The evening world. Newspaper, March 21, 1903, Page 10

nF ey ‘ae BUKE POLICE. in to Commissioner Greene of What They Term “Unwarrantable” Arrests, Which Clog the Courts. CASES TREBLED IN ONE. Gixty-five Per Cent. of the Prisoners Are Discharged and Never Should , Have Been Arrested, Declare the { Judges. IAM the City Magistrates are protesting ‘geainst what they term “unwarraninble” Grrests by the police. Scores of persons fre arrested daily only to be released promptly upon their arraignment in the Police courts. In the Centre Strect Court alone dur- fing tlie past tew weeks, the business hax trebied compared with last year. It has Become necessary on two occasions to have ‘two City Magistrates sit In that - @ourt to dispose of the numerous pris- @ners arraigned. ‘The record shows that @f these only about 35 per cent. are held. Several instances of what they con- sider unwarranted arrests have been @alled to the attention of the Pollre Commissioner by’ the City Magistrates, Tnione case the evidence showed that thé policeman had arrested two boys egalse of pique. In another case re- @ently before Magistrate Barlow, a po- Ueeman arrested three youths on a Sun- day afternoon because they “created a disturbance’ by playing a game of billiards, The clicking of the baila and the thumping of the cues on the floor the policeman declared, annoyed peo- ple. Every blue law that is on the statute books ts now rigidly enforced. It fs a erime and you are likely to be arrested for bowling on Sundays, Two men @tanding on a corner are Hable to arrest for loitering. Scores of pushcart ven- Gers are arrested dally for not moving on when ordered to do so. ‘A few Gays ago a dozen pushcart ped- @lers were arrested by Capt, Farrell's men in the Old Slip precinct. Although these men were arrested early in the @ay they were not arraigned in court until late in the afternoon. When Maz- fstrate Barlow heard of this he waxod ‘wroth and demanded an explanation. Capt, Farrell explained that owing to @ fire in his precinct he had been unable to spare enough policemen to send his prisoners t* court. MCLUSKY STILL ROUNDS UP CROOKS, His Men Arrest Elghteen More, Making a Total of 150 Since He Began Fight. Imepector McClusky continues his round-up of crooks. ‘Last night he gathered in eightcen, a total of about 150 since ‘he hegan his ‘erusade to drive them from the city. Station, Opposed to “Is-Its,’’ Capt. Dillon, of the West Forty-sev- enth street station, is a master of ex- pressive slang compared to whom the renowned Willlam 8. @ purist. Here are some words and ex- pressions he coined yesterday while telling an Evening World reporter how he 1s going to exterminate the matinee masher in his prectnet: Zitting. Oxey eyes. High signing. Drooping Illes of the Tenderloin. Is-its. Devery ranks as “The first one of these Is-Its I ree making ogey eyes, zitting or high-sign- {ng a woman In my precinct I'm going to pinch myself." anounced the ¢ tain. “The drooping Miles of the T derioin will have to get off these cor- ners.” Capt. that his conve: “why. professtonal THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1903. _ POLICE CAPT. DILLON OPENS WAR ON MASHERS, — [WALDORE’S NEW ISLFITHS FAL <2 AND COINS PICTURESQUE NAMES FOR THEM. te New Captain of the West Forty-seventh Street Who Outdoes Devery in Slang, Is “Ogey Eyes,’”’ “Zitting”’ and “Drooping Lillies of Tenderloin.”’ rofessional omuashers, f& Liles” of the Ten= Definition by Capt Dillon. or “Drooy derloin, lifting the lid-—I mean ra to a woman and asking h ata Woman, While + Its,’’ He Explains, Are Professional Mashers; to Make “ Ogey Eyes ’’ Is to Stare Inquiringly “Zitting’’ Is to Smile on the Pretense of an Acquaintance. hard thing to regulate, but with a few plain clothes men I am going to make 4 Biagger ut ft and It will be a success- ful stagger, too. Aunoyed hy Mashern, “The whole trouble {s that respectable women who are annoyed by mashers dread the ordeal of going to a police court to prosecute. That makes It hard for the police, and the mashers know {t. However, I am going on Inspector McClusky's plan. If a woman refuses to make a charge against a masher or refuses to promise to appear against him tn court, I will make a charge of disorderly conduct. We will be careful to.get the {s-l's with the goods on, and I don’t think many magistrates will dis- charge them. “There are some women who don't mind the attentions of mashers. These women belong to a class that I ‘am Boing to drive out of the precinct. It {x my Intention to make this section safe for any respectable woman up to When he left Capt. ACRAND JUROR, THOUGH IN JAIL Broker Elliman Occupies This Unusual Dual Position, Hav- ing Been Drawn in the Queens County Panel for April. William Elliman, a Wall street broker, will occupy a unique position as a mem- ber of the new Grand Jury of Queens County, which meets on April 6, fof ne {s in Jail, and to secure his co-operation that august body will have to hold its sessions In his cell, ‘The broker was imprisoned March 2 by Justice MacLean because of his re- fusal to turn over to Mra. Mary 1 Nichol, of No, 320 Central Park West, $25,000 