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

@. That is. you nave Hot peeii ~ etieAo
but have you evidence which leads yol
to believe that within twelve months any
i has been sold on Sunday?
A. Yes sir: within twelve months
1 think some Of them have been selling.
II MR.. BOSHER's QUERY.
4 Q. You can't prove that, or II you coule
/ Won would have brought them before
court?
J A. II 1 had been able to prove 1t
would have brought them before court
i BY DR.. Hawthorne: Haven't barrooms
been closed within the :ast eight months
/ for selling liquor on Sunday?
A. Yes, sir; I think some convictions
have been made within the last eight
months.
O. Haven't some Of the licenses been
taken away from them? Some of them
very recently, haven't they?
A. Yes. sir; Mr.. Turner, within the
last two months.
| @. Do you remember seeing the state
ment made three or four months ago IN
| the newspapers that the barrooms mad
stopped selling on Sunday, but had open
| ed again, and nearly everything was wide
open on Sunday and that the atten-
| ton of the police was called to it again?
| A. No. sir: I do not remember seeing
| that statement.
SLAP, BANG, BIP!
Major Howard: If you will allow me. I
can state something about that. l recol-
lecr that account in the newspapers. The
! same two men that wrote all those arti-
| cles in. the newspapers-I am only too
glad Of the opportunit- to say that all
that they put in the paper, or nine
| tenths of what they put in the paper,
| was the creation of their own BRAIN
| without any knowledge from anybody or
| any person in regard to 1t at all; anu
the articles that came out. one otter an
other, in regard to the fact that MAJOR
Howard was going to be reduced 10 a
captain, and Sergeant Whitlock to prl-
vate. were all a creation in their own
brain. because they do not like the po-
lice: the police have not kne-t to them
or cringed to them.
Mr. Jacobs: Don't you beheVe' MT
WYATT, that the police are doing the best
they can for the suppression OF TINS sun
day liquor selling?
Major Howard Don't you know that
every Sunday for the past twelve or elsh-
teen months. particularly in your als,
trict. there has been an omcer oetdiieo
from your district and sent to the oth-
ers to look especially after oarroo'hs
and nothing else every Sunday!
Mr.. WYATT: For the last eighteen
,,ontbs thev have been especially vigilant
as to bar rooms.
Major Howard: You know that they
have been sent from one district to an
other?
Mr.. Wyatt: Yes. sir.
Major Howard: That has been my
course ever since have been Chief-of-Po-
lice. to have men in plain clothes TO LOOK
especially after bar rooms on Sunday.
BY DR.. Hawthorne:
r.
ed bv the laws of the State when you have
reason to suspect the existence OF dis
orderly house, to arrest the keepers OF 1t.
or do YOU wait from some instructions
from the Chief-of-Police?
A. The usual course has been that where
these houses are disorderly we report them
for running a disocderly and ill-soVerned
house. but if they are orderly and they
are in out of-tlle-way places, they nave
not been sbothered.
BY Mr.. Jacobs:
@. What would you consider evidence
sufficient to arrest these parties. How
would you get at it?
A. Well, sir the general reputation OF a
house, so the law says, Will be taken as
evidence-the people going In and coming
out at late hours of the night, and the
attire of the women and their reputation.
Q. Could you establish case of that
sort in court?
A. Yes, sir. l could establish case,
think right now.
@. Don't YOU think you ought to do It
then?
A. Yes, sir, that is my obligation to
do it.
BY DR.. Hawthorne:
Hasn't your conduct in that matter now,
in not interfering without direct instruc-
tons, been the ordinary policy Of the po-
licemen, not to do it until instructed?
A Well, the police know about as much
about these houses as do, and there are
no steps taken against any of them, only
when they are dlsorderly.
BY Mr.. Jacobs:
O. Don't you believe from your knowl-
edge of the police business generally you
are pretty well posted). that the police
department of Richmond had these places
under as strict surveillance as it is posi-
BILE to do, and that they are managed
about as well as they could De aneSeu
have not had much experience myself,
but l just want that information.
A If my information is worth anything.
/ believe that disreputable women OF the
city OF Richmond are under as good con-
troll as any violators of the law could be.
BY DR.. Hawthorne:
@. But you regard them as violators OF
the law nevertheless?
A. Yes, sir.
c. You regard it as the duty Of the po-
lice TO arrest them according to law?
A. That is their sworn duty, | have vio-
la ted that provision myself. When l so
out on the street with sergeants. etc, and
walk past them and they don't say any
thing then l don't think l am any mofe
accountable than they are If l am told
to do it. l would be willing to pitch in on
them at any time. But the houses Of this
district are very orderly, indeed; very sell /,
dom do we have any trouble from them.
The Chairman: What would be your
DR.. Hawthorne, in regard to
these disorderly houses?
De-. Hawthorne: MY suggestion would be
to execute the law just as it stands in the
and have them arrested and
brought before the Police Court and pun
ish them according to the law. I believe
the administration of the law and infiic-
ton Of the punishment prescribed would
greatly decrease the vice. l believe If
they were made to go to jail they would
not stay here and risk the inflction of
such a penalty. That was the judgment
of the legislators when they made the law
and that is the judgment of the citizen
ship of the State of Virginia.
Major Howard: In regard to DR.. Haw-
thornes question as to gambling. ! want
to ask Mr.. Wyatt this question: When
you made statement before the
board that the reason that you did not
interfere with gambling houses was that
you could not touch them without orders