New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-23
OUT GO POLICE CAPTAINS.
CLINCUY AND BROGAN RETIRED.
CHANGES FOR -FOUR sERGEANTs TO De PRO
NOTED.

CHANGES FOR FOUR sEEGE,NTs TO BE PRO
NOTED.
The retirement Of Captain william II. Clinchy was
the first business of importance that claimed tue
attention NJ tbc Police Commissioners when they met
Yesterday afternoon. 1t was followed by the reUfe-
ment Of CAPTAIN John J. Brogan, who had sent In his
applcatIon early I'm the forenoon Each man Will
receive a pension Of III $50 year. No other retire
rnents OF captains are expected. Both Clinchy and
Brogan had been tanG OF leaving tho force Tor sew
eral months, and the transfers on Iuesuay oniy
FASTENED their departure. Cllnchy Will sPchu ue
! summer on his farm at White Plains ana may WISH
his ranch In Kansas IN the ia MS Fe"r'"'e"' ','t
! the Prince.st squad without captain, and as he
EIGHTH Precinct has been considered one OF the most
mnorant I'm the city, because IL embraces many broad-
wov stores and other business places superintendent
| Byrnes early In the day asked the Police Boaru hot
10 leave the precinct In charge OF n sergeant LINZ
mcdIatelv after the retirement OF Cnchy, therefore n
| commissioners transferred young captain Mc'ni'sn
from tbe Twelfth Precinct to the command oi inc
Eighth Precinct.
c.n,otn McAvoy who IS said to be the Tammany
candidate for the vacant inspectorship, sent 10 ue
Commissioners an application for peim's'oh " oo
examined by the Civil service Board Ills npP"0a
ton was referred TO superintendent Bsrhes WIN WIN
make report 10 the Commissioners on TUESDAY re-
gariing McAvoy's fitness for promotion hI'' INV
Lean. who is said to favor the promotion OF captain
Cross inaurrd: How many captains have applied
for permission to be examined -
"Only one that have heard Of" was President
Martins reply.
The date for the examination Of captains who are
candidates for promotion has not been h"ineu anu
before the next meeting OF the commissioners there
NAV be other applications one OF the Con hSs'"herS
said after the meeting that no more capt. 'rs "ona
he oppointed until an Inspector cOuld b. chosen Inc
promotion OF a captain to be an Inspector VIII create
a fourth vacancy I'm the list OF captains ana @'ch 'o'-
missioner will be able name sergeant for promo
ton. 40 changes among the sereeants were hauo
Yesterday and the Commissioners said that no general
transfers oi sergeants or OF roundsmen heeu DC ca
peced for time 10 come.
Detective Sergeant Martin Handy. who became
policeman IN lo72 retired on pension OF Si'oV'
a year AT his own request Detective Grady oi 'hc
Central Office promoted to be- detFclNe'eree''"'
upon the recommendation OF Chief Inspector Steers
If Is not expected that Mr. steers will ask FOR many
changes In the Detective Burau while he remains III
charge OF It.
John J. Brocan had been a police captain since
september H. 1o7-. and policeman since January
20 I-Gj. lie IS forty eight years old and New
Yorker by birth. Before he was appointed mem
Der Of The force he scene painter IL" hve' AZ
No 60 Prrysi and /, said 10 have acquired property
worth 100000. During the greater par ca ms
term 20, captain he In command Of the ihtci'ti
Precinct. Ia which dives dnd EahbUhS HOUSES
90 such an extent ~ to Causc much S'hinh'' ~,
transfer to the broadway squad recently wa, enGsrd
hy his failure "a close up some 81 NE most n"."n
Of the evil resorts in the precinct lie Is pr"h'neht
member I'm several secret societies, ana hsH " hhh
degree i'm the Masonic fraternity.
superintendent Byrnc> Yesterday caIlcu INC pvi',c
captains together AZ the Central once ana talked !"
them again about the fJr'cmrnt OF The law. he
told them that the ~hnkeupT On 1u"-dtN was NOT
meant t. degrade them. but "a enable them 70 enforce
the law better. The Remaining of the precinct IN
'rctlVc. patrol dutN. he SAID was Ordered ih i.o
same reason. The detective had failed 10 'r-i-' me
captain, properly I'm Ga" work 81 preventing l!ley,I
llqupr selling on SUNDAY and none Of them would IL
prrinltiDI Dee detective for some time Ia come II
ever Mr. Hyruc~ said. however. that II the captains
wished 10 select for dc"civ" Wor Scno 81 TIE "th"!
policemen ~ the predict, vhcfc they lately iM com
iuanG they might make application Tor the transfer
~ such men and recommend their d"t1ili"nt A. o.
tectivc,. The captains might also recommend The
transfer 81 ..rccaut, whore assistance sN InTil'u
la.ly desired 70 have in their new hch> II duti one
hing Nj Iyrc. said must b" done -" force must Ne
made to work harder than IS ever had worried hcf''r'
and with more carnc-nc- u the prev cnii"n of every
form % tw.fcahing Dos urr~~tiug the a"Or"hcrs ana
oltlnlng evidence to warrant such arrest me SOL
iu 4 liquor SUNDAY -nd ~ bc On" ~ INC forms
If aWlrcahlug which the police mu.i trl to top.