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       The Sergeant & The Serial Rapist
   DIR By: HowBrown1953
       Date: September 24, 2024, 9:16 am
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       This one isn't about an unsolved crime but a family tradition:
       rape.
       In 1885, NYPD Sgt. David Crowley assaulted ( in the Gilded Age,
       the term assault meant rape) a young girl at a social function.
       It took great courage for a young woman to press charges of this
       nature in those days, more so than in our time.
       Judge Fred Smyth sent him to prison for 17 1/2 years. De Lancey
       Nicoll led the prosecution. It took 17 minutes for the jury to
       give their verdict.
       He had gained 25 lbs. while in prison undoubtedly benefiting
       from avoiding his sentence to hard labor imposed by Smyth. He
       washed dishes for two of  those years.
       In late November 1893, Crowley was released from Sing Sing
       having served a little more than eight years.
       The crime created a sensation as throngs of people attempted to
       enter the courtroom. It required over twenty cops to escort
       Crowley
       when he was sent to prison.
       Governor Roswell P. Flower commuted his sentence. The headline
       claimed he was pardoned.
       This same sort of confusion on the part of the press occurred in
       the Brown Murder case as Amer Ben Ali was not pardoned but did
       have
       his sentence commutated.  Nothing in any of the Flower Papers
       mentioned Amer Ben Ali or George Frank. Flower
       dismissed his missives outright without even listing them on the
       list he compiled of denied requests for pardon for 1892-1894.
       Crowley was released and spent his Thanksgiving in 1893 with his
       wife, daughter, and son.
       Fast forward to 1911.....................
       His son George would be charged for the sexual assault of two
       nine-year-old girls.
       Like father, like son....George Crowley was sent to Sing Sing.
       New York Sun
       November 15, 1911
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       New York Evening World
       December 20, 1911
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