
into Africa more bitterly than ever,
sin the doughty Captain held his
ground. and when recently, after raidillg
numerous resorts in his precinct, made
Wholesale charges of neglect of duty
against him and Inspector Williams be
fore the Police Commissioners, he emers-
81 with glowing colors and declared mat
his precinct was not unlike the driven
The recent alleged assault upon Park
hurst agents In Cant. DcVerNs nreclh'l
was another hard blow at the Society
prosecute the alleged assailants when
they were arrested by the. police but
LAY low like "Bre'r Rabbit"
Then came the reversal OF CiarIInerF
conviction and his release, The iark,
hurst Society was wonderfully eIatsd
frequent.
Capt, Devery was born in the ,rnitol
States Jan. 8, 1854. When twcnty-ton,l
DIS, Sept IL 1881, he was made q rounds
man, and May q. 1881. a sergeant. lf
ms served In the West Thirty-SeNeuti u
West Twentieth, West Forty-seventh
ticns.
He has earned especial distinction II
effective work, and has assisted SUPP!
bVrnes in some Of his most dihicuI