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NYT of Dec. 3 1913 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9507E1DA103FE633A... "Ex-Police Capt. Dominick Riley, who retired from the police force on Nov. 13, giving heart disease as the cause, was indicted yesterday by the Grand Jury on a charge of bribery."

query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F4091EFD3F5412738... SEES POLICE FLYING AFTER AIR BURGLARS " Mile-a-Minute" Murphy, the Department's Only Licensed Pilot, Talks of Aero Sleuths. SCOUTS TO PROTECT CITY Expects Robbers to Take to Aeronautics as Soon as the Profits Look Promising. New York Times August 14, 1914 The use of the aeroplane as an instrument of war, which now has been proven in a spectacular way by the European belligerents, furnishes another convincing argument for Charles M. Murphy, better known as "Mile-a-Minute" Murphy, who is trying to demonstrate how these machines are undoubtedly going to be used by the police, sooner or later.

en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Minthorn_Murphy

TVL 1970 and Richard Arthur Norton--Thank you for the colorful story of "Mile-a-Minute Murphy" and his idea of police using airplanes to catch criminals. We will add some of it to the image description when we update.

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This is a wonderful shot!


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The machine on the picture is a design of Giuseppe Bellanca , actually his third design - a parasol wing construction - dating from the fall 1911, built in New York. The machine was used as a trainer, that is the trainee was in the plane actually flying and the instructor was on the ground (!), as the machine was a single seat one. A pupil became later very famous, Fiorella H. LaGuardia in later times the mayor of New York. Reference: Spencer, Jay P. 1982. Bellanca C.F. The emergence of the cabin monoplane in the United States. ISBN 0-87474-881-X. p. 12-15. A Smithsonian production. This study shows two other pictures (one in flight !) of the machine. Kees

On February 1, 1914, Captain McClintock was appointed First Deputy Police Commissioner of New York City -- a post from which he resigned ten months later. This photo bears the Bain Agency's date of February 2, 1914. (A New York Times Story on December 8, 1914, hinted that his resignation ten months later was motivated by a desire to accept a police post in the newly-created -- and USA-administered -- Panama Canal Zone): query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9B00E... Other Bain/LOC portraits of Capt. John McClintock:

I added his to Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_John_McClintock He was the son of Emory McClintock of of the Mutual Life Insurance Company. He attended Berkeley School and later Columbia University and the New York University School of Law. His United States Army service began in the Spanish American War. Frank Swett Black appointed him a major in the 203rd New York Volunteers. He was appointed by Douglas Imrie McKay as a First Deputy Police Commissioner of New York City on February 1, 1914. He resigned on December 15, 1914 in the aftermath of the killing of Barnet Baff.