The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-05
Thinks Police In New Haven Averse To
 Mo|esting Friends
Prosecutor Dickerman. in Reply. to Chief Cowles, Tells Why He Called in
 State Police
Hints He May Be Compelled to Give Proofs As to Lack of Results with Local
 Force

New Haven. Dec. Swell, MT Dickerman, what have you to say in reference to the latest dictum of the chief of police?" a Journal-Courier man asked Hubert l.. Dickerman, li- Quor prosecuting agent yesterday af- ternoon. MT. Dickermon hadn't read it at the time so the reporter pro- duced what purported to be an inter view with Chief Cowles, in which the latter was quoted as saying that Prosecutor Dickerman's calling of the state police in the Byrne raid was uncalled for and that the statement that he, Dickerman, couldn't get re- suits from the local police was un- founded and unfair. The chief also intimated that Dickerman had not complained to him that he could not get results from the local police.
 Will Not Be Goat.
 'I do not care for notoriety and do not care to enter into any contro- versy with Chief Cowles. but when he says or intimates that did not go to him first, he's another. If Chief Cowles is trying to use me as the soat in this matter, l would advise him to select some one else.
 Chief Cowles heard that I had said that on the day of the bond is. doing their duty and that if they did not do any better, would be com pelled to call in outside help.
 Chief Cowles asked me if I had said that and I replied that I had said that. I added that perhaps i, might be little bit strong to say that the police were not doing their duty but that everybody knew that the places were wide open down town and that no effort was being made to close them. I told him that some thing was rotten somewhere and that it was not up to me to say where that rottenness was"
 What do you think the trouble is down town, MT. Dickerman? Is it a case of politics? Is it so that the po- lice are afraid to arrest certain sa- loonkeepers and are not afraid to ar rest others, feeling in the one case that they will not be backed up and in the other case they know they will be backed up?"'
 "In so far as know there are nc politics in it. There certainly is not in my office.''
 'well. what is the trouble. then Mir Dickerman
 Not Molesting Friends.
 "'In my opinion it is a case of the police trying to be good fellows and not molesting their friends" T heard yesterday. by the way continued the liquor prosecutor, ga story which, I understand, the people down town have accepted as the Tea son for the raid on Byrne's place on Sunday. This story is to the effect that the local Republican machine had asked Byrne to do favor for the Republican ticket last October and that he had refused and there fore he was arrested"
 'rI want to say that that is all bun- combe. The story of the favor asked for and refused may be true but have had reports of Byrne's place since some time before the election chine or many other machine had anything to do with the raid on Byrne'S saloon"
 May Produce Proofs.
 The liquor prosecutor said just be- fore the interview closed that if Chief Cowles insisted upon going be- yond the limits in defending the local police, he, the liquor prosecutor, might be compelled ro give proofs of what he meant when he said that he was not getting results from the lo-
 'T have those proofs" said MT. Dickerman, "and if Chief Cowles insists upon the public having them why I'll give them, that's all" Chief Cowles' Reply.
 Chief Cowles, when told of Prose- cutor Dickerman's statement about the police not wishing to molest their friends, laughed and then said:
 ''Well, MT. Dickerman's welcome to his idea of it. l cannot prevent him holding that opinion. I do not think it is true. It certainly is not to my knowledge.
 Furthermore. I think if Prosecu- tor Dickerman has any complaints to make about the police, he should come to me to make them instead of going to the press. I do not care to enter into any dispute over the. mat tor