The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-02-07
THREE MEN BROKEN.
eAlpus, DEXTER AND MlLLIkeN.
serving Two MasterS-Rogers 10 Not
q Catholic or an A. p. A., but
Wants Good Omcers-

There was . general shake-up In the pc-
lice separtunent last night. IL took JCst
ssxteen minutes for tire commissioners tn
swing the az three times, and each time
re head OF an A. p. A policeman fell In
the basket The victims were A. w. Dex-
Ter. Of Fremont: Willis Milliken, Of ca
Jackson street. and Charles J. Baidus, who
lives on Jacobs avenue. near
caie- street TIE annual cleo
trolmen was taken up and resulted in the
recollection fer one year Of the force as it
stood minus the three decapitate6. and the
following additional: Regular. W. p
Thompson; specials. L. V. Perington. W.
p. Chapman and II. c. Adams
While the only reason ascribed in Chief
Rogers letter Of recommendation that
Dexter, Raidus and Milliken be dropped
was the betterment Of the force. those who
read the Post-Inteliiseneer yesterday
morning cannot fail TO see the link be-
tween the chiefs lecture to the force and
what actually took place last night When
Rogers returned from Mexico recently he
found that the department was In pecu-
liar condition. He did not like IL. Rogers
Is not Catholic or an A. p. A. 1t did not
take him long TO find out what was going
on. II IL almost needless TO say that his
idea of what policeman should do did not
agree with what came 10 his ears Then.
when the Merrill case came I'D other things
happened which were limited at In the
Post-Tnteiligencer yesterday morning One
thing that gave Rogers annoyance was the
continued rumor connecting. by innuendc.
his name with an alleged conspiracy to
Job Merrill. who was generally known
as a strong A. Il. A In justice to Rogers
il should be said that when Robert Miller
reported his suspicious OF what was going
on Rogers was in California AT the time
Of the arrest Rogers was in the city. but
not al the police station. and he did not
know anything about II until morning. The
action Of Special Officer Pearee, Baldus
and Dexter in connection with this case
FASTENED the lecture from Chief Rogers.
While the chief viii not talk about the
matter. IL il certain that he had Miller. the
prosecuting witness; Baldus and Dexter
before him night before last. The chief
was not satisfied with the explanation Bal
us gave Of why he told Miller that IL might
be 10 his advantage 10 go down and see
Dexter Chief Rogers has affidayits from
Charles Lunn. an eyewitness to what took
place in the barn. and from Robert Foley,
who saw Miller and Lunn when they went
TO the barn, and who was there when Mer-
rill was taken out. who say in substance
that they were offered $i0o cash as part
payment for skipping out. They did not
skip. however. and have told the whole
story, not only of what they saw at the
barn, but what was said to them about
Merrill by one of his friends In brief. this
is the history of some OF the principal
things that led up to the grand shake-up
last night.
Those who AFFECT to know say that the
three men who were dropped are suspected
OF carrying out the orders of the A. p. A.
or trying to enforce it's influence in the per-
Torrance OF their duty by showing par
TALLY.
IL was not known even among the patrol
men that Rogers had a mind to take the
bull by the horns and give IL a flop. The
men who were dropped had no PRESENT.
ment OF how determined a man Rogers is
until he walked UP to them after the meet
Ing and told them to pass In their tools"
Ii was about o'clock that the chief
stepped up 10 the telephone and called up
Mayor Phelps and asked him II he would
be down to the meeting. The mayor said
he had another engagement, and he did not
know as he would be around. Rogers sim
ply replied that there would be some mat
tiers OF interest When the time FOR the
meeting arrived Commissioners waliing-
ford. Kirkwood and Baker were present.
In the absence of the mayor kirkwood
presided
Chief Rogers first announced the Iesig-
nation OF Clerk Frank Kennedy. 10 take
effect Immediately. The commissioners
accepted the resignation. Then Rogers
took I'D a letter which read In brief: Il
recommend that the names OF Patrolmen
A. w. Dexter. Willis Milliken and G j.
Ralius be dropped from the rolls; u at
w. p. Thompson be made regular, and
that L. Y. Perington. W. b. Chapman and
II. C. Adams be made specials.
'T make a motion that the chiefs recon-
meudations be adopted" said Baker.
II second the notion" said wallingford
Kirkwood put the motion. and by voting
with the other two members made the ae-
ton unanimous. The annual election was
then taken up. and on motion OF Wailing-
ford and with the concurrence or the otner
commissioners the police department. was
reorganized as follows:
Chief. Bolton Rogers: captain. G. W. Ho-
gle: sergeants, u. F. Willard. John sulli-
van. George A. Templeton: clerk c. ;.
Reed; matron. Emma Taylor; jailers. w.
I. Peer. Henry Surry: patrol drivers. f. b.
Johnson and Sam Hamilton: patroimen
detailed as detectives, Ed Cud'hee, j. L..
Wells. C. II. Phillips. Gil Philbrick, 5. G..
Corbett, j. II. Williams.
Patrolnen--G. a. Thorn. NJ. r. Powers.
J. w. Gia<scock. Jane. Byrne. VI. Mum
son, r. c. stevens. John Kelly. William
wneS. J. c. wickman. John Brennan. c. i.
Grant. j. l. Bates, Irving Ward, John
Corbett. J. W. HUI ]. r. Burkman. w. F.
Iaubscher, I. A. Barbee. r. p. Marquis.
s 4. Hoddsen. L. J. Birdsali. s. 8. Craw-
ford. A. II. Milford, T. n. Ellis, E. c. Crit
9Th T. VI, Moore, c. A Corners, A. VI.
Kent. Payton Brown. II. w. Barr, w. b.
Thompson.
Herder-George Crosse.
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