The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-29
MAGISTRATES ON C0NLIN.
.,oss HEARS UNCOMPLIMENTART
TuIyCS IBOUT THE POLICE.

ch,ef's Report That the MAGISTRATES DischnrEe
,a,,,, prisoners Made the ~stir-Conlin's
80 mpuepcd-Poiicy Arrests That Have
,.., Made with No Evidence to hack Them.
p,,icc Commissioner Moss dropped in to tho
-.,,hlv meeting of the Board OF City Magis-
,.n,cs nt the Yorkvllle Police Court last night
ND In less than two minutes had most of the
MAGISTRATES on their feet giving a very uncom-
nlimcntary opinion OF Chiei OF toice comm ana
Tho notice force in general.
,rhc meeting had not boon called TO order when
Nr Moss entered. After taking q seat he pulled
49,, a ,ypcwritten copy Of the report recently
n,odo 10 the Police Board by Chief Conlin. In
rhirh the latter said there was no use Of tho
nolic, a~rresting policy men because the Magis-
,rot.s discharged the prisoners in nearly every
o.sc Mr.. Moss called tho Magistrates atten-
tion to that 81 atement-
according to a recent decision by Recorder
cofy " said Magistrate Brann. 1T seems impos.
,iblc TO get a conviction In q policy case"
THAT is because the police do not get suf.
fcient evidence said Magistrate simms.
"Tho trouble is broke In Magistrate Went
worth. tho police are not capable Of getting
evidence sufficient to hold q prisoner for policy.
other mon could do it easily, but the police can.
not"
Magistrate Crane-Chief Conlin ought to have
had more SBnSe tudh v iuhho Y q T0pOTb. III
did not know what he was talking about. Tho
police come here with q prisoner arrested on the
most fimsy evidence. and when we arc obliged
TO discharge the man they rush down to Head
quarters and raise a row.
"a policeman came to my court one day."
ssid Magistrate Meade. and made an affidavit
about a policy game. He came in again in the
afternoon and made an entirely different af1-
davit about the same case. asked him. which
moment and said the first one"
1.-THE principal trouble" broke in Magistrate
Wentworth: lis that when a policeman has q
moral certainty that a man Is conducting a pol
icy game he arrests him. and comes to court
without legal evidence and expects us to hold
well, gentlemen. I didn't thing" began
Commissioner Moss. who was evidently aston
ished at the storm he had aroused.
tr.te Crane. because the police do not get evi:
donce against policy players, but l won't stand
charged those mon because we couldn't do other
wise In the face OF the evidence, or lack Of evil
dence.'
ut seems to me" MI. Moss was saying
when he was interrupted by a couple of the
Magistrates. who said the whole trouble was
that Chief ,Conlin had made a public statement
without knowing what foundation he had
for IT,"
The worst phase Of this trouble is that two i'm.
portant city departments are not supporting
each other as they ought to do
Hc sdiu- uo WoutGut " BCt al tAplandllOn de u
why the Magistrates in certain cases refused to
issue warrants for the arrest of the proprietors
Of disorderly houses and hotels.
The Magistrate said the reason was because
the police seeking the warrant did not bring
forward sufficient evidence to show that the
the courts and see how the work was actually
done.
The following schedule of the assignments of
the Magistrates for July was adopted:
Centre Street Court. Deuel. and Simms; Essex Mar.
tet. Flemmer and Pool; Jefferson Market, Mott and
nrkvtna and CrnnA.H ArIRIn mazda
and Kudlich; Morrisania, Cornell and Wentworth.
All Of the clerks, interpreters, and s%tenoEra-
piers whose terms expire July l were reap
pointed for two years. No appointments were
made for the new West Fifty-fourth street court.