New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-26
BOY BALL TOSSERS
COMPLAIN TO MAYOR
Tell Gaynor They Were Locked
Up Overnight in Brook.
Iyn Station.
SIX LADS IN ONE CELL
City Head Renews Attack On
Police as Result of Story
Men Accused in Albert
Case To Be Tried.

Two more boys called on MAYOR Cav.
yesterday to make complaints against ~.
police for locking them up overnigh, -
tossing a rubber ball in Prosper p.,l
Their case, according to the story ,b,,
told the Mayor, was similar 10 thu, !.
Hyman Albert and his companion NJ
chae Halpern, as a result Of whose fra,
ment by the police IL was announo.s
yesterday, Lieutenant Charles n. Wan
burn and Patrolman Harry ]. Farley .,
the Prospect Park police station. wosd
be placed on trial.
Washburn and Farley We're called wee.
terday before Deputy Commissioner mn.
lon. of Brooklyn, but no action was taken
Mr. Dillon announcing the trials wer.
postponed for one week. No explanation
Of the delay was given, but II was sag
to be on account Of orders from across
the river"
The boys who called or the Mayor yes.
terday were dressed I'm messenger uni.
form, and both appeared 10 be under ~.
teen. The law provides that no child
under sixteen shall be locked I'd in sta.
ton house, but shall he taken to The
rooms OF the Children's Society IL h.
gets into trouble.
You want TO know about the two boz,
in messenger uniforms" the Mayor said
when he was asked about them. We'll
they were also locked up overnight in the
Prospect Park police station. They tell
me six boys were locked up in the same
cell all night-a little cell about five fee,
by six.
Their story is that one Of them picked
up a little girls rubber ball that was roll.
ing on the walk and tossed il back to the
girl, whereupon a policeman named Nc.
Mahon seized them both and took them
TO the station house. Such things make
me feel discouraged.
In the case Of these boys. although
their names and addresses were put in
the blotter. no notice was sent to their
homes at all They were put into a cell
with other boys and stayed there all
night. II IS simply barbarous.'
The Mayor then repeated the remark;
he made on the case of the Albert boy.
that II was a way TO make criminals o.
BOYS. he captain % TIE pltelNIl, tt
said. had since retired from the force.
The police records at Headquarters
show that the captain Of the Prospect
Park precinct, and apparently the man
whom the Mayor referred to as having
retired from the force, was Captain
Michael J. Murphy. However Captain
Murphy had applied for and obtained a
leave Of absence from May i TO June &
The arrests OF the boys which aroused
the Mayors ire were on June I. Acting
Captain Abram c. Hulse being in charge,
so that Captain Murphy had nothing to
do with the arrests.
When Captain Murphy's leave expired
he applied for and received his retire
ment, and Commissioner Waldo al once
made Hulse captain in HIS place.
The technical charge against Farley
and Washburn was that they made an
arrest when they might have served a
summons. \ general order issued BY
Commissioner Baker In 1910 prescribed
that A summons should be issued IN cases
OF breaches Of the peace. provided the
offender had a card Of identification:
This is the only rule covering the mat
ter. and II is expected Farley and Wash.
burn will contend the boys arrested had
no identification cards.