Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-14

These in a general way have been pub
lished from day to day, and in conclusion
are thus summed up.
First-The committee discovered the
existence of organized combinations to
rob citizens and protect guilty perpetra-
tors of crimes.
Seeond-The committee discovered that
while thief relies upon the receiver of
stolen goods to take and dispose of plum
der, he depends upon the detective officers,
and sometimes upon other members of
the police force, to secure himself from
arrest, trial and conviction.
Third-The committee have discovered
who are the principal receivers of stolen
goods, as we'll as the names of officers
charged with the detection of crime, on
whom the thieves relied for protection.
Fourth-The committee have been able
to supply proof, facts and circumstances
which have resulted in the suspension of a
portisn of the force, and not only demon
strated that separate organization of a
few well-known persons as detectives, does
not tend to either prevent or detect crime,
but have finally secured the abolition by
act of congress of the entire detective
force.
cred the names of the perpetrators of a
large number of crimes before unknown,
but have placed such testimony before the
grand jury, as has resulted in the finding
of thirty four indictments, princi-
pally against the detective cfi-
GERS and receivers of stolen
goods, which they deem it to be of the
most vital Importance to have speedily
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cured such full and adequate information
in relation to the operations OF criminals,
the names and methods of their confeder-
ates in the police, and among the dealers
whose shops dot more than one of our
streets, and who alone made the crime
easy and detection impossible, and that
after this information has been SO fully
placed before the public, that if these in
vestigations are not continued, and these
combinations are not broken up by the
public officers. whose sworn duty is to see
the laws faithfully executed and the guilty
punished, they will be justly chargeable
for what the citizens may hereafter suffer.
The way for the future is plain, and the
labor comparatively light. Threats of
violence and slanderous accusations viii
have little terror hereafter, to men WHO
effort to protect life and property in our
midst, while the entire community cannot
but be sensible of the damages from
which it has at least been partially saved,
and be ready to cordially cooperate IL all
proper measures which may be inaugu-
rated for the suppression of crime and
purging of the public service.
In illustration of the above it appears
that detectives were not only acquainted
and connected with the Christiancy rob-
berry, but one of them planned the crime,
sent for an expert thief to execute it, re-
ceived the stolen jewels into his own hands,
sent to New York for go-between to buy
them, haggled about the price to be paid
therefor, sold them for $4,000, receiving
four $500 bills in payment, two OF which
he exchanged for smaller money, and di-
vided as follows:
Two hundred dollars to the witness who
furnishes the statement; $500 to his fellow
detectives; $500 to man who stole the
property, and kept $500 for his own share
of the plunder, and, finally, ne went to the
depot, and finding the way clear, his fellow
detective actually carried the jewels to the
depot, where he delivered them in due
form and with all proper ceremony 10 the
go-DetWeen, VINO was Inen IL u car tlAtt
waiting for them.
Under the system above described, the
hazard of crime was reduced to the lowest
possible rate. Indeed, it might be said
there was comparatively 10 hazard at all,
because if the thief was discovered in the
act, identified, and warrant issued for
his arrest, the detective who shared in the
plunder communicated the fact to the re-
ceiver and the receiver informing the thief
he was wanted, the latter quietly made an
excursion down the river or to Baltimore,
or some other point where he remained a
short time, when he returned to resume his
depredations on the defenseless people of
this city.