The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-05-01
DOUGHERTY FOR FLYNN'S job
DETECTIVE BUREAU DETECTS
HIM AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS.

Order Announcing Hts Appointment Eek.
pccted To-day Department Would
Like to Know n both Cropsey and
Flynn Are 10 go or Only One Of Them.
That George s. Dougherty. for the last
four years superintendent Of the Pinker-
ton Detective Agency here. will move
, into Commissioners Flynn's office, perhaps
to-day. and take charge Of tho detective
force as Second Deputy Commissioner
Of Police is something that Police Head
quarters is practically certain Of.
As soon as Flynn resigned Dougherty
was mentioned as likely TO be his sue
cessor, and on Saturday the detective
bureau detected him at HeadQuarters
with Commissioner Cropsey, presumably
ooking over the ground. What the de-
partment would like TO be surer Of 10
whether Flynn will stay too and Cropsey
return to the practice Of the law.
MIR. Flynn spent about two hours in
his Office at Headquarters yesterday with
members Of his staif winding up affairs.
His resignation is dated TO take effect
to-day. His secretary. John D. Hill.
said that Mr. Flynn would leave just as
soon rs Mayor Gaynor appoints his sue
cessor. and did not know whether II would
be to-day or the end Of the week.
| IL il expected that orders will be issued
by the department to-day telling Of
Dougherty's appointment as Flynn's
successor.
| 1t Ia not known whether any stipulations
have been made az 10 whether Dougherty
shall have free rein in his handling
OF the detective bureau or whether he
will be saddled with the bureau Of repairs
and supplies as Flynn was. Dougherty
ia pretty much the same type Of detective
that Flynn is and his experience with the
Pnkertons for the last twenty three years
in handling big criminal cases has made
him familiar with the conditions in. the
New York Police Department. Whether
he will start his new job with the UNDER
standing that at the close Of six months
he can return to the Pinkertons isn't
known either. Mr.. Dougherty is not
talking.
Dougherty has been twenty three years
with the Pinkertons. His headquarters
has always been in New York. but his
operations have carried him all over the
country and have familiarized him with
the noted crooks Of this continent. II was
he who caught Billy Coleman. the old
timer who ripped open Bishop Potter's
! safe in Cooperstown. \. V. in 1904 and
: got away with Mrs. Potter's jewels, valued
al $4,000. Coleman was arrested, but
was discharged because Of insufficient
; evidence. Dougherty was certain OF his
, man. however. so he trailed Coleman
l and nabbed him while he was digging
up his plunder close to the Harlem River.
Coleman was sent to prison for six years
, then
One Of the biggest tricks that Dougherty
, ever turned was his capture Of Rudolph
9 and Collins. who robbed a bank at Union.
l Mo, in 1902. got si2. 600 and later killed
2 Pinkerton man named Schumacher
5 in Stanton. Mo. pougherty trailed the
! pair to Hartford. Conn. captured them
l and took them to St. Louis Rudolph
t escaped from prison. but was arrested
for burglary shortly afterward in Lansing
' Kan. Both Rudolph and Collins were
p convicted and hanged.
II was in 1902 that Dougherty ran down
1 a notorious band Of forgers in New Yorl
n who had been operating under the leader.
s ship Of Jack Brush. When they were taken
in more than 500 forged checks were
g found in their belongings. One Of the
gang turned States evidence and Brush
= with the others was sent to prison. Brush
a got five years in Dannemora for that.
e Several years ago Mrs. Ogden Goele'
reported the theft Of some jewels at New
q port and after a personal investigation
i Dougherty convinced her that the jewel:
+. hadn't been stolen but were mislaid
v A look in the Goelet safe in New Yorl
q proved that Dougherty was right Dough
t erty has had hand in many other caset
q and for the most part has been very suo.
cesful The conviction of Harry Leonard
q ing 1885 OOO worth of securities from tn,
Nationa, CITY Bank by means Of forgec
& checks and forged certificates. was cred
u ited tn him