The evening world., 1894-08-20
EDITION..
NOW FOR BIG
DISCLOSURES.
Fitzpatrick Will Give Names
Of Builders Who Paid
BlaCkmaiL
ALL BUT TWO, he SA|0,.DlD 50
Kerwin Will Sec Him in Pfivate
and Then Something
May Drop
he HAD WARNED M'LAUGHLlN.
Told Him When Captain Of Wart
Man Burns's Attempted
Extortion.
he HAD WARNED mLAUoHLlN.

It was nearly II o'clock when TIA
Board Of Police Commissioners resumed
the round OF trials OF police officers at
Headquarters to-day.
Mr.. wellman said prior to the resump-
ton of the proceedings that no new
cases would be made public until the
end Of the present auintuple trial VISA N
sight.
It is almost definitely settled that ,tha
next officer to be placed on trial win 10
Capt John T. Stephenson.
The Commissioners and Mr.. Wellman
propose to cut large and juicy wAtss-
melon for surprise party to the publ1o
In the trial Of Stephenson.
They will rely for his convictioa 80
upon witnessed who testified before -
I.exow Committee. for the charges nln1s
by the man Ryan fell to the gsound
upon Investigation 10 far as Stephsnseu
10 concerned. The checks alleged 10 hsvs
been paid to "the Captsin." II appesrs.
were all drawn six months before Sto-
phenson was In the Fifth Precinct. and
at time when Captain Thomas Ryan
was In command.
Witness Ryan is a cousin Of Cave
Ryan" said Mr.. Wellman to-day. and
ne mas discovered u uoupt 10 " Wu4k8
the checks went to-
said to be an ironclad case. " the Wit
nesses are to be believed, and the Wit
nesses, 1t Is said. will be reputable BUSH
MI. Wellman's officers brought exact
ly thirteen of the most disrerutable-
looking women to Police Headquarters
and corralled them In one Of the, ante
rooms till their turn should come 10
appear as witnesses against Capts.
Devery or Cross, or Ward Men Glennon.
Smith or Burns. or all of them.
sentiment against those newspapers
which laugh at him on the supposttien
that he is only rehashing the Testimony
Society for the Lexow Committee.
1.-The public must see that we are .nQe
Depending on Lexow witnesses tn ,sss entirsly:s
SAID Mr. Wslimthn :,or. Ne e. iess, prog c g
timony. The Police Board must do
pend en- legal testimony only, and ~
have succeeded thus far In corroborAt-
Ing the Lexow accusing Witnesses IN
every case tried, and all the talk about
reinsta,ing tne broken captains BY the
Janey schlesinEer, q sunny faced you
woman in an Ada Lewis tough girt0
jacket, was the FIRST witness.
She testified first In the Devery-0lsa-
"p She said that she was an inmate q
Wolrs disorderly house. $50 Allen street,
fas%x aR reenet 81. sa% Ward e. Ma
Glennon there. Her brother wanted -
get her out of the house.
She said she knew 1t was Glennon be-
| cause Violin told her SO, but when she
tried to Identify Glennon in line with
| three other policemen she picked out the
| wrong man, Patrolman John J. NeyinS
Of the Fourteenth Precinct. being seisss
Jsney said that wolff's house and ths
corner house next door ran with wide
sic, with eight other girls, lived Al
| Wolff's in 1885, and cx Assemblymsn
Phil Wissig: who kept a saloon in this
| basement of $50 Allen street. gave an
other shrus when Miss schlosinger tes-
When any OF US girls were arrested
Phil Wissig went ball for US; .,....
to an Evening Word reporter the ao-
ceptance OF Mrs. Thurow as bondswq-
man for the girls while Capt. Dohsrty
was In command of the Fourteenth Pre-
cinct was considered sufficient corrobora-
tive evidence of the bribery charges
Mrs. Mary Lovett, In a gown OF black.
testified that she had kept Respectable
boarding house at 1874 Allen street for
eight years. and that she was a witnese
the IL the heus m0s ses as aoor asd %ois That
house is owned by Henry Hoffman, who
was a witness before the Lexow Com
mlttee,
Ferdinand Lovett, husband of the last
witness. corroborated her as to the open
violation of decency at $50 Allen street.
during Capt Devery's administration.
Then Jennie Thornton. n tribe more
presentab,e than the rest Of the sister
hood Of thirteen witnesses, came from
the anteroom In blazer suit OF gray
and a white sailor straw hat to testify.
She came to corroborate Rose IAN
ford, widow and disorderly house keep
err.
Il don't know anything about Capt,
Devery or Cross or any one" protested
the dark-haired Miss Thornton, siren
uously, as she placed her hand on the
I Bible to be sworn.
Are you afraid to testify" asked M.
| Wellman gently. -.ftl,
''Oh, no! amt afraid" aGt
Then. in response 10 questions. thlp
reluctant witness testified that she WAS
an inmate of Mrs. Sanford's parlor
house, h, p BaySrd, st street all aurinE isss
four TO six other girls there, and ex-