Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-03-06
OUR NEW SERGEANTS.
Brief Pen Sketches of the Men Who
Will Have Charge of the Ctty's
Gmardiana.

OUR NEW SERGEANTs.
Brief Pen Sketches of the Men who
Will Have Charge of the Ctty's |
Guardians. |
Brief pen sketches of the ten new police |
sergeants, as they appear to the casual OBJ
server, cannot fail to be of interest to all
who have known, or may know, these
faithful guardians of the city's peace.
There is Sergeant Stormont. He was
appointed upon the force for active duty
on June i, 1880, and since then he has
been a most efficient officer. He is one of
the largest officers in the matter of girth
and weight upon the force. He has been
detailed at the depot and upon other CEN
trail portions of the city and is we'll known
to most of the business part of the COM
munity. His plump, round face and red
cheeks are always wreathed in a pleasant
smile. A good story told of the sergeant
illustrates his nature completely and shows
how he became the "most popular man on
the force" He agreed to run foot race
for wager with a brother officer. Find
ing himself getting winded, he ran up an
alley, which was so filed with the ser
.
not pass him, and he thus gained "wind"
for another squirt and won the race.
Sergeant Croker went into active SER
vice on the force on June s, 1875. He has
been upon nearly every beat in the city
and has done some very praiseworthy
work He is quite tall of stature, one of
| the tallest men on the force, and has a
| trim, soldierly bearing. He is not heavily
| built, but has proved himself hard man
| to get the better of in a serious ARRAY.
| His notable characteristic is his taciturnity
and he has rarely if ever been known to
smile He is member of the First NJ. E.
church and can be seen in his pew. at this
| church nearly every Sunday morning.
Sergeant Bart Herman is one of the
| heavy men of the force. He was appoint
! ed to active duty in April, 1878, and since
| then has made himself formidable to law
| breakers He has been especially success
| full in keeping the "tough' districts about
Oak street, Congress avenue, George street
| and Grand avenue in good order. He is
of large frame and has g notably heavy
| growth of beard which he usually keeps
| shaven with the exception of large stub
by moustache. He has good clear COM
| prehension of police duty and has been a
| first rate officer.
Sergeant Bissell is the representative of
| the German element in the latest deal. He
has been on the force about nineteen years
and has been careful officer. He is an
other of the taciturn officers, and the first
time he has been known to smile about the
patrolmen's quarters or upon the street fol
the last two months was when he received
the first news of his promotion to the Office
of sergeant. Then his smile was an audi
BILE one. He is of medium stature and uses
good judgment in all his police work. He
has been detailed at night at Church anc
Chapel streets for the past two months.
Sergeant Cowles is one of the solid men
| of the force. He has been doing activ,
police duty for fifteen years and has com,
out VIGOROUSLY from many a hard tussl'
with gang Of young '.toughs' in thu
unruly districts where he has been de
tailed. He is a heavily built man though
not of notably large stature. He wears
| graceful blonde moustache and closel,
, trimmed side whiskers. He has displayed
= much skill in keeping an unquiet section
exceptionally quiet and law abiding anc
many neighborhood has welcomed hi
) advent as sure harbinger of peace anc
tranquility. He is another of the officer
who have demonstrated how necessary i
is for a policeman to possess a cool leve
head and good judgment as well as mer
physical force.
Sergeant Orr is acknowledged by all a
a most efficient officer although, like hi
brother sergeants, Bissell and Crocker, h
s is not given to excessive sociability. H
/ | keeps sharp eye upon everybody an
every thing that comes within the PROVING
of his beat and has been an especial terro
to the college boys, who have a weakness
g for stealing the small signs of shopkeeper
: and others in the business portion of th
city. He does not display that tenderness
| towards tho focfiva Vo1oy,oionc n
characterizes many of his fellow officers
9 but he is more popular with the soil
s citizens of the community. So severe
=, his idea of police duty that many of til
patrolmen are willing to wager goo
; cigar that it will be he, of all the sixtee
sergeants, who first apprehends patro
9 man in dereliction of duty.
Sergeant Woodruff is one of the big me
: Of the force. His many years of servic
have Injured him to q routine system {
: work which is much admired by many {
is quite bald, and when explaining th
: knotty points of some case before the polio
8 commissioners he has the appearance of
i deacon or of some rural pedagogue. He
, one of the slow but sure kind and hi
:, never been know2l to do a bad piece
work or to half do a job. He is a We
eran of the late war and was formerl
d fireman on the Consolidated road. IL
! grave face is adorned with a heavy blond
moustache which is "dead ringer" fl
y that of his brother Sergeant Cowles.
+ Sergeant McGrath came on the fore
e with Sergeants Mcbride and Herman an
has been connected with many importal
T. police cases in which his efficient work hs
been of great value in the detections
e criminals. He has been in the detail
i Grand avenue precinct ever since this PR
o cinct was established.
Sergeant McGann comes of good polit
j. cal stock, his brothers being head ov'
l. heels in politics. one an alderman and tt
/, other clerk in the town agents ofic
4 He is one of the comparatively your
VI members of the force, having been upc
active duty but six or seven years He
we'll liked by the boys and is capable
some first-rate police work. He is of
y well built, compact figure, with cris
n blonde moustache and hair slightly tin
W tured with gray.
e Sergeant Bergin is another of the youn
e or men on the force and is near relative |
marriage to Police Commissioner Glance
He was formerly employed by the road d
y partment.