. History of the Chicago police from the settlement of the community to the present time, under authority of the mayor and superintendent of the force . three years service as patrolman, resigned and returned to thecracker business; re-entered the force, and was appointed sergeantof the Huron street station in 1869; promotetl to a lieutenancy in1871; appointed captain in 1882; transferred to the West Chicagoavenue station in 1884; transferred to the East Chicago avenuestation in May, 1887; transferred back to the West Chicago avenuestation Sept. 9, 1887. He is a man of pleasant manners, courte
. History of the Chicago police from the settlement of the community to the present time, under authority of the mayor and superintendent of the force . three years service as patrolman, resigned and returned to thecracker business; re-entered the force, and was appointed sergeantof the Huron street station in 1869; promotetl to a lieutenancy in1871; appointed captain in 1882; transferred to the West Chicagoavenue station in 1884; transferred to the East Chicago avenuestation in May, 1887; transferred back to the West Chicago avenuestation Sept. 9, 1887. He is a man of pleasant manners, courteousand gentlemanly in his bearing, very successful as an executiveofficer, and reliable in every particular. CHARLES C. LARSEN, lieutenant of police; born in Copenhagen,Denmark, 1844; came to Chicago July, 1866; entered the forceSeptember 18, 1873; assigned to patrol duty at the West Chicagoavenue station; promoted to be desk sergeant April, 1881; trans-ferred as such to East Chicago avenue station October 1,1882; pro-moted to be patrol sergeant February 13,1885, and transferred toHarrison street station, where he remained until October 28, 1885,. AMOS. \V. HATHAWAY, Capt. ComJ^. Fourth Precinct. THE FOURTH PRECINCT MEN. 543 then transferred to East Chicago avemie station; promoted tolieutenancy February 19, 1885, remaining at the East Chicago ave-nue station until May 10, 1887, when he was transferred to presentstation. In the great strike and socialistic propaganda of 1878 hewas, owing to his familiarity with the diiTereut North Europeanlanguages, detailed to ascertain and watch the movements of thesocialistic anarchists who then numbered more than a thousandwell-armed men, calling themselves the Lehr and Wehr February, 1879, Lieutenant Larsen was detailed to ferret outthe mysterious deaths of Henry Gelderman, a well-to-do Germangrocer, of No. 505 Sedgwick street, and of Ida Meyer, wife of Gel-demians attending physician, which deaths occurred within sixweeks of eac
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