Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-25
PULPIT AND POLICE.
TIE WAR BETWEEN DR. PARKHuRST
 AND sUPT. BYRNES STILL ON.

 4 Strange Drana In Which George Gould,
 Zella Nicoians, the Alleged Adventures,
 tho Noted Clergyman and New YorlSs
 Police Superintendent All Play Parts.
 The fight between Police Superintcnd. ent Byrnos and tho Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst has broken out in New York in three places. and 1t looks liko war to tho knifo now. Tho famous anti-Tam- many divino sent tho notorious Zella Mic olaus to tho grand jury room, where 1t is said that sho gavo testimony tending to show that Mir. Byrnes persecuted her and misapplicd his official powers. That was one battle in tho Parkhurst- Byrncs war.
 Battlo No. wus when Angel Arthur Dennett aud E. A. Whitney of the Park hurst society were arrested, charged with conspiring to procure tho disgrace of Do. tectiye Sergeants Jacobs and McMaDus by charging them with arranging with Burglar Jacob Hiss to rob store. LisJ was arrested also. All thrco got bail. Lisa says that when MoManus arrested him ho kicked hirn and yelled, I'll teach you ta go back on your friends" Tho police au- thoritics were severely criticised for giv- ing the warrant to McManus to servo.
 Tho third battle was begun in tho Tombs police court, but its object and meaning aro not SO clear, except that it il charged that tho police arc trying to in. juro Dr Parkhurst by striking at two-of his alleged agents. Thcso persons aro Xclla Nicolaus and her dapper little husband, Al Ruhman. They lived in tho samo house whero two clerks resided who are now under arrest on tho charge of stealing cigars. Tho Nicolaus woman and her hus- band wero subp0nacd in the case. But the real motives in tho three battles do not seem to have any reference to cigars or to burglars. Those arc mere items in tho great Parkhurst- Byrnes battle. Parkhurst is after Byrnos, and tho clergyrnan's friends say that Byrnes is after Parkhurst
 By far the most interesting development to come will he tho explanation of some secret negotiations that have been going on between Zella Nicolaus and Dr. Park hurst It is understood that for throo weeks or moro tho woman and her bus band Eave been drawing money from the treasury of tho Society For the Prevention of Crime, tho consideration they gave tho society being startling information bear ing upon alleged corruption in tho police department It is certain that since 6ho camo to New York few weeks ago Iolla Nicolaus has been followed everywhere by central office detectives It is said also that these detectives wero "shadowed" in turn by agents of the Society For tho Pro- vcntion of Crime
 Zela Nicolaus first came into promi- hence about year ago by claiming that she had noto or check for $40, GOO from George Gould and by threatening to sue for the amount Exactly how George Gould came to owo her that amount was never explained, but before the case came up in court Superintendent Byrnos took hand in tho affair, and 1t is understood that he had Zella before him at police headquarters and put her through mild form of his thirty third degree'' Zolla was not to be frightened by any of his threats, however and remained iutown.
 All this time her constant companion was Al Ruhman, and the notoriety tho pair gained caused their being put out of several boarding houses and hotels. One day Ruhman and Nicolaus- engaged car riage and went on an extended shopping tour. They had plenty of money, which suddenly came from sorno unknown sourco, and they bought lnvishly every where. The next day they sailed for Eng land, and the suit against George Gould has not been heard of since. The pair came back to this country, and claiming to be man and wife took rooms in a board ing house. They were put out of several places and all along the Nicolaus woman has claimed that she was being bounded by the police at the instigation of Superin tendent Byrnes, who was acting for George Gould
 The central office detectives found soon after Zella Nioolaus returned to the city that she was calling continually upon Dr Parkhurst, who, it was supposed, wasI meditating the bursting of somo bomi shell in the police camp. Since then tl Parkhurst police and the city police ha ] been watching each other without break, and the clergyman at the head of the first named organization has not had much sleep.
 In recent speech at Orange N. J., Dr Parkhurst, in referring to his reform work in New York, said:
 1T had tab kept on the police cap tains' history day by day, or rather night by night, as fast as it was made. It was good obituary to have in stock. Super fntendent Byrnes got wind about 1t, but was as innocent as a canary about his own officers, those peddlers of female virtue and guardian angels of tho bunko steerers. He told the reporters about it, and though he didn't know what his men were doing he was on to every move my officers made, and he called that sympathy with my cause"
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