New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-20

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JOSEPH W. KAY.
that he had heard II casually on the sidewalk In
Chambers-st.. and. Ike ten thousand other runors
that he had heard. paid no attention TO IT,
Mr. Gofr-We wanted TO know all this because
lie has always wentyfour hours start Of the truth
Senator LeXow-I think We can stand this lie.
Frank Wolf. who keeps a lodging house at No. 100
Park Row said that he opened II five weeks
for the Budweiser Brewing Company. lie had not
his books with him. but promised to bring them
after recess. The inquiry was then adjourned until
23O p.
acknowledgements BRUTAL ORDERS
Frank Prince. a young colored man. The first
witness called by Mr. GoN after the recess. and he
in the charge OF a keeper who had brought him
from the pen,;entlary on Blackwelis Island. He
said he had been sentenced to the pententiary on
August "a for six months on on the charse Of keeping
st Before that ne had kept dsorlerly house AZ
No. PIG East Nnety-eighth-st. AMI Detective Gan
non. the ward man FOR Captain Schmittbcrger At
the East Eighty-eghth-s, polite station hal de
manded gu month FOR protection He hal refused
to pay. he declared and later he was arrested by
Detectives Cannon and Campbell lie told them
that he would make them shut up ali Of IN" dts
Sm S RS potc sa@H 'hqy ook lin aS ise
Captains room. and Schmittbergcr asked him 20 re-
peat what he had said about the other houses
Then the captain said: Take him to the Gel ana
Q-What was the attention which you received?
Al klche1 into the eel. and then Kicked In
Cannon said he ought TO knock my head on
Q-When was that? About two years ago
Q-What was done with you In the police court?
After Prince had testified he han1cuned and
led away by the prison keeper.
SOME BOWERY LODGTNG-HOUsEs
Samuel Trigger. who keeps odgng-house foT
men at 80 50 Bowery. testified tina; he had 40 beds
In his house and an average OF 10 dodgers. About
100 men voted from the house last year. Thus far
about forty have registered from the house
this year. Trigger produced some OF his books to
show that there were many ioAgerS who were
regulars and occupied the same beds nigh: after
night.
beds ana about sixty dodgers In the house. He
knew that a list OF thirty ioigers hnd been given
clerk bad the dodgers say Il they were voters. ana
were voters were placed on the police list. Ed
wards gave the names Of a number Of men who had
Mr. Cor took the books OF several lodging houses
for examination.
Lucy J. Harris. a young colored woman. who had
been brought from the workhousc Blackw ell! :
Island by a keeper. was sworn as witness and
months term FOR lettering in the streets She said
she mad been an inmate OF several dls9rderiy h2usrs
in the city. All AT all Of them she had been obliged
to pay 81 a week for the police The other women
In the houses also had 20 pay the same
WOMEN PAID TO WALK THE STREETS
Q.-When you walked the streets. did you have to
pay the policeman on the post? Al did not. but
Mr. Gon-This is revolving page in the history
OF oppression and corruption. but there has been
levied regular tax upon nc women who are al
loved by The police to wak the streets at night
The witness T W. led on to %, tel asoT, having r9b
man complained to Policeman Derrigan. who went
to the house and said tn money must b" given
man who hal been robbed That about a year
ago The ward detective % the Mercor-st police
station afterward arrested her on the complaint ~
the man, and tho money was sent TO The property
clerk at Police Headquarters. The detective per
sua1cl the who had been robbed not To appear
against hcr when she was brought to The len, rson
Market Police Court, and she was diSchhre"i 5N
Judge Hogan Last summer she saw DerriS4h' VINO
told her there was some money for her at ne Cen,
her nam on a piece Of paper which writ
Ten something about $50 Then she reeei'gl so
gan Of having taken the rest OF the 49, but he
cinci To- tell ghost stores" t. men who make com
paints that they have been robbed In such houses?
believe such stories.
DETECTIVES "DIVvY" WITH ROBBERS.
Q.-What 30 detectives say 20 men who have
been robbed? A.-ThcS say that tho woman cannot
be found. that 1t @i be disgrace TO their families
and that 1t SHOULD be warning not 10 so to such
places.
Q.-And sometime, the men go away? A-yes.
O-What happens in such casfs? A.-Then the
detective gets half IF what was stolen from the
What woull have been yonr share Of the
$40 II the man You r'bhct IN thit nous" nfV gone
away and made trouble after the detective nd
talked 10 him? Al would hay" got 81. The
woman who kent the hoIsr would have had the
same and the detective would hav" got $40.
several times. but she had always served her
fuu term. Jacob BcrlinSer. a lawyer. had secured
her discharge some OCCASIONS when she was
able 10 pay 10 get away from the Island
INFLUENCE OF 4 LAWYER
Hattie Lcdyne, a young ncgrcss who was clllcd
AS the next witness, WAS discharged from the work
bouse on the Island on Thursday although she had
been sentenced September q for term of six
months Nil Con- wanted 10 know how she had
been discharged after sery,no less than month
of her term ana slc said she supposed that I'M
0uence Of a lawyer" had something to do with her
release. She declared that she had been arrested
1902 times in years and six months. She had
been an inmate of a dsorderly house In Greene-st
for a number Of years, but after the house
closed she had walked the streets and had been
rested frequently. Policeman Churchill had beaten
her AT one time but after she had made
nloint 10 Inspector McAvOy at the Central Office
moIestcd for several months She did rot press the
complaint against Churchill.
O-You were arrested 102 times. How
MANY times were YOU sentenced 10 the Island? A.
In nearly every case
RRIBED THE CLERK TO LET HER OFF.
Odd you go the Island? A.-No When
was senteced for a month / paid SIS TO the clerk
of the jefferson Market Court. and allowed TO
90 back 10 the street. have been sent 10 the
Island only eight times 10 get there.
Odd you pay more than SO at any time? A.
Yes | have paid high as $50 to Lawyer Webb
10 get off when | sentenced for year. |
pa,I four fines In one week and was arrested the
NTH time Then / did not have the money and l
served ten days