Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-18
Bremmermann and Clark,
Brutality Case Defendants,
Blamed in Court.
APPROACHED AFTER
RELEASE, SAYS WITNESS
Charges Colored Man Was Felled
and Then Admitted Va
rious 0ffenses.

Another witness at the trial of
Policemen Charles r. Bremmermann
and Hollis H. Clark, charged with as
saulting a colored prisoner, Thomas
McKeever williams. last Summer, told
the jury in District Supreme Court to-
day the two policemen had warned him
not to tell the grand jury anything
about the happenings in the locker
room of the old second precinct station.
The witness, Milburn Howard, one
of seven or eight colored boys who teS-
titled about beatings they had received
in the locker room, told how he was
approached by the two policemen after
his release, when 1t was learned De-
partment of Justice agents were ques-
tioning the boys.
Warned of "SIick Guys"
Bremmermann and Clark drove up to
his home one day, Howard testified and
asked him If he had been talking to
anybody about the case. He said
Bremmerman told him to remember
that "he didn't see anything" and
warned him to be careful because
those guys are slick" meaning the
Justice Department agents.
Towards story to the jury, under
the direct examination of John Fitz-
patrick, assistant United States attor-
ney, was about the same that half a
dozen other witnesses have related.
He testified that Williams, the COM
planning witness, was struck by one OF
the policemen and fell to the floor. 1t
was then, he said, that Williams made
admissions about various oftenSes.
Defense Attorney William A. O'Shea
brought out under cross examination
that the boys had been permitted to
smoke cigarettes at various times be-
tween intermissions OF the "setting-up'
exercises they we're being put through
in the locker room.
OShea seized triumphantly upon this
point, seeking to bring out that the
boys were not being beaten the entire
time they were in the room with the
two policemen. At one point of his
cross examination when the defense at
torrey was trying to get the witness to
tell the exact spot on the floor that
Williams was sitting on various occa-
sions, Assistant United States Attorney
William A. Gallagher protested to the
court, He declared O'Shea was bad
eering" the witness and that there was
no use in repeating the same question
so often.
Colored Barber Heard.
The first witness to testify today after
the trial had resumed from last Thurs
day was a colored barber, Louis PeeWee.
The Government witness, Williams,
had testified his head was bleeding from
blows struck by the two policemen. He
went to a barber shop after his release
to get his hair cut The barber was
nut on the stand to corroborate testl-
mony about three bruises on the boys
head.
Third Witness Warned"
The Government put on as its third
witness Jesse Hall, colored, who mad
bought automobile accessories from one
of the boys locked up with Williams
for investigation.
Hall had been released after being
detained several days, and no charges
were preferred against him. During his
testimony he also said Officers Brem-
mermann and Clark had warned him
not to tell anybody about the beatings
he, Williams and other witnesses had
received. He said they threatened him
in event he told.
The Government expects to rest It's
case before court recesses tomorrow att
ernoon. Two more boys are to be called
to testify about the alleged beatlngs
that went on in the precinct station.