One of them introduced me to a friend who remains a friend yet.

His name was Edward J.Bourke.He was one of the men who entered the police force through our examinations shortly after I took office.

I had summoned twenty or thirty of the successful applicants to let me look over them; and as I walked into the hall, one of them, a well-set-up man, called out sharply to the others, "Gangway," making them move to one side.
I found he had served in the United States navy.

The incident was sufficient to make me keep him in mind.

A month later I was notified by a police reporter, a very good fellow, that Bourke was in difficulties, and that he thought I had better look into the matter myself, as Bourke was being accused by certain very influential men of grave misconduct in an arrest he had made the night before.