Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1902-12-05

there is in the city. They say the men
are as strong as oxen, but awkward
and only for this feature their ugllness
when taken in custody would make
them unhandleab1e. They are not able
to use their great strength but When
they get a hold there is nothing lett
the policeman to do but use his stick.
A policeman is not doing MS duty
when he takes chances with prisoner.
The man who knocked officer Brear-
toms shoulder out of joint is only u
years of age, yet the police say ne IS
veritable lion physically.
The most serious offences against
the law this year We're all committed
between Jackson street and Leonard
street. In the summer time half
dozen men unable to speak English
set upon another man and gave him
terrible beating. He had to be taken
to the hospital and there he was con-
fined for some months. Only last
| week two or three men beat a fellow
countryman most severely. He is still
laid I'D and one man is in custody.
In midsummer four = men laid
| in wait for one whom they suspected
of ''scabbing'' and they pummelled
him dreadfully. a man named Smith
was among those arrested. He said
| he had been in town only few days,
having just come from the coal regions.
He was striker and convinced the
court he was innocent.
A few weeks ago a policeman testi-
| fed in the city court that almost every
man of a certain nationality carried
weapons of some kind concealed on his
person nights, and that almost every
night some man is sandbagged.
The weapons for the most part are
generally of the homemade kind but
not possessing the virtues of the aver
| age homemade article. Some of them
have been shown in the city court
and they certainly were fierce" look
| ing things. Not a particle of diplom-
acy was apparent in them from end to
end they looked to mean business and
| blood.
The opinion of the policemen is GER
tainly better than that of women as to
the most dangerous place in the city,
the beat where things happen. They
all agree that that place is between
Jackson street and Leonard street
and the records Of the city court bear
them out in this. Years ago that dis
tinction was divided between the sew
eral places Burnt hill. Baldwin street
and Railroad hill. Nowadays Baldwin
street, or in fact the "Abrigador'' is
never heard of in the city court.
Once in a great while Burnt HIP is
heard from, but in the form of what
is known in police circles as 'plain
drunk
"Out East has been very quiet for
| years. In fact there is no particular
place where the police gives particular
attention to now. No part of the city
is distinguished from any other part
by the nature of the violations against
the law committed there, excepting
the territory already named by the po-
lice. Gangs that once made life mis-
cradle for the people living in the SUI
burbs years ago, appear to have dis
solved into respectable citizenship.
/ A great change has taken place in the
nationality of those who make bust
ness for the police and the city court
as in fact great change has taken
place in everything throughout the
city. One race has given way to an
other and when a broken head, a
shooting ARRAY, stabbing or a case
of carrying concealed weapons has
occurred the police invariably look
toward the section named above.