The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-07-08
SUPREME JUSTICE
D0GGED BY SPIES
5AYNOR 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 upheaval in the police department,
declared that both he and Mayor Me
| Clellan had been logged 10y police spies
during the inquiry into the Duffy case
He also said the mayor was baked 10y
the police ut every turn and had to cal
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 viii he amazed
how some of them got into places OF
such power for good or evil.
Il suppose it must he imagined thai
while the mayor was conducting his III
vestigation for month | 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 rs District Attorney
Clarke was blocked in Policeman Dii
Ions case. 1t was falsehood from day
to day. Finally, and | trust am vioiat
ing no confidence the mayor had to cal
In that way everything was uhraNeileu
and the truth found
Meanwhile the mayor and the CHIEF
official assisting him were subjected tt
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 Owl
belief is that all this done by another
and by the commissioner
Spies Not Worrying Him.
Il was also followed by these spies.
was unconscious of it until Mr.. Crowell
the assistant corporation counsel, IN
formed me of it, but | do not care foI
that. | have lived here in open day from
boyhood My falings, my misfortunes
my sorrows-everything is known, and u
spy more or less is nothing To me.
Il was followed and logged by Me-
Kane's spies and threatened and scan
dalized, and if | were now to publish
the letters of threats and abuse | have
received in the last week some might be
astonished. But | have been long before
the public from young manhood UP.
have grown used to abuse, but | hope
shall never grow callOus to the opinions
of good men.
This matter has nothing TO do with
BtHlltS. IbNf. bN NNNi b'hS mus
know, been twice offered the nomination
for mayor of this city, with every pros
pect of election and declined it, If
ever run for mayor it will be because the
good people of the community make q
demand for il. | have not the vanity &c
think that will ever happen and l hope
it never will"
Bingham to Fight Tammany.
That Gen. Bingham will take tn,
stump in the municipal campaign neXt
fall was announced Friday, and createl
enthusiasm in anti-Tamany circles. Ii
all the headquarters of the different anti
Tammany organizations it was believed
Gen Bingham had become one of the
vital issues Of the campaign. and thai
the question of honest elections, free
from Tammany police domination, hat
been raised with good effect.
Gen. Bingham was busy at the Hote
Iroquois packing his trunks for tril
to Nova Scotia.
Il had my say" he said Il am com
ing back here in the fall and expect tc
have 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 | woul,
have removed the Duffy picture, although
| had different view of the matter.
But the mayor started i'll to run III,
police department from the city hall
and that simply meant that Pat McCar
rem was running il. There was nothing
else for me to do but to stick, as | hav,
always done through my career. | wa,
not going to resign.
Glad He Is Out
"To tell the truth, I'm darn glad I,
get out. When | picked up the paper,
today one of the first things | saw was
burglary here. a hold-up there, and
smiled and said to myself that | wa,
glad that | was out of it. For NOR,
than three wears these things have beer
worrying me nearly to death. Now
don't care if they sack the whole city
I'm out Of it now"