The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-18
OFFICER BIXBY SUSTAINED
THE DEPOT OFFICER WIFE REm4IN
 THERE IN SPITE oFPETITION.

Officer Connolly Reduced n Grade Officer Donegan Explains His Apparent Connec- ton With Grocery store-superintcn- dents Report-Wn Meet Friday Night.
 Mayor Hendrick presided at the meet ing of the board of police commission Iers last evening. The work of the board last evening was much like that of a jury.
 The first matter to come up was the petition of hackmen to have Officer Blk by removed from the depot detail. The hackmen state that the officer takes business from them and directs patrons to electric cars instead.
 Thomas McGlynn, John J. Ruth, w. H. sorden, Edward Atwater, Timothy Egan and John Mitchell, all hackmen, and John E. Brady, an eXpressman, told of little instances Illustrative of their complaints.
 MT. McGlynn, who was spokesman
 
 any other witnesses. He said:
 q have a lot, but I don't think they know what to say"
 Officer Bixby stated that he had not at any time improperly or unjustly in- terfered with the hackmen.
 McGlynn stated that he had seen the oaI, do yy1, then left the room.
 Station Master John Avery spoke highly of the officer, as did also Colonel Simeon J. Fox, who presented a coun- ter-petition. MT. Herbert E. Benton also endorsed the officer.
 The petitioners were given leave to withdraw.
 The next case was that of Patrolman Maurice Connolly, who was charged with taking liquor from two saloon keepers on his beat He was also re- ported as entering several saloons and stores and remaining in them for sey- eral minutes
 Sergeant Orr was the first witness. He told of seeing the officer entering the stores. He also testified to seeing him enter saloon and take a drink.
 Sergeant Herman corroborated Ser- geant Orr.
 MT. Louis F. Miller, Congress ave- nue butcher, was the first witness who spoke for the officer He stated that on one of the occasions for which the officer was reported he had called him into his store.
 Henry Weirweiss, a Congress avenue saloon keeper, at whose place he was charged with taking the drink, denied that the officer had taken liquor or re- ceived any from him, or that any po- liceman had.
 Carl Elwyn, a barber whose shop the l officer was accused of visiting, denied that the officer had gone into his store.
 Thomas J. Henahan, another Con- gress avenue storelSeeper, stated that the officer had been in his place. He stated that he never left anything for the officer to drink, as was stated in the charge against the officer.
 Morris Mendelsohn, grocer in whose store the officer was said to have stay- ed for ten minutes on several occasions said that the only time the officer had been in his store was when he was , called in.
  any store or receiving any liquor from any one while on duty, except as itwas his duty to do so. He closed by say ing:
 Well, gentlemen, be as lenient as you can with me"
 In the matter of Officer Donegan's t case, in which the charge was that he owned g, grocery on Congress avenue, the officer denied owning a store and his explanation was accepted. The superintendent's annual report 3 was received and ordered on file. 3 In summing up the Gilhuly case Su- perintendent Smith says: 'The inves- l tigation was most thorough and com- 2 plete and at it's conclusion the mem 3 bers of the department, severally and = collectively, and Police Commissioners r Gilhuly were completely vindicated, the honorable court of common council de- , ciding that the charges and allegations I had not been proven. , "The record shows that 6,202 arrests s were made during the year just past- , Of these 654 were women. Lost or sto- , len property recovered during the year amounted in value to S1S,205.9o."
 In the report of Matron Ireland she Q states that 616 women prisoners were 6 cared for at the central station by her; also two insane women, seven girls and c twenty-three children. :. The board after receiving the report of the superintendent went into execu- tive session.
 As an outcome Connolly was reduced to grade B. This will make his pay 25 , cents less per day for one year. r Patrolnan Thomas F. Doughan was v promoted to grade c.
 The board adjourned without further action. They will meet again Friday night at o'clock. . ---------------------------