Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-14
GRAND JUROR
TAKES FLING At
POLICE CRITICS
Many Citizens Also Take Hand
in Scoring Attack on
Department.
'LATHROP ANDERSON'S
AMBITION CAUSED REPORT
Latter Qualities Charges to Say
Commissioners Are Men
to Blame.

There Was an additional storm of
criticism hurled today at Lathrop An
derson and the Board of Trade commit
tee. which has declared that the police
force of Newark is cumbersome and in
efficient. Members of the grand jury,
which had been attacked in the Board
of Trade report, got back at Mr.. Ander-
son and the Board OF Trade Another
man, who asked that his name be with
held, said that Mr.. Anderson has polit-
ical aspirations, and that the Mayor OF
Orange street," as he terms Mr. Ander-
son, wanted to be police commissioner
Mr. Anderson today qualified his
sweeping denunciation of the police
force. He said that he is not finding
fault with the patrolmen or personnel
of the police department, but with the
police commissioners. who are ''inefIi-
cient."
Il think it i'll becomes member OF
the Board of Trade to denounce our
action" said one of the members OF
the late grand jury today. 1T is ego
tistical. at least. for members of that
body to say that we should have gone
TO them in our investigation an IN the
needs of the denartment- Tho need fo,
additional members to the police force
was carefully investigated by COM
noittee of tho .,..,ra i,,r,, rho
. .,.i0
''ts '''e w Vi q iepi pieeen'a.ise
iheeiiieeht oooy Oh men, ana think
the pubic ana the taxpayers of New
ark will support them rather than the
Board of Trade. certain members of
which are outlawed bv age and ;ncom-
netencv
..r,ths. ,,s.,e.s 80, ,,
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oianse s''oe'' ASSUMES loo HITCH Wneh
ne thihKs thst o pody Ike the grand
4 jury should consult him in matters of
1 this kind The grand Jury was fully
/ as capable as the Board Of Trade tn
i and out. the eonditions IN .tba. no,,ce da-
no ,,,,a,t n,t,o ,.se,,1 .,,... -
L..
uh'" eneie iihu peeii tnor-
ousn ana oetalled lhVestlgation OF the
departments needs.
Another man said today that Lathrop
| Anderson for a long time has been
anxions IN bo a no,ico co,nn,iss;o,,a,.
s,,a 49, .t,. ,,..,, ,,,,,.. ,.a,-,..,
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''io iSpoi' u 'iie i'o"iu Vi tfeoe'
several SAID TO-DAY that the police
department of Newark ranks, among
the best in the United States. and
that it is unfair, both to the city and
/ the police, to send such a report as that
submitted by the Board of Trade COM
nlittee broadcast.
| Il think it Is one Of the duties of
the Board of Trade, said one man to
boost and not knock Newark. We
are trying to build up fine city here
and a scathlng denunciation of our po-
lice force is not conducive to boosting
I a city. The Board of Trade has been
sending a lot of circulars abroad tell
ing OF the features of Newark This is
ridiculous when in the very next breath
members go on record with severe
criticism of the most important branch
of the city government-the police de-
partment."
Mr.. Anderson said To-Day: II want it
understood that / am not finding fault
with the men who are patroliing the
streets and acting as detailed men, but
with the police commissioners The
trouble in the department is the same
as in an army when the general can
not do justice to his office. The result
is that the men under him are un-
trained. and instead OF well-disci-
plined army we have only mob I
believe that the Mayor is at fault. He
appoints men who do not understand
their business
"The matter of the inefficiency in the
department first came to my attention
when the members of the Eighth ward
organization were notified by the citi-
zens Of the ward that the districts
We're without proper police protection.
was appointed on a committee to see
that matters were attended to, and
this led me to Captain Brown, of the
Second Precinct. In my interview with
the captain I was informed that he
was unable TO do anything, as he did
not have enough men. Then I wrote
to Police Commissioner Kane and was