The Detroit times., 1910-01-04
POLICE 10 5UEE
CITY WITH GREAT
DRle1ET
Determined To @Clean up Unsslvot
Crime Mysteries, Comnisaisuer
croul Orders 40 Plain Clsfhsu
Men TO Patrol Streets.
Every Loiterer win Be Stopped ~
Questioned - William Ksllsrs
slayers Are Still It Iibsrty.

In what was probably the most 70.
markable session ever ordered By =
commissioners Of police. Commissionor
Croul assembled the heads OF every
branch OF the department In his once
Tuesday morning. and laid down IN
uitimaruin that recent unsolved caoao
must be cleaned up" with the cap
ture OF the guilty parties.
Clerks. mounted oficers. members
OF the sanitary equad. members ok.
the signal service, court omcers.
trnant officers. motorcycle men, ana
every other man sworn in for police
duty must take his turn OF duty n
the most thorough campaign against
crime that was ever proposed
From dusk until midnight. $50 men
In plain clothes will patrol the streets.
stopping every loiterer. questionina
every person whose actions might b
regarded as suspicious. II means
hundreds OF hours OF overtime work.
but the burden will be shared with
the patrolmen, by detectives. clerks
taken from work at their books, team
sters. doorrnen. and every other sworn
member Of the department.
We're going to keep $50 men In
plain clothes out from dusk to mid
night, until we solve this Helen
Brown murder. the attack on Irma
Robinson. who was dragged into an
alley near her home, and the murder
OF William Keller" said Commisaioner
Croul TO his heads OF departments.
Each one of you has got to furnish
his quota OF men for that work.
Conditions are no worse here than
In many other cities. A Cincinnati
woman was butchered the other day;
New York city has it's mysterious
butcheries. but that's no excuse for
us. You've got to run down the mys-
leries here, and you've got to work
overtime to do it."
Commissioner Croul stated later
that citizens in all walks OF life would
probably feel the meshes OF the mann
fmoth drag net.
81 don't care who the man Is. 81 he
Is !oitering, or acting in q suspicious
manner. he Will be stopped and ques-
toned" ssid the commissioner.
Supplied with the names and adj
dresses OF both Italians who figured in
Fort-st. west, Sunday night, the police
have watched and searched in vain.
for nearly 4S hours.
Leo Gero. No. 1876 Rivard-st., and
Peter Popilo. living on Monroe-ave.
near Dequindre-st.. cannot be located.
Zero Is alleged to have confessed to
Charles Heimstreet. No. 43 Church,st..
that he did the shooting, and to have
fxll th.t ~ IT,
Both men are missing.
II Is one more tribute to the Sphinx
like secrecy of the Italians which has
always baffied the police In all OF their
searches for criminals OF that race.
The Keller case Is almost parallel
to the murder of Patrolman George
Wilson. shot and killed by an Italian
while arresting one OF the fellows
countrymen for making disturbance
on Champlain-st. There were several
shots, the officer fell dying, his as
saiants scattered and are still at lib
erty. The police have their names.
they admit But the veil OF secrecy
enshrouds the mems movements. and
the police are helpless in effecting .
capture.
Police Commissioner Croul, Superin-
| tendent DoWney, and CnleI OF Detec-
tiyes Mcdonnell believe that the men
wanted for the staying OF Keller are
still in the city. probably hidden by
some countrymen who fear to give
them ND to the police. lest they fall
victim to the dreaded Vendetta.
The Italian code OF honor Is Mind
your own business" and that code 10
even extended to compromising fell
ony. II a countryman happen to kill
someone I'm whom you are not con-
cerned. II you tell on him, he or his
friends may mind your business with
bullet or a knife.
III. on the other hand. your chum or
close relative fall by his hand. that
gives the case a different aspect. You
are privileged to seek out the slayer.
and inflict such punishment as you
deem proper-always with the under
standing that the police are to have
no hand in 1t.
This IL the situation which con-
fronts the police whenever an italian
! figures in murder.
IL bids fair to send the Staying OF
William Keller down the annals OF
Detroit crimes as another unpublished
murder.
All the suspects arrested by the
police have been released.
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