The evening world., 1894-06-04

give him money enough to satisfy him.
He wanted more than the S5 every
month, and several times I gave him
$40 extra for himself.
II told me he would not stand the
notoriety OF a house like mine. and that
such "A ranch vas worth 81 or $40 n
month. and was only paying S2j.
II said to him. My God, what do you
want? l have u aulet house, and here
Keeping. open and doing a big business
money at all
lie was senator then N Tammany
leader OF he district. My husband be-
longed to the same club ms Roesch and
SPOKE to him abont The way the police
fair play, and they were threatening to
clos" me UP ard d)ing nothing TO the
others.
Went to See Roesch.
MY husband spoke to Roesch, and he
said ! should come down to his Office
In the Stewart Building next day and
Il went down with my husband for
two days and sat there all day, but he
didn't come in. Then ! wrote him. and
the next day l saw him.
II told him my story and said II was
not fair that ! should be prosecuted so:
that l could never give Hook enough
money 70 satisfy. his demands. and that
4 tlipuSnl . ouBnl 10 nave lhlT IlIy.
"Roesch said to me: I'll go and see
somebody and have this fixed W, but 1t
will cost you 500 or $3.50
-, We'll, said, you do 1t and I'll get
when ! was going home with my hus-
band ] said that $50 was an awful toney
price, but II could get peace l you'd
try to raise the money.
7 got the money next day, and n
man came to zee me In the evening.
My husband was there and | gave the
IN tn htrn md tLa. .Var a..N 20
who was the mann" asked Mr.. Con.
Says Fay WINS Paid $3.50.
He was John Fay, Secretary of. the
T,nmmnny club OF the district. as my
husband told me after he came back.
Fay got the money. don't know the
husband and Senator Roesch belonged
to-"
Were You interfered with after
Not for some time. until Capt.
Doherty went to Europe. Then Sergt.
Clarke became actins-captain, and
Hook began to prosecute me again. and
threaten to shut me up.
"liock came to me and said that what
had paid to Capt. Doherty would not
help me. and that Clark would raid
me. This was last Summer. | didn't
pay any attention to him. because he
was always threatening to have me
pulled, 80 / went right on.
says serHt. CinrIs WINS Drunk.
"A few days after that Acting-Capt.
Clark walked into my house. He was
so drunk he could scarcely stand. He
abused me terribly and used language
that ! cannot repeat.
"Hc said to me: You must keep those
I'm Captain here now
After that he went out and arrested
two girls. This was on Aug. II. lS93.'
The blotter, of the Fifth street sta
ton was produced by Capt. Cross, and
and identified. The names were Rachel
Marks and l.ottie Reynolds. The Wit
ness went to the station to bail the
girls out, and SerEt. Clark, she said, did
not want to accept her bond.
'Serst. George, c. Sieber was at tho
dcsk. ana he told me, not to pay any
attention TO serEt. Clark. that I had
mind him. g. I signed the papers and I
gave the sergeant at the desk $l0-35 for
each girl. That was the regular charge
always paid when l went to get a
Was nothing said about real estate
security
"Oh, no: they never asked me about
that. Only. this one time Sergt. Clark
made a Kick about NE ana said | hadn't
any property. Sergt. Sieber liked It. how
ever, and | got both girls out, / put the
the desk. The sergeant told me to be
clUful and not let any. one see me.
~erSt. Clark went back INTO his Of
At the afternoon session the court
room vas packed almost to suffocltion.
Mrs ,Thurow was recalled to the witness
stand. The station-house blotters of
the Fifth street station were brought
out again In corroboration OF her state
incnt that she had been arrested and
police.
An entry made on July 81. 1893, In the
hlotter showed that Martha Nitzka and
her house. Mrs. Thurow said she didn't
remember the names, but that her girls
We're being arrested all the time last
summer.
She produced a book which. she said,
contained The names of all the women
who frcquentcd her house.
Fellows Renssurcs Witnesses.
Mr.. GSff announced at this point tina
Col, Fellows had n statement to make
10 the Committee. The DiStrict-Attor-
ney said he saw 1t intimated this morn
ing, IN the papers. that witnesses had
probably been Inundated through fear
mat they would be brought before some
other tribunal.
He wanted TO say. that so far as his
office was concerned. no steps in that
direction had been taken by him, and
II was untrue hat anything had been
done, which could be construed as in
I mi,latior.
lie DICTATED tina nothing would be
done so long as the Committee was In
session, 10 br'ng any of the matters un-
der Investigation to the attept!on OF the
Grand JurS.
Chairman Lexow thanked Col. Fellow
for his statement and said that 1t would
nave the effect If clearing the atmosphere
considerably.
The examination OF Mrs. Thurow was
then resumed, and several other entries OF
arrests of young women were read to
her. They were al made at her house.
Some OF the names she recognized. and
said she had baile1 the girls out when
they were arrested, These arrests We're
all made In July. and August last.
Among these girls were Annie Lewis,
l-ottie Reynolds, Lena Rentz, Lizzie
Saunders, Sarah Snyder. They were ar
rested by various patrolmen, and the
record showed that n number OF them
We're fined at the police court the next
morning,
The witness said she never took any
girls out on bonds until shortly before
Capt. Doherty went to Europe. She
went TO the Captain and asked for the
privilege OF taking. girls out on bond,
and the Captain told her to get a man
named Scheierman, who did plumbing
about her house, to act AS bondsman
whenever any OF her girls got into trou-
BILE.
This worked well till the Captain went
to Europe; then the acting Captain said
he would not accept Schelerman as q
bondsman.
81 went IN tine station 10 pet out .,,o ~