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 McNIanus and Lang.

Rank perjury was committed by some
one at the trial of Detective-Sergt.
George V. Zundt, before Police Commits
sioner Welles, of Brooklyn, this morning.
Zundt 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 diamond stud,
which had been stolen from Patterson
while the latter was riding on an Ele-
waited train in 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 sCneme to swindle
MIN.
Former Deputy Police Commissioner
Damon, who was the first witness called
testified that Zundt had applied lor auu
received permission to accept so reward
from Patterson.
"Zundt told me that the money was to
go 70 the New York detectives who had
recev. ed the stud, said Mr.. Dahon
Mr.. Dalon said that under the police
rules, which he had framed, Zlndt snollt
have paiu 10 per cent. of the reward
INTO the pension fund.
Zundt aext testified
81 never at any time in this transic-
ton received or retained for myself one
he declared
Con,muing, ne said that the New
York detectives, McManus ana Lang
had recovered the diamond: they were
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 so
as a reward. Patterson stopped pay
ment on the $50 check.
Zundt emphaticaliy declared that after
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former Detective Mooney, of Brooklyn.
met Lang and McManus IN a saloon near
the bridge, and that he offered to gtve
the New York men the reward. The
money was in ten So 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"
Then l split the money up and gave
the New York men So apiece saying,
| There's the price of a 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 it.
on cross-eXamination, he admitted
| that he had not asked permission to re-
| ceive 500; he thought his former appli-
cation to receive the $50 was sufficient.
Ex-Detective Cornelius Mahoney, when
called to the stand, swore that Zundt
had offered the $50 to Lang and Nc.
Manus: that they refused 1t and that
he saw Zundt take two s. bills from the
| roll and hand them out to the New York
men,, saying: There's the price Of a
hat" He would not swear that the New
York men took the money.
h he sa trrnsS MY he SeeSe thea thea
took i. l did not actually witness th'
Both Zundt and Mahoney swore that
| McManus had first produced the pawn
| ticket for the stud.
| McManus and Lang then went, on the
stand, and swore most positively that
| the ticket had been produced by Zundt
and that they never got cent. Nc
| Manus. who was reduced to the ranks
because of Zundts testimony before
| Supt. Byrnes, concerning the transac-
ton. has since been restored to his old
| rank as detective-sergeant.
| on the occasion when Zundt swore he
had given them each s. bill McManus
| testified that he met the Brooklyn detec-
| tives near the bridge. They went to the
saloon. Zundt asked him to have a
drink,
Did he give you the s., and say That's
the price Of hatT
mo, sir; we never got cent. At that
time we didn't know he had received
anything froin Mr.. Patterson"
| Cross-eXamined by Lawyer Wilbur,
who appeared for Zundt, McManus said
| he had been a New York policeman for
| eleven years. He had known Zundt for
| six or seven years.
You knew him pretty well, didn't
you?" ,
What do you mean by that
mot as well as l do now; not as well
as | wish | had"
| McAIanus swore that he heard nothing
| about the reward until June q, nearly
two weeks after Lundt received 1t.
| Then he again met Xundt and Mahoney.
Zundt told him that he intended doing
something for him with the reward, but
| that Patterson had stopped payment on
the check. The witness swore positively
that Zundt had first produced the ticket
| for Pattersons diamond.
| Lang's story was in the main a cor
roboration of McManus's. Lawyer VIII
bur sought to show that the New York
| men had a grudge against Zundt because
they had been reduced in rank, but Com.
missioner Weles ruled out this line OF
| inquiry.