The evening world., 1894-04-11

Eyrncs-ns that that crime, so enormous
and so ticndlsh. should escape the ntten-
lion Of the pole" ana be uuearthed by "A
privat" organization
People vii begin to wonder pretty
soon what Is the use In having police
sup,rlutcn lent and "A police force.
rs 1t immodcst TO suggest as an "X.
pertinent that the Superintendent and
his SIburdlnates be given vacation for
n little while and the Sj.Un,pr apprupri-
ated annually for their use b" put into
the hands OF the Society for the Prevcn-
tion o. Crime or on" or two other or
gnuizuiiOns II similar nature. 80 that
We can have some clean and impartial
work done"
"lf We worc Superintendent Of the pc.
IL" ana parties OUTSIDE IN" force nHd
been the means Of bringing To- nsht
sixteen baby slaughter, pc Is, W, thimk
pi" OF Judas lscarIyt and gone and
hanged ourselves.
"lf Iyrros Is as ignorant Of this hus!,
ness as ne seems 70 hay" been, We 'onl
hay" given him lessons two years ago
Letters ~ complaint Of lIr. White
head and others have been coming in 70
Us Tor more than two ycnrs. ana IA" only
alternative which we can fix upon AS
explanatory Of the conduct OF tn" Eu-
perintcnhent is either that he was vii
fuzzy or suplncly ignorant or that h."
was participating In the m"rc"nnry
profits ~ these baby killers Now, that
is hard one"
DENERY REJOICING.
Capt. D@vcry was in high good humor
yesterday. Friends shook his hand on
the street. in his station-hous" AZ Oh
slip and In the District Attorney's Of
flee. Great quantities of win" were
drunk In his honor. and flowers were
sent to him in heaps. one heap was
NAKED Victory"
At the District-Attorney' office Capt.
Devery offered his renewed bail on the
three indictments still pending against
1,t dad
was the one upon which he was tried,
except that the dlsorderly places named
therein are No 30 'hrystie street, No.
l09 Forsyth street and No. 20 Eldridse
agent who was on capt. Devery's bond
before. again became his surety in
5000. Capt. pcYcry Will not bc tried
upon these indictments. It being the
custom in cases similar to this to dis
miss others when an acquittal has been
found on similar one.
MIR. MOSS Is CONTENT.
Frank Moss. who IL one of the Exc
cutiNe Committee OF the Society for the
Prevention Of Crime. and also Its coun-
Now that the first smart over our de
feat has passed away, 1t seems
to me that this trial IS one of
Ciety has ever gained. For the first
time Supt. Byrnes has assumed the re
spunSibility for the acts of "A subordinate.
therefor DTc ne mas insisted lUlt ti'H SUI
ordinate assumes the responsibilities for
his own act. on this trial he made every
effort TO save Dcvery. IT has been dem
onstrated that the whole Police Depart
mcnt has decided that 1t will stand as n
whole. that the members will stand to-
gether or fall together ! should rather
hay. had this brought out ana have the
trial end as 1t ala than have Devery
all"
A TIP FOR LEXoW.
The facts brought out in this trial
will make Capt. Devery mighty Inter
| esting witness II he Is called to testify
before the IeXow committee. There has
been laid an excellent foundation for
| inquiry into those quarterly police re-
ports ports relo o to the existence OF de
| Prior to the presentment made to tn
Grand Jury in March. 1872, the captain;
Of precincts reported with great par
tlcularly the locations OF alleged disor
derby places in their precincts. The pre-
sentiment to the Grand Jury calling at
tention to sections 22 and 2Si of thu
Consolidation Act. which permit thu
Superintendent to issue warrants for th'
raiding of houses on general information
caused that official to direct the cap
tains TO make reports not of allsged dis
| orderly houses, hut of those which ar,
known t. be dsorderly.
Now. II the capita ms reported the pres
ence Of dlsorderly houses they would b.
raar fS ThF bFpnns w. those s, %Iaartsr
~ i'' "''iNh N''hS W.
parrot. like In their sameness, declarin'
that there were no dislrderly houses II
the precinct
CHOATE. ROOT AND BLISS WOULI
NOT TAKE THE CASE.
There IL something significant in tn
fact that Inspector Williams made over
lures to Col George Bliss. Joseph II
Choate and Elihu Root, In turn to defen
Capt. Devery. That Williams did thi
The World learned yesterday.
Suppose one or all of them had take
the job. What n good thing II woul
have been for the Police Department
Connections would have been cstah
lished, and they would have doubles
undertaken the defense of the police OFF
GERS brought to bar. At any rate. tina
would have been expected OF them.
Lawyers OF the first rank. like Choate
Root and Bliss, command very larg
fees. Devery's case would have cos
thousands of dOllars-muCh more than
whole years salary for police captain
THAT did not worry Dcvcry. bcCaus
: other members of the Police Department
Immediately fastened to his aid. an
: told him money was not to be Consid
. cred. Inspector Williams seemed yer
} anxious, and, strangely, he was the frs
person Of prominence to whom Dever
applied for advice
2 uIIDPCTU oEVEN INNING JNDInTPr