New Britain herald., 1916-07-01
RICHARDSON TO BE
 PLAIN CLOTHES MAN
Chief Rawlings Also Plans Two
 New Day Beats

 partment today by ten new patrol men, Chief of Police w J. Rawlings has so arranged the beats in the city that the entire community is assured efficient protection day and night. In addition to that the chief has detailed Officer Andrew J. Richardson as day plain clothes man to assist Detective Sergeant Samuel Bamforth. Officer Richardson is regarded one of the city's most efficient officers and by his clever work in the past he has demon strated that as a, plain clothes man he will be in a position to render the department the best service. Various Day Beats. Chief Rawlings has again assigned Officer Frank English to the day force. AS befOre he will have charge of the prisoners and will patrol the railroad arcade. Officer A. c. Malone 1 will continue as desk officer and court officer and will do other duties that he may be called upon to execute. Officer Fred Wagner will continue as motor cycle policeman and Officer Matthias Rival will be detailed as day patrol driver in charge of the gasoline tanks and will also have mechanical super vision of the cars. During the noon hour Officer Wagner will be the pa trol driver
 The traffic squad will be as follows: Officer Clarence Lanpher, corner Main and West Main streets; Officer Theodore Johnson, South church cor ner; Officer John J. King, corner Church and Main streets; Officer Charles Johnson, corner Main and East Main streets; Officer Dennis Nealon, corner Hartford avenue and East Main streets. Two new day beats have been laid out One in the southwestern section of the city, in- cluding Park, John, Whiting and side streets, will be patrolled by Officer Charles Mccarthy Officer Michael J. Cosgrove, who has been with the traffic squad, has been given the other new day beat in the northwestern section, including Myrtle street from Washington street west and the in tersecting streets. In giving out these day beats Chief Rawlings followed the fair custom of giving the men older in the service all preference. New Eight Hour Shift. The 4 o'clock shift has also been | rearranged by the chief so that now two officers come on at a. m., and work continuously until noon when they are relieved by two other men who work continuously until 8 o'clock. The morning men will do patrol, traffic and relief duty north and south of the railroad and the aft ernoOn men will do the same, ex- cept at from 7 to o'clock in the evening they will do traffic duty at the corner of Main and West Main streets and Main and East Main streets. By this arrangement the utility officer is done away with and one man Is saved. This month Off, cers Patrick Quirk and AXel Carlson will have the 12 to o'clock beat and O'Mara and McCabe the 4 to i ? shift Officer Michael Meehan will have the Hartford avenue beat.
 Twenty eight Night Beats. as follows:
 William Murphy, east side of Main street south of tracks.
 James Shelley, west side of Main street south of tracks.
 Anthony Walenczius, West Main street beat
 A. E. Atwater, Lincoln street beat
 Michael Massey, Myrtle Booth etc.
 William Hayes, Grove to Booth, etc.
 George Mofitt, Lafayette street etc.
 James McCabe. Broad, Beaver, etc.
 Thomas Birming gham, Clark street beat
 William McCue, North street, West and Oak street, etc.
 William O'Mara, Winter Summer and Spring streets.
 Gustav Litke, Smalley, East, etc.
 Patrick Howley, East Main to Elm streets, etc.
 William Grace, Main street, north Of tracks.
 Patrick Quirk, Main street, north of tracks.
 Railroad Arcade, unassigned as yet.
 Thomas Woods, Church, East etc.
 William Strolls, Dwight street, etc.
 AXel Carlson. Stanley street, south of Park, etc.
 John Carlson, Park street.
 Herbert Lyon, Whiting street, west of John street.
 George Ellinger. South Main street beat.
 Thomas Heslin Arch street beat.
 Patrick Meehan, South High street to hospital, etc.
 Charles Anderson, Arch street. south of Winthrop.
 John Kennedy, Broad street, west of High street.
 Hanford Dart, Myrtle. Main to Grove streets.
 Frank J. Moore, Elm street cross ing to Stanley and East streets
 Officers Joseph Kennedy, Walter Malona, Michael Meehan Thomas Storey and Thomas Woods are jumpers who take the place of men detailed for day duty.
 OI<cefc to Be Night Man.
 Dennis O'Keefe, supernumerary Of ficer, who has just been deposed as ianitor, will become a regularly en-