The evening world. Newspaper, December 20, 1902, Page 10

A GETS | MORTGAGE missioner Partridge and Former District - Attorney Philbin Submit Different 3 Views on Reorganization. 4 BOTH FAVOR 14-YEAR TERM. ; % HW Force Is Increased ‘One-Quarter, as Is Suggested, It Will Cost the « City $2,000,000 a Year Addi. > tional. ® “fhe platoon eystem in the Police De- ‘partment is the only point of difference between Police Commissioner Partridge AM feport made to Mayor Tow on the gen- Bral reorganization of the police system. While Mr. Philbin advocates the three ‘platoon system, the Commissioner added @ Gissenting report in favor of the two | Platoon that he put in operation. Mr ae in wants the force increased one- @t a cost tomhe city annually of £2.00, 000. + Both men favor a fourteen-year term “for the Police Commissioner, This clause was once stricken out of the report, bu Unported again after Commissioner Part- “ize resigied, leaving no cause to| @Uspect that he had a personal desir for a long term ad ‘Me report recommends that the office police chief be revived, the pew oM to be called “general Inspector.’ thks official would be under the appoint-|> = Ment of the Commissioner and subject | to his removal at any time. It 48 sugxested that the pensions bp ‘Mmited to $1,500 a year unless the pen- @ioner hag been in the gorvice longer| " thirty-five years, and that no per. fen shall receive a pension while st!!! | “@mployed by the city. Sixty-four yours Me mentioned as the age of retirement. | © The report decries the influence of pol- _ ‘Mticians over members of the force, and | “Bays that while many policemen are| povarwork. 1d more have sinecures. CLLG0909-500900O0O00690604 0440004 20047740004 ARE POLICE PrPORT. efi earertesteet ttre oot ge ° P wine THESE Si i ——— |« } HOMG HOURS : rs % rs ono 40 SLUGS OF REDE YE ANO NEVER Tout Hed Hl [Four FINGERS Baty) Okink GIANT CAUGHT AFTER A HOLD-UP Police Clubbed a Man Into Sub- mission When Dr. Noeber Said He Had Been Robbed in Fourteenth Street. DIDN’T SHOW UP IN COURT. UNSIGNED NOTES SCARE POLICE Anonymous Letter-Writer Re- sponsible for Commissioner Partridge’s Charges Against Officers High and Low. THEN WOKE UP. de Was Offered the Vacant Po- lice Commissionership, and _ Was About to Thank fhe _ Mayor for the Gift When—— | GRAND SURPRISE CAME. HIS IDENTITY DISCOVERED. | “Tim” Woodruff was hurriedly eum-| 14 writer of anonymous letters, who! Dr. Henry Noeber, a well-known phy- has an intimate knowledge of inside S!clan of Milwaukee, who Is In the city, We Oiey Hall. The Lioutonant-Governor. | airaire of the New Tork Pilea Deen | reported. to the pollee tocday. that he Wee WH! de minus his high Btate oMce! ment, has kept the soverni influential| hil been held up and robbed early thie | Jan. 1, immediately answered the invita-| members of the force jn hot water for! morning, at Fourt h street and| tom of the Mayor, He made an elabor- months. As a result of their Investign-| Fourth avenue, of his watch and $30, ete tollet, ang when standing before the|tions, suspicion hax fallen on a detec.| A veritable glant, who was pointed Mieror giving the final adjustment toltive who was recently reduced fron {out by the victim as one of the robbers, _ Bie red and. dlack puff tie he wondored|the rank of detective sergeant. No|Was arrested after a hot fight, during fer why and for what the Mayor had positive proaf of his guilt is in the| Which he held off half a dozen police-} ealled him so urgently. hands of the men who havo suffered by |Men, while a throng of several hundred “Would He Take the Place?” his writing, but they feel go certain he | PCrsons looked on. | 5 *E guess it's that Police Commission-|!