New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-06
THE POLICE FORCE IN A RAGE
CURIOUS AT JUSTICE MURRArs ATTACK,

REMUNERATION ON ROTH sIpEs-RELEAslNG ON-
LICENSED DEALERS
The Police Department was IN a furious rage yes
.rday over the remarks made by Police JusIce
Murray in the Tombs Police Court on lnieesd9ay
when he discharged two liQuor-dealers' Ills IAN
guage was reported as follows;
These spasmodic raids are outrageous. Every one
Knows that they simply ordered by police captains 10
extort money from policy ana liquor dealers III ne To-
pecye y experience as magistrate The rottenness
becomes plain when police captains getng SSy e S
estate city, cottages on the seashGre ana nWe Cdm Ss
nonnarss the year round rms tH ngya nsS 10 This
city These openly exist on the spells o. Their ra pe
Sns By yg1s SnS in Carrying Ds out their neSrOs
plans often used inexperienced romeo & rnt
on be bench by asking me with certain
oenders but have learned that 1t was not with desire
move on the part of the captain to notify others I'D 'ne
precinct 10 come up and settle - 49,. It'd. rnov
are Infamous and am astonished that the people tOlSr
rate them Police affairs IN this city Were h hs"d WSsD
there viii he change Ii come for these men are
getting day by day more audaclous'
Captains who came to Police Headquarters after
reading this spoke of Justice Murray in e1treI td
strong language. They said that he was the iasI l ~
who should make such charges; They reIerIeu W "
rumors regarding the way IN when rcn MS mn the old
charge that when policeman IN 1uiy aiIsS obont
fused TO serve against the rioters; they taiken
an illicit distillery on the WeS' s aSont the
S S.s of bis position safs ago tRS interest q
lQuOrdeaer who violated t fne f IL he had used
the language published he had maiGIGaSly lie ~
Mir French thought that Mr. Murray, lntenaeq 10
GET the votes of the liquor dealers. He said the
Department records showed that Henry Murray was
appointed policeman on May lSol, was aPSomt
leave. while the riot of 1868 was in progress, and
resigned on July "a, 1865. -;,,x o,,o;Dot
him. Justice Murray entered the Office of Commls-
sioner Mason He said that his language had not
been reported correctly. Mr. Mason urged MN 10
and later he put the request in formal letter. but
Mr. Murray declined to do this, ,... :. ho
TRIBUNE reporter asked the JHStlce III T. on nc
afternoon in what points the report OF his language
was Incorrect Z" Part of the report is true ana
part of il is false" he replied IL was talking
about the raids, never thinking was peihg It.
Did YOU say" asked the reporter that the
captains ordered the raids to extort money from
policy and liquor dealersr 80
=" said nothing of the kind" .u -,
Several reporters who had been present then told
the Justice that they had so understood NM . -
ii did saw this which recall and 1t is true"
continued the Justice q i am disguised WIN the
police force through my experience as a magis-
cantains getting salary of only 81, 900 year, can
n a short time valuable real estate IN the cly'
cottages ON the seashore, and live Ike mllioh-
What captains did you have in mind |" asked
THE TRIB NE reporter. .o,
Ali Now Won want me to he specific"
lyon spoke of the rOttenness of the police affairs
ii certainly wish to exclude Commissioner
Mason He is a neghbOr of mine and know MIN
we'll. meant to cast no discrodt on him"
DO you include the other members OF the Board
in your censure r !, NJ,
Il don't know them so well as / do Mr.
Did YOU, when a policeman in 1868, refuse to
serve against the rioters ~ . -,
1T is lie. an infamous lie :!
About ten years after left the police force IN the
trial over my election to my present place, Ponce
Superintendent John A. Kennedy swOTe TO that on
the stand one day, but he came back the next DAY
and denied his own statement. superintendent
wa ling was then my captain, and he swore IN that
same trial that nv resignation was regular, ana was
asked for in May SG3. but il was not granted I'M
til June 20. resigned from the police force to go
into the coke business"
Justice Murray released fifteen hquOr,dealers
who had been arrested for selling liquor on licenses
which the police declared were void, because the
holders had been convicted of violating the Excise
law The Justice said licenses remained good until
revoked by the Excise Board. In thus holding he
ran counter to a Supreme Court decision 81 Is 70.
Insuector Thorne said that the liquOTdeaeTs might
save time and money by consulting this decision.
In the case of the People against Patrick llghe Ire
pOrted in Hun, %, brought up on appeal from the
tOurt of Sessions Of Livingston County the SUI
premc Court held, Justice Gilbert delivering the
opinion that by the Act of 1873 chaptcr $40, Sec
ton 81 licenses absolutely forfeited ana an
null,d by convictions.