The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-07-16
CHANGES BUNKO GAME.
He Has Disappeared With the
Cash Of Contemporary.
Collector Phelps Asks Commissioner Heacock
to Investigate Charges Against In
spector Pattison.

Botn Collector Phelps aud Inspector Pat
tison have agreed that the charges made
against the latter Ivy the detective agency
annex OF contemporary have sufficient
force 10 justify rigid investigation into
their truth. The following is a copy of a
letter forwarded yesterday to United States
Commissioner Heacoek:
July 10, 1892.
siOHeT-SlR: The san Francisco Examiner OF
yesterday made serious charges against Chinese
Inspector George Pattisou, who has for the past
TWO years or more been charged with highly re-
sponsible duties IN connection with tho landing
OF Chinese Ia this port.
III the charges arr true he is evidently an unfit
person 10 De la the Government employ. MIR.
Paitison has demanded a full lnvesttgatfon into
the charges made against him. IL Is GHr 10 hIm
ana the government That such an investigation
should De made. and that OF the most searching
character, so that II he Is shown 10 be guilty lie
may be removed from the service. and If inno-
cent his eHlclency as an officer may not be I'M
paired.
cannot myself undertake this Investigation
nor DO l think It desirable thai should do so.
Judges Mckenna ard Morrow are so fully oceu-
pied with pietboile calendars that cannot ask
ei1neI OF them 10 enter upon the investigation.
lhese Deing The circumstances / ask You, as a
GOYeTnuient officer TO undertake n, and TO 90 10
the very bottom OF the charges made. | know
am ASKING a great deal OF you TO undertake as
labofious task, for which you eau receive no
compensation, hut IL seems TO me there many
reasons why II Is desirable that you should do
81 -" 'lo Wen known as Jufist ana az tdif-
MINDED man. You are stranger, or nearly so
10 the accuser aud 10 The accused, ana eau have
no prejudice Ia the case.
III you viii kindly undertake TO make the In
VeStis&ilo1 please so inform me and OF the time
you viii be able TO commence. 50 may inform
Inc parties Very truly yours.
L. G.. fHELPs, Collector
Commissioner HeacOck, having consented
TO preside at the investigation, has fixed the
hearing Tor Thursday afternoon next
Inspector Pattison does not seem dis
turbed Ia any way over the affair. lie was
ABOUT ms duties as usual yesterday, and
was also engaged In providing for the at
tendance of his witnesses Mr. Pattison
maintains that he can establish an abb so
lar as the charge Is concerned that he made
two visits 10 the Occidental Hotel, where
the esveSdr0DpinR, tTansom peepIng,
llnen-closet hiding combination had set up
It's trap. lie can prove, lie says, from the
records mat he was al the deposit vault Of
the FIRST National Bank from 3:35 10 3 :46
o'ciock p. NJ on Wednesday. and by wit
ness that h+ boarded Market-street car al
1855 o'clock the same afternoon. His ac-
eusers charge him with being present at
crooked conference at the hotel at Al
o'clock on the same day.
Inspector Moves says that the certificate
Chang obtained was fatally defective and
never could have been accepted by the
Collector. The defect was in describing the
Chlnaman who was to be landed as an
opium-dealer. Collector Phelps has repeat
edly ruled that no other designation but
that Of merchant is admissible. Other
wise the certificate Is ruled out in every in
stance. The two Cinnamon who appear TO
have bunk0ed the amateur detectives out of
500 have disappear ed. Both the Chinese
Nice-Consul and Inspector PattisOn are
very anxious TO find Mr.. Chang.