The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-26
calculated to harrow up his

soul.
by Meehan and Policeman katz IN
which they arrested only Carrie smith.
The SherS e S on ne S Sne
discharged.
Didn't you swear out that warrant
and make that charge knowing and with
the Intention of getting Carrie Smith
discharged"
Blnmes IL All to Kat,.
"offcer Katz made the charge" said
Then you permitted Katz to make a
p rsise e otiiesr and let her escape"
Mr.. Fromme objected that the girl es,
capped punishment because the Court did
not consider the evidence sufficient On
which to convict. although the law said
that one woman could keep DISORDERS
house in one room. The officer could not
be held responsible because the judge de-
The objection was sustained. AMI Mr..
wellman returned to the attack;
ment that you told her that II the cleo
tlon went right she might buy some
hrooms and put them up over her door
she did buy them and put them up?'
wow, Notwithstanding that you deny
that you ever took s25 a month for the
Captain and so for yourself from Mrs.
Thurow In payment for not molesting
her, It is a fact that from the time OF
( the time when you left the precinct,
you never made an arrest?'
IT never arrested any one there. She
was not living there
what, 1t has been testified here by
your fellow-officers that she did get all
her meals there and did live there ex-
ospt that she siep, h In ner a "a, vo spe
that you watched the house day and
night and saw women going IN and out ,
not know she was the proprietress then
Meehnn Badly Ratified.
What When she had pleaded guilty
"Weil. thought It had been turned
into a furnished-room house.
''Now. your testimony indicates that
when the woman pleaded guilty. Surely,
she was in a position to know what kind
Of house she kept, and she pleaded
Meehan was silent
Meehan gave place to Capt; Michael
Doherty, handsome. broad-shouldered
semblance in face as we'll as stature
to big Tom" Brennan. the ex-Chari-
ties and e1-street-Cleanins Commits
Capt. Doherty testified that he had
been twenty-four years policeman.
and only four complaints had ever been
. been 81 ,ss11 asss qnse .S
sears ago. snd Il. captain s V prouGis n'
You have heard the allegations Of
Mrs. Augusta Thurow. that she, paid
Fromme 20 SG fs t that pr tTae? "'' MI
mo. sir; Each and every allegation
made by her against me Is untrue. l
.'she testified that she visited you a
few days after that raid OF October.
1882 and made arrangements with you
that you told her would not press her
hard; that she suggested that she pay
Us a month. and that you replied that
you would send Meehan around. Is
ut is not true. It is false. I never
made any Arrangement with this
the subject Of money Tor protection was
not raised nor even mentioned"
Contradicts Mrs. Thurow.
did she call on you at or > o'clock
on the evening Of Jan. 6. 1898. at the
-, "shs di :, not. ~, Turning to the s!c.t..
showing that Capt. Doherty left the
a O'clock and did not return until
The Captain said he wrote the entries
his movements on that evening.
show that there were no female prison
Thurow's statement that she saw LIZ LIZ.
up Lizzie Meyers statement that she
was never in the station house except
as a prisoner.
couldn't tell anything about what hap
pened the only time she WAS in the sta
tion, and contradicted herself com.
The Captain said. regarding Mrs
Thurow's story that he spelled the new
ward mans name .'H-o-c-h,' FOR her Z
write down as the person she Was 10 d.
business with in the future:
name H-o-ek' for years, and nevei
Did Mrs: Thurow ever visit you II
your room in the station?
No, sir; never. II she had, would
have locked her up
Capt Doherty described the charac
teristics OF the Fourteenth Precinct. X.
said that the lower part OF the precinc
was filled with tenement houses am
the other kind of houses that are file
with lawbreaktng women and IT {
almost impossible TO get a, them escep
into tenement houses they are almos
out of the reach of the police.
DimcuIt to Get Evidence.
IT Is very difficult for the police Z
get evidence for conviction against hi
class Of women in ten. ments," said III
captain. + GFnlshed-roCNl houses al
almost as bad. II being very difficult I
obtain the sort OF evidence required b
the police courts against the occupant
OF these furnished rooms.
TIE precinct is full OF Anarchist.
Socialists and other turbulent element.
There is an immense foreign populato
there. having no knowledge of or inter
est in our institutions, and knowing Ii,
tie of our language.
There are great many felonie
committed in the precinct, and ON
felony list will show an immcns
amour, OF work done by our men 1
detecting the perpetrators, for they hid
themselves in many lodging houses"
we had only ninety men in our forC
for all this work with an average
eight o. nine on the sick list"
Then you could no, give your und
yftsd attention 10 3 Second avenu
could YOU" asked Mr.. Fromue.
we had q very troublesome preciDC
Shortly after took charge reports car
TO me Of the probable character of thS
house. l instructed several OF my me-
to dress in civilians dress and exc
every effort TO obtain evidence again
the house.
AT first we got warrants in this ma
ner against women where there ",
only one woman in room. Some OF II
men could read and talk German. ri
women advertised in the German paper
Ny men cut out their advertisement