The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-12

ess warrants. Then in court the police failed to produce any evidence of illegal use, the complaints of the landloards were dismissed and their , tenants, having leases, went on with their conduct of the property as they saw fit. Probably, if the rentals of many of these places were made public it would be found that the landlord had good reason to acquiesce in the police inefficiency in driving out profitable tenants, but enough ' has become known to show that the police were more interested in enabl- ing the gambling houses to continue business than in enforcing the law,
 The investigation cannot stop there. How far it will go is not yet known, but already one important office holder, outside of the police force, is involved, and there is much gossip about other prominent politicians. MT. Jerome has in the Bowling law a powerful weapon to force full state rlents from the keepers of the Gamb- l ling houses. He can give to them im- munity from prosecution under that law, whereas if they refuse to talk he 1 can secure their indictment and make them exiles from New York. Already the manager of the notorious Theo- dore Aliens gambling house, a raid on which started the present pro ceedings, has told about the system under which he dehed the police, and i negotiation are under way for the return from New Orleans, of pool room keeper who is supposed to have had charge of the distribution of the protection fund raised by the gamb- lers
 In Jersey City the method of Mayor Mark Pagan may not be so far reaching, but it is more radical at the start. Mayor Pagan heard about open gambling houses. He went out and raided them himself, and now he has suspended the chief of police, one inspector, three captains and seven headquarters and precinct de- tectives, recommending their dismiss sal. The charges are neglect of duty, and the fact that the Mayor found the gambling houses open arrested thirty-five men inside of them, seems to establish the neglect. The Police Board, which Mayor Pagan controls voted to suspend the accused men pending trial on the charges The suspensions will put the accused men out of control of the force, while the Mayor is collecting evidence in sup port of his charges, Pagan men have been appointed temporarily to fill the places That gives to the Mayor the control of the police force through which to collect evidence against the men who have long controlled it.
 That Is a striking contrast to the situation in New York, where, wher the keepers of gambling houses in the district of suspected inspector were wanted to give evidence, presumably against the inspector, the subpoena
 went in regular course to that in spector for service. He distributed them among his captains and tho captains, with great unanimity, failed to find the men wanted. That broughf out the fact of the false names on thu police lists, but it also put in evidence d system of committing the prosecu ton of an accused man to him and hi subordinates, which more resembles comic opera than Investigation. Int Jersey City movement has the advan tage of springing from the city's head While in New York the prosecution l! aimed, in part at least, at a politi elan close to the Mayor and at othel men of far reaching power. Brooklyn Eagle.