% the letter writer that mutterings of} THe prisoner, who dented that he was thought the Lieutenant-Gover-| “Playing ev: are frequently heard eoncerned) In the hold RALAn OWES » “Would I take it? he mentally| It {@ sald that most or many of the|® Mulvey, of! No. Pearl street, | Geked Rimedf es he loft the house and|Fecent investigations ordered by Com-|# “eater in hardware, ‘ee line for the neares; car. “I |™issioner Partridge have been at the|_ Mulvey was late armigned before I could hoki down that jov all|!nstigation of this letter writer, who| Magistrate Brann, in the Yorkville used hia inside knowledge to Inform the | Court, char, with grand larceny ight. It wouldn't be lowering my dig- Bity, either, to accept it: It's a pretty ‘Big office at that. I could do a whole lor Wf geod for the party, too, even if the \$ only holds out for a year. _ Way, a Police Commissioner who t of the Ir head of the departme larities, ‘The men “squealed on’ felt Sure that the Informant was @ man tn the department, but for w long time the closest watch fatled to give any lue ntity, The complainant, Dr. Noeber, fatied to appear and the prisoner was dls no evidence having him. Dr, Noeber just after the arrest’ told } i ent, Bin, the dopartmer the police he was held up by two men at © have alas ‘Bes any (dea about politics at ail could writer. Capt. the Germante Bank Butlding. which ts Swing an election either way through cked In a iatter to] undergoing. repuirs. (Bile office. Come to think of it, it cor-| Com that he ationsa Wie tnet | Ond caught him! by the throat, pre- tainly would be good politics to put me to Joaf. venting him from erying there. I could look after our people| An anonymous letter charged irew:hisileft arm About right and perhaps then Tammany | Inspector Gri jalowed bie Thre tierst) and held him pow Hell wouldn't pile the vote it expecta| Sine 1; itable ‘manner, and chia] ‘The other hastily went through the ‘Bext election day. 1 guess the Mayor fall Tees agaist a num-| victim's pockets, taking his watch and what he 4 doing. | "He's @ pretty wise old boy at that | People don't give him the credit that aay thi, but he will open tneir ey: % * yes Let Them Play the Races, | “What's the use of closing up the town ‘Mike 'e country village? Tam in favor ot ggnsideraie Neoway. "Oren up the if men want to gamble let them Ne. If they want to play the races Tilke a racehorse as well as the fellow—then let them play. tie Don't put barriers up around the loin or close up all the saloons on f beral condi- m: These letters were evi- the same man, and In trees ted te heecat| trom his shirt front: eral 8 to dis-| Dr, Nober said he managed to break “ away partially and wrestled his assall- LANIERS PART, SAY GOSSIPS. [2° "2°ut tte sidewall. He could not ‘ory out, for the big man kept a secure But Mra, Lanier Aske that the Re- hold on his throat. A subway watchman, however, saw the port Be Dented, Was reported to-day that James struggle and called to Policeman Gaffga, the Fifth Street Station, who was ding on the upper Fourteenth street spas iat lipsa i IE Gaftga on across the street ees Ons ARE rT OnOTRIA LW) Cee nec HUE e approached the giant thug mot Miss Harriet A. Bishop, daug’ m with a swinging blow on the jaw ne late Heber R. Bishop, had s0j rated Both ant knocker Four 5 chain and money and pulling a stud some gation missals, It F. sono} ached Gaftga i off the big rob- desperat As ound the thug th flsts and kept six T can play he wants to close up Ing and shut down everything I accommodate him with romise to he wants in t Ine. Of cours offend him. After I xot t itment—well, that’s another st z until a patrol wagon stick to my friends and my poli n ing business. Hx arrived from the Fifth street station. Then He Woke Up. imper ¢ M m1 . t] og crowd Was so dense about the layor his ume that the police had eur way through to drag the » tho Wagon. p and had to be Janded fn the was fighting t with b fight! Po} 1 f ry fats. Shs! suttlon-hows femnor, ard have ca 9 r 4 h Voted and. vigor: public utterances and a ro apar 3 ist ed be CS vf the ul id belleve you Waldorf-Astoria aa excellent he «| r denied that she an COLLISION IN BROADWAY. Pleasure in tenders -| Two Wagons bk D I Driver Hart, tw bd: “Ph ports Mike t 3 Tim! Get up, you are oy i this mornin, wagons were to. ars In Brondway 14, of No. 413 East truck a north # right le moved to St, V “4 Hospital in an ambulance other collision occurred a few before 9 o'clock, at Fourteenth . Michael Perry, driver for Taylor & , who lives at No, 91 Division street, was