New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-25
BEAT HER DOG; ARRESTED
Croud IN Central Park Vest At
tracted By Woman's Plight.
THREATENS TO FIX" POLICEMAN.

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Mrs. Irene Cornell, of No. 424 Central Park
West was arrested about midnight last night
and bailed out at the West sixty-eight-st
police station where she was charged by Bicycle
Policeman Nerney with beating her little fox
terrier Beauty.
Nerney while patrolling Central Park West
last night at Observation-Disclosures heard
the bowling of the dog. He speeded and alleged
he found Mrs. ConneIl beating the animal with
a bamboo cane at One-hundred- and second-st.
On his request that she stop, she replied, he al
legged that the dog was her property and she
would beat it if she felt like it. The policeman
alleged that she illustrated the point by striking
the animal a few more blows.
After short colloquy, in which the policeman
alleged the woman insisted upon striking the
dog, Neruey told her she under arrest, and
she must go with him to the station. Mrs. Con-
nell absolutely refused, according to the police
man. threatening him with the loss of his uni
form. Her protests drew a crowd from the
fashionable apartment houses, which formed in
a circle around the two and listened eagerly.
Finding that she would not so with him will
ingly, the policeman said ne would call a patrol
wagon. At this who said he was Der
nard Kreiser, a real estate broker, living at the
Hotel Windsor, No. 123 West Forty-fourth-st.,
stepped out Of the crowd and said that, rather
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ride in the patrol wagon, he would call cab.
Mrs Connen who is a slender little woman,
thanked the stranger, and then recoIected that
she had a lawyer, and requested the privilege of
calling up Isaac Fromme on the telephone. The
policeman consented, and the woman, Kreiser
and the policeman went to the apartment house
where the young woman lived, where Kreiser
called up a livery stable for a cab and the pris-
oner called up Mr. Fromme.
While they were in the apartment house, the
prisoner was Joined by a young who re-
fused to give his name but who appeared to be
as angry as she was at the alleged insult and
brutal treatment of the policeman in arresting
her for beating her own dog. When the hanson
arrived the prisoner. her friend, the real estate
broker, the dog and the policeman crowded
into the vehicle, and were followed to the sta
ton by the spectators.
On being arraigned before the sergeant, the
young woman was very indignant. She said she
knew Magistrate Mayo, and would Fix" the
policeman The sergeant entered the charge Of
cruelty to animals
When he reached the point in the examina-
ton where he generally orders the prisoner to
be taken to a CELL he interrupted by the
young man friend of the prisoner.
Cant you show some consideration to a
lady?' he asked. you wouldn't send Il lady to
a cell. would you? Can't you make ar e2cep-
ton in this case?'
There is but one way of doing things in this
station house, young man; rich and poor go this
same way here. Take her below" The last
few words he addressed to the doorkeeper.
But, sergeant" pleaded the woman, 1T was
my own dog, and l wasn't hitting it much 1
hit the sidewalk more than 1 hit it. And this
policeman brutal to me. He would have
dragged me through the street If it had not been
for this gentleman, whom I don't even know"
Kreiser then offered to go bail for the pris-
oner offering house at No. 152 West Thrtieth-
st. a bond of $500 which was accepted.
Why, sergeant said the prisoner picking up
the dog in her arms Il just love this dog.
wouldn't hurt it, The sergeant told her she
court this morning and bring the dog Mr.
Fromme appeared as the bond was executed.