The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-24
DAVIS LOOKSlT up
Has a Little Quiet Detective
Work Done.
Purpose to Ascertain About
Joints Paying.
HE is SATISFIED.
is SATISFIED.
Now Certain Police Are Not Levy
ing Tribute.
No One Connected With Police
Takes Any Money.

81 have had two men at work for
about a month making a quiet investi-
cation of the affairs of the police de-
partment, unknown to the police. and
these two men have found nothing
wrong" said Mayor w. H. Davis this
morning.
The statement was made by Mayor
Davis when he was asked if he had
ever heard rumors to the effect that
the jointists have been paying for
police protection. These rumors- have,
been current on the streets for many
weeks and have been to the effect that
Jointists were paying, each month,
certain sum for police protection.
This rumor was vigorously denied
and then rumor. had it that while the
police might not be getting the money
that a CRATER, posing as the official
license agent of the police department,
was levying on the joints and that the
money did not find it's way into the
city treasury nor to those connected
with the police in official capacities.
Whenever these rumors have come
to the notice of Chief of Police Good
win he has denied them and said that
no licenses are levied nor collected by
any one connected with the police de-
partment from the joints and he also
denied that some outsider, claiming to
be connected with the police depart
nent, was working any graft in this
manner.
These rumors came to the notice of
Mayor DAVIS some weeks ago from
various sources No such charges
against the police department have
been made in the council and no Of
fetal notice has been taken of them.
Mayor Davis, however, quietly start
ed a private investigation to determine
If there was any foundation for these
rumors. It has not been known about
the city building, at least, that any Sc
cret investigation of the police depart
ment was under way and it is not sup
posed that the members of the police
force knew it.
"Some time ago it was reported to
me that joints were paying so much
per month to some member of the po-
lice force for protection said Mayor
Davis this morning. 81 determined to
make an investigation. Without nOti-
flying the police that they were being
watched 1 secured the services of two
men whom 1 thought reliable and COM
petent to discover any evidences of
Doodle, if there were any, and these
two men, in a manner which would
unearth anything wrong, if there was
anything wrong, made an investiga-
ton.
These two men have reported to
me that there is no foundation what
ever Tor these rumorS. 1ney say InaC
no one connected with the police de-
partment in any manner or form is
collecting or receiving any money from
the jointists for protection. Whether
the Jointists are paying some private
individual for supposed protection
do not know, as that makes no differ
ence. The question was whether the
jointists were paying anyone connected
with the police department and I
found they were not
Mayor Davis statement refutes the
charge made by Councilman Green. at
the council meeting Monday night
when he said: 1.-The police depart
ment has inaugurated a policy that is
a disgrace to the city and the state. If
we increase the salaries of the force
we endorse this policy. I hoped ]