Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-13
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Police Brutality Considered by the
Lexow Committee.
POLICE JUSTICE HOGAN'S ALLEGED ACTS
Wouldn't Listen to a Boarding
House Keepers Complaint.
CLUBBED BY AN OFFICER

NEW YORK, December 13.-Poice bru-
tally was the theme Of John r. Fergusons
testimony before the. Lexow. committee.
Without provocation, he said, an officer had
struck him in the mouth and knocked out
three of his teeth.
Mrs. Monaghan, who keeps respectable
boarding house in West 18th street, fanked
on either side by disreputable houses, then
told of her unavailing efforts to bring the
keeper OF those houses into court. 81. Police
Justice Hogan, she said, had told her to go
home and attend to matters about which
she knew something, and police officers had
fiouted her when she complained.
Ettienne Boyer, the ex-policeman who
yesterday admitted that he had loaned his
captain, Murphy, 500 without security,
was permitted to explain today that the
money was not loaned upon the under
standing that he should be the captains
wardman.
Charles Weisberger, who has q market in
West 18th street, denied that he paid any
money to the police that he might leave
goods on his sidewalk. He admitted that
he met Capt. Meaklm, in whose precinct
he is before he came to court and told him
he had been summoned before the COM
mittee.
Terrence Leonard a man with a broken
head, testified that he had been dubbed
by a saloon keeper, and that a policeman
to whom he appealed refused to make an
arrest. Justice Grady, in the Tombs court,
would not issue a warrant, but gave him a
summons, and told him to serve it himself.
Thomas A. kenny, a policeman. was Ques-
toned as TO his alleged association with
gamblers and disreputable women AL
though on duty in the Tenderloin precinct
this witness was densefy ignorant regarding
the existence of immortality within its
borders. " r...-.-
ALT. Heyman, a gambler now in the serv-
Ice OF the Lexow committee, swOre that he
had been in a saloon one night recently
with the previous witness and three dis
reputable women. Kenny had offered one
or the women 80 to make Heyman drunk,
but she refused. -. --..-..,
William S. Muxlow. who, with his father.
was arrested by Sergt. Campbell several
years ago on charge of murder, testified
that Campbell had told his father that for
$500 he could get him out of trouble.
And what finally became Of the case?"
asked Mr.. Moss
Father was honorably discharged"
He did not pay the five hundred, then?'
mo; he was discharged in court"
And what manner did Campbell assume
toward your father after this
He tried to get all the evidence he could
John Collins Of, Brooklyn. who formerly
kept hardware store on Allen street in
this city, denied that he paid the police $50
a month for sidewalk privileges
The only time that he remembered pay
ing money was several years ago, when
he paid Detective Hess 50 to get a woman
out of jail. The woman got out.
Did you ever say you paid Captain AL
laire money!
eff / did i He'd
Max Sonaftsnau, a professional bonds
man, said he had been on only four or five
bonds during the past five years. and that
he did it because silver Dollar Smith
requested him to do so. The witness went
on to state that silver Dollar Smith has
a regular gang i'll Essex Market court to
swear any one out of trouble and that they
could not be convicted.