The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-10-25
NAVY ACCUSED POLICEMEN.
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Police Commissioners heard the testimony
against a number OF policemen against whom
charges had been made in the trial room at
Police Headquarters yesterday.
Capt. Brooks was the complainant against
Policeman William J. Shelly Of the East 2eth
street station. The charge was Of failing 10 d ,s-
cover burglary at the residence Of Francis n.
Nicholas, 331 East 124th street, on the night OF
oct. 10.
Nicholas told the Commissioner that burglars
forced an entrance into his house by cutting out
the panel Of the basement door. They stole
jewelry. siverwsre. and clothing to the value OF
several hundred dollars. He sald the burglars
must have spent some time in the house. az thew
cleaned out all the vlctuals in the ice boz and
drank up his beer.
When IL came Skelys turn TO make an ex
PLANTATION he began by saying that there was
the surface. 81 mean, so far as the Captain ia
concerned" he said.
1T took me more than two hours to make one
lap and try all my doors. man cannot con-
slstently be held responsible for what happens
on such post. Ever since l have been in the
precinct Captain Brooks has "fred |" me all
over the district. don't stay long enough on
one post to acqualnt myself with the houses on
IL. My post was As long as Twenty-third street
from Sixth avenue to the East River. There
has been series OF burglaries throuehout Tho
precinct. Houses in every side street from
10th street to 12pth street nave been burglar
ized, and the Captain and his detectives have
Turning to the Captain, Sicily asked:
:" How many complaints have You made against
officers for falling TO discover burglaries \"
81 have made complaints whenever con.
sidered such a course was Justified" answered
You know there has been series OF burglaries
in your nrecinctr'
You know that there have been burglaries in
every side street, from one end Of the precinct TO
the other You and your detectives have been
"Oficer. you must confne yourself to the facts
In this case, remarked Commissioner Murray.
II might have been on one end OF that most
wouldn't know it," said Skelly. He then offered
in evidence a list ofthe different posts TO which
Capt. Brooks said that IL the oificer had prop-
erly ,patrolled his post and tried his doors he
Policeman Martin Schroeder OF tho East
Eighty eighth street station who was accused
an ironworker OF 1877 Third avenue. with hay,.
the morning OF sept. "p. while he was sleeping
on the stOop of his home. was tried.
Kelly said that the policeman while robbing
MIN pa had torn open the bottom OF his pocket:
lustrate how he was sitting when the alleged
theft occurred.
Kelly sat on a small footstool which repre-
sented the stoop. HI said the step upon which he
had been sitting in front Of his house was high.
er. The Bible which IS used for police trials
placed himself In the required position.
Now Officer, said The Commissioner, sd-
witnesses pocket and see II you can rip the bot.
tom of II open
fort. got his hand half way down the pool et and
said ne could not get II any further.
. You could do it II you tried" retorted Kelly.
cents"
He said that the policeman had not made any
bottom of the pocket.
The remark fingered Lawyer Grant, who APP
Bible and stool Vow do you mean meant that at y" You
could rip the bottom Of my pocketI" he asked
Kelly said he could.
Then rip It open" said the lawyer you
won't have to pay for having IT sewed up again"
Kelly wanted TO turn the lawyers pocket in.
that that was the way the policeman must have
der and against Harris Of the same precinct.
The assault: he said, occurred week after the
Policeman william Lawson OF the East Sixty |
seventh street station was arraigned 10 answer |
sS charge Of Of The rules and reg
we're made by Sergeant Donovan and Rounds |
The most serious charge was that he failed to |
inter in his pass book the names OF those regis
ering at l.3l2 Third avenue on Oct. II. Law |
James in his book, with the exception OF a few
which his relief had taken. Roundsman Rice |
aid Lawson had not placed any names in his |
,ook. Lawson said he was being bounded.
Edward ID. c. Mckay appeared to substantiate |
complaint made by him against Policeman |
-ouis Liebers and John Meaher OF the steam |
boat squad. He said he acted simply as a good |
itizen. The complaint was that on the after
loon OF Oct. 9, the accused policemen were
Thinking beer In saloon on the northwest cor
er OF Worth and Centre street. The policemen
frank ginger ale. Lawyer Thomas Terry OF
1874 Eighth avenue. said he invited the police
men into the place, and swore that they only
rank ginger ale. He took q glass Of beer him
himself.
None OF the cases wa. decided