The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-04-20
MOONEY TELLS
| THE STORY OF
POLICE GRAF 7
Gives Burns Full Details of
How Vice Has Been
Protected
DISCLOsES SYSTEM
Will Relate the Whole Tale
of Corruption to the
Grand Jury
NOT AFRAID TO TALK
Says He Can Prove Truth
of Every Charge He
Makes
NOT AFRAID TO TALK
Captain of Police John Mooney will

Sdptdln OF TollCe Jonn mooney VIII
go before the grand jury this afternoon
and expose the system" in the police
department under which corruption of
the blacklist sort has Aourished. Mooney
will expose the men above him and the
men below him who have shared in the
spolls or have In any way encouraged
vice. The disclosures will be among
the most startling the grand jury has yet
heard. The revelations will force sev-
eral of the high officials out of the de-
partment and will necessitate a COM
plete reorganization of that branch of
the city government.
Mooney was in conference yesterday
for three hours with Special Agent VIII
liam j. Burns and Assistant District
Attorney Heney. He laid bare the evil
to his notice, and promised to cooper
ate with the graft prosecutors in a
cleaning crusade After the confer
ence Mooney stated that he had told all
he knew of corruption in the police de-
partment, and that he was prepared to
substantiate all the charges he had
made.
I will go before the grand jury"
said Mooney, "and I will answer each
and every detail of the graft which ex
lists in the police department. 1 realize
that 1T is up to me, and 1 think I can
make good. I don't know whether the
charges against patrolmen will be
taken up by the commissioners or the
grand jury direct
IT have not the slightest fear Of
being broke as 1 will be able to prove
all the charges 1 will make My case
has been set for trial next Thursday.
but doubt If it will ever come to trial.
can only repeat that Mr.. Heney is in
full possession of all that know con-
corning police corruption"
MONEYS determination to go before
the grand jury followed his break with
Chief of Police Dinan. When Mooney.
in addressing the men of his company.
criticised the chief and the commission
ers, Dinan decided to discipline him
and filed charges of insubordination
against the captain. Mooney has not
yet been summoned before the police
commission, and now that the matter
is to be presented to the grand Jury
sensational results may be looked for.
Mooney will make the charge before
the grand jury that a regular system
OF protection for places OF vice EXISTS
in the police department. He will state
that instead Of suppressing crime men
In the department have aided ana
abetted It The disclosures will be as
sensational as those recently made In
New York city. One of the early re-
suits Of tho grand 1ury's investigation,
1t IL stated, WIN be demand for the
resignation OF Chief Dinan.
Mooney has been in the dapa,rtment
for number of years and he will not
confne himself to the exposure Of the
corruption of the last few months He
will tell what he has learned of the
system of protection which prevailed
in Chinatown before the fire. He will
charge that poolrooms. disorderly
houses and other dens of vice con-
tribute regular sums and are guar
anteed police protection.
While Mooney accuses patrolmen. he
rnalxes the statement that thasa cors,
tions could not exist without the CO.
operation of the men higher up"
The entire police department was in
a state of nervous excitement last
night when 1t became known that
Mooney had been closeted with Heney
and Burns Moneys opportunities for
observation have been of the best and
there has been a great deal to observe.