New-York tribune., 1894-09-13
PRICE THREE CENTS.
HOUNDED BY THE POLICE.
THEIR VICTIMS TESTIFY.
MANY STORIES OF PERSECUTION TOLD
TO THE SENATE COMMITTEE.

CARL WERNER AND HIS ARREST DECLARED 10
BE ONE PHASE OF THE oPPREssIoN-HIs Ac-
CUsER MAKES A LAUGHING STOCK OF HIM.
sELF-cAPTAIN SCHULTZ THE BOSOM
FRIEND OF GAMBLERs-THE COMMIT
TEE ADJoURNs UNTIL OCTOBER l.
The Lexow Committee heard the testimony d
several witnesses yesterday and then adjourned
the further investiga ton of the Police Depart
ment until Monday October l. John W. Goff Of
counsel for the committee moved the adjournment
In order to give the State Senators opportunity to
attend the Republican and Democratic State Con-
ventons and 1t understood that when the
committee resumes the investigation in October
the sessions will be continued from week to week
without interruption
On account of the adjournment Mr. Goff yes
terday called no witnesses whose testimony
would require much time he did not care to
have the testimony Of 4 witness unfinished at
the close of the days session. For that reason
no new line OF inquiry begun and the testi-
mony was not so important that which was
heard on Monday and Tuesday Many persons
who heard the testimony about Police Inspector
Alexander S. Williams on Tuesday were disap-
pointed because his name not mentioned by
witnesses yesterday In view Of the accusations
which have been made II Is greatly to be de-
sired that when the investigation Is resumed
next month, Inspector Williams be called to the
witness stand and subjected TO a thorough ex-
animation as to his official conduct and as to
the methods by which he has acquired wealth.
An examination such Commissioner McClave
experienced might result In most important dis
closures by Inspector Williams regarding corrupt
police methods
Part Of the testimony before the committee
yesterday was Intended to show that the recent
arrest OF Carl Werner, who had been a witness
In the investigation in June was due to spite
AMI that there also had been an attempt to
break the force Of Werner's testimony Police.
man Cohen who got the warrant for the arrest
or Werner on the charge Of attempted bribery
was one OF the witnesses examined By Mr.. GoH
and he said that the arrest Of Werner had been
made after consultation with Superintendent
Byrnes Inspector Williams and Captain Cross
at the Central ONCE. Mr.. Goff called attention
to the testimony which Werner had given before
the committee In June to show that 1t ought not
to have been used in the preparation Of charges
against Captain Cross. In preparing the charges
on which Cross was tried by the Police Commits
sioners. Assistant Dstrict-Attorney Wellman had
created the impression that Werner had sworn
that he had paid money for protection at time
WREN he was serving term In prison for per-
jury.
Several witnesses testified that they had been
induced by Central Office detectives to pay to
pawnbrokers the sums Of money which, the
pawnbrokers said. they had advanced to thieves
on stolen property. and one witness had had an
experience which made him believe that the de-
tectives and pawnbrokers were in league to get
money from persons who had been robbed.
Abraham Heyman who had been employed In
gambling houses In the Sixteenth Precinct. testi-
fled that Police Captain Schultz a bosom
friend and companion Of the keeper Of the houses
and had allowed the gambling to go until he
ordered TO stop it, The witness also declared
that Alderman Parks was interested in the gam
bling-houses and that Inspector McAvoy had
visited the houses at times when It was not pos
sibie for him to see anything wrong.
Mrs Josephine Hlrsch declared that she and
her husband recently bought a barroom from
Max Gombossy In East Houston-st.. and her
husband arrested and sent to prison on a
false charge OF keeping a gambling-pl because
she refused TO pay ;he police for protection
Worse than that, the police took away the
furniture in the place she declared. and later
returned II 10 Gombossy when he had regained
possession Of the barroom.
Mrs Caela Urchittal n widow from Russia
testified that she haG been sent TO the island on
a false charge. and that her three children had
been sent To an asylum where they were kept
from her. because she had refused 10 pay as much
money to detective from the Delancey-st DO
lice station he had demanded.
The results of the testimony given before the
Committee earlier In the week began to be ap-
parent yesterday when Policeman Henry Nc.
Ardle. the former ward man at the Grand Cen.
tral Station. applied for a pension and the Police
Commissioners refused 10 allow him to retire
from the department in that way McArdle was
identified by the witness William Applegate an
a ward man who had been in the pay Of the
green goods" swlndlers