New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-03

\ CAS!. Oh Iil.I' = lNT ANA i''tN'
Q-Wha, 30 you mean by that Ale tried 10
shake me til l was awake bur diint wake am
! los. the 81 asked the policemen on the post
abou: f. afterwarl ami they laughed at me. on
SUNDAY nigh, saw the policeman ami another man
waking along Sprlng-s'. didn't kro" IN" "th"'
man was ar excise prisoner There was nothing -
show that as ne and the policeman "ere just walk
ing along together got In front Of tn pohcrin'"
and asked him if he had got That s. YET. lie up ana
hit me in tho face. The blow de2cd M" lie MT me
again and knocked me into the gutter Then he
beat me on the head with his club Ntzhugh, III"
other man who i. here. asked the policeman not -
XII me Ano'vcr ir h5ih ,aErn 10 The staiion
was bleeding that the blood ran down an over
me, and in the station another policeman s,rn.% H. b
dried blood MS undershiri. H." Faii tht' an
ambulance surgeon had Se"ri uP ne IL III III a.
head before placing the bandaSe on II; ~" 14I lo'
hear anything about the charge iGat ne haI in,,.
fered with an excise arrest until ne was arraighei
Q-IIal you ever been arrested bcfor-' A-Y'S.
for being DRUNK and once for doing some damage
man? A-Foureen years by ne sam, , ' -, lime %'
could have my job yet II cou:d se' 9nt ~ nm snor,
William Mciachlan. a man who had been dubbed
he was excused when he SAID he WAS under indici,
mant on a charge brought by the policeman, ana
he did not wish 10 damage his case by tesuiyinb
against the policeman.
HERE Is ONE WHO PLEADED GUILTY.
Policeman Richard : M.nney, Of the Tw'nty fifth
Precinct was sworn ana asked Il number OF
questions about his record cluhbef He was
one Of the policemen who were led against the
Columbia College students On the night OF June :.
He testified that he had been policeman ohly
three years and ne had been compelled 70 answer
about twenty complaints. Tie mad pl adel Suilly
charged with breaking into the room Of a man who
had bought furniture on the insialmen' pan ana
trying to prevent The seizure OF TN furniture;
lie had been accused Of beating the man also, ana
dned him alter triai A. Mr Moss vas CAUSING
the witness to repeat som or th' testimony WhcH
Cantor objected, and SAID it was not fair to the
policeman to make MIN tell ono side Of the case ana
The other policemen in the courtroom show ed,
applaudine nd senator Lexow aaii Il VIII nave
the room cleared If this demonstraion Is REPEATED
Mes gad his oRef in ern a 9 sons OF
ton to The records OF The policemen much as TO
Commissioners to innlct small fines in many cases
Senator Cantor said that the only fair way was
also declared that 1t could not be tod in most
in which small fines had been inflicted If the Com
of serious charges or had inflicted the fines for the
mem had SHOWN themselves TO have been ty o,
slight offences which required punishment.
IMMUNITY OF PERJURERs
After Senator Lexow had taken some part in the
argument II decided to let Mr.. Moss indicate
the nature .! the charges, but not 10 compel the
policemen to testify TO the evidence which had
been presented against them at the trials Mr.
Moss then proceeded call n number OF policemen
who had been fined for assaults. and to read the
substance of charges upon which they had been
found guilty and fined by the Commissioners. In
each he asked the policeman If he had denied
the charges under oath. and upon receiving n reply
IN the affirmative he had the policeman testify that
he had never beer compelled 20 answer a charge Of
perjury His object. as he explained T. show
the committee that, although the policemen had
testified under oath In opposition to the witnesses
against them. and. although the verdict of guilty
would seem to warrant the conclusion that the DO
licenien had sworn falsely. yet Of them had
been accused Of false swearing. Senator Lexow
asked number OF the policemen II they thought
that there was prevailing impres sion among the
members OF the force that assault upon citizen
by policeman would be punished only by a fine
and all OF the policemen said NO" Occasionally
Mr.. Moss would stop 20 read the record OF n trial
in which the guilty policeman had been dismissed.
LIST OF OUTRAGEOUS ASSAULTS
BY reading from the records and by the testimony
OF the witnesses. Mr. Moss managed 10 get the fol-
lowing OF policemen before the committee late
In the afternoon,
Edwin " Luhman, Eighteenth Precinct, Two con-
victons for assau.t!ng citizens; fined three days
pay for assaulting f.. c. Murtha and fined fifteen
days pay for assaulting John McGone. In the first
case there had been shown 10 the Commissioners a
photograph OF the policeman TO prove that he was
also assaulted and Injured the face
William McIIugh, Thirty-ffth Precinct. fined NJ