New-York tribune., 1901-08-16
DEVERY BURSTS FORTH.
FINES A MAN FOR NOT BEING TIPPED
OFF" ON THE ROUNDSMAN'S AP-
PROACH. AND MURPHY LAUGHS,

When you're caught with the goods on you and
can't set away with it, you want TO stand up with
nothing then No matter under what circumstances
man cont want 70 kno" nOtn1rs fT9snT,v Police
Commissioner Devery to an erring orheer at the
police trials yesterday
John Hessian. plain cop" knows what TO do
when he's caught with the goods on him"
He's to have nerve" and take his medicine
That's the way Devery got to be the great po-
liceman that he is. In the many times that he
has been caught with the goods on him
about seven times-he has taken his medicine
Devery yesterday laid down new code Tor
the New-York police. He presided as judge at
the police trials, and when he expounded the law
to John Hessian he wanted the entire seven
thousand odd policemen of the city TO give ear
Hessian is in the West Thirtieth-st station
He was accused by Roundsman sennett OF be-
ing seventeen minutes in conversation with
woman in front of No. 430 Fourth-ave. early In
the morning Hessian declared that he was
bending over man who felt sick, and was not
talking with the woman. who close by.
at saw this officer talking with the woman,
insisted the roundsman, "and went up oehlnd
him and stood for two minutes within four feet
of him. Then 1 went to the corner and timed
him for fifteen minutes longer He didn't see
me until went up and told him had MIN 1or
conversation"
why didn't you see this roundsman?" asked
the Deputy Commissioner. Are you near sight
ed?"
mo. sir My back was turned to him" was
the culprit's reply.
well, if you was standing with your back TO
the roundsman the lady must have been facing
him. Why didn't she tip you Off"
There's a good deal OF tipping on going on
nowadays. I wouldn't stand talking fifteen min
utes with young lady who wouldn't tip me of
when the roundsman came up. That's getting
In pretty close. You wouldn't have any little tin
soldier running around after you long and not
nail you. You're easy-Iike lot Of other people
when they're put up against it and falls TO 1t
haven't got any nerve"
AS the Deputy Commissioner spoke he looked
around blandly the reporters. who had been
trying in vain for two days to induce him TO
talk about the police situation.
THE specifications are not correct" ventured
the accused patrolman.
The specification must be correct said Dew
cry Don't stand up here and try to throw
your roundsman when he's got you right You
tell that young lady when you're talking to her
next time that when you've got your back TO
the roundsman she must look the other way.
Always get tipped of. Now. I'll fine you ten
days pay for not getting tipped Off You don't
want to go blind to these things hereafter"
James O'Mahoney, a butcher. at No. 129
Ninth-ave., charged Policeman Matthew j.
Reilly with threatening him. 1t was tenement
house broil. in which two Jews testified against
O'Mahoney. Devery dismissed the case, reprt-
manding O'Mahoney as follows: You think you
own the whole block there. but you only own
little of 1t. The Jews has just much right as
the Irish"
When Commissioner Murphy was told Of the
speech which Devery had made at the trial of
Hessian on the subject of being tipped Of" " and
the fact that he had fined the patrolman ten
days pay for not being tipped off, at the ap-
proach Of the roundsman. he leaned back in his
chair and exclaimed laughingly. That's id
good