The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-25
POLICE 10 BIZ REYIEWED.
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SEVENTH RE6IMBkf ARMORY.

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s,vea-Ieena street Sevkeahta ts nHnye
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cases or Two Ex-Psiieensrn Hsviewea.
Tn oompliance with action taken by the Po-
lice Board yesterday, Chief McCullagh will as
| scmble the force by sections in the Seventh ReRi.
meni nrmory during December for review by
the Commissioners. The Commissioner want to
acc how the force looks now that It has been re.
organized as far as 1t 10 IN their power. Six or
seven afternoons next month will DO set apart
| for this purpose. and the men win bs paraded
before them.
Ex.Police Captain Stephenson, who was dis.
missed from the force for accepting brlbes, as a
result of the Lexow charges. applied to the Po-
lice Board yesterday in person and BY counsel
for restoration. The criminal charges against
him have been dismissed on motion Of tho Dis.
trict Attorney. His counsel said that the judy
mont of the board which deprived him Of his Of
hce rested on the Same evidence which was
thought incompetent by the District Attorney,
the only difference being that the record Of the
Police commissioners trial was open to more
effective attack than that Of the criminal courts.
The board reminded hin that the cases did
not rest oil tho same ground. Stephenson was
dismissed, though. on the same evidence. before
the criminal trial was begun, and tho verdict of
the DOarU nhu v uOuu bbbnOktu. nu Cuulu nOU
claim restoration as q matter Of right, though
he might appeal to the discretion Of the board.
The matter was referred TO the Committee on
Rules and Discipline, which 10 to report the
status of the case next week.
The board approved charges against Ser.
geants Mcdonald and Cosgrove of the Leonard
street squad. They were in charge for tho
night when George Mertz was brought in suf-
fering from a fractured skull, and allowed him
to be in his cell unattended all night without
sending for a doctor. Mertz had fallen from
his truck in a fit, and was locked up on the sup.
position that he Yves drunk. When his family
found out during the night where no was they
hastened to the station house ana told the Ser
geant that he never drank, but nothing was
done for him until morning, when it was too
late, Mertz died in the Hudson Street Hos
pital.
P%atrolman Lenz, who, wac attached to tho
Fire Marshals, office during tho prosecution Of
der suspicion ln Sm, OF serving their ends, , WAS re.
most forgotten case VAS raked up by the board
In. its effort to clean VI for the incoming nd.
m1inistration. It was the case Of patrolman
was tried by the old board more than three years
ago on several serious charges, among them that
der nI'' Houses m0H M To- NJ Moss sv's ssia, n GeH iayinS S'I the
papers before the board, that he had never
seen them until this week.
taSAA NoAJ
H., he said, and reluctantly recommend
drawn very badly. SO badly that there is no
other way, The testimony on one charge is
amply sufficient to warrant the dismissal OF
the man, but unfortunately the charge is not
specifically included in the complaint. 1t is
now three years after, too late to amend the
The charges were dismissed.
Seven patrolmen were appointed to fll vacan.
cies and the ranks were filled again. Fifty.hve
cies will be filled as fast as they occur. The
list expires with the year and the board.
DR.. Gustavus Henderson Of East Ninety
ninth. street is n candidate for appointment to
the office Of police surgeon He took, as no
thought, a short cut to 1t yesterday by present
ing q petition Of fifteen policemen in tho East
104th street station to, have him, appointed.
He Endorsed the paper himself with the state
ment many more could have been gotten from
other precincts, but did not have time" The
was filed.
DIR. NJ. w. Herman Of Long Island City
aspires to the same job from the borough Of
Queens.
The Mayor with the battle axe" said President
brows and said that Patrick Jerome Gleason
prOmOtly-