The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-09

cause so many persons think that all they
need do Is to offer a policeman money,
Il know some men who have had Dig
sums offered them. A bicycle policeman
could get 1000 u month in brides II he
held of from arresting men who go too
fast, He might las five or six months
at the game, but he would be sure to be
caught eventually.
way: A man who offers a bride to a police
man and gets away or the strength OF 1t
does not want to talk about il. for fear
that he will be shaken down often. The
policeman won't talk because that would
give the graft away. But eventually some
one will get on to it and that will end the
policeman's term as an officer.
There have been plenty OF cases OF rlch
men who went TO great lengths TO get away.
! remember one policeman telling me OF a
very wealthy dry goods man in TINS city
who was arrested coming down from a
city up the State. When he was stopped,
going 40 miles an hour he told the police
man that the car had broken down some
distance above New York city and that as
he had had nothing to eat and it was late ne
wanted to get home to dinner. i know l
was going too fast, he said, but can't | nix
il some wayF
"He started to reach for his pocketbook
and that made the policeman angry. You
can't fix it any way. You're under arrest,
he said
L" Here, I'll take s2eO and throw it int,
be said. That failed. We'll, let me know
where you live and III send it to you. Or
III mail it to your wife the man kept on
arrest and you're only wasting time
That didn't lose the policeman his self
respect nor did IL make the man his enemy.
Afterward when false charges were brought
against the policeman in another case,
this dry goods man wrote to him to cay
that it he did get into trouble he would let
him ave a place in his store at just as good
q salary as he got on the police force. There
are lots Of cases like this. When they come
to they realize that the policeman was
right all the way
There was a case not so long ago of a
bookmaker who was speeding to a dinner
engagement when he was stopped by a
bicycle policeman. The bookmaker called
the policeman vile names and then. told his
chauffeur to drive right on, TIL man
opened her up and they ran for three blocks
at fifty miles an hour. with the policeman
hanging to the side Of the machine still
on his bicycle. A threat TO shoot the
chauffeur brought the car to a stop. Then
the bookmaker tried to have the policeman
broke.
Sergt. BENJAMIN Mallam. who has been
in the game as a bicycle policeman for five
years. says that it is remarkable how many
automobilists are friend Of COMMISSIONS
Bingham and Secretary Slattery.. They
all know the secretary very well indeed
so well that they will ave the policeman
markable how few Of them are known to
the Commissioner or to his deputies or to
the secretary. THREATS of breaking a
policeman do not as q rule brighten him
much when he is performing his duty.
The police say that the chauffeurs have
a sort OF protective union the members of
which tip of each other on all new police
devices. The schemes they enter into are
many and various. They put their New
York and New Jersey license tags close
not have to have n. J. on it the numbers
sometimes look something like this; 1857
1924 n. Y. That naturally puzzles a police
man.
Some Of the chauffeurs have strings
tied to the license tags so that when a po-
liceman canno catch the car they pull
the string, drawing up the tag so that he
cannot read the license number either.
They have of course the old device OF oiling
the card or throwing powdered s~oapstone
on it so that it will be rendered indistlnct
through a covering of dust.
They tell one another where policemen
are stationed to watch for speeders and by
means of slowing up at important points
they manage TO dodge the officers.
The police are looking out for one thing
In the city and that is a factory which puts
out fake license tags and fake State license
seals. OF course, II a man has a number
which does not belong to him displayed
so tina the policeman can see it and if the
speeder gets away the policeman will look
up the umb and inquire of the owner.
The latter may be able to prove an alibi
and then it dawns upon both that a fake
number was used. The police almost
had the maker once and they nov are close
on his trail again.
II is suggested that automobile numbers
in this State ought TO be ten inches high
80 that they would be plainly Visible.