The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-12
PARKER A TO FIGHT.
MOSS AND SMITH sUBDUB HIS
EAHLIEST EFFORI0.

EARLIEsT EFFORTS.
Ne hnneuneea at Yesterdays Pelioe Beard
RHesting That ne was stii . Factor. aud
Tried 70 Raise . Discussion en- O'Brien. bat
Fatloa-Complaint Against Croeden's naen.
Tho Police Board yesterday had the most
poaceablo meeting II has held for months.
Commissions Smith did not speak throughout
tho entire session. President Moss said only a
few words. Commissioner Parker spoke twice.
Chief Clerk Kipp did nearly all the talking,
reading communication and reports, which
were referred to the Chief or 10 the proper COM
mittee by ainod from President Moss. Com
missioner Andrews was absent, being still Ill ct
his homo.
Tho feature Of the meeting was the declaration
Of Commissioner Parker that he was still q fac
tor to DO reckoned with in Police Board matters.
and that, Notwithstanding that he had been
turned down" decisively at the last meeting
In the appointment OF committees, he would not
give up the fight. Mr.. Parker came into the
board room only twenty minutes late, instead Of
an hour or 30 az IL his custom, and smiled
blandly upon tho two other Commissioners At
the first opportunity he referred to tho vote Of
censuro passed by the board last week upon Act
ing Inspector o'Brien, chief Of tho Detective
Bureau, Mr.. Parker's especial protege. He has
declared that no will not allow this vote to
stand, but will move to have 1t roscinded. Ho
said yesterday:
II have here . letter referring to q case ex-
actly analogous TO the Petersen case, In conneo-
ton with which Inspector o'Brien was censured.
I will show you that O'Brien's procedure was
the Same as that followed by the police authori-
tics in all cities of tho Union"
The letter was read. It was as follows:
Mesrrs. SieoeL Cooper d Co.
aESTLrnEs: This department would have no au.
by your local police authorities, and you are advised
to have them communicate with us in the matter.
Chief OF Detectives.
President Moss was busy examining somo
S CO.. ssp md cssi,ns 0o% Nm on" sno smith G son q
sioner Parker had evidently expected to precipi-
tate Q discussion. He glanced quickly at the
ri shall have further data to submit to this
board regarding Inspector o'Brien's case. am
President Moss and Commissioner Smith still
Only once sEei1 aid Nj: Parker break the
Have you heard anything from Albany about
those civil service examination rules T. he
"Thc State Civil Service Board has written
for two moro copies OF the rules" replied the
The much.vexed question Of promotions rests
Board.
struction room at Headquarters should DO set
apart on Aug. 16, II, 1S. %, "a and Is for the
n nGleiss of 81 po sTa and saIIos e eHs fap {or tbs ia II. . tne
ton.
Several applications from policemen for the
now denied them by regulation, were received.
One wrote that his wife was suffering from
neurasthenia and had to, stay at Rockaway,
i and he would like to visit her.
What's that T. asked Commissioner Parker.
II don't know exactly what 1t is.' replied
President Moss, but l guess you haven't got It.
II Rockaway is good, for II. l suppose wo ought
dered.
President Moss earned the lasting gratitude
upon to attend the weekly trials at Headauar.
tiers by suggesting that the Committee on Re.
pairs and Supplies place an iGe.water cooler In
policemen have to stand there for hours on trial
days. The only way they can Stake their thirst
fees, which are all we'll stocked with ice water,
and they would no more think of doing that
than ,nI they you'd Of ordering a Commissioner to
Among a batch Of complaints and eommuni.
In Ha''e %s. that 3 letter asae f retsFf Sls {" S Ell Il k Gase q c Isl
East &. 1G onlics s.rset; o sso mp h..1 iS 81 the str conduct s,s!
she lives. 1t read as follows:
Honorable Board Police Commtsstoners.
| GENTLEMEN. i herewith desire 10 call your atteptOn
to an outrage which is OF such common Occurrences
taity will result.
The most re ent offence was perpetrated last night
or. l should say. about Q A. N. to-day. when l and q
number OF other tenants In the house were aroused
from our slumbers by the agonizing cries OF 4 prison
er. who was piteously begging for mercy. asking him
or them to "let up" as he was being hurt. After aboul
ten minutes of this a sudden silence ensued, whether
the result OF the victim becoming unconscious or moi
Ia q matter OF conjecture.
learned later that the prisoner was taken to the
hospital with his nose broken and other injuries, tn,
| result of this inhuman reatment.
Our house Adjotns the station, which Is ut tT9 EaS
104th street, Capt. Creeden in command.
These are some OF the phrases we heard as tho un
fortunate man was being tortured: soak him unIel
the carr give him another for mel'' and so on.
The above remarks were made by the ward man
sort Of thing before-that OF the Dalton case, for in
stance. This man was in charge at the time / speal
OF.
The neiShbors on my side OF the house can and ar
willing to attest TO the foregoing.
Neither the Commissioners nor Chief Conlir
seemed to attach any Importance TO it. TIL,
Chief said that he would ask for a report from
Capt. Creeden. Mrs. King Is a widow, who live
with her brother. G. III. Lawrence, a TELEGRAPH
operator. The East 104th street station is n bi
unlucky. Inspector Williams went In there on,
night a year or two ago and found all hand
rushing the growler." which wasn't pleasan
for the policemen concerned. Then the door
man of the station house and other policemen
were tried by the Police Board on charges OF as
saulting William Dalton. u highwayman, VIII,
robbed q rewer's messenger.