The Detroit times., 1909-01-13
BATTERY DAN SAYS
BINGHAM IS A
COWARD
POLICE RECORD OF MAGISTRATE
IS SHOWN AND WAR WAKES
WARM BECAUSE OF CRITICISM
OF POLICE.

NEW YORK, Jan. 13.-Police Com
missioner Bingham and Magistrate
Battery Dan" Finn have exchanged
the compliments OF the season.
Said Battery Dam" Bingham got
his training for police work as major
domo at the White House. A major
domo Is a sort OF head withdrawing
out tables and folding napkins. This
was genial employment for Bingham.
because he has the soul OF a waiter.
Said Gen. Bingham Battery Dan
has gone out of his way TO roast the
police on every trivial occasion. do
not wonder that he is sore on the po-
lice, for they certainly have been nm
kind TO him. He has been arrested
many times, as this record which
hand out. shows;
This record" purported to be Finn's
police record in substance as follows
Arrested July 10, 1875, for assault
and battery on Peter Iiasson. u No.
l99 Westinghouse discharged.
Arrested April %, 1880. for assault
on Louisa Thomson. of No. 1iS East
Eleyenth-st., on car; also assault
on conductor and breaking window of
car; knife and razor found on Finn:
held In $500 bail for trial by Magis-
tzate Wandell.
Arrested Aug. 8, 1880, for keeping
open his saloon, AT No. IL Park row.
and abusing Policeman Mallon. who
made the arrest: held in 500 bail by
Magistrate Smith.
ArreSted Aug. 16, 1880, for assault
on Lasarus Schoney; discharged by
Magistrate Flammer.
Arrested Nov. .2S. 1880, Tor throw
ing q conductor of q car; discharged
by Magistrate Duffy; in Firms posses
sion were knife and bottle OF beer.
Arrested Oct. IL, $780, for assault
on Henry Nichols; discharged.
Took Away Firms Officer.
Bingham had been angered by
Firms frequent criticism of the po-
lice. When he read in the newspapers
OF Firms attack on himself and the
police he became furious. and ordered
the magistrates probation officer, Pa
trolman b. j. O'Connor, back 10 pa
troll duty.
When Battery Dan" sitting in
Yorkville court, read Bingham's ar
raignment of him. he said:
These charges are the work OF this |
revengeful gentleman who has been |
put at the head of a police department /
TO protect our citizens. and who don't
know anything about II. He made
very good major-domo, otherwise
known as a waiter, at Washington. He
may be good In mixing up garden
plot, but as a police commissioner he's
4 failure.
Il am proud of my reputation. l
have never done anything dishonor-
able, and l don't know whether the
same can be said OF that worthy gen.
tieman, Gen. Bingham.
Il am glad To say that | have the |
opportunity of exchanging compli- /
ments with Gen. Bingham. My life is /
an open book for any one 10 read; let /
him open his.
AT this moment l can recall only
two instances of these alleged arrests
fled against me. One was at the Ho-
tel Brunswick, where | saw a loafer
about to attack an aged Hebrew.
lnterfered and gave the loafer a good
licking. l was arrested, but discharg-
ed. I'm glad did what did.
THE other occasion was when was |
tried In the court of special sessions. !
was fined $25. | was protecting a |
woman on an Eighth.ave car from a |
loafer. Both of us were locked up I
and In court Justices Bixby and Mon
heimer fined me. | learned subse- |
quently that both justices were stock |
holders In the Eighth-ave. line and |
wrote them to that effect.
"As to assaulting an aged negress, |
that Is lie. l never struck or insult |
q woman in my life.
Attack is cowardly.
~ otr
upon me Is cowardly. He's a one-leg- |
ged man and that protects him. But |
I'll tight him with whitewash brushes |
and buckets OF kalsomine at ten feet |
III meet him In a court OF law, on |
the street or In any other place, pub |
lie or private.
He is a coward at heart to delve
Ike scavenger into police records
80 years old and make false charges
against man who enjoyed the respect
and affection OF the people OF the city
before benevolent government put
Bingham In West Point and tried to
make warrior out OF him ard made
a waiter instead
There was a time when Bingham
and Battery Dan" were good friends.
This was when Bingham first became
commissioned. AT Battery Dams" re-
quest Bingham placed Firms son.in.
law, IieNt. Strip, In command OF the
criminal court squad, and transferred
Lieut.. walsh, now captain, to AN un-
desirable precinct. This. too. after
Bingham had stated "by the nine gods
OF war" that politics would no longer
rule the department
But Magistrate Finn is a district
leader and known az Battery Dan -
said reporter.
What. that nice, pleasant spoken
gentlemen, Battery DAN? retorted
Bingham. We'll, who would have
thought So" and Strip was instantly
removed from the court squad.
Busipess-like Printing. No fuss and
nc feathers. The plain, neat kind. that
looks right. Times Printing Co. IL
John R-st. Phone 1893