The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-20
Placed Under Heavy Bonds to Appear
for Trial ON Charges of Perjury
and Exforting Money.
ALL SUSPENDED FROM DUTY
FIVE INDICTMENTS AGAINST INsPEC.
TOR WILLIAM w. M,LAUGHLIN.
Captains Siebert. Price, Devery, Dom
ohue, Murphy. Carpenter and Ste
phenson Among the Victims.

officials against whom indictments were
found yesterday by the extraordinary grand
jury were placed under arrest when they
went to police headquarters this morning.
Among the indicted men are: Inspector
William Mclaughlin; Capt. Jacob Siebert.
Union Market station; Capt. r.. j. Donohue.
West Twentieth-street station; Capt. Nj. r..
Murphy West Observation-Disclosures station;
Capt. James K. Price, M~acDougal-street
station; Captain Stephenson; former police
Captain VIM. s. Devery: wardman Edward
Glennon (dismissed); wardman Edward S.
Hill, formerly under Captain Price; ward
man Burns dumped his bail) Shortly be-
fore 1880 the indicted men gathered at po-
lice headquarters. After being placed under
arrest they were conducted to the district
attorneys office by Inspectors Williams and
McAvoy. The former had in his care In
spector Mclaughlin and Captains Siebert,
Donohue, Price and Devery. The others
walked by the side of Inspector McAvoy.
superintendent Byrnes said that the indict-
ments which had been handed to him were
all that had been found.
In the corridor the captains talked ex-
citedly with their chief, but all professed
ignorance as to what evidence they could
have been indicted on. When it was an
nounced that all the prisoners were wanted
in the court of Oyer and Terminer, where
District Attorney Fellows was waiting to
fix the amount of the bail, the men filed
into line, and, headed by Inspector VIII
liams, entered the court room. Inspector
William w. Mclaughlin was the first called
to the bar. The Inspector, pale and trem-
bling visibly, was addressed by the clerk,
who said: There are five Indictments
against you" Justice Ingraham was
handed the papers in the case, and upon the
recommendation of District Attorney Eel
lows the bail was fixed at $40, coo. The bail
of the first charge was fixed at $4,000 and
on each of the other four at $500. The bail
in the case of John j. Donohue was fixed
at 81, SOC; Michael j.. Murphy, $4,000. Ex-
Captain Devery's bail vas fixed at 10000.
In the case of ex-Captain Stephenson no
warrant was issued, as he is now under
$25, COO bail pending a new trial for bribery.
There are three indictments against Henry
W.. Schill, one for bribery, one for perjury
and one for extortion. On the first two
charges bail was made at 5000 each and in
the latter 81, 900. Captain Seibert was held
in slO,0o0 and Captain Price in s., 500 for ex-
tortion. Edward G, Glennon, who is under
indictment and out on 5000 bail, had $500
bail added. James Burns is also under in
dictment. and District Attorney Fellows
said he had good reason to believe he would
appear to give bail. The amount was not
fixed. Carpenter is not on the force now
and lives In Nyack.
THE INDICTMENTS.
The indictments against Inspector Nc
Laughlin allege that the offences were all
committed when he was in command of the
old slip station-the First precinct Each
Indictment contains five c~ounts-four for
bribery and one for extortion. The first
four counts allege that certain sums were
paid to Mclaughlin and received by him
as a bride, on the understanding that he
was to protect the giver from police in
reference.
The Indictments against Captain Donohue
and Price charge them with M ex-
tortion in that they endeavored to obtain
money from Jared Elagg, jr-, by threaten
ing to prosecute him tor renting flats for
Captain Murphy is indicted for accepting
a bride of $50 on April 1, 1890, from Robert
Payne, who formerly kept a concert hall
in Eighth avenue, to protect Payne from
police interference.
There is one indictment against Captain
Seibert for accepting SIS on July Is, 1890,
from Augustus W.. Barney, keeper of the
Magnolia Hotel, to protect him from police
Ex-Captain Devery is indicted for bribery
and extortion. The specific complaint is
grist, ir, on May 80. 1894. seagrist was at
that time tearing down a building in De-
very's precinct.
Ex-Captain Carpenter entered the court
soon after the other cases had been dis
posed of and was admitted to bail in Sic, 600.
He is indicted for receiving $1,000 from Will
liam Harms on March /, 1891, to protect the
members of the Retail Liquor Dealers As
ISOLATION from police interference. A wit
ness against Carpenter is police captain
Max. F. SchmittDerger.
Ex-Captain Stephenson is indicted for
accepting 500 on Feb. /, 1892, from William
II. j. Prelle, president of the Retail Liquor
Dealers Association of the Fifth Ward, to
insure police protection to members OF the
Ex-Wardman Glennon, formerly under
Captain Devery in the First precinct, is
May 80, 1894, from Francis ". seagrist. jr.
Glennon took the bride for himself and in
the indictment he is charged with taking
Mr.. Seagrist by threatening him unless he
paid. Police Captain Creedon is a witness
There are three indictments against
patrolman Schill. The first is for taking
$50 from Albert Cnick, Keeper or a saloon
as a house of designation. The second is
perjury in falsely swearing before the grand
jury early in its session that he did not
know Frank Webb and Virginia Jansen and
that he had no knowledge of a transaction
Ves~es Knows tneni as an Mo nnnf Ripley ri Eip% reiasti Vtne to
the sale of a house OF prostitution kept by
the Ripley woman at No. POP West Fourth
tempting to extort money from Jared Flagg,
jr., by threatening him with arrest for rent
ing flats for immoral purposes. Schill is
Jointly indicted with Captain Nye on this
charge.
Captain Burns is not in New York and the
charges against him were not given out.
The indicted officers will appear before
Justice Ingraham in the court of Oyer and
Terminer on Tuesday morning at 1890
o'clock and plead TO the indictments. Elk
Captain Stevenson will be required TO APP
pear on Thursday morning to plead to the
indictments, but he will not be arrested or
placed under additional bail.
The board of police. in executive session,
this afternoon suspended all those officials
in the department who have been indicted
by the extraordinary grand jury.
1t is believed the grand jury did not re-
turn all the indictments that have been
found. Those that were filed bear num-
bers. One went as high as forty-seven.
Although but twenty Indictments were re-
turned, others are expected to be returned
the latter part of the week.
The Supreme. Court papers ordering the re-
instatement of Capt. Adam A. Cross and
Wardman George Smith. who were. dis
missed from the force by the Board of Po-
lice Commissioners. last August, were pres
ented to the police board to-day. Besides
reinstatement, counsel for the policemen
asked for $2.056 expenses for Cross and $2,O7O
for Smith. The matter of reinstatement was
laid over until such a time as ex-Assistant
District Attorney Wellman could be con-
suited. Mr.. Wellman prosecuted the case
against the two men.