The sun., 1901-12-01
HAWKSHAWS NIGHTPATROL
COL. MURPHY FINDS SOMETHING
FOR DETECTIVES TO DO.
Headquarters Crowded with Them-It IL
Expected That Twelve More Detective
sergesDu VIII Bc Made This Month
Curb Quotations Remain Firm.

Beginning at 7 o'clock tomorrow night
Police Commissioner Murphy will assign
forty detectives from Capt Titus's squad
TO do night patrol duty in Manhattan. Com
missioner Murphy says he believes that
this will afford better protection to citizens.
The plan has been under consideration
for four months, Commissioner Murphy
said last night. and is favored by Capt.
Titus
The detectives who do this night patrol
will report at the Detective Bureau every
night at o'clock. They will then be as
signed 10 the precincts, some Of the more
busy precincts getting two men each and
other precincts only one. After leaving
Police Headquarters the detectives VIII
report at the precincts, and IL there are
any robberies or murders or important
cases that need investigation these men
will get the job. After working all night
they will be allowed to sleep in tho day
time. Capt. Titus says that the same
men will not do the work every night, but
that every man will get chance at 1t.
Il think IL II very good SCHEME" said
Capt. Titus. Commissioners Murphy has
been considering IL for some time. There
are lot Of young men in the Detective
Bureau now and think this will give them
a chance 10 show what they are made Of
Detectives will also be stationed on the
elevated stations, at the ferries and at the
Grand Central Station said Commissioner
Murphy. If detective finds nothing for
him to do when he reports at the station
he will make tour Of the precinct. In
that way | think the city will be better
guarded than IL is at present For the
present, one Detective Sergeant will act as
a roundsman TO see that these men do not
shirk their work"
This is not tho first time that detectives
have been made to patrol the city at night.
When Capt. O'Brien was in charge Of the
Detective Bureau he tried q similar plan,
but abandoned IL. When II became known
at Police HEADQUARTERS Yesterday that
Commissioner Murphy proposed TO assign
Central Office detectives TO the precincIs
some thought that II was a scheme to worry
the wardmen. But the general impress
sion among the wise ones In Mulberry
street was that Commissioner Murphy
was Just finding some work to do Tor the
overcrowded Detective Bureau. so many
detective sergeants have been appointed
recently and 50 many detectives trans
ferred from the precincts to the Head
quarters squad. that there has not been
enough work to go around. The Charter
gives the Police Commissioner power to
appoint detective scrgeants as long a. the
service needs them and Tammany II taking
advantage OF every opportunity OF making
them,
As preliminary to being sworn In as
detective sergeants the favored ones are
transferred TO the Headquarters squad
This calls attention TO tho fact that thirteen
men have been made members of the Head
quarters squad within the last two weeks
They have not been promoted. or. to be
more accurate. their promotions have not
been announced, but the announcement
NAV be expected any day. These are the
men that Mulberry street says will wear
detective serReants' shields before the
present regime goes out on Jan. ]:
JoSenh NJ Kay William Delaney.
Cnares q Manning, Arthur u. GlOster.
Peter Gamer Thomas brennan.
lanes rrnAn, Fred q. Parker,
John J. Mccarthy, James OulglcN,
Thomas n. Murphy John 4. OCOnnor,
Richard Manning,
The Mulberry street curb market quota
tion is from g 500 to 1000 for "A detective
sergeant