Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09
SUPREME JUSTICE
D0GGED BY SPIES.
GAYNOR SAYS NEW YORK POLICE
FOLLOWED MCCLELLAN AS WELL
AS HIMSELF.
BLOCKED AT EVERY POINT.
Executive Finally Employed Outside De-
tectives to Expose biggest
Scamps in Gotham"
POLITICS NOT RESPONSIBLE.

NEW YORK, July 3.-Supreme Court
Justice William j. Gaynor, in discussing
the upheavaI in the police department,
declared that both he and Mayor Nc
Clellan had been logged by police spies
during the inquiry into the Duffy case
He also said the mayor was baked by
the police at every turn and had to call
in outside detectives. Judge Gaynor said
of the charges in the police department.:
"Some of those removed are the big
gest scamps that ever got into authority
over decent people. When all becomes
known the community will be amazed
how some of them got into places of
such power for good or evil
Il suppose it must be imagined that
while the mayor was conducting his in
vestigaton for month l was informed
every few days of what was occurring
before him.
Blocked at Every Point.
From the outset the mayor was
blocked at every point by men on the
force, the same as District Attorney
Clarke was blocked in Policeman Dill
Ions case. 1t was falsehood from day
to day. Finally, and / trust l am violat-
ing no confidence, the mayor had to call
in to his aid an outside secret service
In that way everything was unravelled
and the truth found.
Meanwhile the mayor and the chief
official assisting him were subjected to
being followed and spied upon by the
city's secret service men. The Infamous
false statements circulated about him
were whispered about everywhere They
were both personal and official. My own
belief is that all this done by another
and by the commissioner.
Spies Not Worrying Him.
II was also followed by these spies.
was unconscious of it until Mr.. Crowell,
the assistant corporation counsel, in
formed me of it, but l do not care for
that. | have lived here in open day from
bOyhood. My failingS, my mlSfortuneS,
my sOrrows-everything is known, and a
spy more or less is nothing to me.
81 was followed and logged by Nc
Kane's spies and threatened and scan
dalized, and if l were now to publish
the letters of threats and abuse | have
received in the last week some might be
astonished But l have been long before
the public from young manhood up. |
have grown used to abuse, but l hope l
shall never grow callous to the opinions,
of good men.
This matter has nothing to do with
politics l have, as everybody must
know, been twice offered the nomination
for mayor of this city, with every pros
pect of election. and declined it. If I
ever run for mayor it will be because the
good people of the community make a
demand for it. l have not the vanity to,
think that will ever happen and hope,
it never will"
Bingham to Fight Tammany.
That Gen. Bingham will take the
stump in the municipal campaign next
fall was announced Friday, and created
enthusiasm in anti-Tamany circles In
all the headquarters of the different anti
TTammaDV OrVa MIA tiOnS if was halayad
Gen. Bingham had become one of the
vital issues of the campaign, and that
the question of honest elections, free
from Tammany police domination, had
been raised with good effect.
Gen. Bingham was busy at the Hotel
Iroquois packing his trunks for trip
to Nova Scotia.
81 had my say" he said. 'I am COM
ing back here in the fall and expect to,
have a good time. If Mayor Mcclellan
had strength enough to stand by me in
stead Of giving way to political forces,
everything would be all right. / would
have removed the Duffy picture, although
| had different view of the matter.
But the mayor started in to run the
police department from the city hall,
rem was running it. There was nothing
else for me to do but to stick, as l have
always done through my career. I was.
not going to resign.
Glad He Is Out
"To tell the truth. I'm darn glad to,
get out. When l picked up the papers
today one of the first things | saw was a
burglary here, hold-up there and I
smiled and said to myself that | was
glad that l was out of it. For more
than three years these things have been
worrying me nearly to death. Now l
don't care if they sack the whole city.
I'm out of it now''
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