The evening world., 1894-07-18
OOHERTY WILL FIGHT.
The Accused Captain May Make
Startling Revelations.
n Pressed Too Hard He Will Have
Something to Say.
Many Witnesses Summoned for To-
Morrow's Proceedings.

The four Police Commissioners will
make their first appearance tomorrow
In their great act of trying capt
Michael Doherty, of the Leonard street
station. and ex-Ward Men John Hoch.
Bernard Meehan and jeremiah :. Levy.
on charges of eNtorting money from the
keepers of brothcls and other places Of
ill-repute.
The four accused men Will be placed
on trial at the same time. and the testi-
mony of all the witnesses examined will
apply to all of the defendants. although
the specifications in each case are differ
ent and the cases will be considered
separately by the Commissioners when
they come to finally dispose of them.
after hearing all the evidence
The trial of this first batch of offend
ers promises to be long one. and Capt.
Doherty and his friends make no secret
of the fact that they are going to make
q bitter light
All arrangements for the trial have
been complet ed, and Assistant District
their witnesses all ready to bring on
at ~ o'clock tomorrow morning. when
the full Police Board will assemble TO
sit In judgment upon The accused officers.
They have about twenty-five witnesses
TO all whose testimony affects the four
Mrs. ,Thurow. tho former, keeper of a
disorderly house in Second avenue, who
told the Senators OF the LeNow Commit
tee how she had gone to the police sta
ton and paid money for protection TO
Capt. Doherty In person. Afterwards
she said she had paid the ward men.
The testimony of this woman viii he
corroborated. 1t is said, by other Wit
nesses who have been obtained since the
Lexow Committee adjourned. while in
the. case of eX-Ward Man Levy. now
Under ri
krumm. the concert hall proprietor in
Chrystie street, will be the important
witness.
The defendants, on the other hand.
have retained Lawyers Fromme and
Grant to represent them; and the
subpoena sub Sena mill at Police ileadanarters
the past two days. i is said that fully
100 police officers will be summoned as
witnesses, while between forty and fifty
civilians will be called before the de-
Tense has thoroughly covered the pro
gramme now laid out. to say nothing
OF emergencies that may arise in the
course OF the trial.
The general opinion in police circles
Is that the Commissioners. especially
president Martin and Comm ssioner
first batch of defendants. Neither OF
the new Commissioners is especially in
terested. and they can therefore take
calm and unimpassoned view OF the
situation. while with the other two 1t is
different.
IL IS believed that victime iS de-
manded. or rather several. and that the
most likely subjects have been selected
for the purpose. and this is where the
farcical clement comes In. The chief
strong friends in Tammany Hall--in
fact more influential than either OF the
Police Commissioners-and when the fight
Is really ON there promises to be highly
entertaining circus. whatever the out
come Of the trials may he
II the Commissioners press Capt.
. hn r.tt hatr Affn
& victim for the altar, the Captain.
u IS said is prepared to give some testi
mony IN regard to the final disposition
lators OF the law that will make some
people around Headquarters squirm.
For this reason. 1t is said, that the
earnestness and vigor but that before
they have reached the end some pre-
text will be discovered to drop the whole
thing. In fact. It is said 1t is very
doubtful whether any more complaints
prepared by the special counsel for the
Commissioners will ever be submitted
by Supt. Byrnes.
In other words, 1T is WHISPERED that
Capt. Doherty knows too nrrh about
the working of the system NJ police
vestigation. and rather than suffer him
self to be offered up as sacrifice I,
shield any Of his SUPERIOR, on III . Po-
lice Board he will tell all he knows
regardless OF whom it may strike.
1t Is said' however that Supt Byrnes
now has a number of cases prepared by
alteration which he may submit to the
Commissioners at any time.
Mr.. Wellman called at Police Head
quarters this morning on his way down
intendent for half an hour. When he
came out he was asked about the pros
pect of charges being filed against other
police officials and he replied that nc
further complaints would be lodged TO,
the present, at least not till the end Of
the week He declined to say whether
any further indictments were contem
1--WE are ready to so on tomorrow. :
he said land will start in probably witt
about twenty witnesses in ATTENDANCE
In addition to those who appeared before
In regard to the place. Of holding tn
trials, Mr.. Wellman said 1t had beel
suggested that they should take plac
downtown in one of the rooms IN IN
the matter over with the Commission
ers and they had thought hest TO ho
them in the trial room at Police Head
quarters.
Tomorrow and next day viii be de
voted to the trials this week. hut begin
ming with next week only three days
week will be set apart for thCir cases
Monday, Wednesday and Thursday,
Wellman with a strict observance r
the rules of evidence, and no hearsa
testimony, or irrelevant or incompeteer
records. The method Of procedure Vi
be exactly the same AS that of cas-
tried in the Court Of General Sessions
The report that Cen. BENJAMIN
Tracy and ex-JudGe Horace Russell ha
been retained additional counsel T,
Capt. Doherty could not he verified IN
morning
stole Two Fur tupcs.