The sun., 1901-05-05
CROSS WINS PROMOTION.
APPOINTED ACTING DEPUTY CHEF or
Police M COL. M RPHY.

MY Personal Choice" Says the Colonel-Madc
the Appoint mcnt After a social Call
From Richard Croker, Jr.--Cross TO Help
Cortright who MAY Retire soon.
Police Commissioner Murphy appointed
lnS,ector Adam A. Cross an acting Deputy
chief of Police YESTERDAY and assigned him
20 duty in the First district which consists
OF the boroughs of Manhattan and Rich
mond. In announcing the appointment
Col. Murphy explained that the work in
volved In surerntendng the police affairs
Of the two boroughs WAS too much for one
man to do properly, and that therefore, he
had provided an assistant for Deputy Chief
Cortright. Cross's appointment rs an act
ing deputy chief was made possible by tho
death OF Deputy Chief John MacKe Kellar
Coincident with the promotion OF Cross
the Commissioner made changes among
the inspectors The first inspection dis
trct, which embraces the lower East Side
from the Battery to Fourteenth street in
cluding consequently the Red Light district,
and has hitherto been under the charge OF
Inspector Cross IL put In charge Of Inspector
Walter Thompson. Insp ector James Kane
Is shifted from the Fifth to the Third dis
trict. and Inspector j. II Grant Of the Sixth
will therefore control all the territory above
Ninety-siSth street Inspector Harley rs-
mains In command OF the Fourth. Thomp-
sons old district, which includes the Tender.
loin and Inspector Brooks Is retained In the
Second district.
Col Murphy explained that the elevation
OF Cross ia at present temporary one You
see. he said, Il have no power to mako his
appointment permanent until he has passed
the civil service examination This exam
nation will Of course be open TO other in
sp"ctnrs who may wish to compete But
CruS. IL nav personal choice for the duty to
which | have sSigned him ] regard him
as the man best fitted for the place Cort-
rlghl has mad too much responsibility rest! ing
upon his shoulders. and in Cross he will find
man who will aid him partly in his work
- me opinion was expressed Yesterday that
cross would become the active deputy chief
OF Manhattan and The Bronx. and that II
was probable that Cortright might retire
In the near future
Hchard Croker, Jr., visited Col Murrhv
al h"dduuhrlcrS yesterday morning Tho
two remained in consultation for about half
the appointment of Inspector Cross 10 10
acting Deputy Chi"i was announced The
CConrlusl2n was Il once drawn thHt Richard
'foker. ST, had either instructed the Com
missioner 10 promote Cross. or NJ least had
sanctioned the step taken by Col Murphy.
by both th" Commis~iovor and Young Mr..
Croker th" visit ~ the latter 10 headlunrters
was said 10 be merely friendly CRll. II was
IN" FIRST time that Croker Jr had been at
hehdquart"rs since col Murphy superseded
Deyery
Tho new acting DEPUTY chief has been
a member of the police Department since
october 1878 ~ that lime he was 20 wears
oId and was a law clerk After he became
patrolmun he continued hi4 studies and
WAS subsequently, admitted 70 the bar. II"
'- made cHI'1in In 1890. In August 1924 he
was dismissed from the departuo ont but tie
supreme Court set aside the dismissal on
the ground that the principal witneS as against
'ait. Cross were unworthy of belief lie
was restored - bis cautaincv and In October
1897 he was made IN INSPECTOR