worth of stock which she clalms belongs to her. Subsequently Elliman was drawn as a Grand uJror. Blliman won't be called upon to pass upon his own case, as he Is imprisoned in a civil action. Private supplementary proceedings were held to-day, based on an applica- tlon for the broker’s release on a writ of habeas corpus. Filiman {s having a good time in the Queens County Jail. He has three rooms comfortably furnished and from them he is directing his Wall street business. Does Society the | European Methods of sOn the Sabbath that Washington Violate Sabbath ? ne People, How They Have Been od What Part the President Ta Entertainment Have Shocked How to BROWNE'S MONEY. So Commissioner Alexander Orders the Marshal to Turn It Over to Her. United States Commissioner Alexander Rave an order to-day to Maurice Unte: meyer directing United States Marsha Henkel to turn over £510 to Miss F. Browne, Mr. Wright's nelce, When Wright was arrested he had seven hun- dred pounds sterling in his possession. Miss Browne claims that £600 of this money that had been given to her by her aunt, and on Al had entrusted a to Mr. Wright, and tfat £110 was money that was hers'algso, One hundred pounds of this money has already been turned over to Miss’ Browne, hacles Wox, attorney for the British ul, Was present when Mr. Unter- r ‘asked for the order, and he made no opjection to it being issued. ——— MONT PELEE STILL ACTIVE. Volcano Now Sending Ont Clocds of Reddish POINTE-A-PITRE, Island of Guade- loupe, March 21.—Mont Pelee volcano, on the Island of Martinique, fs discharg- ing dense clouds of reddish smoke. STEAMER HITS SCHOONER. PALL RIVER, Great Smoke. Mass., March 21,—The steamer an, from Philadelphia for Fall River, was in colitsion with a Schooner in the lower bay In the fog to-day, No lives were lost. The Tragedy GENERAL GREENE'S NEW THIRD DEPUTY. DAVIS OW POLICE WORK AT ONCE, Commissioner Greene’s Third Deputy Assumes His New Duties To-Day—Legal and Civil Department. Ex-Assemblyman Gherardl Davis, who has been appointed Third Deputy Commissioner of Potice by Commis- sioner Greene, arrived at Police Head- quarter) early to-day and started to work. The office assigned to him !s on the second floor and adjoins Commis- sioner Greene's office. It has not been furnished yet, but this did not deter the new deputy, who busied himseit with some papers relating to the affairs of the department, working at a table. Mr. Davis had little to say for pub- lication, He announced that he was Was going to devote all his time to his new work, and’ hoped that he would prove successful in the discharge of his duties, During the day he will look In at the trial of Patrolman Israal Rosenberg, Ww ht a eportet eCOV= Miss Smith or gome other fancy name. hen the bewildered reporter recov. Si rtan ike nerobauionine, a 4 reasonabje hour at night.” ered his voice he asked for a diagram MASS Ea laee al ater t aanaieaye The rapid spread of the Tenderloin and Dillon appeared to be surprised Millon, ca wet deg. for mine, 6 ~ the marvellous growth of the Longacre ation was unintelligible, | “OGRY EYES" stare at al ming up here fom the Tenderiotn | * Smiling at a atrange | square nelghborhood haa made the West NiienTenT DERKEA! Woman with an Inquiriug tooto—[etation, where | was a Sergeant, Dhave [Woman under pretense of ae | Ponty-seventh street precinct a most Im- . singe | MeMnition by Capt, Dillon found that the masher pest ts prevalent guntntance—Notinition by Capt. ftlon, portant command. It ts the pres net that he said, its and drooping | _ A. — ]to an aiarming degree | . a = ———— ————~ | Inspector Schmittberger had charge of Miles of the Tenderloin are mashers—|qiteicg took, Ztting Is smiling at came out on matinee days Ike | Forty-second strect aro Innes of ogey| Defore he wan promoted mashers. Making o8¢Y|strange women with a pretense of ac-]oorkrowches out of a sink, After the T have received lots of com-{he anounced that it was clean. eyes is staring at a woman with an In-l quaint Giving the high sign is{ Matinee ts over Eighth avenue and! plaints, and 1 realize that mashing 1s a| Dillon docs not appear to think so. Martz i If with 10 WRIGHT HAS MISS GHERARDUIDAVIS) familiarizing. himse! the methods of procedure at police tria.s. Me. ws. 3, Who vil ave charge of tne legal and civil work of the Police Department. He was a law partner of \Wuslam_ Cary Sanger, the present As- sistant Secretary of War, and Is a close personal friend of Gen. Greene. Mrs, Davis and rMs. Greene are friends, Besides the civil and legal part of the police work, the new Conimissioner will do all of the purchasing of supplies for the Police Department and the erection and care of station-houses. MACUS BRAUN GETS GOOD OFFICE. Appointed Special Immigration Com- missioner by the President to ‘ircvel in Europe. Marcus Braun, President pf the dun- garian Republican Club and editor of the Hungarlan-Austrio Gazette, wag ap- pointed Special Immigration Commis- sioner in Europe by the President to- day. The satary is $5,000 a year, with expenses paid. t is a position recently created, re- quiring travel in Europe for the purpose of stopping on the other alde the eml- gration of Anarchists and other. unde- sirable ns. Mr. Braun has deen a sonal friend of the President since r, Roosevelt was Police Commissioner, His home in this city ts at No, 58 Sev: enth street, and he is @ Republican leader in his district. i Summer Weather in Saratoga. (Spectal to The Evening World.) SARATOGA, March 21.