St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-14
WINDY M. BRACKET.
This Will Be His Last Day as
Police Superintend-
ent.
He Gets Excited About Ru-
n1ors Concerning His
Removal,
And Suspends the Man He
Thinks Will Succeed
Him.
Northeast Minneapolis on the
Cable Question--Roman-
tic Wedding.

The pot is boiling in police circles,
and the days of Winn Bracket as su-
perintendent of police are numbered.
AS predicted in yesterdays GLOBE, the
superintendent will walk the plank
at Mondays meeting of the COM
mission unless something remarkable
happens in the meantime. The commits
sion's action will be based principally
on the Brainerd prOcuress case, which
was reported in the papers several days
ago. The facts in that case were that
procuress came here from Brain,
erd and found two girls here and
was preparing to take them OF to
Brainerd for the purpose Of introduce
were arrested by Chief Bracket and
locked up in the city jail. That was a
week ago Saturday. The women were
In Jail until Sunday evening, when
THEY WE'RE RELEASED
without having been brought into
court. The record at the lookup shows
that the women were released by order
of C4ief Bracket, The &C action ion
police commission, and against
the statute, which provides that
prisoners shall be released only aI III,
having been arraigned in court. Inc
action was so fragrant violation OF the
rules by such high officer that the
commission can hardly escape taking
cognizance of it. Another charge
that will be made against
the superintendent will be neglect of
the commissioners orders to bring up
the First street madames to be fined in
court. The chief received this order
from the commission first three weeks
ago, and it was reasserted at q late
meeting. Still, it is claimed, the order
was not obeyea until day or two ago,
when few OF the -
WOMEN WERE ARRAIGNED.
It is Freely predicted that these
o,oroas will 1T in the chiefs re-
nova tomorrow. The chief will prob
ably defend himself with vigC. 'elele
the commission and will likely claim
that he acted on good advice in releas-
ing the Rrainerd woman. as the IRE
"a; as 70 70 ,t,s1.e agaa:;nst he'll But on
the other hand, it is asserted that goGyY
cause for holding the woman could
have been found by inquiry at
the city she came from. The
chief was driven wild yesterday by
the reports in The afternoon papers that
he was about to lose his official head,
and especially by the report in the
Evening Star that Detective King was
to be his successor. Mr.. Bracket
was evidently severely nettled
by this rumor, and when he met
Detective King and his working part
ner. Detective Hall, at the police sta
ton last evening, he was red-headed,
and Numbered at King this question:
''Who are you working tor?" Inc
city," replied King. Under Whom"'
Under you, Chief" responded King
meekly. ''Well, haven't seen you since
the Fourth of july" the superintendent
said King. 81 have reported here
daily, and you haven't seen me because
you did not want to see me, and have
SLAMMED THE DOOR
of YOUR office in my face more than
once" Fred Georges book was re-
ferred to and bore out the assertion
that both King and Hall had reported
several times. This did not appeaSe his
Androscoggin, and he returned mood
ily. "well, you are both suspended"
Both detectives saluted CALAMITY and
retired to cogitate on their fallen for
tunes. The men are two of the ablest
detectives on the force, and their SuS-
pension was so extremely arbitrary an
act on the part of the chief that
it has done them no harm, rather
strengthened them with the public.
They feel their suspension badly, as
they had all but completed piece of
detective work that would have re-
bounded to their credit to the
good of the city. Backetts probable
successori is being discussed everywhere,
and amid the many rumors opinion set
ties down to the belief that it will be
ex-Deputy Sheriff George ii. johnson.
HE'S Republican and an old soldier, but
a liberal and active man, Commissioner
Giertsen and Mayor Babb would not
vote for any one but Republican, and
the latter, at least, would jump at the
chance to favor a &. A. r. man if
Bracket goes out, as it is certain he