The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-11-07
BIG PROFITS IN VICE.
Testimony Against the New York
! Police Court BIackmaiIers. {
WOMEN WE'RE EASY VICTIMS
Malpractice Condoned If the Physician
Had Money Enough to Buy OF
the Prosecution,

New York, Nov. 3.-The Lexow com
mittee has closed it's Investigations un
til November 10, when the labors of tn
committee. will be resumed. The inter
est in the investigation continues un
diminished up to the close. Just befor
the committee concluded it's labors TO
the day, Golf was praised for his energ.
and persistence in conducting the ex
| animation, and with loud cheers for tn
lawyer the crowd dispersed.
Mrs. Hermann resumed the witness
chair before the committee today. A
the outset she made this voluntar!
statement: II am not afraid of Judg,
Hogan or Recorder. Smythe. I see il
the morning papers that they deny
| what I said. I can prove that what
said is true. Here the woman became
intensely excited, and pointing Ou
Policeman Petterman, who sat near the
railing, she shrieked: you are thief
How dare you sit there looking at me
SO? You tok money from my sister
The witness half rose, and 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"
Great Excitement.
This caused great excitement. When
it had subsidized, Golf asked the witness
lis there anything you would like to
tell?" 'It would take me a week to
tell everything. There is a house in
Wooster street run by a man named
Burns; he is a friend of Superintendent
Byrnes. There is saloon down stairs
and girls up stairs. My sister told me
that she was protected by the distric:
attorneys Office"
Then she told how Blumenthal, a
professional bondsman Of the Fifteenth
precinct, took a 500 bill in box of
cigars to Captain Haughey. She went
to the station house and waited outside.
Blumenthal went in the captain's
room, and when he came out she said
he did not have the cigars or the 500.
WAS a promise made that you could
open disorderly house when the Lex
ow commute stopped?' YES"
did you pay Captain Haughey mon
ey?" YES; took out $170 from the Man
haitian bank on the 8th of December,
after Haughey had raided me, and
paid it to a man named Ralisky, a dia-
mond broker of Fourteenth street. He
said I was to give him $50 apiece for
Detectives Sloan and Armstrong, and
$50 for Captain Haughey. did so.'
you can go now, Mrs. Hermann"
said Golf, 'but consider yourself under
subpoena ;..s.e,5
Malpractice Made Easy.
After the recess DIR. Newton White
head took the stand. He is physician,
charged with having performed a GRIM
inal operation. The witness said he had
been arrested. four times, but the
charges in all cases had been dismissed
when he paid money. He said Detective
Sergeant Frink, who arrested h him,
urged him to retain Lawyer. Friend,
who, the officer said, had pull with
the police and the courts. ga
when I was brought to Jefferson
Market police court Friend demanded
$780, While. was waiting for the Judge
to arrive Lawyer Friend asked me for
5000 more. said: I have already
given YOU $780, Friend answered:
Don't kick about $500 more. I do not
get it all; give SO per cent to the po-
lice. That's how got my case, Judge,
Ryan discharged me just as Friend said
he would" ~.
'rOn April; z I was arrested again.
continued the doctor. Sergeant Frink
came to, my house at midnight with a
warrant. I gave him $50 not to take me
to a cell that night. Then went to see a
well known lawyer, who told me to
note every incident "And ;that lawyer.
was me?' asked Golf. Yes SIR -.
....s Case of Miss BerthOld.
The last charge involved Miss Bert
hold. l}43.si s'.'s.. t7''.4ia -. 'i'
II was taken to Jefferson Market
police court. 1 met Mr.. Friend there
said he, land paid him $3.50 in bills. L
was held by Judge Koch to the grand
jury. Afterward Lawyer Friend wanted
$3.50. Sergeant o Toole got $500 out Of me.
Frink said O'Toole would get people to-
swear to anything against. me, so I
was forced to give the sergeant $50: I
also gave Friend 500, for which he said
he would keep me from being tried"
,"But you were indicted?" Eyes, but
I have never been brought to trial.
did you pay any more, money %
Lots more. I paid a lawyer named
Gottleib $500 by the advice Of my friend
who said Gottleibt would get people to-
testify against me II I did not buy,
him, The money was paid to Gottleib
by, check. and the check was offered IN
evidence" S,'f:3a s'if '5sst.s sss''l 81
"DidGyou pay more 10 Sergeant o.
roole?, "Yes:.I sent him $50 by, Mrs,
Rurgles. Sergeant O,Toole said he was
going to give it to, Judge Koch to reduce
the bail in a woman,s. case-that I,was
n tareatod IN -