The evening world., 1894-08-20
EDITION.
NOW FOR BIG
DISCLOSURES.
Fitzpatrick Will Give Names
OF Builders Who Paid
BlaCkmail.
ALL BUT TWO, he SAID, DID 50 .
Kerwin Will SEQ Him in Privsts
and Then Something
May Drop
HE HAD WARNED M'LAUGHLIM.
Told Him When Captain Of Ward
Man Burns's Ate mptsd
Extortion.
|
He HAD WARNED m'LAUaHLlM.

1t was nearly II o'clock when the
Board Of Police Commissioners resumed
the round of trials Of police officers 1t
Headquarters to-day.
Mr.. Wellman said prior to the resumD-
ton OF the proceedings that no new
cases would be made public until the
end Of the present quintuple trial was In
sight.
1t Is almost definitely settled that ths
next officer to be placed on trial VIII -
Capt. John T. Stephenson.
The Commissioners and Mr.. Wellman
propose TO cut large and juicy water
melon for a surprise party to thu puhl1s
In the trial of Stephenson. SO rs
| They viii rely for his convictions Mt.
| upon witnesses who testified before sthe
Lexow Committee. for the charges made
| by the man Ryan fell to the ground
upon investigation so far as Stephenson
is concerned. The checks alleged to have
been paid to "the Captain" II appears
were all drawn six months before 6to-
phenson was In the Fifth Precinct, and
at a time when Captain Thomas Ryan
was In command.
Witness Ryan Is a cousin OF CaDe
Ryan" said Mr.. Wellman to-day. "and
he has discovered a doubt as to where.
the checks went to-
The case against Capt Stephenson n
said to be ali ironclad case, II the wit
nesses are to be believed, and the Wit
knesses, II Ia said, Will be reputable bue4-
Mr.. Wellmans officers brought exact
Iy thirteen OF the most disreputebio-
| and corralled them in one Of the ante
rooms till their turn should come 70
appear as witnesses against Capt..
Smith or Burns, or all Of them.
Prosecutor Wellman was full Of re-
| sentiment against those newspaYerp
that he is only rehashing the testimeny
cut out by Mr.. Con and the Parkhurss
Society for the Lexow Committse. =.
said Mr.. Weliman. I" No legal proof e
guilt was given before the Lexow Cop
timony. The Police Board must e
| pend en- legal testimony only, and we,
have succeeded thus far in corrcborat-
every case tried, afsd ali the talk about
reinstating tne broken captains by TIE
| courts Ii rot:
woman in an Ada Lewis tough sirrs
jacket. was the first witness.
She testified first in the Devery-0lsn~
Isl She said that she was an inmate o.
Wolff's disordery house. $50 Allen street.
during Capt. Devery's command Of the
Giennon there. Her Brother wanted %
get her out Of the house.
She said she knew II was Glennon be-
tried to Identity . G gle no I'm In line with
three other policemen she picked out the
wrong man, Patrolman John J. Nevins.
Of the Fourteenth Precinct. being select
Janey said that wolfrs house and the
corner house next door ran with wide
open doors during the eight months
Wolff's In 1888, and ex Assemblyman
Phil Wissig. who kept a saloon In the
basement OF 1870 Allen street, gave an
tilted:
When any OF us girls were arrested
Phil Wissig went bail for us.
to an Evening World reporter the DO
ceptance OF Mrs. Thurow as bondswe-
man for the girls while Capt Doherty
was in command of the Fourteenth Pre-
cinct was considered SUFFICIENT CORRIDORS
, tive evidence of the bribery charges
Mrs. Mary Lovett, in a gown OF black.
testified that she had kept TespectAhle
I clearinghouse at la Alien street for
: eight years, and that she was witness
! to the most disgusting proceedings AZ
i the house next door and Woln's. That
> house Is owned by Henry Hoffman. who
! was a witness before the Lexow Com
= Ferdinand Lovett. husband of the last
> witness, corroborated her as to the open
: violation OF decency at $50 Allen street
, during Capt. Devery's administration.
! Then Jennie Thornton. a trife mora
presentab.e than the rest OF the sister
hood Of thirteen witnesses. came from
q the anteroom in blazer suit OF gray
and a white sailor straw hat to testify,
She came TO corroborate Rose SAN
ford. widow and disorderly house keep
er,
: Il don't know anything about Capt.
Devery or Cross or any Ole, protested
the dark-haired Miss Thornton, stren-
uously, as she placed her hand on the
n Bible to be sworn.
Are you afraid to testifyT' asked M.
!, | Wellman gently.
= "Oh, no! l amt afraid"
Then, in response to questions. tn
reluctant witness testified that she was
an inmate OF Mrs. Sanford's parlor
house, "a Bayard street, all during i191
y and till March, 1874. There were from
y four to six other girls there, and ex-
hS Sr @ sss run asd i pss
d . y