New-York tribune., 1901-09-03
LUES NOT IDENTIFIED.
BUT MANY CIRCUMSTANCES POINT To
HIM AS THE DRUNKEN CAB
STEALING. POLICEMAN

Charges probably will be preferred to-da,
against PatrOlman Louis Lues of the Tender
loin precinct He is supposed to be the police
man who was drunk and boisterous and drove
cab recklessly about the precinct on SUNDAY
night. He was absent from his post in Broad
way between Thirty-ffth and Thirty-eigh
sts.. at the time the cab was taken from in
front OF the Parker House. and his actions later
were such as to indicate him as the offender
Enough police rules were violated to make the
guilty liable to trial and heavy punish
ment. The driver of the cab failed to identify
Lues at the station yesterday
Lues went to his post in Broadway at pm
Sunday. Three hours later drunken police
man. whose description answers that of Iues
jumped into cab in front of the Parker House
He drove Louis Marguet. the young man in
charge Of the cab. away with his club and then
dashed recklessly through several streets en-
dangering the lives Of many persons.
Shortly before o p. m. Lues sent a message
from the police station in Fifth-st. far from his
precinct and far from his home in Goerck-st
that he wanted to report sick His leaving his
precinct TO report sick when he should have
been on post is ground for charges by ITSELF
Police Surgeon Nammack was soon afterward
sent TO No. s Goerek-st. TO examine Lues but
the policeman was not at home. Lues was sober
when the surgeon found him at home at a. m
yesterday and the surgeon learned that he was
not i'll Dr. Nammack ordered Lues to report
for duty at the station in West Thirtieth-st at
a. m. but the policeman did not obey the
order. His apparent hiding from the police sur
geon Sunday night after reporting sick, and his
refusal 10 report for duty when ordered yester-
day morning are additional grounds for charges.
Louis Marguet one of the cab owners en-
ploye5. went to the station yesterday afternoon
JrrNv-
Flood called Lues and fourteen other policemen
in uniform out on the floor of the office
Now go down that line and see if you can
PICK out the man who stole your cab" said
Captain Flood TO Marguet.
The boy looked along the line and said he saw
the man.
'Go and put your hand on him. commanded
the cs2tain.
Marguet placed his hand on Policeman Urqu-
hardt who looks somewhat like Lues. but is
much taller Lues looked relieved and the other
policemen Uttered. 1t was known that Urqu-
hardt was in the station at the time OF the cab
stealing. and therefore he was innocent. Cap
tain Flood did not allow Marguet to try again.
Lues went on post again last evening.
The cab that was stolen was taken to the
police station late Sunday night by George
Gibbs, who lives in Grand-st and is a neighbor
OF Lues. Gibbs intoxicated and the cab
was in a wrecked state, while the horse was
lame Gibbs was detained as a prisoner. He
declared that he did not know Lues, and that he
had found the cab abandoned at Thirty-eighth-
st. and Seventh-ave. Yesterday in the Jefferson
Market Court Gibbs was fined So on a charge OF
intoxication. He would not admit that he knew
Lues.
Captain Flood said yesterday that he would
present the facts to Commissioner Murphy to-
day. with charges against Lues- He might ad-
wise the owner Of the cab to make a charge OF
larceny. Many persons saw the drunken police
man driving the cab on Sunday night, and it
should not be difficult to obtain positive dent-
fiCatiOn OF him
Assistant District Attorney Garvan was at
LakeviIle, Conn, yesterday, helping Justice
Jerome sift evidence in police cases. To-day
Justice Jerome and Mr.. Garvan probably viii be
ready TO lay some evidence before the grand
Jury. 1t is expected that indictments against
several policemen will be in order soon.