The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-01-11
NEW YORK As It
IS, GOOD ENOUGH
FOR BATTERY DAN
Magistrate Finn Declares City
Law-Abiding and Unchang-
ing in Twenty-Five Years.
CRlTlCISES THE POLICE.
iOverzealous in Making Arrests,
So Law CompelS Him 10
Set Prisoners Free.
CRlTlCISES THE POLICE.
BY Ethel Lloyd Patterson.

New York City is neither better nor
worse than 1t was twenty-five years
ago, and In my opinion the real citizens
of this city are the most law-ah.d!ns
class Of individuals in the civilized
world is the statement of Magistrate
sDaniel E. Finn, Familiarity and lovingly
dubbed Battery Dan"
Crime waves and all these new
tangled gamesH why, ii is lust Ike
Il appendicitis-we all used to have II
years ago and it was called something
else"--and the Magistrate jammed his
h chin down on his collar ana peered
\ with CLEAN of grim bumor from I'M
ASer his whitened eyebrows.
1T seems to me-" lie continued bal
Sancing In his chair meditatively, that
] have spen. lot of time since nave
fbeen on the bench in discharging peo-
tple. They bring EN- in in droves the
night before and in the morning
weed EN- out and let 'em 60 AGAIN !
& have had to take a lot OF talk for dong
ut, too But-well-the long ana snort
OF IL is, am stu at it, / let lot 80
this very morning.
.'rrests and No Evidence
"You see, it's this way eSpIainel
,Magistrate Finn, planting his eluoMs
firmly ON his desk and IN ms taftts,,
ness bringing his voice IRON Tu ,S,o "U ,.sr.
!, in his chest somewhere, "a Judge ger
1ainly has Il lot % espJas'0Illty; W 4eA
;you think of Il, rs q pretty Dig t!'IhS
SO send a man to jail. tell YOU wat
] often think Of that book, of Keade s.
put Yourself in His Place Wneh some
poor, torlorn creature Is prousu' peio ',iJ
me. [ don't want 10 he the one 20 SEM
him back again unless there's plenty OF
evidence. And it's worse FOR woman
Arst thing, even II they are Innocent
when they are brought before me they
have spent most OF one nlSht IN jail
anyway .-,. ..o .,,,, tbot II
finals TO be at large than for one lnho-
cent woman OK nan TO spend the h's"'
In .{t aii. ors no, the police deplorably
oyer.zealous, If they have so many
cases Of insufficient eyiIence'
They 70 Get the Law.
~ certainly would say they are he
acnuiasced. but the best | can do *
10 be awfully sure before hold EN-
mo, It isn't so much humanity
either" the Magistrate denled-,sts t"e
law. Wait minute and | VIII reaI
you a paragraph troH! so'"s '"''''eS
here in this book.
rapidly and then adjusted his glasses.
..You see here It says very plainly
he explained. that the offense must be
committed in the presence OF the OF
ficer. This is in reference to women
of bad character. lust because W9m-
ans reputation is known to be untor-
innate makes no difference. She
shouldn't be arrested without the proper
evidence. But they are, and sol let
'em 70 again. on. as far rs | per.
! sonallv am concerned | know that when
7 woman has been up before me a lot
| OF times It does not make much 9if'
ference. 1t Is too late to reform her
anyway. You can't do it. Ny point
Is that it is tho law.
Good Enough for Him.
"Resldes"-and here the Magistrate
shut the book ana drew his chin down
on his collar once mu.e-"I am not any
kind Of a retowDer | don't so in for
It. The only thing ! !, urge some OF The n
is mighty hid taing, l think You
can't count ON what man drinking
viii do one way or the other.
DO think New York would nave
been any better T. ] Ind gone In for
wholesale retlrN.pg"' VI" s!strate Finn
J repeated with d scr, OF deep-d1w..
.umalc hat p,ss.s FOR 2r., a !"gsh NH. J..
ing lot Of these grformOr fellows E.---
7; ing around this ar" moss, AMI can .
Lsee but what this IS 'Hn --." y.l tow
That l. vs. Wuy9 inst EarN r. AnD
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