The morning call., 1893-05-10

Is hard 10 ma. AT any rate the situation
promises that the police department. is
about 10 get the biggest shaking up it has
had for years.
Chief Crowley believes his force to be
clean, but his opinion is not shared by
everybody else in San Francisco.
Sergeant Whitman, Corporal Parrotte and,
In fact the entire police force. are up in
arms over tile intimation or rather asser-
tion made by Judge Conlau that the blue.
coated guardians of tho peace have an
Itching palm.
As matter of fact his Honor declares
that for years the patrolmen. as well as
many of their superiors. have been going
around in the questionable quarters of this
city with their hands outstretched and
eyes wide open.
The picture Judge Conlan draws has its
companion by the same artist, and it rep
resents NJ. Policeman with his eyes closed
and his hands sunken In his well-flled
pockets.
Judge Conlan says these things because
he believes lie has enough proof to bring
forth 10 corroborate them, and have a
batch of policemen discharged from the
force. Further than that lie Just now shows
every indication of being vengeiuI enough
10 pursue said discharged officers clear
into the GRAND Jury room. where he pro-
poses to have them indicted.
1t is all the outcome of Corporal Par
rotie's statement that Judge Conlan al
lowed prisoner to leave the Jail on his
own TecognZance at a time when that
prisoners victim was lying at the point Of
death from the effects Of severe beating.
That prisoner. whose station in life lays
him amenaOle to police surveillance, is only
one Of a class of individuals who have had
Judge Cunlan as an attorney for years
prior to his accession to the bench. Hence,
the policemen, who claim to be anxious to
always secure convictions when they
make arrests, viewed with alarm the pre-
lminary action taken by one OF the Judges
who is likely to hear this particular case.
Sergeant Whitman goes further, saying
that the Judge has committed himself in
writing in such a way that his judicial
fairness may be impugned. He says that
cases similar TO the O'Hanlon one, over
which the trouble arose, came up a short
time age, and in the ordinary course of
events they would not have been heard in
No. Court. over which Judge ConIan
presides Tie latter ascertained this fact
and left note to the officer who dis
trbuted the cases in the various courts
instruclng him to go out of the routine
and send certain cases for trial to his
court. Some of these, however. strayed
into Judge Joachimsen's conrt, where the
defendants were found guilty and fined
5000, while men and women equally guilty
were acquitted by Judge Conlan.
There appears to be no particular way
to determine how rotten the entire affair is.
In matters of this kind the bribe giver and
the receiver are equally guilty, and it is
not likely that either Will tell of his guilt.
1t is only in a general way that the facts
can be easily arrived at
Chief Crowley. it is generally conceded.
knows Dothng of these dOings. He would
not countenance them moment. Still
they are going on under his very nose, and
he has so far been unable to detect the
culprits. Under the circumstances lie is
awaiting anXiously for the developments
promised by Judge Conlan.
There is any quantity of general corro-
boratiye evidence in plain view substan-
tating Judge Coulan's general accusations
against members of the police force, but
little that would convict any individual
officer of bribery.
The uneasy feeling over the entire affair
has developed almost iEto panic about
the old City Hall.
1t is felt that although charges have been
made only against Sergeant Whitman and
Corporal Parrotte the investigation into
these charges must lead TO disclosures
which will have tendency to impicate
others and lead to a general upheaval.
The question is, Can the Judge prove
his case?" He has many sympathizers,