The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-01
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! The intcres, which cry Magistrate osn.
mon has taken IN professional hondsmen
4 after hearing the statements 81 women
| prinoh-rs brough, bforn him from the
Tendcrloin station lately, has 6one come
thing toward waking up Police Commits
sionet Greene He II going to iasue some
ne~ orders nov 10 his d-sk czsrs around
town.
There has tyen a good deal o' mis-
understanding" heretofore on the Part of
those who should have understood the
matter thoroughly, aud the professional
hondsman has profscd by It II h probable
that when Gen Gr~enes orders 70 out a.
he says they will the lot Of the profef sicnal
bondsmsn may not I've such a happy one and
his pockets not nearly so hulgine
From time inmemoria right down to
the present II has been the custom of desk
sergeants and police captains. who are
authorized bv law to arcept hail at station
houses for m,sdemeanore, 10 limit this hal
to CITY real estate. and 10 refuse, some
times with great asIerity, all offers Of oash
and personal property from the prisoner
or his friends
Further than tins they have gone When
a person who has real estate has appeared
tn offer bail the sergeants and captains
have in most instan Noes absolutely refused
10 accept him as bondsmsn until he has
produced castiron proof of his identifics-
ton. Business cards have been cast aside
contemptuously. and no amount Of argu
ment has sufsiced to get around this man
date Of the man behind the desk In most
instances unless the bondsman has been
able tn get A friend known personally TO IN"
sergeant 10 identify him his bail has been
refused although he NAV have been
property holder in this city all his life.
With the professional bondsmanit is differ
emf He generally has saloon on the near
est corner, and everybody AZ the station
house knows him Consequently, men of
his type have been able 70 get prisoners out
In a twinkling. and have been waving
wealthy in business whose demands were
as nothing TO its gains
While this has gone on during the last
six months there has been on file Al every
station house on opinion written hv Cor
poration Counsel Rives Tha opinion saws
that the police practices in bail cases are
absolutely without iegal right, that cash
and personal property ought to he, and
must be. taken a. hail whenever offered,
that real estate anywhere in the State Of
New York is sufficient that positive knowl-
edge Of he identity nf the bondsman is not
required and that the requirements which
the police lay down are al variance with
the laws of this country
This opinion was given Al The beginning
Of last March II was semi out on March
~ by Commissioner Greene for the infor
nation and guidance Of The force as all
orders of the kind read. but with no special
emphasis on it. although it was radically
at variance with The practices Of the de
partment People who have watched the
hailing out If prisoners at station houses
since II was received have not seen any
change made in the police methods and
have seen cash bail refused again and
again by sergeants 10 whom il was offered
Gen Greene didn't make the opinion
public. and the professional bondsmen
have kept on getting fatter on the priv
leges qua ranteed under the old order OF
things
Commissioner Greene had his attention
called 10 he Corporation tounsel's opinion
Yesterday When he read il over carefully
he decided right awav that 1t was some
thing hat the police force ought TO know
.Lo,, He said h. v.s g,i,o 10 an. ,o i
Immediately That If why within the
next re" Gays inc s'fReah'S ana captains
will b. requested 10 resd the opinion and
ordered to put every bit of II into practice
Ne also sen, copy Of il ro Mapistr.te
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that l@ why some serReants didn't read II
when they weren asked very hard to read
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away back ~ laSl November. when ne trans
Knitted request OF committee Of sergeant-
for liph, on the murh-CloIIded question of
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he ilrst question "a- "n''' h"I sergeant
had, righ' TO INSIST that real state offered
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IN reply 7" maj me '"fpora'I1n counsel
quoted m" 90" "t 'rlmlhhI PROCEDURE,
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'uI'n ny Ih' r'P"Hl' 81 money or P"IH"hal
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