The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-14
POLICEMAN HITS NJ
lssAULTs THE MEN WHO GAME
TO THEM RESCUE.

Drives Away IN n Cab, Followed By Threo
Cabs ContsinisE frts vietins-Overtaken
Finally ANA Arrested-paniea Reiss n Pc.
Iicemnn-tteid on Seven Separate ChnFEer.
Policeman Jeremiah J. McAulife Of the FL
bridge street station was arraigned In tho JEFF
ferson Market Court yesterday on seven dis
tinct charges of assault McAulitfo is on his
vacation. Ono OF tho complninants, w. G.
Marshall OF 182 Nassau street. told Magistrate
Simms this story:
~ was coming up Sixth avenue from the
Twenty.eighth street elevated railroad sta
tion at about Q o'clock this morning. On
approaching Thirty-irst street / saw a mar
quarreling with a group OF women on
the sidewalk in front OF Silver Dollar Smiths
saloon. Tho man was this prisoner, Police
man MoAulihe. There was another man
with him whose name I do not know. As we
drew near, McAuliffe slapped the face Of one OF
the women, Grace Edwards, who 10 also a com.
p~lainant here, on both checks. She screamed.
Another woman. Grace Moore. another COM
plainant. ran up. and no struck her a blow on
the right eye which knocked her on her back
in tho gutter. We also saw him strike the other
two complainants. Dora Mortimer and Laura
Chapman. Ono Of our party interfcred. sayings:
Here, here. you are going 1t a little bit too
strong
"A that time. by the way, mono Of us had any
means OF knowing that he was q policeman. He
swung and struck Mr.. Mclaughlin. He struck
mo on the side Of the head. AS we started to
jump at him his friend pulled us to one side and
said:
"'That man 10 a policeman in discharge Of
his duty. You better leave him alone
After striking q third member Of our party.
McAuliffe pulled back his coat and displayed q
police badge.
with one Of my friends I went to the West
Thirtieth street police station and asked Ser
geant DAILY to send a policeman, or preferably
r~oundsman, to arrest q policeman who was rum
ming amuck In Sixth avenue. He said that We
had the right to arrest him ourselves II we saw
him breaking the law. We went back to Sixth
avenue and learned that McAuliffe and mis-
friend had jumped into q cab and
started up Sixth avenue; that Miss
Moore had followed him in another cab. and
that the two men we had left had followed IN a
third cab. We chased the crowd. We caught
UP at Eisman's saloon at Sixth avenue and
Thirty.sixth street. When We arrived Eisman
ground that he wanted no trouble there.
"McAuliffe took to his cab again and we
Joined our friends in their cab and followed him
where we attracted the attention Of Policeman
Crowley. who arrested McAnliffe.
"At tho time OF the arrest McAulife said that
he repeated tho denial. He passed something
shiny to his friend while he was being exam
ined. When he was searched no badge was
found on him. On his key chain, however, was
n fire. box key and n police whistle. The whistle
had his name AMI number on II. Sergeant DAILY
asked him what his precinct was.
az can mighty soon find out from Headquar-
ters.' DAILY said to him. McAuliffe then said
that he was attached to the Eleventh precinct,
and that he was on his vacation"
"How do you explain his actions y asked the
Magistrate Of the witness. "Was he drunkf'
ITO tho best of my Judgment and belief" said
the complainant, "he was"
Another complainant. William r. McLnughlin
OF 1852 Nassau street, said that McAuliffe had
struck him in the face during the quarrel in
front OF silver Dollar Smiths place. He cor.
roboratcd the story of tho first complainant.
Policeman Crowley said that he knew nothing
OF the events that led up to the arrest.
McAulife declined to mako any statement.
Lawyer Samuel Wyman Smith. who appeared
for him. said:
1--WE ask for an adjournment. your Honor.
We are able to bring witnesses who can. we arc
sure. put an entirely different face on this
matter and explain 1t altogether satisfactorily"
Police Sergeant Peter McDermott Of the
Eldridge street station was an interested spec
tator during tho proceedings. He said that the
Police Department could do nothing in the case
until McAulire returned from his vacation.
By order of Magistrate Simms seven separate
complaints against McAulife were made out.
The usual procedure is to select the person with
the chief grievance as principal complainant
and bring the rest into the case as witnesses.
He got bail. as he had at the station house. so
that be waa not locked IN Mt all.