Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-24

4 from what I have seen IN the papers ant
the general knowledge of the community
uur. Jacobs: Haven't some statements
been made about you in the newspapers
i that you didn't agree to-
! DR.. Hawthorne: Oh. yes; but I say thai
! was put in the newspapers as expressing
B the general knowledge of the community
u The Mayor: We are killing a lot OF
valuable time.
MR.. M'KEE NEXT.
/ Mr.. Mckee then took the stand.
Ur. Hawthorne: Mr.. Mckee, have you
ever made any complaints to the police.
or called the attention of the police to
any gambling going on in the vicinity OF
! the Y. M. C. A. building?
| MI Mckee: I have not.
/ DR.. Hawthorne: Have you any evil
| dence to lead you to believe that gam
bling has been going on in a house near
by?
Mr.. Mckee: Not until recently.
Dr. Hawthorne: Have you had reason
to believe that gambling has been going
on there recently?
Mr.. Mckee: Not in the last two or
| three weeks.
| DR.. Hawthorne: But before that you
did?
Mr.. Mckee: We had good reason to be-
| lieve it; yes. sir.
Mr. Manning: You don't know it per-
| sonally?
! Mr.. Mckee: I know nothing Of gam
! bling houses or houses of ill-fame; but I
| believe it.
.--r. Manning: How do you believe it If
you didn't see it?
Mr.. Mckee: I don't see I am living,
| but believe it.
Mr.. Mckee: made : complaint to the
police in the one matter I thought was
a public nuisance. and they replied that
| they couldn't do anything.
! Mr.. Whittet: What was that?
| Mr.. Mckee: 1t was throwing acid into
| the Young Mems Christian Association
| dows. There is a lack of discipline in our
| district In the shade Of our trees stand
disorderly women at night.
| would like to enter a protest. in a
courteous way. against the ire iC>ont ac-
corded witnesses here this evening. Cen
tlemen who have nothir1 to do with this
| matter are allowed seats. and witnesses
are kept standing three hours and twenty
minutes.
The Chairman: How could that be
avoided?
cured very easily.
Mr. Mckee: Before leave the stand.
may I make statement that I Think
ought to be recorded here?
The Chairman: Yes. sir
MR. M'KEE'S OPINION.
Mr.. Mckee: I don't question the Police
Board, or their energy. but it seems to me
that man who has been in office seven
years and half ought to be able to
close up the saloons on Sunday, when
the Law and Order League convicted the
first twenty-one that were brought to
court.
Mr.. Welsh: How?
Mr.. Mckee: Through unauthorized men.
Mr.. Welsh: How did they get those
men?
Mr.. Mckee: Just as they city does, I
suppose.
MIR. Welsh: They brought them down
here from another city. didn't they?
Nc Mckee: Yes. sir.
Major Howard: l will say that the first
year was Chief of-Police reported nine
ty-nine cases. the second year. l think.
fifty-fcur. and they diminished from that
time on account of the difficulty OF getting
into the places. I will say that when the
Sunday Observance League came to see
me in regard to a letter written to me
and one to the Mayor ut the same time
| asked them to come to see mel sug-
gested to them to get men from away from
here and I wanted them to work under
my supervision, and told them l had no
means to get them. But they didn't see
fit to allow me to handle them and
handled them themselves, and the result
was that the men they had were very bad
people which they themselves know.
Mr. Mckee: I understand that was as
certaiued afterwards They We're not the
only ones that ever had bad people,
though.
The Mayor: Who had bad people-the
Sunday Observance League?
Major Howard: Yes and last year my
annual report shows that l reported thir-
ty-eight bar rooms, and think have
got mighty near that many up to this
present time. We get them whenever and
wherever we can. AS to the Rhodes case, !
had a man detailed in plain clothes
Policeman Murray-and he worked his
way to the dining room in the rear Of |
barroom and some one lntimat ted to |
Mr.. Rhodes that there was policeman sit |
ting there; and he came by and walked |
around without saying word to Murray |
and hit him on the head and beat him |
good But he had drink, though, and he |
reported that case to the police justice, !,
and he also got out warrant for as
saulting him, and Justice Crutchfield fined |
him S25 under the city law and $25 under
the State law, and S. for the assault. The |
case was appealed, and when it got to
the Hastings Court he was acquitted by |
the jury IN pOth cases, he went scot tree,
and the lawyer said it was trespass on
the premises there, and the man ought to
have been killed. After that time stop
ped giving the men instructions to force
their way in.
After some discussion relative to the
necessity for more policemen in the de-
partment Mr. Mckee Intercepted the
board as follows:
Mr.. Mckee: My question is whether the
Police Board has taken up the matter sys-
and had law so framed that |
policemen can detect violations of the
law without jeopardizing their lives. Mr..
Manning I have asked the question
through Mr.. Jacobs.
Mr.. Manning: l was going to answer the
question. l was going to say that the
matter was introduced in an ordinance
that took to Mr.. Crenshaw and told him
the board would BE very glad for him to
assist them in the matter
Mr.. Mckee: That doesn't answer my
question.
Mr.. Jacobs: I will answer It, I have
been to some members of the Council and
Board of Aldermen and asked them to p SIS
the ordinance to close the bar rooms at
II at night and not allow them to open
until O'Clock in the morning, and not to
let them have any screens or doors to
prevent seeing in, and have the bar rooms
front on the main streets. Does that
answer YOUR question