The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-09-13
'LEXOW INVESTIGATION
More Information Is Obtained
Against New York Police.
ADJoURNMENTTAKEN UNTIL OCT. l
A Witness, Hounded by the Bluscoats,
Tells How She Was Forced to surren-
der Her Home without ReceIyIng n
Dollar In Return.

i NEW YORK, Sept. 13.-The first wit
ness called by the Lexow committee yes
.tterday was Pawnbroker Stern, with whom
Detective Hanley said he pawned hi
watch. Stern said the watch had beer
pawned with him for $685. and the fac
could be verified by reference tc his books
Mr.. Golf then asked Stern to produce tn,
books.
Carl Werner who has been much befor,
the public, then took the stand. He for
merly kept disorderly house in Captain
Cross' precinct. Mr.. Golf said he desired
to correct the statement of Mr. Wellmar
that Werner was in state prison At the
time when he testified he was paying pro
lection money to Captain Cross. Then
\ Werner told how the police put UP a lob
ito arrest him. He said Detective Cohen
and another officer had drink in his
saloon one Sunday. Then they arrested
him for attempted bribery.
4 Officer Cohen, who arrested Werner and
charged him with attempted bribery, took
the stand. He testified that Werner placed
a 50 bill in his right hand. but he did not
arrest Werner. Mr.. Goff caused great
amusement by making the policeman
stand up and assume the position his
right hand was in when he received the
bride.
Charles NJ. Patterson, of Shrewsbury,
n. j., an employe of Austin Nichols 6. CO.,
lgrocers, followed He told how Detective
George Gent Brooklyn detective, con-
lspired with two New York detectives to
make him pay $50 for the recovery of a
diamond pin which had been stolen from
him on the Brooklyn bridge.
William II. Heschke, manager for
Piord e. Co., dealers in music boxes
Broadway, testified that man named
Cassell had run away after pawning some
of their goods. The detectives said that 1t
woul Id be necessary to pay the advances
made by the pawnbrokers or bring civil
suit, and Gle chances of winning on a
civil suit were considered small. In some
instances the firm refused to redeem the
goods because the sums demanded were
more than the music boxes were worth.
Arnold B. Ehrlich then testified that he
had lost his watch. The police found It
for him, but he had to pay $50 to get 1t
back.
Abraham Hayman, who said he worked
for Don Scribuer, the green goods man,
was the next witness called. He after
wards went to work in gambling house
owned by man named Mclaughlin The
witness said that when the Park hurst
crusade began they were compelled to run
ION the quiet" Witness asked McLaugh-
lin for some money, but was refused be-
cause Mclaughlin had been compelled to
pay $3.50 for protection that day.
Josephine Hirsch said that she had
bought house from Gembassy at 276
street in October, 1893 She ran
a respectable place for few weeks and
the police told her it would be necessary
for her to pay $25 weekly or get into
trouble. Her husband was sent to the
penitentiary for three months for keeping
a gambling house. Mr.. and Mrs Hirsch
could not speak English, and 1t was the
claim of the woman that she was not ac-
corded fair trial. Gembassy got the
house back again, she claimed, without
paying dollar for it, because of the aid
him by the police in arresting
her husband.
Mrs. Caelia Urchettel, a Russian wo-
man who kept cigar store, said she was
accused of keeping disorderly house by
police who tried to blackmail her. She |
made 5000 by keeping an immi-
grant boarding house, and the detectivesI
to secure this. She sold her shop
and gave the detective s25, but he de-
manded $50, and threatened to take her
three children from her unless she paid
the money, Finally she was actually ar
rested. convicted aud sent to the island. |
Her children were sent to an orphan asy-
um, and she had not been able to see |
them since her arrest until year and
half ago.
On account of the approaching Repub-
ican and Democratic conventions an ad- I
iournment was taken until Oct. /. I