The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-18
POLICE BOARDS MEETING.
RESULT OF AN INVESTIGATION
 HELD LAST NIGHT
Into the Assessment of S5 Levied
 Against Each Member of the Depart- ment--Sergeant Bradley nnd Patrol- man Bohen Placed on the Retired List
nt HaIf-Pay Pension.

The board of police commissioners last night held what purported to be the investigation asked for by Walter Leigh into the matter of taking five dollars from each policemans pay en- velope one week early last spring. When pay-d day came around during the week in question each policeman found when he opened his pay envelope that the amount which it contained was five dol- lars less than the afnount due him. Many protests were made by the po- licemen among themselves, but some of them who desired to protest to the head of the department and the commission CTS did not do so, saying at the time that they were afraid that if they did so things would be made uncomfortable for them in the department.
 When they asked why the money had been kept back they were informed that it was to help along the police pension bill which was pending before com mittee of the legislature. No lawyers appeared before the committee In be- half of the bill and the only expenses apparently connected with it were the expenses of the superintendent Of po- lice and the police commissioners, who went to Hartford two or three times to appear before the committee on cities and boroughs, which had charge Of the pension bill. There has been much quiet grumbling in the department, among the patrolmen, at what they term the "hold-up," but no policeman dared to make a. formal complaint.
 tirx behind closed and guarded doors and citizens were blankly refused admit tance to the room in which the so-called Investigation was held. About sixty patrolmen, sergeants and captains were summoned to appear, and after the meeting it was said that they were questioned So many were present that the board adjourned to the city court room. The doors there were tightly closed and Captain Tripp was stationed in the corridor to guard the doors and prevent any one from standing near them in the corridor
 Everything was done quietly, and af- ter the adjournment of the board the only information given out was that After a full investigation the board finds that the money was raised TOT the passage of the pension bill in the cus- tomary way, and said money was used in legitimate manner and for the sole benefit of the pension bill
 One citizen remarked that the "fnves- tigation'' looked like 'whiteWash. Practically the only change in the po- lice pension law made by the new bill is to provide that the policemen shall nav two per cent. of their salaries into the pension fund. Before the passage of the new bill the city kept up the en- tire fund.
 Foster Sanford, the Columbia football coach, appeared before the board and asked that leave of absence for eleven weeks he given to Patrolman Carey to train the Columbia college football souad. The board voted not to grant the request, and passed vote to the effect that no vacation would be grant, ed to any member of the department for the purpose of engaging in any oth- CT pursuit or occupation.
 On recommendation of the efficiency committee Sergeant Bradley and Pa trolman William E. Bohen were placed unon the retired list at half pay. A netition from Veteran Reserve Officer George w. Waas to be retired was re- ferred to the efficiency committee.