Show DEGRADED AND I I fiRED BOUlt Y I I Patrolman Stephen S Walsh of New York Force Adjudged I Guilty of Cowardice HUMILIATION IN PUBLIC ORDEAL OF DREYFUS CALLED TO MIND New York Jul July nA remarkable scene closely paralleling that memorable memorable able one in Captain Alfred Altred Dreyfus was publicly degraded before the French army was enacted in the trial room at police headquarters to today today day For the first time in more than thirty years jears a patrolman had been ad adjudged adjudged I judged guilty gulIt of cowardice He Is Ste Stephen Stephen phen S Walsh who accor according ing to the charge made against him last week fled from an armed man who had shot and killed a woman The keen interest inter interest est with which the unusual case was I followed rose to a point of dramatic in intensity ten ltv when Police Commissioner Bingham who had presided personally at the trial announced in a voice choked with emotion that the charge against the unfortunate man had been proved Stripped of Shield and Buttons I IThen Then the commissioner commission r turned to t In Inspector inspector Richard Walsh tn in whose dis district district Stephen Walsh was as a but who is no relative ot of the dismissed man and directed the Inspector to strip Walsh of his shield and uniform but buttons buttons tons so that he might not even leave the trial room with the emblems of his former formel position as a policeman in good standing on his person The crowd looked on in wonder and excite excitement excitement ment as the in inspector advanced to per perform perform form his unpleasant task The dis dismissed dismissed missed man stood still and offered no resistance as the shield was unpinned from his breast but when the inspector started to detach the buttons of the uniform rm Stephen Walsh stepped back and appealed to his attorney against an any further humiliation being put upon him in the presence of his former comrades com comrades rades Ejected From Building Commissioner Bingham who was la laboring laboring boring under great excitement then interposed and directed the inspector to conduct his former subordinate to the steps of the police building and eject him Stephen Walsh offered no resistance and went with the in inspector inspector to the outer doorway where he was formally directed to leave the building Throughout the unusual proceeding Stephen Walsh maintained his composure Charge Was Proven As StEphen Walsh was being escort escorted ed from the room Commissioner Bing Bingham Bingham ham with a wave of his hand indi indicated indicated that he desired d the other men in uniform to remain Come up close in front all you men in uniform said the commissioner in a voice husky with feeling while his e eyes es brimmed with tears I have a word to say to you jou all but I can scarcely say It My cheeks have burned with shame here even een to think of a charge ot of cowardice being preferred against a man in this department It h has s been our pride to say that whatever other faults there ma may have been there was no coward conard cowardice ice in this department I gave the ac accused accused in this case every chance to de defend defend fend himself but It has been clearly proven that he failed just at the mo moment moment ment when he should not have hae failed This thing must never happen again aJain while you and I are together You must forget this but you must remember remember ber the proud record of thirty years before when not one man in the many thousands failed to do his duty in the face of danger Patrolman Roosa Acquitted Stephen Walsh was one of the two men against whom a C cn l e of cow cowardice cowardice ardice was made last eek when Frank Warner arner was permitted to escape after killing Esther Before Warner Varner wa was captured he shot and mor mortally mortally tally wounded John C Wilson and ter terrorized terrorized hundreds of persons Patrol Patrolman Patrolman man Roosa the officer whose name was coupled with that of Walsh in the cow cowardice cowardice ardice charge was exonerated after a full hearing before the commissioner Warner who once was a prosperous patter hatter but had suffered business re reverses verses went to a store where Miss who had once been his cash cashier cashier ier was employed and shot her to death When he dashed from the tore store Stephen Walsh and several pedestrians started In pursuit Warner Varner outran them and took refuge In a nearby building and darted up the stairs to toward toward ward the root roof Walsh at the time was only a short distance behind the fugi fugitive fugitive tive but it is charged that when War Var Varner Warner ner turned and aimed the revolver nt at him he turned and fled to an office on the lower floor of the building Oth Other er policemen including Roosa soon ar arrived arrived rived on the scene but Warner es escaped escaped Two hours later he walked Into Wilsons store and shot him in the back Wilson died s several veral da days s later in a hospital Warner was struck down and captured as he ran out through the front door ot of Wilsons store He is now in a hospital in a serious condition from the wound in inflicted inflicted by his captor |