The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-06
POLICE HEROES GET
MEDALS ON May IS
Mayor Mitchell Will Reward
Men at Reviewing Stand
After Parade.
WOODS PRAISES FORCE
Police Commissioner Is Made
Honorary Member Of
Legion Of Honor.
WOODS PRAISES FORCE

The list OF policemen to be pf ssented
with department and citizen medals at
the reviewing stand on the day Of the
police parade. May 1s, was announced
yesterday. Mayor Mitchell will pin the
medals on the hero policemen. The Of
ficers to receive the signal honors are:
Honorable Mention and Department
Medal and the Rhineiander Medal
Patrolman James F. Steele Of the West
Thirty-seventh street station, who on
May 81. 1913. while on duty in Seventh
Avenue near Thirty-eighth street, cap
tured number OF gangsters engaged
in "a pistol battle He was assisted by
Patrolman W. r. Kuntz. who received
honorable mention and a department
medal and the Isaac Bell medal for
bravery.
Honorable Mention. Department Media,
and the Peter +. Meyer Medal-Patrol.
man Joseph Ryan of the East Eighty
eighth street station, who leaped into
the East River on the night OF December
D. 1913 and saved at great personal risk
Andrew Codak
Honorable Mention. Department Medal
and the Medal of the Automobile Club
Of Observation-Disclosures John Hallahan
OF the Central Office Squad. who on De-
cember IS, 1913. although incapacitated
from injuries received on duty. jumped
in front Of an onrushing subway train
in the Grand Central subway station and
dragged to safety Thomas Dolan, who
had fallen TO the tracks
Honorable Mention. Department Medal
and the Brooklyn CiS-on Medal--Patrol-
man william J. kenna of Hamilton ave-
nue. station while unarmed rushed from
a barber shop in Brooklyn, where he
was being shaved when he heard pistol
shots In the street and gave chase and
captured two Italians who were firing on
another of their countrymen.
Aided i'm Italians Arrest.
Honorable Mention and. Depa rtment
Medal--Patrolman George G. Schlessing ger
OF the Hamilton avenue station for aid
rendered to Patrolman kenna In arrest
ing the two Italians.
Honorable Mention and Department
Medal--Patrolman Carrolaj and acting
Detective Sergeant William 7. Ennis of
the Rockaway Beach station. who gave
chase and captured two burglars who
had opened fire on them on the night OF
April 10. 1913.
Honorable NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Cur
tave Soderberg, Fifth street station John
Loughlan. East Sixty-scventh street sta
ton; George Michel. West 1c3d stree,
station: James McCauley. East l04th
street station: Christian r. Wackerley
Greenwich street station. Ambrose W
Jane. Jr.. Hamilton avenue station: Ru.
dolph Tsney. Mulberry street station
John W. Miller. Mulberry street station
, Joseph Griffen. Elizabeth street station
w !. Daley. Oak street station: Patrick
Cullinan. Greenwich street station
Matthew r. Connolly. Sheepshead Bay
station: Charles II. Kuhnemunde Ham
! ilton avenue station; Francis y. Hogan
! East Twenty-second street station Nor
ris Melzax. Elizabeth street station
| George :. Cook. Macdougal street station
Malacchi McGarry. Madison street sta
ton, and Sergeant John J. Barnes. Mul.
| berry street station.
| Com missioner Woods HOnOred.
| Police Commissioner Woods and Peter
| T. Meyer donor OF a medal to be pre-
scented every year for distinguished po
| lice service. were initiated last night rs
honorary members az the Honor Legior
| OF the Police Department at meeting
| AT Headquarters. Philip Rhinelander
donor OF the Rhinelander medal ant
| Dock Commissioner r. A. G. Smith, botf
| honorary members, and Theodore Rous
seau. the Mayors executive secretary
also attended.
The 800 members ~ the legion presen
the record neutrality-suspicious. Mr.
Woods and Mr.. Smith. The Commissions,
/ praised the fearlessness of the force a
IA whole and the strong esprit de corp
among the men. and again assured then
( of square deal
I'VE do not need help from the out
side" he said, ito clear the good nam,
OF the force"