The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-24
He Says He Was Never in Her
House and Never Got
Her Money.
CLEANED OUT THE PRECINCT.
Transferred Against His viii When
His Scoop Nets We're
Ready.

In his own defense Capt. Adam A.
Cross took the witness stand at the
Police Headquarters trials to-day. The
courtroom was crowded at the time,
and every word which fell from his lips
was listened to with the keenest inter-
est. He was the star witness Of the
day.
The interest centred, not so much on
what he had to say on direct examina-
ton, for. after the evidence given by the
sergeants and patrolmen who had served
under him. 1t was a foregone conclusion
that he would deny every charge that
had been made against him. What
every one wanted to hear was the cross
examination at the hands Of Prosecutor
Wellman.
No love is lost between the two. Well
man has pushed the case as hard as 1t
was possible for him to do, going 30
far as to rake up an offense aueged to
have been committed by Ward Man
Smith twenty years ago IN order to
impugn his testimony. That he would
hurl bitter. sarcastic and insinuating
questions at the Captain when he got
him on the rack was conceded.
Old man Joseph Levi, the mote shaw
err" was again on the stand this morn
ing, and again 1t was found that he had
not brought the accounts With Rhoda
Sanford which Mr.. Wellman Is SO anx.
ious to see.
sergt. Stephen McDermott. who served
under Capt. Cross all through his admin
istration at the Eleventh Precinct, came
next to the stand. He comp. eted the
whole series of sergeants under Capt;
Cross, and. like the others. he testified
that SO far as he was concerned, Katie
Schubert lied when she testified that she
left an envelope each month Tor Six
months, with the Sergeant at the desk
in the Eldridge street station LOT capt.
Sergt. McDermott had never seen or
he I'd before OF the basket on the ser
geant's desk which the Ward men ne Mar, are
At this point President. Martin an
nounced that the Board had decided lot
Man James Burns until Tuesday. morn
ing, as the defense In the trial OF Cross
and Smith would take up all OF today:
The5efors Mes snr,. Fr Isst and house
Mr.. Hess then resumed the defense;r
with Morris Goldsmith. the "stool-piseon'
on the stand.
Men DokeI and SCHNEIDER for Capt Cross.
He described the methods pursued.
at was instructed to 60 into these
houses and get evidence. visited every
disorderiy house in the precinct. and
when / got in and obtained evidence the
houses were raided.
"Then two or three days or week or
SO after a raid, by order Of Capt. Cross,
/ again visited the houses. II I succeed
ed in getting evidence. the house was
again raided. II failed to get in, re.
ported that the place was closed. but II
I got in and gained no evidence. / re-
ported that the house was doing no
business.
of 1893, and Capt. Cross was transferred
a few days afterwards. l worked under
Mclaughlin and Devery also. but Capt.
Cross made more raids and did more
business than either Of them"
The stool-qigeon was led through
Capt. Cross's blacklist. and told how
each house was raided from one to fve
times; how some proprietresses moved
out OF the precinct. some he said moved
into tenements, where they were safe,
because Police Justices would not con-
vict in that kind OF cases: some closed
up their houses until Capt. Cross was
removed from the precinct. and others
sent their girls away.
Others, he said, hung out sign Fur
nished rooms; inquire inside" and there
after kept that sort Of an establish
(Contiaued on Sirfh Pd1e