The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-20
COP SAID HE'D ARREST HYDE.
had DISPUTE OYER SURRENDER
VALUE OF HIS POLICY.

Hickey. Said to BE an Excellent Policeman.
Had Paid In Sass and Thought $500
Too Little to Get Back-Pacined by
RoundsmAn, Took Equitable's Check.
Patrick F. Hickey, a patrolman attached
70 the Williamsburg Bridge station. had a
day Of yesterday and went to 12o Broad
way to do little business with the Equita-
bic Life Assurance Society. He was in
plain clothes. but his badge, e4e7, was
pinned to the lapel OF his gray coat.
He walked up to the Surrender Values
window Of the Equitable offices, on the SEQ
ond floor Of the building. The corridor
was pretty full Of people. but nobody paid
any attention to Hickey at the moment.
Tho clerk at the window asked Hickey
what he could do for him.
Il want to turn in my policy and get the
cash for it. he said.
He handed the policy to the clerk, who
glanced at it, did little figuring and told
Hickey that 5000 was coming to him.
THAT not right, said Hickey. 'There's
more than that due me. ought to get $500
IN cash.
NO. said the clerk. This is . twenty
year endowment policy for $1,000. You
have paid premiums on it for three years.
You are entitled either to $2oe In cash or
to paid up policy for $780,
The attention Of other clerks and Of poo
pie in the rotunda had been directed to
Hickey by this time and crowd began to
gather around the window. Hickey raised
bis voice and got red in the face.
Now, see here" he said, Il know my
rights. l know that l ought to get $500
In cash, and that's all there is to it. I'm
not going to be done by anybody
The clerk told him that he misunderstood
the conditions Of the policy. Hickey pulled
out receipts showing that he bad paid in
S4as in premiums in three years.
You can't flimfam me-" he said Il
want what I've paid in on this policy
The clerk backed away from the window
and sent for Special Policeman Bob
Mcknight, who works for the Mercantile
Safe Deposit Company on the first floor.
Mcknight tried to pacify Hickey but the
policeman had got the idea in his head that
he was getting the worst Of 1t, and he was
mad all through.
I'm a policeman he told McNaught
'You can look at my badge. know the law
and I know my rights. II don't get
square deal here III just wait around until
Alexander or Hyde shows up and I'll pinch
Some of the Equitable clerks who were
nervous at the time insisted that Hickey
put his hand to his hip pocket, where there
may or may not have been q gun. Mo
Naught says he didn't notice that.
There's no Use fooling with the little
fellows" Hickey said to MoNaught. I'm
going to talk to the big ones"
He consulted his pocketbook and found
that the nearest police station was at Old
dI'll trot somebody down there. said he.
Mcknight Gained the angry man and
told him ne guessed he had made a mistake.
He advised Hickey to take either the 1905
Wh i'n one Of the Clerks heed A tsephoned
Headquarters and Old Slip station sent up
Roundsman Lyons. The rotunda was
packed with folks who were taking lively
Interest in Hickey and bis policy.
the patrolman, until he agreed to accept
q check for $2Oe. The clerk gave it to him,
made out on the Bank Of Commerce.
Hickey went there with the roundsman. but
IL knew neither Of them. 1t certified the
check, however. Hickey was hot. but the
roundsman fixed matters BY taking him to
business man near the Old Slip station.
who cashed Hickey's check for him.
The clerk at the surrender values win
dow said later that the trouble hadn't been
anything more than a misunderstanding
He said that Hickey didn't understand the
conditions Of the policy and got mad in q
hurry.
afterward and asked him h he wished to
make a complaint against Hickey. The
clerk said no, that the trouble had arisen
over misunderstanding.
Hickey is % years old and lives at 1923
East Fifty ninth street The officers OF
his station say he has clear record and
is known as an excellent policeman.
He went on duty at midnight Before
he turned out with his platoon he said to
Sun repoter
Il needed some money to-day and I
went to the Equitable with my policy. I
showed it in window and without looking
at it the clerk showed it back to me. l told
him wanted $500, what figured out was
the paid up value of the policy, and finally
ton to me else l would make trouble he
took the policy and told me l was only
entitled to $206.
Right then and there I concluded l
was going to be done. and l made up my
mind was going to arrest some one for
trying to do me- did not want any clerk
or office boy wanted to get at some
OF the big guns Of the company. Hyde or
Alexander or any of the others. I'd have
them to the Old Slip station and locked them
FINALLY Roundsman Lyons and Bob
McNaught, the former detective sergeant
advised me that there was some mistake
IN my reading OF the policy and they told
me to take the $20e that was offered me.
Their advice was good enough for me, and
got a check for that amount and turned
IN my policy. There may be an investiga-
considered was only looking out for my
own interests.
PROPELLERS INJURED BODY.