The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-28
FRIDAY DECEMBER 2 1894

ItiN n li sNNb SooAASAss " weight of evidence. l claim, therefore. that it is shown that Mir. Giihuly can not remain on the police board without prejudice 10 the public interest. and continued injury to tho morals and discipline Of the department; and that sufficient probable cause Is made out. as the result Of your inquiry. for q reference of these charges to the court of common council, before which Commissioner Glihuiy would have ops portupity for rebuttai and defense.
 V.
 The committee was asked to inquire whether tips or improper information of intended police raids have been given. The evidence shows that in several instances. soms several years ago. and others recent. such infornia- ton appears to have been given. pp. is. ios, i2I. 2iO. 22e. 2si. e3s, 2s7. 2si. 26o. 266. 3i6. 450-l. tN. In some in- stances. one as recent as last June. the evidence points to the same per son. who is not a member of the de- partment. would respectfully sub init that the person so implicated be excluded, so far as possible, from the police building. But how other tips have been given. especially to gam blers. the evidence does not sufH- ciently show. Continued and diligent Inquiry along this line may serve to prevent such damaging leaks in the future. and discover who have been responsible for them. No evidence has been offered to warrant the suspicion of any general or systematic corrupt use of money for protection. The tes- timony of one witness as to methods by which disorderly houses in past times have secured protection by pay ment of sums of money, and loans to pa- trolmen.is not sufficient of itself to war rant charges against present members of the force to whom moneys are thus said to have been paid: but the testi- mony is of sufficient significance to in- dicate methods of protection against which the vigilance of the department needs to be directed. As Illustrating a certain method of protection of i'm hoobSo PCl iIC to Iuh yout attention to the evidence on pp. 66S-72. It appears that In this recent raid upon a notorious disorderly house, all the men found there were let go by the officer, and subsequently that all the women were allowed by Judge Calla- han to return on their good behavior, while the proprietor was fined small amount-a method of suppressing dis orderly houses, the justice of which Some testimony has also been intro- duced to the effect that 1t has been an understood thing among keepers of houses of ill-fame that they were to go up and pay fines about once in six months. if they were doing a good business, and about opce a year If their business was not good. Other evidence has been introduced to show that some notorious places of this sort might be broken up. if a real effort was made to do so.
 VI.
 In the course of this investigation in- formation of grave importance came to me. which compelled me to look higher than the police department in the effort to discover how a murderous business may have gained security and immunity from punishment. It is matter of the most serious moral, as well as legal con- cern. how certain well known doctors, who have left trail red with blood hind them, have managed so long to escape the just penalty of their crimes. You have rightly, therefore, I think, extended the scope of your inquiry so far as to discover where the responsi- bility of the police department ends, and other responsibility begins. for un- detected or unpunished crime. Inas- much, however, as some portions of this part of the investigation remain to be completed, and as in justice to all concerned no publication of the matter should be made until every line of in- quiry has been followed to its end, re- serve at present any discussion of this grave. matter. When the right time shall appear, in my judgment the inter- ests of the public morals and the pure administration of police justice require that all this evidence be made public, and this whole iniquity be exposed.
 While the vote authorizing your com- mittee to act limits your functions to the entertainment of the truth of alle- gations concerning the efficiency of the police department, do not understand that the committee is thereby debarred from making such recommendations in their findings as the evidence may seem to them to justify. I would therefore respectfully urge that after finding the facts, as shown by the testimony, the committee recommend that all the evil dence relative to the influence of commissioners who do wholesale bot ting business with the saloons be re- ferred to the court of common council for them to determine whether any restrictions to the eligibility of men do- ing a wholesale business with saloons for positions on the police board may be required, and additional ordinances to this effect, or amendments of the charter are needed; and also whether further hearing in the case of MT. Gil- huly is demanded by the public inter- ests. Further, may suggest, that all evidence pertaining to the failure of cases in courts. or alleged protection of illicit business through the courts, be ultimately submitted to the representa-