Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-07
NO PROMOTIONS
BY POLICE BOARD
Problem of Achievements Un-
settIed-Chief Long At
tends the Meeting.

Considerable of the time of yester-
days conference of the police COM
missioners was taken up in a discus
sion of the changes in the police de-
partment: the appointment of a man
to fill the vacancy caused by the pro-
motion to the chiefship of Captain
Michael r, Long as well as naming
an inspector of police.
That there may be an inspector ap-
pointed there is some reason to be-
| lieve; but whether it will be done
through the Civil Service Commission
by the captains taking an examina>
ton for the plac cor whether the
commissioners will simply detail a
man to the post is entirely unset
tied.
| The recent examination taken by
lieutenants for the rank of captain
| resulted In Lieutenant Frank Tuite
| finishing first, with Thomas CORDIALLY
second. 1t has been the custom of
the board in times past to select the
man who finished first in civil servA
ice examinations, but this time there
| appears to be a hitch. 1t has been
rumored that the Democratic admin
istration was hesitating about ap-
pointing Republican,; but friends of
| Tuite and CORDIALLY as well as those
of Lieutenant Cordano, who finished
third, are bringing to bear all sorts
of pressure and influence on the COM
missioners.
With the necessity of a police in
spector practically settled in the
minds of the commissioners there Is q
TNIn fnI.A
amicavly. 1t would be this: Hold an
examination among the captains for
the inspectorship: promote a captain
and then give both Tuite and CORDIALLY
| places. Another plan is to name
Tuite to fill Longs place, detail a
captain to the inspectorship and then
to fill that vacancy, detail CORDIALLY
to the captaincy.
President Bladder said today things
were entirely unsettled.
ut Is possible that a man may sim
ply be detailed to the position of po-
| lice inspector. However, nothing
definite can be said in the matter one
way or the other
If the police commissioners want to
take testimony on the complaint
| against Leon Hayward. a suspended
patrolman of the Sixth precinct, they
may have to hold meeting in the
| county jail where Haywood is being
confined pending the action of the
grand jury on the criminal complaint
| preferred by Mrs. Mary Gornick,
aged nineteen, widow, living at 65
| Sheerer avenue.
At the conference yesterday it was
| decided to request Sheriff Monahan
| to release Haywood under guard in
| order that he might be brought to
| the rooms of the commissioners in
| the City Hall to offer his defense.
| Today Sheriff Monahan told a repre-
| sentative of The Star he had no
authority to release a prisoner. He
! said he believed the power rested
with the prosecutor.
rosecutor Hood said he could not
| act in the matter. In his opinion the
! only action that could be taken would
be for the commissioners to apply
for writ of habeas corpus before the
court He said he thought it I'M
likely that such an application would
| be granted In a case of this kind.
THE easiest way about the thing
would be for the commissioners to
hold their meeting In the county jail"
he said
Haywood was arrested September
26, the day following his alleged at
tack on Mrs. Gornick. The policeman
Is said to have admitted his part in
the affair to Acting Captain McRell.
olice Chief Long appeared before
the board yesterday afternoon. He
is said to have offered no suggestions
| regarding any changes in the de-
partment nor made recommendations
explaining he would prefer to wait
until he could make a more careful
survey of conditions in the depart
| r,oaDt