The investigation of the complaint preferred against Officer WYNKOOP, by Sergeant BERNEY, was resumed at 11 A. M., yesterday, before Police Commissioner BOWEN. A large number of Policemen, interested in the proceedings, were present.
    Officer L. Place was examined--He knew nothing pertinent to the issue; he had received $50 once to put in the Fund for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Policemen.
    Richard O. Swan's testimony amounted to nothing.
    P. S. Fowler testified that Officer Brandt's general character was bad.
    D. K. Seaman gave similar testimony.
    B. Neiss sworn--Thought Brandt's character was not good.
    Officer McArthur had received money for expenses in going to Virginia and bringing Mason Thomas to New-York; would not believe Brandt under oath.
    Officer Busteed testified that he once heard that sergeant Berney went to a man named Brady, arrested for selling obscene books, and told him to come to the Mayor's office at ten o'clock, and the indictment would be settled or quashed; he (witness) went to Mr. Brady and told him to have nothing to do with Berney, by request of a Mr. Long; he thought there was nothing said about money.
    Here Sergeant Berney, who cross-examined most of the witnesses, explained that Mr. Stanley came to the office and asked if there was not an indictment against a man named Brady, and if it could not be quashed; he (Berney) pretended that the evidence was destroyed for the purpose of catching Stanley, and then asked for the money; Brady was anxious that the indictment should be quashed, as he had gone into respectable business; he (Berney) told Brady that if he would come to the Mayor's office and make an affidavit that Stanley had offered to settle it--[At this point Commissioner Bowen stopped the examination, and said this matter would be the subject of a separate trial, next Tuesday.]
    Officer Busteed resumed--Sergeant Berney had requested him to get $45 worth of books from the Harpers' for what he (witness) did not know; he did not get them; he had heard Brandt make threats against Sergeant Croft, and would not take Brandt's word; he had told Berney he could get the books at cost price if Berney gave him the money to get them with; they were to cost $34 or $35; he did not think the books could ever have have been paid for; Berney did not mean to get the books from the Harpers', but from him; he, once after this, told Berney that it was hard for him to go and complain about him (witness) to Capt. Walling.
    Officer Blackwell testified that the diamond ring for Berney's wife was first spoken of by the men after a dinner at Berney's house; Berney knew nothing about it; he (witness) heard Berney order the books; Berney was to pay for them; knew that one case was withdrawn, after going to Court, by the Corporation Attorney.
    Officer Hector Moore knew nothing of the matters at issue.
    Officer Thomas Black, sworn--He never heard that any officer had received money, except himself; this was when he took a prisoner to New-London; his expenses were paid by the Sheriff of New-London.
    Officer Davis knew nothing pertinent.
    Capt. Leonard, sworn--He knew of the intimation about the sergeants' demanding money from Officer Wynkoop; heard other intimations from Brandt and Van Arsdale about it; Van Arsdale stated to him that Sergeant Croft had demanded money from himself or Officer Gaylor; Van Arsdale was very reluctant about it and about being made a witness in this case, as he did not wish to injure any man; he (witness) had heard from the Mayor's Clerk, and others, that the men had "laid" for chances to receive money or presents and could hardly be induced to go out of the office to serve a simple notice; Officer Van Arsdale had stated to him that either he or Officer Gaylor was present when Sergeant Croft demanded and received money; that it was either a mock auction or a "bogus" case, and that when the parties (there were three of them) returned, the money was divided; it amounted to only about $150; the officers were connected together in the transaction; nothing was said about its being borrowed money; nor was it said that Van Arsdale lent Croft $150; this was before any charge was made; Van Arsdale came to witness voluntarily, by request of Sergeant Berney; all this evidence was hearsay.
    Officer James McCloud, sworn--The largest amount of money that he had ever received was $25, a reward; he divided it with others; he had heard Berney say he did not care how much money the men made, and he (witness) was often asked to "stand the oysters," as he had made money enough that day; he believed all the men in the Squad, from the Sergeant down, had received money; he had never told the Sergeants that he received money; they heard of it, he supposed, from report, as it was the common talk; Sergeant Berney once asked him who made the most money that day; witness had made $25 in a ticket case; had heard that the officers had made more; he had received money for arresting parties; one day he received $5 from Stanley for arresting parties; Stanley never gave him any other money; he had given him other papers like one shown to witness.
    [The paper was a note, stating that lottery policies were sold at a specified place.]
    Here Mr. Marcus Cicero Stanley said: "Mr. Bowen, am I on trial?"
    "What's your name, Sir?" asked Mr. Bowen.
    It is Stanley," replied that individual.
    "No Sir, you are not," answered Mr. Bowen.
    Mr. McCloud further testified that he had received such notes a dozen times from Stanley in Berney's presence; he had been asked by parties outside not to arrest parties in the lottery business.
    [This line of examination, conducted by Sergeant Berney, was stopped by Mr. Bowen.]
    Mr. Stanley here said he had paid Berney hundreds of dollars.
    Sergeant Berney, leaning back in his chair, said "You lie, if you say so!"
    Examination resumed--Berney had never warned witness about taking money from anybody; he (witness) never gave either of the Sergeants any money, nor did they ask him for any.
    Officer Henry W. Hall sworn --He knew nothing of any intimations from the desk in the Mayor's Squad room, that the men must divide, or of any officer's receiving or demanding any money for duty performed other than their salaries; he did not recollect shaking Sergeant Berney's hand and leaving $5 in it; in the Mayor's office; he once paid Berney $3 that he owed him in the Mayor's office; the day Pete Dawson was examined, witness went out with Dawson to get bail; Dawson did not give him $10, and he (witness) was sure he did not give Berney $5; the money he borrowed from Berney was to buy policies with, so as to see whether suspected parties sold policies: he gave it to Berney out of his own pocket; Berney told him that money used thus by him would be refunded.
    Officer McCloud (recalled) said--He had bought policies with his own money in this way; the men told him the money thus expended would be refunded to him by the Mayor.
    The investigation was here adjourned to 11 A. M. to-day.

Source:

Unknown, "The Charges Against Officers of the Mayor's Squad," New York Times, Saturday, 5 March 1859, p. 1.

    The Officer Wynkoop mentioned above is Officer Cornelius D. Wynkoop of the Mayor's Squad, New York City.

    Richard Wynkoop, in the 1904 edition of the Wynkoop Genealogy in the United States of America, has this to say about him on pages 203-204:

    1450. Cornelius De Witt Wynkoop, (Genl. Cornelius E. 896, Evert C. 517, Maj. Cornelius E. 295, Capt. Evert 112, Cornelius 28, Evert 4, Cornelius 1,) born April 6, 1830: died January 9, 1899, in the Seney Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., after a surgical operation: married, 1st, April 4, 1858, Harriet Pook, from England, who died October 21, 1889. He married, 2d, April 10, 1892, in Brooklyn, Mrs. Mary Annie (Miller) Scrymser, widow of Charles Arlington Scrymser.
    He was, at one time, on the police force of the city of New York: and he was afterwards a printer, and, at the time of his death, was a member of the printing firm of Wynkoop & McKay. He was a teacher in the Sabbath School of the Tabernacle, Brooklyn.
    Children of Cornelius D. and Harriet Wynkoop:
1703. Cornelius Evert: b. June 14, 1859: m. Emma Frances Walker, known as Frank. They live at Rhinebeck, N. Y.
1704. Mary Elizabeth: b. June 1, 1869: m., Apl. 15, 1891, in Brooklyn, John Duncan Duff, who d. in New Haven, Conn., in June, 1902.

    Chris