Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-07-23

ferred to. Four or five men in the place
were arrested, two of whom got away.
Butterfield was fined $50 and on being
captured again on the same charge a
few nights afterward by Night Cap
tain Mier, was fined 500 and was in
dicted by the grand jury, after which
he got out Of town.
1 He stated that sometimes when men
are arrested playing poker, they have
testified that they were playing pitch
for fun and got away free. He was
asked by Judge Mitchell If there was
any person engaged in furnishing bond
to prisoners at the police station, and
he answered that there was. He said
that John. Gray was the professional
bondsman for the inmates and runners
of bawdy houses and for anyone else
that would pay the price.
Took Half Ounce.
| When asked If at any time during
his services as chief of police In the
administration Of Mayor Phillips, he
was ever interfered with by the mayor
Tor IL the mayor ever asked him to re-
lease anyone, he answered in the al
| firmative and stated that Junk man
Twas arrested by Officer Beeman for
blockading the street, and the wife and
! two poorly clad children Of the pris-
!, oner pleaded with the mayor for the
release of their husband and father.
The mayor besought him to release
them, but he refused and the matter
was referred to Police Judge Norris
sey. who also refused to release the
prisoner When questioned as to the
r,ayors drinking liquor. he replied
| that he had seen the mayor drink once.
HE related the incident as having
taken place at the Ballingall saloon,
when he and the mayor were invited
] by a friend to take a drink. When
asked as to the time, he said it took
place eighteen months ago and that
| the mayor took half an ounce OF
| whisky in a pop or ginger ale glass
and filed out the glass with water.
when I remarked that he did not
drink much whisky, said Gallagher.
"the mayor said Il can never drink
whisky raw" Gallagher stated that
he had seen the mayor drink beer five
or six times. When asked il he, the
witness, drank, he said that he drank
no more than three glasses OF beer
/ in q week and no whisky, unless it
should be ordered by physician.
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He said that Captain Mier got infor-
nation about the Woollett place and
reported it later, making raid but
getting nothing. He told Of Officers
Beeman and Black being stationed in
that vicinity and near the Baker house,
one on day and the other night duty.
and that they have the instructions to
investigate where they see anything
suspicious. AS to the Calhoun house.
he stated that he was notified twice by
the mayor and that he personally made
the investigation upon being so asked
to do so by the mayor. The first time
he found the old lady stretched out on
the lounge Of the Office, her son. half
drunk, and young girl who told him
she was working there, taking care OF
the old man. He said he looked
through the upstairs and found only
the old man in bed. He said he told the
girl she would have to leave town and
sent an officer to see that she left the
next morning. When J. Fl. Rheem tele-
phoned to the station, Gallagher said,
the desk sergeant sent Officer Light
ner to the place.
Cleans Out Smoky.
Turning the questioning to prostitu-
ton, Chief Gallagher said that in the
cleaning up of Smoky Row the admin
istration sent five women to the re-
formatory. one Of them, Sadie Can.
terbury twice. Others mentioned sent
over the road by the united efforts of
the witness and his force, working in
unison with County Attorney Cornell
and his assistant. E. r. Mitchell, he
said, wsT< Ruth Clay, Rosie Kelly and