New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-22
HE SENT A SUBSTITUTE.
POLICEMAN MANNIX DID NOT TAKE THE
PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS.
APPEARED IN PERSON AT THE OTHER TESTS
HowEvER-CoNFESsED AND SAID HE MEANT
NO HARM-A PHOTOGRAPHIC SYSTEM TO


De INTRODUCED FOR APPLICANTS
A remarkable case OF an applicant for a place on
the police force taking examination by proxy
and subsequently receiving appointment has Just
been exposed by tho Civil Service Commissioners.
AS result at the regular meeting OF the Commits
sion on Wednesday night Commissioners Backus and
Jordan were appointed n committee to arrange a
plan for keeping file photographs OF applicants
for civil service examinations that exam!na-
tons by proxy IN the future will be impossible.
The man who is accused OF employing n substi-
tute 10 submit to the physical and athletic examna-
tons for the police force Is Patrick Mannix. a
patro.man OF the Fourth Precinct Mannix was
yesterday afternoon suspended by Police Commits
sioner Welles. He made confession Wednesday
and was ordered back to his precinct. He did not
return to duty. and when a policeman was sent to
his home. No. 2s Cheever Place. at o'clock yester-
day afternoon. his family said he had not returned
home since going out the day before.
The Civil Service Commissioners learned four
months ago that n fraud OF this sort had been COM
mtted. Their information vague that II re-
qured four months to trace the charges to Mannix.
just in what manner suspicion finally rested on
Mannix the Commissioners do not dvulge. but 1t
is believed that they from the fact that the
policeman has just spent six weeks in 81. Peter s
Hospital. suffering from n watery disease OF the
knee which is known by the singular name house
maids knee" disease that can atIl!ct policemen as
sistent order.
Mannix fled his application for the force on July
3. 1894 He wrote that he born In Ireland and
had lived in this country twelve years. lie gave his
occupation as clerk at No 424 Hicks-st.. and said
he had been employed driver F. j. Dougherty,
Henry J. Percy John L. Digger. Charles j. Teehan
and T. II. Butler given his vouchers The
name OF Dr. David NJ. Flannery. OF No. 163 Jorale-
mon-st.. also appended 10 hls application.
At the physical examination. November 7, 1895.
there appeared a man whom Mannix declares In his
confession to be his ''chum' but whose name he
refuses 70 dlvuge. After taking the examination,
in which he received so per cent. the substitute
signed Patrick Mannix" and wrote Cheever Place
"Ceever Place"
The substitute again appeared for the asheiic
examination November IL and II, 1885, and passed
with Sc per cent. This time no again signed Man
niX's name.
examinations. Mannxs penmanship Is flowing,
like that Of a man accustomed to using the pen.
that he had practised patiently to counterfeit the
G made A by him look fs s'
writing. bu, close scrutiny shows that they are not
Mannix was taken before Police Commissioner
Weles. Civil Service Commissioner Backus and DIR.
Stewart Church, one OF the physical examiners OF
clared that he was not the man no had examined
In the presence OF Commissioner weles tho man
refused TO confess. but later he confessed in the
presence OF DR.. Backus and several witnesses He
said he had not thought he doing any harm.
Mannix was appointed TO he force January $. 1897
He is twenty-e.ght years old
Tho Civil Service Commission will submit all the
facts 10 Disirict-Attorney Backus for prosecution
The Civil Service Board formally told Commits
sioner Welles yesterday that Mannix's papers had
been revoked. and asked that he be discharged
Mannix was snspt nded 10 await further develop