The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-07
INSPECTOR CROSS DISMISSED,
TWO CAPTAINS ARE SUSPENDED
AND FIVE TRANSFERRED.
Greene Promotes Four scrgeants and
Sends One OF Them to Replace Lantry
Suspended Men Are Bro0klynites
Batch OF Tenderloin Cops Shifted.

| -batcn OF IenuerIOln COp6 Snutou.
Police Commissioner Greene yesterday
dismissed from the force Inspector Adam A.
Cross, who was tried on charges OF neglect
of duty and conduct unbecoming an officer.
Gen. Greene then made four new captains
and suspended two Brooklyn precinct
| commanders, as the result of the discoveries
by the Row. Cortland Myers Of poolrooms
and gambling houses in their precincts.
The Commissioner wound up the day by
a shakc-up of captains and ordinary cops.
| Twenty-Five policemen were transferred
| from the Tendcrloin precinct and scattered
! from The Bronx to Rockaway and Staten
| Island Patrolmen from far away dis
| tricts will take their places. All these or
| ders Wen, into effect at 7o'clock last night.
Gen. Greene wouldn't talk about Crosss
case, bu, gave out the findings of Deputy
| Commissioner Ebstein, who presided at
| the trial. and his own memorandum of dis
missal Major Ebstein rules against Cross
on each of the five specifications which
| named poolroons and disorderly houses
| Of whose existence the inspector knew.
but which he failed to close Major Eb-
stein also finds the inspector guilty on
| both charges conduct unbccoming an
officer and neglect Of duty-and recon-
mends his dismissal.
In approving this recommendation Gen.
1 Greene says
! After long and impartial trial Inspector
| Adam 4. Cross has been found guilty OF
! neglect of duty and conduct unbecoming an
officer in allowing the law to be violated
! at certain disorderly houses and poolrooms
within the limits Of his district, when by the
! exercise of due diligence and by the proper
use of the means within his power he could
| have enforced the law at these places
| He sd had twenty years experience as q
, police officer and his ability and skill are not
disputed. What his motives may have been
| is not in evidence and cannot be considered.
! 1t is sufficient that he has been found guilty
| of such neglect o. duty.
The findings and recommendation for
are and the sd
| force OF the city OF New YORK.
| Inspector Cross was made a patrolman
in October, 1878. Before that he was q
| driver on Blocker street car. After
| joining the force he took up the study Of
| law and was admitted to the bar. He was
| made roundsman in 1882, sergeant .
year and a half later and in 1880 he be-
were Frank Moss. Gen. Andrews, Gen.
Smith and Col. Parker, made him an in
spector on Oct 49, 1887
In the days OF p ?, tih and fs OF PsrtTidse
|
| quarters. 1t was Devery who sent him to
| the First district where he got into the trou.
BILE which has led to his dismissal. Col.
Partridge kept him there and only sent him
| to The Bronx under pressure.
As soon as Inspector Crosss lawyer.
Abram l. Elkus, learned Of his clients
dismissal he announced that he would
apply to the Supreme Court to-day for .
review by the Appellate Division. He
wouldn't discuss the trial except to say that
the decision was contrary to the evidence.
| The Brooklyn captains suspended are
Samuel Hardy Of the Lee avenue station,
and Thomas F. Maude Of the Stage street
station. Both were suspended for allowing
poolrooms to run in their precincts.
| The charges were made by Deputy Com.
missioner Ebstein, and both will be put on
trial in the course Of the next two weeks.
cases. Capt Hardy has been q policeman
since 1879 Capt. Maude was appointed
| a patrolman in 1882. and he was the first
captain made by Cot. Partridge last year.
The pl ain clothes men on the stats OF
| both captains have been ordered back to
| patrol duty.
Coney Island was included in the general
ksndsp.n % SSf T Kssns Of S That p and
cinct we're transferred to the Butler street
| and Sheepshesd Bay stations respectively.
| Sergt. William A. Dooley was sent from
Amity street to take the place OF Lewis.
Dooley is brother OF Capt. Dooley, VINO.
as a sergeant, last summer commanded at
Coney Island. Roundsman Robert Howe
was sent from Sheepshead Bay TO Sue
coed koenig.
Gen. Greene aid the reason for these
changes was that new men would do better
than old ones in Coney Island this season.
The four new captains appointed yester-
day are:
Robert 4. TiGhe, Of the Old Slip station,
John j. Mnrtha. Elizabeth street; Michael
pav
the TendcrloIn,
Tighe was sent to command the East
Fiftv-frst street station He Ia Al years
old and has been a policeman for twenty
eight years. He has good record for
arrests and has not had complaint against
him for sev vent cen years. Among the papers
in his record is this letter, from President
Roosevelt, then Assistant Secretary Of the
Navy:
My DEAR SERGEANT: 1t was very real
pleasure to hear from yol. The thing that
gives nlc genuine satisfaction IN looking back
was having been able to advance certain first-
cnS, men; and YOU stand among the highest.
conclusion that you belonged to the stamp
p@S " "f and ade ~%nted to help any
way ! could. 1t is a very pleasant thing
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
beth street station, where he has been
sergeant. Naughton goes to Staten Island
and Sweeney TO the Greenpoint station.
The following captains were transferred:
John j. Iantry, East Fifty-6rst street to
Oak street. j. J O'Brien, Oak street TO Flush
ing avenue. Brooklyn: Bernard Gallagher.
Elizabeth street to Lee avenue, Brooklyn:
James Hayes. Greenpoint to Stag street.
Brooklyn: James +. Nally. Staten Island TO
West tooth street.
Gen. Greene explained the Lantry trans
fer by saying that there had been too many
burgIaries in the East Fiftyfrst street
precinct lately. and that n new captain
might he able 10 put a ST on tothem. 1t was
I.antry who sent detectives into houses In
his district with orders 10 sneak In and show
the occupants how easy it would be TO rob
them.
The taking OF twenty-five men from the
Tenderloin leaves few Of the "old guard up
there Gen Greene transferred thirty OF the
men in the district at one time and has
been moving them out in patches OF three
and four since.
Capt. O'Connor OF the Tenderloin station
said last night that the men had been trans
ferred at his reqUe-t
They weren't active enough, he said
They suffered from general apathy. 1t
wasn't that they didn't close up poolrooms,
because expect my plain-clothes men to
do that, hut they didn't do ordinary patrol
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