The morning call., 1894-11-04
SIMPLY APPALLING CORRUPTION
Every Offense Had Its Regular Rate,
for Which the Offender Could
Compound.

time being. and no further attempts VIII
be made to probe The departments until
after election. An adjournment has been
taken till November 19, when the labors of
the committee will be resumed.
The interest in the investigation con-
tinued undimnished up to the close. Just
before the committee concluded its labors
for the day Mr.. Golf was praised fer his
energy and persistence in conducting the
examination, ard with loud cheers for the
lawyer the crowd dispersed.
Mrs. II errman resumed the witness-char
to-day. At the outset she made this l.
untary statement: 81 am not afraid OF
Judge Hogan or Recorder Smyth. l see
in the morning papers that they deny
what said. l can prove that what say
is true. and l can tell lots more"
Lots MORE" repeated Mr.. Golf.
"They have threatened to indct me for
what have said. lam not afraid OF Judge
Hogan"
Here the woman became intensely eX-
| cited and, pointing out Policeman Peter
man, who sat near the railing, she shrleked:
You're thief. How dare you sit there
| looking at me SO? You took money from
my sister,"
The witness half rose, AMI trembling
with emotion, continued: you are the
! man, you and another policeman, who
ruined my niece, who was once a good
girl. The police ought TO be ashamed
ashamed"
This caused great excitement, and when
it had subsidized Mr.. Golf asked the wit
ness:
"Was Captain Ryan, who is present in
court, one Of the men who met you at mid
night and told you to leave town?"
81 don't know. The man who first came
to me said Captain Ryan had contributed
to the fund"
NOW, is there anything you would like
| to tell?"
ooh, Mr.. Golf, it would take me a week
10 tel, everything. / was not going to say
much, but am French woman and quick
to get mad. Senator Daily in Jersey City
begged me not to come over here until
after the election, saying that the Lexow
committee would be powerless then"
''There is a house in Wooster street run
by a man named Burns. He is friend o
superintendent Byrnes. There is saloon
down stairs and girls up stairs. My sis
Ter told me she was protected by the Dis
trict Attorneys office"
fessional bondsman Of the Fifteenth Pre-
cinct, took 500 bill in box of cigars to
Captain HaGghev. She went to the station
house and waited outside. BIumenthal
went into the captains room, ana when
he came out, she said, he did not have the
cigars nor the 500.
WAS the promise made you that you
could open a disOrderly house when the
Lexow committee stopped ?''
Yes"
Ibid you pay Captain Haughey
money!"
Eyes, took out $40 from the Manhat-
tan Bank on the Stb of December, after
Haughey had raided me and paid il to a
man named Ralisky, a diamond broker OF
Fourteenth street. He said l was to
give him $50 apiece for Detectives Sloan
and Armstrong and $50 for Captain
| Haughey. did so.
"Officer Zimmerman once told me that if
L did not employ Judge Steiner he would
| have me sent to the States prison. Once
when was bed SO Steiner wanted me
to give him $50 tt pay the fine. Judge
| Hogan knows my sister and myself we'll.
Judge Hogan knows that when l went
away, a year ago. to Toronto had to pay
| to get back"
"You can go now, Mrs Hermann, but
consider yourself under subpoena"
The woman stepped down and went out
of court. A police head1uarters' clerk
testified that Captain O'Connor was in
charge of the Nineteenth Precinct during
the time in which Mrs. Hermann swore
she was asked for $4,000 by the wardme u
when she wanted to open house.
Before the committee took recess Mr.
| Golf had upon the wltness-staud Richa I'd
Kusb, who had been under arrest, charged
with procuring a criminal operation. An
effort was made to show that the prosecu-
ton had been "fxed" through the police
After recess DR.. Newton Whitehead
took the stand. He is the physician
charged with having performed the crimi-
nal operation. The witness said he had
been arrested four times, once for sending
improper literature through the mails and
three times for criminal operations, but
the charges in all the cases were dismissed
when he paid money.
He said Detective Sergeant Frink, who
arrested him, urged him to retain Lawyer
Friend. who the officer said had pull"
with the police and courts.
| wv hen was brought 20 JEFFERSON Mar
ket Police Court" said the witness,
Friend demanded $500. l offered him a
check, but he wanted money. While |
was waiting for the Judge to arrive Law
yer Friend asked me for 5000 more. i said,
'I've already given you $780,
"Frend answered: Don't kick, doctor
about $500 more. l do not get it all. [
give so per cent 20 the police; that's how ]
got my CASE" Lawyer Friend was in
court and appeared uncomfortable.
We'll" continued the witness, "Judge
Ryan discharged me, just as Friend said he
would"
The doctor was arrested the second time
on March %, 1894. on charge of giving
information to a woman which enabled her
to commit crime The complainant was
Belah Jane. and Judge Koch issued the
warrant. Frnk said he must again em-
ploy Lawyer Friend. Friend wanted $685.
and got it, and then be wanted $50 more
"What for?" asked Senator Bradley.
Blood money" said Whitehead, bit
: terly.
"Wera yOu eyer fri cd 9"