The evening world., 1894-07-18
IS ARMED.
1t Is,Said He Will Make Some
Startling Revelations.
Ready to Fight at His Trial II
Pressed Too Hard.
Many Witnesses Summoned for tn.
Morrow's Proceeding.

Inc -FOUR Police Commissioners will
MAKE their tirst appearance tomorrow
III 'heir great act Of trying Capt
m'chaei Doherty. of the Leonard street
station. and ex-Ward Men John Hoch.
bernard Meehan and jeremiah S. Levy,
ON charges OF extorting money from the
Keepers OF brothels and other places of
ill-repute.
Inc TOUR accused men will be placed
on trial at the same time. and the testi-
mohy OF all the witnesses examined will
apply to all OF the defendants, although
the specifications In each case are differ
eh'' anu the cases will be considered
separately by the Commissioners when
they come to finally dispose OF them,
AFTER hearing all the evidence.
The trial of this first batch of Offend
ers promises to be a long one, and Capt.
Doherty and his friends make no secret
OF the fact that they are going to make
a bitter fight
hall All ARRANGEMENTS. for the trial hav.
oeen completed and Assistant District.
t nhtiorneys Wellman and Osborn hav,
AZ AZ. ~ :, clock tomorrow morning, Wher
we lLn Police Board will assemble tc
s'1 n Judgment upon the accused officers.
If,ey have about twenty-five witnesses
all, whose testimony affects the fouI
Mrs. Thurow, the former keeper of q
disorderly house In Second avenue, who
told the Senators of the Lexow Commit.
| tee how, she had gone to the police sta.
ton and paid money for protection to
Capt Doherty In person. Afterwards
| she said she had paid the ward men.
The testimony Of this woman will BIZ
.Sorroborated, it is said, by other wit,
nesses who have been obtained since tn,
l;eNow Committee adjourned, while ir
the, case of ex-Ward Man Levy, now
under arrest on an Indictment. Charles
krumm, the concert hall proprietor In
Chrystie street, will be the important
The defendants. on the other hand
have retained Lawyers Fromme and
GTant to represent them: and the
subpoena SUB Sn mill at Police Headquarter,
the past two days. 1t is said that fully
100 police officers will be summoned a,
civilians will be called before the de-
tense has thoroughly covered the pro-
era mme now laid out. to say nothing
The general opinion in police circles
IL is lhat the commissioners, especially
PRESIDENT Martin and Commissioner
first batch Of defendants. Neither OF
the new Commissioners Is especially in
crested res and they can therefore take
situation. while with the other two it Is
different.
1t is, believed that a vlc,ime rs de-
manded. or rather several. and that the
most likely subjects have been selected
Tor ne purpose, and this is where tho
larcial element comes, in. The chief
strong friends I'm Tammany Hal in
faCt more influential than either OF tho
Ponce commissioners. and when the hght
Is really on there promises to be r highly
entertaining circus. whatever the out
come OF the trials may be.
IL the tonmi ssoners press Capt.
Doherty too hard in their effort to Sc
cure a victim for the altor. the CAPTAIN,
II is SAID, is prepared to give some testi-
or funds contributed to the police by vio-
lators of the law, that will make soms
people around Headquarters squirm.
for this reason, II is said. that the
earnestness and vigor. but that before
they have reached the end some pre-
tex, text viii be discovered to drop the whols
thing. In fact. 1t is said it is very
doubtful whether any more complaints
prepared by the special counsel for the
Commissioners Will ever be submitted
In other words. it is WHISPERED that
Capt. Doherty knows too inu,h about
the working of the system ~ police
tribute brought out by the LeNow in
vestiEation, and rather than suffer him
self to be offered up as sacrifice t.
shield any, Of his super,.or2 on thc Po-
regardless of whom II may strike
1t is said, however, that Supt, Ryrnes
now has number of cases prepared by
Mr.. Wellman and Mr.. Osborn under con-
sideratiOn which he may submit TO the
Commissioners at any time.
Mr.. Wellman called at Police Head
quarters this morning on his way down
town. and was .closeted with the super
inteudent for half an hour When he
came out he was asked about the pros
police officials and he replied that no
further complaints would he lodged for
the present at least not Till the end OF
the week He declined TO say whether
any further indictments were Contem-
plated
I'VE are ready to go on tomorrow"
he said. land viii start In probably with
about twenty Witnesses in Attendance,
in addition T. those who appeared before
the LvNow Committee"
IN regard 20 the place or holding the
trials. Mr., Wellman said IL had been
suggested that they should take place
downtown in one OF the rooms in the
the matter over with the Commissions
ers and they had thought best 10 hold
them in the trial room at Police Head
quarters.
Tomorrow and next day will I've de-
voted Ia the trials this week but begin
Ming with neNt week only three lays a
week Will he set apart for their cases.
Monday, Wednesday and Thursday
WcllmaE, ' with a strict observance Or
tire rules Of evidence, and no heresay
testimony, or irrelevant or incompetent
matter will be allowed to go upon the
records. The method OF procedure will
be exactly the same as that of case
tried in the Court of General Sessions
The report that Gen. Benjamin. y;
been retained as additional counsel for
Capt. Doherty could not be verified this
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