Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-27

these parties and prosecute them to the
end
He then asked me II would let him
have tho report. / told him | could not
very we'll do that, but would allow him to
copy the report just as We had It. He
then asked me IL | would leave him those
two officers. who had made this investiga-
tion, to continue IT, For l had stated first
that these two officers had only about two
hours and a half to make their Investigation
and had not got all the way round and that
they told me personally that they believed
there we're about seventy-flvo machines run
ming in South Omaha.
He asked me If would allow these two
officers to continue the investigation so as
to ascertain the number Of places told
him / could not very we'll spare the men, as
we we're short Of men and | could not spare
them from our business up here. Then he
asked me II ! would allow them to take the
stand and testify told him l would II ne'es-
sary, but would rather he would take the
matter up himself and make an iuvestga-
tion of it. of these places l had given him
and the rest Of them. l gave as my reason
for that that | did not like to get into any
controversy with the South Omaha police
department, as 1t was necessary for us to
work in harmony and to work together at
investigation with his own men, but that if
necessary l would allow these men to take
the stand and testify In the case, and he
then wanted to get some men to go down
there and make the investigation"
why Were Complaints Supprcsscds {
What followed is well known, but per-
haps 1t is better to give 1t in the words of
the deposition, as brought out in Convcr-
sation between Captain Donahue and Mr.
Shields ten days later. Mr.. Shields had
come to get the assistance of the police in
raiding a poker Joint. AS narrated the
conversation was as follows:
1--WE talked over these matters and | said
to Mr.. Shields that l did not think he was
doing Just right. 1t did not look to me
that he was acting square in these matters
| told him what had done, given him these
names of places in South Omaha and that
he made no move whatever to file any COM
plants or stop it. That it was
in good faith gave him
these names That l knew he was being
misled, and l did it for his information, and
did not feel like l wanted to take any
active part further unless he showed Il
disposition to do the right thing himself.
well he said that he had. He said,
I have complaints sworn to and all ready
to file in these South Omaha cases, but, he
says. they have all agreed to take out their
machines and stop. and for that reason l
have not filed any complaints Then l
asked him: Mr.. Shields, is this not 4
fact? You called up Mr.. Carroll, CHIEF
of police at South Omaha, to your office on
last Monday and told him you wanted him
to get those machines all out Of those
places where they were operated, by tho
day or night after election. No, he said
he did not. He says, never made any
such request of Mr.. Carroll He says, 4
sent for Mr.. Carroll and told him he must
take those machines out, but l did not tell
him to take them out before or after cleo
ton. l told him to take them out
Further testimony also developed that the
order to have the machines taken out was
not given by Mr.. Shields until the day be-
foro election, and that while Captain Dona-
hue had secured through his men evidence
against twenty-seven machines in two hours
and q hall, Nh. Shields had taken a whole
week to collect his evidence, and then in
stead of filing complaints, for some yet un-
explained reason had notified the machine
men that he would not prosecute them if
| they ceased operating the machines.