The Washington critic., 1886-11-26

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community II Major Walker would attend
to his Office and not he struttlng up the
Avenue in his II, form to make display OF
himself he would get the sanction OF tue
business community. When the papers,
after Major Walker was appointed, went To
interview the business men, the reporter
struck Mr. Barbour and asked his opinion,
he plainly stated that he did not know the.
new appolntee and could not tell what sort
of chief Of police he would make. lwrote
to the editors to please stop the interview
ing every one who might secure a place
under the present Administration; that the
common s6,,Se people were tired of the
trash, do not sign my name to this, but
simply sign FRIIaD."
This letter. gentlemen, you received and
read to me In your Office, and Mr.. Wheatley
was about to destroy II as having no I'm.
Iortance when urgently requested him TO
let me have IL because thought II would
help to show ultimately the author Of the
endeavors to conspirc against the peace and
government of the department.
ARNoLD's INTIMACY WITH M'DEvITT.
In view of my suspicious as to the char
ctcr Of the party who had written these
letters, and establishing an undue intimacy
between Lieutenant Arnold and James A.
McDevtt and one Flinders, at the Twelfth
street station, as is verified by the state
Vi EtIRtdub DlRglHS uuu GtdtiOu-
Keepers w. III. Rollins aud s. G. Burrows
ct al, and having had repeated complaints
made to me on the part of tho officers that
business which should have been presented
at Headquarters and been sent to aud at
tended to by the detective corps, had been
turned over by Arnold to this agency, and
II being well known to the department, and
having been told by some of the lieutenants
that Arnold and McDevitt had been In the
habit of going together to work up cases,
many Of which had never been prosecuted,
and no record kept of the goods received In
them, / repeatedly called Lieutenant Ar
nold's attention to the frequent visits of
these parties at his station, and also TO the
rule In the manual requiring that no per-
son should frequent the station houses eX-
cept upon police business, and cautioned
him that his repeated operations with these
parties would ultimately bring distress and
trouble upon himself or upon the Depart
ment. His answer to me was that they Of
ten gave him points In cases which he was
trying to work up.
A THIRD ANONYMOUS NOTE.
About the time of the issue of the annual
report the following anonymous postal card
was received, In the same handwriting as
the letters:
"Where do you get your authority for
annoying and harrassing patrons of the
gaming table. The courts, as you state, al
low gaming In club rooms, and the best
thing for you to do is to attend to your le-
getimatc duties or you Will find when Com
gress meets that Major Walker will no
longer exist as Chief of Police, but will
have TO return to his old duties as q Notary
Public.
$50 and raid the Metropolitan Club and
be kicked out Of Office by the Commas.
sioners.n
a., latNn 4 IL,
| file, where they remained until my atten-
| tion was called by your Honorable Board
| to the recent scandalous reports, where
| upon they were withdrawn from file aud
| examined by experts, in connection with
| other letters in the handwriting Of James
a. McDevitt, over his own signature, and it
was declared without question that they
were all in the handwriting Of said Nc
| Dewitt, showing the animus of that gentle
man and his association with Lien
tenant Arnold in an attempt at
breaking down the discipline aud honor of
the Department; and you ascertaincd at the
| time that the same man, McDeyitt, the
author OF the above anonymous communal
cations, was the first person to approach
the Executive Mansion with a malicious
| falsehood, which, In all its phases, was re-
peated almost as identically as written by
him in his threatening communications Of
the month before.
| DIsCREDITABLE SCHEMES.
have taken the testimony of a number
of witnesses, showing the intimate relation
between these parties in different operations
for wears past, showing the improbabiity
OF any Information being taken from the
| Office of the superintendent and given to
other parties outside Of the Department,
without being also first given to McDevitt,
unless 1t was originated by McDevitt and
| afterward brought into Headquarters
at his instIgation by the said Arnold for
the purpose of making the connection be-
tween some language used aud their scheme
outside for the purpose of bringing dis
| credit upon the department and working his
revenge. l doubt not that Arnold was
llattered by McDevtt and Others in his am
| bition of becoming the head OF the depart
ment, or, taking charitable view, it might
appear that he was the victim Of misplaced
| confidence.
OFFICER EDELIs's PART.
The testimony taken at the recent in
vestigation shows Officer Edelin,, who had
i beeu reduced to the rank and file, to have
made false statements regarding the COM
| muncating of the slander. Officer Block.
who had also been reduced to private, In
my personal and general examination re-
| garding this affair remained mute, refusing
whom the report reached him.
For further information respecting this
matter | Will call your attention to the aC-
compauying statements taken by mo in a
personal examination of the matter:
THE CASE SUMMED UP.
These statements show McDevitt to have
been a frequent visitor at Lieutenant
Arnold's room at the First Precinct Sta
tion, where he was always received and en-
tertaned In secret, and that he frequently
telephoned ahead, making engagements
with Arnold; that after McDevitt had car
ried his scandalous falsehood to the White
House he went to Lieutenant Vernon in
his private Office at the Fourth Precinct
Station-lIouse, locked the door of said
Office and then and there inquired II It was
true that such an order had been issued by
the Superintendent Of Police. He was
promptly dismissed, with denial from the
lieutenant, In response to which he said,
swell you have knocked me clean outr'
showing conclusively that he was non
| plussed and that the information he relied
upon must have come from what he
deemed trustworthy source.
An affidavit of officer Ralr shows that
McDevitt was the originator of the false re-
port that the alleged order was to aid the
Massachusetts avenue extension.
That element with which the Department
nus uaily 10 contend, together with lhose
parties who have not received satisfaction
at the hands of the Department, and those
ambitious to profit by change in its ai,
ministrattcn, have put their shoulders u
the wheel OF scandal after 1t was put in
motion by the parties have referred to.
SCHEMES TO ENTRAP HIM,
would add that weeks prior to the time
of the alleged conversation with Lieuten.
ant Arnold warning him against McDeyltt
and his operations in the department, and
after having been invited, repeatedly invited
by him to inspect the houses of ill-repute
in his precinct, and being warned by par.