The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-06-03
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RULE FOR PETTY
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who have gathered In the Wayne hotel
for the annual convention OF the In
ternational Association OF Chiefs OF
Police. From every important city OF
the country the men who are captains
In the fight against crime have gath
cred TO exchange opinions and perfect
plans To fight the spread OF evil
Maj Richard Sylvester. who holds
life appointment as chief OF the
District OF Columbia police. is the
head OF the organization. although
there Is possibility that either John
c. Whitaker, OF Dayton, o.. or Frank
]. Cassada. OF Elmira. n. Y. may be
chosen as his successor. Maj. Sylves-
ter's greatest interest is in the ma
,ional Identification bureau, which
enables police chiefs OF various cities
10 exchange information. He has
almost secured the approval OF the
powers that be In congress 10 the
granting OF financial support.
Such support would not take the
bureau away from our association but
would leave II still In the hands Of
our board OF governors. says Maj.
Sylvester. 1T would merely give US
more ample funds TO carry on great
work"
The bureau now keeps records OF all
wellknown criminals and this infor'
nation Is exchanged. Any city may
also send description OF an unknown
criminal to Washington and have him
identified. Chicago men are anxious
10 have the bureau transferred to
their city.
One OF the chief subjects OF discus
sion will be the Black Hand, and the
companion society called the White
Hand, which has been formed among
Italians to destroy the desperadoes OF
the Black Hand.
Tells Of Black Hand Outraees.
A. J. Humphrey, OF Baltimore. has
been taking a leading part in the
Black Hand cases lately. The home
OF merchant named Di Gorgia was
blown up in Baltimore and Humphrey
, found that the criminals had attacked
another merchant In Pittsburg the day
previous, Dec. 9. He sent his men to
all the big cities and captured men In
Buffalo, Cleveland and other places
had been hired by rich italian who
wanted a monopoly of the import fruit
trade to certain cities. Toni Lenassi,
Baltimore merchant, and several
others were sent up for 10 years
apiece. II was learned that two OF
the Black Hand gang had been muir
dered by the White Handlers. one In
New York and the other after he had
returned 10 italy.
TOO little attention Is paid the
Black Hand" says Chief Humphrey.
"It is not a general society but
method by which the criminal Italians
prey upon their richer fellows. II 1t Is
not checked 1t will spread to other
classes. however, and become a men
ace everywhere.
I'VE have another evil in Baltimore
which we are trying to stamp out and
that Is the cocaine habit. Marshal
Thomas F. Farnam would have come
with me but that he Is at home trying
to get a law that will enable us to
send up anyone having the stuff In his
possession and also druggists who sell
II without prescription. II inflames
ignorant whites and negroes TO violent
crime"
Chief j. H. Haager, of Louisville, is
Just outside the district OF the Night
Riders, but has studied into their out
RACES.
Sentiment With Night Riders.
THE Night Riders are not ignorant
or criminal men In the usual sense,
but the sons OF tobacco planters who
are using this method to fight the
trusts" he says. Sentiment Is with
them, so that | do not look for con-
viction, even though many have been
indicted. There will be conference
soon between the Society OF Equity
and the tobacco buyers. at which
peace may be made. We have guard
ed the tobacco warehouses In Louis
vile carefully"
Chief George NJ. Shippy. OF Chicago,
IL center OF interest because OF the
attack made upon him by Leo Aver
buch, an anarchist. some time ago. In
which Averbuch was killed.
Anarchy Is great menace de-
clares Shippy. Il do not care to talk
a great deal about It, however. Our
anarchists are largely foreigners
That 1t is not spreading appears from
the fact that the anarchist newspa-
pers in Chicago Is failing from luck
OF financial support.
1T Is a matter that must receive
the most careful attention, however,
and the strictest measures must be
taken, the federal law against anarch:
lists being a move In the right direc-
ton"
Discusses Cleveland Riot.
That the street car riots which
have been CONFUSING Cleveland are
largely political. Is the assertion OF
Chief Fred Kohler. of that city.
1T Is the unionists and not their
sympathizers who have done this
young, reckless fellows who were
urged on by other men," he states.
I'VE have arrested IS of them. and
not one but was striker and a
local man. Public sentiment Is not
with them. however. and their strike
has failed from its own violence.
They tried to keep people from riding
on the cars and took to dynamite as a
last resort. We will prosecute the
cases with the greatest vigor and con-
tinue to make arrests when any dis
order occurs"
From the only big town In the coun-
try that still has the whipping post
comes Chief George II. Black, OF Will
mington, Del
The whipping post Is a good thing.
he says. 1T keeps down petty crime
by soaring people. We have a popu-
lation that would naturally be trouble.