The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-10

nhion Ihe loD Woulo nave come back, az
mat was the sort Of evidence was lookins
| Tor, but wandering over to Sixth Avenue
ran across the case OF this George
FRANK, who was cut and robbed by
three colored women In front OF the
Garrick Theatre that night. found trail
OF blood that night leading from the Gar.
rick Theatre to Sixth Avenue and Thirty
fourth Street, and an excited crowd around
me drug store at the latter corner, where
FRANK had been taken. l spent a large part
o. the evening looking into this matter and
at one o'clock In the morning wandered
over to Greeley Square. was standing
by the statue when | saw hanson cab
coming at full speed down Sixth Avenue,
pursued by policeman on foot The police
man hnally caught up with the cab, and
nrowing open the door, ordered q we'll
dressed woman, who was inside. to get out
she got out at at once, and the two walked
across Thirty second Street together.
followed them. and when they got to las
West Forty second Street the woman went
into the hallway and took something from
her stocking. The policeman In the mean
time stood in front OF the hallway, talking
TO several men. When the woman came out
she brushed against the policeman apf thec
walked on TO iiSv,nth Avenue. J didnt see
any more III ..er sf:cr she turned tho roroar.
The pol" ID not attempt to fc.'ow
her"
Hammond S1ia that he bad TALKS! with
large number of Tendsrlo!n women ali
had Learned taat women Of ill-reputc were
pouring into New York from all sections
OF the country. They all said that thu
town was wide open, and that they meant
to stay IN New York as long as present
conditions prevailed. In one afternoon Tho
witness had found thirty posts in the lower
part oe the >'t2 unpatrolled. He mcnt,on-
ed TIT posts On this same day, he said
he found Grs policemen in front OF one
place IN Fulton Street. and four at Wall
and Water Streets, watching a dog and a
cat fight. On July 20 he found a patrol
riar and roundsman drinking together
IN NI.,;.Ike's saloon in Park Row.
Charles LomaX, colored laundryman, of
l?9 West Twenty-sixth Street testified
M, robberles were continually going on
.. 1I6 and 1913 West Twenty-ssti Street.
Fifteen or twenty women hung Oh. in each
house, he said, and their victims were
many. He had complained IL CAPT Irlce
20 said, and Price had promised ~ clean
ont the places. He did rail 1872. LomaX
sod, but half an hour efterwAri ell the
inmates were back and doing business
again.
Mrs Mary Reardon, Of 1871 West Twenty
sixth Street. and Harry Rover, grocer at
the same number, corroborated Lomaxs
testimony. Mrs. Reardon said that she
had frequently seen the policemen on the
beat talking to the women and drinking
beer in the Railways.
Joseph F. Trahan, who was on Coney
Island car the night Policeman Patrick
Deloughery held up the passengers at the
point of pistol, testified that Deloughery
pulled out his pistol and first pointed 1t
at a young man next to him, demanding his
money He then pointed it at young wo
man who was with the witness, and the
young woman promptly tainted. He then
held up Trahan and demanded money from
him, but didn't get any. Finding that some
OF the passengers were preparing TO leave
the car the policeman ordered the motor
man to stop it in the middle OF the next
bridge that they came to, so that nobody
could get away from him without jumping
into the water. Trahan gave number OF
incidents OF the hold-up, which have al
ready been printed In THE SUN.
Dr. Hartman, OF 243 West Thirty ninth
Street, was called to testify about young
man who died Of opium poisoning IN a ma.
at 257 West Thirty ninth street a snort
time ago. Hartman said that the YOUNG
man was about twenty-seven years old,
we'll dressed, and looked respectable. He
added that policemen were constantly 60
ing in and out of women's hats IN this
neighborhood, and that one German ponce
man. known as "Limburger." spent most
Of his time there The disorderly women In
the uetghborhood have had pretty much
their own way for a long time. he said.
Four very unwilling witnesses were next
called They gave their names as Lyman
Frost, Michael Cookren, Adam Herrlns' anu
Leopold Gessner. All appeared on the
Tenderloin station house records as nav
ing made complaints Of being robbed Frost
got out OF testifying by denying that ne
had ever been robbed at all Cookren iost
$40 by going into a hallway with strange
woman: Herring lost $50 in the same way,
and another woman got away with *sOo pc
longing to Gessner. The only case In
which an arrest was made was Herrings'
and Herring was the man arrested.
Joseph p. Keefe. theatrical manager
living at the Garden Hotel was asked about
n robbery in which he figured In the latter
mart of June Keefe said that he was go
ing through Twenty-seventh street ana
was passing the Hotel Gerlach. when a
colored woman ran up to him and GRABBED
a bag containing $3.50 which he was carry
ing He got the money away from her and
was starting away, he said, when she punch
Cd him in the face and then tripped him
up. .,,,,n ,o,a
"She took me so unexpectedly SAID
Keefe chat I fell down. When l got up
she was half way down the block toward
sixth Avenue. I followed her to house In
sixth Avenue. When ] started to go IN AFTER
her. | was stopped by man, who asked me
what wanted. told him the circumstances
and he said must be mistaken. as no wo-
man had run in there. At that moment two
detectives came up. and when they heard
what had happened, they went through 'he
house ordering me, however, 10 stay uo"h
stairs They came back III lew minutes
and told me they had found two women IN
The upper part of the house. ! went UP
stairs and identified one Of the women as
the one who had robbed me. She was taken
to the station house, and on the way broke
away from the detectives and struck me
several times in the face. When she reacneu
the station house, she was searched In
hack room and not in my presence Inc ue,
tectiyes came out and told me they nsu
found no money on her. The next day. IN lne
Jefferson Market Court, the woman pro
duced fifteen witnesses who swore that sue
had been blocks away from Twenty seventh
street at the time l was robbed me resu, t
was that she was discharged, There ism
the slightest doubt that she was the woman
who robbed me- 49, T., ,hts
Assemblyman Hoffman said that In ms
case the Magistrate and not the ponce "gI I
to blame for the escape OF the taleI: he he
that the name OF the Magls'la.e ue
learned. and that he be subpGnaed to appear
briorp the committee. Mr.. Moss said thn'
he would think about II, oo.. s,uo,
Abraham Schenell, Of 1875 East 12sth street,
testified that on the night OF Decoration pay
last he was knocked down and robbed uy
two men at Lexington Avenue ana lVStn
street When he complained at the police
station, he said, he was told that II ne Woutu
and out the names of the men who assault