The sun., 1907-04-21
ANOTHER SOCIOLOGY VICTIM.
CLERCYMAN VINO WAS ROBBED
FAILS TO SHOW UP.

lie Complained 70 Police That Two Ne
crosses Had Held Him Up in West
Thirty.fFth ~. MAGISTRATE Angry Be
cause Ills Identity Was Not Disclosed.
Magistrate House in the Tombs police
court yesterday morning expressed him
self as much put out because he could not
learn the name Of a clergyman who had
complained that he had been robbed ~
West Thirty-fifth street late Thursday
night by two negro women. The women
weTO in court and the detective who made
Ins arrest was there also, but the clergy
man did not appear.
- Raow," said the Magistrate, that
the complainant against these women is a
well known clergyman who is seeking to
avoid notoriety. suppose that he was
another minister who was trying to in
vestigate sociological conditions in this
wicked city
Magistrate House then turned upon
Lieut.. Miller and told him that he must
make every effort to get the complainant
aHd produce him in court e6testify against
the prisoners. Il won't have my court
made use OF like this" he added.
Lieut.. Miller had told the Magistrate
that the offence complained of had been
committed last Thursday night. The
women were named Katherine Wells and
Norah Brown. They both gave Tender
loin addresses. Miller said that the COM
paint against them was brought into the
Tenderloin station by a man who gave his
name as John Murphy and WHO said that
he was staying at the Hotel Bartholdi.
Murphy" told the police that he was stroll
ing through West Thirty-fifth street near
Seventh avenue when the two negresses
spoke to him. He stopped and talked
with them a while when one OF them threw
her arms around him and the other went
through his pockets, getting away with
$50. He told the police TO send the money,
IL any of it was recovered, to the Hotel
Bartholdi. The detective said that he
had reasons to believe the complainant
was clergyman Of the Episcopal Church.
He thought that he did not live in this city.
Miller told Magistrate House that ne
had gone to the Hotel Bartholdi to find
Murphy" but had been told that no such
man had been, staying there lately. He
could not see how he was going to pro-
duce the complainant. The Magistrate.
however, again ordered him to make every
effort ne could TO do so.
After that the Magistrate decided to hold
the two women in SO 900 bail. They had
a lawyer who urged that it was too high,
but Magistrate House wouldn't lower II.
He told the lawyer that If he thought his
clients aggrieved he could jolly we'll go
10 the Supreme Court and apply for writs
Of habeas corpus. As for him, he regarded
these women as dangerous characters who
lived by preying on the public.
When Mrs. O'Bren, the matron, was
taking the pedigrees of the two women
she had occasion to ask them what their
"Ahm a 'Piscopalisn" said the Wells
woman.
-Ahm a Catholic, said the Brown person.
A pretty Catholic you are, I'm think
ing" snorted Mrs. O'Brien, who is one
herself Under this sceptiCism the Brown
person wilted bit and before she went into
court recanted her faith in Catholicism and
made up her mind that she was a 'Pisco-
palian too. The Wells woman predicted
confidently that the complainant would
never dare to show up in court to appear
against her.
In court the Rev. Luke j. Evers one
Of the Tombs prison chaplalns, had
talk with Lieut. Miller. After il was over
the detective said the case was Of no Inn
portance. Father EverS said he knew
nothing about the matter as he and Miller
we're talking about something quite
different.
This is the second black eye received
recently by sociology as an avocation for
cIergymen. The first one came as a result |
Of the inquiries of the Rev. " Howard
Mears. formerly Curate of st. Matthews !
Protestant Episcopal Church. Mr.. Mears.
in the course of anevening spent intrving to |
find out whether negro women would rob a |
man. accompanied one Of them to her home.
She there tried TO rob him. He eshouted for |
help and tried to beat II Ia death when il came !
ia the form OF a policeman; Then he dashed |
down stairs and escaped. only TO come |
hack for his hat and get arrested. There |
followed an inquiry instigated by Bishop |
Greer as a result Of which Mr.. Mears re- |
tired from the ministry of the Episcopal |
Church. The moral being: Never go !
h1k for your hat