New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-08-08
TROUBLE WITH DEAF-MUTE PRISONERS.
POLICE OF THE WEST SIXTY EIGHTH-sT. STATION
TRIED TO TALK TO THEM IN SEW
ERAI, LANGUAGES

POLICE OF THE WEST SIXTY EIGHTH-sT. STATION
TRIED TO TALK TO THEM IN SEW
ERAL LANGUAGES.
Policeman Gloster Of the West Sxty-eighth-st.
station while patroling Columbus-ave. last night
O'Clock, two intoxicated women being
led along the street by man. All were well
dressed The man was sober, and was trying TO
get the women TO go with him without making
trouble. The policeman saw that the women wer"
unable to take care Of themselves and that the
man had not any command over them so he ar
rested them.
Gioster told the women that he would have 70
place them under arrest, but they did not answer
him. He then told them the man could go, but the
man did not answer nor did he 60 He followed
Gloster.
When the party got to the station Sergeant Gag
ney was at the desk. He asked the women their
names. They answered: woo. Woo" Cagney
looked puzzled but he then asked the man to get
the OF the women. thinking that Of
them could speak English The man answered.
woo. Woo
= The sergeant called the doorman and asked him
II ne understood TO what language Woo. WOO be-
Detective Lang, who speaks German and Polish.
was In the house Lang came down and spoke to
he could not seem to make them understand. Then
Detective Buckley, who speaks IRISH was called in
man but they could not understand him.
Detective Hughes was the next TO try. He knows
and women were deaf and dumb. He made some
signs TO them, and their eyes cleaned. but they
did not understand. But It had been made plain
that they were all deaf and dumb and just at that
time the man seemed TO awaken to the fact that
he there for something other and that the
women had been arrested. He took out pencil
and card and wrote: What do you want?"
He handed IL TO the sergeant, who wrote down
that he wanted the names of the women and their
addresses. The women demurred at giving their
names at first. but with some persuasion in writ
ing from the escort they consented But they
fused the street number of their homes. They de-
scribed themselves Maria ignore. twenty-five
years DID, single, of Foreth-st., and Mary Tierney
twenty-one years old. single. OF Fortyninth- The
latter said she had no work. and the former said
that she dressmaker.
The women were taken to the West Forty-sev-
enth-st station In patrol wagon. there being
matron at the Sixty-eghth-st. station. At the
Forty-3eventh-st. station the matron asked the
women their names, and there about be an
other investigation of the nature the other
when the sergeant discovered that the slips of
paper on which the wornens pedigree, had been
written described them deaf and dumb. Then.
he sent them to cells.
About five minutes afterward the deaf and dumb
man came running into the station, waving UNI
brella above his head. AT last the man pulled out
a pencil and piece Of paper and wrote that he
wanted to ball the deaf and dumb prisoners. The
sergeant wrote on the paper, asking what property
the man wanted to give bail. He wrote down:
Mary Tierney's umbrella" The sergeant wrote
Get out The man retired.