The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-11-11
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get him off the police force aftel
the story of the Chinese bond case
came out. He told of the growth
of the management of the houses
of prostitution under Sullivan
which the latter denied having any
knowledge of in his testimony be
fore tie police commission. Pitts
told the manner in which some of
ficers were promoted and favored
an dother men, older in the depart
ment and efficient in the service
were not recognized.
The cases of Officer George e
Cox and w. F. McCloud, plain
clothes men, were gone into at
some length. Cox, while yet a pro
stationary officer, was placed on
the plain-clothes department al
$11O a month.
Emmett Holmes testified to a
delegation of colored people calling
on Mayor Pratt to try 10 close the
disorderly house of Marie Taylor
and the failure to get results.
AvoRITIsM AND lRREeULARI,
TIES.
Continuing his testimony in the
Elliott case last evening, M. "
Pitts, ex-pOlice officer, stated that
during the three or three and one.
half years he hal been on the po-
lice force, he had been on the
desk" job a part of the time. and
hda access to the records and
books of the department. He was
positive that despite the fact that
the police regulations specifically
require a record to be kept at po-
lice headquarters Of all. ,disorderly
houses and gambling games in the
city, no such record was kept.
Telling of the incident where
Acting Chief Sullivan drew. down
the bail money of the Chinese who
had been arrested for gambling, he
said that when Sullivan sent for
him and told him to open the en-
velopes in which the bail money
was sealed uL, he refused to do so
until Sullivan signed a reseipt for
the money which was taken. from
the envelopes. He did not know
what Sullivan had done with this
money after taking it out of the en-
velopes. a
He told of the arrest of Marjorie
Allen and Leah Spaulding ON
charges of selling liquor without a
license and said that while the
Allen and Spaulling women had
been arrested, there were other
places which were classed as par
Tor houses" which sold liquor right
along and were molested only once
a month. That Sullivan should have
known that this liquor was being
taken into the "parlor houses" he
declared most emphatically, saying
that it was taken in openly and no
toriously in the day time, even in
the houses directly across the
street from the police station, and
that it was matter of common
knowledge to every officer on the
force that such was the case.
MAINTAINED "srooL PIGEON
FUND.
He also declared that the police
department maintained what is
known as a stool pigeon fund
and that a book in which the rec
ords of this fund were kept had
been seen by him and was usually
kept locked up in the department
safe.
That there had been partially
shown by Sullivan in the selection
of men for promotion from the
ranks, he was certain, citing the
case of Geo. Cox who was promot
ed to the position of plain-clothes
man even before his probation term
had expired. while older men on
the force and men better qualified
were held on the uniform jobs.
Officer Jellsett was then called
to the stand and told of the parti
atty of the acting chief in the Sc
lection of men. If the chief wanted
man promoted he said, it was al
ways done, while unless the mar
DESTROYS of advancement had the
good will of the chief, he had nc
| chance for promotion.
OFFICER MLEoD's CASE.
The question of the re-instate
ment of Officer w. F. Mcleod, was
then taken up, and it KAE though
out that on request bfhSullivan
Mcleod had been reinstated afteI
he had resigned from thAferee anC
his resignation had bve accepted
Attorney Robertson contended tina
this reinstatement was Illegal an,
that the proper method bf Dfoced
IRE would have been for Meiyeod t.
start in the same as anNbtha man