Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-08-04
Seeing and Not Doing.

positions to shield criminals. There has
been more than one mock trial in the
world-a trial in which the public are led
to believe that they are faithfully repre-
scented by their officers, and that truth is
being sifted from all the chatf that inter-
este1 parties bring to cover it up, but
which afterwards appears to have been but
a mere show. complying with the form but
not the spirit of the law. the prosecutor
and the prosecuted secretly in league. and
the evidence a very different thing from
what it would have been if honesty had
been their guide OF the fear of detection
their terror.
But where there is one such case as this,
there are probably a hundred where dis
voyery is throtted before IL reaches court.
by the corruption of detectives. The ev-
dence Just taken before a committee of the
New York Assembly. in regard to the dis
honesty and netficency in the police de-
partment of New York City, has opened a
vein that ght and doubtless will be fol-
lowed to profitable results and the facts
already developed are sufficiently startling.
1t appears that not only have the supplies
for the department been plundered for the
private Use Of the officers, and the men
detailed to do their private drudgcry, but a
regular monthly income has been derived
by some of them-and probably divided
among others-for tolerating panel houses.
where women are degraded and men are
robbed. The cupidity and corruption Of
the officers thus being established, no one
will be surprised to know that they are
suspected Of suppres>ing evidence of
murder.
The Nathan murder has been one Of the
standing mysteries Of crime ever since it
Was committed. An old nun. at peace
with all the world. was Drained in his own
house and in his own bed, in one of the
most respectable and populous parts of the
city. and the assassin escaped, leaving no
clue behind. The victim large property
! descended to his sons. one of. whom had
led n absolute career. This latter was
suspected, but his friends made him out 4
good character and established an allbl.
while the authorities could bring nothing
against him. Finally people settled down
to the idea that it had been cruel to su>-
pect him and the crime was given over to
the realm of mysteries, where it remains
to this day But there is an ugly look TO
the testimony Of Sidney II. Conklln, an
ex-police detective, who appeared before
the legislative committee on Friday.
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