The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-03-12
NEwMARKETKEEpERH HELD
CAPT. CHAPMIy TEsTIFIES As TO
MS Who'll sALE RAID
say, He saw Di.ordcriy women and Wen
There .t y Preliminary VISTA Lot OF Other
Policemen Testify to Having Seen Disrep-
utabis women Dancing .-d Drinking There.

SAYS re Saw Disordsriy women and Wen
There NJ VISTA Lot OF Other
Policemen Testify 20 Having Seen Disrep-
stable women Dancing .rd drinking There.
The examination Of Edward Corey. the alleged
manager Of the Newmarket. at Thirtieth street
and Sixth avenue. which Capt. Chapman Of the
West Thirtieth street station raided early
Saturday morning. took place in the Jefferson
Market Police Court yesterday, and resulted In
tho prisoner being held for trial in $500 bonds,
which he furnished. Lawyers Friend and House
appeared for Corey, and croso examined the wit
ncsses at length. Capt. Chapman. well groomed
and complaccnt, was the first witness offered.
Mr.. House first asked the Captain about the
raid and tho number OF people arrested. Capt.
Chapman could not remember the exact number.
but thought It was nearly two hundred.
They were all discharged the next morning.
except this defendant, were they not'' asked
Mr.. House.
YES" was the reply.
THAT was because you could not make a COM
plant against them that would Justify tho
charge. was II not !"
well. I couldn't mako a complaint at that
time"
Capt Chapman then told how Corey had sent
for him and told him that he was going to open
up tho place Ms a hotel. The Captain, accom-
panied by q detective, whose name no could not
remember, went to Coroy's place on a day he
could not recall to inspect tho place. He did.
however. remember that he told Corey TO con-
duct an orderly place.
The Captain said that he visited the place only
twice before the raid-once before IL opened and
once after. lie could not rcmember the dates
nor the date Corey opened.
what did you see the night you visited the
place after II had opened T.
II saw a number Of disorderly women dancing
with mcn and other women drinking with other
men at tables. I also saw a number of lovers
there"
Mr.. House made tho Captain define what no
meant by lovers. and the Captain admitted that
he only knew the mon were lovers from hearsay.
He did not know them personally. The Captain
said that the night he visited the place he saw
Corey half a dozen times, but did not remembcr
that he spoke to him. Corey was busy about the
place.
Magistrate Cornell then asked tho Captain
about tho night OF the raid. and as TO what he
saw on that occasion. The witness replied that
as soon as he came in the women md men made
a rush to get out tho side door. but he had men
posted there TO stop them. The Magistrate
asked the Captain about the first visits no had
made before the raid. but as his recollection
seemed 40 hazy and indistinct the Captain. was
spcctor Hnrlcy's staff was called. Seaman said
that he had paid four visits TO Corcy's place. On
the place. from the floor whore they danced to
the balcony and upper rooms. When questioned
Women w Mr' ihnoI knew S' To Se d fse% sTns from ire ma" having siss
seen them, on the streets. dancing and talking
and drinking with men,, When asked IL he had
seen Corey, seaman said that on that night, his
first visit. he had spoken TO him., merely passing
the time OF day. Later. he had asked TO see the
license, md 4 was shown him. He had also been
"whcn. did you next visit the placer r. asked
Invent again on the night after my visit on
the 18th. ] saw the samc disorderly women
dencing' did not pay any particular notice to
win you say that they were not respect.
"Ibolicved some OF them were"
When did You next gof'
"On March g."
did You see Corey =
Yes: he saw me as ! camc In and Just as l
was about to pay my admittance. He said / need
not do that, and passed me In"
Seaman told Of visiting the place again on
the night of March !. Corey told him 10 see TO
his partner, Policeman Burncs. as he was acting
When asked about being solicited in Corcy's
place. Seaman snid that ono, night. Corey passed
lust as the women spoke 10 him. Another night,
llcemRn he did not see Corey about. At no time,
Seaman said, Ind he seen a woman In tho New
market that he considered respectable.
the men r. inquired The Court.
mo. those with escorts were passed in. Those
who came alone, went around TO the side door
where Mcknight, the manager. escorted them
inside to the dancing floor"
Policemen Burnes, Jackson. Murray, ana Eel
gel of the Central Office and Inspector Harlcy's
staff then testified in turn, corrohorntlng Sca.
man. All said they had been solicited In the
place by The women, and that they recognized
the majority Of tho women as disordoily. having
seen them soliciting men ON Broadway, sixth
avenue, and other streets.
When asked II they had seen Corey about the
alleged disorderly place. the policemen replied
that on each and every time they had visited
Corey's they had seen him rushing about the
place everywhere, and that he was very active
in his management.
When Magistrate Cornell announced that he
would hold Corey for trial in $500 bonds, Law
yer House cited the raid made last year on the
Cooper Union Hotel, where 1t had been proved
that disorderly women visited the place, and,
despite that fact, Magistrate Cornell discharged
the proprietors.
Yes replied the Magistrate. "but In the
Cooper Union raid IL was shown that tho pro-
prietor had no knowledge OF the disorderly acts
carried on in his place. In this case there Ia
abundant evidence that Corey was very active
and always about tho place, and therefore per-
sonally cognizant OF the actions Of disordcrly
women while there