The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-03

living in the outskirts, who ask for pros
 tection from lawless men and boys
 They are taxpayers and are entitled to | it, and some provision should be mada whereby the beats can be covered at all times.
 To more readily cover these largo beats I recommend that there be three
 more men appointed and detailed aS
 mounted policemen, whose duty it shall be to patrol these outlying districts
 where this cannot now be done. I also 1 recommend that there be two men de- tailed for detective work, one at sta-
 tion 8, Howard avenue, and one at sta-
 tion 4, Dixwell avenue.
 | Great credit is due to the captains of
 the several stations for the valuable as-
 sistance rendered me in the discharge | of the various and important duties, and to the members of their commands l for the interest they have shown in the performance of their duties; and also to Charles T. Candee, clerk of the pos l lice department, for the very efficient
 manner in which his duties have been performed and the invaluable assist~ | ance rendered thereby.
 There are at the present time in the employ of the department 1 superin- | tendent, captains, 16 sergeants, tru- ant officer, ? signal officers, 78 patrol- men in grade A, 1T in grade B, IS in | grade c, in grade D, in grade D Cor | a total of IA patrolmen), patrol driv- | CTS, 1 clerk board of police surgeons
 an electrician, lineman. a janitor, a matron, mattresses and 1 patrolman on the Veteran Reserve. The retired
 list is made up of Captain William H.
 Hyde, Sergeant William K. Schmidt
 and Patrolmen George F. Selleck, Hugh
 Doherty, Richard Moore, Charles s. Stokes, James W. Walter, William
 Kearney, John F. Nettleton and Tal- colt Rhodes.
 The statement of arrests shows that during the year a total of 6,313 persons
 were arrested, of which number 5,657
 were males and 657 females. The na- tionality of these prisoners was as fol-
 lows: United States, white 3,1SS. color- ed 2S5; Ireland 1,591, Italy S39 Germany
 TIA, England 151, Russia IA, Sweden
 and Norway 11S, Scotland 81, China 67, British provinces 7S, Hungary 23, Poland and France each 16, Austria g. Finland | ', Portugal z, West Indies G. Denmark
 6, Spain 5, Wales A. Holland ?, and
 Switzerland, New Zealand and Greecd
 each 1.
 The principal crimes for which ara rests were made are: Adultery 6, ass
 sault with intent to kill 6, begging 91a
 burglary IS, carrying concealed weap- | ons Il, reform and industrial school
 complaints 1SS, conspiracy il, contempt 1 of court 9, criminal libel 8, keeping dis orderly house 22, drunkenness S,270, enl- l bezzlement IA, false pretenses 23, non- support 69, forgery 4, gaming 100, horse | stealing 5, keeping house of i'll fame | 24, lascivious carriage Il, perjury s, poll 1 icy playing 39, keeping policy shop l5s | rape 5, prize fighting 19, resisting and | abusing officers IA, theft 343, theft from
 the person 16, trespass 105 vagrancy 57, violation of city ordinances 94 violation of the liquor law 79.
 | During the year the police have been ] instrumental in returning S6 horses to
 their owners and POS lost chrdren td | their parents They nave found open l and secured 710 buildings and have re-
 covered lost and stolen property to the
 value of $19,1S1. The department has l paid to the tax collector $1603 of which
 $s78.5O was for vehicle licenses, $572.50 l for amusement licenses, SPA for pawn 1 brokers licenses and SIPS for second- hand dealers licenses,
 "A Hack Inspector DriscolPs report i shows that there are S70 licensed vehi-
 cles in the city and that 8 have been absolutely condemned, licenses have
 been revoked and IS pieces of lost bag l gage have been recovered and returned
 to their owners.
 Truant Officer Sullivan reports that
 he found 469 children on the streets not attending school, that he presented 6S | to the city court for reproval and eor- rection for disobedience and truancys
 and [ were sent to the school for boys
 at Meriden for persistent truancy and
 disobedience to parents.
 The superintendent says that Matron l Ireland has been very attentive to her duties in caring for the unfortunate women arrested and in preparing them
 for court, and has also been instrumen-
 tai in causing several of them to mend | their ways. The matron's report shows | that 3S9 women have been cared for at
 police headquarters, besides two young I girls and one insane woman.
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