The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-21
PRICE ARBITRATES.
The Police Captain Between Court
and Complainant.
Warrant Against Mrs. Reilly Re.
fused on His Assertion.
McAllister Calls II q Disrcputable
Flat, but Price says No.

Capt. Price was in Jefferson Market
| Court this morning in a state of mind
verging on frenzy over the charge that
he had failed to suppress an alleged
disorderly fiat kept by Mrs. Reilly.
on the top floor OF 256 West Thirty
eighth street.
1t was alleged by Arthur McAllister.
who lives on the top floor Of No. 254,
next door, and who is responsible for
the publicity which has been given to
the case, that the Reilly woman allows
loud talking, laughing and shouting to
be INDUCED in at unseamly hours. That
women whose condition approximates
the nude pose before the windows. and
that she is an undesirable tenant and
neghbor
,McAllister who, with his brother,
boards with a Mrs. Manning. said that
he wrote a letter to Capt. Price. and
that as a result one OF the Captains
able sleuths came to the house, and
perchng himself on the roof one morn
ing about | o'clock. took peep into
Mrs. Reilly's windows. He saw. merry
wine party In progress. so McAllister
says. and shouted down to Mrs; Reilly
| that the noise must be stopped or he
impossible
| there were no more audible sounds OF
revelry
Later, when McAllister went to Police
| Headquarters, two Central Office detec-
| tives. he said. tried the same 'peeping
| Tom tactics and the same compliments
were exchanged. That was all, says Mr..
McAllister.
| McAlister talked in the nelghborhood
| crusader. This was why he was as
saulted Sunday night, he said, when he
stepped Into Roach's saloon. on the cor
ner. McAl.ister talked about the Reilly
case and Charles MCDONALD. who Is the
son OF a Bayonne saloon-keeper and a
| friend Of Mrs. Reilly, took up the quar-
| rel, and before long McAl.ister and Nc
Donald were tumbllng over each other on
| the saloon floor.
There was a third party to the fight,
but not In IT." He left badly battered
McAllister claims that he was as
saulted, and felt that Justice Hogan
ought to give him warrant for Nc
son Market Court this morning. He
was also ready to submit evidence which
would prove that Roach's saloon was
open Sunday, in violation OF the excise
law.
McAllister had scarcely stepped before
thine bench when Capt. Price, who had
been advised OF his coming. and had
time. After hearing the application for
a warrant the Captain asked Justice
Hogan to investigate the case.
There are a few facts connected
ments which / would like your Honor
to probe" said Price.
Ailister had written him, and, on ad
vice of Justice Hogan. asked the young
man to read his own epistle. McAllis
ter did so. and the Capital, auestionet
Of the police to investigate the matter
McAllister stuck. to his allegation,
about the Reilly house. He admitte.!
they could: that he had seen nothinf
which would warrant having the Refill.
woman, who Is tall stately blonde
He also admitted that his landlady
Mrs. Manning. and Mrs. Reilly, had hat
high words over the division of clothes
lines at the rear of the fiat. and that
he personally dIsliked Mrs. Reilly
Then Capt. Price turned to Justice
Hogan and said:
Il cannot see any reason why thu
woman should be subjected to the indig
ton Of this man, McAllister, who ha
confessed that many of his statement
. are untruths. My detectives have in
trail Once detectives. They have foun'
no grounds for an arrest and haV
30 reported.
e Horst, lives in a fiat at 25s, which look
into Mrs. Reilly's flat, and he assert
. that she Is quiet. reputable womar
T The neighbors all confirm the state
ment, and no one has any complaint I
e make except this man and his land
Q lady"
y Justice Hogan refused the application
3 for a warrant for Mrs. Reilly and too
e McAllister to task for trying to obtai
d a warrant on false representations. II
said he would entertain an applicatio
:, for warrants against Roach and Nc
It Donald, because he wanted to see
Il McAllister's evidence was as trust
r worthy in this matter as In the othe,
l. In spite OF Capt. Prices represents
II lions sand the alleged supporting state
ments which he offered to Justice Hogan
l. Mrs. Reilly's nat Is one of the mo,
IS notorious resorts in the Tenderloin.