New-York tribune., 1895-09-13
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TROUBLE FOR CAPT. STRA USS.
HE AND ACTING SERGEANT HAMMOND
NAY BE ACCUSED.
rorrs GRANT SAYS THEY WERE GUILTY o.
PERJURY IN TRIAL BEFORE coMMIs-
sIONER PARKER.

pFRJr'RY IN A TRIAL BEfOhE COMAlS-
sIoNER PARKER
IN the course OF the police trials held by Com
ro,ss,oner Parker yesterday ,he recent trouble be-
tween the police Of the East sxty-seventh-st sta
,,on and the Cherokee Club came up for inyestlga-
tlon Rounds nan John Buckley was placed on trial
charged with falling to execute certain orders when
nut on special duty at D. m. on September
Can,ain Strauss alleged that Buckley with six
no,icemen had been ordered 10 Seventy-ninth-st
and rirst-aye on the evening mentioned. TO pre-
vent any fireworks being set on during the Cherokee
Club parade. He said that he Issued the orders
in compliance with instructions received from Act
inc chief conlin and that they were given to the
,oundsman by Acting Sergeant Hammond. Buck
Ie, contended that Hammond sent him to Eighty.
slx,h-st which is In the East Eighty-eisnth-st
nrecInct In the course OF the cross-examlnation
bv the accused policeman's lawyer. Louis Grant,
Captain Strauss became much confused In his
answers.
"Dd you not talk with Buckley about report
o,, wore going 10 send to Chief ConliDT asked
Mr.. Grant
The captain answered that he had not
Questioned closely, the captain finally admitted
that he had shown him report. Then ne changed
his answer and said 1t was not report Out .
memorandum
"Nou a,d M, YOU show that memorandum to
the roundsman and read from It that you had sent
him TO Seventy -ninth-st?'
mo. sir"
Did not the roundsman tell you that If you sent
such report to Acting Chief Conlin you would be
sending false oneg'
mo. SIR"
Ibid you not throw 1t away with some remark
abou, YOUR being obliged to Chief coniin be-
fore sending it?"
mo" was the answer again given.
Acting Sergeant Hammond was called. He said
that he had sent the defendant and policemen TO
seyenty-ninth-st ard First-ave.. near where the
Cherokee Clubs house is, and on the defendants
returning he had repeated the orders When
asked II he had told Buckley that he tHammond)
had entered him on the blotter as having gone 70
Eigthy-sxth-st, he said he had not he also sald
and had only been scratched once before. when II
was done by himself, acting on MS own RESPONSE
When Roundsman Buckley was called he said
that he saw the captain In his room on the morn:
ing OF September He said that the captain seaa s,
Buckley and five policemen TO seventy-nntns.
and First-aye. II said the report was wrong"
said the witness. Il told Captain Strauss that the
order should read Il sent Roundsman Buckley and
six policemen 20 Eighty-sixth-st. and First-aye
The witness said he asked Actng sent hm "a
EiRhty-sixth-st and First-ave., and that HAM
mond had said he would not os,oad - sv,.
dence. ITO shorten matters" said the Commls-
sioner to M. Grant. Il will have it placed in evil
an erasure made 1t is plain that Eighty ,sixth-st'
has been erased and Seventy y-nnth-st supsti;
tuted East River has also been erased and
@The Police 'esn commssioners mis- said Mr Grant
cannot help making charges against them anu
place them on trial Is clear case case OF tOgay snt
no erasures were ever made In the blotter, ex.
eept one name that was changed"
diate action in the case OF Captain Strauss and
Acting Sergeant Hammond.