The evening world., 1894-06-04
THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, JUNE a, 1904.

Hook, who told her her house was to be
raided hat night.
II went back home, telling him I
were to be arrested right away.
Not long after that the. Sergeant
sent a patrolman up to my house and
that Hook was a fool. and that my
house would not be ralded at all. Then
! went down and got the girls out. pay
Mrs. Thurow then told how a man
had been stationed In front Of her house
last September. She heard he was sent
cause Acting supt. McAvoy had been
solicited while passing the house the
night before.
what they were there for, and they said
they did not know. They were sent
there by the Captain:
Not long afterwards Hook. who had
been on his vacation. returned and called
TO see the witness. who wanted to know
how to get the men away from In front
OF her house. He told her II she would
1t would be al right.
- gave him the money. but was
pulled shortly afterwards. In Novem-
running my place under the name Of
the Excelsior Cafe. just as the Captain
told me to do"
Mrs. Thurow said she complained bit
terly Of this treatment. and was told
by Hook II was because she didn't
hitch with the boss" meaning the
Captain. After that she was told she
must get another place, because the
BILE for No. %. She then secured 10 Sec
ond avenue. which was n wine and
liquor place.
the next night ] was raidei," said the
witness. Then I tried to find out what
1t would. cost me for protection. After
seeing Hook several times he told me
Captain and $3.50 for himself.
81 told him that ! could not possibly
pay the money, but might pay $500.
to close up any way, as the Parkhurst
Society was after all the houses. and l
would probably have to be quiet for one
or two months. That was the last l
Then Capt. Cross took possession
Of the precinct, and rnided the witnesses
place in January and shut. up her house.
M,rer that she nsGNiinted Win nsp a man :
place at Broome and Allen streets. The
new ward man was Levy. She was tod
she would have to pay. Levy $3.50 to open
this place, and ghe raised the money by
pawning a diamond ring and a dlamond
stud belonging to her husband.
She went with her husband and paid
new house, wher It turned out there
was trouble about the license, n she
had to shut up again. .
1T was too bad she said, FOR, l
had paid out the last money / had In the
world"
Paid Patrolmen, Too.
Besides this, the witness said, she had
to pay all the patrolmen on the beat u
As they used to change sometimes five
or six times a week, she had to pay so
or $l2 weekly In that way.
who are some of the policemen you
| paid money TOP asked Mr.. Con-.
George Murdoch, Hess. Mccarthy, Nor
ris; Hughes and Billy Kenny; also
Continuing the witness said ex-senator
Roesch had told her husband when
to him and he would help her get them
out. She went to him several times, and
he always helped her;
That made the, police angry. and es-
ing money to the politicians that the
| police ought to have, for they were the
ones VINO We're furnishing the protection.
said the witness To- after ali the money
| paid them they told me I would have
to do time"
Went to See Parkhurnt.
To Mr.. Nicoll the witness said that
she had finally become so disguised with
the treatment she had received hat she
went to DR.. P~arkhurst.
II told him my tale Of Woe h said.
and promised to tell 1t to the Commit
tee"
You were a little r%evenseful, were
you not?"
Il may have been"
Are you not now?"
mo. / am pretty well satisfied now
Mr. NIpnll Nua IN find nyg IN whom
the witness first told her story. but Mr..
Goff objected. According to the former
the witness had sworn away the repu-
tation of twenty police officers, n he
waxed very indignant. The Commit
tee sustained MIR. Goff.
The witness said she sometimes en-
Lawyer sullivan. To the latter, she
said she paid $40 to keep her out of
prison, but when he got the money, she
said, he informed her she would have to
do time" In the city Prison. 1t was
then she went to see DR.. Parkhurst.
Did you employ Mr.. Roesch as a law
yer?'
Yes: l went to consult him with my
husband, He told me to come down
there"
DO YOU mean to say that at the very
time you were paying the police money
you We're being raided by them" said
Mr.. Nicoll in a tone of surprise.
Certainly. The number of my girls
who were arrested was legion. l was
lty inB nuIuTtCs OF uDlltTS IOT pTOteC-
ton, but did not seem to get protection
from anybody"
Thu witness admitted that she had
been convicted three times in a year
and n half of keeping n dlsorderly house.
The last place she kept was at Broome
and Allen streets.
II tried to open a place there she
trouble there with my license and / never
could open the house. l was dlspos-
sessed for n~on-payment OF emit"
Mrs. Thurow was made to describe
again the visits she made to Capt. DO
herty at his private room in the station
house. She stuck to her story In every
detail, despite the efforts made by the
~cross-eNanining counsel to confuse the
witness.
Rev. Father Ducey was an attentive
listener during all the afternoon session.
DR., Parkhurst came In late, but re-
manned to the close.
The witness said she remembered that
Jan. 6, 1893, was the date of her second
visit TO Capt. Doherty. when she paid
MIN S2l for protection. because IL WAS