The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-24

lie looked them up for his own intorma-
iion. AS he thought he might need to
know.
Why did sou, look them up two
months ago There was no one aC-
cuaed thea. Did YOU think some one
Was going TO he accused"
40. sir; but thought something was
going TO happen
You have told us that you arrested
forty on ility women from that house.
and that YOU arrested many from the
sto9p yourself. Would 1t surprise you
rests made from that stoop during the
VI hole Of 1895. and only ten or "A dozen
of the inmates arrested by the whole
platcon"'
Here's Where lie Fell Down.
why, know there were more than
that I've, got, list of more than that
it, my pocket"
Well let's have it," demanded the
relentless and imrerturbably cool cross
examiner.
The now thoroughly policeman
| flushed, and passed the list to Mr.. Well
man. Then the great prosecuting lawyer
with the biotter.
Lille Sanders WIS found to be the only
inmate of - Second avenue during June.
The officer had credited Rosa \int Ii
First street, arrested in First street.
near the Bowery. TO Mrs. Thurow' S
house.
rye seen Rosa Vint run into Mrs.
Thurow's house when / was chasing
| her said the witness.
what did you chase her for?"
For the inisdemeanor Of soliciting
She ran into the house to escape arrest,
| and they shut the door"
Did you go In and arrest her,
NO: 1t was a misdemeanor and l had
7" What? Who told you that you had
no right to pursue person who had
committed n misderies nor In your pres
whprpler che tninbt rOp
~ was told that at the Police School
of instruction"
Mccarthy did not swear out a warrant
for Rosa .Nin;. because, he said, the
Clerk in Police Court wouldn't think
that offenss sntiisien, fSr a warrant; i.
Rs1e of M"s s rs M Gy Thu
| row was accepted as her bail In $500.
Rosa vint and Lottie Renner were
| arrested by you from Mrs. Thurow's
Show me one more on your list arrested
year" demanded MIR. wellman.
Gets Into Deeper Water.
Mccarthy found the name OF Mar
| Marshall of o2 East Third street, ar
rested on Second street. In August. Ht
| declared the Sergeant must have made
| mistake when he made the entry in the
blotter. He would not swear IT. how
ever. He thought this was the tim,
when he arrested her on the BowerS
near Second str -et. He had arrested hei
| twice.
This suggestion got the poor fellow
| into more trouble, for Mr.. Wellmar
asked him to find the record Of the sec
he was obliged to give 1t up;
Commissioner Murray asked severa
questions in an effort to find out why
Mrs. Tburow's that night, when he go
in as far as the hall with one of thu
inmates, but he did not succeed, anC
the witness retired.
liceman so new. that he has not ye
achieved a single stripe, testified tina
he was detailed in september, 1893 to
special post in front of Mrs. Thurow
| house.
1.-The Captain told me he suspectet
that it was bad house and instructe
me to let no one go in or out
EARLY in October Mrs; 1'hurow ap
proach me. She said Officer, are 20
detailed especially to watch my house?
Il replied that | was. and that l wa
l arrested dozens Of women there.
was with great difficulty that arrest
were made. The women seldom venture
further, than ten, feet from the dooi
would run in the house and slam tn
door.
on a Second avenue car and jumped OF
and seized them before they could &c
away | have arrested five or six of
night in front of the house. / caugh
two together one night by jumping OF
the car"
"Have arrested whole lot of EN-
Ell? Show me your list'' exclaimed MI
Wellman.
Mr.. Grant objected that there was n
evidence that he had list. But be
fore ne could open his mouth the wit
! h,I ipN ~ nj u rily n
He was quick to see the point, how
ever, and said he had left his list a
home; besides, it was not correc
pages Of entries in the blotter. :,
Hughes seemed to be an UNUSUAL
titled that he had arrested dozens c
women In front of % Second avenue
that. he had arrested four or five in
single night: that he captured two 4
tured more than ten feet from the door
he gave himself a lot of things to do.
The persistent Wellman kept at hir
Ms he searched the blotter containn
entIl les of every arrest
SHOW US where you made fve arrest
show us the two at once
SHOW us the dozens of arrests b
, And when Hughes did find an entr
his triumph would be shortlived, 70
Well1nan WOull say.
"Ah, that's Second street and Secon
avenue: you said the girls didn't ven
ture more than ten feet from the doc
and this one was arrested more than
block away
Hughes wanted to say that dozens
and -four or five" and ten feet froI
the door" had been spoken in a Pick
wickian sense, but he didn't He jus
pored over the better and flushed an
perspred, for he was evidently consciei
tious.
Mr.. Grant helped him out by callin
his attention to the page for Oct. .
-, and there he found entries of four a
rests credited to him. The arrests wei
not I'm front of % Second avenue, te
feet from the door" however.
Patrolman Henry Cohen, the eX-rt
) porter, was another whose sleeve wa
, guileless OF service stripes. He testitie
that ne patrolled a post opposite tn
, house OF Mrs. Thurow and that he IN
frequently seen women pass in and OF
of the house.
"DiHiruItics" % the Police.
! Tell the Commissioners what difi
culties the police had in making arres
at that house" Mr.. Fromme said.
THE folks there always had watcher
: posted out, and they would notify all II