The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-03
INSPECTOR M'LAUGHLN NEXT
RENEWED REPORTS THAT HIS
HEAD rs IN DANGER.

Meanwhile He Keeps on Raiding Over
the Head Of Captain Shire-0ot Int
House Last Night and Te,ephensd
70 the Captain 70 Send the wagon.
When Police Inspector W. W. Mclaughlin
was brought over from Brooklyn several
weeks ago and put In charge OF the Fourth
Inspection district In Manhattan the wise
people Of Mulberry street said.
They've brought Mclaughlin over from
Brooklyn to give them better chance to
put him on trial.
A Judge In the Criminal Courts Building
who foreshadowed the confession OF ex-
WardmAn Bissert on the day Of Bisserts
temperance In town and q week before
the fact Of his having confessed was made
public. said yesterday:
1T looks to me as II the next step Of the
reformers would be to prefer charges
against Inspector Mclaughlin
Yesterday morning District Attorney
what he read. to believe that Magistrate
Cranes lecture to Capt. German Of the
Mercer street station for making whole
sale raids on Saturday night and imprison-
ing q great number Of persons WAS based
on common sense. because. he said. too
many arrests are made without proper
justification
Then he turned his attention to the
arrest made by Inspector Mclaughlin
In raid on disordery house In Lexington
avenue near Thirty-third street a few
days ago.
They offer . striking example Of arrests
made without Justification he said.
Meanwhile Inspector Mclaughlin has
been one Of the busiest policemen in the
city, according to those who have been
watching him. He has kept the captains
Of his district generally on the move and
when he saw . captain who seemed to he
tain's head.
Early In the campaign he singled out
Capt. Shire's East Thirty fifth street pre-
cinot as q place 70 make raids In. He
raided one disorderly house over Shire's
head the other day. and although tho pris.
oners were discharged because OF lack OF
evidence, Mclaughlin went right ahead
and raided another in the same way last
might SS. ,o,,.. ,.,a.a ,.., ,,,,, w.. :, ro,,.,
avenue near Thirtieth street, and Null
berry street says the place has been running
for eighteen years undisturbed. McLaugh-
Inns friends say that he warned Shire sew
er6l tlIne6 DOtn Verbally ana IN Writing tnAt
the place was running.
Shire didn't raid II. 30 last night, on
warrants granted on evidence got by two
men Of the inspectors own stan, McLaugh.
lin took twenty-five men to the house and
arrested everybody In the place.
Having raided II he searched the place
until he found the telephone. Getting
connection through the Police Headquarters
telephone switchboard with the East Thirty
fifth street station. Mclaughlin and Shire
had this conversations:
McLaughlin--Is this Capt, Shire'
shifsi . What hn%. -. r.dd that
Thrtieth street, Send around your patrol
wal on and get the prisoners. Good-by,
Which ia taken by Mulberry street 10
mean that II Mclaughlin is ever hard
pressed he will hit somebody else's head
right away.
made nine prisoners. The proprietor. Mrs.
Fannie Parsons. who says shs 10 s. years
was too III 20 he moved. n they left her
there under guard Beside her and the
housekeepSr, q Mrs. Munroe. the MclAugh-
lin forces found six women and one man
One OF the women had just arrived In q
cab with q man who says he In Thomas
Calhoun Of Philadelphia. The woman de-
clared that she was married and lived In
Jersey City. From the way she wept and
carried on the detectives were led TO believe
that she told the truth.
Several Of the five other younger women,
who were all In street apparel, declared
that they were married and that II they
were arrested their husbands would make
all sorts OF trouble. They wore lots Of
diamonds and good clothes.