New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-01
WALSH GETS REPRIMAND.
HERLTHY TO WAKEFIELD
Mc4doo Acts Records Of the In
Spect0r and Captain.

Erbra commanding Inspector Smiling DICK
Walsh for his activity in the case OF MOI '''
/. Schiff Commissioner McAdoo ses'7s
transferred CAPTAIN HerIihy from the busy East
Observation-Disclosures station 10 'i'e
field station-"Goatville-in- The Bronx Inc
[-.-,,,,,ssto,ar said he did not transfer Herlihy
beoeuse of aerlihy's reported comment on the
,nsnec,or's action in the Schff case, but Tor the
good of the department"
The same order sent Captain Dennis ). Dire"
nan from Macdougal-st. to East One-huhoreu-
and-fourth-st., and Captain Joseph G Senesah
from Wakefield Macdougal-st. captain
Brennan's transfer IS considered in the nature
OF a promotion.
The reprimand received by Inspector Walsh Is
significant 1t is the first reprimand or Inc hlilu
given by the Commissioner. and the first re-
cetvea nv the INSPECTOR In his district, the
Fourth. are the old and new Tenderloins In
The old Tenderloin the Nineteenth Precinct
under CAPTAIN Cottrell, conditions are not much
worse and not much better than usual In me
new Tenderloin, north of Forty-second-ss' unoer
Captain Hussey the Commissioners mooe! cap
tain the gambling and disorderly houses are
running full blast as shown by the fnvestisa-
tions of The World" and the lowest OF resorts
OF all sorts running openly.
Commissioner McAdoo said In part:
PatroI,nan Goldman said that you did not at.
tempt TO influence or intfmidate him In the mat
ter Of making any complaint against semi ser
geant Delaney admitted that he denied your
presence in the courtroom because he thought
YOU were there possibly, TO get warrants IN
some cases and did not wish the facts to De
made public. 1t is therefore for me TO assume
that your written statement is true. Taking this
10 be the fact, l am compelled, from a sense or
duty to condemn your action IN the premises
In going to the court in the interest of Mr. Schir
you could not disassociate your official position
from your personality. You carried with you ell
the prestige and influence Of an inspector Of
polipe bphaif a defendant arrested ana
charged by member of this force with the
commission OF q misdemeanor.
Captain Herlihy has been in the public eye
for some years because Of various charges OF
neglect of duty preferred against him. The Rev
Robert Lewis Paddock, Bishop Potter and Dis
trict Attorney Jerome, when a justice OF Spe-
cial Sessions have made accusations. In Feb
ruary. 1901 Herlihy in command OF the
Eldridge-st. station, which included the In
famous red light district. Mr.. Paddock, then
at the Pro-Cathedral, In Stanton-st, went to him
one day 10 complain Of the way IN which vice
was allowed 10 faunt itself in Herlihys dis
trlct ana the way IN when chlLuren were psIhe
contaminated. Herlihy said. 1t was alleged, You
lie. and you know you lie!" Charges were pre-
ferred but at the hearing before the Tammany
Police Commissioners the charges were dis
missed after of Herlihy's patrolmen had
testified TO the language OF the captain. The
following April Justice Jerome. then in Special
Sessions, preferred charges Of neglect Of duty
similar TO those submitted to the commissioners.
He was held for Special Sessions and indicted
on June 81, 1901. In the indictment one hundred
disorderly houses in Herhy's precinct were
listed but Recorder Golf dismissed the charges
in August the Appellate Division reversing his
decision December g.
IN his first trial the jury disagreed. The sec
ond trial resulted the same way, and on April
Il, 1907, HeTllhy asked that his third trial be
postponed. pleading poverty and inability to
secure counsel. At the time he had been
pended from the department since January but
June rs he reinstated, the Corporation
Counsel declaring that he could not be
pended no charges were before the Police
fFrTF7vo ogzcfg 90 inst anna
signed to the East One hundred and fourth-st
station