The evening world., 1894-02-21
sCHATTEhkRk ON TRIAL..
Commissioner Sheehan Listens to
Mrs. Jennie Hagi's Story.
She Swcars tho Policeman Grossly
Insultcd Her.

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west Twentieth street station. vas or
trial before Police Commissioner Shsehar
this afternoon charged with insultins
Mrs, Jennie Hag!, of 3S3 West Sixteenth
street. on Feb. II In a stable on West
Twenty-first street. between Eighth and
Ninth avenues, where Mrs. Hagi haG
gone to hire a cab.
Sc~hattenkirk was also charged with
conduct unbecomins a policeman anc
with trying to influence Mrs. Bagi tc
make a light case against Hackman Ell.
ward L'Iiommedieu. who, on the SAINT
morning. she alleges. attempted to ex,
tort money from her by representing
himself 10 he a private detective.
Schattenk!rk pleaded not guilty. Law.
yer Louis Grant appeared for him.
Mrs. Hast was the first witness ci,lel.
She Is a handsome brunette. Her hus.
band is a bartender at 35l Ninth avenue.
Mrs. Hsgi testified that at about .
o'clock Sunday morning she called at
1913 West Thirty-frst street. Policeman
Schattenkirk came W the steps and
asked her What she wanted.
She said she was looking for n friend
and that she had gone to the wrong
house. Mrs. Hagi said that she tod the
policeman that she would get a cab and
go home. At the Twenty-trst street sta
bles the policeman brought In a bottle
drink.
She refused, and then. she says, scha..
tenkirk. grossly insulted her. Leaving
the stable, she started towards Ninth
avenue to take a car.
u. was then, she said, that Hackman
L,Hommedieu followed her and repre-.
scented hat he was n private detective.
policeman SChnttpnkirk WAS pCa rhy n I
the time. He saw his rounisman and
asked the hackman to take the woman
away.
Mrs. Hagi sail she complained to the
roun1sman and the latter ordered Schat-
tenkirli to arrest L'Hommeiieu.
In Jefferson Market Court the same
morning Schattentirk approached her,
be hard on L'Hommedieu. The latter
was held In 500 bail for trial.
The following morning. Mrs. Hagi con
tinied. the. policeman came to her house
the notoriety he would gain would kill
his wife. who was about to become IA
mother. Later. Mrs. Hagi said. she made
complaint at Police Headquarters
Lawyer Grant on cross-examinatlon
succeeded in making Mrs. Hagl admit
that she vas in the habit of using In.
toxicants, and also tried to make 1t sp-
pear that she was not a woman OF good
character.
She admitted that she had been ar
rested by the West Twentieth street po-
lice 6, few nights previous on a charge of
~llsorderly conduct.
Mr.. Grant also made her admit tina.
she went to Richmond Hill Feb. 10 and
returned to New York at II o'clock. She
got a cab at Eighth avenue and Twenty
third street and drove to Lawson's
saloon Is Cortlandt street. She said
her husha nd visited there.
Mrs. Hagi admitted that she and the
cabman had a drinl; Of whiskey in a
t3n strAAN a1N 49,. th@ ,t-hA L.. 49,
ton. She was then driven uptown to
Ninth avenue n Twenty-irst. street,
where she dismissed the cab,
She denied Lawyer Grants assertion
sent himself, as her husband while call
ing on friends in Twenty-frst street.
She declared that she made no visits
until she had dismissed the cas-.
that Mrs. Hagi had been fined g in
arrest for disoraarlX conduct;
wa called his wife, a demuro little
"oman. dressed In blue. came IN the
courtroom.
II was standing at Eighth avenue and
tined s~chatterkerk. when Caoman
Sherrn called me ard said he had Mrs,
Hagl in the cab. She was looking for a
parry named Looster 70 20 bail FOR q
Twcnty-nrst street, Mrs. Hagi said.
rang the bell and Mrs. AllonGs came to
been there before annoying the people.
No such person lived in the house, Mrs.
.Allonds SAID.
Mrs. Hagi dismissed the cabman.
~ late for her to be ringing bells. I
sa her next In the same place an hour
She asked me to get her a cab.
| went to the Twenty.hrst, street sta
a. nNL--N x.v-- ~. ILL 49, 49,. I
rang, the bell. / did not go in, but, .lesv-
Ing Mrs. Hagi. | went OH post. ] did
not offer her a drink Of whisky out OF
a pop-bottle;, nor did l make an indie
proposal
schattenkerk admitted that he saw
Cihman L'Homme1leu enter the stable
while he was there. He first denied that
ne. knew L'Hommedieu. but afterwards
S~chattenkerk then told a story of how
he accidentally met Cabman Sheerln on
the corner Of T~weaty-frst street and
seventh avenue, and that the latter had
asked him II he had seen that woman"
meaning Mrs, Wogt,
bells again. testified the policeman,
''and that was why | came u 60 10
30b West Twenty-first street ali after
wards to the stable.
at 1 O'Clock | saw Mrs: Ha@i and
L'Hommedieu together in Twenty-frst
street, near the stable. Roundsman
MICKEY tdlDt up anu dlh arrest tldt
man; Mrs. Hasi wants to make a com
plant against him. | did so. and the
-sSnpiaim was made at the station
house"
.schattenkeck denied that he went to
Mrs. Hag!'s house 10 beg her not 10
press the complaint against him. He ex-
planned that he and Cabrlan Sneerin
went there 10 take Mrs. HaEi to court,
as she had been paroied in his care.
Mrs. IIpGi sEore that S~chittenkeck had
told her not to go to court. fol they
would hold her ~ a witness.
The witness said that Mrs. IIagi re-
LHommodieu. and that he tSchatten-
keck) was compelled to get a subpoena,
which he served on her, in company with
Court Officer McGlckIn, Of Jefferson
Market.
Mrs. Alland testified tina Mrs. Hagi
came to her house, SO2 West Twenty
first street. on the night in question, and
that she was intoxicated.
James Nolan, night Waterman nj the
Twenty-first street stable. swnra that
Mrs. Hacl was under the influence of
Policeman Wagner testified to having
arrested Mrs. Hagi on Feb, . for disor-
derby conduct.
Hackman L'Hommedieu swore that he
did not tell Mrs. Hagl ne was a private
detective. We got tangled up trying Il
explain Va business tool him TO ths
TECnty-hr. street stable on that night.
He admitted that he was a friend of the
policeman.
Commissioner Sheehan here discovered
that Cabman Sheerin. Mr.. Allaud, Po-
liceman S~chattenkerk n Waterman
Nolan are all old friends and live In the
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