New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-04

HE DECLARED HE WOULD KILL THE MAN WHO
SHOWED HIM TO BE BRUTAL BLACK
MAILER-sroRY OF HIS PITILEss PERsE-
CUTION OF MRS. URCHITTAL - THE
SHOCKING EFFECTS OF THE TAM
MANY COMMISSIONERS METHODS
MADE CLEAR-ANOTHER WIG
WAN LEADER ACCUSED
OF ExToRTIoN.
Well caIcuIated as was much Of the testimony
before the Lexow Committee on Tuesday to
cause alarm in the public mind because so many
savage and brutal men had been allowed to re-
main in the police force. there was scene In the
presence of the committee yesterday when maze
all that had been told previously more emphatic
and deplorable. 1t was shown clearly on Tues
day that James J. Martin and John c. Sheehan'
the Tammany Police Commissioners, had helped
10 keep In the department men who had beeh
guilty OF shocking and criminal assaults on c1u-
zens, finding them guilt, but merely lnilicting
small fines instead of dismissing them from the
force or causing them u be prosecuted in the
criminal courts II was shown also that the
Commissioners had encouraged perjury by such
policemen in permitting them To deny under oath
the truth # the charges against them. and later
when they were convicted, tdhlHs n' sup ~ "A''
tbem punIshcd FOR false sw ,arng There was
demonstration OF the effect Of such official favor
itism Yesterday in the very presence Of the
state Senators who are investigating the dc-
pariment. and il showed the Generalization OF
the police force and the utter lack OF decency
in the minds Of some of the policemen VINO nave
been protected by Tammany influence.
Ambrose W. IuSsey. policeman accused OF
iph and loft a time
when he was the ward man at the Dclancey-St
police station. threatened to put a bullet into the
head IF one Of the witnesses In the COURTROOM
talking 50 loudly that he was overheard by sew
eral persons Then he won't on the witness
stand and porjureI himself by denying that he
had made such a threat John W. Goif. Of the
committees counsel. was quick to see the force
Of such unexpected and astounding conduct and
II the committee had need Of further proof that
the Commissioners had encouraged brutality and
perjurv in the police force that proof was sup
piled before Hussey's examination was ended
7, was shown that IIussey was the policeman
who had abused Mrs. Urchitta the poor woman
who was s.nt 4, prison on the charge Of being
d,sordcrlv. after she had been backmailed by the
n,licc and whose children had been taken away
from hor and that Hussey had tried to have an
innocent policeman implicated. number of
witnesses testified that Hussey had gone about
m. business ~ hlackmailing people with sys-
tcnatc intimidation.
Another revelation of police effrontcry was
made In the case Of Policeman Lynch. Of the
Nalleor-st station who only yesterday morning
arrested poor woman who sold papers on the
sidewalk and dragged her 10 a police court be-
cause she refused To pay him s.. The police
man was compelled t. stand before the commit
tee and he identified by the wrongcd woman. ana
Mr. CON declared that f. was astonishing that a
policeman would be- guilty - such attempted OK
torii after all tie revelations whch h'd o'"h
made before the committee.
Tina, Tammany influence has been at the bot
tom ~ much ~ the polio" GENERALIZATION ana
criminal conduct wa Indicated strongly 10y trSu-
iuouy which WAS given hc'nr" IN" CuIi'hll'''
y.star.l4v about Max Hochstlm. a TammdnF
magnate I'm the district east ~ the Bow"ry II
was put I'm evidence that when peopl" were 10
h. backmailed in som" parts IF IN" district tAey
were mrs intimdated by the police an1 then to!i
to go and see HochstIm." Direct payments
= money - Hocnstim were testified 10 by some
II ih. victims.
p!striot-Attorney Fellows explained to the
committee that the attention - the Grand Jury
would hc called - recent acts of law.'SsneSs
which the police had permitted In the city nut
81. gave renewed assurances that the work of ms
onirr would not be permitted 10 "mbarrass the
investigation # the Police Department in any
way.
.lHf1h 1dl"il on ' l'l' Ni'H'F7
committee I'm the afternoon testified tnat he had
paid money t. Jacob Drummer. the former ward
man Mt the police station in East Eigh;F-"igh'h-
g., for =. rrnission to sell beer on sundays. ana
he nl>p declared that he had paid money 70
Matthew Murphy. an excise inspector Tor
having a license transferred.
The final witness = the day was John w
Goodwin. A former rOundsman Of the police iorce'
who had been forced t. resign under durrss. HIS
testimony seriously IMPLICATED Sergeant Magan.
who is still on the force. although the Com
miss iners apparently have been aware for many
months that Magan was guilty Of forgery.
Testimony will be heard before the committee
again to-day.
(far d>,a,Is orhe ts.1nony n 'ctnesscs sce DdDll
WILL CEASE CITING REBi7ES.