The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-03

a MODEL POLICE LIEUTENANT.
VICToR HUGO has drawn, in Lies Miserables,"
q vivid picture of the unrelsnting police
agent OF France. Vatican, who never, in
reality, committed serious offense, but who,
after being arrested on a petty charge,
managed to escape from the officers of the
law, is prosecuted throughout long life
During large portion of which he was not
only an honest but an exceedingly industri-
ous and useful citizen) by an un-
relenting policeman named Javert In
vain did Vatican assume new dis
guises, and establish manufactures that gave
employment to thousands of workmen. In
vain did he become one of the most thor
oughly virtuous, respectable, and reputable
members of society. Javert had marked him
as a fugitive from Justice, and no matter how
trivial was the offense originally imputed,
nor how thoroughly irreproschable was the
subsequent life of Vatican, the bloodhounds
of the French system considered it sacred
duty to hunt down the man who had eluded
unmerited punishment. eorder these thingsI
differently in the United States, and ii is vel
enough that relentless ferocity forms no part
of our system. 1t is true that policeman is
commonly supposed, even in this country, to
have q slight perception of what crime is when
he sees it, and a faint instinct prompting him
to assist in the arrest and punishment of
notorious criminals but if the true model
policeman is to be sought in the complete
counterpart of Jsvert, Philadelphia can
justly claim that treasure in the person of
Lieutenant Michael Hsggerty, the officer in
oh aofo Of tha NJ
districts Of this city. The public has read, time
and again, in criminal proceedings, of Thomas
Holland, the proprietor of a den on Front
street, near Walnut. Yesterday he was ar
raigned on the charge of keeping disorderly
house, and a number of witnesses substan-
tiated this charge. One man who had boarded
there testified that it was bawdy house, that
it was frequented by thieves and that rob-
berries had repeatedly been perpetrated there;
another swore that it was the resort Of thieves
and bad characters, and that there we're fire.
quent disturbances; woman declared that
she had been drugged in this establishment;
detective said that cit is very bad place, >
and that he had not only seen disorder there
| but that its residents were generally
| thieves and prostitutes, while another detec-
| tive stated that he had always known the
house as a resort for thieves. Against this
cloud of testimony the defense produced,
| first, the barkeeper, who declared that he had
never observed any disorder at the house,
and second, Lieutenant Michael Haggerty,
| the police lieutenant of the district, who
| stated that he had occasion to pass up and
down Front street frequently, but had never
seen any disorder at any time Thus the man
who, above all others, should have been espe-
cially active in bringing Holland to justice,
was the principal witness for the defense.
Instead of displaying the prosecuting spirit of
Javert, Haggerty was the next best friend of
the virtuous Holland; and if the jury and
judge had agreed with the lieutenant
of the district, the proprietor of
the Pittsbnrg House would still
be a free man, instead of being under
sentence of fine of $1,000 and an imprison-
ment of two years in the County Prison.
Haggerty evidently belongs to the philau-
thropic school of policemen, andin disorderly
house cases he may be warranted to have not
a speck of the Javert taint in his compo-
sition.