The morning call., 1894-04-19
Why TWO HEADS FELL AS ONE.

nent scrutiny of the public, which pays
dearly for the service and thinks it has a
right to know something of the conduct OF
its servants, was never better demon
strated than in the present scandal over
the dismissal of Captain Hall. three mem
bers Of the Chinatown squad and Officer
Dawes, who had charge OF the difficult bu;
lucrative task of dealing with the lottery
meu.
From the Chief of Police down to the
patrol-wagOn drivers Mum is the word
just now. and this too in spite OF the deep
interest that is being taken by the people
in this radical step of improving the per-
sonnet OF the force ami of the general re-
jolcing at the downfall of Hail.
Even the men who hated Hall most and
know a great deal about him and his
methods have sealed theft lips to all in
oulrers for fear of becoming involved in
the departmental cat echism.
know he is no good" they say, but
when pressed for the grounds for that
statement they shrug their shoulders aud
eVade replying 10 questions by saying that
they DO not wish TO ''get mixed up in it. -
On all sides it is acknowledged that
Chief Crowley would never have laid low
the five men If he had not in bis possession
good proof Of some wIongdoing on their
part, and the fact that in the face of the
knowledge that the head of the depart
ment. Furnishes only where there is fault
the whole force is silent is significant to
say the least. If only the gully may ap-
pr ebend dismissal, why all this secrecy OF
the part of those not yet charged?
Detective Handey is shining example
of the conservative policy of the YET unim-
peached mem bers of the force. He said
yesterday, when asked about Dawes
methods, that hey were such that lie had
refused TO work with him on the lottery
detail. He said Dawes was color blind.
When asked why he had declined to b.
associated with D wes, he said: Il don't
want to say anything about him. | am
the last man TO throw sticks in man S
road" The detective seemed to think
this was a commendable virtue in the case
Of an officer who might observe another
pursuing the devious byroads which some
times lead to wealth.
But Dawes and Hall are known to per-
sons outside Of the police force. FORUM
ately, and il is not difficult task after all
to arrive at the connection between the
TWO in bringing about their mutual de-
structio1. Before Dawes was placed
where he could accumulate money and
diamonds with which to bedeck himself.
Detective Lean was the colaborer with
Officer Handley in the vineyard of the
lottery dealers. Lean made a good many
successful raids, but his efforts at clearing
out the lottery men were spasmodic and
not at all successful. There we're times
when the agents passed peaceful lives and
were free from troubling, end then would
come a season of great activity and vigil
ance on the part of the officers.
During the years that Lean was the head
of the firm of Lean and Handley he was
the close friend Of Hall, and when he died
it was supposed that Handley would sue
coed him in the favor of the Chiefs clerk.
There was a pretsnse of moving Handley
up peg, and he was made the principal of
the team of Handy and Dawes, The latter
having been detailed to assist him. But
this arrangement held only for short
time. Handley did not suit Captain Hall,
it is said. and so in a couple of months he
dropped out of the lottery business alto
gether, and Dawes had full swing. He was
as intlmate with Captain Hall as Lean had
been, and that their heads dropped into
the basket from the same stroke of the ak
seems more than a coincidence.
In this connection Handley's assertion
that be had refused to work with Dawes
because he was color blind" may be ex-
planned, as the officer explained it himself.
'They say that" he said. "about railroad
cond uctor who can't tell a greenback
from ticket"
Dawes intimacy with Hall following
the friendship of his successor with the
captain. and the simultaneous decapita-
ton of captain and head lottery man gave
color yesterday to the statement that was
frequently confidently made that the whole
lottery phase of the scandal had been
brought about by the rapacity of the twain,
and that the dealers weary of the rule that
was depicting their excheouers had gone
to Chief Crowley and laid bare the whole
affair.
But the lottery men, that is those who
are most prominent in this line of bust
ness-legitimate lottery-dealers as they
paradoxically cali themselves-do not sub
stantiate this statement. 1t is hardly to
be expected that they woul as that would
BE- placing them in the light of bribers.
They say on the other hand that Dawes
was very strict with them, and hat they
they were Eucn astonished at bis removal.
Felix Lott, bookkeeper for j. L. Frank
lin, agent of a well-known lottery CON-
panv, says that he does not think that any
Legitimate" lotery-dealer made complaint
to the Chief of Police. He would never
do such a thing himself. because, in the
first place. he would never offer bride To
an officer and. in the second place, be
would not go to the Chief of Polire and
admit such an ignoble act. even il he had
been guilty of it.
Then he offred theory SCI think"
he said, that if Dawes has been doing
anything wrong it must have been with
the men who sell counterfeit lottery tick
cts. That is where the trouble most prob
ably lies. The city is at present flooded
with counterfeit tickets aud it is rare that
you hear OF the arrest of man for selling
them. / believe that there was one case
not long ago, but it was an exception.
Now, why are not the sellers of these
tickets arrested? Il is just as risky for