The evening world., 1894-08-24

| w ell, Ulu any OF THESE people open
| their houses again after a raid and re-
sumo business MIR. Hess asked
on, yes: some OF them. But Capt.
Cross raided them again and they mad
| TO close up said the pigeon.
To another question Goldsmith replied
| when Capt. Cross took command In
| April, 1872, that precinct was alive with
diiorlery houses Of every variety. When
| he was transferred the precinct was
clean"
AS to Rhoda sanf5rd and Katie schu-
| bcrt.s cases, Goldsmith described what he
| di1 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
lnuation lee. ana 500 a moan Drlbery
from these two women for letting them
run their houses. and, 1T is alleged by
| the prosecution, that Capt. Cross did
Is sufficient confederation of the story
| of those women that they paid the
brides and that all the proof that Capt.
| Cross perslstently raided and closed up
the other houses in the precinct only
| tends to corroborate Mrs. Sanford and
| Mrs. Schubert.
1t is also claimed that Cross drove the
others to the wall because they did not
pay blood money"
hut the defense claims. II 1t can be
shown that Capt Cross directed his
efforts impartially against all the houses
In his precinct, and that the Sanford
and Schubert houses we're watched as
carefully, raided like the others, reduced
to u state of decency like the others,
bad faith.
MIR. Wellman tried to make Gold
smith admit that he received share of
the blood money which he intimated
had been collected by Detective Dokel
| The pigeon had admitted that he quit
being stool pigeon when Dokei retired
from the force, and had received no
pay for his work from the police, He
said he never got a dollar. and did the
work first as a favor to his friend
Dokel Afterwards he got angry be be
four nights a week, Dokel providing
the necessary money for expenses.
He made his living he said, buying
"There was another stoolpigeon named
Nathan, and | think there was stu an
other, for places Nathan couldn't get
in to. tried and sometimes l couldn't
get in either, but they got the evidence
from some one else and raided the
house." the witness said
! Goldsmith said he resided then and
now al 81 Seventh street, and Mr.. Hess
asked:
That's ressgeGGtt,ablle neighborhoo d.
known people live" Goldsmith as
| scented.
Mr.. Hess read several special orders
issued to Capt Cross ross BY Supi byrnes,
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a census of the suspected houses In the
Eleventh Precinct, copy of which he
kept himself. This was to counterfeit
Mr.. Wellmans contention that as soon
| as he got in the precinct Cross had that
list made to work from Inv systematic
| scheme of eXtortion.
Ex-senator McClelland at this point
asked that it be entered on the record
| that when Alice Ryder was asked to
| Identify one of the men who visited the
Schubert house In the evening two years
ago, and said that Capt. Cross looked
more like him than any. one else in the
| room, Capt. Cross was In full Captain $
uniform, and the only man In the room
who wore the golden shield or captaincy,
and that his cap bearing the Inscription,
Captain" was on the desk before him.
Henry Wendlg, plumber, at II Delan-
cey street, was next called TO contradict
Mr.. Wellman, who testified that he did
plumbing In Mrs. Schubert's house In
the Summer of 1892 and that 1t was then
open and doing business.
Wendig said that he was employed by
the owner OF the house to do all plumb
Ing there, Mrs. Schube"t as lessee pay
Ing the bill. He, said the house was
bert put off payment OF the bill, and he
had to call and dun her for the bill sew
erai tines Mrs schubert each tn time n,
on her, she cou.d dc, no business, and she
II objeCt" said Mr.. Wellman.
objection sustained President Mar
This brought Mr.. Hess to his feet He
complained that the board Invariably
ruled with We.iman. although he had not
stated any ground for the objection.
lie said It seemed to be enough, for
te Court" that Mr.. Wellman had OBJ
jected. and. indeed, sometimes the ruling
came almost before the objection had
been uttered. and Ger lainly before the
President could possibly obtain the
opinion of his fellow Commissioners.
We'll. the ruling has ben made was
President Martins only reply.
Mr.. Wendig said he had been sub
poenaed, trst to go to Mr. Wellman's
oce, but when he was asked to tell what
was said to him by Mr.. Wellman's rep
resentative, Mr.. Wellman strenuously
objected.
In the row that followed wellman
said he was honest. whereas Hess re-
torted:
III you are honest in this prosecution
you will move that these defendants be
discharged and the charges dismissed.
MIR. We:iman, you know you have
to all these witnesses You have coaxed
threatened and lone everything to gel
4 them to say what you want them to
table merchants and business men, who
have been subjected 20 this intimidation
this very week, and SO far as this mar
is concerned an affidavit was offered L
him for signature. He declined to slgr
it.
Another was drawn and he refused
to sign that, because It did not accorc
with the facts nor with Is statement
Then he was told that If he didn't sigr
they'd have him down again, and would
keep at II till he did sign"
The witness nodded assent to all this
He left the stand and Mr.. Hess called:
capt. Adam A. Cross"
Capt. Cross said he had been q police
man sixteen years, and he told of III,
various promotions he had received
Then he describe ! the Eleventh Pre- cinct
He said the station was in Edrids
street and he presided from April %
1892, to March |, 1898, a period of tie.
months and ten days,
1T has population of los, 900. repre-
Senting all the nations, races and relig
ions of the EARTH" said the Captain.
1T Is very important precinct. 1t
people are ignorant, great majority o
them foreign born and having little sym
patty with our institutions, manner
, and customs There are Nihilists, An
! archists. SoCi SITS and all other politi
cal Creeds represented there.
Il had force OF cghty-six men, an,
, | think the best and most efficient an,
+ faithful men In the Department. 1 wa
nohly and loyalty sustained by all
4 During my ten months in the preclnc
I n.ne different sergelnts served unde
: Toe, ard you have seen them ali here a
. Witnesses.
. During those ten months could neve
+ at any time turn out more than eightee