The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-10-01
COWINC after
The POLICE.
He Charges the New Grand
Jury TO Investigate EVi-
denCe Of Corruption,
WORK WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR
Refers to the Shameful State OF
Affairs Shown Up by the
Lexow COMMITTEES.
Is 1T A REBUKE TO FELLOWS ?
The District-Attorney Had Neglected
10 Bring the Matter Before
the Courts.

The new Grand Jury. sworn in before
Judge Cowing to-day in Part l. of the
Court of General Sessions. has been in
structed to probe the matter of police
corruption.
District-Attorney John II. Fellows
some time ago was asked IL he in
tended to call the attention of the
Grand Jury to the charges against
police captains made by Lexow wit
nesses, and returned an evasive answer.
Judge Cowings charge to the Grand
Jury, Therefore, although Col. Fellows's
name was not mentioned in it. is in the
nature of an implied rebuke to the
District-Attorney.
In substance Judge Cowing said:
1T Is a matter of public notoriety on
Gals have been derelict in doing their
duty, or are charged with being derelict
and having been corrupt in their Off
cial relations. 1t is my duty to instruct
charges of that description.
II allude particularly to the charge of
corruption in public office IN police
the Police Commissioners to make GER
tain rules and regulations for the gov
eminent and discipline of the police
force. Those rules and regulations are
made for the purpose of preserving the
good order of the police among them
selves, principally. There is higher
law than theirs on the statute books,
which also prescribes the penalties for
those persons derelict or corrupt in the
administration of their office.
at will be your duty to take up these
various cases where charges have been
made, and most thoroughly to sift them,
and IL you find that any of these officials
that are thus charged seem to be guilty
OF such accusations 1t is your duty, with
out fear or favor to present them to this
bar in order that justice may be meted
1.-THE fact that already several of these
. cases have been brought up by the
Police Commissioners does not in any
way interfere with your function as
You are not bound by their action,
psither are you to take their action as
Inclusive in any case. You must. there
e novo. and see IL in any case there
fave been officials who have been cor
fupt In the administration of the laws.
X4isposed of the sixty-seven prison cases
<till awaiting your action. to take up
Gee matters and to thoroughly investi
them. without fear and without
II is certainly dep!orabe If pubic
lers intrusted with high and i'm
PANT duties have interfered with the
ADMINISTRATION of criminal justice for
by furnishing immunity to violators
the law. 1t demoraizes the whole
dy polite.
No State or government can long
st where such matters are tolerated.
pW FAR more important 1t is that those
DIG servants who have been intrust-
ID preserving the public peace should
restrained and punished when they,
emselves, offer immunity for crime,
an that mere street urchins who COM
some petty crimes which, as a mat
OF course, will be easily checked and
finished by lesser magistrates, should
e dealt with by the Grand Jury? The
ther course shakes the fabric of YOUR
government.
Such things cannot, must not and will
ranted that you will give to the inves-
tlgation of these matters your thorough
and conscientious attention. Where you
IND that the law has ben violated you
TO the bar Of this court, in order as
saia =. before fore that justice may be meted
There is another class of offenses
which /! have noticed and you have, per-
maps, that Is crimes of violence in our
public thoroughfares. Men are waylaid
IN our public streets and parks and in
our cars, and 1t seems to me it is time
this matter Is put stop to.
Therefore, l recommend in all cases of
that description you not only investi-
gate the facts in that case, but also
ascertain whether or not II is not the
xaet that some or many OF these men
gho commit crimes against the peace
riminals, SO they may be indicted for
second offense, and our streets may
e made as safe as stern administra-
ion OF the criminal law can make it,
The following are the names of the
Grand Jurors for October:
Edward Won Valkenburg. merchant 90 Worth
streeti Edward T Ch)ate. butter merchant SO
Cortandt street. residence Q West sIxty-nfth
street; Charles Bass. residence 1851 East Eighty
second street: Herman II. Nathan. 20 West
Forty ninth street. Seligman Goldman clerk 1886
Lexington avenue; Morris Hermann, reaI-estate
West one Hundred and Thirty-thrd street;
Henry " Mead. real-estate, 342 West Twenty
ninth street. residence 422 Eighth avenue; Eu-
gene H. Paddock. merchant. $40 Broadway, resi-
aenee lis West Seventy second street: Louis II
spuyten Duyvti: John J. Laoham, merchant. rs
A FERRY street, residence % East Sixty-seventh
1 street: William c. Mexican, banker. 81 Nassau
street.. residence lo2 West seventy-ifth street
heed hcIlvains wine merchant, 81 Mas
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