Morning journal and courier., 1881-12-10
Police Commissioners.


 what They Did in Executive sesaion- | Supernumerarfes SeIeeted-A General OverhRu1ing to be Made.
 On Thursday evering the Board of Police | Commissioners held two executive sessions, from which the reporters were excluded. Their proceedings became matter of record, however, and as such the public are entitled to examine them.
 Be it known then that in the executive ses- sion on Thursday evening Commissioners Hart and Kllbride reported list of fourteen supernumeraries as follows: Jehn J. Bent, Charles Meigs, Miles P. Hart, Oliver B. AL len, John c. Jackson, Frank D. Cook, Chris tian Keitler, M Lannigan, Isaac Shields, John ". Coleman, Thomas s. Blakeslee, Joseph F. Carr, Richard Coogan, L. Wass.
 Whether some of the above selections are so poor that the commissioners were afraid to have the public informed in regard to their appointment does not appear. The clerk, however, was instructed to notify the selected supernumeraries to appear before the Board at meeting to be held on the evening of Tuesday, December goth, at 7:30 o'clock.
 
 session to notify those patrolmen who are rated as poor or acithoat record in efficiency to appear at the next meeting of the Board; and also to notify the Chief, captain, lieu tenant, Roundsmen O'Keefe and Langley and 'ex-Roundsmen Smith and Selleck to appear at the same time and tell what they know about the policemen thus rated. mi, r H14U- auE 10 Han ri u1qr About dozen officers of the Second regi- ment are being summoned to appear before 1 the board inquiry into the Colonel Bacon I charges. The officers who will appear before \ the court are Major Engel, Captains Loomis, Thomas and Tiesing, and Lieutenants Car berry, Lynn, Lawrence, Waite, Kaerhle, Phillipe, Downes and Rogue. Constable Keefe, who had charge of the subp~nas, said | that all he knew of the affair was that the | sabppnas had been signed by Edmund zacher, as justice of the peace, and that they ! were served '.in the matter of the Court of Inquiry into the efficiency of the Second regi- ment c. N G., acting under Special Orders No. 71, A.G. O., dated July IS, 1881" Each of | the twelve officers named above is summoned | to meet at the rooms 1O6 and 1O7, New Haven House, at p. m. on Monday next, ''to testi- ' fy to what you know in the above entitled matter then and there pending, and to ex- plain, if you see fit, your alleged connection \ with a meeting held at New Haven on | the evening of June 13. 1881. " The meeting referred to was held the night before the commission sat last summer, and ' was presided over by ex-Col. Basserman, ex- Lieut.. James I. Hayes secretary. The meet ing passed resolutions endorsing and sustain ing Lieut.. Col. Bacon as valuable, compe tent and useful officer, and characterizine the law as infamous under which the exam ming board was convened, and expressing \ confidence in the integrity, honor and fair ness of the examining board. The resolu- tions were signed by:
 c. c. Engel Major; F. W: Tissing, Captain com Thomas, Captain, Co. D; M F. Brennan, Captain g 4i ward Lynn seoond Eeuenant co Richard | Waite, Second Lieutenant, Co D; G. A Basserman e1-Ideutenant, Co 0 F. Stanley Bradley, ex-Captain \ Co. E; c. c. Smith, e1-Captain, Co E; w. eT-Iieutenant, O. e Henry Phiiipe, First Iieufen ant, Co :; S. A. Downes, First Lieutenant Co; F Wa a9fjsntsnant co q: eeorqe Iawrenee Frs ! Lieutenant, Co. D.
 ! few weeks after new order was issued from.the Adjutant Generals office which 1T
 the last section bore on the meeting, ii
 stating that
 | ''should any member of the Connecticut Nationa
 Guard feel aggrieved at the action military
 viii always receive \ tion. The habit of publishing grievances in thu | Dewspapers is unmilitary and will not be allowed ! hereafter"
 The order is interpreted an order to in quire if there are any other officers thar
 Lieutenant Colonel Bacon guilty of anything
 prejudicial to the discipline and best interes
 of the Second regiment.
 The new hearing to take place awakens con
 siderable talk in military circles.
 ! Colonel Bacon's health is still very poor
 He is resoIute, however in demanding vindi cation He states that he will not submit tc any half way work or any whitewashing.