Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-11
A BASELESS INsINUATION.

Orders that Chief Cuddy Never.
Gave to the Officers.
Yesterday mornings Times contained
an article of the stereotyped order on the
subject of Chief Cuddy and the gam
blers. As usual, definite charges are not
preferred and no names were given as
authority for thej statements made. It
was simply a collection OF dark insinua-
tions to the effect that during the abb
sence of Mayor Workman the gamblers
were to be allowed full swing, and that
the money received as bribes for this inn
munity from interference Was to be used
to pay the expenses Of the coming DEM
ocratic Convention. The only statement
of sufficient importance to be worthy of
notice was that orders had been recently
given by the Chief that no more raids
were to be made, and the gamblers were
hereafter to be allowed to carry on their
operations in peace.
of the first men to have received il would
have been Captain Harris, the chief Of
the detective force.
mo such order was ever given to me,"
declared Captain Harris when the matter
was referred to him, "and I believe I
should have known of it had it been
given to any member of the detective
force. Since Chief Cuddy has been in
Office we have had very definite orders
on that subject, and they have never
been changed"
81 never heard anything of it," said
Detective Mccarthy" and I don't be-
lieve any such order was ever given. In
fact know it wasn't. AS far as gam
bling is concerned, very little of it is go
ing on at present, and that entirely with
out the knowledge or consent of the
police"
''It is false and very absurd" said
Detective Mackenzie. II should like to
see the man that ever heard any such
orders given"
"No such orders ever came to my
ears" said Detective Lynch.
Officer McGrath was very emphatic in
his denial of the statement and was in
dignant at learning that any one had
quoted him as authority. Officer Flick
ner said that no such order had ever
been given him, and he was as likely to
hear it as any one as he had been active
against the gamblers. A number of
officers whose beats lay in the parts of
the city formerly infected by gamblers,
testified that they had heard of no
change in the standing order, nor had
they seen any symptoms of reappear-
ance of the old offenders.
The article was shown to Chief Cuddy,
who said it was lie out of whole cloth
and that he would like to hear the names
of those who were responsible for it.
He had given no such orders at
any time and had no intentions
of doing so. Gambling was as we'll
held under at present as it could be.
There were some few games of hoky-
pokey, but it had been shown by repeat
ed efforts here and in San Francisco,
that it was impossible to secure convic-
tions with games of this order. Several
days ago gang of thirteen Cinnamon
were run in for playing dice, but the next
morning they we're all freed by the police
court. Such arrests we're frivolous and
useless.''
The result of the investigation was q
pretty clear case of baseless insinuation,
and the detectives thought that if any
more statements of this kind are to be
made, they would certainly look more
dignified, and be more just, if they con-
tanned the names of those who serve a.
authority.