The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-08-11
WARD SLEUTHS SHIFTED.
SENT TO REJOIN THEIR RECENTLY
TRANsFERRED CAPTAINS.

The Transfers. Dsvsry Admits. Made at the
Request OF the Captains, who Thus Get
Back Their FaVorites A shake-Up
Effected on True Tammnny Lines.
The recent transfers Of police Captains were
supplemented yesterday afternoon by Chief
Devery, who ordered q general shifting about
OF precinct detectives. As a result there were
joyful but not UNEXPECTED reunions in at least
a dozen precincts. the commanders Of which
get back their old henchmen who have been
with them through thick and thin. in days Of
prosperity and days Of investigation.
After the changes had been announced q mar
ut Police Headquarters said in the presence OF
one Of the transferred detectives:
collectors back"
The detective overheard the remark and
laughed.
"of course" he said. why not?"
Commissioners York. Hess and Abel were
present at the meeting Of the Police Board
when the Chief announced the transfe RS. They
were not in session more than twenty minutes.
Chief Devery admitted that he had made the
transfers at the request OF the Captains.
The changes are as follows:
James A.. Murray and James A. Hart follow
Capt. o'Keefe from Delaney street to Eldridge
street.
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Capt. Stephenson from Eldridge street to the
Chink district, with headquarters on Elizabeth
street.
Livingston Hunt, who has been associated
with Capt. Chapman in the Tenderloin and at
Mercer street. Is again assigned to his COM
mand at East 13Sth street.
Warren Maxon and James F. Boyle are trans
ferred from West Thirty-seventh street to East
104th street. They follow Capt. Brown.
James A. Herman and William ]. Fogarty.
who were under Capt. Moynihan at Morrisania.
are again assigned to him at the Charles street
station.
Peter Carter and J. ]. Curran. who have been
wardmen for Capt. Hogan ever since he was
placed in command OF n precinct. follow him
from MacdouEal street to Mercer street.
Peter J. Finley goes from West Forty-seventh
street to West Tooth street. and Edward II.
Enright goes from West Tooth street to West
Forty-seventh street. This criss-cross trans
fer enables Finley and Enright to join their old
Captains, Titus and Thomas.
Richard L. Jackson and John J. Mahoney are
transferred from Mulberry to Mercer street.
William Colby and Bernard McGovern are
sent after Capt. Halpin from Charles street to
West Thirty seventh street.
Bernard 7: Farrell Is transferred from West
John Henderson follows Capt. James 4; Price
and his old side partner, Detective Shill. from
George Bissert is transferred from West
Twentieth street to Capt. Dimond's station on
Delaney street. Dimond and Bissert were at
one time fellow patrolmen at the Fifth street
station.
In addition to the transfers. several promo
tons were made and five detectives were re-
duced to the ranks.
Michael Somers was promoted to be aprecinct
detective and transferred from the Criminal
Court squad to Mulberry street,
Felix o'Eeil. who has been in the goa, dis
he will act as a ward detective under Capt,
O'Brien.
Theodore Beesley. who had previously served
raised from the ranks to the dignity Of plain
clothes duty and transferred from EldridGe to
Church street.
Patrick Curry Of the West Thirtieth street
station and James W. Morton Of West Chester
were made detectives without being trans
J. W. Walters. who has always been with
Capt. Chapman and helped him at the Seeley
dinner. goes from East Thirty-ffth to East
13sth street, where he will serve under his old
commander as a detective.
Richard Finn; the last. man to be promoted.
was transferred from Elizabeth to East Eighty
eighth street.
tive at the Elizabeth street station for years,
and had made himself popular by plotting
prominent visitors from out Of town through
ferred to Eldridge street.
Although, Richard McKenna, who has been
doing sleuth work in the goat district. must GO
back to Capt. O'Brien by an order OF transfer
from East l3Sth street to Leonard street.
Detectives George F. Sherwood and James T.
Eighty-eighth street. are both reduced and
transferred. Sherwood to West Chester and
Coyle to Elizabeth street.
Henry Wolf. who has been a ward detective al
Mercer street. is assigned to West sixty-eighth
street as a patrolman.