The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-01
LAST EDITION.
HOW ABOUT IT.,
Mr.. MARTIN?
What Has Become OF the
Cases Against SleVIn
and O'COnnor ?
BOTH TRIED SIX MONTHS AGO.
They Were Charged with Per-
hitting Open Violations
of the Law.
ALL QUIET AT HEADQUARTERS.
None Of the Dismissed Men
Appears to Get His
Salary.
ALL QUIET AT HEADQUARTERS

There was the peace OF sheer exhaus-
tion about Police Headquarters to-day.
Supt. Byrnes said there were no more
charges to serve upon accused police
captains. and that there would not be
for some time.
Gen. Kerwin. the new Treasurer of
the Police Board, was the only Commits
sioner to appear at Headquarters, and
he was engaged In paying Off" this be-
Ing the monthly payday for the whole
Department. one by one the Captains
came with their payrolls for the Gener-
ais signature, and went away to dole
out the money at their respective sta
tons
Capt. Devery was not there. Neither
was Capt. Cross, and they or their rep
resentatives will collect their August
salaries from new commandant in
the First and Fourteenth precincts, re-
spectively, for they ceased to be police
captains at O'Clock last evening. as
told in THE Evening Worlds 6
o'clock extra
The trial Of Capt. John Thomas Ste
phenson. which has reached the dividing
line between prosecution and defense.
will be resumed Tuesday morning, and
the question uppermost among the OFF,
GERS and hangers-on at Headqnarters
offer to the formidable testimony
of Merchant Edwards and his book
keeper. the express driver and the
bearing the alleged signature OF the
Captains wife for the barrel of apples
and the four II, ba sl0 Of peaches alleged
1t seems to have been forgotten by
the Police Board that away back last
April they tried two captains, who are
In, and s,f fhnIr TO Fri lI
them on charges similar to those on
which Capts. Doherty, Cross and Dew
cry were tried. and backed up by testi-
lnony similar to that adduced in these
Capt Edward Slevin, of the Fourth
Precinct, where all the sailor dives and
other low brothels flourish, was charged
by agents of the Parkhurst Society with
failing to suppress disorderly houses in
his precinct. The evidence Went to
ming full blast, but there was no charge
sievin was tried before the full Board.
President Martin and Commissioners
McClave, MacLean and Sheehan That
"The World" revealed that in the
Second Precinct there was fully or
ganized gambling-house running In the
Merchants Hotel, and that at least a
part Of Capt; O'Connor,s squad h not only
Capt. O'Connor was tried April II.
and the witnesses against him were
\ John J. Lynch, Daniel J. Smith. William
n Mayston and William Lane O'Neill.
\ No decision has ever been announced
in either of these cases, and Gen Ker,
win had never heard of either case unit
an Evening World" reporter called his
attention to them to-day.
Prosecutor Wellman is in Southamp
ton. and Mr.. Goff was not to be foun'
to, answer Mr.. Wellmans Statement
that 1t was "Mr. Cons best man" VIII
had been employed by him to look afte
running away, and that II any one wa
was this best man"
Wellman repeated his former statemen
That That ne had cases under way ,agains
four su ether ns accused aSGid Police Captains
until the Lexow Committee has decide
postpone Its session TIL later"
IT Is known that Mr.. Wellman's az
slstallts nave examined many witnesse
SGalnst Capts: Strauss, Klllilea, Schmitt
Major kipp, chief clerk of the Polio
Department, received this morning tn
I'VE M1,,s shields Of gold worn by Citizen
while they were captains of the police
There were also three shields of whit
!. metal, bearing the numbers by whic
5smes Burns the d fisSTss Smith Ma
We're known, while patrolmen in tn
Al Department.
J :. The dismissal OF these five men. O
the heels of the breaking of Cap
Michael Doherty. Ward Men Hook an
Meehan, and Sergean1s McKenna, Liet
ers. Parkinson and Jordan, OF III
W fourteenth Precinct, has thrown
gloom over the uniformed force, an
i the policemen are very serious in the
demeanor to-day.
\ 1t was believed, apparently, that tn
Commissioners would save some of III
accused. That they would break Cap
Deyery and his ward man Glennon wa
foregone conclusion. for they offere
10 defense. But there was much doui
h the minds OF policemen about the fat
Y Smith and Burns, and as for Cap
Gross there seemed TO be a general b,
Uf that in view of the hard fight
mde In his own defense and the cha
aeer Of the Witnesses who accused hi
n. Board would make an exception
his case.
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siselas failed. Call or write. 1922 B. way. .