St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-25
Quite a Sensational Time
Over a LeXoW Commit
tee Witness.
A CASE OF ABDUCTION,
But Whether by Police or
COTS Agents Remains to
Be Learned.
COURTS TAKE A HAND IN
And Commit All Concerned
for Trial in Jersey
City.

ClCy.
New YORK, Oct. 24.-Counsel Golf
startled The LeXow committee, when
they reconvened this morning. by say
ing the police had made away with a
witness who would give the most sensa-
tional testimony Yet produced. Mr.. Golf
entered the court roam and said eXcit-
eddy: For tine first time am compelled
to ask for an adjournment until 2
O'Clock. told the committee that our
star witness. woman who has paid
money to high officials, had been stolen
from us a. the dead of night. We had
her under surveillance in the day time,
but at midnight the police or their
agents came in carriage and stole the
woman. ! now tell ynu her name for
the first time, Matilda Hermann. The
police or their agents hurried her to
Canada and then to the large cities of
the West. Our detectives stuck to the
trail, and finally ran her down i'll Chi
caRO. She consented to come East. In
company with our detectives she has
been jOurneying eastward ali yesterday.
When the party arrived in Jersey City
this morning an outrage was committed.
The police Of New York got the police
of Jersey City 20 arrest all our party OIL
charge OF KIDNAPPING. and trumped
up charges designed to detain her. The
police of Jersey City even went so far
AS 10 try to get tile woman to leave our
detectives"
Chairman Lexow broke in with: sis
she over twenty-one years OF age?"
YES. and, moreover. willing to come
here" answered Mr.. Golf.
This woman will tell how the police
raised fund to get her and other
women of her class out of the city.
There Is colony OF them now in Chi
eago waiting for the committee to ad-
journ."
I'VE may never ADJOURN" broke in
Chairman Lexow.
Mr.. Golf said that hs hoped to prove
how much money had been contributed
i'll furtherance of the alleged pol ice
conspiracy to spirit away Mrs. Her.
mann
The Evening Post has the following:
Mrs. hermann was desired by Mr.. Gotf
to give testimony against the police of
it Is alleged. she has paid large sums of
money in order to be allowed to operate
four alleged disorderly houses. Some
months ago she was served with sub
p9nas to appear before the committee
Her sudden disappearance resulted in
Mr.. Gotf's suspecfing that the same
subpoena servers were III colluSiO1 with
the policemen under suspicion. Private
Detective Wells was engaged to look
her up. He found her at the Colonnade
hotel. Chicago, and endeavored to in
duce her to return and tes-
tify before the committee. She
refused. Wells communicated with
SergeaDt-at-Arms Thomas Kearney,
of the LrXoW committee, and q
bognS telegram was sent 10 her with the
broken his leg and was lying in hos
pital in Hoboken in a critical condition.
Mrs. Hermann lost no time III coming
to her husbands assistance. She ar
rived in the Pennsylvania railroad sta
ton at 1870 O'clock this morning. De-
tective Wells was Swallowing her. Near
the stairway leading to Montgomery
street, Sergeant-at- Arms Kearney in
tercepted the woman. He asked her to
consent to go with him to New York,
and subsequently, Detective Wells
Joined in the conversation. The woman
became highly indignant, and was ges-
REGULATING wildly when Senator William
d. DAILY, of New York, approached
her and told her he had been re.
tanned as her counsel. Kearney
and Wells wanted to compel the
woman to go to New York,
but Senator Daily demonstrated and
declared he would not permit her to be
kidnapped. A crowd collected. Mrs.
Hermann shouted that Mr.. Golf had
telegraphed her threatening to cause
her Indictment if she did no. return to
New York, and that she had been i'll
weighed to come East by her enemies.
Such confusion was caused in the sta
ton that Policeman Boyle McNally ar
rested Sergeant-at-Arms Kearney, De-
tective Wells and Mrs. Hermann, charg-
ing them with diSorderly conduct, and
took his prisoners to police headquar
ters in Jersey CITY.
"How Senator Daily learned that Mrs.
Hermann had left Chicago is puzzlng
the Lexow committee detectives. and
there is suspicion that the New York
police and certain attaches of the LexOw
committee are in collision with the
Jersey City police to head off damaging
witnesses"
When Mrs. Hermann was arraigned
before Justice Potts in Jersey City. SEN
ator DAILY appeared as her counsel. He
said he had been retained for that pur-
puse by Gustave Derk, of New York,
who told him all attempt was to be made
to abduct Mrs. Hermann upon her arrival
from the West. Senator DAILY said Mrs.
Hermann told him. while the Lexow
detectives were talking with her. that
she did not wish to return TO New York.
The detectives tried To force the woman
to go with them. and they and the
woman were arrested. Justice Potts
held, upon the evidence of Detective
Kearney, that Mrs. Hermann was a
fugitive from Justice. and committed her
to Jail for thirty days, under bonds IT
1000, to await extradition papers. The
Jersey City police then preferred
charges against the I.exow detectives
for attempted abduction.
The chairman said that it had been
the Intention to examine Police Conn.,
missioner Shee!lan today, but that
gentleman had asked to be excused in
order that he might attend a meeting
of the board. No other witnesses had
been called when the sitting adjourned
until tomorrow.
In answer to questions. Mr.. Golf,
after the adjournment, said that the
story that Mrs. Hermann had been de-
coysd from Chicago to. Jersey City by
telegram stating that her husband
had broken his leg, was wholly false.
Che came IN Voluntarily" said Mr..
Golf. land even paid her own railway
fare. Tho man alleged 70 be her hus.
band broke his leg before she left this
city. She was nursing him when she
went away. And. moreover, since she
left him he has been taken away, Sc
crefiy tOO.D