Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-02
Be A MODEL
X. POLICE FORCE
City Of Havana Will Soon Be
Well Patr0lled.
PERFECT ORGANIZATION
About One Thousand Men Will be
Needed and MI. McCullagh Is
Selecting Them Now.

New York, lar "A dispatch to the
World from Havana says: Good pro-
gresS has been made in the creation Of a
Havana police force. Already several
inspectors have been appointed and more
than enough applications are on file to
fill the subordinate positions and the
ranks. Chief Of Police Col. Moulton
brings to his hard task wide business ex-
perience and great energy. He has rec
commended drastic changes in the lower
courts to help the speedy punishment of
crime.
Havana's policing is to be modern.
Each of the twelve precinct stations Will
be connected with the central office by
telephone and New York .~'hurry-up'
wagons will startle pedestrians. Up-to-
date ''nippers' will %displace the tightly
drawn rope which now brings prisoners
elbows painfully together behind the
back. No more bleeding men will be
marched as a butt of abuse through the
narrow streets nor will women offenders
be bound and hustled as animals. WIKI
each criminal is, where he goes and
he does will be recorded. Now either
nothing is heard of a man after he CON-
mits a crime, or he resumes hrs former
habits in his former home with abso-
lutely no espionage.
Eighteen hundred applications for po-
lice positions have appeared. OF these
about LOCO will be accepted. Inspector
McCullagh thinks he can pick enough
good men to make an effective force from
the start. There will be 72O policemen, of
u-h0n 10O will he mounted Annthpr hun
dred will be used in special details at
public meetings, the ferry, railroads and
all public gatherings. The remainder will
be officers. There will be a chief, Col.
MOulton, one deputy chief, eight inspec-
tors, twelve captains and 80 lieutenants.
Inspector McCullagh has treated the lat
ter rank here because the rank ser
geant' as used in the United States
really means lieutenant and is officially
recognized as being the equivalent of
that grade in the United States army.
There viii be 43 sergeantS as well with a
lower order OF duties and then the patrol
men. The term 'rOundSman' Mr.. McCul-
lagh considers obsolete n he has drop
ped it, assigning those duties to his SER
geants. Few American applications I'VE
appeared, one of the requirements is that
future Havana policemen must be able
to speak Spanish. By Presidents Nc
Kinley's express desire no account is TAX
en- of the nationality of any applicant.
Cubans and Spaniards are treated with
absolute impartiality.
Col. Moulton has recommended to Gen.
Ludlow that eXperas be asked to report
upon changes in the methods of proce-
dure in the lower courts n in the penal
code. Under Spanish law, an accused
person, after being examined in the lower
courts could be kept in prison for three
years awaiting trial in the middle ones.
The power hus to delay trial has been
often used by corrupt Spanish authori-
ties to mulct the prisoner and his friends
if they have money. Even for minor Of
lenses the prisoner may be kept y hours
before his case is called. Inspector Nc
Cullagh says:
'"They keep a man in Jail and then spend
three days finding out who he is. If he
is anybody that's enough to see what his
family and friends will do for him"
The veteran also avs
Talk about your soldier policemen,
with rifles, just give me the New York
policeman's club with good courts behind
it and I'll guarantee to keep Havana the
| most peaceable city in the world. It's
people are mild and easily handled
Col. MOulton's future policy as to the
suppression of public immortality, the
curse of Cuba, will be as General Ludlow
may direct. Probably few changes will
be made at present although the immoral
theatres may be warned to remove GER
tain features. Col. Moulton says
Il shall try to avoid either extreme and
to use plain common sense in dealing
with delicate questions and customs of
three centuries growth"