New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-03-14
AND WEsTERVEL'

THE CASES OF CAPTAINS HACGHEY
AND wEsTERVELT.
The Police Commissioners at their meeting yes
tsrdov gave their decisions in the cases OF Captains
FREDERICK w Martens and James h Price, who
zero tried \ week ago on charges OF neglect OF
1rt, in falling 10 close d,sorderiy houses IN their
,recncts Commissioner Macfean opposed the de-
c,sion in the case of Captain Martens OF me East
Th,rty-ffth-st station which was taken up TOT con-
alteration first. In that case 1t had been SHOWN az
the trial that Ma tens had been warned by super
,a.o,dan, Rvrnes nj out certain houses in Lexiag-
,on.ove but had failed 20 suppress them. and that
,o.oc,,,ss from he Central Office had easily oo-
tanned the evidence upon which the inmates were
arrested President Martin moved 70 ma Cap1 IN
uor,era guilty OF the charges and fine him tnir7
days pay. .,u ..o-,
II move 20 amend by dismissing the captain from
the force" said Mr.. MacLean
Call the roll" said Mr.. Martin and wheh Ch'et
C,orL kim began the call, Mr.. Martin said aye"
The other commissioners looked at him with aston
,shr,ent and he said hastily, 'Oh, this Is on hr'
MacJ.ean's amendment. vote no
NJ NcClave said: u think that dismissal from
the department would be too harsh punishment
for CAPTAIN Martens. He has been IN the Depart
mont seventeen years and in all that time only one
other complaint has been made against MN i'''
was when he patrorlan' anu nc vas
e,sd one DAYS pay. think he should De puhisheu'
I'm, dismissal would be an excessive penalty IN my
opinion. | vote no. A.. .-,,,
Mr. MacIean said: 1.-The testimony at the t'iai
showed that he guilty of wiifui negec' VI u'.'
ard think he should be dismissed on that accou u,
dangth Of service is no argument against a ,|u''
punishment for such an offence ! VOC. oandrsnt ~
W. Mall can was lost The motion to nne captain
Martens thirty days pay was then ea'i'e' '-''
Maeean voting IN n the negafYPp Price guilty and fine
him Ave days pay" said President Maru ~, he
was so neglectfu only one arrest 81 TsS nrenc
the Central once men in the house III nj notion
and Cantain Price escaped with the srnai,er nm
Ward Detective D9nohue Of Gaptan agsin. the
Sisnrdsrly house in Lexingtonave, was remainder
TO patrol duty. -, . motion d.
Commi ISL ,snerintendent to report the ard
ali the circumstances attending the arrests hdos
by Central Office aste b6.e N Mere Tsp ved in Cap
tain Haughey's precinct the same nignt 'hd' ING
qspecIed that the supern endent would
make charges against Haughey. too bat n mas n0t
done so Commissioner MacleanS manner lnui,
coted That he was anxious find out why charges
have not been preferred against Hausney a. W..
His motion to have a report from the super'n'e"a-
eH Sunerintendent Byrnes submitted charges to the
one Ea sganSs
ton. The charges were for neglect Oh uu'!' H'N
That the said Captain Josiah A. Westervelt ola.
press the following named poilCy SHOPS "a 49, 80
where policy or lottery tickets were s2d IN tne
city End county of NewYork: Nos 1J6 Eass Inc ,
ty-eIghth-st 20 East Nnety-seventh-st. 5J5 East
Ninety -seventh-st 2ol2 Frst-ave 2O2s Eirst-aye,.
929 East one hundred-and- fourth-st 3$1 las, on s
hundred and -fourth-st.. 81 East One-hundredana-
fourth-st 7ss Third-ave.. hundred-an
St between Second and Tnird-aves one-ndiharea-
and-erhtfrst between Second and Inru,aVes.'
Observation-Disclosures, between Third and Lex,
ington-aves., and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ana
Second-aye." 40, ,,,..,.u.-.
The charges were approved by the Commissioner
and CAPTAIN Westervelts trial was set Tor FRIDAY
AT II a. m The evidence which the charges
were ba sed was furnished to superintendent Byrhes
by two newspaper men. The superintendent wnen
asked about the decisions in the cases OF captains
Price and Martens said: That Is matter wmesn
concerns the Commits l have nothing 70 90