People ex rel. Callan v. Partridge

Willard Bartlett, J.:

The relator has been dismissed from the police force of the city of New York for conduct unbecoming an officer in having falsely accused a roundsman named William Dougan of having demanded forty dollars from him for the suppression of a charge against the relator of being off his.post. The proof was clear, and indeed, the relator admitted, that he had made the accusation against the rounds-man, but he insisted that his statement as to the roundsman’s misconduct was true as matter of fact. There were no witnesses upon this issue except the roundsman himself, who swore that…