The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-10-02

of a collision between a policeman's club
and citizens head, was afforded by
Thomas Lucas, a young truckman, who
was called as the next witness.
lis head was done up in an immense
roll of bandages his right eye blaCkened
and the side Of his face swollen all out
of shape.
He told the Committee he had met
officer Dunn in MaCdougal street Sun
day night and had asked about some
money he lost about a month ago. when
he fell asleep on doorstep.
CIubbed without Provocation.
Instead of answering him the officer
fell upon him and knocked him down.
and while he was lying in the gutter
dubbed him most numerically.
II begged him to stop and thought he
meSa5 M s2 XIII me friend ana Of mine
have helped me. but another officer
jumped on him, and when they had
nearly killed me they took me to the
you are charged with attempting to
rescue a prisoner. Is that true?" asked
mo, sir. didn't see any prisoner. II
about the money lost a month ago, and
only asked him about it. The night l
lost the money had come home from a
picnic, and sat down in a doorstep and
went to sleep. Some policemen came by
and tried to wake me up. I wouldn't get
up when they shook me. Dunn was one
OF them. Afterwards l found l had lost
my money. about A.'
Lucas said the surgeon at the hospital
had taken nine stitches in his head and
| two In his lip. He was now held under
bail, and had been brought down by the
warden Of jefferson Market Prison. He
, claimed he was entirely innocent OF the
| up against him. The officer had no pris-
oner when he spoke to him.
William McLachlan, of l4l East Thir-
teenth street who also said he had had
some disagreeable experiences with the
police. declined to testify because his case
was still pending and he did not want to
prejudice it. Mr. Moss excused him.
| He Was One of the Attacking Squad
Richard s. Meaney Of the Twenty fifth
| Precinct, who was one OF the squad OF
police which charged on the Columbian
| Sophomores last June, was next called
| as a witness.
He denied that the police carried night
sticks on that occasion. They had their
twenty-four officers in the squad. but
only a part Of them went into the lot
| when the cremation was going on.
| Meaney was then asked about an as
sault for which he was tried by the
Police Commissioners last February and
| the private apartments OF John Stroh-
! meidel, at 1920 Avenue A. on Jan. 10,
| 1891, ana had Knocked MIN down anu
| beaten him brutally.
| Mr.. Moss questioned the witness as to
| the testimony OF the complainant on the
| trial, but Senator Cantor objected very
doned that line of inquiry. He brought
| out the fact. however. that Meaney had
| used vile language towards Strohmeidel.
| Meaney had denied the charges made
before the Commissioners, but he said
he had never been prosecuted for for
gerry, nor had he, been prosecuted Grim;
| inally for assault. His record showed
that since his appointment to the force
three years ago, charges had been pre-
ferred against him on fifteen different
occasions. He had been up on charges
| five times since last April.
Convicted Three Times
Edward V. Luhman, another patrol
man, admitted that he had been con-
| viCted twice of assault upon citizens,
| For the first he was fined three days
pay and for the second fifteen, days
pay, He said he had denied the charges
| against him under oath. but the Com
| missioners had found him guilty.
| Mr.. Moss, in examining his record,
| found that he had been tried and con-
zen, and had been aned fifteen days
pay in that case also:
Were you ever indicted for perjury"
| asked Mr. Moss.
| NO. sir"
Did the Commissioners or your SUI
perior officers ever reprimand you for
| untruthfulness"
| NO sir
Patrolmen William McHugh. OF the
| Thirty second precinct, admitter that he
| had been charged with assaulting a wo-
and convicted and fined fifteen days
pay by the Commissioners. He had de-
MED thu charge and said il was untrue.
! but he could not get all his witnesses.
DO you think that ffteen days pay
was an adequate punishment for such
an. ,oftenseH' asked senator Lexow
1T was pretty serious charge, and l
do not think | should have been fined,
McHugh said he had never been prose-
cuted criminally for this assault, al
was Of the most brutal and aggravated
character.
Mr.. Moss then read from the record
several specimen cases where heavy
fines had been imposed Tor the most
trivial offcnses,
Henry r Jacohy was fined twenty
DAYS pay for going into a drug. store
some medicine which had not been pre-
soribcd by a police surgeon.
| Isaac II. Weiner was fined one days
ana Onicer James Conkilng was dis,
missed from the force for being absent
from 8 o'clock roll-Call and not reporting
TN the ne next morning; H.enry Essential
ing a false statement 10 his superior
officer about an accident 10 a fellow
| officer.
Twenty Times ON Trial.
Officer Henry Medley. OF the Eighth
Precinct, was called, and he admitted
that he had been tried twenty times on
charges before the Commissioners. on
Aug. p, 1891, he had been tried and con-
, victed OF an assault upon Mary Jones,
at 9iI Eighth avenue, having entered her
room. Other persons were also as
saultei by this officer at the same time.