Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-05-27
The Pattern Police of New York.

missloners, appointed by the Governor, and
in no way responsible to the people whose
Police they thus assumed to control.
Proceeding IN the same way and for the
same reasons, the last Ohio Legislature
undertook to punish the city of Columbus.
Had It ot|been that the State Constitution
prohibited the making Of flaws, which would
single out one city, and another of the same
class for favor, Columbus would have shar-
ed the fate of New York.
The only thing like an argument given,
except the political necessity urged by Mr..
Nixon, by the members of the Legislature
who advocated the passage of the Metropol-
itan Police bill for Columbus; was its good
effect in New York. If the statement of
the friends of the measure, about the New
York Police, was true. that city was the
best governed in the world. Crime there
was snever committed, or if perchance any
rogue was fool enough to do wrong, his
arrest was speedy and certain.
Recent developments here show these
statements to bethereverse Of truth. The
Tribune, speaking of Kennedy, the Super
intendent of the Metropolitan Police, says:
murders and attempts to murder num-
Der in the Metropolitan Police District on
an average about one day. If Mr.. .John
A. Kennedy paid less attention to politics,
perhaps there would not be so many"
The World commenting on this, extract
says:
"But murders and attempts to murder, at
the rate of one1 g. day. are not the only
crimes committed in the city while Mr..
John A. Kennedy devotes his attention to
politics; there are suicides in gambling
saloons in broad daylight, and these places
carry on their business under the actual
projection of Kennedy's patrolmen; banks
are robbed, and detectives are said to di-
vide. the plunder, with the thieves; the city
is flooded with Counterfeit postal currency,
and we published, yesterday, the statement
OF a notorious counterfeiter that the police
allowed counterfeiters' to sell counterfeit
stamps and trade in counterfeit money, by
posting them and dividing a certain per
centage. This witness further tessifies that
he made this statement in detail to John
A. Kennedy, General Superintendent of
the Metropolitan Police.' Perhaps, If Ken
nedy paid less attention to politics and to
the affairs OF the 'narrow-minded block
heads of his club, he would find time to
devote himself to the service for which the
city pays him handsome salary"
The testimony to which the World alludes'
shows even more than it states. A portion
of the Metropolitan Police of New York,
are in parternership with thieves, counter
letters and bank robbers, and not only, ex-
act and receive a per centage on their
gains, for keeping out of the way, and for
protecting them from arrest, but absolutely
plan with them the work of committing
crime and urge them to its performance.
In this way the robbery of the Passaic
Bank, at Patterson, N. j., was planned, and
15 per cent. of the proceeds of the robbery
was, paid to members of the Metropolitan
Police. In another case, where over $4,000
in Government bonds, by means of a forged
check, was taken from one of the National
Banks of New York, certain police officers
are named as having been consulted in adj
vance as to whether it would be best to go
robbery was made, the regular per centage
of the proceeds of the crime was paid to the
chosen and sworn guardians of the city, as
their share of the spoil. Numerous other
instances are given, where sums ranging
from ten dollars to thousands were paid by
thieves to the Metropolitan Police of New
York as hush money! or for their par
ticipation in the crimes committed. The
evidence that the Police knew the haunts
of the counterfeiters of fractional currency
and of the compound interest notes, as well
as the places where the work was done,
and shared In the spoils, is clear and con-
elusive. ff6-i1.s2fr
Although this developments of crime and
with thieves has but recently
come ltolight, yet evidence exists that not
only suspicion but proof has long existed
tecshew that partnership with, and the
shielding of rogues, have been things OF
common occurrence. -sl -.'3
AS long ago as February, 1866, it was
openly charged by the detectives of Boston
that their confreres of New York were in
collusion with the robbers OF the Concord
IN. H. Bank. The former having got on
the track of the thieves, went to New York
to enlist the cooperation of the Metropoli-
tan Police, but found that they were most
banked at every STEP and in
their movements were communicated to
the thieves by the very men whose aid they
had enlisted. So thoroughly convinced
we're they of this that they pretended to
nave abandoned the pursuit, and returned
60 Boston one of them, however, after
Disgusting himself, came back
to New York, and, in conjunction with Capt.
JoURDAN, the only Democrat, and perhaps
the only honest man in the New York
Metropolitan Police, succeeded in captur-
ing them. The Boston Police, when first
they went to New York in search of the
thieves, were put in connection with two
officers of the Metropolitan Police, who in
sisted that no other person in New York
should be taken into their confidence, al
leging, as reason therefor, that the
"rogues to be dealt with were of the first
rate shrewdness and ability, and that it
was of the highest importance that actual
suspicious should be kept secret, as too
many cooks would spoil the BROTH" ,E
Moth hwithstanding the careful guarding
Of the secret, the robbers knew all that was
going on, and, although the rogues were
on several occasion within the grasp of the
police, yet when they went to make the ar
rest the birds had flown. Believing that
there was something rottenv in the New
York Police, the Boston detective, consult
ing Capt. JoURDAN, agreed that the search
should be, to all appearances, abandoned.
and the Boston official summoned back to
Boston by7a concerted dispatch from his
chief, with orders to give the matter up. He
stayed in Boston, though only long enough
to SO utterly disguise himself as not to be
or have his identity suspected
by the Metropolitans, when he returned
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