New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-06-15
THE LIBERTY or CITIZENS OCTRAGED
JUDGE GAYNoR DENOUNCEs THE ARBITRARY
ARREST OF PEOPLE nY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
OF THE OFFICERS DEFINED.

JUDGE GAYNoR DENOUNC!;S THE ARBITRARY
ARREST OF PEOPLE nY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
or THE OFFICERS DEFINED.
Judge Gaynor handed down an important opin-
Ion yesterday regard TO the right Of the police
10 make arrests. The case came before him for
release or b4beas corus Of Louis Cohen. a IL
consed ticket SPECTATOR who arrested for sell
Ing tickets in front OF the grounds OF the villa
West Show
Judge Gaynor said in relation the In
court:
There are TOO many police captains arrcsting
men without warrants. a policeman's buttons
sve him no more authority to make arrest
than that possessed by ordinary citizen. II is
evident crime has been committed ard this
mans arrest OUTRAGE. lie may 80 his
own ball. and will discharge him II can"
Later he discharged Cohen and said in the
course OF his opinion:
1.-THE petitioner was arrested yesterday afternoon
by police officer without warrant and without
any complaint information having been laid
against him before magistrate. lie taken
10 the Eighteenth Precinct station house I'm Brook
Ign. and locked up overnight. The so-called com
plant which entered In the book ct the sta
ton is that the petitioner. who lives % Ashland
Place Brooklyn was arrested At 800 this after
noon by Patrolmar Patrick McGreevy. charged
with selling tickets for the Wild West Show on
private property, at Second-ave. and Thirty eighth
ST. John ". Ambrose. president of the Thirty
ninth Street terry company, fiilUiS lnut thiS -
private property, owned by said company. This Is
al-ihat the petitioner sold tickets private prop
erty There Is no prctense Of any criminal offence
whatever Yet The petitioner Is arrested and
locked up overnight Ike common felon. As the
liberty Of the citizen has been, IN q large meas
,re Entrusted 10 me judicial officer, feel II
my duty 10 characterize the arrest OF the petitioner
al a gross outrage. / DO not think should re
fraia from saying So for such occurrences are be
coming so freQuen; 70 leave no citizen safe
Some police officers do not seem TO know that they
have no right to arrest except for crime But the
case is even worse than IL appears on the police
botter AT most there nothing but DIS
pute between the petitioner and the president OF
the said corporation concerning their respective
rights There was prctense or charge that any
crime was being completed The place to settle
the dispute IN civil court. But the police cap
tain at request of the cooperation, arrests the
petitioner and locks him Up. The occurrence 70
me is OF the gravest character. No civilized people
oyer submitted 10 such 0cts OF arbitrary power and
long preserved their liberties. Not one inch can be
safely yielded 10 arbitrary power. When we ap-
point police officers and tax ourselves TO pay them
we do no. make them our masters In line, tnis
police captain has no right 20 make arrests with
out warrant other than every citizen has, ex-
cept in instance. II seems extraordinary
that these arbitrary arrests by the police are not
stopped IL this company claims that the apparent
H open street on which the petitioner was Is pri-