The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-17
FRIDAY. JANUARY II, 1896.

This paper is Democratic in principles
and Is Independent in its rieacs on all local
questions.
Etudleaf in M "a nicfpaI Corruption, No.4
While the Philadelphia Combine and
its leader Dave Martin are enjoying
their s'vindication'' by the Party of Moral
IDEAS Of that city. we resume our sum
mary Of the revelations of corruption in
the Police Department of Philadelphia at
the point where we dropped the subject
on Wednesday. The testimony which we
take up today was presented to the An
drews Committee on December IS. Here
are some selections from it's
Catharine Mccain. a street walker, re-
siding in the Eighth District. at 42s Gar
den street. replied to questions by Mr..
Petit as follows
Odd the police ever demand any
Q.-What did you have to pay them for
Al just gave them according to my
means / never paid them above q dollar lar
mand this money?
A,-When I would be on the street. at
0.-what officers can you name who
A.-Oficers Wheeler, Ellinger, Lovatt and
Mike Hurst. OF the Eighth District.
The witness then testified that she was
accustomed to walk on Ninth. Callowhill
80 r..a.~ tr. +ho4 o+har o;rIr uaro
on the same streets and that when she in
quired of them about paying money to the
police they seemed to be afraid to talk
about it. She said that one girl seemed
to be particularly afraid of Oficer Film
ger. and this girl asked the witness if it
would be advisable to give the officer
money The witness told her to do as she
liked. She said the girl had then just
made a dollar. which should have been
given to the witness. and hat the girl
gave it to the officer.
Q.-What do the policemen say the
money y for. wnen they ask you Ior II.
gar or something.
Q.-Do they stop you and ask you that
when You are going along the street?
o-They call it money for privileges, ?
do they not?
Nellie Lester. formerly of SN Noble
street. testified that she occupied that
hons for seven or eight months and
rented out the rooms to girls and their
men. and that most all of the houses
In the same block were of like charac-
ter. She testified that, last summer.
Officer Eliinger met her IN the street
and asked her to buy SIS worth of
tickets for the police excursion fund.
The witness replied she had not that
much money, but could take a couple.
The officer then told her to take the
tickest and have the girls in her house
purchase them. This the witness de-
clined to do. Subsequently she was
f~mportuned by the same officer, but
would not agree to purchase the tickets.
Soon after her last refusal the officer ar
srested4her while she was on her doorstep,
charged her with street walking and
compelled her to pay the fine. He sub
sequently arrested her seven or eight
times. and. on one occasion, dragged hel
out of the yard Of her house. using VIC
1ence. tearing her clothes and injurine
her arms and ankles.
There was a good deal more of this
sort Of abomination and then, on De
cember 10. John Davis of No. $50 SoutI
Fourth street told how he had been club.
bed without cause by a policeman. His
skull was cracked and he bled profusely
Davis claimed that the assault upon hin
was i%nstigated by Select Councilman An,
derson Davis incidentally mentioned the
fact that he was formerly a police Off.
Ger, and although a civil service examin-
alton is presumed to be requisite for oh,
tanning a position on the force, he was
not required to go through his examin
alton. Corroborativs evidence of the un,
provoked assault upon Davis was giver
by r. a. Romano. Frederick Epp, Loui.
Fishblatt and Miss Lizzie Davis. all resi-
dents of the neighborhood.
Robert Cunningham. Of $40 Walnut
street. a school director in that section
told with great d~istinctness n empha
sis of the part taken in politics by TN
police. He named officer Joseph Nc
Clone, John Hagan and George Jefferie
as some Of those especially and offensive