Satan's Invisible World Displayed or, Despairing Democracy

of New York. In the evidence of the men who practise the confidence trick, the curious fact came out that the police expressly abandoned strangers to the tender mercie

count upon the active co-operation of the police-in return for a share of the

worse. It has been the glory of Columbia, as one of the poets declared, that her latchkey was never drawn in to the poorest and weakest of Adam's kin. The boast is no longer true. Restrictions upon the paupe

tion list of their oppressors. The police brigands levied blackmail boldly enough even when dealing with the cute Yankee and the smart New Yorker. But when they were let loose on the foreigner their rapacity knew no bounds. They had the power of a Turkish pasha in an Armenian province, and they used it almost as ruthlessly. They did not massacre, it is true. There was no occasion for such extreme measures. Even the

iminals known as the Essex Market Gang, which had established a regular reign o

ossible to live there with the gang; they can convict any man they want to, and they can make free any man they want to, becaus

lots of men swearing to anything, and police officers to make

s such as indicated, how is it the

ernment just about the same, and, perhaps, a little worse than the place they came from; they are largely Polish Jews and Russian Jews and foreigners of that class,

lack was treated for daring to ask an officer, whose boots he had blacked on credit for a month until the little bill had run up to 75 cents

ner got up and said, "Well, why don't you pay us?" At the same time he rushed up against my partner like a cyclone and struck him right and left with his hand; and he had him all bleeding. I tried to step in

he mean by

e, and they made a charge of disorderly conduct: they cl

were cut and blee

es,

e officers

an's story, but would not let us tell ours at all. Another officer took me to the court, and Gwinnen took my partner along; when we got to the other side of t

e then und

es,

r way to the

"Officer, tell him that he should not hit him any more;" so afte

tain redress. They appealed to the Superintendent, who promised that the officers should be punished. Nothing was done. They then made another effort, raised ￡5 to pay a lawyer, and began an action for assault. One officer was held

ty of getting justice of a policeman, has been learned so well that one marvel

Report put it on record as th

the local inferior criminal courts, so that it is beyond a doubt that innocent people who have refused to yield to criminal extortion, have been clubbed and harassed and confined in gaol,

w woman of the name of Urchittel. Mrs. Urchittel was a Russian Jewess, who emigrated to the United States in 1891. Her husband had died at Hamburg, from which city she sailed for New York

me for starting a boarding-house in 166 Division Street, and gave me for furniture and other necessaries, and, besides 60 dollars, sent immigrants to my boarding-house. My business was increasing daily

again, giving me 150 dollars, and sent me to Brownsville, where I bought a restaurant and made a nice living, but having the mis

uple of days later the same man came in, asking me for a package of chew tobacco, to trust him, which I refused, excusing myself being recently the owner of that store; I don't know anybody of that surrounding. I cannot do it. He took then out a dollar of his pocket and gave it to me fo

rest me, and I can avoid the trouble by giving the detective 50 dollars, and refusing to do it, I will be locked up, and my children taken away from me till the twenty-first year. Not

in that night, and the detective remained with me alone in the store; he told me then that he knows that I keep a disorderly house and saved 600 dollars of that dishonest business. If I wanted to escape being arrested, he wanted 50 dollars. I opposed to

at the detective wants 75 dollars, but he will try to settle it with 50 dollars, but without any money nothing can be done for me, and gave me also his advice, to pay 10 dollars monthly to th

nd took off my stockings, showing that I had no money in them. "If you don't want to give the money," said the detective to me, "I can't help it, you must follow me to the station-house." Being convinced that it is impossible that I should escap

not able to give him any more money; but he didn't want to hear me any more, and I had to follow him. By the signal of a whistle a man came near me, and the defective gave me over to him with the remark not to let me go till I have the fifty dollars. The name of that man is Mr. Meyer. I went with him to Mr. Lefkovitz, manufacturer of syrups

me forty cents, and I did not agree asking fifty, and thus I was detained in default of five hundred dollars bail. Having been sitting in the court the detective, Hussey, came

URCHI

to a dark room, where I was locked up. Unable to procure bail, I was impris

erstand the English language, I couldn't defend myself. The lawyer, who was sent from the Hebrew Charities, came too late, and had to give only t

rother sold my store for sixty-

Twenty-third Street. I ran there, but no one knew of my children. Finally, after five weeks, I received a postcard of my child, that the children

peration by Professor Mundy. After I left the hospital, I had the good chance to find a place in 558, Broadway, where I fixed up a stand by which I am enabled to make a nice livi

r your children, and feels what children are to a faithful mother. Help me to get my children. Let me be mother to them. Grant me my holy wish, and I will always pray fo

"two bad, disreputed boys" were engaged to swear away her character. The allusion was a reminder of the fact that one of the worst developments of the system under which the police became bandits was the organisation of a band of professional perjurers, who would swear anything the police cared to tell them. Mrs. Urchittel's character was irreproachable, yet on the evidence of these scoundrels she was convicted of keeping a house

in New York City is that, upon the ipse dixit of one man, children can be taken from their protectors, fathers and mothers, and secreted away in some institution, and there is no power invested in any court or in any official to compel him to reveal where the children are or to restore them." The sensation occasioned by this case was so great that the Com

f money out of the miseries of life, is one of the not

professional bondsmen, professional thieves, police, and those who lay plots against the unwary, and lead them into habits of law-breaking, or surround them with a network

om her home, dragged her through the streets until three o'clock in the morning, pulled down and searched her stockings for money, until she in despair produced all that she had saved for her month's rent. This being insufficient, he gave her a short time to obtain the balance, and she tried to sell her store, but failed, and then he arrested her again, lodged a false and infamous charge against her, fast

ession are found on the re

ee reported under the head of "Brutalit

nts our institutions have been degraded, and those who have fled from oppression abroad hav

ens the world" from her eyri

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