New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-03
JUSTICE HOGAN DRAWN IN.
MRS. HERMAN NAMES HIN.
SHE ACCUSES HIM OF CONSPIRING WITH
POLICE CAPTAIN

THE WITNESS DECLARES SHE PAID THE AS
FOUNDING SUM OF s25cD FOR PROTECTION
IN THIS CITY-sOME OF TT WENT TO CAP
TAINs HAUGHEy AND RYAN AND SOME
TO EX-CAPTATN BROGAN-HOw THESE
THREE MADE Up FAT PURSE
AND HURRIED HER OFF To CHI
CAGO-TIIE BARGAIN WHICH
RECORDER sMYTH cAR-
RIED OFT FOR HiR
Nearly all Of the time at yest' rdays session
OF the LcXow Committee was occupied with the
testimony of Mrs. Matilda Herman. the woman
whom the police had vany tried to keep away
from the witness chair She told part Of the
police conspiracy yesterday. when IT was known
- some of the captains and other pplicemen
who had backmailed her while she had kept dis
orderly houses in the Fifteenth Precinct that she
had received subpoena to appear az a witness
before the committee. - stranger came to see
her who said that several men, including Cap
tains Haughey and Ryan and ex-Cnptain Bro
gan had made up a purse TO pay her expenses
for trip and she was Induced to 60 with the
man to a dark street At lat" hour at night 10
meet about "A dozen ~ th" mci who vera anxious
To have her leave the city. She received Sl.'O0'
with the understanding that she va. {" 20 away
and stay away until the committee hnd finished
the investigation II the Police Department. The
stranger went with her T. VI ntrea and then To-
Chicago. whore she found by on" ~ IN"
committees agents and induced To- return. she
declared that she had not been made aware ~
the plot TO stop her upon her arrival In Jersey
city and che said that Senator DAILY II Ho-
boken. had offered To- got bail for her FOR 500
Mrs Herman said she thought sh" had paid
over t25 600 to the police anl % lawyers during
The seven years she kept disorderly houses IN
West Third-st. She declared that sh" had paid
rnr police protection under several captains. and
she named ex-Captain Brogan aui Captains
Haughey and RYAN. who had command II the
Fifteenth Precinct while she was v.'aiing IN"
law there but she persistenily refuse - name
Captain Creeden. who aiso WAS in con. 'nand -
tn pre-inc, at one time when she admitted
having b-en blackmai!cd and IT was plain tnai
she was determined not To implicat" him. she
ais, appeared - be unwilling 20 lmplicate Po-
liceman Joseph Cooney. who vas said - hav"
received presents from her and t. have PLAYED
an important part IN her sudd"n flight from the
ciiy
ono shocking part - the woWan's testimony
concerned her own niece she declared that 7he
had ,ricI - keep tho young woman away noh
"Nl nm i"n'rs h"' we XII """ "'''''' ""'
f,kou her 20 on" of the houses IN W'sf Inirl-
and hai kcp' h"~ thor. Tn" witness d"-
.ar,I that snc hal caused inmates Z the house
10 10 arrested In the HOY" - saving the g.rL
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foN'" Justice hogan ha' '"''d''"'' " "''' '''
,hargeA wi,h conspiracy. The glrrs mother was
arrested In August 1893. 'he witness said. but
-, ....-,t.s A. ,.oef said that
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