Show I I SURGEON POLICEMAN WHO LOVES BEAT ISNOW IS ISNOW IS' IS ISNOW t NOW ON RETIRED LIST I NEW W YORK Dec 9 Twenty five years ago Richard Bermingham Fordham graduate cut short a postgraduate postgraduate post post- graduate course in surgery to be become be- be tome come a policeman because he be said hed he'd rather walk a beat than be the worlds world's greatest surgeon He lie was placed on the retired list today with one CIne of tho the best records in New York police history A of f criminology h ham m who was made a sergeant of I dete detectives was credited with having baving obtained the confessions of many criminals through kind treatment He loved his job so well that that he he fought he said sald against promotion for he didn't want to be taken off the beat |