The San Francisco call., 1905-02-26

neglect Of duty by the Police Commits
sion last night because they failed to
suppress fantan games. Their names
are R. r. O'Brien, Henry Heinz Will
liam Doran, Charles z. Mum and
Henry T. McGrath. Sentence was
postponed to Wednesday evening, at
which time Sergeant Ellis is also to
hear his fate.
The entire squad that was detailed
on October 1 to wage the campaign
against the gambling places now
STANDS guilty of the charges that for
mer Commissioner Hutton preferred.
1t was this same squad concerning
which the Grand Jury made such
startling revelations of corruption as
a result of the confessions to it by
Sergeant Ellis and Patrolmen Heinz
and O'Brien that they had accepted
large sums of bribe money.
But the Police Board could not get
at the corruption phase because the
secrecy of the Grand Jury room
barred use of the testimony gathered
there. Those who had confessed took
refuge behind the protection given by
the constitution and ali that the Com
nissioners could do was TO establish
not making a success of their warfare
on fantan and lotteries.
The board made a vigorous attempt
to drive Heinz to a corner last night.
He was induced TO go on the stand
and virtually denied that he had ac
cepted bribes from Chan Cheung. The
more pointed questions as to the hon
esty of his course in Chinatown were
avoided on the plea that the answers
might incriminate him. While O'Brien
did not take the stand he placed him
self in the same category with Heinz
by stating that his attitude toward
the queries the Commissioners were
pressing was Identical In pronounc-
ing judgment President Poheim an
nounced that these two defendants
had placed themselves much more in
a serious light by refusing to be frank.
1t seems a foregone conclusion that
Sergeant Ellis and Heinz and O'Brien
viii be dismissed from the depart
ment. 1t is possible that Mum, Nc
Grath and O'Brien will get off with
heavy fines. The outcome of Chief
Wittman's case, the trial of which be-
gins tomorrow night, will probably
have an important bearing.
TRIAL RESUMED.
The trial was resumed with the in
PRODUCTION Of the police records show
ing the arrests that the defendants
made during November of Chinese
captured in raids. These reports in
dicated a fair amount Of activity on
the part Of the squad
But Commissioner Reagan was led
tc eXclaim that the records proved that
Sergeant Ellis squad never captured
more than seven Chinese in one raid
According TO the Grand Jury's report,
these raids were prearranged, in order
10 make a showing, and the Cinnamon
were selected beforehand who should
eubmit To arrest and be subjected to
the small fines the Police Judges i'm
posed.
Dcran explained that the squad never
broke into locked drawers found in the
fantan rooms because of the fear of
exceeding authority. Drinkhouse sug-
sested that no law would be trans
g-essed more in chopping down the
doors, as the squad did frequently, ac-
csrding to the witness, than in bursting
open drawers IN which money and
gambling paraphernalia might be con-
cealed on the appearance of the police
men.
IT was apparent that the Commits
sioner regarded the failure of the
squad to break open the drawers as a
subterfuge in fake raids.
Commissioner Reagan doesn't think
much Of the testimony Of the squad
members that they chopped down
doors so energetically." You can't
find ak marks on more than four doors
in all Chinatown" he says
VISITED CHAN CHEUNG.
DO you know a Chinaman named
Chan Cheung2" queried Drinkhouse of
Doran.
Il have heard of him"
Did you ever visit him at No. 2 st.
Louis alley?"
Yes. / have been in that place try
ing to stop a game being conducted
there
Did you ever raid his place?"
NO"
According TO the confession of Ser
geant Ellis to the Grand Jury, the pa
trclmen Of the squad. among them the
three defendants, called on Chan
Cheung every week for a protection
payment of $40 each.
Isn't it a fact that you visited
Chan Cheung every Saturday," con-
tinued the Commissioner.
i never did"
Didn't you so testify before the
Grand Jury?"
i don't think 1 did,
Would like an answer either YES
or no" commanded Drinkhouse
sharply
NO, I did not"
How is it that in the raids by the
squad not more than eight Cinnamon
were ever caught, while in former
Commissioner Hutton's raid over
eighty were captured?"
Because Hutton and Lawyer Car
penter gathered up all the buns they
could find and started up a fake game
so they could make their raid good"
Commissioner Drinkhouse pricked
this sensational statement by declar-
ing that he participated in a raid in
which sixty Chinese were found about