The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-25
UNIFORMED COP s
SMOKER At THE
DETECTIVES
Some Tickled That Chicago Authori-
ties Put One Over On Local Plain
Clothes Men in Arrest Of
Dynamiting Suspects.
All the Old Animosity Between Tive
Branches of Police Department
Revived By Incident.

lotto voce mutterings, rebellious
remarks and other untoward atti-
tudes are quite the thing around po'
lice headquarters these bright spring
days, since the Chicago police quiet
ly tipped il OF TO the Detroit police,
through the medium of newspaper
dispatches that pair OF regular civic
and countryside Improvement wreck
ers had been arrested right In our
city. without the policies knowledge
or consent.
While the commotion IL entirely
sub rosa, IL threatens at times 10
dislodge the Scotch church across
the way, end the tavern keepers IN
the neighborhood have closed their
doors TO shut out the hectic CONVEX
sation. Despite the healing proper
ties possessed by Police Commission
er Croul, this Chicago thing appears
to have opened up an old sore.
The plain clothes men are saying
very little anent the arrest OF Messrs
McManigal and Sullivan, and the UNI
formed lads are sitting back on
their launches and laughing very
much internally
Quite often il occurs that the boys
in the detective office have their
names set down opposite the names
OF desperate criminals, when these
criminals have either given them
selves up for the sake OF a square
meal or have been garnered In by
some discreet citizen who CHANGED TO
be the offended party. Az such
times, the fortunate sleuths have
mysteriously intimated certain com
plications leading TO and surrounding
the arrest
IL seldom happens that one OF
these happy arrests is so brutally ex-
posed as the case OF MECHANICAL and
Sullivan, who were lead in pacific
fashion 10 headquarters by Patrolman
Casey. Had il not been for the re-
cent revelations from Chicago the
arrests would have gone down into
criminal history as the clever capture
OF desperate yeggnien by detectives.
Hence the laughter on the part OF
the unassuming bluecoats and the
consequent gnawing of the plain
clothes finger nails. Every time the
matter is mentioned in the bluecoat
baiiiwick. the young men say they
are glad TO see credit at last given
where credit is due.
Up in the more aristocratic section
OF the building, certain heads OF de-
partment affairs are looking askance
at one another. Chief OF Detectives
Mcdonnell wears an I-told-you-so SORT
OF expression. The captain always
did maintain that McManigan and
Sullivan were not yeggmen.
Monday. an afternoon paper credit
ed the captain with saying that IL he
had been present when the dolefui
doings occurred In Detroit. he would
never have allowed the prisoners 10
20 back TO Chicago without first find
ing out why they were wanted
Lieut. Lally rises TO remark that
nobody would have been able TO dis
rover the real cause OF the commo-
ton under the circumstances.
Supt Downey astutely remarks
that McManigal and Sullivan are un-
doubtedly a bad combination and he
doesn't condemn the Chicago officers
for going TO the lengths they did in
taking their men back TO the Windy
City.
Whatever internal discords have
been occasioned by the Chicago
revelations will soon be forgotten
doubtless. At present, however, the
uniformed units in Mr.. Crours system
are entirely ignoring the hit-and-run
Signal OF their plain clothes col
leagues.