The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-18
The Accused Captain May Make
Startling Revelations.
II Pressed Too Hard He viii Have
Something to Say.
Many Witnesses Summoned for To-
Morrow's Proceedings.

The four Police Commissioners will
make their first appearance tomorrow
in their great act of trying Capt.
Michael Doherty. of the Leonard street
station, and ex-Ward Men John Hoch.
Bernard Meehan and jeremiah S. Levy,
on charges of extortng money from the
keepers of brothels and other places of
ill-repute.
The four accused men will be placed
on trial at the same time, and the testi-
mony Of all the witnesses examined will
apply to all of the defendants. although
the Specifications in each case are differ
ent, and the cases will be considered
separately by the Commissioners when
they come to finally dispose OF them.
after hearing all the evidence.
The trial of this first batch Of Offend
ers promises to be long one, and Capt.
Doherty and his friends make no secret
of the fact that they are going to make
a bitter fight
All arrangements for the trial have
been completes and Assistant District
Attorneys Wellman and Osborne have
their witnesses all ready to bring on
the full Police Board will assemble to
sit in judgment upon the accused officers.
They have about twenty-five witnesses
in all, whose testimony affects the four
defendants, and chief among them is
Mrs. Thurow, the former keeper of "A
disorderly house In Second avenue, who
tee how she had gone to the police sta
ton and paid money for protection to
Capt. Doherty in person. Afterwards
she Th saa shs aS of ha e aa g be
corroborated, 1t Is said. by other wit
nesses who have been obtained since the
I;exow COMMITTEES adjourned: while in
under arrest on an Indictment. Charles
Krumm, the concert hall proprietor In
Chrystie street, will be the important
The defendants. on the other hand,
have retained Lawyers Fromme and
Grant .i,hI,t.n to RE, represent 1.-The them; and the
has been working at lively rate for
the past two days. 1t is said that fully
100 police officers will be summoned as
civilians will be called before the de-
Tense has thoroughly covered the pro-
gramme now laid out. to say nothing
OF emergencies that may arise in the
The general opinion in police circles
ts that the Commissioners, especially
sheehan, have set out to "break" this
first batch of defendants. Neither of
the new Commissioners is especially in
terested, and they can therefore take a
situation, while with the other two 1t is
different.
II lS DeIleNeO NlC.lme IA de-
manded. or rather several and that the
most likely subjects have been selected
Tor the purpose. and this is where the
f fssrnsad, element comes in The chief
strong friends IN Tammany Hall-in
fact. more influential than either OF the
Is really on there promises to he a highly
entertaining circus, whatever the out
>ome OF the trials may he.
II the Commissioners press Capt
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cure victim for the altar. the Captain
IT Is said Is prepared to give some tcsti-
M ony IN REGARD to the final
lators Of the law that win make some
people around Headquarters squirm.
, m%r ,his reason, n l. said that the
rarnestness and vgor, hut that before
they have reached the end some pre-
text will he discovered TO drop the whole
thing. In fact. 1t is said 1t IL very
doubtful whether any more complaints
prepared by the special counsel for tho
commissioners will ever he submitted
In other words. IT is whispered that
capt. Doherty knows too mrch about
The WORKING Of the system, OF police
Nestigation. and rather than suffer him
self to be offered up as n sacrifice I,
shield ,IH am, Of his super.orS on the ro,
regardless of whom 1t may strike.
1t is said. however. that Supt. Ryrnes
MIR. Wellman and MIR Osborn under con
sideration which he may submit to the
Commissioners at any time.
Mr.. Welman called at Police Head
quarters this morning on his way down
town and was closeted with the Super
intendent for half an hour. When he
came out he was asked about the pros
pect OF charges being filed against other
police officials and he replied that no
further complaints would be lodged for
the present. at least not till the end of
the week. He declined to say whether
any further indictments We're contem-
plated. -. ;,
he said. land will start in probably with
about twenty witnesses in attendance
in addition 70 those who appeared before
the LeXow Committee"
In regard to the place of holding the
trials. Mr.. Wellman said 1t had been
suggested that they should take place
downtown in one of the rooms in the
County Courthouse, but he had talked
ers and they had thought best TO hold
them In the trial room at Police Head
quarters.
Tomorrow and next day will be de-
voted to the trials tlis week but begin
ming with next week only three days a
week will be set apart for their cases,
Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.
We will try these cases" said Mr.
Wellman, with a strict Observance OF
the rules OF evidence, and no hearsay
testimony, or irrelevant or incompe tent
matter will be allowed to go upon the
records. The method of procedure viii
be exactly the same as that OF case
The report that Gen. Benjamin f.
Tracy and eN-Iudge Horace Russell had
been retained additional counsel fOr
Capt. Doherty could not be verified this
morning
stole Two Fur Cnpes.