The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-04-20

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Charges and Is Punished BY Three
Months Suspension-A Mounted "Cop-
per's'' Vicious Horse Gets Him Into
Trouble.
The day of reckoning for delinquent po-
hcemen, which has been so long coming,
arrived yesterday, and several members
of the force were obliged to pay the pen
atty of their shortcomings. The Board of
Police Commissioners met as Trial Com
mittee in the afternoon and spent over
three hours in considering various
breaches of discipline.
The first to face the committee were
Policemen Sturgis, Devlin, Crawford,
Walsh, Levins, Toppin, Fallon, Monahan,
Steele, Duffy and Shelworth. Some time
ago charges of intoxication were preferred
against Policeman Kiernan, and one night
at roll call Herman asked Captain Nc
Kaig in the Gregory Street Station If he
had brought the charges. The Captains
reply angered Herman, and he attempted
to assault the Captain. The above police
men were all present at the time and
failed to render the Captain any assist
ance. They were adjudged guilty and
will be reprimanded by the Chief.
Policeman Patrick McKimm, of the
Fourth precinct, was found guilty of be-
ing off his post and sleeping in the station
house, and was suspended for ten days;
and Policeman John Il. Reilly, of the
Sixth precinct, will be reprimanded by
the Chief for neglect of duty.
Mounted Policeman Harms, of the Fifth
precinct, was charged with disobedience
and disrespect to a superior officer.
Roundsman Mcintyre testified that on
April Harms appeared at roll call with
out having his horse in front at the
stationhouse, as required by the rules of
the department. When he asked Harms
where his horse was, and told him that
that was the third time he had spoken to
him on the subject and If it occurred
again he would have to prefer charges
against him, Harms, he alleges, told him
in an insolent manner to go ahead with
his charges. "He didn't ask any odds of
him." Several policemen corroborated
the roundsman
Harms defence was that the horse was
vicious, and if left standing in front of the
station would kick some passerby, so he
kept him in the station-house yard. The
horse is SO vicious, he said, that Policeman
Kilburn threatened to arrest Harms if he
did not take the animal off the street.
President Davis remarked that he had
seen the beast, and it came very near
kicking him. Harms was found guilty
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Chanceman Cornelius Leary, of the Sec
ond precinct, was found guilty of being
off his post and was suspended for one day,
while Michael Condor, of the Sixth pre-
cinct, will be reprimanded by the Chief for
the same offense. Two charges were
brought against Chanceman Randalls, of
the Second precinct, but he was lucky
enough to escape from both. He was
charged with being off his post, and
Charles Sturgis submitted an affidavit in
which he set forth that on April 8 Ran
dalls assaulted him at Ninth and Erie
streets while in full uniform and on duty.
Mr.. Sturgis also charged the chanceman
with being intoxicated, but failed to ap-
pear and substantiate any of his charges.
Chief Murphy will reprimand Chance
man John Fallahee, of the Second pre-
cinct, for failing to report at the station
house when required, and Patrolman
Philip Landmasser, for the same offence,
was suspended for one day.
A charge of being intoxicated while in
full uniform and on duty, March 81, was
what Chanceman Bullard OF the First
precinct was called upon to answer,
Captain McKaig testified against him and
he was suspended for three months
Daniel Johnston, of the Second precinct,
was suspended for three months for being
drunk while on duty, Sunday, February
II. Chanceman Michael Drum was sus-
pended three months on each of two
charges of drunkenness He made an
arrest January "a, and at the station
house was too drunk to tell where he
found the prisoner. Patrick O'Connor, of
the Fourth precinct, was suspended for
three months on a plea of guilty of in
toxication.
After dispensing all this even handed
justice the Board settled down to routine
business. Alfred D. Hillyer, superintend
ent of the Old Foundry Mission, was
given special police power, and Patrolman
Bernard Wade was promoted to the posi-
tion of sargeant, with patrolman's pay un-
til there are sufficient funds to pay him
the salary of the sergeant. Chancemen
Van Duzen, Evans and Darrah were given
the City Hospital reported that his re-
ceipts last month were $1s4.44 and his ex-
penditures $3.50.