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TROY’S. ACCUSED OFFICIALSGOV. MORTON DIRECTS THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL TO PROSECUTETHEM.Mayor Molloy and Chief of Police Willard on the List—Police Commissioners, Aldermen and Other Men High in Authority Impeached before the Grand Jury for Felonies and Misdemeanors.Governor Morton on Friday issued instructions to Attorney-General Hancock directing him to conduct prosecutions against a number of prominent officials and well-known residents of Troy for failure to enforce existing laws and forthe commission of felonies and misde-^ * __meanors. Attorney-General Hancock hasdesignated his first deputy G. H. D. Has-brouck to take charge of the cases whichare to be presented to the grand jury ofRensselaer county now in session at Troy.Francis J. Molloy, mayor of Troy; John Magill, Republican, and George O’Neill, Democrat, the police commissioners of the city, are charged with refusing to close gambling houses and houses of ill fame in the city and with accepting from proprietors of gambling houses and houses of ill fame the sum of $50 from each of the proprietors in receipt of which said proprietors were granted immunity from arrest.Chief of Police Wallace W. Willard is accused of willfully neglecting and refusing to close houses of ill fame' and gambling houses.George H. Mead is accused of extorting and accepting from inhabitants of the city of Troy money which he represented to them was to be used in obtaining for them permission to open their business places on Sunday. Mead is a saloon keeper and president of the Board of Aldermen and president of the local Liquor Dealers’ Association.Moses Litowich and Elias G. Dorlon are accused of being the owners of and renting houses for the purposes of prostitution. Moses Litowich is a dry goods dealer. * Elias G. Dorian is an alderman and a real estate owner. •Michael Tierney is accused of knowingly letting, as agent, houses for the purposes of prostitution.Police Sergeant Ormsbey is accused of being a common gambler, and of failing to restrain and repress gambling houses, he being at the time a police-officer of the city of Troy.James Cummings, a patrolman, is accused of willfully failing and neglecting to apprehend persons observed by him in the commission of a highway robbery on the 18th day of December, 1894.Sergeant James Quest, is charged with liberating prisoners or permitting them to escape from the police station house in the city of Troy, during the year 1891.James Magill and Thomas O’Brien, are charged with offense of highway robbery committed during the year 1893 on Fifth avenue, Troy. James Magill is a son of Police Commissioner Magill.Indictments are also sought against John, alias Jack McCauley, Thomas O’Neill, Hiram Ford, Patrick O’Brien, George O’Brien, Thomas McDonough, John Shanahan, Dennis Sullivan, Patrick Sullivan, Lawrence Shevlin, Patrick Cahill, Christopher McGraw, John Shea, John J. Burke and Arthur Keefe, who are accused of felonies or misdemeanors committed at general or charter elections held in the county of Rensselaer and Troy, during the years 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893 and 1894.Thomas O’Neill is a brother of George O’Neill and holds a $1,200 position in the board of public instruction in that city. Hiram Ford is a special officer connected with the detective force. Michael Tierney is a Democratic assessor and a member of the Donohue-Tierney Brewing Company. +-THE LUTHER LEAGUE.To Hold a State Convention at Hudson Tomorrow and Friday.
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Chatham Republican
Chatham, New York, US
Wed, May 29, 1895
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