The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-09-26
The AXE FALLS ON 0NEILL.
pOLJCEwaN VINO DARED To TELL
DISMISSED FROM THE FORCE.
yers Finds itim Guiity Of tnbeeening
Conduct and Murphy ADDS the Dts-
missai- Hen Appeal to- the Courts
and He'll he Tai en- FAR or. Anywa,.

transfer shaking -down- system IN the
Police Department and. goad"d To des-
peration by having BEEN transferred five
times Ia az many months because he
wouldn't pay to be let alone. openly talked
hack 20 Deputy Commissioner Devery
when dashed by Dcvery's tongue in the
trial room nj Headquarters. was dismissed
from the force yesterday by Commissioned
Murphy,
In the departm mt and outside Of Il this
breaking Of Oneill h taken as an an
nouncement from Tammany that the or
sanisation viii sustain D~very. no matter
VIA, he dow. and that policemen must
submit. pay up when the transfer bureaus
collector makes his rounds. and look a.
PHEASANT ne possible over the robbery
Commissions Murphy says he is sorry
for Oneill and that he hasn't any digestion
" the policeman's trying to get hack his
Job through the courts on he cam, but he
DOESN'T think that any injustice has been
done
The rank and Ale In the department
has its own opinion and when at 4
O'Clock yesterday afternoon II wa formally
announced in every police station In the
city that Oncill was no longer a member
Of the force there were many signs Of dis
content. Oneill. however. will not he for
gotten. His case will immediately to
taken to the supreme Court by the men
Who have Interested Themselves In IL and
whether he ~ sucos~=ful In gaining his
reinstatsment or not the COMMITTEES Of IS
~ill $50 that he dos~ not suffer.
The charges on which Oneill is dismissed
we're preferred asains, him by Devery
after Oneill had told the Deputy Com
.-a-,.,.r shat 10 ka bad not rafIa.sI IN G4
Shaken down and had paid s2S for a
transfer he wouldn't have been fined thirty
DAYS pay A. he had hnen a minute before
by the Deputy Commissioner
sIu break YOU reared Devery In reply;
and. through Commissioner Murphy. h"
has Devery filed charges Of conduct I'M
h~coming an officer against Oneill and Col
Murphy delegated Deputy Commissioner
York to try them. II was Mr.. York's re-
port which Col Murphy made public yea-
terday,
Col. Murphy's announcement that Oneill
had been dismissed was made about noon.
An hour before that every one In Mulberry
street had known Il. Tho Commissioner
announced the fact as N II were 81 no i'm
portAnce.
There il nothing new to-day he said
10 the reporters who went Ia $50 him. that
j. except Mr.. York's finding in the Oneill
case. He has Onein's dis
missal. IMr. York hadn't I've approved
The findings and ordered Oneill dismissed
Here they are.
Then he HANDED 10 the reporters copies
81 Mr.. York's decision. In full II IL az fol-
Vows and there II no recommendation to
dismissal IN II.
~ the mensr ~ N Wal o. no charges -
Poiroi'nan hdndrd Or"H
The offence OF when the accused ~ charged
vas committed AZ th" conclusion 81 'he near
Ing Of the trial OF q similar charge against
him held by Deputy commissioner DeVery
m Aug ~ 1901 IN" Ansuase u-eu oy 'he
emc~r' a. charged IN inc organizations OF
IN" oompiaint va u-su. according 70 ia.
record sf~r thc uAI ,omhllssionei hsu
stated thAt ne ~oulo nhe MN 'oheli' 'hif'S
aays pay
Inc socuseu was preseh' osienoihs nim-
en upon = chArsr "' ,oho"o. uho"coh'hs
eh omo"f' shn was ~. uh""up.eu ''sh'
to D" heard IN ms own n'fehc"' ana thlS IN
'iuueo w" ''sn' '" p'ouuV- ~'n' ""u'"
nu~-uoh theh ~ W iscH o"@''hs upon ue
ISSUES IN dispute
ms -tA'em~h' 20 'e uIa' omnni-.'onet
sfter oeins informed thAt q" was nnrd' tha'
ne ~ou'n go hisn't "ou'u no, w "s"' oe
sumc'ent 70 oase charge h@n ne stopped
mere. thete ~oulu oe no GROUND ior com
p~lh' nc o'u nov hoN"'eI' ou' sta""u
thst ne was rn"a oeoAu-" ne would not STAND
ior q shAke-ooNh ana wound nov give
twenty-five TOT a transfer Examined on 'hl-
ensl as 70 inc meaning OF the Language" used
ne stated In answer W question IA tollows
ineh' Nneh you hl~u" 'nls tehAfA'
" you souio stAho iot a shAhe-ao~n' YOU
meant " you hAu agreed 10 pay you would
not have GOV nned' \ Yes, sf
The language ured. ana Tor winch he "
now on tTAl HCNeltlnk nj = own un0eTefanda