The evening world., 1894-10-01
COMING AFTER
The POLICE.
he Charges the New Grand
Jury to Investigate EVi-
denCe Of Corruption,
WORK WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR
Refers to the Shameful State Of
Affairs Shown Up by the
Lexow Committee.
IS 1T A REBUKE TO FELLOWS :?
The District-Attorney Had Neglected
10 Bring the Matter Before
the Courts.
WORK WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR
IS 1T A REBUKE TO FELLOWS ?

The new Grand Jury, sworn in before
Nudge Cowing to-day in Part l. of the
Court of General Sessions, has been in
structed to probe the matter of police
corruption.
District-Attorney John r. Fellows
some time ago was asked II he in
/ tended to call the attention Of the
Grand Jury to the charges against
police captains made by Lexow wit
nesses, and returned an e!nsive answer.
Judge Cowings charge to the Grand
Jury, therefore, although Col. Fellows
name was not mentioned in 1t. Is in the
nature of an implied rebuke to the
Dlstrict-Attorney.
In substance Judge Cowing said:
1T is matter of public. notoriety on
the. lips of all citizens that certain off,
duty, or are charged with being derelict
and having been corrupt in their OFF,
cial relations. 1t is my duty to instruct
s sSarge esa Of that dd mHsf nve'sae all
Il sllude particularly to the charge of
corruption in public office IN police
tain rules and regulations for, the gov
eminent and discipline of the police
force. Those rules and regulations are
made for the purpose of preserving the
good order of the police among them
selves principally. There is a higher
law than theirs on the statute books,
which also prescribes the penalties for
those persons derelict or corrupt in the
administration of their office.
1T will be your duty to take up these
various cases where charges have been
made, and most thoroughly to sift them,
and II you find that any of these officials
that are thus charged seem to be guilty
of such accusations 1t is your duty, with
out fear or favor, to present them to this
bar in order that justice may be meted
out , -, ..
cases have been brought up by the
Police Commissioners does not in any
way interfere with your function as
Grand Jurors.
neither are you to take their action as
conclusive in any case. You must, there
fore, examine the evidence in each case
have been officials who have been cor
rupt in the administration of the laws
| 1t Is hence your duty, after you have
disposed of the sixty-seven prison cases
still awaiting your action. to take up
these matters and to thoroughly investi-
gate them. without fear and without
1T Is certainly deplorable II public
Vofiicers intrusted with high and i'm
Aprtant duties have interfered with the
ADMINISTRATION of criminal justice for
by by furnishing immunity to violators
the law. 1t demoralizes the whole
pdy polite.
/" No State or government can long
Eist where such matters are tolera ted.
low far more important it is that those
Iblic servants who have been intrust-
with the responsibility for keeping
nd preserving the public peace should
e restrained and punished when they,
themselves, offer immunity for crime,
than that mere street urchins who COM
init some petty grimes which, as a mat;
punished by lesser magistrates, should
be dealt with by the Grand Jury? The
other course shakes the fabric of your
Such things cannot. must not and will
not be tolerated. Therefore, take it for
granted that you will give to the inves-
and conscientious attention. Where you
find that the law has ben violated you
VIII be quick to present the offenders
out to them.'
There. is another class of offenses
which ! have noticed and you have, per-
haps, that Is crimes of violence in our
public thoroughfares Men are waylaid
In our public streets and parks and in
our cars, and 1t seems to me it Is time
this matter Is put stop to.
Therefore, recommend in all cases OF
that description you not only investi-
gate the facts in that case but also
ascertain whether or not it is not the
\ who commit crimes against the peace
and good order are not professional
criminals. so they may be indicted for
"a second offense, and our streets may
pe made as safe as a stern administra.
Pon OF the criminal law can make it,"
The following are the names of the
}rand Jurors for October:
Edward Won valkenburg merchant, g. Worth
street; Edward T. Oh )ate butter merchant 3s
cortlandt street, residence . West slxty-hftf
street; Charles Bass. residence 16l East Eighty,
FOryeniSth street. seEmah GOLDMAN 9nnan clerk Tss
Lexington avenue; Morris Hermann. al-estate
| q West One Hundred and Thirty-third street
! henry v. Mead. real-estate 342 West Twenty
ninth street. residence 422 Eighth avenue. Eu
gene II. Paddock merchant, $40 Broadway, rest
99ehce lis West Seventy second street, Louis II
| Eapham. merchant 90 Ferry street. resdenc,
spuyten DuyviI: John }. Lapham merchant 2,
ferry street, residence 46 East Sixty-seyentl
| street; William c. Mexican. banker. 81 NASSAU
street. residence l02 West Seventy fifth street
Nsea helivaina. wine merchant, 81 Mas
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