The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-24

: To another question Goldsmith repiieu
when Capt. Cross took COMMAND ~
April. 1892, that precinct was alive, With
di5orderiy houses OF every variety. Wne,l
~ he was transferred the precinct was
As to Rhoda Sanford ana Katie schn.
? bert a cases, Goldsmith described what ne
i. ala for the Captain. and the story dla not
differ materially from that to.u Vi '"e
= II should be remembered that Capt
Cross is charged with accepting Svv
from these two women for letting them
run their houses. and, II IS alleged ,. az ~
the prosecution, that Capt. Cross dla
safc ieese coTrob e OF the story
Of those women that they paiu tle
/, bribes and that all the PROOF tnat dap pr,
Gross SSnses n ,se only
tends to eorroberate Mrs. SANFORD ana
ii is also claimed that Cross drove the
others TO the wall because they did not
nay blood money . :. - -,
But the defense claims, u 1t can be
shown that Capt ~, S sinst ali n the houses
in his precinct, and that the Ssn,oa Il.
and Schubert houses were watched as
carefully raided dsn ike the IKE The others
that would destroy the implication Oh
bad faith.
aFsy He Worked for Spite.
: Mr.. wellman tried to make Gold
smith admit that he received snare ui
. the 'blood" money which he intimateu
had been collected by Detective Dokel.
The pigeon had admitted that ne Huai
being a stool pigeon when Dokei re,ire Gu
from the force, and had received no
nav for his work from the police, He
said he never got a dollar. and did the
work frst as favor TO ms ,rie hei
cause the women called him stool pig
con-" He kept It up for spite rWHidns
four nights week ,a Doss spen psoa'u"s
He made his living he said, buying
and selling old clothes.
There was another stool pigeon named ma
: Nathan, and think there was sti,i an an,
other. for places Nathan couldn't set
in to. / tried and sometimes l c9lidnd
get In either, but they got the eviden nee
from some one else ana raioeu Tic
n3 Goids;mitb said he resided then and
now al 80 Seventh street. and Mr. HESS
That's respectable nsigheornSS 10
the Loews, the Levys. and other We'll
known people liver" Goldsmith as
Mr. Hess read several special orders
Issued to Capt. Cross by Supt Byrnes,
a census Of the suspected houses In the
Eleventh Precinct, copy. OF which ne
kept himself. This was to counteraet
as he got in the precinct Cross had ana I
list made to work from in systematic
scheme OF extortion. 49, ,,
Ex-senator McClelland at THIS point
asked thai it be entered on the record
that when Alice Ryder was asked 10
identify one of the men who visited tne
Schubert house In the evening Two yIa al
more like him than any one else IN IN, me
room. Capt Cross was In full captain y
uniform and the od only yoea Of I" csptanSy
and that his cap bearing the Inscription
.Captain," was ON the desk before him.
Henry Wendig. plumber; az ~ pe eM,n,
.; the te ,tirony OF a witness called by
Mr.. Wellman. who testified that ne d :,
plumbing In MIG ,ss s6s tSat i was then
open and doing business.
Hess Objects to Rulings.
q: wendig said that he was employed by
the owner OF the house to do all plumb
ing there, Mrs. Schubert as lessee pay
p Ss deserted, and that Mrs scau-
bert put OFF payment of the bill. and he
had TO. call and dun her for the nili SAY s'sV.
complained that Capt Cross was go hard
.>' on her she could do no busin6 S. and she
couldn't pay the M. ,,
y. N1 ~ object!" said Mr.. Wellman
objection sustained President Mar
-, tin promptly ruled. ~
This brought Mr.. Hess to his feet, He
- ruled with Wellman although he had not
stated any ground for the objection;
He said Il seemed to be enough, for
the "Court" that Mr.. Wellinan RAD oD'
iected. and indeed sometimes the rul ing
came almost before the objection had
been uttered. and certainly before tht
opinion of his Fellow Commissiomers.
well, the ruling has been made. was
President Martins only reply.
poenaed. first to go to AIR: wellman''
office, but when he was asked to tell VIVA
was said to him by Mr.. Wellman's rep
resentative. Mr.. Wellman strenuousi'
In the row that followed Wellmar
said he was honest. whereat Hess re
III You are honest in this prosecution
you will move that these defendants b'
!. discharged and the charges dismissed.
.polyinG the Thumbscrew.
=. "Mr. Wellman, you know you hav'
been applying the tnumn n rev p aoSeS
threatened and done everything to &c
them to say what you want them to
i have received complaint from reput
able merchants and business men, VIII
have been subjected 20 this intimidation
this very week, and so far as this MAJ
2 Is concerned an affidavit was offered :
him for signature. He declined TO Sig
Another was drawn and he refuse
to sign that, because 1t did not accor
with the facts nor with his statement
Then he was told that II he didn't sig
they'd have him down again. and woul
keep at II iii lie uli elSii'
y The witness nodded assent TO all this
He left the stand and Mr.. Hess called:
Capt. Adam A. Cross"
Capt. Cross said he had been police
man sixteen years, and he told of III
various promotions he had receive,
Then he described the Eleventh Precinc
He said the station was In Eldrids
street, and he presided over IL from Apr
20, 1892. to March I, 1899, period of Il
months and ten days.
at has a population of los, 900 renr'
senting all the nations, races and reliI
.. ions OF the earth, said the captain.
1T Is very important precinct. I
people are ignorant, great majority
!. them foreign born and having little SYN
pathy with our institutions, name
and customs, There are Nihilists, Al
archists. Socialists and all other polit
cal creeds represented there.
II had a force of eighty-sx men, ar
] think the best and most efficient ar
faithful men in the Department. l W.
nobly and loyalty sustained by a
During my ten months in the precin
nine different sergeants served und
me, and you have seen them all here
Witnesses.
During those ten months I could new
ot any time turn out more than eighte,
patrolemen for day posts. nor more Thu
thirty-six for night posts. 1t some tim
happened that ] had only two men {
day posts, the remainder of NV shO