Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-02-28

suit against the city. It's really a
test case that should interest every
citizen; a protest against the higl-
handed actions of the police"
The banker elevated his eyebrows.
Indeed" he exclaimed. What
have the police been doing now?"
The lawyer looked at his client in
surprise
Why, my dear sir, you must have
seen by the papers what's been going
| on in our city of late. The papers
have been full of it, Police brutality,
illegal arrests, assaults in station
houses, star-chamber methods that
would disgrace the middle ages. A
state of affairs exists to-day in the
city of New York which is inconceiv-
able. Here we are living in a civil
guaranteed by the constitution, yet
citizens, as they walk our streets, are
in greater peril than the inhabitants
of terror-stricken Russia. Take po-
lice official of Capt. Clinton's type.
His only notion of the law is brute
force and the night stick. A bully by
nature, a man of the coarsest instincts
and enormous physical strength, he
loves to play the tyrant In his pre-
cinct he poses as a kind of car and
! fondly imagines he has the power to
administer the law itself. BY his
brow-beating tactics, intolerable I'M
der Anglo-Saxon government, he is
/ IN vnlfpa fnran into q
of ruffians who have the city terror
| stricken In order to further his polit-
! ical ambitions he stops at nothing.
He let's the guilty escape when infiu-
ence he can't resist is brought to
bear. but in order to keep up his rec
ord with the department he makes ar
rests without the slightest justifica-
ton. To secure convictions ne manu-
features, with the aid of his detec-
tives, ali kinds OF perjured evidence.
To paraphrase a welLknown saying,
his motto is: Convict-honestly, if
you can-but convict.
1T is outrageous" said Mr. JEFF
fries. mo one can approve such
methods. OF course, in dealing with
the criminal population of a great
| city, they cannot wear kid gloves, but
Capt Clinton certainly goes too far.
| What is the specific complaint on
which the suit is based?"
Capt. Clinton" replied the Judge,
made the mistake of prosecuting a
young woman who happened to be the
daughter of a wealthy client of mine.
One of his detectives arrested her on
a charge of shoplifting. The girl,
mind you, is of excellent family and
/ irreproachable character. My client
and his lawyer tried to show Capt
blunder, but he brazened it out, claim
ing on the stand that the girl was an
old offender. OF course. he was
/ forced at last to admit his mistake
and the girl went free, but think of
| the humiliation and mental anguish
she underwent, 1t was simply a
repetition of his old tactics A eonvic-
ton. no matter at what cost
What do you hope to bring about
by this suit?"
! Arouse public indignation. and
/ If possible get Capt Clinton dismissed
/ from the force His record is rome too
! savory. Charges of graft have been
made against him time and time
again. but so far nothing has been
( proved. To-day he is a man of wealth
on a comparatively small salary. Do
you suppose his money could have
/ come to him honestly?'
In another corner of the salon
stood Or. Bernstein. the celebrated
psychologist. the center of an excited
crowd of enthusiastic admirers.
Alicia approached group of chat
tering women. Each was more elab-
orately dressed than her neighbor,
and loaded down with rare gems.
They at once stopped talking as their
/ hostess came up.
/ 1T was so good OF you 10 come, "
I said Alicia effusively TO a fat woman
with impossible blonde hair and a
rouged face. Il want TO introduce DR..
4 Bernstein to you"
~On, | shall be delighted" smiled
| the blonde. Gushingly she added: