The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-18
PATR0LMAN FREY REDUCED
POLICE COMMISSIONERS PASS SEN.
TENCE IN EXECUTIVE SESSION.

Superintendent Smith Given Full Authors
ty as to Details After April 1--AM Special
Details Abolished.
The semi-monthly meeting OF the
board of police commissioners was held
last evening, there being a full board
| present Commissioner Clancey Of the
committee on supplies reported that he
| and Commissioner Poronto in company
with the superintendent Of police had
visited Pawtucket, r. l., and inspected
the Waugh ambulance, and finding it to
be what in their opinion was suited to
the needs of this city, had purchased q
similar one from the manufacturers at
Cambridgeport, Mass, at $3.50.
Anthony Carroll appeared before tho
board in reference to the rule that all
bootblacks cease plying their vocations
| at IL o'clock noon on Sunday. Mr.. Car
roll stated to the board that, though it
had been three weeks since he had call
| ed the attention Of the board to this
violation of the rule there had been
| nothing done. He especially called the
| attention of the board to the stand in
| front of ex-Commissioner 'Sullivan's
place on Church street. No longer
than last Sunday an officer had seen the
bootblack at that stand working after
| IL o'clock.
Superintendent Smith said that he
| had given orders that all bootblacks
! should cease work at IL o'clock and that
| the men were enforcing the rule, but
| that it would take time to get at all the
| VlolatorS There is no ordinance gov
erning the matter, and the offenders
are amenable to the secular law, but it
had been thought the police could con-
| troll the matter and would do so, but it
would take time
Patrolman William j. Frey was be-
| fore the board charged with the VIOLA
tion of rule SO Of the department on the
| night of February IA. The witnesses
in the case were Sergeant Tripp OF
| Dixwell avenue precinct, the young wo-
| man the patrolman was charged with
talking to while ON duty. The testi-
mony of Sergeant Tripp was to the eff
| feet that on the night in question he
| had seen the patrolman talking with
| Miss Sinclair for twenty minutes on
| Broadway, and that he had met the
officer and the young woman and had
| spoken to them. That he had called
the officers attention to the rule he
had violated later in the evening, read
! ing it to him.
| Miss Sinclair was called and said she
| had spoken to Patrolman Frey on the
| evening Of the 14th of February and
had talked with him for not more than
| five minutes, the conversation being
about a man who had accosted her sew
eral times That they walked along
| Broadway so that she could point out
the person who had given her the occa-
| sion to speak to the officer, and that
| they saw him in Paul Jente's store. She
| stated that Patrolman Frey thought
she was mistaken. She had talked with
the officer while on duty upon one oc-
casion before, and at that time 1t was
at York Square. She was introduced
to Sergeant Trip. Patrolman Frey's
account Of the episode Of the 18th
agreed with the young woman's.
! There was considerable discrepancy
between the sergeant's account Of what
| took place in the Office upon the same
evening and on the following night
| when he met Frey.
Each claimed the other began the
conversation which led to remarks
about the severity of the reprin1and,
1 and also to the statement of the SER
| geant to the patrolnan that he (Frey)
had been punished enough. The SER
geant explained to the board that he
had already reported the matter to the
| captain.
The board went into executive ses-
sion. The result of the trial was the
| reduction of Patrolman Frey to grade B
| for three months. This will reduce his
pay twenty-five cents per day.
| The board voted that all special de-
tails be vacated on April 1, 1896, and
that on and after that date the super
intendent will be given full power to
fill all details according to his best
| Judgment