Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-15
LEADER OF RAID
IS BLAMED FOR
DRAGNET HOLES
DEPUTY PROSECUTOR IS AC-
CUSED OF LENIENCY
PATRoLMAN AND WOMAN ESCAPE
FROM MANHATTAN
Notorious Hotels Plans to. Explode
BombsheIl Monday Night Nipped
in the Bud by Chief
Dishman
v HIEF OF POLICE EDWARD F.

DISHMAN-'The man who was
~ to blame, the one who was dere-
Iict in his duty on the night of the
Manhattan raid must bear the respOn-
sibility, whether he be member of
the police department or any other de-
partmcnt of the city government. This
affair just came to my attention and L
am now conducting a thorough inVes-
tigation into the matter and propose
to know the whole truth. There will
be no trimming and no half way meas
ures In this connection or any other"
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Joseph
f. Seymour, jr.-"T gave no direction or
orders to Sergeant Daniel Long or any
other police officer except TO round up
all the prisoners arrested at the Man
haitian and send or take them to the
police station, in cabs or the patrol
wagon as they preferred. One of the
officers made list of the men and
women arrested and that list l placed
in the hand of Sergeant Long and told
him to take those who were the list
to the station. / had no understanding
expressed or implied with any officer
that any of the prisoners were to be
overlooked or allowed to escape"
Sergeant Daniel Long-"When l left
the central station on the night of May
8 with the squad of officers who raided
the Manhattan hotel / was informed by
Captain Charles e. Dixon that 1 was to
Uhn
w6 4 have charge of the party, and
that was to work under his direction
and obey his orders.
attorney Seymour led the raiding
party into the hotel and directed all
that was done thereafter. He ordered
me first to read the search warrant to
the night clerk, which 1 did. and after
ward 1 aided in conducting the search
of the place, going with the clerk as he
was opening the doors of the various
rooms. In one OF the rooms we found
OFFICER Sanders. When we came to that
room there was some delay in opening
the door and MIR. Seymour ordered me,
II it was not opened at once, to give
the count of three and then to break
the door in. At that the night clerk
begged the inmate of the room to open
the door as he did not want 1t broken.
The man who proved to be Sanders
then opened the door. 1 saw him in
there but did not enter the room and
did not know that he had woman
with him.
"Afterward / heard a number Of
newspaper men talking to Seymour,
begging him TO let Sanders go. 1 did
not hear all the conversation, but heard
enough to know what they were asking,
and finally l heard Seymour say, All
right, we will let him go then and he
looked directly at me as he said it.
After that / paid no more attention to
Sanders as understood from that he
was to be allowed to CO."
Chief of Police Edward F. Dishmar
learned that Chowder House
lin Dunno and w. H. Salway, man
lgers of the Manhattan hotel, liz
cast Third street, which was raided by
he police the night of May 8, were
to throw a bombshell into
he meeting of the police commission
Monday night when they are to ap-
)ear to show cause why their restau-
ant liquor license shall not be re-
,oked
This effort to create scandal in
chief Dishman's administration of the
)olice department was to take the form
# a charge to be sprung at the near
ne by the commission that the officers
the raid on the resort had
allowed a patrolman and young
woman who was with him in a room al
he hotel to escape while the other men
md women found in the hotel were
aiken to the station, where their names
we're requested in order that they
night later be called as witnesses.
The statement was made that in one
# the rooms opened by the raidine
)arty a policeman was found with q
,oung woman and that the raiding Of
icers when they found whom they
lad uncovered, permitted them to es-
ape from the hotel and failed to re-
,ort the facts at the police station OF
o the chief of police.
Seymour Headed Party
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Joseph
:. Seymour, jr., headed the, raidine
,arty at the Manhattan, which was
of Sergeant Daniel Long
oatrolman d. T. Murphy, James Har-
ison, Grant McCart. f. II. Whalen
ieorge Williamson, C. w. Erven and
=. A. Blaisdall. The deputy prosecutor
headed the officers as they entered the
lotel and Sergeant Long read to Night
Clerk Smith the search warrant author
zing the raid.
Under the direction of Seymour the
,otel clerk secured his pass keys and
,egan opening doors when commanded
o do so. In the first room in which.
we're any one Al Greenewald and Il
were found. The officers were
compelled to break down this door be-
ore entrance was secured.
In the second room opened were
ound Patrolman e. N. Sanders and a
roung woman who is of. respectable
amily and good reputation and who
vas away from home on the excuse
hat she was visiting a girl friend in
mother part of the city.
Patrolman Sanders gave his name TO
he raiding officers and made no at
empt to evade the consequences of be-
ng in the hotel under the circum-
tances. To a number of newspaper
uen who had accompanied the raiding
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