The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-25

New York, Oct 24-Counsel Golf
startled the Lexow committee when it
reconvened this morning by saying, ex-
citedly:
II am compelled to ask for adjourn
"A rnent until u o'clock. 1 told the COM
, mittee our star witness, a woman who
had paid money to high officials, had
been stolen in the dead of night. Her
. 1&me is Matilda Hermann. Our de-
tectives struck the trail and finally run
ter down in Chicago. She consented
to come east. When the party arrived
in Jersey City this morning the out
rage was committed. The police of
New York got the police of Jersey CITY
TO arrest the party on the charge of
Kidnapping. The trumped-up charge
was designed to detain her.
Chairman Lexow broke in with:
is she over q years of age?"
es, and, moreover, willing to come
mere" answered Goff.
rms woman will tell how the police
raised fund to get her and other wo-
men OF her class out of the CITY. There
is a colony of them now in Chica go
waiting for the commission to al
i journ." az
Z We may never adjourn broke in
Chairman Lexow
Golf said he hoped to prove how
much money had been contributes in
furtherance of the alleged police CON
splracy to spirit away Mrs. Hermann.
ing:. -'iio"-
Mrs. Hermann was selected by Mr..
Con to give testimony against the no.
lice of the Fifteenth precinct of this
city, to whom it is alleged she has
paid large sums of money 10 be allow
60 10 operate four alleged disorderly
houses. Her sudden disappearance re-
suited in Mr.. Goffs suspecting that
some subpoena servers were in collin
sion with the police under suspicion.
Are in Collision.
Private Detective Wells was engaged
10 look her up. He found her AT tha
Colorado hotel, Chicago. and endesv-
ored to induce her to return and tes-
TRY before the committee. She re-
FUSED. Wells communicated with Ser
geant-at-Arms kearney, of the J,exou,
committee, and a bogus telegram was
sent TO her with the information that
her husband had broken his leg and
was lying in hospital in Hoboken in
no time in coming to her husbands as
sistance. She arrived in the PennsvI-
Vanla railroad station at $50 O'clock
THIS morning. Detective Wells was
shadowing her. Near the railway lead
ing to Montgomery street. Sergeant-at-
Arms Kearney intercepted the woman
: de ASKED her TO consent to go with him
10 New York and subsequently, Detec-
tive Wells Joined in the converse +ion
hcs1 III
and was gesticulating wildly. when
Senator William D. Daley. of New Ter
sey. appeared and told her he had been
retained as her counsel. Kearney and
wells wanted to compel the woman 10
go to New York, but Senator Daley. re-
r1onstrated, as he declared he wo,,1d
not permit her to be kidnapped. /" S,cb
confusion vas caused in the station
that Policemen Boyle and McNalIv .r-
rested Sergeant-at-Arms Kearnev and
Detective Wells and Mrs. Hern,s,,,.
charging them with disorderly con,
Duct and took the prisoner TO noIica
headquarters in Jersey CITY.
How Senator Daley learned that
Mrs. Hermann had left Chicago is
puzzling The Lexow committee 5etec-
tives, and there is a suspicion that tba
New York police and certain attacheas
OF the LeXow committee are in COL
Ia
head off damaging witnesses.
The Broken Leg sforr
When Mrs. Hermann was arraiened
before Justice Potts in Jersey CITY
Senator Daley appeared as her co,n-
sci. He said he had been retained for
that purpose by Gustav Dork. of New
York, who told him an attempt was
10 be made to abduct Mrs Hermann
on her arrival from the west. Sena+o,.
Daley said Mrs. Hermann told him
while the Lexow detectives were talk
ing with her that she did not wish n
return TO New York The detectives
tried to force the woman to go with
them and they and the woman were
arrested. Justice Potts held upon the
evidence of Detective Kearney that
Mrs. Hermann was a fugitive from
justice and committed her to Jail for
thirty days under bonds of Sc. 600 To
await extradition papers The Jersey
City police then preferred charges
against the LeXow detectives Of al
tempted abduction. The chairman said
II had been the intention to examine |
Police Commissioner Sheehan TODAY |
but that gentleman had asked to be |
excused in order that he might at |
tend meeting of the board. No 9TH |
er witnesses had been called when the |
sitting adjourned until tomorrow.
II answer to questions. Mr.. Golf said /
the story that Mrs. Hermann had been
decoyed from Chicago to Jersey civ
by telegram stating that her hus-
band had broken his leg was totally /
false.
She came on voluntarily" said Mr. |
Golf, land even paid her own railroad I
fare. The man alleged to be her hus- |
band broke his leg before she left this |
city. She was nursing him when she
went away, and, moreover. since she I
LETT him he has been taken away Sc
cretly too
AN INDIAN or TRIAL.
He {s Charged wiz, p,r;r- r,, L