The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-07
MCUEI1Git POLICE CHIEF.
N,LIUGHLIN LIKELY TO RE ONE OF
THE DEPUTY CHIEFS. 4

Charter Prevents Devery from BEING the Other
He~ ne Rany Ne Made On Inspector Toe
nay-Yerh, TryinG Delinauents, warns ola
0asuders Net 70 Come Before Fim Again.
John McCullagh was made Chief of Police
yeterdaSSs Cotnmlssioncr hamilton ,tmoVcd
theapplAptmcut and Commissioner Sexton sec.
ondh aty The Chief was. sent forl and con-
1 eratdfsfions cnsned. Col.,Kippfscnt out Cor the
eoath Bok, and thcn and there tho new Chief
was svtoti In. Then tho board adjourned,
It was fully expected that II would fill up the
ranks at yesterdays sitting and 80 mike ready
for tho organization OF tho new department.
To that end two Deputy Chiefs, two Inspec.
tors, and two Captains will be wanted. Ap-
parently the board had intended to appoint
them all, but n hitch occurred in the programme
which delayed its execution until to-day at
least. The hitch was said to be I'M the now
charter. The Commissioner were ,cFcdited
with a desire to make Capt. William s. Dew.
cry Of the West 125th street station n Deputy
Chief. Devery Is O strong Tammany man, a
personal friend of MIR. Croker. and suffered
much during and since tho Lexow days. This
was to be his reward. But tho charter was
found to block tho way. Section 2S7, which
prescribes tho mode OF appointing the first
Deputy Chiefs ofthe new city, sets forth that they
shall be chosen from among the Deputy Chiefs
communities. so with tho Inspectors. who
shall DO taken from among the transferred In
ssgg re %Gss and 5tra Gspsatpsi., T But tf fr sSn Tq bo wi,s
might DO made an Inspector and Immediately
: edyanced to the grade Of Deputy Chief. As "
the present. He. can become a, Deputy Chief
only By way Of the civil service ladder.
ably be made an Inspector to-day. Il is pre-
SiG tSe t .Rsf new 1H' Deputy G cSiefs.l He also Sei suffered DS 1ed
much in the evil days that followed the Lexow
two years, during a part OF which he lay in tho
Tombs, but fought his way back triumphantly
V T R,si fai fn Soa P"i sat at:the trials Yesterday and
paw President York deal with delinquent pc,
i lice men, MI NJ York + frn has had Ts SsP PSiTd S in eo %To
Policeman. Gilbert Holmes OF the Church street
'record card" to DO there for the ninth time
since last March.
The. station house before you start" said he.
1--WE don't want you"
The very next. William J. Hayden of tho
time, and Hesiey. who followed him, the If
roundsman, pointing to Healey.
Very good. very good man = e Aid the rounds.
"Welil He has been here fourteen times be-
iTfssii pt he y0 Sixteenth Sss ah" time sU %iIl % pe to you mn a y ySH'
expensive trip, do you understand
henley UNDERSTOOD.
It was Policeman John J. Quinn's eighteenth
csyisit, and the board fined him of-hand three
! Hey Iona, do you expect 70 stay on the
here again, II the charge ~justifes It, we will
drop you, This is q DANGEROUS place for you,
Quinn. It is to your interest to steer clear OF
CT Yep md all the rest Of you might as well
epoliceman We want. There Is no reason why
you should como. here time after time, and we
will not tolerate it."
Policeman Chester L. sciford's' case capped
the climax. He was accused of being twenty.
ofy9 minutes off post in the Bowery and said he
y NA6 hooking for 80 bill a man had lost in
I, s.F1ynn's,' Mr.. York looked over his record,
= and, Is he did. raised his eyebrows higher and
higher. .,u,. .u..n
1sS.as yh 4 .a Sst f III 8 ps1is .ns count IT have bs.n nm.
fortunate"
-"yery,' remarked the President dryly, still
1tudyfnH the card. You were dismissed once
Z and reinstated by the courts. We don't like to
I dismiss you to-day. but we will fine you ton
~ ts y RsA f sss aets M nSiEs GH e iaSt hsss we e w yaal
J, 6rd' OF that"
sclford was fined thirty days pay last week
hy the old board,