The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-25
PAID AS A BRIBE.
What a Lottery Broker Gave for
Police Protection.
She Becomes Weary Of the Exaction and Re-
ports Detective Handley and Policeman
Waugaman-They Are Suspended

Policeman Charles L. Waugaman and De-
tective Henry Ii. Handley were suspended
from duty ell even days ago, under circum-
stances that betoken another scandal, which,
if the air of secrecy and the slow deliberate
manner in which the affair is being investi-
gated 60 for aught, will prove very sensa-
tional.
Had the Police Commissioners met last
Monday OF the Monday previous the officers
suspension would not have lasted so long,
and their guilt or innocence would probably
have been determined ere this.
Waugaman is charged directly with having
received brides ON various occasions as an
inducement to keep his and his brother
officers hands off one lottery ticket seller in
particular and the guild in general.
His accuser is Mrs. NJ. V. Thomas, pro-
prietOr of the West Coast Bookstore, 1908
Market street, near Eighth. Handley'S sus-
pension was at the instance Of the same
Mrs. Thomas, but what the specific charge
against him may be was not learned.
BLEED FOR PROTECTION.
From the facts learned In an exhaustive
search among the interested parties the in
dications are that the lottery-dealers and
men and women, who boldly enter offices
ana private residences under the very
nose of the police in their illegitimate traffic.
have been bled monthly by go-between,
who claimed the money reached the Police
Department and protected them from
arrest. That some of this money reached
at least two of the force seems apparent in
the charges against Waugaman and Hand
ley.
Mrs. Thomas bookstore is filled with
stationery aud yellow backed novels, Just
SORT tn OF OF rnh h
able spectators in lottery schemes. For
months according to her story she sold
lottery tickets there. In her complaint to
Chief Crowley and the Police Commits
sion she said she had regularly paid $40 a
month indemnity for that privilege. This
money, she claims, she paid to one j. X.
Fritz. Fritz called there regularly and was
paid every month the amount he claimed
the police had assessed her business at
NoBoDY's FOOL.
Mrs. Thomas takes pride in being obody's
fool, and she at last Questioned Fritz very
the Police Department who received the
money from him. She even refused to
pay him any more money unless lie satisfied
her the police actually received the money.
What she had in mind then she will not say,
whether she n,eant to expose the police If
they received the money or release herself
from vampirous taxation in case they did
not.
Fritz left in quandary. When the time
for the next assessment was at hand he ap-
peaTed to have regained confidence in the in
tention OF the lottery-dealer and appeared
on the scene with his cert ificate of good
faith, that the money really reached the p0-
lice. This certificate was the person Of Po-
liceman Waugaman. He was duly intro
duced ana seems to have become a substi-
tu.e for Fritz in his collections.
MAKES A PROTEST.
She paid Waugaman several times and
then protested against the assessment to
Chief of Police Crowley. The result was,
WaugaJnan and Handley, who always travel
tOge Their. were summoned before Chief
Crowley to face the woman.
First several persons resembling these two
men were taken before her, but she shook
her head. When Waugaman was taken be-
fore her she identified him completely, then
broke into tears. Handley was likewise
identified and both men were thereupon sus-
pended.
This was eleven days ago. The call to
appear before Chief Crowley, the identified
ton and subsequent suspension of tile two
men were so quietly accomplished that
many of their brother officers will be sur
prised to learn from this public print of the
affair.
MAY TAKE WATER.
Policeman Waugaman is as silent as the
tomb on the matter. He declined in an at
tempted interview to say anything about
hhO saJiu L us'u tiilDh the lduy
knows the enormity of the crime she charges
me with and she may take water before the
commission meets" He lives at I'll Dia-
mond street, whittier lie recently moved
from 1873 Fair Oaks street. His peat is from
Twenty-tourth TO Thirty-frst streets, on
Church and Sanchez.
Henry IL. Handley, detective, has had the
special charge Of LOOKING after the lotteries.
Instead OF running down the ticket-brokers
he has often been seen about town with
ha anll
Waugaman took hand
Mrs. Thomas formerly kept confectIon-
ery-store on Third street and was burned out
about three years ago.