New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-03
.POL|CE SHAKE-UP
FOLLOWS ATTACKS
INSPECTOR CahaIane Succeeds
Titus, Who Is Placed in Conn.,
mand of the Traffic Squad.
TAKE UP PEDLERS' CASE
Aldermen Will Investigate
Charges That Protection
Money Is Mulcted
from Them.

Whether because OF the exposures or
the Curran aldermanic committee and the
District Attorneys office not. Police
Commissioner Waldo ordered yesterday
series OF shifts I'm important commands
of wider reach than any other single Or
der since he has been in office.
Captain Thomas Meyers. who happens
TO be the captain who automatically re-
fused TO allow the Curran committee To
lgo through the West 47th street station
lon aNtour of inspection just before Christ
mas, was promoted to be an inspector.
and assigned TO the Ist Inspection Dis
ltrict
INSPECTOR Cahalane was shifted from
1.-THE Isl to the 9th District, where he takes
1.-THE place Of Titus. who was in turn
lshifted TO the command OF the Tratnc
ISquad. recently left vacant by the death
lof Inspector McClusky.
! CAPTAIN Louis kreuscher. who has been
Tin command at the West l52d street sta
tton for more than seven years, thus
lrivalling the five-year term OF Walsh al
rthe East 126th street station, was shifted
hover TO the Ralph avenue station. Brook
llyn. and Captain William +. Day was
brought from Lee avenue. Brooklyn 10
1.-THE West 152d street command.
Scobel Promoted to Captancy.
I, Lieutenant w II. Scobel was promoted
10 be captain. and assigned 10 the Mef-
tcer street station. where he relieved cap
ttain William a sullivan. who was shllt-
led 10 the West 6Sth street station. Meyers
twho was made an inspector had been
iostersibly in command at West IS, N
sstreet, but was put on duty at West idh
sstreet with Captain Walsh while the al
Sderrnanic committee investigators were
foOservng things there.
, Other shifts of captains were. Thomp-
son. from West 125th street TO Lee ave
tnue. Brooklyn; Gray, from Herbert
Istreet Brooklyn. to West 18th street.
Manhattan; Keliher. from LenoN avenue
! 20 Herbert street, Brooklyn. and kohne.
tfrom Ralph avenue, Brooklyn, to LenoN
tavenue. Manhattan.
/ The names of five OF the police officials
laffected by Commissioner Waldo's order
yesterday have come up in one way or
znother to the investigators from either
the District Attorneys office or the cur
ran committee. but neither OF those
agencies of police investigation had as yet
developed the facts about the police ofil-
tcials 10 the point of publicity or prose
"cutiOm,
Patrolman Edward Mulvaney who IL
attached 70 the Office Of Third Deputy
Commissioner Walsh. in Brooklyn whose
brother-in-iaw ne j.. was relieved from
suspension and restored to duty yester-
day. Mulvaney's suspension was not un-
der charges but was ordered pending an
Investigation in connection with the Skell%
trial and the statements OF Mrs. Mary
Goode Skelly's accuser
Mrs. Goode told Waldo that if she had
been called upon she would have been
GLAD TO have told her story To the police
at the same time she told II TO the Cur
ran committee. MUlvaney was sent 10
see her and induce her to come to Police
HEADQUARTERS. She said he telephoned
her. but did not come 10 see her. although
iNulvaney swore that he had called upon
her first and telephOned her later. Vt he
iSkellv trial Mrs Goode admitted that a
MAI who said he was from Commissioner
Walshs Office had called upon her, and
.hat was considered sufficient vertical
tion 10 restore Mulvaney to duty
, The aldermanic committee Will go into
ia new line Of police CRATE to-day. when
HAIRY H. Schlacht. superintendent OF the
bTast Side Protective Association. pro-
hoses to tell some facts about the pro
ttection" money that i mulcted from
toushcart pedlers Of the East Side.
Saws Schmittbereer Was Abusive.
Schlacht asserted last night that he tried
ITO get satisfaction at Police Headquarters
In connection with the complaints OF the
tpushcart men. but he said Chief inspector
L. u.h
MONDAY when he was talking 10 Com
missioner Dillon, became abusive and
threatened him.
schlacht declared the method followed
was that the police would drive the push
Icsrt men of one OF the busy blocks In
Crsnd street. and that thereafter COL