The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-08
POLICE CAPT. CHAPMAN DIES
EtS FiWOJS RuDER IND Z
PTTTI RESOIE IRiR tCTER.
Raidrd ire Serlr' Dinner a. SHEER : amt
TIE tii-Hs TrrtIrr DoWntrwn :
tonsDIruau, ltEurr IN the PCiicr
Nhne 10 Was ear ~ the TrUileriGir.


Former P,lc rIu. ~ George s Cusp.
man who w1s w1dE q captain and S'0'
1 fun Ton ''r' r precinct 20 $40 hv
the Roosevelt prl.Hr IH.ui and became
famous boz boa rai 90 '1' S"o'rv dime
90 sherry = rl paHfmbrr 2D Of 'Hs, year.
died Yesterday 90 coz N"w' ut nIs SISTER.
Mr. Alfred " l~aa. ~ I'D Sncrrd street
N,w Brighton. Stain Island Ne WIS
% years old
Capt Chapman tIf ''e, 70 since
last D-c-,nb.r. wh-a rs r''.-.'i g. th's
country from Hly1u4 &c. asI boz
IN charge Of 'hc roncr tarrr there ''r
some ,inC No ciuKh' odd and pnru-
n9n1 developed TO yu-yivrd that at
tack. bu, had been 90 poor health since
and had been confined o. his bed fbr
several week Bis wife, WIN wss an
Invalid. died "a Is',. p wear before be
ret red from tho police force.
Capt. Chapman vas a drummer hoy
during tie civil war with the as D New
York Volunteer he joined the poii"e
force ia III 90 was a sergeant when
Theodore Roosevelt decided that be had
q burning zeal for reform and made him
a captain and sent him 90 the West Th.r-
tisth street station With he coal black
mutton chop Whisksrs Capt Chapman soun
became a picturesque figure IN The dis
t~t. being port -ayed on the stage - the
Gar Of the Tcnder'oin The precinct
got - name n. ab0u, that time
; On the night that Herbert Barnum
Seeley was giving m antenuptisl dinner
az Sherry's Capt Chapman wl7 told by
a theatrical agcn; namcd Moore the a
D. proposition had been made 10 his stem
daughter. Annabclle, 10 dance az the din
n.r parity nude and that a woman known
"a Little Eyyp'' vas going 20 dance
there capt. Chapman hustled around 20
she-ry's. pushed his way into the dress
ing room. where women performers were
preparing frr their rH-'s IN a yaudovil'"
show denounced them because they we're
not aT fully drrssei and then apoloqi scd
"a the diners god lef'
. Charges we've preferred against Capt
Chgpmal almost Immediately. and IL wa
alleged ttat be- -uniustihably. without
warrant IT law. entered the premises a;
CO., Fifth avenue ard the-r behaved IN a
rude. b0iste-ous. .nsplolt and arbitrary
manner The uE-e really turned into a
trial u the persons who attended the
dinner. al ~ " hom testified al the trial.
including Little Egypt
I The Board Of Police Commi ssioners.
! with Col Feed y Grant presiding a. trial
: Commissioner. sustained Caps Chapman.
Col Grant replied 90 the statement 81 a
lawyer that a mans home h his castle.
with III a man Uses his castle FOR immoral
purposes | think the police ought ~
| break into it Commissioner Roosevelt
said n he erred az al ne erred on the
side Of right
During the Van wyck administration
Z Capt Chapman was In command % the
Mercer street station most Of the time.
Ne raided the late The Aliens pOolroom
every once In a while. bat usually found
no one there Several Of his raids on
the place we're Of the spectacular axe
and ladder variety. When Commissioner
Murphy was az the head % the police
force Chapman was sent back 10 the
Tenderloln again and then got 20 be known
~ -the little drummer boy" because
Commissioner Murphy bad fought with
the l5ith New YORK Volunteers with
4 Chapman.
After Francis V. Greene became Com
missioner In 1893 Capt. Chapman applied
for retirement and a. he had been on
the force long enough 10 retire ~ q
veteran he went on tho pension list.
year or 20 later he made a request for
reinstatement. saying thar no quit be-
cause he had acute dyspepsia and mental
DEPRESSION and had entirely recovered.
He SAID he had heen keyed up 10 police
duty Tor twenty-five yeara and couldn'i
10 anything else. Re did MOI press the