The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-15
HOGAN PITCHES INTO POLICE.
DRUNK ON PARADE AS WELL AS
GRAFTERS, HE SAYS NOW.
Magistrate and POlico Commissioner
Exchange Letters on the Formers
Charges--Gsen. Greene Says He's lnves.
tixating- From j. ID. Reynolds.


Exchange Letters on the Formers
Charxes-Gen. Greene Says He's Inyes-
tixatins--Letter From j. ID. Reynolds.
Police Commissioner Greene made good
his promise of calling on Magistrate Hogan
for details Of his charges that the police
force is engaged in petty Matchmaking
more fiagrantly than ever by sending to the
Magist rate yesterday this letter:
SIR: / respectfully ask that you will give
me any information In your possession that
will enable me to bring charges against the
officers who according to your statement
in the papers Of this date, numerically beat
an Italian few days since. the statement
being that the fact Of such beating was
brought out in the course OF an examination
before you.
And also any information which will enable
this department to substantiate on trial the
facts stated by you in regard to the action
of certain members of the police force in a
disorderly house in the Twentieth precinct.
the station house of which is In West Thirty
seventh street.
And also the names OF the two policemen
who were before you on Aug. o In hand
book case which they failed to prove: and
also the names of the policemen who boosted
free or go to jail as they see it-
The newspaper article quotes you as say
ing that you have absolute proof of these
cases.
When Magistrate Hogan reached the
Tombs police court yesterday the letter
lay on his desk, but he did not read it until
last evening when he had reached his own
home Then he gave to the reporters
copies of this letter which he said he pro-
v>ooad 70, ~ n IN Con (,roa ma this morning.
In response to your letter of Aug. 10 in
relation to an Interview which appeared in
THE NEW YORK Sun of the above date. and
wherein you ask a number of questions con-
corning cases which were 1sf9Te MoS
say that the case of the Italian mentioned
was heard in the Centre street court The
case was dismissed and the complaint and
evidence taken can be found in the office of
the Court OF General Sessions.
In the case Of the complaint against one
Minnie Lewis, charged with being propretress
street, the complaint and evidence can be
found in the clerks office OF the Court OF
Special Sessions
rested man charged with making hand
book" the evidence was taken by stenogra-
pher who is attached to the Children Court
hese same two police Off GERS made COM
plant against a proprietor and clerk or
barkeeper of a hotel In Whitehall street, who
was summoned 70 appear before me- charged
with keeping 4 dlSOTdefly mousse. ms mat
ter your letter does not mention; you have
apparently overlooked IL. This evidence
was tuken by a stenographer. who. under
stand, was recently appointed in the Magis-
I think he is going about the various Magis-
trates' courts substituting for stenOgraphers
find out by applying TO the clerk Of the Centre
street court. Regarding your last inquiry.
would say did not mention the names of any
police officers very Respectfully T. HOGAN.
Concerning his letter to Magistrate
Hogan, Commissioner Greene had to say
that he had simply asked for the facts on
which the charges were based.
Whether or not blacknail can be exter-
minated" continued the Commissioner, Is
an academic question, but in any specific
instance of alleged blackmail we want to
act quickly. For that reason shall be
very glad to get any information Judge
Hogan can give me. Inspector Smith is
making an investigation of the case Of the
Italian mentioned by the Judge as having
been beaten by the police. | have found
a report of the case in the West Thirty
seventh street precinct, in which the Mag
istrate says that young man was arrested
after he had made complaint that girl
was held in a dsorderly house. 1t was
sent here by Capt. Ferris on July 25, and
there was nothing in it to suggest anything
suspicious.
4The intimation from Judge Hogan was
clearly that the police were protecting
this house. II he has any facts to sub
stantiate this charge will put the police
men in the case on trial without delay"
When told the nature of Judge Hogan's
replv to his letter, the Commissioner said
last night that he would beverv glad of the
information to which the Judge referred.
but that, Of course, he could not comment
on the letter until he had received it.
waa fOTi0lg IN the C1ay Of the DOliCa
parade" said Judge Hogan yesterday,
athat policemen were scandalously drunk,
and that on an East Twenty-third street
ferryboat one OF them went about tearing
ladies' dresses and became go violent that
he had to be thrown down on the ferryboat
deck and held. On the other side Of the
river he was carried away in an ambulance.
Yet nothing was done about it: 1t was all
hushed UP. l never knew such state OF
affairs in the Police Department in my
life.
Then there was that affair of Commits
sioner Greene's private secretary. | say
never knew the Police Department in such
a condition as II ia now under Commissioner
Greene. I do not know Commissioner
Greene. never saw him to my knowledge.
Il do know that Commissioner Greene
made wanton attack on the Police Magis-
trates of the city at civil service reform
dinner He said two Magistrates had
not say that it WAS because they were sick.
We talked it over in the Board of Magis-
trates
"The chairman said the Commissioner
did not mean him and let it go at that.
When others were spoken TO they asked
what the chairman had said and when
told, they said that they agreed with the
ohairman-that the Commissioner did not
mean them. | can't carry all these cases
I have referred to in my mind, I have
told Commissioner Greene where he can
find the stenographic reports Of the caees
Ihave mentioned and think have covered
the points Of his letter"
James B. Reynolds who ia In charge OF
the City License Bureau, made public yes
terday a letter, which he sent TO Magis-
trate Hogan, with reference to the latter's
charges against the License Bureau. The
letter was explanatory Of the methods of
the bureau. 1t set forth that there had
been complaints that the streets were
crowded by pushcarts and that arrests
were only made after three warnings to
those who defed the law and would not
get licenses.
Magistrate Hogan said last evening he
Rad rot received the letter.