The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-17
INITIATING CHAPMAN
Serious Charges Against
Policeman FlaheTty
by a Woman.
ACCUSED PLACED ON TRIAL
Commissioners Try and Punish
Delinquent oficers-Did Not
Learn of Robberies on
Their Post.


1t was trial day yesterday for a dozen
| delinquent policemen. AS a Whole the
| offences were trifing and easy punish
nsent was inflicted.
One man has a peck of trouble on ms
hands, and there may be sensationalNae-
velopnnents when his case is heard. he
is Michael Faherty of the Gregory street
| station. He is accused of having been
| intoxicated on the night of May 81, and
also with having struck Florence
Wayne, of No. 542 Jersey avenue in the
face.
It was about eight O'Clock on the even
| ing of May 81, she alleges, that while pass
ing up Montgomery street. between
| Green and Hudson streets, Faherty, who
was on duty there, intercepted her and
| seized her by the arm She attempted
to break away from the copper, who, she
asserts, was drunk. When she did SO
he struck her in the face and again he
seized her by the arm and declared his
intention of arresting her. Eye witnesses
say that the assault was unprovoked.
Frank j. Roe, of No. "A Wayne street,
who witnessed the performance, remon-
nllAA = eikAC ~ JAN %N
was drunk. While Faherty was arguing
with Roe, Miss Wayne broke away from
her captor and fed. Faherty followed
her and again seized her roughly by the
arm and started with her in the direction
of the patrol box at Hudson and Mont
gomery streets. Cornelius F.. Cronan and
other men demonstrated with Faherty,
and declared that unless he released the
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against him.
In some way Miss Wayne again broke
away from her captor. This time she es-
capped. Faherty then threatened to arrest
Frank J.. Roe, who, he said, had interferedr
with him. He did not carry the threat
into execution. A crowd had been attract
ed by the occurrence. Serious accusations
were made against Miss Wayne, it is al
legged, by Faherty, but there were present
gentlemen who knew her and who had
seen what had taken place. The p
was denounced and when he found the
crowd had taken sides with the young
woman he had insulted he slid away as
quietly as possible.
Chief Murphy, on learning of the case,
sent for Miss Wayne. Much against her
wishes She lodged a complaint against
Faherty. J. is likely she would have al
lowed the case to drop had not her friends
and parents compelled her to make a
charge. She wished to avoid publicity,
she said, but her friends insisted that she
should make an example of the man who
was apparently following the example set
by Captain Chapman of New York. At
ter Miss Wayne made complaint against
Faherty. F.NJ. Roe did likewise.
The case was to AVE been tried yes
terday afternoon. When it was called no
witnesses responded. President Aber-
nethy was mad. Miss Wayne failed to
appear; Roe did not respond, n Mr..
Cronan, who had been summoned as a
witness, was CONSPICUOUS by his absence.
Commissioner Abernethy said that If
an outrage had been committed on a LADY
by a drunken member of the force, the
victim and witnesses should not fail TO
come forward and give testimony which
would permit the Commissioners to in
fict such punishment as would result in
the department being cleared of such
dangerous and undesirable members. The
failure of the witnesses to attend re-
suited in the case being laid over. An eff
ance of both compliments and the wit
nesses at the next meeting of the
Board. The witnesses and compliments
by iabsenting themselves from the trials
will not relieve Faherty. as the Commits
sioners have decided to have a rigid in
v~estigation made. They believe there Is
has not been brought to the surface yet.
The case of Patrolman Andrew Miller,
of the Fifth Precinct, also had to be
Of witnesses. Miller has serious charges
to answer. 1t is alleged against him that
on Jun Is he was drunk and while IN
n knocked him down and beat him
brutally. Ex-Judge Puster has been re-
tanned by Miller. Counselor Robert Carey
appeared and explained that the ~ex-judge
would be unable to be on hand Com
~plainant Birch's witnesses failed to re-
spond to the surnmonses sent out and the
In the cases of Faherty and Miller
there will be. it is expected, surprising
revelations. Il
Policeman Thomas Hawkins, Samuel
Stanley, E. Lozer. M.sOxley n F. Me-
Gtlrk were up for failing TO learn of a
robbery which had been committed on q
Of the house which was entered failed to
appear and the case was laid over.
Peter .Bannon and Frank Clark. were
John Rodgers was accused of violating
the rules. 1t was charged against him
that he neglected TO pay some legally con-
cided. to ask Corporation Counsel Blair
for an opinion as to their power in the
]. P. Mccarthy and Dennis Burns were
fined one days pay for being off post.
Philip Bonsper was similarly fined for
being absent without leave.
William Buckbee was called to answer a
charge of un-truthfulness. He is a BIZ
cycle cop and in some mysterious way
managed to wreck his machine. When
questioned he said the handle bar was
broken when he took the wheel out. The
appearance of the wheel when Buckbee
brought it in indicated that 1t had been
under a freight train an hour or 50. The
case was adjourned for two weeks.
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