The sun., 1902-02-09
POLICE HELPED Her TO HIDE?
TROUBLE OVER "MISSING" DIA-
MOND FITNESS AND CULPRIT.
Moro Arrests Follow Hcrs-warrant Out
for Her. Vet She stayed Right Here.
safe-ssid TO Have "a Man on the
Force" - Capt. Churchln's Denial.

A good deal OF disturbance for the Fifth
street police. and possibly some others.
has followed the arrest OF Minnie Kurtz,
the missing witness In the case against
Police Captain Diamond. She used to be
Lena Schmidt's partner at "a Stuyvesant
street. When she failed TO answer a sub
pena to testify at the trial OF Police Captain
Diamond. 1t was said that she had fed
from the city. 1t Is charged now that she
has been running the same house in Stuy-
vesant street since she was subppnaed
and since she became missing District
Attorney Jerome has been told that since
then, and while a bench warrant for her
arrest on a charge of bribing wardman
Bissert was in the hands Of Central Office
detectives. she has actually passed night
| at the Fifth street station. OF which acting
| Captain Churchill is in charge. Capt.
Churchill, who appeared in the case yes
terday as witness, says she never did
pass a night there 80 far as he knows and
that he had never seen her before yesterday.
Little Tim Sullivan's law firm and a lawyer
named Greenberg appeared for the woman
yesterday as soon as they got n chance.
She had made long statement TO Assistant
District Attorney Cans, very little of which
/ he puts faith in. In the Centre street police
court she was charged with the bribing OF
Bissert. Mr.. Jerome appeared In person.
| He said that he was anxious 10 have the
| woman held In s. 500 bail because she was
an important witness In his John Doe pro-
ceedings, Lawyer Greenberg objected TO
| the amount Of bail mentioned until Jerome
said that he would have her arrested on
other charges II necessary. Bail was fixed
| at 81, 500 and examination was set for next
Tuesday. Then she was held In $500 bail
more In the Special Sessions for contempt
Of court. Sullivan, Goldsmith 4 Engel. as
represented by Goldsmith and Engel were
retained and sent out 10 look for bail. Je-
rome notified them that his bail department
was closed until Monday and that the
District Attorney would then require forty
eight hours TO scrutinize any bond offered.
Minnie Kurtz was lodged in the Tombs.
where every effort will be made 10 keep her
| until she tells what the District Attorneys
Office considers TO be the truth II bail Is
, secured for her it is likely that she will be
committed without bail on the charge Of
contempt Of court. The District Attorneys
stan considers that for this offence she can
be sent TO the city prison for a year and
fined $500, in addition TO which she can also
DC sent 10 1uulO" odctl odh Unity udNb
and fined $3.50. Ct nviction for bribery and
two charges OF keeping a disorderly house
at 27 Stuyvesant street are relied upon to
swell the aggregate OF Imprisonment to
eleven years II she can be convicted OF all
Of them. The prospect, V is hoped. will
induce ner to tell why she disappeared after
being subpnr aed 90 testify against Capt.
Diamond at Albany last fall and with whom
she had dealings in the Police Department
Iaro,pa's county dAtpptiyps thai she
has a man on the force, connected with
the Fifth street station.
Her presence In town was discovered
by some OF the county detectives, who
have been about town at night. District
Attorney Jerome was notified. He knew
that there was O bench warrant for her
arrest In the hands OF Detective Sergeant
Cuf which had never been served. He
did not ask Cuff for IT, however, but went
TO Justice Mayer and got warrant for her
rearrest on the old charge Of running a
disorderly house In Stuyyosant street, on
which charge she was arragned six months
OF 30 ago In Special Sessions and discharged
on her own recognizance to be witness in
| the Diamond trial. On this warrant she
was taken 20 the Mercer street station and
locked up, but she was afterwsrd released
by Sergt.. Walling. who accepted bail for
her. He had no power TO do so.
The house in Stuyvesant street Is osten-
sibly run by Isaac Witt, who has a bill of
sale from Minnie Kurtz for 81. II Is said
that the Kurtz woman has been concealed
at various places about town, at times living
at 27 Stuyvesant street, sometimes at Tom
ORourke's Delavan House and again at
a house in West Fortieth street run by
Mildred Witt.
Mildred Witt was brought TO the Criminal
Courts Building yesterday as witness.
Two other women were brought from her
house one OF them a negro cook named
Ada Clark, who was let go again. The
Wit woman and her companion were taken
aN.at .tRaaI n...ll
by county detectives, who are to watch
them until they come into court TO testify
Bertha Goldstein. charged with being
the housekeeper Of "a Stuyvessnt street,
and another woman from that house
we're also brought to the Criminal Courts
Building and taken as witnesses before
Justice Mayer OF Special Sessions, before
whom Assist ant District Attorneys Sand
ford and Miner conducted John Doe pro-
ceedings. These women were alfo held
as witnesses In the custody OF county de-
tectives Lena Schmidt and Rosie Green
berger. an inmate OF Lena house whom
she was In Stuyvesant street, were in con-
ference with Assistant District Attorney
Cans while the John Doe proceedings
were going on downstairs before Justice
Mayer Alter the 0oldstein woman had
bsen questioned for an hour she grew
What have said9 What have told9-
Then she tainted The county detec-
tives took four men and very much
excited woman to the Criminal Courts
Building at 7 o'clock last night. The
party left soon after that, ii was said, for
Assistant District Attorney Sandford's
house.
Mr.. Jerome sent for the books OF the
Fifth street station house. 20 find II he
could whether the Kutz woman had been
there over night as pl isoner. He found |
no record Some one had informed him
that the woman had stayed there recently. |
No specific date was mentioned.
Acting Captain Churchill voluntarily
appeared at the inquiry after he learned |
what was going on and was examined !
at length. He told, among other things, |
that he had cent monthly reports TO Police |
Headquarters ever since he lad been sent |
TO the Fifth street station In November !
saying that the house at n Stuyvesant |
street was suspicious.
Il have gone there personally and looked |
Il ovec and have never found any woman !
in IL, he said. j. has been cut up into /
a great number 81 little furnished rooms |
In short. IL IL a cheap furnished room
house, so far az ] can discover. Ever ,
since my raids nfterH was sent to Fifth I
street, my movements have teen watched
niohfg nv a crowd of men " mo hung around