The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-27
MOSES EYE ON CHAPMAN.
INVEsTiG ATING THE ARRESTS OF
TENDERBOIN WOMEN.

The President or the Police board Goes to
Court 60 Sec the Captain's DrnEnet Opened
He'll ne There Again To-day. when It IL
Expected That tho Catch Will ne Larger.
The Police Board has finally taken cognizanco
OF tho course OF Capt. Chapman in relation to
tho women of tho Tenderloin, and tho indis-
criminato arrests by his policemen arc to be-
como a subject of Investigation. This was
shown yesterday when President Moss of the
board dropped into jefferson Market Court to
SEQ Magistrate Meade and find out what dispo-
sition was made Of the cases against the women
as we'll as to see what the policemen had to say
for themselves in justification of tho arrests.
In spite Of Chapman's boast that he would do
as he pleased and continue in his course, he has
evidently drawn in his horns, for only five wo-
men were arraigncd as a result OF Friday nights
activity, and Leazcnbee, his most active agent,
who used to arraign the unfortunntes in patches
and who had been rebuked by Magistrates Kud-
Itch end Flanimer, was on Friday remanded to
patrol duty. So that MIR. Moss, even had he been
sn hand q, z cb tIlnS; TSp Nar not h haze M se'S Moss sS SId
not arrive until the session of the court was
nearly over, and whatever ~informStion he ro'
ceivcd camo from Magistrate Meade. Mr..
Moss asked what had been done with the pris-
oners
tratc, because tho policemen did not know
them TO be notorious characters, and in all ex..
ftEEptt h i hsd be been first Solicited by The WOMEN paen.
In the case where corroboration was forthcom-
ing l fined tho prisoner. But You had better
on tho bench with mo and see how it's DONE"
Mr.; Moss promised to DO on hand. -
o%f nSrss% %rratF Asadf M s%G1hsF k q on He said | t SSf
she had accosted him on Sixth avenue. The
man steinhauer, who said no had seen tho, wo-
man brush up against King and speak to him,
but had not heard what was snid. >, .n.
What have you to say TO THAR said the
Magistrate to the woman.
rpNf0thing." she replied. She was fined SO;
ton to the bar, Louiso Ribault. a French wo-
man; Mamie shinn, a ncgres,s, and William i.
bault woman for accosting him and that Nealy
had interfercd and used bad language,
II saw this man hauling a woman along the
street and not knowing no was a policeman, l
=. %BSt tin. ID m not Eivs YOU the right gas. to o. use Sc
the complaint. You're lined WY ."
The woman protested through m interpreter
that she had not spoken n word 10 her captor.
DO you know this womanf' asked Magistrate
Meade.
That's no crime, even though you and your
Captain might think it was. Has she ever
been arrestcdi'
81 don't want to know. what you have heard.
but what you know" said the Magistrate. Dis
The Shinn woman was also discharged. as
was GeorEfanna Duprcc, who was arrested by
Policeman Hclmuth without proper warrant.
Lizzie Jackson admitted that She was on the
street at 3 o'clock in the morning ''for no good
purpose" and was fined 80 on complaint Of
Policeman Reuben Common. Her story of ar
rest. however, revealed n new dodge on the part
of the police. Tho woman said that Conner
was standing on tho corner. pretending 10 be
drunk. rs She passed he lurched up against
her, and when she spoke to him she was at once
placed under arrest.
Capt. Chapman reported yesterday to Deputy
CHIEF Cortrieht, that the charges that he broke
into the house, 122 West Twenty sixth street; in
search OF gamblers, were untrue. He says that
he had been watching it since early spring.
when the proprietor, whom he had arrested for
keeping u gambling house, was discharged by. a
jury in the General Sessions Court. That on the
evening in question he heard from the policeman
on the beat that many men were going out and
in. and that he then went and rang the bell.
There was II commotion inside" he said.
" and n woman came to the basement window
and asked who it was. He went to the window
and saw men escaping over the back fence. The
woman rnisei IN cutlery to warn them. He
went in and searched the house. but did not il.
wade all the rooms. nor did he see any woman in
bed. There was ono there, fully dressed, as il
she had come in from the street.
Capt. Chapman maintains that the place is a
gambling house.