New-York tribune., 1902-12-05
CHARGES FOR HAUGHE7
TRIAL INSTEAD OF PENSION RETIRE
MENT TO BE HIS LOT.

Announcement of pending charges against ponce
Captain William R. Haughey was made at the a'is-
trfct Attorneys Office late yesterday aIIei ~
The charges will be filed with Commissioner fdr'-
ridge this morning Assistant District Attorney
Morgan who had prepared the charges wouio lo'
give the specifications. 1t was learned ho"eNei'
that the complaints based on afidaVlts Ihaue
by Antonio Laporti and Frank Tagliano, the saiie
who made the charges against ex-CaptaIh
Moynthan, for which Moynihan has been lrdic.eu-
1t is believed that Haughey will be arraisneo oe-
fore Commissioner Partridge for neglect OF uu'S
in failing to suppress disorderly houses when ne
in command of the East One-hundred-aho'
fourth-st station. This is the same stauoh IN
which Moynihan was captain when he Is aieseo 10
have committed bribery. Laporu was SAID 10 De
keeper Of house In that precinct ana lasha"0
a 60 between.
Captain Haughey was sert to the East one-I .
dred -fourth-st. station October Io' l''o'
being transferred from the East One-hunoreo-aiu
twenty-sxth-st. station. On June lo, lso-' ne VIZ"
transferred to Highbridge and was succeedeo III
East One-hundred- and -fourth-st by Cap'aiii E"os
nihan About four months ago Haughey was trans
ferred from Highbridge TO West Thirty-seventh-st'
where he
INSPECTOR Kane. who is in charge of the lnspec-
ton district in which the East One-hundreo-aho-
fourth-st station is included refused to have any
thing to say last night Both Moyninan anu
Hauehey have been In command OF TINS precinct
during Kane's time. The same waromen VIM
served with Haughey in East One-hundred-ano-
fourth-st. went with him to Highbridge, ana lIiei
to West Thirty-seventh-s They are Ed"aru fiai
lahan and Alfred Reid. Monroe Rosen1eio anu
Henry Storiohann. who did plain clothes WORK 'or
Haughey and were reduced to patrol duty oy Mos :
nhan a few days after he followed Haushey III 'ho
East One-hundred -and-fourth-s station, are no"
doing plain clothes work in the West Thirty-seV-
enth-st station. Rosenfeld Is one OF the men
who gave evidence against ex-Captain Moyhiiiah'
Commissioner Partridge received briel from
CORPORATION Counsel Rives yesterday advising hin
that he could not retire Captain Haughey-
eppointed to the force the charter PROVIDED tnas @
when a man was a policeman twenty years he was
entitled to retirement. but Mr.. FdveS says tnaI
the charter at that time stated that the Commls-
sioner may retire" a policeman and that 1t was
not mandatory -.
The present charter says that when a man mas
been on the police force twenty-five years ana mas
reached the age of ffty-fve years. and there are
no charges pending against him, the Commissioner
must retire him. Haughev has served thIr1y years.
but is only ffty-two years old. . 49,
The pleading of ex- Captain Moynfhan TO tne
indictment for bribery was adjourned DeIore JUS
tce Newburser in Part | of General sessions yes
terdaY until next Monday morning ference u
McManus. who represented Captain Moymnan.
asked the Justice IL the captain could plead not
guilty." with permission to Withdraw that plea on
Monday If he desired. Justice Newburger refused
this request. .....
IT was learned yesterday that District Attorney
Jerome is anxious to get conviction In Moynl-
hans case that he will conduct the prosecution