Arizona republican., 1903-03-30

removed him from office without a reg
ular trial and was criticised by many
disinterested persons for so doing.
The local administration regarded the
situation with equanimity. The news
papers reported outrages in their news
columns and commented upon them ed
itorially. The blame was laid upon the
chief of police. The mayor, when in
terviewed, smiled and declared the chief
the best chief of police New York had
ever had
Disclosures were made which appear
ed to prove wholesale system of
olackmail by the police. It was shown,
| beyond room for doubt, to the lay mind
1T least, that not only the police but
many others, both in official and semi
official positions, shared the profits of
he vicious ami of the panderers to
! ice Many were the surmises as to
where the collection finally lodged but
| The identity of John Doe is still a
| -ecrct.
From without the city came reports
| If young girls lured to houses of pros
tuition and kept there by force until
their earnings had repaid their captors
| for their trouble and risk.
| Protests from the public were of no
| avail. Business interests were affected.
The state was aroused. The legislature
interfercd. On the theory perhaps,
that one crook was less harmful than
| more than one. as it was delica tely put
in the legislative debate. the four police
commissioners were legislated out of
office, the place of chief of police was
| abolished, and single-headed commits
SIGN was provided. The power of ap-
pointment was left with the mayor. He
manned for the important post ward
politician who had been mixed up in
dozens of deals, and whose sole claim
to public recognition lay in the fact
that he was a gallant soldier in the
civil war The new commissioners first
official act was to appoint William 5
Dcvcry as his deputy-commissione
and to delegate to him nearly all his
authority.
/ The lawmakers had made things
worse instead of better. Devery wa:
the undisputed head of the police force
There was no one but the mayor-whc
|. approved all his acts-to question o.
reprove him. The commissioner re.
lapsed into the fgurehead it was in
tended that he should be. Seven thou
sand policemen laughed when Dever!
, laughed, and trambled when Dever!
frowned The vicious owned the city
Houses of unspeakable charactel
Haunted their business to the public
Traffic in the honor of young girls wa:
recognized industry, and a horde o
young rufiians in the tenement distric
|
iton to marry or debauch imnla turt
: children and sell them into lives o
shame. 1t was openly charged tina
this organization was under the protec
t ton Of district leader.
The city magistrates-alive to the sit
{ uation-did what they could but the,
were powerless against the apathy, o
worse, of the police. OCCASIONALLY tn
keeper of a brothel would be arrested
! but il the police made the arrest some
thing was always lacking in the evi
: dencc, and conviction was impossible
2 Where conviction did come to any one
it was proved that it was to some fool
5 ish person who had neglected to keel
= up with the assessment levied by thos
; who controlled that peculiar .brach Q
: law breaking
5 Raids were made, of course. The pc
t lice captains had to justify their exist
D oace, but no very serious effort Wa
. made to cripple the incomes of tn
= heads of the vice syndicate and tn
;. gaming trust, although their name
4 and places of business and residence.
+ were as well known as say Chief o
f | Police Devery's. AS a rule, when a raj
y was contemplated by the police some
, | BODY" gave infCrnia ton in advance t.
the place threat tened and when the raj
ers arrived they were just too late t
: find anything compromising to the pro
| prietors
1t was different later when Justic
Jerome took it into his head to sho'
how raids should be made. He issue
- warrants iustifpng the raid and execu
: led thCm himself There was no leak
then and he generally got his man.
Things went from bad to worse, an
" from worse to nubearable. No Woma
y was safe from insult, and if one dare
Il the publicity of the courts to complain
IL dozen loafers, i'll or out of uniform
y came forward to swear away her hor
Is or. 1t was useless without political {
: pecuniary backing, to accuse a police
L man. Devery, although a martinez
the men, personally, stood for the fore
against the non-official world. He ha
to, people said, maintain the system.
An instance of this-one of many
can be seen in the case of Policema
McManus. McManus had a wife an
y three children. He deserted them, dc
: baucheC a young girl, and went to liv
II with her. He was tried for the offens
,e but got off. The Children's societ
d prosecuted him for non-support of h
l. family. He pleaded guilty in speci;
I. sessions before Justice jerome and We
H. sentenced to three months in prisol
l. When he had served his term he We
n tried by Devery for being absent frol
l. duty without leave. No secret We
II made of why he had been absent, bl
ID McManus pleaded that he had been Ill
1. fairly treated by Justice Jerome, an
$ Devery dismissed the charge, with II
le remark, jerome is not going to ri
81 this town if I can help it," McMant
1t was restored to duty and received thrt
months back pay for the time he ha