New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-01
ligl1e Held ON
3 Charges i'm
$500 Bonds
t'aley's Detective Pleads
Not Guilty: Denies Going
ON Rampage; Children's
, ociety TO Prosecute
Court Refuses Warrant
Fellow Officers Threaten
Camera Men; Accused
Says He Is Mistreated

Charles F. Tighe. specially assigned
detective of Chief Inspector Lahey's
stan, who. ii is charged, assaulted forty
men, women and children on Thursday
night IL and near Patrick Coen's saloon.
900 Ninth Avenue, was arragned before
Magistrate George W. Simpson, in West
Side court, yesterday. He pleaded not
guilty to charges of felonious assault,
attempted felonious assault and simple
assault, growing out of his alleged
wholesale and unprovoked rampage, and
was released on total of $4,000 bonds
furnished by a surety company.
Iighe will be arraigned again before
Magistrate Simpson in the same court
this morning on summons issued for
the Children's Society, which charges
MIN with cruelty to children, growing
out of his attack on Helen Coen, eight
years old. Joseph F. Kenehan, agent
for the society, who makes. this last
charge, alleges that Tighe seized the
little girl by the throat and threw her
the full length of the saloon. Mrs.
Coen, her mother, was assaulted, it Is
charged, when she ran to the rescue of
her child, and with the little girl and
twenty-five other prisoners was piled
into the back room of the place to await
the coming Of the patrol wagon.
Magistrate Refuses Warrant
Magistrate Simpson, before whom all
the cases against Tighe have been
brought, admits knowing Tighe we'll.
lie refused to issue warrant against
Ilghe for the Children's Society. saw
ing that he knew Tighe would answer
Just as readily to q summons. Agent
kenenan said yesterday that the society
Is determined to push its charge against
llgRe and intimated that more than
one case could be brought against him
FOR manhandling children in the neigh-
borAood OF the saloon. The prosecution
oy the society is based on the Helen
~oen case as the most flagrant of all.
y hen Iighe appeared at the court
yesterday fraternity within the Police
Department made itself manifest.
Three detectives from Inspector Beet
t-er's staff stood shoulder to shoulder
= front of the press table and made it
difficult for reporters to hear the pro-
seedlngs. Later these detectives threat
encd to assault cameramen awaiting
outside 10 get photographs of the ac-
crsed detective.
Ilghe, however, said he was perfect
" willing to be photographed, and
posed for the photographers and made
statement for the reporters. in which
hs said, There are two sides to every
arory."
Three Charges Filed
he specific charges Oh which Tighe
rs arraigned yesterday We're:
Cne OF simple assault brought by
~ Ella Fitzgerald, ffty~three years
d. Of 329 West Forty-third Street,
no says she was seized by the arms
nd kicked by Tighe.
ought by Mrs. Emma Lennon, thirty
sight years old. of sol West Fiftieth
Street, who says she was accosted by
TlgAe in front Of 600 Ninth Avenue.
vas dragged by him into the back room
IF the saloon and was struck on the
back and right arm several times with
$ blackjack
One charge of felonious assault
brought by Mrs Catherine Gaiety,
Forty third Street, who SAYS Tighe ac-
costed her in front of 362 West Forty
rhird Street and raised blackjack and
ssruck her, but his fist hit her instead
q the weapon.
Bail was fixed at $500 in the simple
ault charge and ct 81 900 each on
- other charges.
Tighe was represented by Attorney
Joseph 3. Rosenbach, who entered the
rlees CT not guilty to each charge. Tighe
feed the magistrate and appeared
calm and collected. He was attired IN
4 neat light gray suit. Near him stood
Captain Thomas Donahue, of the West
Forty-seventh Street police station, VINO
refused to comment on the charges
against Tghe.
After the assault charges had been
disposed OF Tighe said he understood
a summons had been issued on behalf
of the Children's Society, but he had
NJ. received the summons. He said
he would be on hand in court to-day to
answer the summons. Magistrate
Simpson said:
Eyes. if you come it will be a
courtesy to the Children's Society,""
Tighc Denies Being Drunk or Crazy
Addressing newspaper men outside
the court room Tighe said "The
newspapers, SO far, have failed to pub
lish MY side of tits matter l know
several newspaper men very we'll, and
| cannot understand this action of the
papers.
MY partner. Kaufman, and I had
been given instructions to observe
Coen's place, as there had been several
complaints made against it. We had
the place under observation for about
II half hour Thursday. We entered
the place and arrested several men who
had been observed violating the law
by gambling. We placed these men
in the back room of the place. | went
to telephone for a patrol wagon and
had to go to Ninth Avenue and Forty
second Street, which was the nearest
signal box.
"When l returned to Coen's place
found that several of our prisoners,
numbering about twenty-five in all, had
escaped through the side door. / went
out into the street AND started to push
back those | knew had been placed
under arrest. The struggle followed,
in which several women friends of the
men took part. suppase they were
roughly handled in the excitement.
was not drunk or crazed with the heat
at the time, as the papers stated. Do
/ look crazy"