The times., 1897-08-01
POLICE ARE REPR|MANDED
Major Moore Submits His Report
en the Carr Bungle. !.
STUPIDITY AND CARELESSNESS
Officers Responsible for the Raw
isher's Escape Severely Ceosured
station Keepers Ordered to Re-
main on Duty All Night.

Commissioner Wight and Major Moore
yesterday concluded their investigation of
the circumstances which led TO the escape
of the ravisher Carr, and concluded that,
while several OF the officers concerned in
the affair are deserving Of reprinands, none
was enough at fault to warrant dismissal
or reduction in the service.
A report em5odying this was submitted
TO the Commissioners by MAJOR Moore yes
terdsy 1t may be said in this connection,
however, that this report considered only
the Carr incident, and that the invest-
CATION was not IN any sense general one
of the Second precinct. The escapes OF
Foultz and Hurley were not included, but
it's possible that they will be in general
investigation of the Second precinct which
viii probably occur later.
1t was found by Major Moore that ow-
Ing to the practice Of the night station
clerks, who leave their posts to go to
sleen from the hours of IL to In the
morning, an incompetent man was left
in charge Of No 6 at the time OF the
occurrence. To prevent a recurrence OF
this, it will be ordered that hereafter che
station clerks must be awake the entire
night.
Commissioner Wight, In speaking IT the
affair, SAID that Cars escape was the
result of series of unfortunate events
Several men were serving In other meE's
places, and a number committed overssghts
TN caIx m rfsrr lu nf
deserving OF serious punishment, yet. in
the aggregate, led to this important es-
cape.
Major MooIe's report was as follows:
10 the Honorable commissioners OF the
District of Columbia.
Gentlemen n-After ooldining recitation
OF the facts, and investigating the same,
concerning the escape OF one PattIck
Carr charged with a felonlous assault III
The second precinct, l have to report as
follows:
First. Privates Hendricks and Hoagiand
did their duty.
formed of the facts by O'clock, and
eriedin Judgment ia not reporting the facts
at once TO mis- precinct, so that lnIoI ma
ton could be given through headquaI ters
TO all precincts. His record shows him To
have been an unusually efficient officer,
aud for this reason l5 s recommended that
he be repfoyed for not giving the in
learned OF the facts in the case.
Third. 1t appears that OFFICER Clifford
was acting spaliopkeeper In the place OF
Statonkeeper Butler, who had been eX-
cused for d perIou OF rest. he omission
OF the names of the persons making the
record, as well as his failure TO inform
Inspector Pearson of this occurrence, is
to sune extent eXcusable, inasrnuch as he
was not the official whose duty it was to
perform such duty. 1t, howey shows great
want of Judgment on the part of Clifford
IN EsIlp n IN far no flpr
he was acting In his own capacity or in
the place of another whose duties he had
undertaken to perform. 1t Is, therefore,
recommended that Clifford be reprimanded
for performing those duties IN so careless q
manner, and in this connection that all
sta6onkeepers going on duty at s p. M.
shall remain at their desks continuously
until u a. m.
Fourth. OFFICER Kennedy, who received
this report from the telephone operator
t,s9 at las9 :, 2, M eann9t say to whom he
tnat he was incompetent to perform the
duties temporarily assigned him In the
detective office.
Fifth Lieut.. Boyle appears to have
done all that was necessary in the case
excepting that he might have insisted on
the Second precinct furnishing q Iaore
complete description OF Carr TO assist in
his arrest.
Sixth. Inspector HolIinberger: Tt ap-
pears that the system devised by In
speetor Holinberger provides that all dis
patches coming In at night should be
placed on the desk of Officer German, to
be handed to him upon his arrival on the
following morning.
Seventh. 1t appears that it is the duty
of Officer German to receive and care
fully preserve all dispatches coming in
during the night and to hand them TO the
inspector on the following morning; that
on the. morning In question he took the
dispatches from his desk with the ex-
ception of the one relating to Carr, which,
through tnadvertence, he failed to collect
- xsfh hlsecl
not brought to the attention or the in