The Detroit times., 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 Two
Branches Of Police Department
Revived By Incident.

Soto 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 a pair of regular civic
and cvountryside Improvement wreck
ers had been arrested right In our
city, without the police's knowledge
or consent.
While the commotion is entirely
sub rosa, IL threatens at times TO
dislodge the Scotch church across
the way, and the tavern keepers In
the neighborhood have closed their
doors 10 shut out the hectic conyer-
sation Despite the healing proper
ties possessed by Police Commission
er Croul, this Chicago thing appears
10 have opened up an old sore.
The plain clothes men are saying
very little anent the arrest OF -Messrs-
McManigal and Sullican. and the uni
formed lads are sitting back on
their launches and laughing very
much internally.
Quite often 1t 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 chanced TO
be the offended party. AS such
times, the fortunate sleuths have
mysteriously intimated certain COM
plications leading TO and surrounding
the arrest.
II seldom happens that one or
these happy arrests Is SO brutally ex-
posed as the case OF McManigal and
Sullivan. who were lead in pacific
fashion to headquarters by Patrolman
Casey. Had II not been for the re-
cent revelations from Chicago, the
arrests would have gone down into
criminal history as the clever capture
of desperate yeggmen 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
5aiiiwick. 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
az 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 TO
go back 10 Chicago without first find
ing out why they were wanted.
Lieut.. Lally rises TO remark that
nobody would have been able to dis
cover 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 ne
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
uniforr ed units in Mr.. Crours system
are entirely ignoring the hit and run
signal of their plain clothes col
ieagues