The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-10-01
The WEBSTER LOSES CANNON
col. MURPHY MOVES THE CAP.
TAM To CENTRAL Farm.
Replaced by District Leaders Drother-in-
law Walsh Put out Of the Red Light
District Three More Transfer -"Ah
for the Good Of the service. boys"

Five polioe captains. including Capt.
James Cannon 81 the Fast Twenty-second
street station. who was 50 unfortunate
as 10 he caught In the Webster Hotel when
the place was ralded by the Parkhufst
society recently. were shifted around Tor
the food Of the service yesterday. In
cidentAlly, two ssrgeants were made act
ing cap, ains. one 81 them. Paddy cray.
filing Gannon's shoes as commander OF
the East Twenty second street precinct
Cannon goes TO Central Park. When
Commissioners Murphy was asked " th'a
transfer was due to Gsnnon's solicitude for
the Webster Hotel hes said
Il don't know hat II was | took that
into consider alton. Of course.
Mulberry Street hin tina Cannon
wen, To the Central Park flower beds be-
cause IN MIR Uevery's phrase he was
caught with the goods OF him u was
said several days q that I've was about Ia
go aud that he would surely be succeeded
bv Scrgt cray. who il ia" brother -in-iaw
81 Dock Commissioner Murphy, the Tam
many leader In the Eighteenth Assembly
district. The wise ones also predict that
GRAY will soon be ele waited To the rank of
captain.
Capt Charlie. Albertson was transferred
FROM Dclancay street TO Eldridgo street
Capt Richard Walsh. hest known in the
DEPARTMENT a. smiling Dick has been
doing a little hou-a cleaning there lie
IL sent To tho Grand Central Station where
there isn't anything much that n police
reiormer can do
capt William Thompson IL sent back
90 Mulberry street from Staten Island,
where he rusticatcd this summer, and
So, ...lI, A. laft la command Can't
John VI Stephenson II transferred from
Mulberry street Ia Delaney street
Albertson's transfer To Eldrdge street
II regarded as a rehabilitation Tor him.
IL was he whom Devery scored In the trial
| room not long ago for not sticking by ms
wardmen when a poolroom In his precinct
was raided hy the vice crusaders
Sergt liebers. who II sent back TO his
old place at the sIb-Station at the Park
sh.epfuld, has been Ia omman Of the
Central Park police since July when zap
Martens was transferred 20 Charles street
and m that time ha- made a goodr record
Tor himself. President tlausrn of IA.
Park Board said Yesterday that Iielers
had made the h--~t captain they had had
in the Park since 1907, ami he was sorry &c
see him reduced
-Thev we're for the good az the service.
bov-.- said Commissioner Murphy OF tho
transfers L put Alb-rtson la Eldridge
stree, where President Roosevelt want@i
him 20 20. when ne was fbll'f NpilHllr'
sioner. understand that he was made
captain by Roosevelt
why was Capt Walsh ssnt to the Grand
Central station
-Oh. he AMI Allartson ara the same kind
Of men. YOU know Tho COMMISSIONS
didn't make any clearer what he meant
by this
One significant fart about the transfers
i. that three 81 the precincts affected are
i'm the Sixth and Eighth Assembly districts
II Is thought thai the changes there were
made u please Senator Timothy Dry
Dollar sullivan.
Commissioners Murphy only remained
An hour at Police Headquarters Yesterday
BEFORE he left for home he sent for the
reporters and told them that he was III
A catarrhal cold from which he has been
suffering for nearly two weeks had almos,
knocked him out. he said
1t has not happened In many year,
hat | have missed an hour from INV work,
said the Colonel. but to-day | am COINS
home a. doctor myself
Before he went the Colonels attention
wAs called Va the opium Joint ON West
Twenty-ninth street, described In yeeter-
DAYS SUS He took the number down
and instructed ~lnsper,or Cortnght "a
| make an in Investigation. Then he expressed
| a desire 20 know more about the place.
Il really don't believe II, though hs