New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-06-08
MAGISTRATE SINlfS AROUSED.
HIT REBUKEs A POLICEMAN WHO HAD ARREsTs
ED YOUNG WOMAN BICYCLIsT.

hi REBUKES A POLICEMAN WHO HAD ARREsTs
ED YOUNG WOMAN BICYcIIsT.
Policeman Henry Rosenberg. of the Yves. Thirty.
seyentn-st station was rebulSed in jefferson MIR
ket Court yesterday BY Magistrate S,mms for rhk-
ing what the magistrate termed an outrageous ar.
rest. The prisoner Miss Nettle Crane. q ypunS
woman living az No. l35 West Fourteen,h-ss. Ros-
enberg charged her VITA riding a bicycle down
Eizhth-ave at 10 O'Clock on Saturday nighT with
out having her lamp IT.
The young told Magistrate Simns that
.ho had been riding on the Boulevard and through
tho Park and was her way home down Eighth
ave- when at Thirty-seventh-st the policeman
stopped her and Informed FER that her lamp was
not It, She promptly dsmounted. she said. lighted
tho lamp and abou; TO remount wnen Rossn-
berg said. Now you're my prisoner"
Miss Crane sad that when she passed under rhs
elevated railroad tracks at tTfty-third-ss. and
E.ghth-ave. the l.gs. in the lamp was burning
When she got out on the brilliantly Lighted street
tho glare OF the lamp no longer visible on the
asphalt and she d!d not know tAet tho lamp lad
gone out until the policeman stopped her.
Tho young woman indignant. as she had
been subjected 10 a ride IN the patrol wagon from
tn. West Tnirty -sevcntn-st station . tho West
TAlrtieth-st station. waere there Is a natron. anu
had been forced remain in the latter station
until late at night. when she was bailed out; ehe
said that her experie1ce had osea -, y hsr
a;atements bur simply said: We'll her i.gat
out and l arrested her" Magistrate Slnms, VINO
IS himself wheelnan. grew moro aHd more IT,
dignant the young woman told OF hcr arrest
and turning Rosenberg said:
Policemen you are a disgrace 70 rn3
forc0 and occupy positions that should DC occupied
By good 4 policeman Ia supposed 10 nave
ordinary good sense ard 70 exercise a little JuuS-
mcnt You seem 70 have used neither in tll5 casa
Here is q young Respectable woman, locked up
and forced TO remain IN the station with women OF
low character while really, as you aomit yourseIl,
you arrested while her lamp was H. according
10 the CORPORATION ordinance. l honor-Dly discharge
her from custody and I sympatn!zo win her Tor
tho trouble sho has experienced through tie un-
warranted action on the part OF this incompetent
policeman - .,
Another bicycle commanded the Magistrates
attention next and again his Indignation was
aroused. Dennis Haggerty, a truckman. was ar
raigned by Park Policeman Brennan, o. Wesnn3-
ton Park calrsei win having insulted Mrs. Frank
j. 5earin, % No rs Greenwicn-dve, as she was
riding near the Washington Arch on her whecl
Saturday afternoon Her husband was standiAB
on the sidewalk watching her. when the trucAman
drove alongside OF her wreel and nsul,ed her Win
the foules. OF language g.,
The husband heard the insults offered 70 his wife
and, running out seized the horses by the reiiS
Brennan appeared and took HaSyerty n CUSTODY.
In court yesterday HaSgerty Cd no. ceny t,e
language used, and held in go oai! Tor as gooi
behavior for six months. In imposing the sen
terce. Magistrate Sirnnls said:
Il arr only sorry mat cannot make your pun
ishnlent moro severe. You belong ID class or
blackguards which IS too common IN ana apout
Now York l nave frequently heard ~sen, oIt
low-ived fellows upon the sidewalks as they wee
riding their wheels through the streets OF TINS
cltv You should be taught a lesson and deem
II q pleasure that am able 10 administer II N
thiS instance" 49,
In default Of tho bond. Haggerty was committed
to the Workhouse.