The evening world., 1894-08-24
AWAITING
THE VERDICT.
An the Evidence For and
Against Cross Has .,
Been Submitted. =
I both sIOES ARE CONFIDENT.
, The Accused Captain Stood
the Fire Of Wellmsn's
Questions.
Nc DENIED ALL THE CHARGES.
psotdsriy'. House Keepers De-
usuncsd as a Band OF
NJ Perjurers.
/. Nc DENIED ALL THE CHARGES

lin his own defense Capt Adam A
i Cross took the witness stand at the
/, Police Headquarters trials to-day. The
courtroom was crowded at the time,
and every word which fell from his lips
Was listened to with the keenest inter
est, He. was the star witness of the
day. ~
The interest centred, not so much on
what he Ind to say on direct examina-
: ton. for. after the evidence given by the
scrseafts and patrolmen who had served
under him. 1t was a for agone conclusion
that I've would deny every charge that
had been made against him. What
every one wanted to hear was the cross
examination ut the hands OF Prosecutor
Wellman.
+ X No love is lost between the two. Well
: man has pushed the case as hard as 1t
was. possible for him to do. going 80
far ae to rake up an offense- 4neged TO
have been committed by Ward Man
sniith twenty years ago m order TO
ifnpuen his testimony. That he would
: hutlk bitter. sarcastic and insinuating
questions at the Captain when he got
ham on the rack was conceded.
CID man Joseph Levi, the mote shay
(. 'er. was again on the stand this morn
ing. and again tt was found that he had
/, NOS brought the accounts with Rhoda
Sanford which Mr.. Wellman is SO anx-
bus to see, ........,
Sergt. Stephen McDermott, who served
,,pder Capt. Cross all through his admin
next TO the stand. He competed the
, Wtiv.e series OF sergeants under Capt.
!, Cross. and. like the others. he testified
! snAl 60 far as ne was Go n,in kat he
Jeff an envelope eacI month for six
= 3IsAtiis, with the Sergeant at the desk
ihrstne1 Bldridse street station for Capt.
4 Gergt. gAicDermott had never seen or
: he I'd before OF the basket on the ser
eeant;s desk which the Ward men are
/, said 70 have fiaied with silver each Mon
AT this point President, Martin, an
! nounced that the Board had DECIDED lot
Burns ss r sn, Of ruesdaS mnrn
and Smith would take up all OF to-day.
ana mni Pstpoimsn ei Burns ieft ana rouse
Mr.. Hess then resumed the defense
With Morris Goldsmith, the "stool-pigeon"
Men DokeI and SCHNEIDER for Capt. Cross
He described the methods pursued.
II was INSTRUCTED to 20 i into these
disordsriy house In the precinct, and
when i got In and obtained evidence the
houses were raided.
50 after a raid. by order OF Capt. Cross.
Iakatn visited the houses. II succeed
ed IN getting evidence, the house was
again raided:. II I failed to get in, re.
ported that the place was closed, but "
] tot in and gained no evidence, I re-
ported that the house was doing no
The last raid was made the early part
OF 1888. and Capt. Cross was transferred
asfew days afterwards i worked under
Mci.aughltn and Devery also but Capt
BUSINESS than either of them"
: The stooi-qigeon was led through
Capt Cross's blacklist. and told how
each house was raided irSm one to vs
cut OF the pr ecincl some he said moved
into tenements. where they were safe,
because Police Justices would not con,
yict In that kind of cases, some closed
Up their houses until Capt. Cross wa.
removed from the precinct, and others
sent their girls away.
ntabed rooms: Inquire inside" and there
sft$r kept that sort of an establish
ment which. he said, is most difficult
wen Ven dRi any of these people open
their houses again after raid and re
sumo business" MIR, Hess asked,
n,
Cross rsided them again and they mad
To snothef question GOLDSMITH replied:
when Capt. Cross took command In
April. 1882 tnat precinct was alive with
diJcrderly houses Of every variety. When
he was transferred the precinct was
As to Rhoda Sanford and Katie Schu-
bert's cases. Goldsmith described what he
did for the Captain, and the story did not
{ differ materially from that tod Of the
other houses.
1t should be remembered that Capt,
Cross is charged with accepting 500
Initiation Tee. and 500 month bribery
from these two women for letting them
the prosecution, that Capt. Cross did
permit these houses to lhn ana that
u SUFFICIENT corroboration Of the story
bribes and that all the proof that Capt.
Cross persstently raided and closed up
the, other houses In the precinct only
tends 70 corroborate Mrs Sanford ana
: II Is also claimed that Cross drove the
others TO the wall because they did NOT
but the defense claims. II it can be
shown that Capt. Cross directed his
efforts impartialIy against all the houses
In his tPrssi1et and that the Sanford
carefully, raided like the others. reduced
to a state OF decency like the others
that would destroy the implication OF
bad faith.
lie Worked for Spite.
Mr.. Welinan tried to make Gold
smith ADMIT that he received a share OF
the blood" money which he intimated
had been collected by Detective Doksl
The pigeon had admitted that he quit
being a stool pigeon when Dokel retired
from the force, and had received nc
pay for his work from the police He
said he never got a dollar and did the
work hrst as favor TO his friend
Dokel Afterwards he got angry be
cause the women called him stool pig
con" He kept Il up for spite working
-FOUR nights week, Dokel proyidinl
the necessary money for expenses
y lie made his living he said buyinl
and selling old clothes,
There Was another stool pigeon named
Nathan. and | think there was still an
other, for places Nathan couldn't Ee
IN TO. tried and sometimes / couldn'
get In either but they got the evidence
froln some one else and raided In
houses" the witness said.
Goldsmith said he resided then an,
Row a. u Seventh street, and Mr. He's