The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-28
WOMAN'S STORY STIRS POOL.
GRAFT CASE IN TENDERLOIN
FAILS TO PAN our.
AFTER u Visit From Capt. Durnend and
Others the Woman signs \ Statement
That She'd Lietl--Flrst Said She'd
Been Freed on Promise to Pay ~.

Been Freed on Promise to Pay ~.
After the last case had been disposed
Of in the Jefferson Market police court
on Saturday, Magistrate Pools attention
was drawn TO a young woman who still
sat on the bench reserved for prisoners
who had been hailed over night. The
Magist rate called her to the bridge.
why. was arrested" said the woman,
who gave her name as Lizzie Lyons and
added that she lived with her parents at
2al Fast Ninth street.
A clerk who looked over the returns
from the several stations could find no
record of the arrest, and Magistrate Pool
began to get interested
The woman said that she was arrested
at Sixth avenue and Twenty-eighth street
at 10 o'clock on Friday night by an officer
in plain clothes, taken to the Tenderloin
station and locked UP in cell with number
Of other women until ? O'Clock Saturday
morning, when she WAS released on her
promise to the matron TO pay her bonds
man IS.
The station house was called up ON the
telephone. but the police denied all knowl-
edge Of the case. There was no record
on the blotter and the sergeant on duty
Magistrate Pool instructed the girl to be
in court yesterday morning.
When she reappeared she WAS hurried
into the sergeant's room. Plain Clothes
Man Mooney, who engineered dragnet
raid on Sixth avenue on Friday night,
came in a few moments later and volun-
teered the information that the woman
was not telling the truth when she SAID
she had been arrested in the Ienderloin
precinct,
what's .ha,?" Numbered Magistrate
Pool. What do you mean by making
We'll, there il no record OF the arrest on
the blotter," protest ed Mooney and
know the sergeants there are very careful. 7"
Sergt. Shibles was on duty at the time
the girl said she was arrested, and Sergt.
Place had the de.k at the time she said she
was bailed Out.
That's Just it," remarked the MaPist rate.
you have no record of the arrest her Oh
the blotter or on the returns. l know the
Nineteenth precinct. 1t IS the worst managed
station that ever cisgraoed this city. It's
corrupt. The mere fact that the arrest
is not entered does not disprove this girls
story. How are we to know but that scores
of people are taken into that station house
and shaken down and blackmailed by the
officers there?'
Mooney left the bridge in hurry and
telephoned TO Capt. Burfi' nj to come to
court. Magistrate Pool told him the facts
in tho case as he had them and Capt ain
Burflend promised to make thorough
investigation.
Burfiend took the woman back 10 the
station but she failed to identify either
Matron LIE Berean, who was on duty on
Friday night, or any OF the officers. She
stuck to her story, however. and signed
had been signed by IAN unknown man
Of light complexion who wore glasses.
Some time later Capt. Burfiend decided
to look the girl up and with Sergt. Place.
went to the address the girl had given
When they returned they showed reporters
this statement written by Sergt. Place and
signed by Lizzie LYONS:
At 2IO p. NJ. Lizzie Lyons made the fol-
lowing statement In the presence Of Capt
Burfend, Serst Place. Lena Leyrer and
Philip O'Connor'
THE statement that I made in the presence
Of Capt. Burfend. Sergt. Place, Officer Mooney,
Sergt. Wilson, Patrolman Beally and Matron
La Beveau and signed my name to in the
presence OF the above witnesses was en-