The evening world., 1894-10-10
Followed the Policeman and a
Brother Bluecoat Upon an
Elevated Train
OVERHEARD A CONVERSATION.
Chief Inquisitor Golf Not Present at
the Opening Of This
Mornings Session.

lUeTe was rather IL SllIn aItenuanCe III
Part III. Of the Superior Court when the
Senate Police Investigating Committee
resumed its work this morning. Con-
trary to general expectations, no promi-
nent Police Department officials were
present.
A Methodist Episcopal clergyman from
Newark, N. j., Rev. j. A Gutteridge,
who has been an Interested spectator
at al the hearings of the Committee
since 1t started It's Fall campaign, was
on hand 1t Is rumored that he is get
ting points for a crusade against cor
ruption In his own town after the man.
ner of DR.. Parkhurst, but he denies
that he has yeti ormufated any pans
for such n movement.
He and Rev. Father Ducey hold ami
mated discussions on the prospects Of
the A. p. A., in which outsiders are not
allowed to participate.
Otto Kempner the LINZ candidate for
Sheriff, dropped in before the Senators
settled odwn to work, but he said he
had nothing to communicate to the Com
mlttee. He simply wanted to see Mr..
jerome privately.
1t was after II o'clock when Chairman
Lexow called the Committee to order
Senators Bradley and Pound were the
only other members present.
In the absence of Mr.. Goff, MIR. Moss
opened the proceedings by calling Sam
uel Kaufman, a tailor's salesman, OF
437 East One Hundred and Fourteenth
street, to the witness stand.
20 i'd you hear Policeman Corcoran
testify yesterday" asked Mr.. Goff.
Yes, SIR"
Did you follow him out of court?"
Yes. l saw him go out, and went
uptown with him on the elevated road
from the City Hall station. Another
policeman was with him."
,a did you hear any conversation be-
~ heard Corcoran say to his compan-
ion, I'll make those two witnesses as
dead as door nail. I'll lay for them
some night
Quinn and his friend. by whom he was
accused of clubbing?"
Was anything else said?"
81 heard the other policeman say to
Corcoran, Don't talk SO loud. You had
better wait till the Lexow Committee
get through Then they joked about the
The witness said that he was a men,
Der of the Sailors Union, which held a
meeting about eight months ago at
Irving Hall. After the meeting the
policeman on post said that the mem
bers must take up collection for him.
I'VE collected about So and offered II
to the policeman, who was very mad
because II was not larger sum.
DO you know the name of the police
MANI"
mo, couldn't get 1t, or his number"
Meyer Schoenfeld, of the Tailors'
Union, corroborated Warfmann's story
about collecting money FIR the police
man at the Irving Hall meeting, but ne
had never been able to learn the officers
name.
Patrick Kelly, an iron worker, of 1871
Third avenue was the next witness.
He related how one night, about q
week ago, he was coming home late, af-
| ter having some fun with the boys, he
sat down on stoop at Ninety-fourth
street and Third avenue and went &c
| sleep.
He wxas aroused by feeling some one.
hand in his pocket. and opening his eye:
| saw a policeman bending over him. Tn,
officers name he thought was Trurow.
81 looked In, IN my pocket and %, 80 cent MT
cused the .policseman of taking. it. H,
pushed and punched me and told me t.
move along"
station and reported him. and two night
afterwards two other officers ASSAULTED
me, kicked and beat me, and finally ar
rested me- and Justice Burke o,Gsrt fined me
| and testified against me, and 1 had N,
/ witnesses.
1.-The Judge told me II / came there
again he would give me three months
Kelly said that since that time tn,
Captain of the Eighty-eighth street sta
tion hearing that he was going to ties
tify before the LeXow Committee. sen
around an officer to his house, and told
his sister that there was job waiting
for him II he wanted 1t.
Did you go to see the Captain"
mo, sir"
Mr.. Goff, who had meanwhile came
in. called on the next witness. Vernon
III. Brown, the general agent of the
Cunard steamship line in this city.