New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-01
PUBLIC POLICE INQUIRY
PRESIDENT YORK PROMISES TIRE
VOTING RECORD PREPARED BY
FRANK MOSS.

on the part of the police force during the SO
called race riots would be public ana "ouiu y
hegun either Tuesday or Wednesday Oh heA.
go T. will be conducted in the pubic Tiai
nom at Police Headquarters by me Coii''i. hit
IN Rules and Discipline, OF WHICH ~
work IS the chairman and Commissioners oeN
80 a,s Hess are the other members. President
- sots :, wound be a full and complete in
vestseation. Asked If the committee "ouio re-
.s,ys All the afsdavits and other evidence pre-
sonta5 by the lawyers. Mr.. York said:
az, q rot going TO be an investigation lot lhe
benefit Of lawyers =. .ha
When asked IL Acting Captain CooheS' "a -
west Tl7irtv-seventh-s police station was ~
placed on trial, President YORK repneu '"a. .,,a
baa been decided that the inVesusatiOD W."
not take the form OF a trial OF Cap'Ai" .I.,
At least at first. lie added that ever O1'
-,,,,s ta satisfied with the investigation
- - ~ r,ost astonishing. and at the same
- .a,-oI+;ns chapters in the record OK the
so;,,.,s ~ the police under Tammany Hail ooini
,o,,on &c thai which Frank Moss is gathel'"s
80 5avs in connection with the riots' "hei4
.oores ~ respectable colored citizens Me'o
ob.sed through the streets by mobs ana tnen
.a-,r,+eo+As,, t,v policemen who brutaliy cluODeu
49,, ,r+o tnsAnsibility The next Assenlo'! -
senate investigating committee Will hun' d re
time without finding anything 10 hla'o"
clubbing record. ...,r,o,v At
Mr.. Moss has been taking sworn IeS'.-- so,-s
his Office in the Bennett BUILDING Iot - In
- and the colored people, some OF lhelii go
nv Nv. seos .,5 masters on their heads keep
- :. .el1 the story of how uniformed PollO0
- - e75 bruised them. One old man ~
- -, =, q terse way when he SAID 10 MI
Moss yesterday: AZ Moss
ct vuz drefful good ting fur me- - an
~, 5er, policemen finally let loose % - -
.,,-ned roe ober TO der mob ag'in- II &c .opS 80
-.-+ao.ea me- any more, Ia "a gone H04N
Gawd. suah
STORIES OF oUTRAGEs
3 the story Of a man whose tesrlIho on.
-, q, HACK and white yesteroas'
-. ;a.,+itv for the present VIII nov ia
.s Mr. Moss said that the man -
ont Of the city if his name
made public now; - +u+or in Harlem
was on my 5avtiraes and every nisnst +entv1
! "a a tutor who lives in One-nui az west Thirty
hfth-st s.S h nabt Of the riot with nui ef me
boo[- and as was getting Fez o;;pb looking men
car al IhlI Stunned the car and grabbed me 4b,nk
CO.. know what make OF IT. a. as ij 5ovntovvn and
Ing aoou - with nv own thoughts 10 49, the
ob did not have much time 70 r't snesr n,inch-
mop Eor5 IF me though for they oesan P1 I'VE
moo go ticing ne Fully dozen pohcenle non
running up. and took ne e~as ~ nv excitement
felt very s.,e- had saved my life They hurLleo
me to side street that was on PPotnmand Of the
aha s'ie ,:-aTsd n one or two Of the others ne
policemen lineo up in Two one who had hold Of
Iour 81 tS-ef 1be he'll out Of here now ano s'oP
making so Hach On he head with his club stuck
ga m hands for protection and started TO run
y.ber was struck by three other men ana Pusnea
49,, me line They all struck at my hea9 ana
one of them knocked me down WIN ms sLuu ~ ~
rot M and started again and was struck py e e
- the ncIice-nen in turn I went down the Inc.
When I finally got clear OF them was 3 2I;e
and nv clothes were torn l ran TOWARD t1isLl :
ave and seeing man on the steps OF mouse
ran IN to him and asked him where ! could 20.
] did not have hat on he TOOK on hs own Ie'
and gave It 10 me. and told me to get on IN ele
vated train and go 10 the Battery ana men sane
hack near the Tenderloin again that night took
lost all my books and have given up my studies
for the time.
Another victim Of the club was San Fran
cisco colored man, who arrived in town on the
day Of the riot. He said:
I was on my way to eolored ODD Fellows lodge
held up and dragged of. am good runner
and got free from the mob, and ran down the
street with crowd after me. a colored woman
stood in a doorway. and leaped up the steps a:
ana told me I would have to hide as the Grove
would be after They soon began to hamme
on the doo.. and l went upstairs and craBled int
bed. The police came 10 the house about hfteeI
minutes sfterward, scattered the mob and came
in to search the premises They said they were
after guns, and they asserted there were plenty
Of them in the house. They pulled me out OF bed
but cid not hurt me. Then they went downstair!
and demanded OF the that she tell where
she had hidden the firearms. She told them tina
she knew nothing about any firearms. and tina
mace one o. ne oncers so angry that he gave tn
wo,lan a nard poke with his club. Other police
men stuck the muzzle Of pistol under her nos
saIea me woman so she swooned. She afterwart
RAG coaVulslons. ard she is confined 10 her her
WIN severe illness. w
SLIM HOPE OF PUNISHMENT.
] could give half dozen instances eouau,
brutal said Mr. Moss, after his caller hat
gone: All of these outrages will come bac,
on the men who instigated them with tAiIin,
enect one Of these days I cannot fell evan,i!
Mhat action shall take IN the cases until
nave an the testimony in The more 1 hear q
tne outrages the more I astonished Al the
widespread character There is no doubt 1vhet
ever that the police, in order 10 ayenRe tn
oeath or Thorpe who killed by coIora,
man, instigated the riot and then fresIv &C.
oulged in il themselves. I have slim honas .
securing just punishment for any OF the insti
gators OF the outrages. because the Tamman,
ohcials are all banded together TO protect the;
friends If should succeed in getting = cIea
case against an inspector or a captain thor
would be scores of witnesses TO swear 49,
black was white, or vice versa '-'"
AND If an arrest should be made it wopl,
aEah Mite am sure. because the DistrIc
Attorneys Office would do nothing To harm az,
particular branch Of the Tammany citv eoI;
eminent There is no hope Of better thing
until Iammany is overthrown cIuhbinp e,
the police is constantly on the Increase o. -.
has only 70 consult the police court records =
see how frequently the charge is roa5H = !
some policeman dubbed an Innocent nor 20
Inc policemans word is taken in preference =
mat OF the prisoner. The fault is in tbe bs,6
q the Department, rather than in the forcs
There are coed men on the force who have 60
into the bad habit Of clubbing peonJe TN 81
Policemen may be all right otherwise has -
clubbing habit has grown on them .snS ~, IN
become worse and worse. The only remedy {
the removal Of Commissioners who tolerat
such things" 'Oiefdt