The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-30
DAVID LAMAR MONK EASTMAN
POLICE RE-EN FOR(E AfCU SiTION
THAT BROKER HIRED THUGS.

mNtcu knowing Lamar-LOnK Branch
Getting Over y Nightmare OF Alarm.
That David Lamar, a more or less cele-
brated Wall Street character, hired Monk
Eastman and Joseph Brown, two New York
East Side thugs, to do up James Mcmahon,
Lainar's ex-coachman, at Long Branch,
on July 0, is something that Police In
spector McClusky Of the Detective Bureau
declared yesterday to be strongly indi-
Gated by evidence in his hands The two
men hired to assault Mcmahon are prisoners
at Police Headquarters, awaiting extradi-
ton to Long Branch, and McClusky says
that Lamar il likely to be arrested again
by the New Jersey authorities.
Lamar is a resident of New Jersey having
summer home at Seabright. McClusky
| is, therefore, not bothering about him, but Is
| looking for a fourth man. Detective Ser
geants kinsler and Duggan, who arrested
Eastman and Brown, spent the entire day
yesterday searching for this man. described
as prizefghter and thug. who went
with Lamar in carriage from Broadway
hotel to the East Side to make a bargain
| with Eastman.
! kinsler and Duggan have learned. they
say, that Lamar tried to hire man who
| makes his headquarters in a Seventh avenue
saloon, to do the job but the man refused.
| Then, the detectives say, another man
was approached and agreed to get some one
who would "do' Mcmahon; and it was
/ through him that Eastman, Brown and
others were hired
McClusky says that while Eastman and
Brown have made no confession they have
never denied committing the assault.
On the other hand, the Inspector says.
they appear to take it for granted that
they have been Caught with the goods on
them" but are expecting some one to come
to the front and get them out Of tho scrape
CONNECTING EASTMAN AND LAMAR.
According TO McClusky, his detectiv
learned that Eastman, after the assault
and not long before his arrest, telephoned
10 Lamar at Long Branch telling the broker
that he was safe In New York To which
Lamar replied:
"That's good. No harm will come to
| you"
On the way to the Tombs police court
questioned Eastman concerning money
|
Lamar. Eastman replied
Lamar is four-fusher, and II he don't
stand by me he'll get a taste of Jersey law"
Eastman and Brown were arraigned be-
fore Magistrate 0mmen on a charge of
assault on Mcmahon. A paragraph Of the
complaint set forth that the assault was
committed -at the request of David Lamar
The two were remanded back to Police
Headquarters for a further examination
this afternoon.
On Tuesday night Mcmahon visited
Headquarters and positively identified
Eastman and Brown as his assailants,
picking them out from among ten other
men. Yesterday morning Harry McGill,
a bartender at East Long Branch, also
identified the two as having been hang
ing about hotel there previous to the
assault. He said they had everything
they wanted in the line Of food, liquor
and cigars and that the bills were settled
by Lamar.
In the morning two lawyers called at
Police Headquarters and asked to see the
prisoners, by whom they said they had
been retained as counsel. Word was sent
to Eastman and he replied:
"G'wan; they're kiddin'. / don't know
'em.
The lawyers we're asked II they had bean
sent there by Lamar. They said not, and
| further said that Lamar was unknown to
| them
DENY DUPLICATING LAMAR.
Senator Thomas Y. Grady announced at
the Democratic Club last night that he
and John Hoyer were counsel for Eastman
and Brown. The two lawyers gave out
this statement:
As counsel for william Delaney Gonk
EASTMAN and Joseph Brown. charged with
assaultng one Mcmahon at Long Branch
this summer. we ask space In your columns
10 deny all statements attributed to theLn
| whether from police or other official circles
| Particularly do our clients deny that at any
time have they claimed acquaintance with
Mr. David Lamar or any ono else involved
| in any controversy with said Mcmahon,
and any statement attributed to them OF
such character is malciously false and can
have no other object than to prejudice tho
case of our clients or serve some private
grudge JOHN HoYRa.
THOMAS +. GRADY.
THE RECORD IN THE ASSAULT CASH.
David Lamar charged his coachman,
James Mcmahon, with having assaulted
him on July In the Lamar stable, near
Seabright, N. j. On the following day
Mcmahon was arraigned before Judge
Bedford at Red Bank, and held in $500 bail,
which was furnished, for the action Of the
Grand Jury.
The facts regarding the assault were
brought out at the time Mcmahon was
driving Mrs. Lamar on the afternoon of
July /. Mrs Lamar had with her her pet
dog. The dog became restivc and Jumped
from the carriage. Mrs. Lamar bade
Mcmahon get down and bring him back.
Mcmahon refused, on tho ground that he
was a goodman and not dog catcher
When Lamar got home that evening
Mrs. Lamar told him of the insolence of
tho coaChman Mr.. Lamar promptly re-
paired to the stable. Later he repaired
lis features and then charged the CoaGhman
with damaging them,
| After that Mcmahon went to Long Branch
and sued out warrant charging Lamar
| with assault. The warrant was made
| returnable on July 0, and, as Mcmahon
was entering the Justices Court at Long
Branch TO appear against Lamar, three
strangers set upon him. knocked him down,
punched his face, stabbed him, and beat
and kicked him almost insenSihle. This
| cone they got away in a carriage said to
have been driven by Bernard Smith,
Lamar's brother in-law. 1t was noted that
| Lamar did not appear on that day to answer
| to McMahon'e charges.
On the following day, July 10, Mcmahon
had Smith, Michael Donohue, who sue
ceeded McMahon ~ Lamar's coachman,
and Patrick Dunphy, Lamar's groom.
arrested and held for the Grand Jury on
charge OF completely In the assault. Later
Lamar was arrested on the same charge.
! Tho racorl In the two IN aaa tn dakAEfx