The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-27
.FARRIER 70 Be TRIED.
Police Board Decides He
Must Answer for Cow
ernor Greene's Gam
bling Den.
FIRST CAPTAIN on TRIAL IN YEARS
Said He Could Not Get Evidence,
Yet One of His Men Was
Caught in Chief Murphy's
Raid
FIRST CAPTAIN on TRIAL IN YEARS

The result of the investigation of the
Police Commissioners held on Monday and
Tuesday afternoons has at last leaked out.
1t was made Known this morning that the
Board had decided to bring to trial those
who, it is alleged, protected the gambling
establishment Of Edward, or Governor"
Greene, No. 274 Washington street. The
majority of the Board is composed of
President Abernethy and Commissioner
West, Republicans. The only Democratic
member is Commissioner Feeney.
The alleged gambling house was raided
in the First precinct, which is in com
mand of Captain Frederick Farrier Gre
publican). The ward detectives, Douglass
and Bennett who refused to secure evil
dence against Greene, are Republicans.
The Republican Police Commissioners
will sacrifice a Republican Police Captain
and his Republican henchmen for the sake
of convincing the Republican Investigat-
ing Committee from the Senate that as
far as the police business is concerned,
Jersey City is strictly proper commun-
fty.
They will show by the trial of Captain
Farrier and others that neglect of duty,
no matter who the guilty one may be, is
the first time force Police Captain Farrier
to undergo a public trial and the public
scandal which must follow. 1t will be
the first time a police captain has been
placed on trial in this city since 1894, when
Inspector Ghen Captain) Lange was tried
for arresting eighteen Salvationists who
were worshipping on their own property
in their own way.
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who is to suffer. The Police Commits
sioners are acting under a resolution in
troduced by President Abernethy at the
meeting of the Board on October II,
which was adopted and included in Chief
Murphys general orders to the force. The
resolution is as follows
.Resolved, That in order to suppress
gambling in this city, the Chief of
Police will at once issue an order hold
ing responsible the man on post, the
detective and captain OF each precinct,
and hereafter, ii upon investigation 1t
is found gambling is carried on charges K
will be preferred against the man on
post where it is found, the detective
and captain of the precinct, and said
charges referred to this Board for
hearing
In accordance with this order Detectives
Bennett and Douglass, Sergeants Hop
kins, Wade and Reinhardt, Roundsmen
Frey and Noonan and Patrolmen Chin
merry and Patrick Gallery will be tried
with Captain Farrier. The trial will be
held on February Is, and will be open to
the public.
The principal witness against the ac-
cused policemen will be Chief of Police
Murphy He will testify that not only
was Greene free from fear of arrest from
Captain Farrier or his men, but that his
men, one if not more, were in the habit
of frequenting the place and gambling.
Lincoln Moulton, patrolman in the First
Precinct, was caught in the raid which
was made by Chief Murphy and his
detectives, Independent of Captain Far
rier, on Saturday night last.
The Chief WIFI tell the Police Commits
sioners, sitting as judges, what he told
them when they met for an informal in
vestigation, that in the month preced-
ing the raid he called Captain Farrier's
attention to the gambling house kept by
Greene and ordered him to see that 1t
was closed at once. Each time the Chief
asked about it Farrier replied that his
men could get no evidence against Greene.
1t was only after repeated unsuccessful
attempts to get Captain Farrier to raid
the place that Chief Murphy did it him
self The coming trial is the talk of the
Police Department.