The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-25
LITTLE NEW EVIDENCE
PRESENTED AT POLICETNVEsTI- c iTION HEARING LAST NIGHT

Third Public Meeting of Mayors Com mittee--Young Duke Testifies as to Buying Liquor Last Sunday--Cfty Court Clerk IsbelI Reads Long Pa- per-Attorney Webb Cross Examined Political References and AIlusions to Party Factions Anuse Audience Meeting Brought Out Nothing New Witnesses still Refuse to Divulge Names.
 1 The third hearing before Mayor Stud Iley's committee whichgis Investigating the police department was held in the Ialdermanic chamber at the city hall last evening. The meeting opened shortly after o'clock. and followed the same order of procedure as the previ-s lous two hearings.
 Judge Lynde Harrison, chairman of the committee, called upon Charles F. Duke, the boy who was arrested a Ishort time ago for vagrancy, and whose case is still pending before the city lcourt. The boy Is in the care of the city probation officer. NgThe boys evil ldence was brought by the questions asked him by City Attorney Webb, who did the question at the request of Judge Harrison Young Duke stated that the first time he was in New Ha- ven was last Saturday, when he came here from New York on freight train about { o'clock. He walked down the tracks a short way and then strolled along a street of which he did not
 know the name. On the street he ran lin with an Italian and they walked
 along together. They came to a saloon
 and were here met by two other per
 sons. The Italian called and woman l stuck her head out of a window above | the saloon and asked what was want ed. She later came down and handed
 one of them a bottle of whiskey. While 1 they had the bottle, two men came up l in citizens clothes, and saw that they 1 had the whiskey On being questioned by these two men, the boy admitted
 what they had and told where they
 got 1t. The two men-who later turned lout to be police officers-held discuss sion as to what they had better do. Witness heard them say that they might get in trouble if they looked into the
 matter They did not go to the saloon lwhere the liquor was bought. The of Ulcers let the other three men go but arrested witness. The whiskey was taken from the two men by the of iffcers. Witness thought he could rec lognize the men who appeared in citi- zens' clothes, and identified them as
 Police Officers Eagan and Coonan, who Iwere present in the audience.
 l This closed the boys testimony and he was led from the room by the pro- bation officer. City Attorney Webb, I testified at the last hearing, was call
 ed upon by Judge Harrison to submit to crosse examination by Attorney l Welfo, retained b ythe police commits sion. The cross examination was
 chiefly in regard to the testimony sub mitted by MT. Webb at the last hear ling, and brought out littele new evil dence.
 I MT, Webb had attended the caucus III HIS OWL WaTu laSI ldli dllQ also the Ninth ward caucus, but had given no advice nor made any suggestions at the latter caucus. Witness could not give | the names of the police officers who, as he had testified at the last hearing, had been reprimanded for giving, evil l dence against their superior officers. 1 Witness stated that the police records Iwould show who were reprimanded, 1 but he would not state where in the lrecords this action could be found. He had not looked up the particular cases l he mentioned at the last hearing. Wit ness heard statements from several members of the force, but as he had stated last week. he did not wish to divulge their names, as he wished the police officers to be protected from pun ishment and revenge from their supe- lriors. It was six or seven years ago that the patrolnen of the force began | to suffer from these abuses and annoy lances,. Witness stated, on being asked | by Attorney Wolfe, that he had no ob- Election to giving the name of the house 1 of i'll fame he referred to at the last < lContinued on Third Page.) j