The sun., 1902-12-02
ROW IN COUNTY COURT HOUSE.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY CLARKE'S
TROt BILE ABOIT WITNESSES.
Had One Man Locked Up. After a Fight.
Because OF Alleged Interference Win
One Who Was to Testify Against q
Gang OF SwtndIers Led by Yank Allen.

Out VIM WAS 10 Against
Gang OF S~indlers Led by Yank Allen.
The trial Of David Morrison on an in
dictment charging him with grand larceny
was begun in the County Court in Brooklyn
Yesterday. Morrison and Edward Delaney
are charged with swindling Otto Raus-
weller Of Palmyra, n. j., out Of 500 by
means of a fake saloon. They are to be
tried separately. Gen Benjamin F. Tracy.
stephen c. Baldwin and Donald +. Ayres
appeared for Morrison, and ex-Judge
William b. Hfrd, Jr, looked after Delaney =
| interests.
District Attorney Clarke says that Nor
7 rison and Delaney are members Of the gang
headed by John Shea and "Yank" Allen
Shea is now in Raymond rect Jail await
ing the decision Of the Court of Appeals to
whom he appealed from the verdict of the
County Court. on which he was convicted
OF swindling and sentenced to Sing Sing
I Prison for eighteen months.
Morrison had two liquor stores, one
AZ 2iD Reid avenue AMI the other al 44o
lhroop avenue These places, District
Attorney Clarke said. he fitted UP with bot
ties of colorei water. a quantity of empty
cigar boxes and "A few empty beer kegs
He advertised for a partner and Rausweil,r
responded Rausweiler visited the Reid
avenue store where he was told the receipts
We're $50 day. He was pleased at the bar
gain and paid s25 down to Delaney and
Morrison gave him a receipt for the money
On the next saturday he called al the store
with 500. There he met "Yank" Allen.
Big Charley, and others and after taking
several drinks became unconscious and
his money, watch and chain were taken
The next day he saw Morrison and told him
he had been robbed Morrison told him
such was not the case and produced his gold
watch and chain.
District Attorney Clarke said that Morri-
son and Delaney then took Rauswei!cr to the
brewery and got him TO sign notes for 5000
Then Rausweiler found there was only about
two drinks of whiskey in the store, and
thal the Cigar boxes and the beer kegs were
empty.
Mr.. Clarke says that Simon Frankenstein.
lsidore Nathan and Otto Bolen had also been
swindled by the gang and that they had
realized $3.50 from the four victims
Otto Rausweilcr told his story on the
witness stand and the case was adjourned
until this morning.
District Attorney Clarke has commended
that offorts have been made to intimdate his
witnesses and the corps of county detec-
tives have been watching to prevent them
from coming INTO contact with members
Of the gang
just before the case was adjourned yes-
terday man named Heating. u witness for
the PROSECUTION, was invited into the corri-
dor by a friend of Morrison's As he at
tempted to speak to Heating. County Detec-
tive Irwin approached and said.
Don't you dare 10 speak To him. He's
one OF District Attorney Clarkes witt
neSses.
I'm lock you up. said the man.
Not on your life, said County Detective
Irwin
Then the man, who proved to be Peter J
MNcDonough, flashed special police shield
No, 81 and grabbed the county detective
10y the collar.
Let go. yelled County Detective James
Mucahy,u "or I'll knock the top of your
head of
I've got him and he'll go to JAIL" said
MCDonough.
in the corridor. Policeman Raphael Nugent
seized McDonough and rushed him toward
the District Attorneys office. Just then
District Attorney Clarke appeared. lie was
told what the row was about.
Take him TO my office and lock him uD
for contempt of court. he commanded
4 dozen county detectives seized Nc
Donough and fairly carried him into the
District Attorncys office.
Lawyer Donald +. Ayres, one Of Morri-
sons counsel, followed and objected to
McDonough's arrest
He's one Of our Witnesses, he said
We'll, he tried 10 inimdate one of mine"
said Mr.. Clarke.
10 you Own nifl' asked Lawyer Avres.
Mr.. Clarke denounced Mr. Ayres for
using this kind of language and retired to
his room. McDonough. who said he was
20 years old and lived a, GIL Hancock street,
was locked up in the Adams street station.
District Attorney Clarke hired car
riage and sent a county detective home
with Mr. koating, who feared TO leave
the District Attorneys Office alone
Later in the evening Lawyer Ayres OBJ
tanned a writ of habcas corpus and Nc
tieyl, a hlF,, N,,,.
Justice Gaynor, who held that no crime
had been committed and that McDonough
was entitled 10 his freedom. He was dis
charged