The Detroit times., 1911-11-22

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Police Justice Edward J. Jeffries
says that until Police Commissioner
Croul and Prosecutor Shepherd close
UP the dining rooms or cafes in the
Pontchartrain, Cadillac. Penobscot
Inn. Griswold House, Berghoff, Alt
Heidelberg, and others OF the same
class, every Sunday, whether liquor
is sold in the dining rooms on Sun
officers are not enforcing the law but
are simply enforcing it as it applies
10 the little fellows who are having
the struggles of their lives to make
out bare existence"
THE law says Justice Jeffries,
very plainly sets forth that these din
ing rooms must be closed up tight on
Sunday. Not one of them Is closed.
The law says that any place where
liquors are sold on a week day, shall
be regarded as saloon, and must
close up on Sunday. Liquors are sold
in every one of those places on week
days, yet they are open on Sundays,
in open defiance OF the law, and with
the consent of the prosecutor and the
police commissioner
The trouble is, that the prosecutor
and the police commissioner do not
know the law Shepherd makes his
raids at night. first, and looks up the
In he Of
think Commissioner Croul honestly
means 10 live up to the law, but he
doesn't know what the law is.
IF they can invade the kitchens
and the dining rooms Of the little fell
lows, why can't they shut up the cafes
in the big hotels, which are saloons,
plainly, under the law"
Commissioner Croul is well aware
of Jeffries' contention, knows the law
on il thoroughly, but declares that 1t
is ridiculous TO think Of closing up a
hotel dining room, law or no law,
where the proprietor is shutting up
his bar tight on Sundays, and not al
lowing the sale of liquor anywhere In
the building. Prosecutor Shepherd
holds the same view Of the matter.
I'm not enforcing the liquor laws"
continued Justice Jeffries. Il am try
ing people who come before me
charged with having committed crime.
Fully 80 per cent Of the cases that
come up here are faulty, In that they
are not violations in places where
liquors are sold on week days; there
fore, such places are not saloons
under the law, and in order to make
a case, IL must be shown that money
was paid for the drinks served.
The different cases against Henry
Tucker brought on this discussion.
don't want any controversy, but
simply want to say that insinuations
and attacks on this court are not
justified Lucker's bar is closed on
Sunday. He has restaurant, a
garage, and an entrance to that
garage. Liquors are not sold In any
of those places on week days. Ii
must be shown that money changed
hands"
He was shown that Officers Rough
lev. McNamse and Torbet, who made
the latest complaint. stated that
money had changed hands In the
Tucker place. but Jeffries replied that
he wouldn't believe Roughley under
oath, and had said so before.
They claim that we hold up COM
plaints here" he continued. "Of the
cases that we do take, 90 per cent OF
Their fall during the police court ex-
amfnations. or later In the recorders
court and often at the prosecutors
own request. The officers, when cross
examined. do not give the same testi-
= H. atotarnanta thav uaka In
their reports.
IIere's a case in point. where
Prosecutor Shepherd told the officers
they had an open and shut case
against a man The case was thrown
ont OF court during the hearing be
fore Justice Stein, as the evidence
wasn't sufficient TO hold the de-
PENDANT.
Prosecutor Shepherd doesn't know
the Jaw. He raids cheap hotels, and
then finds in the morning that he
can't prosecute the owners. One man
and his wife were taken 20 police
headquarters, and the man demanded
TO know whether he had TO have a
sign on his door stating that he was
married, to prevent officers walking
IN upon the privacy of his room.
Shepherd says he is raiding the
cheap hotels. There are some In the
list of hotels where you pay 81 day
where no one is ever asked whether
a couple is man and wife before be
ing given a room. The only difference
is that in one, the rate is 81 a night,
and IN the other. 50 or S."
Asked about numerous complaints
which have become lost" and which
the police records show 10 be good
cases, Justice Jeffries said that he
had never turned down a good case
but that Prosecutor Van ZiIe had
held up fully 100 such cases before
election.
Police Commissioner Crours records
show that he has fled several com