The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-18
OOHERTy WILL FIGHT.
The Accused Captain May Make
Startling Revelations.
II Pressed Too Hard He Will 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. ami ex-Ward Men John Hoch
Bernard M'ehan and jeremiah $. Levy,
on charges OF cXtorting money from the
Keepers of brothcls 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 specihcat tons In each case are differ
ent, and the cases will he 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
| Il bitter fight.
| been completed, and Assistant District
Attorneys Wellmin and Osborne have
| their witnesses all ready to bring on
the fun Police Board will assemble to
sit in judgment upon the accused officers.
Tney have about twenty-five witnesses
IN all, whose testimony affects the four
defendants, and chief among them is
Mrs. Thurow, the former keeper of
| disorderly house In Second avenue. who
told the Senators of the Lexow Commit
lion and paid money for projections to
Capt. poherty III person. Afterwards
she said she had paid the ward men.
corroborated, 1t is said. by other wit
nesses who have been obtained since the
teNow COMMITTEES adjourned. while in
under arrest on an Indictment, Charles
krumm. the concert hall proprietor in
Chrystle street. will be the important
| witness.
The Defendants on the other hand,
have retained Lawyers Fromme and
Grant to represent them. and the
subpoena min at Police Headquarters
the past two days. 1t is said that fully
100 police officers will he summoned as
witnesses. while between forty and fifty
Tense has thoroughly covered the pro-
sramme now laid out. to say nothing
OF emergencies that may arise in the
| course of the trial
The general opinion in police circles
is that the Commissioners, especially
President Martin and Comm ssioner
first batch Of Defendants. Neither OF
| the new Commissioners Is especially in
terested, and they can therefore take a
calm and unimpa ss!oned view of the
| ~
| different.
It is, believed that victlme is de-
manded. or rather several. and that the
mos; likely subjects have been selected
Tor me purpose. and this is where the
iarciral element comes in. The chief
s.anegoat happens TO-, have some very
fact more Influential than either OF the
| Police Commissioners when the fight
IS rea,,X On there promises to he q highly
come Of the trials may Ire.
,lr the commissioners press Capt.
l'oherty too hard in their effort to Sc
cure victim for the altar, the Captain,
1t Is said Is prepared to give some testi-
mony in regard to the final disposition
Of funds Is, c2 ont to the police by VIC
people around Headquarters squirm
For this reason. 1t is said that the
trials may start out with big show OF
cArncstness and Vgor. but that before
they have reached the end some pre-
text will hc discovered To drop the whole
thing. In fact. 1t is said 1t is very
Y tine any mSrr 1t,
commissioners Will ever be submitted
by Supt Byrnes.
capt Doherty Knows too ml'h about
the working of the system VI polio.
tribute brought out by tn" LeNow in
resttsation. and rather than suffer him
. SELF to he offered up as a sacrifice I
shield any Of his sup"r.ors on thu Pc
lice Board he win toll all he knows
p tgarultSS OF Whom IL may stflke.
1t Is said. however, that Supt. Ryrnc
now has number of cases prepared h,
, Mr.. Wcliman and Mr.. Osborn under con
j sideraton which he NAV submit to thu
{ Commissioners at any time.
Z Mr. Wcllman called at Police Head
=, quarters this morning on his way dow
Il town and was CloSetod with the super
: inteuient frr half an hour. When HI
. | came out he was asked about the pros
+ poet of charges being hled against othe
u police officials aud h. REPLIED that M
, further complaints would he lodged 70
= the present at least not till the end u
, | tho week He declined to say whethe
:, any further indictments were contem
', eve are ready to go on tomorrow .
:. hr said "and viii start in probably wit
about twenty witnesses in "tt"ndanc
-. In a ditiou t. thos" who appeared befor
~ the I"Nuw Committee"
/, In regard t. the plac" of holding IN
=, trials, Mr. Wellman said 1t had bee
- suggested that they should take plac
- downtown IN one of the rooms in tn
" the matter over with the Commission
w. erS aud they had Thought best to hol
> them In the trial room at police lleac
quarters.
=" morrow and next day viii be Il,
voted to the trials this week, but hegil
ninG with next week only three days
- Monday. Wednesday and THURSDAY,
" We will try these cases said NJ
W.umau, with a strict Observance
thu rules of evidence. and no hearsa
:, testimony. or irrelevant or iuCOmpetel
rs matter win he allowed to go upon II
- records. The method Of procedure vi
l. be exactly the sam. ~ thai ~ a cas-
|. The renort that Gen, BENJAMIN
Tracy and cN-JudIe Horace Russell ha
been retained as additional counsel IL
~ capt Doherty could mo, he verified tn