crossing tracks at Fourteenth street, “when. hi Wagon way struck by a south’ bound cat Perry's right shoulder was’ disloca! He Was removed to At, Vince fica Wi Be Convenea for Purpose To-Morrow. PRINCE, Haytl, Dec, 20,— fonvoked yesterday in or- Eee AES aR MR ees te na i the election of Gen, Nord he wus roperty man at the t ec there was no quorum, | “Grect floral pieces, worth more: tho us $100, have been delivered at tho theatre aud satueed by tne manager. The loss to the florists in many cates has boen lntge. An attempt bas been juccess, to find the York florists have been Al by a mun who ordered big lote of flowers sent to the New York Theatre. In each cas ny Was r yin, minute (QUESTION OF A BOUNDARY. the Broadway | } 40 HURT, KO POLICE ACTION Hoboken and Weehawken Offi- cials Quarrel Over Techni- calities in Cases of Trolley Victims. SERIOUSLY INJURED. Newkirk, S. H., of Clifton Park; inter injurte: * Newkirk, Mra, $. H. Clifton Parks internal Injuries, Rohner, Mra. Alice, No. 5 Boule- yard, Went Hoboken; badly cnt about the face and body and in a Shippen atreet, Helghta; outa ai Injuries, Weehawke torma oulder and internal injartes. ‘Twenty-tive others sustained cuts, brainer and abrasions, Arrests In connection with the crash At 11.90 o'clock last night of a wildcat frelght train witn a loaded trotley car n Weehawken, in which the thirty pas: xongers of the car were tnjured, did not take ‘© this morning as promised, Ken police sald the Weehawken pollce should make them, as the ac dent took place on their territory. The latter retorted similanly. ‘The crash happened on the bow Mne. The police quarretied over t tter. The three victims in- most seriously jured are reported this morning to be in 4 critical condition. ‘They are: Mrs. Lambert Schmidt, Mrs, H. L. Newkirk and Mrs. A. Rohner A Boulevard trolley car of the North Hudson Rasiroad left the Fourteenth street ferry in Hoboken in charge of Conductor Louls Yodeano and Motor- 2 | Notwithstanding This the Officer 4 Withstood All the Tests for - THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1903. WHISKEY PLATOON SYSTEM WORKS FINELY, POLICE SURGEO POLICEMEN CET | DRUNK? NEVER Dudley With His Sixteen Drinks | Wasn't in Same Class with’ Bluecoat Who Drank [wenty- | nine in Six Hours. AND THEY WERE BIG ONES. Inebriety, and He Was Fit for Police Duty, Tf Patrolman Dudley could take aix- teen drinks of whiskey and no one he able to tell {t except himself, how many drinks would the average New York trolman have to take before every one 14 tell It? That's a hard conundrum, for even Chet Surgeon Stephen G. Cook, of-the | Board of Polloe Surgeons, admits that A policeman {s a hard nut to crack when it comes to diagnosing alcoholism, He han been trying todo {t for a great many years and he probably knows more about capacity of policemen for “red * and its effects on them under y circumstances than any other in the city. When he was asked how many drinks he thought it would take to make a policeman unfit for duty, granting that he was fit before he took a drink, the doctor Jaughed, and sald: “There's no telling take forty and some c: found some policemen that it seemed to | me no amount of liquor could affect. Couldn't Get Him Drank, Some of them can ‘t take five, I've “I remember one man who gave me the hardest puzzle I ever had. He Was sent ta me for examination by a Sergeant | who said that the culprit had been load- | Ing up ail day. The smell of quor was | Strong on his breath, but when I put; him through all the tesis he responded | as though he had never seen a glass of | whiskey in his life. What made me mad | was his insistence that he hadn't taken| a single drink, although I was absolute- ly certain that he had just been throw- ing them in. “Sul, I had to report him fit for duty. | up my mind that for my owf| ratitleation 1 would find out about this fe drinking, and I sent out a trust- worthy man ascertain haw many drinks the patrolman would take on a| certain tour and just how much he| would take with each drink. This man followea him from 6 o'clock in the even- | ing ungl midnight and saw him take | twenty-nine drinks of whiskey, each of which contained four fingers. “Iwas waiting for the report, and as ‘De he soon as Jt came I sent at once’ for policeman and had him before me. you know the fellow swore that hadn't a single drink, and when Lp him through every test I could think he ay to be as sober as ever was an; The only thing about him to indicate that he had been drinking was his recking breath. Otherwise he was fertectly normal and certainly fit for uty man. “This man was apparently so built that ‘Mquor cou!d not affect. him. He| could probably have taken dozens more | of drinks without having lost his physt- | cal or mental b must’ say, though, that he w. about the best—or | worst—T eyer ran across. | One Drink Enough, | *All policemen are not way. had one ard there was in he had had but one single drink of whis- Key and he. was found lying in’ the gutter. —Tt Was Just like polson to him There ts no Way of accounting. for this | unless you call Ita physical infirmity | and start out with th sertion that such @ man ts unfit to be a policeman | at all, have ev rt personal friend who gets | ly if you give him a tea- hiskey. T've tried It on s no shamming omes it E a sil 4 Re hottle Now, this man Dudley, who the other day aI that he had taken eixteen drinks and | Nye more, was a Har, | and found that he hadn't ust there were no evidences of it, Not even the smell on his breath. He admitted to me that he hadn't, and said he hav tol missioner that yarn with the It was a good Joke. His sense nels whiskey or something to shar {t up, as this joke may cost him dea wanted twent of humor SCENE AT KIEHL INQUEST. CORTLAND, Dec. 20.—There was a scene at the Inquest on Willlam Kiehl here when Mrs. Maude Kiehl, his widow, refused to testify on the ground that she might incriminate herself, Her counsel, Rowland L. Davis, attempted to coach her when Coroner Santee asked man Peter Reese. When the crossing of the Erle tracks was reached, about midnight, Yodeano went ahead to see that the tracks were clear. An Erle freight train was passing and Flagman ter Higgins had the gates down, Ap- rently the train was a short one and 8 soon by. Higgins lifted the gates and Yodeano, after looking up and down the tracks and seelng no lights of any Proachumg train, signaled hig motor- to cross, While fidrly on) the tracks the rune- Way section of the freight train, which had passed, bore down on the trolley ear and wrecked it, 1t seems that the Jast four cars of the freight train had broken away from the front section up the track further and that it was run- ning down the grade “wildcat, fol- lowlag the main section about a quarter of a mile It ceught the trolley car a fatr broad- huried it from the ralls, and in the pante aboard the splintered wood- work and shattered glass assailed (he rs, ‘The trolley car was’ thrown and turned over, as the four rs, Imperceptibly Jarred, freight xing the eltement reigned until t» a dozen were Messages brought her reason for believing so. The District-Attorney and the Cor- oner threatened to put Davis out of the room. Davis would not go, a after a wranglo the Coroner placed the ness chair so that Mrs. Kiehl's was turned to her attorney. Prof. Chamot testified to finding a large quantity of arsenic in Kiehl's stomach. Wit. back Useful Jewelry Gifts. Being over thirty-five years in the Jewelry trade, we are thoroughly ac- quaintéd with the wants of our patrons. We do not undersell any article, as is claimed In some of the department € announcements, but we give QUALITY consistent with PRIC Brooches, _ Pins, DIAMONDS. Necklaces, Rings, Studs, Cuff and Collar Buttons WATCHES. Solid gold and gold- ied; Elgin, Waltham and Swis: Sterling and SILVERWARE. fisted knives, Forks; Spoons, Tea Sets, &c. Hundreds of uceful and beautiful articles specially adapted for ‘once to their homes, where physicians had been sent. That the runaway section of the t had not been discovered by the t crew ts considered most remarkab! wit follow it is sald theca will follow it that ‘of the raliroad emap while some ition: 0! 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