New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-01
WILL SUPPORT PATROLMEN
PARTRIDGE AND JEROME PLEASED ID
DISPOSITION OF MEN TO Do
THEIR DUTY.

THEIR DUTY.
It was plain yesterday that the panio ~
the police captains had been increased W
sudden and unexpected enforcement OK INC
else law on Sunday evening by patrolmen OF .he
West Thirty-seventh-s station The cap'a'"
would no. talk about it, but some OF 'ne
geants said 1t meant the end of police erai'
if patromen of other precincts followed the ca
ample of the men in Captain Foodys pi1
The captains had themselves to paihe "
revolt of the patrolmen 1t was oeciaie'
compelling the patrolmen to make fepo
writing that violations OF the eA'iSe
occurred on their posts the captains were pc
ing every man On poet in danger Of dismissal
A revolt therefore was invited when the cap
tains, thinking only of their own SAFETY oiOe
the written reports from their men,
The revolt of patrolnep of one platoon OF one
precinct disturbed the captains so much oe
cause it demonstrated several things that lhe
people of the city have believed to be true ohe
Ia that the police can close the saloons Oh gum
day if they want to close them Another ls tha'
the orders of a police captain to his men "
enforce the laws not usually taken seriousis.
OF course it is plain that il a few policemen III
one precinct, having made up their minus u
enforce the law could shut up all the saloons
and make eighteen excise arrests IN the preciho''
the police in the other precincts were not ooins
their duty on Sunday evening. 1t is PLAIN TOO
that Captain Foody's policemen had not peen
trying to enforce the law previous Sundays
although he had given formal orders lot suen
enforcement and had compelled them to turn In
written reports about violations of law on their
posts.
Police Commissioner Partridge was plainly
delighted yesterday with the action Of the pa
trolmen of Captain Foody's command Ihese
arrests" he said. show what have always be-
Heved to be true, that the average patroman
wants to do his duty and will do his duty under
favorable conditions.
Mr. JEROME'S COMMENT.
District Attorney Jerome. who talked with
Commissioner Partridge yesterday morning, said
later that he regarded the arrests by the patrol
men of the West Thirty-seventh-st. station on
Sunday evening as significant When heNwas
told that the policemen who made the arrests
expected that he would have one of his assist
ants in the West Side court yesterday morning
to assist in presenting evidence to Magistrate
Pool he said he was sorry one of the assistants
had not been sent to the court particularly as
he had learned that some of the arrested saloon
keepers had been discharged by the magistrate.
You may depend upon it, Mr.. Jerome said.
that policemen who do their duty Will get all
the support my office give"
1t was the threat of District Attorney Jerome
to have captains indicted for permitting per-
sstent violations of the law in their precincts
that led the captains to order written reports
from their men. The Idea that if a captain
was indicted he could show written reports from
his patrolmen that there violations of
the law. How the patrolmen themselves
garded the order may be judged from a state
ment made yesterday by Policeman Wixon. who
made two excise arrests on Sunday evening in
Captain Foody's precinct
I'VE simply made up minds that would
take no chances he said The worst that
could happen to US for doing duty that
we might get transferred If didn't do
duty we might get broke We decided that it
was better to run the risk of being transferred
than run the risk of being broke 1 made two
arrests and so did Policemen Lane, Derr and
Kennedy. l guess we'll keep it up and you
bet that every man in the precinct is going to
arrest persons seen selling liquor Sunday.
We going to look out for ourselves"
Policeman Brckelhaupt. of Wixons asso-
ciates in the work of enforcing the law. said
We simply had to do this to protect ourselves
Jerome threatens that he will break policeman
ours, and don't care whom 1t may hurt We
are compelled to turn in reports about the condi-
ton of affairs posts. l am not going to
make false reports.
There We're twenty-Seyen prisoners in the West
Side Court yesterday morning, charged with
violating the excise law Sunday, and eighteen
Of them had been arrested by patrolmen, of the
West Thirty seventh-st. station, while the re-
manning nine had been caught by policemen of
hoIf dozen other precincts. Magistrate Pool
adjourned q hearing in the case of the barkeeper
in ODonnells saloon, at No. 414 Nfnth-ave..
because of a lawyers contention that the place
hotel and could keep its barroom open on
Sunday Policeman Neary declared that he
walked into the barroom in uniform, found near
ly dozen men there, apparently drinking. and
that he tasted the contents of one glass and
found that it beer.
Policeman Wixon's two prisoners were held in
$500 each for examination. Wixon had had two
EXP eriences on Sunday similar to that of Neary
His prisoners We're Edward Burns, bartender at
No $50 Eighth-ave and Michael OHalloran
saloonkeeper at No 4S3 Ninth-ave.
Two of the patrolmen testified that beer was
served TO them by Henry FhingbeH saloon
keeper of No, 400 West Fortieth- st. and eight
men were in the place at the time PhIngbei
declared that all the men in the place, except
the policemen boarders at his hotel
This is not election time said the magis-
trate and he held the prisoner in 5000 bail. OF
the remaining prisoners, Magistrate POOL held
some and discharged others. He set free enc
saIoonkeeper who caught serving beer to
five men and woman in a back room of his
place.
Hugh Dolan president of the district organi-
cation of the Liquor Dealers Association, was
in court taking observations. THE police did
some queer stunts yesterday, he said, with q
sad shake of the head. Il don't know whether
1t Is going to last or not.
Captain Foody who had been out of the city
on sick leave several days, did not get back to
his precinct yesterday. Sergeant Ryan, who has
been in charge of the precinct. said:
THE action of the patrolmen was complete
surprise to me. The men received the usual in
structioIis They were not particularly instructed
tn excise