The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-04-21
ONE POLICE CAPTAIN OUT.
BRoGAN, KILLILEA, AND THE MCUL-
LAGHS MAP FOLLOW CLINCHY

| FehsHon-A PrOspecS OF Li9ht vacant
Police Cnptaincies In Ali-Perhaps = Gen.
erai Transfer or sergeauts Next-Special
| Duty Men and Detectives Transferred.
The protest OF some OF the police Captains
removed on Tuesday from familiar and pleas.
| ant to strange and undesirable berths. was
I manifested Yesterday In an unexpected way.
| Three Veterans In tho service announced that
they would resign and another. Capt William
| II. Clinchy. formerly OF tho East Twenty
| second street station. and now Of Prince
street. sent In his resignation to Major Will
| liam II. Kipp. Chief Clerk Of the Police Depart
| ment.
Tho Commissioners will have no alternative
| but to accept tho designations. and. under the
law permitting members o! tho force to retire
after service OF twenty years. tho retiring
Captains will each receive pension OF S1.375
| a year.
Tho Sergeants on the eligible list will natu-
rally fccl much elated over tho Improvement
in their chances for one OF tho vacant COM
mands. the number OF which may be In
creased to eight. These will DO the City
Hall station. vacancy caused by tho
promotion OF Captain 10 tho Office Of In
spcctor. tho new station In East 10th street.
and the stations which Can't. Clinchy and the
three other Captains who will probably give
up their shields to-day. and another who may
resign later. will leave.
These three are Capt John J. BroGan.
who was transferred from the Broad
way squad to tho KingsbridGe station:
Capt Thomas Killilea. who was transferred
from West 125th street to Madison street.
and Capt. John II. McCullngh. Jr.. who was or
dercd from Morrisania to Dclancey street
They have announced in private that they will
resign.
On April 20. 1872. J. Fl. McCullagh. Sr.. was
made Captain and assigned to the East Thr-
ty-nfth street station. Yesterday. the twen-
tieth anniversary OF that event. he was trans
ferred from Fifth street to his old command.
1t Is said that his resignation will be handed
to the Commissioners beiore tho end of the year.
The record OF Capt. Clinchy is an honorable
one. When young man no was frontiers
man and scout. He was appointed a patrol
man in May. 1865 under the Hon. Thomas
G. Acton. now President of tho Bank Of
Now Amsterdam. He was made roundsman
two years later. and promoted to a SerGeantcy
in 1863. He was next made Captain of the
East Thlrty-f!fth street station. He afterward
served in the old Twenty-flfth precinct. in the
Broadway. and the old Fourteenth aud Thir-
teenth precincts.
He took command OF the East Twenty -secon
street station in 1881. No conf plant has ever
been made against him for breach OF dis
cipline. He was for many years the only bach
elor Captain. but WAS married three years ago.
He owns 5000 acres OF land in Kansas. He
also owns small farm near Portchester N.
y and his wife and aged father live there.
He said last night that he would take rest at
his farm after his retirement.
The reason Capt. Cliuchy has resigned is
that he feels q sense OF unmerited disgrace In
being shifted from o command to which. he
delares. not the slightest scandal has been at
tached since he first began his duties thure.
Hc assumed command OF the Prince Street
Station yesterday. He road the roll call and
turned the men out on the first tour OF duty at
o'clock last night. He will call the roll for tho
last time this evening. The Board meets to.
morrow and Capt Clinchy's resignation will
The CAPTAINS took charge OF their new COM
mnGds s At o'clock last EVENING some Of them
majority merely called tho lol! and sent the
men to duty.
MORE CHANGES EXPECTED.
There was was en- air Of exreetancy in and
around Police Headquarters yesterday. indca-
s sse e %G Yh dy
o" I'd te 9 Mo the
at"nd the h.rs Of
the Captains. were transferred for the sooi
OF the service about nine years ago and |
before that Superintendent Wnling made /
many extensive chnnges. but none like that of
Tuesday has ever been attempted before. No |
one but the Superintendent knows what is |
coming next but every policeman ia waiting |
anxiously to learn the contents OF the present. |
ment he is said to he preparing for the con sid |
GRAFTON OF the Comm. ssioncrs.
1t Is rumored that this prcsentment includes |
q schedule Of changes to be made among the |
Sergeants that will work n complete rcvou- |
tiop In the nrcclnsts. The serr&ennts are the |
to a certain degree have more power for cool
Or evil to the public than the. Captains lave. |
They are tho judges OF al prisoners arrested !
things pleasant or unpleasant for those !
brought before them.
TRASsfERS OF SPECIAL DUTY MEN
Superintendent Eyrnrs assigned to their
new posts yesterday tho fortv-four special |
duty men and precinct detectives ordered to !
report for patrol duty None IF them rennins |
Ia his 81 precinct nr goes to I he precinct com
mandcd by his former Captain. This is the |
list otthe transfers: