New-York tribune., 1902-07-22
"G'WAN" ORDER TO DEVERY
"YoUSE'LL GET FAMED" SAID POLICE
TO BIG CHIEF.
AND HIS ENEMIES DECLARE HE ABAN-
DONED THE PUMP BECAUSE HE WAS
"kFEARED o FANNIN."

Big --Bill' Devery is up against" trouble
from an unlocked for in his attempt to
climb TO prominence over the heads of Goodwin
and Sheehan. his political rivals in the IXth
District He and his followers have been in
formed that if they don't stop blocking the
sidewalks. 10 use police phrase, they will be
famed"
"And Devery will be the first to be famed >
is the way the threat was carried , the Devery
men last week
It has been noticed in the last few days that
the Devery men have not been making their
headquarters around the Pump" they We're
wont 20 do. Devery has rented rooms in
Eighth-ave.. Twenty-third-st.. and spends
part OF his time down there.
Behind the threat to fan" Devery is in
teresting little story.
1t was said yesterday at the City Hall that
John c. Sheehan and other leaders of the
Greater New-York Democracy had invoked the
assistance of the Mayor in getting the following
transfers made the other day by Commissioner
Partridge: Captain James Donovan. from West
Twentieth-st to Bathgate-ave., The Bronx;
Captain James X. Price. from Bathgate-ave. to
Eldridge-st.; Captain Richard Walsh, from FL
dridge-st. to West Twentieth-st. Captain Foody
is still at the West Thirty -seventh-st. station,
but the Skeehan men are cunning for him, and
he may soon be transferred.
The Sheehan men assert that there was sta
toned at Twenty-eghth-st. and Eighth-ave.,
the site of Devery's Pump" friend of Devery,
who used to say to the Sheehan men belonging
TO the Pequod:
Go in and have drink with the Chief"
This was a sort of ringing in" game by which
the Devery men got their hooks on the Shee-
han men. Devery would treat them and grow
confidential with them. and I'm many cases. it is
said, succeeded in winning them over.
John c. Sheehan knows a thing two about
the police himself. Devery soon learned
Without warning, Donovan was transferred to
goat district, Captain Price brought
down from The Bronx TO Eldridge-st., and Cap
tain Walsh. who has been on the outs" with
Devery for years, was sent TO the West Twen-
teth-st station, where his jurisdiction runs TO
within a short block Of Devery's Pump"
When Devery discovered this bit of strategy,
he said: ''Sheehan done it,
Now there's difference in the situation. The
Sheehan men assert that DeVery has streak
OF yellow" in him that is wide city block.
and that his quitting of the Pump" is on ac-
count of his fear of being famed" Devery
private citizen has no right 10 block the
walks. Walsh's men are under instructions, 1t
IS asserted, to order Devery and his men to
move on as soon "Bill" begins TO block the
walk To Devery nothing Ould be more hu-
initiating than to have plain patrOlman walk
up 10 him, Jab him in the ribs with his stick and
Come, come, get outer here, or I'll fan
youse" :
cover from in a hurry. The men lately detailed
by Captain Walsh and Commissioner Partridge
for duty along Eighth-ave. are not friends Of
Devery. They know that if they show the same
severity toward Devery and his henchmen that
they do toward the peders and sidewalk ora
tors they Will be supported by their superiors.
When Devery discovered, a few days ago. the
true situation, he called his men together and
told them to be careful about talking back to
the police.
This feller Walsh has got it in for me. an
he'll do me if he cam" said Devery. IF one Of
his men should fan me. there wouldn't be any
thing more doin' for Devery. So watch out"