The evening world., 1894-08-09
Wsllman Says One Will Be Called
I, to Answer Wednesday Next
Martin lust as Positive In Stating
4 81 49, 80 lust the Contrary.
llIness Of Accused Policemen the
vogue-L Levy Suspended.

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& ton. Three accused policemen are
- 10 be put on trial Wednesday next MIR.
5WellmaH says one Captain will be called
10 the bar. President Martin says five
y eergeants and no Captain will be placed
= on trial. Edward Man Levy has been
suspended.
- Policeman Edward Glennon, the ex-
ward man OF the Eidridge street squad,
's-sho was jointly charged with Capt. Will
lam g.. Devery with fifty-six crooked
zactss while they were In the Eleventh
I. Precinct, appeared at Police Headquar-
6 ters.Ii ready for trial. promptly at 10
o'clock this morning.
, None OF the Commissioners had yet
= ;arriysd. and Complaint Clerk Peterson
officially notified the lawyer that the trial
Il OF Capt. Devery and edward Man
Z .Giennofl had been indefinitely postponed
because of the illness OF Capt. Devery
i Who, according to the report Of Police
Surgeon Nammack Ia seriously Ill with
I. congestion Of the brain. and Is and VIII
v ~ mentally incapable to defend himself
or perform the duties of police captain
For 4 month to come.
90 Then 7GlenIon who IL, not under sus-
First Precinct. to which he was trans
y feered along with the Captain.
: The. Lexow Committee meets again
SS,ise commissioners will biuff along
" until that time. when Official courtesy"
/, ..proprlety" and all that will prevent
them from trying any more of the ac-
!. ..Commissioners Murray and Kerwin are
frettins under the restraining condition
e Ssfnlng the, fP he would de'aT ,S
The. accused polieemen while the
1exow Committee was In session before,
49, az
ware In favor OF doing so. They say .hey
win oppose the trial OF any one by the
: Board during 81; The coming session of the
Perhaps Capt. Max schmittberger. of
2 the Tenderloin. will be used as the next
, Capt schmittberger had a fainting nt
|. cab. The big Captain signed the re-
. turn from the West Thirtieth street sta
ton yesterday morning. but to-day
I sergt. halpin appears as acting cap
,tain IN the Nineteenth Precinct reports.
md Capt. Mag Is reported on the sick
list by Police Surgeon John H. Dorm, of
81 West Ninth street.
The reporters for the morning papers
we're told at HEADQUARTERS last night
that DR.. Stephen @. Cook OF III West
Twelfth street, President Of the Board
of Fifteen Police Surgeons, had visited
Capt. Schmittberger at his home. lis
!. East 6ixty-hrst street, yesterday. and
that the Captain was very Ill, with a
;, high fever. and would be for at least
eight days.
has been on a vacation with his family
and VIII not be home vi next Monday;
.!sporter this morning that he had just
rieft capt. gchmittberger. The Captain.
be said. had oyerworked and an abeess
in the back which developed ten days
ago had grown worse In consequence.
The. Captain had q congestive chill and
;twss very. very Ill.
: morning. and at II o'clock President
. In consultation.
called for noon to-day at Headquarters
:. for the appointment of a committee OF
u three surgeons to investigate Capt. Dew
!. sti$6 Devery said that the Captain was
worse and that DR.. Ambrose W. Becker,
4 scS S2a West Thirty sixth street, would
sssgply for permission to remove him from
When the Board of Police Surgeons
I; met they: were confronted with a notice
session resclnded Its resolution directing
tho Board Of Surgeons to appoint a
committee Of three of their number TO
examine and report on Capt. Deverys
~ sxisep their. meeting DR. Nammack said
,E1ther rTustly: We appointed no com
'1Dsyerys case. ! alone am responsibie' '"
AFTER two hours .closetlng the confer
--ence between President Martin, Commits
up Bsrn sad bfoRs Sp
Wsiiman said with much candor to an
~ !, Eysntns World, reporter. who asked
ZAP sfhmitteerser was to be next
I'VE, shall not put any sick captain on
y, srhs 1 6at We shall put 2 captain on trial
!! and the trial viii begin next Wednesday
morning. II can't tell you who It will be-
z put WI 6e a captain. l am not try
IL r.. WIN equal candor. President Martin
: Sttiee TWO minutes later: ''supt, Byrnes
Sssn srssted the to S ss in sssP the
- she. Fourteenth Precinct. and they will
be submitted to US this afternoon. The
sergeants, VIII be put on trial Wednes-
Any captains at present"
: GahWhep the Teperter told Mr., Martin
4 him they were going to put a CAPTAIN
on trial with that expressionless stare
for which President Martin is famous
ne i ssd Az. Il have tod You we are goins
70 try captains. The trials viii begin al
10 o'clock Wednesday morning;
nouneed that the Bosrd hs sdFt snsn.ns sn
= Patrolman eJremah $ Levy In whose
trial for bribery the Jury disagreed iasi
Levy has been doing duty on rU'i III,
mounted squad.
The hve sergeants referred to by Com
missioner Martin are John w Jordan
Felix NICK Jenna, Hugh Clark, G. C, Lie
bers ana C. A. Patterson.
They are charged. and two or tire.
admitted at the trial OF Capt. Dohert,
that they accepted Mrs. August ThuroN
{ Noble Burns and other disordery hous,
keepers as bail for the inmates OF thei
houses arrested In the Fourteenth Pre-
cinc.. Clark has been on duty at Head
quarters OF late and the others, exceptlnl
McKepna and Jordan, have been scat
tered In different precincts.
They are all under suspension now
and have been Stree the Doherty trial
There Is also Mrs. Thurow's testimon,
that, on occasions when she gave bal
for her girls, she left, by previous ar
ranEement. IS bills on a shelf behinc
the sergesnts' desk. as bribery for IN,
favor.
Charges against the five Sergeant!
were filed by Supt. Byrnes at l.55 p NJ.
The charges against the sergeants flee
by Supt. Byrnes were like this:
i, Thomas Byrnes, Superintendent o
Police at the city OF New York anc
State OF New York. hereby charg,
= sergts. Hugh Clark, George C. Llebers
James w. Jordan, Felix McKenna AM
Charles a. Patterson and Patro.me,
= David J. Mallon and Emanuel Meye
= al being nov members OF the polio
force OF the city OF New York, with n
legal offRDRRR nePlact Of ,Iut,, ,,,,'l,,.