The San Francisco call., 1899-05-26
CROEz|NGER
LOCKS HORNS
WITH WIT MAN
Says He Will Not Be
BulIdoZed.
EXCITING SCENE IN COURT
PUTTING MEN IN ''THE TANKS"
HoTLY DENOUNCED.
EXCITING SCENE IN COURT
Captain Seymour Refuses to Recog-
nize the Orders of Captain
Whitman and the Chief
Supports Him.

The ambition of Captain Whitman to
show the Detective Department how to
gather in bunko steerers with the aid Of
two of his men-Officers Cullinane and
Chappelle-has brought down on his de-
voted head not only the wrath of Chief
Lees, Captain Seymour and the detec-
tives, but also Acting Police Judge Groe-
Finger, and the developments yesterday
were highly interesting.
While the men were waiting for their
cases to be called in court Cullinane and
Chappelle arrested three of them, Will
liam Golden, ]. w. Simpson and John
Reynolds and dragged them downstairs TO
the City Prison. Reynolds happened to be
in Acting Police Judge Groezinger's
courtroom at the time he was arrested
by Cullinane. When they reached the
prison the officers requested that the
mems names should be entered on the
detinue book
Captain Seymour happened to drop in
to the prison and asked why the three
men were being put on the small book.
Cullinane replied that ii was by Captain
Wittmans orders. Seymour asked if
they had any other charge except vag-
rancy against the men and Cullinane ad-
mitted they had not. Seymour then re-
fused to allow the mems names to be put
on the small booK and ordered the Off
GERS to release them so that they could
appear in court. Cullinane begged for
five minutes to consult Captain Witt;
man, but Seymour peremptorily ordered
that the men be released
When their cases were called before
Groezinger later Attorney Mack arose
and said that he wished to make state
ment in justification to himself. 1t had
been insinuated by the police that the
men released on their, own recog-
nizances Wednesday would not appear IN
court, and their presence was sufhcient
to refute that lie. The statement had
been made by Captain Whitman on the
I, Af~ on off JTh
traitor to his friends, thereby getting MS
position on the police force, and who was
unworthy of belief The ofi1eer l had 6, no 40
was a shame that on his uncorroborated
statement caused by his anxiety to get
into the upper office he and the Judge
should have been attacked by the news
papers.
would never get into the upper of1ce.
Attorney Mack then denounced the po-
lice for arresting men and putting hem
in ''the tanks which he said was gong
back to the days of the Inquistion. Three
of his clients had been dragged to the
prison while waiting for their cases to
be called and an effort made to lock them
up in 1.-The tanks, which he declared was
Il have been roasted by the newspa-
pers," said the Judge, for simply trying
to do my duty Some time ago l fined
man for having a -in-the-slot ma
chine in his saloon 800 with no alterna-
tive and at the instigation of the police
was roasted IOT II. HIS IlOillhS L4AC
Chief of Police asks me to do the very
same thing in the poker cases and it just
shows how a trick is turned"
'It was my suggestion said Carpen,
ter sin regard to the poker cases and
not the Chiefs. l merely spoke to him
about it and he said as L had conducted
Hansen's case so Well anything Wouid
do in the other cases would meet with his
appreciation"
The Judge then turned his wrath upon
Whitman. II will not allow you to come
tT-f md TV
he said You have a record that will
not stand airing and when you order
your men to arrest men VINO are IN my
court awaiting trial you are trying on
bulldozing methods that will not be toler-
ated. Neither you nor Chiet Lees can dlc-
tate to me as to how will run my court.
Whitman said that he had no intention
of bulldoZing the Judge. The reason the
men were to be placed in the tanks was
because officer Ross on Market street had
told him the men could be Identified for
having committed other offenseS. He was
not finding fault with the men being re-
leased on bail, but with those released on
their own recOgnizance.
II will exercise my own discretion
retorted the Judge, 'as to such matters,
and will do just as see fit"
II guess you will said Whitman, and
the discussion ended.
Attorney Mack put up $50 cash bail for
each of the five men and their cases were
continued until May 81.
When Whitman got outside the court
room he vented his wrath upon Cullinane
for getting him into such a scrape and
said he would see that he and Chappelle
were put on street duty again.
Chief Lees said that Captain Seymour
cid quite right in refusing to put the
three men on the small book, as it would
have been a contempt of court. He had
brought the two officers before him and
reprimanded them, telling them that if
there were other people to identify the
men arrested they could have been taken
to the courtroom for that purpose
Captain Bohen said the men were all
strangers to him and the Detective De-
partment, except Reynolds, who was once
arrested for vagrancy. King had been ar
rested by officer Chappelle, as the officer
made it out that he had stolen ex-Attor-
ney General Hart's diamond ring but it
had been proved that King was not out
side the city at the time.
In Judge Grahams court the cases of
J. Evans, John Hardy, B. Golden and
James Fragley were continued till to-day
and in Judge Mogan's court the case Of
]. r. King was continued till to-day and
the n Of IamPS (1jllaSr1ia