Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-01
MAYOR TO PROBE
SHIPPING Of GIRL
BACK TO IRELAND
Orders Quiz Of Part of Detectives
in Sending Dolly Collins
Home.
SENDS OPEN LETTER
TO COMMISSIONERS
She Was Taken from Newark in
Cab by Officers and Placed
on Steamer.

In an open letter to the Board ot
Police Commissioners today Mayor
Jacob Haussling requests an investi.
CATION into the part the police depart.
ment took in mysteriously shipping tc
Ireland Dolly Collins, the girl whose
suit for $4,000 damages against Robert
Sutphen was SO abruptly terminated.
Following is the letter.
ITO the Honorable
THE Board of Police Commits
sioners, Newark, N. j.
Dear Sirs-Current reports in
the public press impliedly charge
that one or more members of the
police department were improperly
empIoyed, or improperly acted in
connection with the case of a young
woman who was recently a prisoner
in a criminal court of the city. |
desire you to make an lnvestga-
tion into this case, which is doubt
less familiar to you from the news
paper accounts, with a view to de-
termining whether or not any MEM
Der of the department was guilty
Of improper conduct in connection
Herewith, and in such an event,
to inflct such punishment as the
occasion may demand Yours very
truly,
JACoB HACsSLlNG'
Mayor"
Sergeant Thomas T. Connell, who
was in charge of the detective bureau
saturday, January ~, When DetectiNe
Farrell, in company with Sutphen, is
charged with having spirited the Col
Inns girl away i'll a cab, made this
statement today: "Sergeants Ryan and
Farrell were on duty that day. dld
not give Farrell any PERMISSION TO go
to New York. / did not Know where
he went when he left He said as ne
left the office in the afternoon, Wei, !
guess she goes. TO Ireland today, all
right did not know what he meant.
When he came back later IN the uay
he said, Well she's gone, all rlgnt.
Later when iieard what had tran
spired ! though It possible that Farreli
was carrying out some arrangement
which he had made with Judge Hahn"
Judge Hahn said that he knew noth-
ing OF Farrelfs trip in a CAB 10 the
White star line pier III New YORK. lie
also said that Farrell was not acting
under any instructions from him.
There is said to be rule in the police
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the city without permission from his
superiors. I 1t is said that Farrell may
have hard time proving that he re-
ceived this permission. He will, it is
said, be afforded chance to tell this
il charges are made.
In cases of this kind the usual pro-
cedure is for the police commissioners
to hear the charges and then decide
whether there is sufficient cause shown
to order an investigation by the chief
When the mayor reached his office
today he was in an angry frame of
mind. He had heard of the story OF
the visit by headquarters detectives to
the home OF Mrs. Carrie Allen, of 270
Warren street, and how Miss Collins
had been taken in a cab to the White
Star line pier in New York and placed
on a steamer bound for Europe.
Secretary Vance, when seen at noon
today, said: There will be a thorough
investigation of The entire affair. The
Mayor is thoroughly aroused. What
form his action will take | am not
at liberty to state at present.
Dolly Collins's story is a pathetic
one. She came here from Ireland three
wears ago. when she was ;,arely 16, to
study to become a trained nurse. For