The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-02-06
POLICE BOARD BUSINESS.
Patrolman Rice Asks to be Retired on
a Pension-Reports Received.

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a Pension-Reports Received.
| Police Commissioner Avery presided
at the meeting of the police board last
night in the absence of President Lee,
| The report of the efficiency committee
| which recommended honorable men,
| ton for Patrolman j. Cronan, J. B.
| Roche, J. Koran and Supernumerary
| Patrick Devain was accepted and the
| recommendation adopted The super
| intendent in his report commended De-
| tectives Dunlap McGrath, Dennehy,
and Donnelly for especially meritorious
service. Honorable mention was voted
| to Sergeant Gibson because of his SER
vices in the recent policy raid by the
police on Meadow street. The report
of the civil service commission recon-
| mending William Bergen and Charles
Fl. Potter for appointment as special
constable, was referred to the efficiency
committee.
Sergeant Gibson turned over to the
board check for $40 which he had re-
ceived from Judge William X Town
send as token of his appreciation of
the services of the policemen at the fire
which occurred recently at the judges
Grove street residence. Sergeant Glib
son transmitted the check to the board
to allot the money to the men who were
entitled to it.
A claim was received from Patrolman
M ]. O'Connor for pay for twenty-five
days time lost by reason of injuries
received by being thrown from the pa
troll wagon. The claim was referred to
the finance committee with power.
A communication was received from
Coroner Mix commencing Detectives
NfcGrath and Ward for their services in
the investigation of the Rathbun pois-
oning case.
There was to have been last night
trial of charges of gross neglect of duty
and conduct unbecoming an officer pre-
ferred against Special Constable Carlo
Salvador The accused officer was no.
titled of the charges, but failed to ap-
pear and defend himself last night. He
was accordingly found guilty and dis
honorably discharged.
Patrolman William A. Rice filed an
plication to be retired on pension be-
cause of injuries received while in the
discharge of his duty. Rice. while ar
resting a man in the rear of a saloon
on Asylum street in 1897, slipped on
a meat skewer and fell badly injuring
his knee. He has never recovered from
this injury The application was re-
ferred to the efficiency committee to in
vestigate and report
Annual reports were submitted by
Superintendent Wrinn and Clerk South
worth. The superintendent report IN
cluded the following:
I respectfully call your attention once
more to the fact that new police sta.
ton will be required to be built on our
property on the corner of Dixwell ave-
nue. and Webster street, as the present ,
structure occupied by us as a police
station is unsuitable for that purpose
and it is very difficult, in fact, almost
to transact the business nee
essary to be performed in police sta
ton in a suitable manner In such a
I once more respectfully suggest that |
an earnest effort be made towards the |
completion of police station No in so |
far as the building of suitable number
of cells in it, so that when prisoners
are arrested in that district they can
be kept there properly until the proper
time to send them to headquarters.
I once more respectfully suggest an
Increase of twenty patrolmen to the