—The mercury climbed to summer figures here to-day and established a new record. Before noon the thermometer registered 75 de- grees and outer garments were worn un- which Js proceeding before Deputy Commissioner Piper, for the purpose of der protest, a warm rain falling, Trees and shrubs are in full bud. THIEF-TAKERS.) WITH $100 FAC Change in Hotel Detective Force Puts Two of Pinkerton’s Most Expert Men There to Protect Patrons from Crooks. BOTH COME FROM CHICAGO. Because of numerous recent robberies in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel another change has been made In the detective force of that establishment. The Pink- ertona have installed two of their best “thief-takers" to supplant Charles Hempstead, who recently took the place of James Kennedy. Kennedy reilred after making $30,000, The Pinkerton men are George Faust and Fred Thornhill, both of Chicago and recognized as two of the men most fa- millar with professional crooks of a high Class in thit country. It seems that a descent was recently made by efficient hotel thieves upon the Waldorf-Astoria. Numerous robberies were reported, not only from the rooms of patrons, but in the corridors. ‘fhe greatest trouble was with high-clas: English and American crooks who res- istered at the hotel and worked swind- lng games in the corridors and ¢ As Faust and Thornhill are oi Mth knowing more of this class criminals than any other two men th were sent to the Waldorf t erte In the few days they have been (here one professional and well-known thief has been captured and many, recognized them, have been driven awa) Little Joe Smith, the Englishman, still remains as a detective in the house He is credited with a vast knowledge of forelen croo! Faust, ha: record many of notable captures. His &) been bank workers and it no detective knows more crim: make banks their espzcial These crooks usually tels and fa that way becom vt = w atime live at gm. xe ho- acquainted with influential men, who innocently as- sist them In their schemes. ‘Thornhill returned a, few-days’ azo from. a 7,000-mile journey across the Paoife for a thief. brought him back. so Notables Sail on Campania, LIVERPOOL, March 21.—Capt ardson Clover, the United States > attache at London, and Ben Davies, fe got his man ana the singer, will be among the passen- girs of the Cunard Ine steamer Cam- panla, which salled from here to-day for New York who} § Schmittberger Hired Them to Get Evidence, but Their Stories Didn't Agree and Case Thrown Out of Court. HAD BEEN JEROME MEN, TOO. When Inspector Schmittherger ane nounced last week with a bdlare of trumpets that he Intended to folow the action of Pollee Commissioner Greene in hiring private sleuths to get evidence agninst disorderly houses, there were many who smiled, Schmittherger hired two men, whose recommendation was that they once ha@ accompanied District-Attorney Jerome on a raiding trip. “Go out and get evidence that will stand,” Schmittberger told the two men, Louls Rosénbaum and Jacob Krels- worth, ‘Here ts a hundred a piece." The two sieuths took the money and ceparted. They returned next day with storles of orgies, &c., In a Second ave=+ nue house. Schmittherger, Uckied to death, made them sign affidavits, and then obtained warrdhts against Henry Schneléer and Louis Hoffmen, the al- leged pro he place. Both men were arrested ant released on $9) ball Justice Mayer, in sl O- day heard t the’ two pet Leonard E the Jus. 1 the court. } le the otaei it each told er threw the case out disgust y that Jus of court 1 NO CHANCE FOR “4 HOOPER YOUNG Mormon Official Says the “Church” Witt Not Interfere to Ask for His Pardon. SALT LAKE, March 2.—If any movement is being made toward gecur- {ng the reelase of Hooper Young from Sing Sing. uid Secret: Wrst | Presidency "of | the Mormon, itis from outside the Chure ted by the First Presi- dency. Even If he were a member of the Chureh this action would not be taken, but Hooper Young was severed. from ‘the Churoh years ago for im- morallty.” even contempi Stern Brothers For a limited period, orders will be received for Wall Hangings and Draperies, Furniture Re-upholstering at Considerably Below Regular Rates. For this period prices of upholstery materials | | have'been 4reatly reduced. 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Kaiser Wilhelm’s Torture Play. German Emperor's Novel Argument it Vivisection, Long Walk in a Short Room. Beauty Sleep. The Great Needs of a Lenten Relax Shown by Harriet Hubbard Ayer, Last of America’s Cannibal Kings Dead. Society’s 40-Day $30,000,000 and a Gambler’s Curse. The Unpleasant Inheritance of the Queen of Sweden, and Why It Is Considered Ill-Omened, Fifty Dollars in Puzzle Prizes. «More Pocket Money for You and thelr evidence belag so confilcting | 'Yy Gibbs, of the , Ny hi \ -—