New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-01
'DOUCHERN TO SUCCEED
FLYNN IN POLICE WORK
Pinkerton Man Is Appointed by
the Mayor Second Deputy
Commissioner.
WORKER ON BANK CASES
New Official Is Also an Expert on
Yeggmen, and Is an Open
and Active Enemy
of Beggars.

George S. Dougherty. superintendent Of
the local office Of the National Pinkerton
Detective Agency. will succeed William
]. Flynn. Second Deputy Police Commits
sioner. and will enter upon the duties of
his new Office to-day. This was learned
yesterday by The Tribune on the best
authority. The place was offered him
by the Mayor and was accepted. to begin
on May l. Dougherty conferred with
Police Commissioner Cropsey for an hour
on Saturday night. and plans were dis
cussed for taking over the Second Dep
utys Job.
Commissioner Flynn will be on hand
to welcome the new incumbent. and will
turn over his business and retire. There
was little probability. it was said, Of
Commissioner Flynn remaining at Head
quarters for a few days as it was re-
ported the Mayor had requested him to
do, in order to faniliarize his successor
with the office routine.
Mr.. Dougherty feels entirely competent
to assume the burdens Of the Office i'm
mediately, as the work is familiar to
him because Of his Affiliations with the
Pinkerton service for twenty years He
has been superintendent of the New
York agency for four years.
Negotiations toward the appointment
of Dougherty had been carried on
quietly. No inkling of the appointment
had come from the Mayor. Nothing was
said about II around Police Headquarters
after Doughertys conference with Com
missioner Cropsey on Saturday night
Dougherty declined 10 discuss the posi-
bilities of his call at that time. and not
much significance was attached to the
conference. as the Pinkerton man was
accustomed TO work in conjunction with
the police on various cases. and often ap
peared at Headquarters.
Refuses to Discuss Appointment. e
When asked about his appointment
Yesterday Dousherty would not deny
that he had accepted the place. but said
he did not consider that II was his bust
ness to discuss It. Since the resignation
Of Commissioner Flynn it is known that
the Pinkerton map had been under con-
sideration for the office, but some Of his
friends we're inclined TO think that he
would not accept It II II were offered to
him. Some of them said Yesterday that
once before when there was a vacancy
at Police Headquarters a job had been
offered 10 Dougherty and that he had re-
fused II.
Deputy Commissioner Flynn and his
secretary. Jack" Hill. We're busy in the
Commissioner office yesterday after
noon clearing up the odds and ends OF
routine work in order to present a clean
slate TO the incoming Commissioner to-
day. It has not been Commissioners
Flynn's custom to come to his office on
Sunday afternoons. and his presence
aroused the curiosity of the newspaper
men at Headquarters
The Commissioners door was locked.
and. though he was known TO be inside
with his secretary, there was no response
TO repeated knocking. In the mean time
some one communicated with Mr. Hill
by telephone. and the secretary said that
Commissioner Flynn had no statement
to make in regard TO the report that he
would relnquish the duties Of his office
to-day and welcome Mr.. Dougherty as
his successor.
THE Commissioner feels that anything
successor in Office should come from the
Mayor, who makes the appointment it
was said.
Expert in the Ways OF Yeegmen.
A good many of the Pinkerton super
ipfendent'S friends in RrpoklVn assumed