New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-28
MR.. GOFF READY FOR WORK.
HE RETURNS FROM HIS OUTING.
AN ACCIDENT TO HIM IN HE ADIRoNpAcKS-
sTEPHENsON's TRIAL. TO BEGIN TO-DAY

sTEPHENSONS TRIAL. TO BEGIN TO-DAY .
DoHERrY GOES TO THE COURTS.
John w Gofr, of counsel for the Lexow Commit
tee back in his Office IN the Shoe and Leather
Bank Building Broadway and Chamoers-st
Yesterday looking in good trim for the work which
the committee is TO resume on September 10 IFS
face was pronzed from exposure 10 the air In the
Adrondacks. and he said he was In good health
although he had met accident In the WOODS
which came near making him a Grippe The acct
dent occurred about weeks ago and MI Go"
still shows the effects Of II by slight amenesS III
the right leg. He left the hotel at Meacham Lake
with several friends on hunting trip one daF' anu
as he was walking swiftly through the WOODS on d
deer trail he caught his foot in some gnar'ei roots
Of tree and was thrown forward To save MS
face he squrmed sdewise as he fell ana mus
twisted his leg with so much force 'ha' inv WI
dons at his knee Joint were strained pani!' NE
friends wee unable 10 get him back 10 the ho'e'
until a late hour at night. after there was report
at the hotel that the entire party had been loS'
in the woods Mr. (Ion managed to stop senSa-
tional report OF his injury which was ready 10 oe
telegraphed to the newspapers. but he d'd no. Sc
cure the services OF a surgeon until the 1oho"-
ing day, and he was obliged 10 lie III peu 'o' "''
q week OF his vacation
Mr. GofY was not willing to talk about his plans
for work Yesterday He said: Il have just got
back 10 the city and have not fairy got hold OF
the threads Of evidence which we are 10 weave To-
gether All that I say is that we sha! De
ready TO go with the investigation wheh 'he
committee meets again
Mr. Goff had a talk with Mr.. Jerome. one OF his
associates in the investigation. yesterday alter
noon and learned what had been done Dy MT.
Jerome in some matters which had been in'ris'ed
to him for investigation lately. but neither lawyer
would tell what the lines of investigation were
Mr. Gof turned OFF questions about the inves'isa-
ton by telling Of some Of the experiences Oh iis
trip In the Adirondacks He said he had slept on
boughs of balsam in the woods at night ana nai
not taken cold, although there was no covering TO
protect him. He had failed TO shool uee'' ""'
he had caught many fish.
In the course OF rambcs near Meacham Lake ne
had met named Fuller. ninety years o"'
who had been a reader of The Tribune since 'he
beginning OF It's publication and had kept every
COPY of the paper from the first
.Mr Fuller" said Mr.. GoT, with laugh re-
cards The Tribune az about a par with the
Bible and believes that no Democrat can be
truly good man
THE HARASSING OF WITNESSES
Asked for hts opinion of the trials which the
Police Commissioners have been conducting MI
Con replied that he did not care 10 express IT, but
when il was suggested that the severe cross-exaini-
nation OF Mrs Schubert and Mrs Sanford. the
chief witnesses in the trials Of Captains cross anu
Devery and Policemen Burns Gennon ana SMITH
might have thu effect OF lettering other persons
from giving testimony against the police before the
son to change the opinion which expressed DE-
fore the Commissioners began their investigation
that witnesses would be harassed by being ca'o'
repeatedIy to the Central ONCE ana sHb)ec'ea 10
cross-examinaton. and that their experience "o''i
have some effect in interfering with the work 81
the Senat, Committee. have thought All along
that It would have been in the interest OF the pup
lie for the Pc.ce Commissioners to have waited
until the committee vas through with the inVestl-
CATION
Mr. Con- was asked if he expected that the triaI
and dismissal of some Of the captains and ward
men who had been implicated by testimony Deiore
the committee might not cause "squea.s ana mus
make more witnesses FOR the Icyow Investigation
bu, he declined to express any opinion on that SUP
ject.
"Wiu tie Commissioners continue the trials az tn
Central Ofhce after the Lexow Committee mas re-
s,med the investigation? he was asked.
81 have received Information as - mat N
replied
Mr. Gofr would not say IL he knew that any per
sons whom, he had expected to call as witnesses
before the Iexow Committee had been scared ou'
of the city by the trials at Police Headquart"'S
WILL THERE BE MORE TRIALS?
After the trial Of Police Captain John T. stephen
SON which is 10 begin to-day before the Commits
sloners there may be no more trials OF captains az
the Central Once until the Lexow Committee has
finished its investigation. Commissioners Murray
and Kerwn have taken the ground that II wou"
not be proper to have the trials at the Centra'
Once proceeding at the same time when the Lexow
Committee was in session. and Assistant DISTRICT
Attorney Welman who has charge OF the invest
cation for the Police Board. has decided not 20 g
on with the trials after the Senator's ana MT Con
get to work again. Charges against three ponce
captains have been prepared In Mr. Wellirans
office but II was said there yesterday that they
might not be served until after the conclusion OF
the investigation by the Lexow Committee. Cap
tain Stephenson who Is 20 be tried on charges OF
selling to downtown merchants the right to OBJ
struct the sidewalks. is expected TO make nara
fight to save his gold shield and as there are ex-
pected to be many witnesses both for the prosecu-
f,on and the defence his tria. may last until near
the time when Mr. Goff begins TO examine more
witnesses a; the Court House
trial at the Central Once to-day. the CoInmIssion
who was q ward man under Mclaughlin in the
Of bribery II is not expected that his defence will
last more than few hours. Captain Devery and
,Seq case 1en Tev SaVe been accused by
Der Of Of nIv pom
keepers Of the houses
THE FATE OF CROSS AND SMITH.
The decisions in the OF Captain Cross and
Policeman Smith are awaited with much interest
There have been many reports at the Central Ohice
as to the probable outcome OF the trials. but the
Commissioners have carefully avoided making any
statements about their opinions Most OF the other
officials in the department have declared that Cap
tain Cross made strong a defence that he would
have been acquitted promptly by any jury and that
the Commissioners viii hardly dismiss him from
the force In the face OF the evidence presented II
has been said that Commissioners Martin and Muir
ray acted at the trials as II they were fully de-
termined to break the captain, however. ana that a
deadlock in the Police Board in the Of Cross
might be expected. The Commissioners may not
next regular meeting tomorrow.
Patroman Thomas H. Lynch. Of the West Forty
seventh-st. station, was on trial before Commits
sioner Murray at Headquarters yesterday charged
with taking brides from Richard Arder. saloon
xeeper, at No. 6IS Eighth-ave.. and Owen j. OBrien
manager Of a saloon at No. 80 West Forty-sev
enth.st. Lynch fatty denied the charges, and
said they were trumped up.
He claimed that ne had made forty excise