The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-04
MRS. HERMANN IN A FRENZY.
Policeman PotteTman Denounced TO His
Face in Court.

Unenviable Light - Capt. Haughey
Given 500 in Box of Cigars.
New York, Nov. 3.-The Lexow commit
tee has now sat continuously since Mon
day last, which is the longest uninter-
rupted session yet held.
When the proceedings adjourned last
evening, Mrs. Hermann was on the stand.
She refused to give the names of certain
police officers who had treated her, she
said, rather well, in comparison to the
manner in which she was fleeced by 9TH
ers.
She came in a few minutes after 12
o'clock to-day and took the stand She
was very indignant and whispered to Mr..
Goff excitedly
Tell the committee what you are tell
ing me" he said
i want to say" said she, that every
thing I stated yesterday is true. / hear
that Police Justice Hogan says in the
morning papers that lied. 1 say did
not, and I am not afraid of him, Re
corder Smyth nor anybody else, and l
| have plenty more to tell. When said l
got that 81, ZOO from the police to go away
1 told the truth"
Capt. Ryan is in court, Mrs. Hermann
Did he put money in to make up the
81, ,7O0?'
Il don't know"
Mrs. Hermann got very angry. She broke
in with Il am not afraid of Judge Hogan
nor anybody else. 1 told the truth"
Here the witness looked around the
court and spied officer Petterman.
Don't look at me like that" she half
shrieked. You are a thief and loafer
! fo r,0vy c-3e stgv 4
money from her more than thirty times"
The witness was fairly white with rage
at this point. Officer Petterman stood up
in court in full uniform, his eyes dropped
and his face blanched under the storm of
| invectives.
You know Petterman I am telling the
| truth. You know my niece was good girl
| until"
Here Mr.. Goff interrupted the witness
and told her to keep calm.
| She was then asked by Mr.. Goff If she
recognized any of the policemen who met
| her the night she left her house.
She again repeated the story of her ar
! rest and her being fined 800 by Recorder
/ Smyth for assault, and said she had no
| correction to make in her evidence"
Now, Mrs. Hermann, is there anything
| else you wish to tell"
"Why, Mr.. Goff, it would take me a
/ week to tell everything I know"
| The witness then said there was house
/ at present in Wooster kept by a man
| named Byrnes The man who keeps it is
a friend of Supt. Byrnes."
| Here the witness started off again IT
| want to tell you another thing, Mr.. Goff.
! I was asked by the lawyer in Jersey City
| not to come before the Lexow committee
/ before the election He said that Mr. Goff
would have lost his pull after the cleo
| ton"
WAS it Senator DAILY told you this?"
Yes, it was"
Can he be committed for contempt of
| court?' asked Chairman Lexow.
Il am afraid not" said Mr. Goff. HE
! is in the state of New Jersey"
! Mrs. Hermann here said her sister was
! in hiding in Jersey City, and that the po-
! lice knew it well. She said she had also
received a visit from lawyer Joe Moss
of the firm of Howe & Hummel when she
was in Jail. Il was told to keep away in
| Chicago" she said, until the Lexow
committee adjourned My sister told me
she was protected by the district attor-
ney's office and the police, and that moth
! ing could be done to her"
She then told how Bluenthal, the pro-
! fessional bondsman of the Fifteenth pre-
cinct, took a 800 bill in a box of cigars to
! Capt. Haughey. She went to the station
! house with him and waited outside. Blu
| enthal went into the captains room,
said she, and when he came out he had
| not the box of cigars.
when you went away it was with the
| understanding that you could open up
again when the Lexow committee ad-
| journed?"
yes, sir. They told me I could"
The witness said that there were
| great many women who formerly kept
disorderly houses in New York living at
present in Chicago waiting until the
storm blew over.
The witness then said she paid money
to Capt. Haughey after she was raided.
"On one OCCASION" said she, "Omcer
! Zimmerman told me Ii l did not employ
Judge Stiner he would send me to state
prison"
She also said that when her sister was
! fined $25 Stiner demanded $50 to pay the
fine with and got 1t.
Justice Hogan knew your sister,"
HE knew her we'll and me- too"
Mrs. Hermann said each time the girls
were arrested it cost money to get them
out.
The witness then said: Judge Hogan
knows perfectly well that when / went
away year ago l was compelled to pay
money to get back"
you had a number of letters in your
trunk when you came back later. Have
you those letters?"
mo, sir; those letters were stolen and
my trunks were also taken"
She did not retain Senator DAILY in Jer-
Sey 1lL9 anu Elit hlu iipL Know VINO re-
tanned him. Senator DAILY gave her $50
while she was in Jail.
Mrs Hermann was then excused
Mr. Delamanter, clerk at police head
quarters. was called and asked the names
Of the captains Of the Tenderloin precinct
during 1892 and 1898. He named Capts.
Mclaughlin and OCOnnor
Mrs Hermann had testified yesterday
that she was asked for 5000 in July, 1898.
by a ward man when she sought to open
a house in that precinct
capt Richard O'Connor," said Mr..
Gon, 1T appears was IN command OF the
Tendorloin from oct /, 1892. 10 Dec. @.
1898. which Includes the period mentioned
by Mrs Hermann. He Is the captain who
IS al preant under trial"
Richard Kusch, who ~ under arrest for
abortion, testified that his case had been
put on about twenty times. lie claims
be ia not guilty
Mrs Kusch. wife OF Richard, stated
that Agnes BerthOld. who was the glri
her husband was charged with procuring
the abortion OF. was never sick Boo hcr
house, aH hGuca had claimed
Mrg. ooebua, mother of Richard Kuach.