The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-13
Let's Go Through
Police Headquarters
Now With a Broom
Pending the Outcome OF His Trial,
Commissioner Smith Should
Be suspe nded as Detective
Favor Was Suspen ded.

III Suspended Detective tective. under indictment
III Was Frank 3. Hbbler. citizen,
This investigation of Police Justice ehes
sitting jury she charges of Annie Smith, the keeper
of house of repute in old Deay the Eighteenth ward
joint charged with the com
pounding felony by accepting the woman on NOV
IS. 1907.
Captain Nevby charged separately with accepting dia
mond ring. valued at $3.50. Dec.
Detective Favor charged with accepting numerous presents
found in his house.
Hibbe charged with accepting $3.50 from the Sth woman
on Dec. 1907.
Smiths place settlement of Hungarians
the began attention. it was per
ed flourish without police interference and to the exclusion
of competition.
In said have counted the
shekels o. men o high $1,000 week.
charges police justice these four indicted
yet become public shared in the
the sale of women souls her hands and erected
z wall. of immunity around the market place.
The law there. according to the story OF the
woman FRoM WHICH THE INDICTMENTS SPRING. SO
Hong charged with the responsibility OF enforcing were
satisfied by her open purse and kept good-natured
police captain with safety offer this not
from eu mot her
Sooner or later he must face exposure and DISMISSAL
Annie Smith and to have accepted from her. alleged
without the knowledge of others higher up?
that he could safely
dive and his job! Did he
know that authorities higher were getting presens'
peculiar the police department of the city Of
bbler hold that his should have fig
ured in the grand jury investigation from the START
with what peculiar authority has he been vested that he
has w H Ann s snd Ps
Smith as charged in the indictments!
The striking feature they
to the word of of ooor character and woman NOR
No imagine Justice Jefres would
have word of
Having by the other side playing the gallery
for political capital is quite safe to guess that the Justice knows
he doing which fact the inference that the word OF
the woman is supported
Proceedings open and the public
will get the facts in tfese cases
most thorough manner before the public will be satisfied
entitled know ALL, and attempt cover up one
public citizen involved will with
reputation of the prosecuting officer as mt person to
police department has long been free from suspicion
LOT blackmai and extortion. .
So the opportunity provided the probe should be
sunk deeply only into the in point but Others that are
who police .s land, and the public ,
charge that liquor dealers have paid for exemption from
prosecution while openly violating the law
denly times and then suddenly and mys.eriousy lifted
And they are entitled to know why wnen the 10 was on @
certain voatos of the law taken police court wne others
were not
extortng presents and money from the OF red
Night resorts has been carried
house. -
investigation police department. has been pleasant
duty for PcIce Justice Jefries but he hasn't ducked
He Democrat and the Of politics has been raised re-
peaedly but Republican the fact would remain that
bookcase Hbber sold the and Smith the
punch bowl.
Republican party trial." Commissioner Smith
\ quoted saying before the lighting struck
And Commissioner Smith right, a way
The Times took several while Codd Office
defects that OF the greatest
'of which the fact that Codd
AS police commissioner Mr. Smith this
Hiking, and said than
What the public is what be always expected Of
officials who bow dictation allow themselves be used
81 Codd generally told what do and he did it,
The lack of foresight which puts indicted
his official record and which responsible for his
of the D. u franchise which made his defeat
again evident in the fact that he permitted himself become
who has kicked all the disturbance
3Hyoying the police commissioner he appointed.
The Codd administration is going trial again.
& The preliminary hearing has decidedly against it.