Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-23
fhG Capital CityS Finest" Police
Force on The VAIN Anxious Sat-
A Lime Committee Appointed,
with a Bristling Brush.
Sarcastic Comment on the X cent
Jail Delivery.
a Con Mans Narrative of Bis
Crooked Career-City Items and
State Personals,
AT III CAPITAL.
ANOTHER FARCE.

Otner HuDhlterns telt tnRt tnelr tlme nAu
come, and many were the walls which
they gave u~tterance to. The city coun-
oil met n the matter was Brought up by
Mr.. Blllngsley, who offered a resolution
that the council appoint q committee to
Investigate charges of corruption and
fraud on the part of policemen. The
committee was appointed by the mayor,
and consisted of Billlng,ley, Daley and
Dean. The investigation will doubtless
prove o bigger farce than the Jail de-
livery.
This Is putting 1t on pretty thick to DO
sure. 1t is seldom thst the
BEE indnlges In poetic comparisons,
but a few lines from Wadsworth
strikes the situation so well that they are
given:
"Great God, grant that every scep!red child
of clay,
Who cries prescriptions, Hero the food shall
May in its progress see thy guiding hand,
And cease his acknowledged purpose to with
stand;
Or, swept in anger from the insulted shore,
(Salt Creek)
Sink with his servile hands to rise no more. +"
His honor is making a desperate fight
sgsinst public opinion and putting on a
brsvAdo equal to that of "Tde sceptered
child of clay bat the true conduct of the
police will certainly come out, not In this
Investigation" which the mayor has in
augurated, but from other sources. His
honor took occasion to compliment the
police for its noble c)nducs during the
state fair week, and the tsffy thus admin
Hstnrol f,ll ,ann tha antioa notnonnl L.,
the room like rsin drops on IN arid soil.
An expression of ralisf spread over their
countenances which was beautiful to con.
template.
Blllingsley, the chairman of the inves-
Hgstion committee Just appointed,
smiled benignly over his desk at the
EeassUred coppers as II to say,
"Boys. you have nothing to
fear from me-" and things assumed
the aspect OF q love fealt. Mayor Burr
said that the police force of Lincoln was
one of the finest in the country, and
that each members individual conduc.
during fair wesk was beyond rsproach.
One gentleman who listened to ths pro-
ceedings said from the nature Of things
as represented by the mayor and one or
two councilmen, each policeman was
justly entitled to a gold medal, which,
he would suggest, be struck off imme-
d!ately. "There is nc money In the
city treasury to pay for Them" said
another man, which assertion struck with
such force upon the advocate of medals
that he left the hall, and was seen no
more.
The jsil delivery will also bs a subject
which will come before the committee.
1t was pretty unanimously decided,
however, Monday night that any one,
with q tooth-pick, could have got
through the twenty -four inch stone wall
of the yard In o very short time. "What
we want" said one child of innocence,
sis q boiler-iron cell to put those
fellows In. / believe this Is the only
thing that will hold them" The reat of
the gentlemen agreed with him, and
doubtless as soon as the money Is raised
the cell will be oon,tructed on plans fur
nished by Pom Courville and his %associ-
ates. Az a matter of fact there Is moth.
ing the matter with the cell from
which the men escaped, and with the
slightest care they would all be In ousto.
dy now, and some of them could have
been given terms In the penitentlary.
eyes," sald Councilman Blllipgsl;y,
"we are going to give this ma ter a
thorough overhGuling and slit it to tho
.unermost dregs. The investigation will
ne held Friday or Saturday and the COM
mittee will issue Hubpoenas and other
PROCESS in legal form and according TO
law" The gentleman assumed q rtern
cast of features as he uttered the | at
words, and his eyes fl ..hed something
akin to fire. If the city jailor aud his
associates had been on the ground cet-
talnly they would have resigned their
places Immediately through fear of the
consequences.
When Kiug Francis the Flrst was cap.
tured and confined In Madrid by EN-.
peror Charles Fifth, of Spain, Francis
became ~lis,les. and weIry because he
loved the fresh free air Of nature. His
high born nature could not stand the
tramsls of q prison life very we'll, bat he
had t. manage 1t some way, for he was
Imprisoned several years, but though by
tho special indulgence of the authorities
he WEI granted privileges out of the or
binary kind,
In mo fern history analogous cases have
been met wish, for instance Boss Tweed,
was given oil that his heart could desire
and money purchase during his incarcera-
ton In the New York tombs.
Looking over the vast number OF mirac-
ulous escapes FIR I'm the beginning OF his
tory there Is no particular Instance where
crowbar was found In the cell after
the birds had flown. Lincoln is the first
case on record where SO many psople of
the same crooked turn of mind were
kindly furnished by friends the means Of
escape from an %unoorgenisl place of tenn
porary residence, and this will be the
subject which Councilman Billipgsley and
his associates will invsstigste. Success
to the committee, and the BEE trusts
that their lsbors will prove unlike former
eff 'rts of the same character.
From the amount of hand. shaking.
however, between members of the COM
mittee and ihoss under Its ban 1t IL con-
cluded that nothing but smoke will arise
from the affair, ana q white wash report
very like the Nebraska railroad commits
sioners' reporton railroads will be adopted
and passed unanimously, thus placing
things Ia their former smooth working
condition, before the BEE came to iuyade
the sanctlty of the ring.
NOTED CROOK.
The BEE reporter had the pleasure
Monday evening of q short conversation
with one OF the seventeen gentlemen
who escaped from the city jail and bit
care er, which he feened very proud of