The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-09
GLENNON SENT BACK.
Goes to Headquarters for Trial
but It's Postponed.
Mix Up About the Doctors in
Devery's Case.
Perhaps Now that Schmittberger Is
Ill He Will Be "Tried."

IohceHidH EDWARD SlennOn, the eX-
ward man OF the Eldridge street squad.
who was Jointly charged with Capt. Will
lam 8. Devery with fifty-six crooked
acts while they were in the Eleventh
Precinct, appeared at Police Headquar-
ters, ready for trial. promptly at 1C
o'clock this morning.
Emanuel NJ. Friend, of Friend & House
appeared with Glennon, who was in full
uniform.
Abram I. Elkins was there, too. as
counsel for Capt. Devery.
None of the Commissioners had yet
arrived. and Complaint Clerk Peterson
officially notified the lawyer that the trial
OF Capt. Devery and ex-Ward Man
Glennon had been indefinitely postponed
because OF the illness of Capt. Devery.
who. according to the report OF Police
Surgeon Nammack. is seriously Ill with
congestion Of the brain. and is and will
be mentally incapable to defend himself
or perform the duties of a police captain
for a month to come.
Then Glennon, who is not under sus-
pension, went back to his duty in the
First Precinct, to which he was trans
ferred along with the Captain.
Persons who have closely watched the
twistings and turnings of the Police
Department since the Parkhurst cru
SADIE and the revelations of the Lexow
Committee, are beginning to understand
this little incident of the affair
Capt. Deyery has been in bad way
for long time. He complained of being
i'll at the time of his trial in the Court
Of Oyer and Terminer for criminal neg
lect of duty. He wore goggles at that
time and was plainly not a well man.
He has been on the sick-list for some
hardly credit the story that President
Martin and the other Commissioners
did not know that he was sick man.
Those who are honest in wishing to
why. then, was Capt. Devery singled
out for trial, and why was 1t considered
necessary to try Ward Man Levy in The
on with the Captains
A dozen Captains are charged with
corruption. the witnesses having APP
peared before the Lexow Committee.
Sept. 10: Those on the inside say the
Police Commissioners will BLUM along
until that time when Official courtesy"
them from trying any more of the ac-
Commissioners Murray and Kerwin are
fretting under the restraining condition
that he would not assent to the trial OF
any Of the accused policemen while the
Lexow Committee was In session before,
although the Tammany Commissioners
were nj favor of doing So They say they
will oppose the trial of any one by the
B6arf during the coming session of the
PerHapN Capt. Max schmittberger, of
the Tenderloin will be used as the next
Capt. sc9mittberger had fainting fit
nShtt and WAS taken sikesd home In
turn from the West Thirtieth street sta
ton yesterday morning, but to-day
Sergt. Halpin APPEARS as acting cap
and Capt. Max is reported on the sick
list by Police Surgeon John II. Dorm. of
81 West Ninth street
The reporters for the morning papers
were told at Headquarters last night
that DR.. Stephen G. Cook. Of Ill West
Twelfth street, President of the Board
of Fifteen Police Surgeons: had visited
Capt Schmittberger at ms is,sr home 1ls
that the Captain was very Ill, with a
high fever. and would be for at least
eight days.
has been on a vacation with his family
in Armenia, N. Y, for the past week,
and will not be home till next Monday;
DR.: Dorm told an Evening Eve ms W, World tisr
he said, had overworTed and an abcess
in the back which developed ten days
ago had grown worse In consequences:
The Captain had a congestive chill and
was very, very i'll.
Supt Byrnes returned to his desk this
and at II o'clock President
Martin, Mr.. Wellman and Byri>es were
In CONSULTATION.
The meeting of police. surgeons was
called for noon to-day at Headquarters
for the appointment OF COMMITTEES OF
three surgeons to investigate Capt Dew
ery's case and at Capt. Devery's home
Mrs. Devery said that the Captain was
worse and that DR.. Ambrose W. Becker,
OF 323 West Thirty-sixth street, would
apply for permission to remove him from
the city.