The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-09-10

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BRAVE DEEDS OF POLICE.
1t seems to be the fashion in this
town to criticise the administration
Of the various city departments, tc
impeach the honesty and integrity OF
those who occupy prominent positions
In the public service, and to assail
the faithfulness and personal bravery
Of the rank and file, writes a CORE
spondent of the New York Sun. The
Police Department, perhaps more
than any other municipal organiza-
ton, has been the popular target fol
recent mud singing.
The rank and file of the police
force deserve to get a square deal.
Every year the Commissioner pre-
sents to as many patrolmen six med.
ais for personal bravery, which med
ais are subscribed for by public spir-
tied citizens. 1t is often difficult to
adjudge the proper recipients of the
medals, as many examples of heroism
are brought to the attention of the
Commissioner. The official reports
that are made of the acts considered
worthy of reward speak eloquently
for the men in blue. Here are a few
extracts:
cat about SIS p. m. on December
27, 1908, Patrolman White arrested
a man at the corner of Houston and
Elizabeth streets. The prisoner
stabbed him in the back and broke
away, running east to the Bowery.
In spite of his wounds Patrolman
White pursued and overlook him only
after he had reached midway between
Houston and Bleecker streets on the
Bowery, distance of block and a
half. Police help then came. He
captured his prisoner and then col
lapsed from loss of blood. His wound
was so serious that it kept him con-
fined under charge OF a surgeon until
January II, 1909"
cat about p. m. on April "a,
1902, horse attached to a brougham
occupied by lady became frightened
at Seventy-frst street and Fifth ave-
nue., Manhattan, and ran away south.
At SiXty-ifth the carriage collided
with an electric hanson and the
driver of the brogham was thrown
from his seat. His fright increased
by this collision, the horse continued
down Fifth avenue at utmost speed
to Fifty-ninth street. At this point
Patrolman Burke, then in Traffic Pre-
cinct G, sprang for the horse and sue
ceeded in catching hold of one of the
lines, and although at once thrown
to the ground and dragged to Fifty
eight street, he still kept his hold
and succeeded in bringing the ami
NAL to stop, thus saving the occu-
pant of the brogham from serious in
jury and from possible death. In ad-
dition his spring at the horse at Fif-
ty-ninth caused the animal to swerve
and thereby saved a woman with a
baby carriage with two children, who
were crossing to Central Park and
were directly in the line of its flight.
tured rib and internal injuries, which
detained him on sick leave two
months"
about 7.30 p. m. on August 81,
1908, while the steamer Grand Re-
public was leaving the dock at the
foot of First avenue, College Point,
a man made jump for the boat and
fell into the water. Patrolman Ste
vens Immediately divested himself of
his hat, coat, revolver and billy, and
jumping in caught the man under
both arms and with great difficulty,
owing to the swell caused by the pad
dlewheels, swan with him to a pile
of the dock. AS he reached the pile
two other men were crowded off the
boat, which was backing on a haw-
ser, and fell into the water. Patrol
man Stevens, hearing the cries of the
passengers that there were two more
men overheard, looked around and
saw them splashing in the water.
Telling the first man to hold on to
the pile, he swan to the other two
men and kept them afioat until the
hawser was slackened down to reach
ing distance. The boat then having
come to stop, both men clung to
the hawser. Patrolman Stevens then
swan back to the pile and brought
the first man over, staying by the
three until heaving lines were
thrown, which he fastened to each,
and they were pulled aboard the boat.
At this juncture fourth man was
crowded off the boat, and falling
struck Patrolman Stevens on the
head and shoulders, forcing him un-
der the water and grabbing him
about the neck as he came up. Pa
trolman Stevens struck him a slight
blow in the face, which loosened his
hold, and then went under the water
and came up behind him, and catch
ing him under the left arm kept him
af1oat until another line was thrown
from the boat, which was placed
around him, and the man was pulled
aboard. Patrolman Stevens was then
taken aboard himself"
"At about $50 p. m. on August ],
1908, Patrolman Brown, on duty in
plain clothes, saw a crowd OF people
on Van Duzer street, Tompkinsville,
Staten Island, many Of whom were
shouting that a man had shot and
killed man and woman at Swan and
Bay streets. Running to Swan street.
the officer saw man hurrying
through it, flourishiEg a revolver.
1t was subsequently learned that he
had fired three shots, though without
eject. Patrolman Brown pursued
him to Bay street, where the man
stopped, and facing his pursuer, fired
a shot directly at him from a dis
tance of about thirty-fve feet, and
then stood with his revolver pointed
at the officer and awaiting his ap-
proach. Without falter Patrolman
Brown, shouting that he was an off,
Ger and firing shot over the man S
head, hurried to him, disarmed and
arrested him.