The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-06-10

that training schools should be con-
Quoted in all municipalities, In which
the instruction should be given from
the standpoint not only of the prose-
cution but also with the view Of in
dividual betterment and social vel.
fare"
Called "Block to Justice"
While urging the adoption of the
measure by the section, Judge Estelle
said that the practices of the police,
the incomplete manner in which they
worked up their cases, their attitude
of seeking to convict every prisoner,
regardless of guilt or innocence, made
of them a laughing stock in the
courts and block to competent JUS
tice.
"1t is generally conceded" he said
that as to character and intellect,
H. , who aspire to be policemen are
. the highest type. The police
'oti:. lily thinks it his duty to con-
v. &nW nan charged with crime,
inste. III, seeking to establish
the righ' .nocent men wrongfully
accused"
Replies to the Arraignment.
Judge Estelle's arraignment Of the
police was answered at once by Chief
Justice Wilfred Bolster of the NUM-
cipal court OF Boston. Mass.
"My opinion of the function of this
conference" said the latter, "is that
1t is to try to correct national faults
and not to cure local ulcers. If the
police of Omaha are no good that is
not concern of this body. The po-
lice of the east are all right and are
not laughing stocks. Police ineffi-
cheney has not yet become a national
evil and l hope it never will"
Makes Warm Defense of Omaha.
Judge Estelle leaped to his feet and
replied:
There is a manhood in Omaha
that makes it today the brainiest and
most upright city in the country. With
all your prohibition laws in Maine and
Massachusetts, I'll venture that, for
instance, you have more Illicit sale of
liquor in either state than we do in
Nebraska"
eyes," admitted Justice Bolster.
"Well, what do you do with them?"
asked Judge Estelle. "You never have
an arrest in Boston for the sale of
liquor without license. Your police
are as bad as ours"
Supreme Court Hits Police.
Then Assistant Corporation Coun-
sci Holt took up the gage.
IF l wanted to go to an authority
more fruitful in suggestions as to the
police than any other, he said, II
would take up the supreme court re-
ports of any and every states in the
union. They are filled from cover to
cover with gibes and sneers at the
police, penned by the supreme court
judges who wrote the opinions. l as
sumo these judges do it, not from ca
price, but because they find facts to
warrant.
I'm this state jurors are judges not
only of the facts, but the law as we'll.
This permits lawyers to take up the
time of argument, saying nothing
about their cases, but reading from
one after another report of the SUI
preme courts filings at police. A pros
ecutor has to use the time that he
should devote to argument to defend
ing the police.
Police Scored as Witnesses.
"My experience taught me never to
put policeman on the witness stand
unless had to, having no other testi-
mony sufficient to convict criminal.
"The policeman who should instill
respect for law into the citizens
minds and hearts, does not do SO and
your universities and public schools
do not do it either, and the result is
that in my experience l have refused
to take Americans on my juries.
where, in difficult cases, was anxious
for a conviction, because l could find
more respect for law in German Luth-
erans and in Englishmen."
Bluecoat as Aid to Boss Rule.
John H. Marble of Washington, D.
c., attorney to the interstate COM
merce commission then swung the
cudgel.
Il formerly was Of San francisco" "
he said. From my experience there
and my observation elsewhere, know
that the police force is the strong
right arm of boss rule Wherever
you find boss rule you find graft in
the police force. I used to be associ-
ated with the labor unions in Cali
fornia. l found that when a union or
union man was in trouble the attitude
Of the police depended on the attitude
of the administration. When the
labor union administration was in
power there, the police were willing
to commit perjury for my clients. :"
The resolution was then adopted.
Before another section Of the con-
ference the police received separate
scoring for the application of the
third degree" in forcing confessions
from prisoners. This was a continue
ton Of discussion begun last night.
The first session took up the parole
of prisoners and the Rev. A. ]. Steel
man. chaplain of the penitentiary at
Joliet, pleaded for parole to include
"life prisoners
"As general thing" he said, "men
imprisoned for. life are Of higher
type than the shorter-term prisoners.
The life man is one who from re-
venge or under the influence of liquor
has committed, perhaps, one crime in
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