The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-04-25

Have any OF them nao recourse TO a
pulp
mo member of the board is subject to a
pull" was the reply.
Commissioner Aiyord thought and said
that enough had been written about the
scandal
I'VE found had men in the department"
he remarked. land we are replacing them
with good men-that is. we think they are
good men.
1--WE have appointed men," and there
was heartfelt sorrow in the Comm ssioner'S
tone as he said "who turned out to De bad
men. They came with splendid recon-
mendations and turned out to be idlers and
drunkards. We are going to get rid of
them We are going to scan the conduct
of every sergeant on the force and who
ever is found wanting will have to 60"
Have you employed Pinkertons to
watch the suspected men?"
mo, sir; we have done nothing of the
kind. We have not employed Plnkertons
and are not going to employ them. The
evidence we obtained was secured by men
selected from the department, who went
about in citizens clothes. We heard their
reports and acted upon them. Sometimes
patrolmen who want to be sergeants and
sergeants who want to be captains tell
stories of wrongdoing about the men whose
places they want to fill, but we did not
have such evidence In this case.
II Cannot tell who will be dismissed
next. The investigation now going on
will be continued two or three weeks
longer"
docs the board hold secret sessions
now?"
ut does not. We have informal confer
ences. We had two on Sunday. but they
are not meetings"
what will be done with Spillane ?"
"Nine-tenths of the members of The de-
partment think ne is an honest man. We
have not yet investigated his case. Johns,
Coke and GlennoD were alike. They knew
that the laws were being violated, and yet
they did not inform us.
"Our men went to the Chinese and others
and obtained evidence for US. They learned
that six Chinese were collecting brides
from lottery-dealers and gamblers, who
paid them from 81 to $40 week for i'm
munity This money was divided with
The policemen. No Chinese came to US,
read US their testimony, page by page"
HAS the Information secured by you
been presented to The Grand Jury?"
1T has not. We will discuss the ad-
visibility of doing hat and obtain legal
advice GU the subject"
The six Chinese who formed the Illegal
games for their benefit and that of the
dishonest policemen preserve a strict in
cognito. Neither at Pistclesi's grocery on
Washington street, the old headquarters
of the Chinatown squad, nor at the little
Chinese grocery corner of Jackson street
and Dunbar alley, where Detectives Cox
and Glennon prepared their nets for the
lawbreakers. could anything be learned
concerning them. The Chinese policemen
employed by the Six Companies were as
discreetly silent on the subject as if they
stood in awe of Board OF Commissioners
as omnipotent as the one over which a
banker presides.
EX-Detective Gennon was at his old post
yesterday receiving the coincidence of his
friends. 1t had been his proud boast that
no one could lay a finger upon any dis
honorable or dishonest act of his while on
duty, and he felt his disgrace most keenly.
What he will do in the future is as yet a
mystery to him. Neither he nor his OLD
partner, CHRISTOPHER Cox, knew why hey
had been decapitated. and when it was
suggested to GlennoD that if he had made
the shortcomings of the squad known to
the Commissioners he would have saved
himself, he replied that he had his own
work TO do and could not look after them.
Ex-Sergeant Johns lives in a handsome
house at 210 Fair Oaks street, which he
purchased recently. He professed utter
ignorance of the cause of his downfall. 81
have done my duty faithfully and well and
in return have been shamefully wroDged.
l am not going to sit tamely down and al
low this stain to rest upon me. With a
good name ] entered the department and
with good name l propose to leave 1t.
What am going to do ABOUT it? That is
a question that l cannot answer now. /
suppose it will be said that l bought this
house out of the money that l unlawfully
obtained, but the house is mortgaged for
its full value and the records will prove It,"
Ex-Sergeant Coles lives in a fine new
house at 223 Castro street, but he could u OF
be found there or elsewhere yesterday
afternoon or evening
Ex-Sergeant Witham lives in a Mission
street lodging-house. where he has a back
room up two long flights of stairs. He
takes his medicine with the docility of an
old patient.
81 think l was fred" he remarked last
night, ION account of something a re-
porter wrote about me. One night man
came in and reported that he had been
robbed at Mailman g. Homan's Cremorne
He had taken hand in marble game
aud mad lost $50. l sent an officer
back to the Cremorne with orders to gel
the money or know the reason why.
was in Captain Shorts place at the station
and could not go myself. The money was
given back to the man and made my
report of the affair to my superior officer
Well, / told all this to the reporter, and
when his account of it appeared l was
astonshed to read that 1 had gone to the
Cremorne and that was incompetent, OF
worse, because l had not raded the place.
| think that crooked story had its effect
upon the Commissioners.
None of the men who were under me
in Chinatown have been dismissed, and
am sure that my discharge was not on