The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-02
BEATEN BY A DETECTIVE.
THEATRE MANAGE R REsENTS AN
INSULT TO HIS WIFE.
she Is Arrested for soliciting ana He Locked
Zip for A~ssnult-snys Ho Was nenton In
tho Police station with the Cane He
Used to Derend His Wire from the Police.

she IL Arrested for Soliciting ana Ho Locked
Up for A~ssnult-shys Ho Was Renton In
tho Police station with the Cane he
Used to Defend His wife from the Police.
Charles l.. Marquis, q theatre manager
who lives at SO Eighth street, while on his
way home, in Second avenue. near First street,
early yesterday, engaged in an alteration
with Detectives Clifford, Sachs, and Forster
OF the Fifth street station. 1t resulted in tho
arrest Of Marquis on a charge OF fclonious as
sault on the detectives and the arrest OF Mar
guis's wife on a charge Of soliciting.
Marquis was 30 badly beaten by the de-
~tectives that his wounds had to be dressed by
a police surgeon. Tho same surgeon also
dressed the bruised head of Detective Clifford
and sewod up the cut lip of Detective Sachs,
whose wounds were caused by a heavy cane
which Marquis carried and which he admitted
welding, but, no said. in self.dcfcnco.
When the prisoners were arraigned In the
Essex Market Court they made serious charges
against the detectives. A score Of witnesses,
some of them wcll.known east side business
men, wero present to testify to the ~respccta-
bility Of Marquis and his wife.
Marquis has recently been managing a
theatrical troupe in Great Darlington. Mass.
He came to New York to take part in the cere-
monies attending the Hebrew New Year. His
WIZ kot III OhbuSOhhOhb III liz NV NV e"o
Thalia Theatre on the Bowery. There was a
rehearsal of q new play following the regular
performance Thursday night in the Thalia
Theatre. At its conclusion Marquis, his wife,
Miss Amy kaetZ, an actress belonging to the
company now playing at the Thalia Theatre,
and Sigmund Fienman, business manager OF
the theatre, went to a restaurant in Grand
street, where the stars of the Hebrew dra.
matte world nightly congrcgatc.
After n supper the party started in the di-
two women walked on ahead, while Fiennnn
and Marquis followed a few feet behind. The
site direction, stopped and had some words
with the women. Mrs. Marquis, who cannot
speak sr;ad F. English n1 IT., turned 1H,a to osI her lad husband insnI,sd and Ind
and Miss Kaetz by taking hold of their arms.
What followed Is a matter of dispute as to
said he rushed up and asked, the detectives
what they meant by insulting his wife. ill.,,
Not knowing that they were policemen, he
struck at them with his cane to defend himself.
Detective Clifford, according TO Mnrguis's
for help and two, uniformed p%oiicsmen came
house, he asserted, Detective Clifford assaulted
him before Sergeant SILVER and the police sur
and grabbing Clifford by the neck shouted:
Leave that man alone, am the boss S of
tAllb nNA Va UNIV " hhes ~ $500
boss of Second Avenue"
While he was being taken to a cell, Marquis
asserted, Clifford hit him on the back of the
head with the cane, knocking him down the
stairs and rendering him insensible.
Mrs. Marquis, who was arrested by Detec.
, tive Sachs after her husband had been taken to
the station, told Magistrate Deuel. that she had
witnessed the assault on her husband. Mis-
kaetz, the actress, corroborated the statements
of the couple regarding the occurrences in
Second avenue. She added that when she saw
Marquis struggling with the detectives she
and Fienman made haste to get away.
Detective Clifford. whose head was covered
with bandages, asserted that Marquis, after
hitting Detective Sachs without provocation,
ran away, and when he ran after and captured
him. Marquis hit him on the head with the cane.
He admitted that he took the cane ava from
i Marquis and hit him with it, but said he did it
in self-defence. He denied the story of the as
sault in the station house. Detective Sachs
said that the two women solicited him.. and
while talking with them Marquis rushed up
and hit him with the cane in the mouth and
then ran away.
Magistrate Deuel. continued the case until
to-day, and issued %ubpPnas for Sergeant
Shyer, the ambulance surgeon and Detective
Forster, who were not present at the hearing.
He said that he would conduct n rigid investi-
cation into the case, and that II the story about
the alleged assault in the police station was
true, he would make the detectives-suffer.