The evening world. Newspaper, December 21, 1904, Page 5

a CLUBBER WILL FAMOUS CLUB re BE SUSPENDED CUTEDB rag (lousanids of Women Have Inspector Recommends Prompt Action in Case of Policeman McLaughlin, Who Assaulted a Reporter, BROKE ONE OF ROBBINS'S ARMS IN TWO PLACES, Policeman Denies Charge Against Him, but Must Stand Trial—Has a Bad Record— McAdoo Takes Up Case. At the direction of Police Commis. sioner McAdoo Inspector McLaughlin Degan an Investigation to-day into the brutal clubbing of James P. Robbius, @ well-known reporter, by Policeman Frank McLaughlin, of the West ad eighth street station. McLaughlin, with- out the slightest provocation, according to Robi! attacked him at the corner of Eighty-seoond street and Amsterdam avenue early yesterday morning, broke his arm in two places and gave him a g00d clubbing goncrally, The only ex- Planation of the assault at preant is that MoLaughiin mistook Robbing for fome on \ ¢. As @ result of tho {nvestigation In Spector MoLaughlin sent word to Com missimer McAdoo that ¢ we very serious one and recommended the immediate suspension of the policeman. Mr. McAdoo sald that he would sus. pend him to-night. “The man has had eighteen com- Plaints againat him since 106," sald the Commissioner, “and bas been fine! @ixty-eight and one-half days’ pay If all that is told of this case is true, It Is an outrage. [t (# mystery to me how guch brutes as this man can get on the force.” Inspector McLaughlin began his in- | vestigation to-day in his quarters In the ‘West Sixty-edighth street station, Rob- bins was present and also Policeman McLaughlin. Robbins told his story precisely as It has already been tid ‘and then MoLaughiin was asked what be had to say, The policeman, whose recerd for brutality is very bad, then told a remarkable tale. He said he was at the corner of Seventy-second street and Amsterdam avenue early y ay morning when Rovbina came along and told him that the Exctse law was being violated by one Kennedy, who keeps & galoon at the corner of Elghty-second @treet and Amsterdam avenue. His Explanation of Injurtes, He accompanied Robbins to the sa- oon, he anid, but found everything there all right. He then gave Robbins what he charactorized as a good “dreas- fing down" and left him, Later, he sald, he saw Robbing fall down, and gave tt ‘as his opinion that the man sustained his injuries by this fall After telling this story Mofaughlin suddenly remembered that Policeman Willis G, Paine was with him through all thew events and called Paine to vorify his story, Paine solemnly verified ft in every detail. Robbins declared that he had never seen Palne in hts life before and that no polloeman was with MeLaughiin at the time of the assault. Inspector McLaughlin had the state- ments of both men taken down and will submit them to Commissioner McAdoo, who 1s to order the policeman to trial at once. In the mean Ume, however, Rob- bins means to apply for a warrant for MaLaughiin’s arrest on a charge of as- sault, bringing the case Into the erim- {nal courts, Robbins, after leaving a friend at Amsterdam avenue and Eighty-second Street about 240 o'clock yesterday Morning, was waiting for a car, when, without warning, he was almost felled by a blow from a club across his back Had st not been for his heavy cou collar and inside collar, he sald, would doubtless have been killed. As he turned he waa in time to cateh an. other viclous blow from the club of a uniformed policeman on his elbow. which fractured his wrist and par alyzed the lower part of his arm. His fat wae torn off his head by this blow Hetore he could demand an explana- tion the policeman again swung his club and a heavy blow descended on his right elbow. missing the head. where fe was evidently aimed. Still another Diow was warded from the club, and then Robbins stepped buck into a snow pile. As he did this the policeman, he says, pulled his revolver and, pointing ft, pulled the trigger. fian Failed to Go Of, The gun fatled to fire, and while the oMoer was examining It Robbins hur- Ted across the street to Kennedy's sa- Joon at the opposite corner. Hore he tried to get the proprictor to open the @oor, but he refused Robbins feared that the policeman would follow up his attack and kill him, and he wanted the saloon-keeper to witness the assault The pollceman, after failing to fire his pistol disappeared, and, faint from the Joss of blood, Robbins tnally found his way home, where his roommate, Brow- Jey Gray, ‘Insisted upon Robbins going to the Roosevelt Hospital. His wounds were dressed, and Robbins then went to the West Sixty-olghth street station He reported the assault to Sergeant McGlorin, who allowed him to remain there until the police came in from duty. McLaughlin came tn and went Girectly to the rear room without re- Porting his encounter. Called out. Later he was and Robbins identified h ol bbl n; R the officer be- . and cannot imagine why he used bis club on him. ———— ENGINE BREAXS MAN'S HIP. ‘While crossing the New York Certrni @racks at East Fifty-first street to-day Joseph Lusta, twenty years old. ot fo, 635 Morris avenue, was g@ruck by an engine and sustained fractured hip. He was working In the Tuilroud yards at the time He was removed the Flower Hospital, Pafew bets s., w colt ad ! |Metropolitan, the Most Exclus- ive Organization in Washing- | ton, Loses Its House and One Man Is Overcome at Blaze. WASHINGTON, Dec, 21.—The Motro- Palitan Club-house, the most fashion- able in Washington, was gutted by fire to-day, Involving an estimated loas of | trom $40,000 to $100,000, partially coy. eral by Insurance, The fire was caused by a spark from an electric wire near levator shaft, ‘The flames broke out about 6 o'clock \ this mon . and, fanned by a strong wind, soon enveloped the entire buid- jing, and were not extinguished until tive hours later, The club has @ large membership, em- bracing some of the best-known men in | public life, but none of them were in the bullding at the time of the fire. the only joceupants being the watchmen, stews jard and two other employees, all of whom escaped without dimculty except Watehman Deponal, who gave the alarm and Was afterward overcome by smoke He was carried out by the firemen | otherwise uninjured, A library, estimated to be worth up- wards of $15,000 and containing some volumes that cannot be replaced, es- caped practically uninjured, and the flames did not reach the wine cellar. Manager Knight, of the club, mates (he loss on the bullding at $100, m which there is the rd on sured. contents e estimate of the loss bly lower than these figures, suse was at Beventeenth club The and H. streets, | White House, and the vicinity of the Executive Mansion was in a whirl of exe it while the blaze lasted President Koosevelt got the detalls of the fire before breakfast and oMciat | § Washington had a good view of it on the way to business. | The Metropolitan Club is an ultra-ex- clusive organiaation, and not a few pub- lic men who sought admission to it have been blackbu!!d, The President lie John G, Walkor and the’ Vice-Presi- |dents Archibald Hopkins and Joseph Kk. | other officers are sand Ale | McCommon. Robert 38. C t 8K eretaries Hay e members of ciub as well as Ambassadors Von Hen. Kelmuller, of Austria; Count Cassini, of y Russia, Des Pianches, f i France, and | Minister ' Takahira, ‘the Mikado's envoy, 1 | SHIPWRECKED CREW HERE. 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