Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-26
POLICE BOARD
SECRET ORDERS
COME TO LIGHT
One of Them Consists of Trans
ferring RauchmiIIer From
Motorcycle Squad.

Several recent secret business tran
sactions by the Board of Police Coln7
missioners became known today. Al
though the matters are of general
public interest, they were not an
nounced by the commissioners. They
were only admitted after informa-
tion had been received from othei
channels.
Three transfers were made by the
board in secret conference at some
time during the past week and were
not made public. Sergeant John
Knoedler, of the Fourth precinct, was
transferred to the police headquar-
ters detective bureau. Sergeant
Frank Gibney. formerly at the police
training school, was also placed In
the detective bureau, and Sergeant
John l.. Todd, of the Sixth precinct
was assigned to the police school,
RauchmiIIer on the Motors.
Another secret action by the board
was the dropping of Frederick
Rauchmiller from the motorcycle
squad, which, 1t is understood, was
done yesterday. Rauchmiller was
returned to regular patrol duty in the
First precinct.
Rauchmiller took a prominent part
in the police cleanup" of automo-
bile speeders on Broad street Clinton
avenue and other important streets
in the city during the first two months
of this year. With one exception ne
had more arrests to his credit than
any other member of the motorcycle
squad
The transfer of Rauchmiller was
done for no particular reason, ao-
eording to President Frederick @.
Breidenbach today, but merely FOR
the good of the force"
WAS there any good reason for
the transfer, or was 1t done for the
good of the force?' Breidenbach
was asked today.
MERELY for the good of the force,
he replied.
In regulations for the conduct of
members of the force issued secretly
during the past few days Is seen the
hand of Captain Martin II. Ray. in
structor at the police training school.
The barring of all unauthorized per-
sons from behind the desks in the
station. houses, which was one of the
so-called duties which the board as
signed to it's acting Inspector" has
now become the duty of every desk
lieutenant.
The hand of Captain Ray is also
seen in the new arrangement of the
boards rooms on the second floor of
the City Hall. The doors to the
outer meeting room have been locked
for the first time. The meeting room
has been rallied off into two parts
I'm one of these the clerks of the de-
partment who were formerly in
offices at the side of the main room
are placed. The meeting room now
occupies about half of its former
space.
Spectators Barred from Meetings.
To make the present room serve
the purpose of a meeting room, 1t is
said no spectators will In future be
admitted TO the public" meetings of
the board. 1t is even rumored that
the reporters table was found to oo-
cupy too much room and has been
removed.
The offices formerly occupied by
the department clerks are being fit
ted up as private Offices. Who will
occupy them is not made known, but
IL is understood that President Brei-
denbach, the acting inspector" and
Captain Ray himself are likely can
didates.
Captain Ray has now been in
charge Of the police school for about
ten weeks at $l00 a week, and Is
likely to stay for some weeks longer.
Sessions at the school are held for
two hours and a half every after
noon.
Another recent act was the pur-
chase of two automobiles for which
bids were received a week ago Mon
day. Bids were received from thir-
teen firms at that meeting. In the
public meeting at which the bids were
received, Commissioner John l.. Reid
moved that they be tabulated and
submitted to the board at its next
meeting for action. This motion was
passed by the board.
Notwithstanding this action, the
board awarded the bids at a secret
conference the same day, according
to Secretary James j. Kearney. The
commissioners bought seven-passen-
ger Chalmers machine for $2,400 and
a seven passenger Cole machine for
81, 500.
The seven passenger Cole is the
"small' machine which the commits
sioners decided several weeks ago to
buy for emergencies" At that time
they declared their intention of ex-
changing the machine at present in
use by the chief of police for the
small machine. According to Mr.
Kearney, this was not done, but the
machine now in use is "for SALE
The commissioners do not specify
what they mean by emergency but
it is generally believed that this is a
new way of referring to Captain,
Acting Inspector, Inspecting Captain
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