Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-25
HIS FALSE ARREST,
| Hon. \, NJ. Mcdonald Handles
Tammany Hall Without Gloves,
STORY OF HIS INCARCERATION
Kept Nearly Day and Night In a
Miserable Cell.
SAYS ARREST WAS A CONSPIRACY.
Goes Into the Whole Cnse, and Dis
cusses Governmental Conditions I'm
Not Democratic.
SAYS ARREST WAS A CONSPIRACY.

Mr.. Henry VI. Mcdonald. candidate for
Governor Of New York last fall on the
platform of the Chicago National Demo-
| cratic Convention, was at the jefferson
yesterday, and was asked regarding an
article in one of the New York papers
Sunday, stating that he had brought a
suit against several members q the police
force and others for false arrest
"The story is correct" answered Mr.
Mcdonald, readily. Il have sued man
called Mclaughlin, Police-Sergeant Ed
ward Walsh. and several other members
of the New York police force for damages
for false arrest and assault.
ARREST WAS A CONSPIRACY.
my arrest was conspiracy. The ami
mus is apparent. on Saturday. the 18th
instant, a friend, a member of the So
called Democratic Club, dined with me
at a prominent New York hotel We
talked considerably about the work of
the Mazet Investigating Committee.
casually remarked during the conversa-
ton that / had written Frank Moss.
Esq, counsel Of the committee. giving
nection OF Mr.. Croker with the Flushing
Gas Company, which l thought the pub
lie ought to know. After our dinner my
guest went directly to the Democratic
Club.
MY apprehension followed the next
day. / was arrested without a warrant,
incarcerated without arraignment in a
contracted, unlghted, unyentilated, filthy.
noisome. vermin-infested cell, without
food and without toilet conveniences. sur
rounded by convicted criminals, and kept
there for nearly twenty hours. On being
taken before a magistrate, neither Nc
Iaughlin nor any Of the police officers
appearing as complainants. l was, ipso
iacto, Immediately released"
"The article you showed me-" contin-
ued Mr.. Mcdonald, "refers to checks Of
mine. The facts in reference 10 these
checks are these: Just at the close Of
last fairs campaign my desk at the head
quarters OF the Chicago platform De-
mocracy was rifled. My private papers,
large number of paid drafts, paid and
unpaid bills. and two hundred or more
checks which l had issued and paid in
connection with the campaign expenses,
were, | am credibly informed. stolen by
an employee and delivered, upon u
money payment, to a member of Tam
many Hall. The three checks mentioned
in the newspaper article TO which you
refer were among the checks so stolen
and sold.
THAT this is so IS indicated by the fact
that when / requested Police-Sergeant
Walsh to allow me to inspect the checks.
he would not permit me TO look at them.
Further although l demanded in the
courtroom, where I was taken. that the
checks be exhibited. they were not pro-
duced. i may add that neither McI.augh-
lin nor the police officers dare produce
them, since the evidence upon the checks
themselves showing that they had been
paid would convict these men Of con-
spiracy.
MAZET SHOULD KEEP AFTER THEM.
The Mazet committee should issue sub
pOeneas duces tecum to Mclaughlin and
these police officers to produce the checks
before the committee. in order that the
citizens of New York may be informed
as to the police methods which now pre-
vail in that city.
but no greater respect for the liberty
Of the citizens can be expected in a city
where, as testified by Devery. he, the
Superintendent Of Police. passes several
hours each evening standing before
notorious saloon. facing a notorious
house, engaged in receiving cOmmunica-
tions from race-cOurse tOuts, gamesters,
dive-keepers, and political thugs.
but Deyery is not the responsible
one" Mr.. Mcdonald went on, with in
creased earnestness. "He is the servant
of xybn IfT4gfg 10 eN
and administrative officers Of New York
city more absolutely than does the car
OF Russia the officers OF his empire. He
IL Is who during the past fifteen days has
testified before the MaZet committee that
he was making every day all that he
could out OF his connection, as boss with
the New York city Government. and
shamelessly confessed that he was using
the public patronage and departmental
machinery Of that city 10 aggrandiZe
wealth to his friends, TO his family, and
TO himself
This Is not Democratic. II. however,
the citizens Of New York have seen nj 10
place such a man in a position 50 fraught
with deplorabe results to public policy
ard 10 public morals, then the residents
Of New York must bear the cOnse-
quences. But when Mr.. Croker, exposing.
as he has recently by his sworn testi-
mony his methods and his aims. reaches
out 10 control the policy Of the Demo-
cratic party upon national questions. then
King Croker should be summarily
halted.
CROKER AS BRYAN'S MENTOR.
"Only Saturday last he said in news
paper interview that he was sorry 10 see
Mr.. Bryan proceeding on such narrow
lines I'm reference TO national Issues.
Who designated Mr.. Croker 10 act as the
mentor Of Mr. Bryan? Shall the man who
betook himself TO the English race-tracks
during the campaign OF 1895 be permitted
10 critcise our presidential standard
bearer in that memorable eontest2' said
Mr.. Mcdonald, with energetic warmth.
"Mr. Croker says that the principal issue
I'm 1900 should be warfare against the
trusts. Should boss" who has shame
lessIy been taking stock without payment
I'm a large number o, corporations be al
lowed 10 frame the issues OF the great
Democratic party In the next national
campaign? Interested, as Mr.. Croker Is.
in corporations which, when aggregated
formed trusts. nothing would please him
better than to have our next national
attack trusts most nercely In
a general way. He knows well that the
Republican Campaign Committee, instead
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