The sun., 1906-01-26
BINGHAM'S FIRST SHAKEUP.
INSPECTOR RMLAUGHLTN TO HEA ID
DETECTIVE BUREAU.
Four Inspectors. TWO Captains and Three
Sergeants Shifteh-Ten Soft Snaps
Abolished and ~ Men Added to Force
on PatroI-O'Brien TO boss Trair,c.


The first shakeup under the new regime
was announced yesterday when Com
missioner Bingham made public the trans
| fer of four inspectors, two captains and
three sergeants. The Commissioner side
stepped all questions. He requested the
reporters to obtain the list from Chief
Inspector Corright.
The most important transfer is that OF
Inspector William Mclaughlin from the
fourth inspect ion dis, rict which includes
the new Tenderloin, to the Det ect i've Bureau,
where he will replace Acting Inspector
Stephen O'Brien O'Brien, whose real ac-
tivity has been in his direct ion of the traffic
squad and the police school of inst r,lc ion,
will continue in charge of those depar;-
ments.
Inspector McLaNgh ghlin was placed in
charge of the Det ective Bureau by Supt.
Byrnes in 1892, when Byrnes became head Of
the force. He will probably ask permission
to name his own chief of staff and it is ex-
pected that he will pick Sergeant James
Dunn, who has always been with him.
Act ing Captain McCauley was O'Brien''
right hand man. He will remain in the
bureau for the present.
Inspector Richard Walsh goes from the
fifth inspection district to the fourth.
The fifth includes the upper East Side.
The fourth is more important dis rct.
Inspector George F. Titus will have
charge of the fifth dist rict. He was for
merly borough inspector of The Bronx.
The Bronx and Queens have been added
to the dstr under the supervision of
Borough Inspector Nicholas Brooks of
D. i'll, 'Io
ton district is in charge of Inspector
McClusky.
Capt. George c. Lieben, who was re-
Gently made a captain and sent from Brook
lyn to the command of the Church street
precinct is transferred to the Gates avenue
station in Brooklyn. Capt. John j, Nc
Nally, who was sent from Church street
to Gates avenue at the time of Liebers'S
promotion, returns to his old command.
His restoration to his former command Is
in the nature Of vindication.
Sergt. Thomas w. Walsh, whose transfer
from the Criminal Courts squad to the
Alexander avenue station in The Bronx
was announced by Commissioner Bingham
on January 20 and then revoked after
Magistrates McAvoy and Zeer had had
conference with the Commissioner was
ordered yesterday from the Criminal Courts
to desk duty at the Grand Central police
station. His place will be taken by Sergt.
Franklin Germann, who leaves the Grand
Central.
When Wash's transfer was first an
nounced by the Commissioner it was un-
derstood that it had been made at the re-
quest of Magistrate Finn in order to make
a place for Detective Sergeant Charles
Strip, who was sent to the Criminal Courts
from the Gates avenue station. When the
Commissioner revoked his order trans
ferring Walsh, the order sending Strip
to the Criminal Courts building was al
lowed to remain in effect and he has done
desk duty there. Yesterday when Walsh
was ordered to the Grand Central police
station Strip was transferred to the De-
tective Bureau.
Chief Inspector Cortright had nothing
to say in regard TO the reasons for the
transfers.
Commissioner Bingham's story of tho
days work began with a little joke when
he announced to the reporte ers at the after
noon session
Il suppose you will be pleased to learn
that I've fired Sattery.'
The reporters stared in amaaement at
the Commissioners secretary, who grinned
back cheerfully while the Commissioner
explained that he didn't mean his Secre-
tary but Thomas F. Slattery, a proba-
tonary policeman, who had, as the Conn
missioner expressed it. behaved badly
in the school of instruction"
The Commissioner also announced that
he had sert siHty-eight new men out on
duty and added ten moro to the working
part of the force by aboli-hing the news
boys squad of four men and sending six
bike cops from the timing stations on upper
Broadway to report for duty at the City
Hall station. The newsboys' squad was
supposed to see that the boys had permits
to sell papers and were not under age.
The Commissioner intimated that they had
not worked very hard. The bike cops
had been working on scheme for timing
automobiles that ran over the speed limit
Commissioner Bingham said that he was
afraid they would catch cold up in The