The Jersey City news., 1905-10-27
ANOTHER POLICE
ATROCITY
Patrolmen Brought Down
town By Fagan's Commits
sioners to Help Captain
Cox Place Counsellor
Doolsy Under Arrest
FOR ADVISING SOME CLIENTS
THEY HAD RESISTED POLICE
BULLDozING METHODS WHICH
CHIEF MURPHY SAYS WE'RE
ILLEGAL CHIEF SETS MR..
DooLEY FREE AND LAYS
DOWN THE Law TO THE DEL
INQUENTs.

Counsellor Patrick J. Dooley was ar
rested last night for advising couple
of clients to the effect that they need
not answer questions concerning their
private affairs unless they chose to do SO.
A few days ago Patrolman Langan.
of the Seventh Precinct, and Patrolman
Lockwood, of the Fourth Precinct, were
detailed by ORDERS to assist Police Cap
tain Cox (who was brought down from
the Sixth Precinct to succeed Police
Captain Cody to investigate the registry
of lodging houses. Two men to whom
impertinent questions were addressed
and who resented such police interfer-
ence in their private affairs, refused to
answer the questions put to them. The
two policemen threatened to arrest them
if they did not answer. Counsellor Doc
ley was passing and friends of the two
men asked him to take charge of their
case. The counsellor told the two men
that they were not compelled to answer
the questions put to them by the jealous
Pagan workers, unless they saw fit to.
Words followed between the two police
men and Dooley, with the result that
Dooley was placed under arrest. The
charge was that he was interfering with
the duties Of policeman !" q
When he was taken before Police Ser
geant Finnie of the First Precinct, at
eleven O'Clock last night, the Sergeant
called up Chief Murphy at his home by
phone and asked for instructions. The
police chief asked for particulars and
was told the circumstances of the arrest
and he then ordered that Counsellor
Dooley be released and told the Sergeant
to inform Patrolman Langan, who made
the arrest, thar there is no law on the
statute books in the United States to
compel any person to answer questions
they refuse to answer concerning their
own private affairs. The Sergeant was
also instructed to tell Langan to go about
the investigation just as it had always
been done before; get all possible infor-
nation the men he is investigating
choose to divulge about themselves and
If they refuse to give it, mark the fact
down on the. blanks supplied him under
the head of remarks
The Chiefs instructions to the two
men engaged in the present work are
that even man in a lodging house dur
ing such an investigation must be ap-
preached precisely in the same manner
as one who lives in Kensington avenue
After the release Of Counsellor Dooley
the two policemen went back to their
work of investigating the registry, and
Police Sergeant John Kelly was ordered
to supervise their work and see that they
resorted to no police bulldozing tactics.
This morning the two patrolmen were
summoned before Chief Murphy, who
Instructed" them in their duties. and
he didn't mince words, 50 it is said, in
doing it.
The arrest of Counsellor Dooley under
the circumstances created widespread in
dignation, and it is the talk of the town
to-day. People are asking why were
men sent down from the Fourth and Sew
enth Precinct to assist Captain Cox in
his investigation.