The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-04-21
ROBSON too LIGHT
TO PROBE BOARD
OF EDUCATION
INSPECTOR SCHULTZ
OFFICIAL cRlTicIsEs MANNER IN
WHICH PROSECUTORS OFFICE
HANDLED iNvEsTioATIoN---
FIGHT ONLY BEGUN.

While the grand jury Investigation
into the affairs OF the school board Is
over. the fight being made by Inspect
ors Goldberg and Schultz for clean
ing up Of the board OF education ia
not ended. In fact. the two inspect-
ors say that they have just begun TO
fight
Both are to be candidates for re-
election next spring. and they hope
to have the support and help OF men
in other wards than the Twelfth and
Seventeenth In fghting the Martindale
organization to q finish.
The matters brought before Justice
Stein In his investigation will be aired
again then, publicly. and the voters
left to Judge as to whether they ap-
prove OF the actions OF majority Of
the board.
The gang will go ahead now to
run things more highly -handedly than
ever and to get into the taxpayers
money said Inspector Schultx when
he read the report OF the prosecutors
ONCE ON the investigation conducted
by Justice Stein, am not surprised
at the outcome, although believe a
dozen indictments should have been
rendered.
Says Robison's Too Light.
Prosecutor Yerkes did not handle
the matter himself. but turned II over
to an assistant who was too light for
the Job. was called In for two
hours and when / came away, l was
satisfied that nothing would be done.
Instead OF asking questions to draw
out the facts. was put under cross
examination at once to break down
my story. The majority Is cocky now.
but they will be beaten yet"
Inspector Goldberg was likewise
prepared for verdict Of no cause for
indictments.
THE whole investigation was not
pushed as It should have been" he
says. In some cases the most import
ant witnesses were not called In. One
case was that where certain omcial
was given money to give man job.
The person who saw the money passed
was not Called upon to testify at aH.
Il am disguised. In way. and felt
like quitting In the tight, but there Is
no yellow In me. They are trying to
put me in. bad light now, but the
| facts will show that / have acted
earnestly and conscientiously In every
thing. The school board is controlled
by n ring which takes in politicians
or both parties and reaches into the
courts and to Lansing. 1t Is the big
gest machine In the state and Is hard
to fight.
IL am going to run again next spring
-,t1I IN Afor raoAd AGAIN
then, or. perhaps, before"
stein Won't Endorse Report.
There will be no formal endorse
ment by Police Justice Stein OF As
sistant Prosecutor James Robison's
report on the grand jury investiga'
tion into school board affairs. While
the Justice Sconcurs In the report In
general way and agrees with the
prosecutor that there is nothing In the
disclosures on which 10 base any
criminal warrants. he does not feel
that the compliments In the matter
should be censured. For this reason
he has withheld his signature from
the formal endorsement prepared for
him by Mr.. Robson and says that the
affair is q closed incident.
81 believe that the persons who
laid the complaints before me were
actuated by honest motives" said the
Justice. Tuesday. II think they were
honestly or the opinion that wrongs
had been committed. and believing
that l do not feel that these men
should be attacked. or course II -
better for persons to be reasonably
sure OF their grounds before making
serious charges against anyone, but
when they come to me with COM
plant 1t is my duty to look into IT.
In this case we left nothing undone
in our search for the facts. The In
vestigation could not have neen more
thorough"
Jesse D.. Davis Testified
| IL is known that, during the inves-
tigation. witnesses we're brought from
out OF the city to testify. though the
fact was kept secret at the time. One
OF these was Jesse b. Davis. formerly
OF the Central high school faculty.
who IS now principal OF the Grand
Rapids high school IL was expected
that Davis could shed some interest
ing Hight on the doings OF certain In
spectors. but his testimony proved OF
no value