New-York tribune., 1922-01-25
Police Clubbers
Beat UpCitizen
In the Station
Brooklyn Man. Attacked
While Waiting for Car.
Tells Court One Detective
Staggered From Liquor
Inquiry by Prosecutor
PatrcIman. Held on Drunk
enncss Charge. Is Said to
Have Tired Into Homes

Thon,a r.fci'c. Of 81 Fourth Place.
Brno.iyu ;cstiGcd II Fatbush court
fos.erda. tl.a. h. rad suffered brutal
Treatment =; the tands os Detectives
'ames St"e' and William, Dempsey. OF
re Pa,kv;l'e station. Brooklyn. He
cid Sse-l nas drunk and that both
Steel and Dcnpsev struck him.
The charge o. robbery or which Raj
e'lo hsd beer ar-siRned vas dsn1is d
~ MsSistr-.e Reynolds. who would
na'e 'ssuc6 warrant against the two
detective mad rot Assistant Distric.
>ttoyoeg Edvnrd Cooper declared that
~ irvestig CATION into the conduct Of
tHe detectives would be made by the
Police Department. and tho District
Attorneys oHicc
Ire accused detectives. were on duty
As, night al The Parhviile station
Rsfeile va Srraigned in court in
so-ncction with the robbery of the
sand Avenue. Horn was not in court
when Rafel,c vas arraigned. and the
detectives we're instructed 20 get him
Arrested without Complaint
loyn told the court tina. Rafelle was
roTcred VIII blood when the detec-
'srcs brought him into the store and
nat ne told them Rafel,e was not one
= The robbers
ourt 20 press charges against him, .
aid Horn. "and supposed that that
as al there was to r."
Eafelle'7 head was wrapped in
osrdsxes when ne appeared before
Magistrate Rcynoids He said he had
caiied OF MS employer, John Delsino,
2os Westminster Road. Sunday night
and loft about midnight. He was wait
nc for trolley car. nc said. when The
detectives grabbed him. He said he
<as struck the first time while in
andy store. and that on the way to the
oolice station Steel threatened TO hit
ciH several tines, but vas stopped BY
Dempsey. In .le detectives room at
the station Rafelle told the ma9as-
trste. Dempsey hit him several times
r the face. He showed bruise over
one eye and a cut lip. Steel. he said
vas SO drunk al the station that he
staggered about the room
Patrolman Held for Drunkenness
Steel told the uour. that Ratelle tr:ed
70 break away from them in candy
store a. Church and Coney Island ave
nues and that he struck him over the
head once With blackjack That was
the only time the prisoner cas hit. he
said.
Pstro.msu Daniel Mulliu. Of Tie
Hamilton Avenue station, was ar
.igned in Gates Avenue Court. Brook
IN. yesterday on charge OF intoxi-
cation and held in $500 bal for
~Ismin.tion February J. Although
charged VIII lntoxicstion Mullin. it is
fred three shots through two doors
into apartments in the house at 247
Sumner Avenue One oY -he bullets
narrowly missed = tenant, Frank PenNa.
widower. living with two children and
.wo grandchildren.
The other bulls. Mas fred into the
apatment of Fred Smith The intoXi-
alton charge was preferred by Patrol
nan Frank Conhling, % the Gates Ave-
Hue station.
Say Patrolman Has Side Line
Charged with engaging in other bu.i-
meas while u member Of the Police De-
partmert, Pa.rolmsn Herman Jacobs,
OF the Brownsville station, was taken
before Deputy Commissioner John A.
Leach in Brooklyn yesterday. Jacobs,
Who was former traffic patrolman.
assigned TO duty at Broadway and
accused of selling jewelry to citizens
Jewellers in tho neighborhood say
they found Jacobs a great competitor.
and when they were unable to cope
With his prices they wrote to Mayor
Hylan. and Inspector John CouGhlin as
!igHed two detectives to the case. The
detectives said 'hoy saw Jacobs trans
act business With John Oswald, known
as Jack Curley. prizefght promoter.
Oswald testified Yesterday that he had
received a ring from Jacobs or ap-
provN ard that he intended to give i.
o bis vile foi . birthday gift. He
said that lie hsd purchased other jew
e1ry from Jacobs. Counsel for the
aStrolnan asked FOR an adiournmen. n.
Until neAt TuesdAv. !. was granted