The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17
M'ADOO CAN'T TRUST THEM.
NO CAPTAINS ItILtBLE ron
NER(ER STREET PRECINCT.
50 lie sends Sergeant 10 Command
There and Keep the Poolrooms Down.
and Promises O'COnnor Not 10 Rely
ON Him again TO Clean Up a Precinct.

A. clock this morning Sergt Edward j.
Bourke becomes acting captain of the Mercer
street precinct, in which several gambling
houses and poolrooins have recently been
raided direct from Police Headquarters
A, the same time Capt. John W. OConnor
who wa. transferred to Mercer street from
Delaney "A week ago last Thursday. goes
back 10 Delaney street and Capt Robert A.
Hghe. who exchanged places with O'Con'
nor in the Thursday shakc-up leaves De-
lancey street -to report to Headquarters
for such duty a. the Commissioner may
assign,
Bourko has been in charge OF the detec-
tive squad attached to the Commissioner a
Office and has had hand in tho Headquar
ters raida. Sergt William Eggers. who BIAS
also been in the raids, Is advanced to the
place Bourke vacates.
When Commissioner McAdoo made these
changes public yesterday, he said
Il am not at all satisfied with conditions
in the precinct ard have no available cap
tain to take the place vacated by the transfer
Of Capt O'Connor ! know Sergt Bourke
and know what he can do. ! have con-
fidence in him.
Recent history makes u possible 10 reau
n good deal between the lines of this state
ment The interlnear context was supplied
Yesterday by one whose word is authorize
tive
Put the emphasis on no available cap
tain for this post and on ! have confidence
in Bourke. said this man. And don't
get the impression that O'Connor Is a
martyr"
1t is known that when O'Connor was
sent to Mercer street he was told he was
sent there TO close gambling houses. AMER
he had been there q week. and nothing
4 ka 4 al
the houses-one in East Thirteenth street,
one in Great Jones street and ono in sixth
avenue, and took him along TO show nm
how to do II. Then OConnor was instructed
to see that none Of these places opened
again Next day last saturday, Secretary
Howell found the Sixth avenue place dong
business with "A uniformed policeman in
front Of t-also a lookout and raided 1T
again The Commissioner got word also
that he Great Jones street place was run
ming again
summoned TO Headquarters and the Com
missioner told him in plain words that ne
not be trusted again to clean up a precinct,
and need not exp CT to get a choice conf
mand in the frture
Late Yesterday afternoon InsuectorTitus
Capt 0'Connor and three Of O'Connor's
detect ives raided place az i27 Ma0dcugal
street near Third The police h7c to
chop through five doacs Eight r,en we're
made prisoners ana the uhliltH OF MY
OF hers we're taken, 10 lie turned over TO the
District Attorney.
Commissioner McAdoo haS sent two
letters TO the New York Telephone Company
concerning Instruments furnished by them
found in the places raided earlier. The
Commissioner wants to know how they got
there Noanswer taH been received vet.
Bourke Is the police man who was made
romdsman by Commissioner ROose Welt
when h- imme date superlors tried to get
his scalp because he arrested Mike Callahan.
The patrol wagon Of the Mercer street
station drove up 10 Police Headquarters
last night On the wagon was Tom Dona-
hue a patrolman detailed TO Deputy Com
missioner Lindsley's Office, Mr.. Lindsey
was down az the District Attorneys Office
in the afternoon No sooner had the wagon
halted In front of Headquarters than Po-
iceman George Ellis Of Commissioner
McAdoo's personal staff. came out and
helped Douahue carry up 10 the Commits
sioner'- Office a number Of big books. They
had all the appearance Of being station
house blotters
The old-tmers at Police Headquarters
thought they saw something more serious
than an ordinary transfer behind the NOV
ing Of the stack Of records TO the building
j has been the custom before 10 pore over
the station house hlotters before prefcrrlng
charges against a captain Some folks
figured out that perhaps O'Connor and
Can't Iiphe were coming on the carpet