The evening world., 1914-03-11
'ID|D! | NY BEST"
DECLARES G|LlEN,
I: GIVING Up SHIELD
apfs
Commissioner Says If $500
Officials Are incompetent
They Must Get Out.
RAIDS CAUSED ACTION.
Head Of Department Denotes
inspector in Spectacular
Trip 10 Station.
RAIDS CAUSED ACTION.

In pursuance Of his policy of hold
ing inspectors and captains personally
responsible for the condition of their
districts Police Commissioner Mckay
ordered charges Of neglect Of duty
and violation of the rules preferred
. against Capt. James H. Gillen to-day.
In to last midnight Capt. Gillen, with
the rank Of inspector. was In charge
; Of tho Third Inspection District,
which embraces the old Tenderloin.
The Commissioner visited the West
. Thirtieth street station house, Gil
lens headquarters. at 1l.30 o'clock
last night and entered on the blotter
an order reducing the Inspector and
suspending him pending trial. The
charges OF neglect of duty and viola.
ton Of the rules are based ON the fact
that Lieut.. Dan Costigan's men have
been working in the Third District
for . month. and last night. over the
heads Of 0illen and Capt. Ward of
the West Thirtieth street station,
raidsd the Hotel Mumm. In West
rhirty-ninth street: the Hotel ATTAIN.
In West Thirty fourth street: the Me-
dalton Hotel. No. ss4 Sixth avenue:
Talulsky's Cafe, No. 500 Sixth ave.
nue.. and the Madison Square Hotel.
sixth avenue and Twsnty.fourth
street.
AOANooNs the OLD scheME
p. OF rRANeFgRo.
Commissionsr Mckay announced
to-day that hs would not resort TO
the time honorsd custom of transfer.
ring inspsctors ana captains who fall
70 mahs good They are to b held
responsible ana viii have to stand
trial Il Il y found that they cannot
gaDprsso disordesly places and On.
foEoe he lAws relating thereto.
"a @1nsosctoss getting $500 . year
q, pd captains getting Ss.7so . year
should - competent to discharge the
duties Of their rank" said the Com
missioner. II they don't discharge
their duties they will have to stand
trial"
The Commissioner pointed out that
.Costisan's men got evidence against
the alleged disorderly hotels. He
held that II Costigan's men could do
1t. Gillen's men should have done It.
The Commissioner does not take into
account the claim that the hotels in
question have been running of and on
for years. and that the proprietor and
clerks probably knew all Of Gillen's
mon.
ANY Inspector" said the Commits
sioner. "can have all the men he
wants. and can pick his own men. II
cillen's men were too well known he
could have had others assigned to his
staff"
Add THE sEsr ! COULD" SAYS
III oiLLeN.
&, 0illen called at Headquarters this
lmorning and turned over his shield
sand police property to Chief Inspector
i.Schmittberger. He will probably he
stried within IA week. All he would
nay about the case was:
THE rules forbid mc to discuss
ChaTgcs. HO"cNeT, can honestly
state that l did the best could"
Gillen has been policeman
eighteen years. He was a lieutenant
when Commissioner Waldo put him
In charge Of the Boiler Squad In
1911 and he cleaned UP that long
standing disgrace to the Police Do
partment. Then he was sent to the
East Fifty-Arst street station as a
captain and did 80 we'll there that
Commissioner Waldo made him an
inspector and sent him into the Third
District to succeed Inspector Lahey.
Gillen was reported In police circles
to have the Third District in better
shape than 1t had been in for years.
but Commissioner Mckay was not
satisfied with II.