The sun., 1908-01-16
JEROME BUMPS INTO BINGHAM
SAYS HE rs BEFOOLED AND ILL
TRUED BY MEN ABOUT HIM
And That His Task IL HOpeIess-Dtstrlct
Attorney Mears to stand BY His Raid
srs'' and Appear 81 TheIr TriAlS---PaInts
Them as Going About In BOdiIy Fear.

Jerome and Police Commissioner Bingham
over the formers disbanded rAiding squad
became vser yesterday when Mr.. Jerome
made long statement declaring that the
Commissioner was being -conned" by
crooks and announcing lis intention Of
defending the accused men, oven to the
extent Of appearing in their behalf at the
TRIALS at Police Headquarters.
Mr.. Jerome said that the Police Depart
nent IS less efficient now than il was in
the davs of Gel. Greene. Gen. Bingham's
task. in Mr. Jeromes opinion. was hopeless
When the District Attorney thinks Of the
slot " boys" who are around the Com
missioner as Deputies-"boys who can't
'All A policeman from a fireman in uni
form it makes him sigh for tho days Of
nevsry The BIZ Chief at least could tell a
cop vha1 he SOW one.
Ny Jerome declared that the gambling
FONTS had bsen opened up on the lower
fast SIDE snca the word had been passed
along that his Office had hcen called OF:
also that his raiders we're in fear of physical
violence At the hands Of the system which
had succeeded in blocking their investga-
uons The District Attorney intimated
that he would proceed before the Grand Jury
with excise cases and in that way, IL in no
other, find out TO what extent the police'
inspectors of this city are failing TO enforcs
tie Law
NJ Jerome sad in beginning trst he
wanted 70 make II plain that he intended
n stand BY his men TO the last
There ia not one scintilla Of evidence
thai snv Of thesa was grating" said he.
They we're a little bit rough. l suppose,
and that regret. But they didn't turn a
dishonest penny
Mr. Jerome didn't care what their records
nigh' have boen before they came to his
oHfce Since they had been there they
had do . bard efficient. conscientious W ork,
rad shown results and delivered the goods
and he didn't intend to stand by and let
-srv bunch cf grating cops job them
So that he might appear for them at the
Police Hea quarters trials Mr. Jerome asked
Commissioner Bingham to postpone the
rroceedicgs from to-day until a week from
Saturday. and this the Commissioner has
lone.
The system may he able 10 break them"
raid Mr. Jerome, hut they won't do il
without the people Of New YorI knowing
= hat is being done
They Ssy that Lieut.. Wasserman and
Ietscrive Butler have bad records" the
District Attorney continued But who IL
going to youch for the policemen who we're
sent out to traiithem whom they were col
1ACfiNR avviArpca F,r THE oh -,
have been turned over TO the Commissioner
himself and which he might have used as his
supreme wisdom directed?
Il sent Reardon. Wasserman, Butler.
Brennan and Mara over into the Twelfth
rrecnCt tthe Eldridge street statioaI no.
80 much to make raids as TO get evidence
Tor the Commissioner concerning his own
rren there. That is a rotten. dirty. graft
ing precinct. Then what do we find? At
once twSvs or fifteen Central Ofice men.
each G'swing 5000 a year. are sent out
10 trail my men, but not in any way to aid
them
See what has hapr in this pre-
Cinct since my men have been taken away.
axe a walk down there tonight and you'll
find every one Of those places going full
tast. | know this because | live in the
precinct, and besides this | have had il
covered by good reliable men, whose iden-
tity viii not disclose. Why. it has got so
lad there E the last few days that the
roiice officers Of the precinct are going
around to these places and saying to the
Troprietors: We've got jerome stopped
now: you can 60 ahead
Mr Jerome picked up a diagram Of the
Twelfth precinct on which colored blocks
indicated the disorderly places. The chart
thowed hfty-fOur alleged stuss games.
twelve disOrderly houses and sixteen re-
sorts Of thieves, This map had been pre-
Pared for transmission to Commissioner
Bingham. Mr.. Jerome declared that the
existence Of these places had been verified
hy other than his own men.
Yet" said the District Attorney, when
my men begin to work over there we find
these dozen or more Central Office detectives
trailing them around the precinct and put
ting the screws on crooks TO get them to
turn up something against my force. And
they got their orders to follow my men from
commissioner Bingham himself
Mr. Jerome said that one OF these traiIers
was Calvin, who he believed was decent.
honest man. Mr.. Jerome found Calvin
one day on the first floor OF the Criminal
COURTS Building waiting to see the Jerome
raiders start out. Mr.. Jerome sent for him
and Calvin said he had his orders from the
Commissioners himself
oh. It is a perfect con game. tell you.
The crooks at Police Headquarters are
coming this decent. absolutely honest Com
missioner. With a lot Of boys as deputies.
some Of them who can't tell a cop from a
fireman, going around bertilloning. thumb
printing and gum ahoeing-honest. it almost
makes me long for the days Of Devery. He
sneW a crook when he saw him. and he could
tel cop from fireman IN uniform
Mr.. Jerome remarked that IL tho relations
of the District Attorney ~ an assistant to
the police force were to be shattered because
these young gentlemen deputies think IL
an Interference with their department.
Why. then. they could be shattered. Mr..
Jerome would gladly be relieved Of this extra
police work which ne had undertaken only
out Of sense OF public duty.
Mr.. Jerome was asked II he thought the
effectiveness OF the police force had i'm
proved recently.
Improved nothing he replied. why.
me cops don't patrol at all. You can take
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