The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-24
INSPECTOR McCANN IS
INDICTED IN VICE CRUSADE
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mony In the same vein is said 10 have
been furnished by detectives attached
10 the states attorneys office.
Mccain Issues Statement
Inspector McCann. Griffins superior
officer. issued "A statement today In.
dignantly denying that he knew any.
thing about protection graft" and cx.
pressing his entire confidence In Gfif.
fin
Mccain declared that Griffin Is hat.
ed by the west side resort owners and
that they started out to get him"
This big city by the lake has not
been so shaken for years AS now. Way.
man was elected rs a reformer. Tho
ward bosses opposed him and they
knew they could hope for no mercy
from him.
one day Chinaman sneaked into
the Office OF Attorney Edward +.
Dunno. former Judge and ex-mayor.
The man was trembling In fright. He
knew Dunno had been friend or the
good Chinese while mayor, and nc
had a story to tell him. IL was tale
OF graft. OF thousands OF dollars being
paid by the Chinese underworld TO po-
lice for protection. In the ex-mayors
whole story was unraveled.
Al about the same time a woman,
! clothed In black, visited the criminal
courts building and told similar
story TO States Attorney Wayman. For
three years. she said. police had levied
graft on her little saloon and Polish
boarding house south OF Chicago.
When she didn't pay some stranger
hA al hn
Search for Police Graft.
AS soon as her story was finished.
Dunno conferred with Wayman. aud
the grand jury was impaneled to deal
with new problem in Chicago affairs
the search for police graft. Though
graft isn't new by any means here. the
investigation OF II Is.
AS a result OF the stories told by
the woman in black and the frightened
Chinaman. true bills were returned
and big ring OF Chinese gamblers
was driven out OF business. Extortion
Will be- charged against men who
mulct saloonkeepers and others.
Unlike any other great city in the
world. Chicago has its criminal d.
visions just as II has its political d.
visions. West-side vice Is under the
control OF the Desplaines-st. police
Inspector Mccain is In charge Of the
district.
On the south side, near the central
part OF the city. Aid. Kenna and Cough
lin. twin monarchs OF the red Sight"
district, hold sway Inspector Wheel
er. from the Harrison-st station.
Yields police power In the first and
second wards. where south side vice
centers.
! Michael Kenna has been known az
"Hinky Dink" 20 the country at large
from the time he sold newspapers az
Clark and Van Buren-sts. until now.
when he runs saloon there and
counts his wealth In seven figures
The gateway to downtown vice IL
| this corner.
kenna's Barrel House,
The fountainhead OF II Is Kenua's
barrel house. which stands, sentinel.
| like. over the Clark-st. Chicago dens.
Thanked on both sides, south Of the
battlements OF beer kegs which sur
rounded Kenna's dive, are strange
signs In Chinese. and stranger people
slip silently past you; from reeking
| Easements comes the drone of -leep-
| ily-sung Chinese songs and the subtle
odor OF opium
Here the Chinese gambler sat In
glory until States Attorney Wayman
decided that vice and graft must stop
Word went along the street, over TO
Andy" Craig's district. and even To
the strongholds OF the aldermen.
| Laughter greeted Wayman's de-
fance. but now they speak OF him
| amid frowns and threats. Will Way
man from the grim old criminal courts
building be able to shake ChicagC's
graft system to the foundations?
Nobody can tell now Chicagos
petty graft runs into princely places
II you trail It, Even In the columns
! OF Chicago's most respectable" news
, paper runs a current Of sneers aud rid