The evening world., 1894-10-12
CLUBS NOT TRUMPS.
Police Attack on Cloakmakers t.
Be Investigated.
Capt. Grant Says No Unnecessary
Violence Was Used.
Judge Ryan Fines One Prisoner and
Discharges Two.

Supt. Byrnes this morning ordered In
spector williams to make an immediate
investigation into the alleged clubbing
Of striking cloakmakers by Capt Don
aid Grant and policemen of the Madison
street station.
At Police Headquarters this morning
Capt. Grant MED that any violence had
been used, or that he himself had used
his club upon any of the cloakmakers.
Patrolmen Holland, Lynch and Cos
grove. said Capt. Grant, were assailed
by the strikers and were in great dan
ger. Then he, at the head of platoon,
went to their rescue. He said the off,
GERS were surrounded by mob of sew
era thousand strikers, many having I'm
PIGMENTS in their hands which they
were ready to use at the first OPP
portunity.
What l did" said Capt. Grant was
Simply II dispense the mob, and l am
sure that no unnecessary force was used
In doing so. There Is no truth whatever
In the alleged brutality of the policemen.
They simply did the best they could
under the circumstances. There was no
one severely hurt"
Essex Market Police Court was crowd
ed this morning with striking cloak
makers and friends of the three men
who were arrested last evening during
the attack of the police upon the thous-
ands who were awaiting in Rutgers
Square the coming of Leader Barondess
and the order for the strikers to form
in line and march to Union Square.
Justice Ryan was on the bench:
Lawyer Henry ]. Goldschmidt appeared
for the prisoners, who were In custody
of Policemen Mccarthy and Shea, of the
Madison stree; station.
Abraham Rabinowich, n young sales
man. living at 40 Canal street, and not
striker, was called to the bar of the
court by the clerk.
You are charged by Policeman Nc
Carthy with resisting arrest" said the
Justice: Are you Socialist"
No" was the answer. II was stand
Ing on the stoop of my fathers house at
a Canal street, when ] saw this police
ma oin w,1g Sis MSGarthy9 strike
the injured mai to drug store, when
club as II about to strike me with It.
Il said Don't strike me; l will take
your number If you do. Then he grab
bed me by the coat collar and roughly
dragged me to the station-house,"
wichs statement in toto, and said the
young man had nterfered with him in
the discharge of his duty
II have known this policeman for twen-
ty years" SAID justice Ryan, 'and 1
know him to be truthful Rabinowlch,
This surprised the spectators and
What else could you expect from
Tammany Judge and, a Tammany po-
leemap?" whispered a cloakmaker
Lawyer Goldschmidt attempted to ex-
plain the clubbing by the police, which
led to Rablnowich's arrest, but Justice
Ryan wouldn't listen, to it, and the
stepped aside,
Joseph .Welsscoop, twenty-one years
with interfering with Policeman Denis
Shea, of the Madison Street station. and
resisting arrest, was next arraigned.
When Weissco9p stepped upon the plat
funny picture and raised n laugh when
the clerk read the charge.
Weisscoo2 is diminutive specimen Of
manhood. not five feet in height, while
Shea is a giant and lowered above his
Are you a Socialist" was the first
question put by the Justice.
Without answering the question Weiss
against him.
as If l would?" said the little man, eye
ing the Judge.
"He challenged me to arrest him."
IT asked him not to arrest me-" said
Weisscoop.
do YOU call that challenger" said
the Justice. looking at Shea sternly
The prisoner Is discharged"
The crowd on the benches appeared
pleased, but made no noise.
Samuel Sshneiierman, thirty-four
years old. of le3 Attorney street, was
I the next and last OF the prisoners. He
was also charged with resisting arrest,
and denied the accusation OF Policeman
Cosgrove, who arrested him. Schneider
man was in the crowd in Rutgers Square,
and said he was trying to get out Of 1t
when the policeman threatened him.
! did not answer.
| When the third prisoner was dis
! charged, the crowd slowly filed out OF
went direct to New Irving Hall, in
| Broome street, where thousands of strik-
| ing cloakmakers were holding a mass
meeting and denouncing the way they
were treated by the police last night.