New-York tribune., 1896-06-06
SHERIFF T4MSEN'S BAD KEEPERS.
,opr TESTIMONY ABOUT THEIR Misco%
,--- ~ rr-orOw STREET JAIL.


nr-CT IN LUDLOW STREET JAIL
More testimony was given before coniH,ss''aa
william II Robertson yesterday 10 show tha' ~
,,..ns-. a, tho Ludlow Stree, jail. under saera
ramfens management. msbehaved themselves ana
.uo,,sf n-soners 20 buy whSkey. larger 100"
:, ,,s ola hrowrstone courthouse was pov'cts
,or -. hearins yesterday, because OF fne iarss
rrrr.r O, persons who wanted 10 hear the eVdencs
agairs, the Sheriff c.,
IT,. s-., w,,ne.s called by Deputy Atorney-Gen'
c-al Hssbrouck was Robert Steiner. io'"s' p'S-
oner IN the ;an by whom Il was des''ei % p.''s
81. .u,h,rs,ip OF a letter supposed 10 have Oe'
written hy Antonio Gonzales msA'"s
sea,n,t tho keepers S;einer's memory or hs a'.
nos,t,on 70 testify 50 weak tha' "o'a"S y"
v.lu. could bA proven by his statements
AIRS Jennie Williams was the nex' ~Nhess ~
testified that she was prisoner u -1-'" 80
jail Tor sending Illegal matter 'h'oas" VI.
Keeper Rumpf she said carie mo 'e' W. s
in the morning when she was III and o'o's'' s""'
whiskey. She told him 10 10 out
"Rumpt merely talked" she SAID ana n' 'aA
insulting. brutal and disgusting II was '"g'Ov
The witness was cross-exa mined by Genera irs'
upon the contents Of an afiiavit she had msae - Nv
the manner in which she was treated IN 'a'' o..
said that she could not remember having aec'a'e'
tha, Rumpr told her that he had visited sn0'He
woman pr.eoner al night. Finally she sa'' va
very III in the jail and the doctor said mus '.
whiskey in addition 10 my medicine. hump "s.'
the VIII skey TO me- he told me be had ls" .
come into my cell. because the doctor had 0'Ds"
him 10 give the medicine.
Lewis /. Moore. once poor DEBTOR u i'O''s.
Street Jail. testified that he paid gooa p',' ~.
his board for few days. Mr.. fiashrouck ssc .A~
the city paid II cents day for prisoner 'oa'.
Isaac cowen testified tha, while he was p''''s
in the jail ne saw the assault oy heepe' ~
Is,dor Isaac. and he was present at the celebrates
IN rho ,au ON New Years Eve. He made the h'''
snssch at The festival He said he knew OF '"'u"
being brough, into the jail for the use OF pf's''as
On ora occas.on rs cents was the tax for s"'.
bottle The bottle hidden In a closet WEE"
WAS easily found. lie once heard TAX aoou' 90
legged purchsse or sale OF the Gonsaes io.'',
said but what he had heard was not auns'
evidence The witness also had heafu ina
agent for a lawyer had oeea accused Oh eo'.Ss s~.
money from prisoners ard rot paying all oi !"
to the lawyer. THIS, also was de''s'''
tent testimony 90, mas o,,,loved By Dep
u,y"Shsr,n loeb 10 watch an Insurance Oui'vss "a
for six days and was paid for =! = noney for a
told that must put W some o. '"'
Bernhard Holzkamp tcst.fed that ne nan He
pioyed by Deputy Sheriff loeo as aM,asod rhere at
r,eh, Hc was tod thar there was tnrI ss "s ouss
hu, hs knew OF only two The witness IVA was money Sy
toned with "A view 10 show'nS wa. tn,S have been
was charged for watching than snoS. and hN
charged but ne became h,tie coniuS con =, the otbes
testimony did not show much one ~ va, ,,Sers coDser
He told OF German Reform s'up uapp.nareJ ba: ne
sa,S sherr Tsmsen was not member q or ss berg
The witness denied that ne was dssmS s., an wat.h.
In saloon when he should nav, hay,,,f "a O'clock Tnure
The hearing was adjourned un'i'
day morning