The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-11
NOT TO STOP
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MACHINES
Police Board Gives Them
Right to Speed Automobiles
on Pressing Calls.

Physicians who display the red cross
badge of the New Jersey Doctors Au-
tomobile Club on the rear of their au-
tomobiles will be permitted to drive
through the streets at the rate of
twelve miles an hour without being
molested by the police. Chief Of Po-
lice Corbitt has been instructed by
the Police Board to post one of these
badges in each of the five precinct
stations in the city, so that the police
men may recognize them when they
are displayed on machines run faster
thai the law permits.
Under the Frelinghuysen law, which
deals with automobiles, physicians
who are hurrying to the bedside of
patients are permitted TO go at least
twelve miles an hour. The action on
the part of the Newark Police Board in
having the men on post recognize these
badges is the result of a communica-
ton received from the New Jersey
Doctors Automobile Club, in which
communication the members sought to
have the board try to prevent them
from being molested, as it might prove
fatal, they argued, in case a physician
is delayed in reaching the bedside of a
patient in a critical condition.
The board decided yesterday after
noon that it would be advisable to
have the police recognize these badges.
Considerable discussion arose over the
question as to whether physicians who
were not members of the physicians
automobile organization, and Who were
therefore not entitled to use one of
these badges, should be stopped by
the police.
The board decided hat any red cross
on a machine entitled the driver to
consideration at the hands. of the po-
lcemen. The instructions on this point
are still unchanged, cut in the event
of a policeman being in doubt about
the occupant of a fast-going autono-
bile being a physician he should take
the number of the car and summon
the owner to court, without holding
him up in the street.
Considerable time was taken up at
the meeting of the board yesterday aft
ernoon hearing the cases of six police
men who were up on charges. George
H. Rider, of the Fourth Precinct sta
ton, was charged by Roundsman Seipel
with being late on a pull. Rider said
he went off post to stop a fight in a sa-
loon. His case was laid over until he
could get witnesses. John Kellert, of
the Third Precinct station, missed a
pull and came in late for r~oll-call. He
wal fined n days pay and was rep
rimanded. William Weidman, of the
Second Precinct station, missed a pull
and was fined two days pay. Weld
mar said that he thought he had sent
in the call.
Desk Sergeant Suchard brought Au-
gust Teschke, of the Fourth Precinct
station, before the board, charging
Teschke with being late on q pull. The
policeman said he took a sick man
home and he had the man at meeting
as a witness. His case was dismissed.
Policeman William Rickert, of the
Fourth Precinct station, was off post at
the corner of Clinton avenue and Ber-
gen street about 12:45 on the morning
of September 80. He was measuring
nightsticks with Policeman Rauscher,
of the same precinct, when Rounds
man Frey alighted from a Gin
ton avenue car and saw the men. Rick
ert was fined two days pay and
Rauscher will be before his superiors on
charges at the next meeting. August
A. Brandier, of h Third Precinct sta
ton, missed a pull and was fined one
days pay.
In order to determine the boards
opinion of the duty of a policeman in
the event of a citizen calling upon him
to make an arrest, John G. Coll, of 1856
Springfield avenue, appeared before the
board. making a complaint against
Policeman John j. Conlon, Of the
Fourth Precinct Station. Coll said that
he a asked Conlon to arrest q man
of the name of Abraham Rubin, who
was abusing his horse in South Orange
avenue. Conlon SAID that he had no
right to make the arrest under the
law. as he did not see the horse ILL
treated and could see no marks on the
body of the horse showing such to be
the case. He said he took the name
of the driver and the number of his
wagon.
He asked Coll to make a complaint
to Judge Herr in the Fourth Precinct
Court, and if the complaint was en-
tertained he would make the arrest.
Coll admitted the policeman treated
him c~ourteously, but he thought that
being an officer of the humane society,
and that being willing to make the
complaint against the man, the
policeman should have made the
arrest if Coll was willing to go to the
station and make the complaint. Con-
lon was instructed in the future to
make arrests whenever a reputable cit
izen made a complaint.
Charles Beck, secretary of the Spe-
cial Policemen's Association, appeared
at the meeting of the board and re-
quested that it endeavor to elimi-
nate those special policemen who are
untitled to wear the badge and uni
form of special policeman. The board
heard Beck's argument and agreed
with him that some special policemen
are untitled to have a badge. The1
board thought that it was powerless
to act in the matter unless the asso-
could name special policemen
who 1t believed should be dropped.
The board instructed Secretary Cox
to prepare a list of special policemen
and give & t5Sthe members Of the as.