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

discharged. .. A.. ur, ,
and make that charge knowing and with
Discharged"
Blames II All to Kntz.
"onicer Katz made the charge said
Then you permitted Katz to make a
false charge, although you were his STU
perior officer. 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 soua eSd
be held responsible because the Judge de-
The objection was sustained, and Mr..
"You have denied Mrs. Thurows state
ment that you told her that II the cleo
tion went right she might buy some
in celebration of the victory. You know
she did buy, them and put them up?'
NOW. Notwithstanding that you deny
that you ever took $25 month for the
Captain and so for yourself from Mrs.
Thurow in payment for not moieStihE
her. 1t is a fact that from the time OF
that raid in October. 1892, down to Jan.
8, the time when you left the precinct
you never made an arrest? .,
II never arrested any one there. she
was not living there"
your fellow officers that she did get all
her meals there and did live there eN-
cept that she slept in her fiat some
where else and you have said yourself
that you watched the house day and
night and saw women going In and out:
Meehan said hesltatIngly that he, did
not know she was the proprietress then
Meehan Badly Ratified.
Mo-, What ct! When she had pleaded guilty
N SMeil, I thought it had been turned
into a furnished-room house.
"Now, your testimony indicates that
It was running exactly as 1t had been
when the woman pleaded guilty. surely
she was in q position to know what kind
Of q house she kept, and she pleaded
Meehan was silent.
Meehan gave place to Capt; Michael
siant With h gentle voice. '"0"''''''
Capt. Doherty has strong re-
semblance in face as well as stature
to big Tom Brennan, the eX-Chari-
ties and MISUNDERSTANDING Commits
Capt. Doherty testified that he had
been twenty-four years policeman,
and only four complaints had ever been
made against him.
~ have been reprimanded once and
sether: the latter Te being sls over p'{ twenty
years ago." said the Captain, proudly.
You have heard the allegations of
Mrs. Augusta Thurow, that she paid
Tromme. lis that true?'
mo, sir: Each and every alleGa ton
made by her against me is untrue.
deny them all and slngly."
"She testified that she visited you n
few days after that raid Of october.
1892. and made arrangements with YOU
for protection of her in her business;
that you told her would not press her
hard; that she suggested that she pay
SIS a month, and that, you replied that
that true?'
at is not true. 1t Is false. I never
made any arrangement with this
woman then or at any other time, and
che subject of money for protection was
Dot raised nor even mentioned
COntradicts Mrs. Thurow.
Ibid she call on you at or Q o'clock
on the evening Of Jan. 8, 1893, at the
"she did not, Turning to the b,otter
showing that Capt. Doherty left the
station-house for supper and tour duty
At ,6 3 , o,SloSk and did not return until
The Captain said he wrote the entries
and that they were true and indicated
his movements on that evening;
Mr.. Fromme offered the blotter to
show that there were no female prison.
srs Jan. 8. in opposition to Mrs.
Thurow's statement that she saw LIZ
sie Meyer there that night. and to back
up Lizzie Meyers statement that she
was never In the statlon-house except
rs a prisoner.
That was very important. as Lizzie
couldn't tell anything. about what hap
pened the only time she was in the sta
ton. and contradicted herself com
The Captain said, regarding Mrs.
ward mans name ''H-o-c-h' for her to
write down as the person she Was to do
business with in the future:
name Hook for Years; and l never
ibid Mrs. Thurow ever visit you in
your room in the station"
mo, sir; never. II she had, | would
have locked her up"
teristics OF the Fourteenth Precinct. Ito
said that the lower part of tn" precinct
was tlled with tenement-housos and
the other kind of houses that are filled
with lawbreaking women, and II is
almost impossible to get at them eXcep,
out OF the reach of the police.
Dimcult to Get Evidence.
1T Is very difficult for the police
get evidence for conviction against M
class Of women in noments,' sad III,
Captain. Furnish, d-ro7m houses al,
almost rs bad, 1t being very dliii rutt t.
obtain the sort of evidence required los
the police courts against the occupant,
of these furnished rooms.
The precinct H. fun If Anarchists
Socialists and other turbulent elements
There Is an immense foreign population
there. having no knowledge OF or INFER
est in our institutions, and knowing lit
tie of our language.
There are a great many feluulJS
committed in the precinct, ana url
felony list will show an iumCns'
amount of work done by our men II
detecting the perpetrators, for they hil'
themselves In many lodging houses"
I'VE had only ninety men Ia or force
for all This work with an average q
eight or nine on the sick list"
"Then you could not give your unii
vided attention to % Second aVcnEa
could you ?~~asked Mr.. FrOmmr.
1--WE had a very troublesome precinct
Shortly after l took charge reports cam
to me Of the probable character Of IA.
house. l instructed severa! Of my W.l
to dress in civilians dress and cNyI
every effort to obtain evidence aSIins
the house.
''At first we got warrants In this man
ner against women where there wa
only one woman in room. Some of m
men could read and talk German. TN
women advertised in the German papers
My men cut out their advertisement
and visited the advertisers. We mad
many arrests.
Later on my men reported to me tina
the police Justices would not issu" an
warrants of that kind, for there wer
no convictions in Special Sessions. +,
lice Justice Ryan told me himself tina
he did not want TO issue warrants TIA