The evening world., 1894-08-22
CHARGES BEING PREPARED.
No Attempt, However, win =
Made to Secure Any
Indictments.
LOOKS VERY BAD FOR pEyERY.
Rev. William Hamilton Tells q
Complaints That We're
ignored.

The trials Of Police CAPITA Dewery she
Cross, ex-ward Men Glennon and smith.
and ex-Ordinance Man burns. wsrc n
their concluding stages to-day.
AS Capt Devery Il still Ill at his horaet
and his old ward man Edward Glennon.
refuses to defend himself because OF hip
inability to compel Capt. Devery to ap-
pear as q witness. The proceeding y
somewhat slnpllaed. and all day yester-
DAY was devoted to the defense OF Cart
Cross and ex-ward Man George Smith,
the prosecution having closed.
In the Devery- Glennon and the Hur,D
cases the trial was still with the pross.
cution.
Mr.. we.lman Gays that no eAIprfs -
ent against Capt. Stephenson or say etnnf
Captain. s
Next Tuesday there viii prphabiy -
another round up OF poke 1eapeatn1
ana their ward men before ths Comntss
sioners. ~
Capt. Stephenson will have compss1
when he Is Arraigned for trial and his
feLow-defendant will be tried with him
on charges similar TO those against stspa~
enson. backed up by the testimony o1
1
VINO claim that they have been bed By
the police for the privilege Of numbering
the siiswa.ks with boods. BRIDGES "sxios's
anu the like.
Mr.. Osborne, Mr.. Carothers, ..Pats
rick" and the female stenographer at
Mr.. Weilman's office are busy preparing
cases against three or four captains on
this sort OF charges.
Just who these captains will be Mr..
Weilman declined to state. In fact be
said he did not know.
The FIRST witness called to-day was the
Rev. William Hamilton, of the Adams
street Methodist Episcopal Church.
| Brooklyn.
The reverend witness testified that he
! was pastor or the Memorial Church, u
/ Rivington street. in the Eleventh Pro-,
cinct from 1891 to 1894. which covered
the Mclaughlin. Cross and Devery adj
ILLUSTRATIONS In that precinct.
year ago." he said, "and drew his AZ
tention TO the disreputable character 81
several houses near my church In ~
1.-THE Captain made no reply. Thrso
weeks later visited the station again
and told the Captain that had seen .
and take a drunken man into the place
Capt. Devery said: That's . very
ing for that sort of thing can nad
Then the Captain turned upon me
s Setter sAt to break up these houses ana
houses?
Old Joseph Levy, the mote shaver.~
as he characterized himself. was re-
called to the stand by MIR. Hess In be-
haf Of Capt. Cross and Ward Ma
accounts and check book, In contraven-
ton of the testimony Of Rhoda SAN
Mrs. sanfard had testified that she
borrowed from him the $500. which she
paid to Ward Man Smith for Capt. Cross.
Mr.. Levi testified that Mrs. SANFORD
on the contrary, she was SO hush with
money during the administration OF Capt.
Cross that long before they. were due
given to Mrs. Fauss in payment for the
business at "a Bayard street. he having
shaved these notes for Mrs. Fauss.
this that Mrs. Sanford must have been
making money ir Bayard street. ana
that therefore the house was running
wide SSpsn IN ds BY swn lSs, ana must
Mr.. Levi had drawn up q copartner-
ship between Rhoda and Billy Hoyt. .
which d she asnisd sha
didn't know whether Sanford q Hcyt
had made the 1900 on Bayard street Or
in the Mount vernon road house.
Mr.. Levi was sure OF one thing only.
that he never loaned 5000 OF any. otner
sum 10 Mrs. Sanford; but that she de-
posted her savings with him for safe
keeping.
The Rev. Hamilton returned to the
stand at this point; but as a witness for
the defense In Capt, Cross's trial, the
Devery -Glennon trial having been
dropped when old man Levi left the
| stand.
Mr. Hamilton remembered that Cant.
Cross raided seven houses In June. 16e4
and the inmates were arraigned In Es-
sex Market Court. Mr.. Hamilton was
subpoenaed as a witness in those cases
Mir. Wellmun objected TO all OF this
and to the clergyman's stating the gen
eral condition of the precinct before aud
after Capt Cross took command. and
the Board ruled out the testimony cn
MIR. Welllnan's advice.
Air. Wellman told the Commissicucfn
that when Capt Gross took the stand
himself, he would be permitted. - ac-
lousel captains had been, 70 cell ~
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