The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-30
.FLANNERY POINTS TO HIS
RECORD TOREFUTE CHARGES

The patrol sergeants will notify
all officers having beats adjacent to
any suspected gambling place that
they will visit these places and will
be held equally responsible with the
officers on the beat. and remain at
such places as long as may be neces-
sary; and, lastly;
Il want to warn patrol sergeants
that ] will look to them for strict
enforcement of all the provisions in
this order
The officers in this district are
Furthermore instructed to arrest Kid
Sullivan or any of the rest of his
kind on charge of vagrancy if they
are found hanging around this dis
trict.
THOMAS DUKE,
Captain of Police
Captains Office. Police District No.
San Francisco, Cal, aMrch 81,
1910
Hon. Harry P. Flannery, President
Board of Police Commissioners.
Dear Sir: On March 8, when I re-
turned to the station from Judge
DUNES court, where I was wit
ness in the Gee Gong murder case,
my clerk, Officer E. J. Mcnamara,
Informed me that you had telephoned
phoned that you desired to see me-
Il proceeded from your place of
business, and you took a paper from
your pocket upon which was a list
of six places where you stated IL
legal gambling was being conducted.
(For location of places see attached
order)
You informed me that you at
tempted to communicate this in
formation to the chief of police. but
he was not in, and as you desired
immediate action taken you referred
the matter to me. You instructed
me to do all in my power to prevent
all violations of the law and to warn
the members of my command that
any officer found guilty of derelic-
ton of duty would be summarily
dealt with.
Il remember that you particularly
denounced one kid" Sullivan. and
stated that he and his kind should
be driven from the city.
after promising to do all in nv
power to carry out your instructions
L proceeded at once to my office and
issued order No. 407, an exact copy
of which is attached. This order was
Immediately read to all members of
the. command, and is now on file in
the central station. Respectfully
submitted, THOMAS DUKE,
Captain of Police"
L have repeatedly instructed the
proper officers of the police de-
partment to suppress all gambling
and drive out disreputable char
acters of all kinds. 1 have con-
Quoted my business all ION an hon
orable basis.
How can it be charged that with
a record of this kind that l could
be guilty of the shameless act of
betraying my city into the hands
of men of Abbott's character. His
life, as now disclosed, has been one
continual crime. He has lived by
crime, and not otherwise. from his
very youth. I interceded to have
him reinstated on the racetrack, but
did it without knowledge of his
true character, and on account of
my friendship for his father, who
was an honorable police officer of
Virginia City, and an old friend
mine. I never had the slightest
conception of the disreputable char
acter of this man until his arrest
in Sausalito.
The bringing of the indictment
against me by the grand jury of
Marin county was the result of a
foul conspiracy, which had it's birth
and was nursed in this city. How
these conspirators could find their
way into the grand jury room of
Marin county, and with the per-
jured testimony of this dishonest
rogue. Abbott. bring in this indict-
ment against me, surpasses my UNI
derstanding. If the charges of Abb
bolt had been. true, what a fool |
was in not taking him out on bail
and let him leave the country,
which his wife suggested and de-
sired done as he did, when L drove
him out of my house.
If | had been guilty of this charge,
my conduct was that of fool rather
than a man of reasonable intelli-
gence. A telegram is shown, written
in my handwriting and signed by my
own signature. And intelligent men
are asked to believe that, when send
ing that telegram, was fulfilling an
agreement with a vicious scoundrel
to loot the people of my own city
l am absolutely innocent of this
charge. / have as much contempt
and hatred for &bbott's class of peo-
pie as has any man in San Francisco.
No man will go farther than l have
gone to enforce the law against
them.
The charges of this Indictment will
be met promptly and fully and the
falsity of the evidence upon which
this indictment is based will be fully
shown. l shall demand the fullest
investigation and a trial at the
earliest possible moment