The evening world., 1888-08-31
ANOTHER POLICE NOVELTY.
IN OFFICER SAYS HE WAS ALONE AND
gELPLESs FOR TWO DAYS.

Tnnt WINS HIS ENc.ce for nm Absence of
Two Days ithsns Lcavc-Other Cases
Before Commissioner Frenrh-Notoriou-
afc Advised TO seek some Nero Com
genial Line Of business.
Tho delightful air and haalthful waters Of
Saratoga seem to agree with the constitution
Of Police Commissioner French, for he
looked tho very picture Of health in the de-
partment trial room, where he arrived
shortly after 10 o'clock yesterday morning.
He had just returned from the Republican
Convention at the Spa. but there were no in
dications of his having remained up late Of
nights.
The jolly Commissioner surveyed the lin
tied number of delinquents with a great deal
of complaceucy and proceeded at once to
business.
Frank Hahn, patrolman in the Fifth Pre-
cinct, was charged with having been forty
minutes late on Aug. 10, when he was ordered
TO attend the funeral of the late Capt. Nc
Donnell. His excuse was that he OVERSIGHT.
Capt. Garland, of the Seventh, complained
that one of his Off GERS. Michael Savage, was
of his post for half an hour on Aug. 20.
Savage averred that he had gone into u wood
yard to quell a disturbance.
Perhaps one of the most remarkable cases
ever heard in the court was that of jeremiah
J. Sullivan, Of the First Precinct. Capt.
Mclaughlin charged Sullivan with having
been absent from duty without leave for
forty houls and twenty-seven minutes,
and the latter said that on the night of Aug.
10 he had fallen down a cellar. Severe In
juries in his knees and ankles resulted, and
when he reached his home, 1895 Madison
avenue, he was unable to move. He dramat-
ically recounted his unpleasant experiences.
saying:
-" You cannot imagine my feelings there,
with no one in the house or within hailing
distance. There was no food in the place,
and tor two days | subsisted on Croton water.
| painted my knees and ankles literally with
iodine and got some relief"
The police surgeon who visited Sullivan
said that he could find no evidences of any
injury except n violent nervousness which
might have resulted from a protracted de-
bauch.
This is q very peculiar case" said the
Commissioner, looking over Sullivan's rec
ord, nj uuenviable one, and l may add
that you have the distinction of being the
first police officer to emulate the example of
DIR. Tanner"
A burly follow, upon whose visage brutality
was depicted in every feature. mounted the
platform when Clerk Peterson called for
Lincoln E. Chafee, Eighth Precinct.
Chafee's upper lip was swelled to almost
twice its natural size and there were evil
dences of an assault on either cheek. He
was charged with having sat down on a door
step while doing duty, Aug. g..
full, " said the Commissioner. Who struck
you ? The poor little cripple whom you SO
brutally assaulted on June 8 7"
Nav" replied Chatfee. doggedly. "A
sertin party in de house an me had a scrap
an / got de wust ov it."
well, you've been on the force about n
year and your record shows that your incli-
nations are towards something else, sharply
put in the Court. Hadn't you better get
out Of this and seek something more con-
genlal?"
Chaffee allowed that he didn't know and the
Frederick Hallenbeck, of the Eighth, was
found early on the morning of Aug. II lean
ing against O railing, sound asleep.
have had considerable trouble lately,
and was in O meditative mood, =" said the
officer.
into brown studies while on post. +" smiled
the Commissioner. Its q bad habit for po-
licemen to FORM.
Patrolman Edward F~itzgibbons, of the
Eighth, was charged with having climbed up
The officer denied the charge.
Patrolman Richard Wilson, of the Ninth,
was charged with having entered a saloon on
Aug. 16. He wanted to see a man.
Peter Hughes, patrolmnn in the Fourteenth
Precinct, on Aug. is, talked for half an hour
with a woman while doing patrol duty. He
said the female had been locked out.
The case of Emanuel Meyer. of the Thir-
teenth Precinct, was rather interesting.
Mrs. Samuels, OF 1T Stanton street, declared
that the officer was acting in collision with
thieves who stole her pocket book. 1t was
shown, however, that the officers testimony
on the trial of the thieves was strongly
against them, and their acquittal was no
fault of his. Mrs. Samuels was greatly
excited.
Conductor Bishop, of the Third avenue L
road, charged Patrolman JOIN Dunn. of the
First Precinct. with having refused to eject u
disorderly passenger from his train on Aug.
8. The passenger was smoking, and the con-
ductor, with q brakeman, was trying to re-
move him. The officer refused to give any
he was perfectly right. as he did not see the
pass with a cigar i'll his mouth.
Patrolman James Mulvey, of the Twenty
third Precinct, was in Thomas Madden's sa-
loon. corner Of Forty-fourth street and Sec
ond avenue, at 4 A. NJ, Aug. 3, according to
the story of Thomas Mclaughlin, a truck
driver of 304 East Forty fourth street. Nc
Laughlin alleged that the officer assaulted
him, and then leaving the saloon chased him
into his own apartments. His sisters cor
roborated his statements, and alleged further
that Mulvey brutally assaulted their aged
mother. 1t was also claimed that Patrolman
Reagan, of the same precinct, had aided in
the general assault. Both of the officers are
powerful men, and the efforts of Mulvey TO
e~xculpate himself were weak. Reagan, how
ever, was on his vacation at the time. and
swore that he did not participate in the as
sault.