The evening world., 1894-10-16
WHO IS TELLING THE TRUTH?
Contradictory Testimony at the
Trial of Detective Zundt.
His Story Flatly Contradicted by
Sleuths McManus and Lang.

Rank perjury was committed by some
one at the trial of Detectve-Sergt.
George v. Zundt. before Police Commits
sloner Welles, of Brooklyn, this morning.
Iundt was on trial for failing to pay to
the Police Pension Fund 10 per cent. of
| the reward which he received from
| Charles NJ. Patterson. a New York mer-
chant. for recovering a diamond stud.
| which had been stolen from Patterson
while the latter was riding on an ele-
! waited train i'm Brooklyn.
The trial was the outcome OF Mr.. Pat
| terson's testimony before the LeXow
| Committee, in which he practically de-
clared that the New York and Brooklyn
| detectives were in scheme to swindle
| him.
Former Deputy Police Commissioner
| Dallou, who was the first witness. called
| testified that zundt had applied for and
received permission to accept $50 reward
| from Patterson.
'Zundt told me that the money was to
| go to the New York detectives who had
recov, red the stud said Mr. Dalton.
| Mr.. Dallon said that under the police
rules, which he had framed. Zundt should
| have padded 10 per cent. OF the reward
| into the pension fund.
| ZunGt next testified
Il never at any time in this transac-
ton received or retained for myself one
| cent as a reward from Mr.. Patterson,
| he declared
Continuing, he said that hte New
York detectives, McManus and Lang,
entitled to the reward. Patterson had
| given him two checks, one for $50 to
| repay loan made by Zundt to enable
Patterson to get, his diamond from the
| pawnbroker, and another check for $50
| as a reward. Patterson stopped pay
ment on the $50 check.
| Zundt emphatically declared that after
| receiving the check he, in company with
| forme Detective Mahony, of Brooklyn,
met Lang and McManus in a saloon near
| the bridge, and that he offered to give
money was in ten IS bills. He had shown
Patterson's letter notifying him that he
had stopped payment on the check, and
they refused to take the money.
| You'd better keep It," Zundt testified
that the New York men said, handing
back the money, "as you're out on the
deal"
the New York men S. apiece, saying.
| There's the price of hat. Zundt
swore. He also declared that they took
the money
but he thought he was entitled to that
much because of his loss of the $50 loan,
and also because the New York men re-
| fused to take 1t.
| On cross examination. he admitted
that he had not asked permission to re-
ceive $50; he thought his former appli-
cation to receive the $50 was sufficient.
| Ex-Detective Cornelius Mahoney, wher
called to the stand, swore that Zund
had offered the $50 to Lang and Nc.
Manus: that they refused 1t and that
he saw Zundt take two s. bills from the
men. saying: There's the price Of 6
hat" He would not swear that the New
York men took the money.
II may have turned my head at tina
moment he said. While believe the!
took it. did not actually witness TIL
transfer Of the money.
McManus had first produced the pawr
ticket for the stud.
McManus and Lang then went on the
stand, and swore most positively thai
the ticket had been produced by Fund,
and that they never got cent Nc
Manus, who was reduced to the ranks
because of Zundt's testimony before
Supt. Byrnes, concerning the transac;
ton. has since been restored to his old
rank as detective-sergeant.
on the occasion when Iundt swore HI
had given them each a s. bill McManus
testified that he met the Brooklyn detec
tives near the bridge. They went to the
saloon. Zundt asked him to have 6
did he offer you the $50 reward?"
| mo, sir"
Did he give ySSg IS. and say that's
the price of hat ,...
time we didn't know he had received
anything from Mr.. Patterson"
Cross-examined by Lawyer Wilbur
who appeared for Zundt. McManus said
he had been a New York policeman fol
eleven years. He had known Zundt fol
six or seven years. ,
you knew him pretty well, didn't
oyu?" ,,,
What do you mean by that?"
Not as well as do now; not as wei
as l wish l had"
McManus swore that he heard nothinf
about the reward until June q, nearly
two weeks after Lundt received 1t
Then he again met Zundt and Mahoney
Zundt told him that he intended doing
something for him with the reward, but
that Patterson had stopped payment or
the check. The witness swore positively
that Zundt had first produced the ticket
for Patterson's diamond
Lang's story was in the main cor
roboration of McManus's. Lawyer VII
bur sought to show that the New forR
men had n grudge against Zurdt because
they had been reduced In rank, but Com
missioner Welles ruled out this line OF
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