The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-02-03
PARKHURsT IS 4 HOSTILE,
Aud He Desires the Police Board to Lool
Upon Hin In That Light.

Aud He Desires the Police hoard to Look
Upon Hin In That Light.
DIR. Parkhurst attended q secret meeting OF
the Police Board yesterday. and submitted to
the Commissioners q statement in response
to a resolution calling upon him to furnish
material to assist tho Board In preparing
charges against Capt Slevin Of the Oak street
station. The statement says to tho Commits
sioners:
Your request has been considered caro-
fully and respectfully and we regret to feel
ourselves obliged to decline the same. and for
the following reasons:
First-Being yourselves q integral part OF
the department whose fidelity our society has
made It part OF its business to im peach. you
are an interested party. and therefore natural
iy lack that quality OF i'm partially which can
alone TT YOU to sit in judgment upon adduced
testimony or make your findings to DO Of Judi
"second-we have a number of times ap-
preached you with Information carefully pre-
pared and honestly intended. but the indiifer-
which such Information was received by you
affords us no ground upon which to suppose
that any additional facts on the same lines
would be regarded any more seriously by you
were we to put them before you.
'irhird-The character Of the testimony ad.
duced before the Board Of Excise by some OF
your own detectives against certain OF the
houses OF which We have complained to you
dition OF things in the Fourth precinct is what
you want you already have it, The charges
TO which they have sworn already go beyond
anything which We have alleged in our COM
plant to you.
"FUurth-Our reluctance to avail Of your
Board as a tribunal before which to seek the
conviction OF any officer OF the force Is greatly
enhanced by the issue Of all such efforts in the
past. Four Captains have been tried before
your Board since 1887 on complaint of private
- cspS alexander 5. Williams was tried on charges
thiTty-nye witnesses for the prosecution. Commis-
sioneT Porter alone rendered an opinion which
scorchng one and thoroughly sustained the prosscu-
ground OF Williams neglect After n delay VI six
Mseks the Board voted 2 "a . A. the same SCI sion
90 Cspts. Carpenter and Mclaughlin were Gubse-
qusntly tried GU specifications signed by D'J Whitney
ana Howard crosby The Commissioners voted To ..
The testimony had all been referred 70 Commissioner
Noorhis, who reported to the board sat tho charges
we're sustained shortly after Mclaughlin pro-
noted 70 the position OF Inspector.
complaint OF the fortyfOurth Street Association Tho
result the same sic vote.
Recently an Inspector, williams. and two Captains
we're put on tra by superintendent BYrnss for neglect
OF duty and Commissioner VOorhis having been sue
cseded by Mr.. sheshAn. the for conVteti0n was
three,
Fiith-we NAV add to this also the fact that
tsctVes by submitting them any oftener
than Is necessary TO the scrutiny of
your Officers. to say nothing OF the personal
violence to which they would render them
selves liable II. as in the instance OF their APP
peAranee at the Essex Market Court they
were 10 adventure themselves in that part OF
the eitJ unprotected.
CHAMEs II. PARKHURsT
THADDEUs ID. KENNEsoS. .
FRANK Moss