The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-01-26
AND ALL IS WELL
NOTHING WRONG WITH CAIRO
POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS
MAYOR AND COMMITTEE.
Have Done All That Could Be Ex.
pected TO Stop Burglaries--$5O
Reward Proposed Was
Joke by J. Gilmore.

jail and fire committee, called a
melting Of the committee yesterda-
afternoon, for the purpose of investi-
eating the police conduct regarding
the case of the four men arrested
and turned loose in connection WITH
tae hold-up of Mrs. Cant at the Hal
liday Coal Co.'S office; also regarding
the proposition made to the Bulletin
Co., that ii $50 reward We're Offered,
the thieves would be arrested. The
mayor presided at the hearing, and
took part in the examination Of wit.
nesses.
Mrs. Cant was the first witness
called. She told the story or how
she had seen the man Mt the office
window, how he mad come In and
offered to sell some paper files, and
by mis- rough conduct and insistence
upon having money frightened ner;
how she followed the fellow and his
pal down the street and saw them
enter the shed; now she met Jas La
Hue to whom she told the story
briefly and who promised to take care
of the men Mrs. Cant said she mad
not been asked by any officer about
the affair.
Mr.. LaHue told how he called up
police headquarters, being answered
by Officer Bradley who came prompt
ly and arrested the men. The witness
was bit cloudy at first as to what
he had told the officer concerning tho
charge against the men, He said he
had accused the men of insulting a
lady in the presence of Officer Brad
lev.
Officer Bradley is a negro well adj
vanced in years, but of robust sta
ture He looks and talks like a
fairly intelligent man and seemed to
be in possession Of all his faculties.
But he had not heard LaIIue accuse
the men OF insulting a lady" and as
slined that the men We're merely a
pair of Migrants and as such he ar
rested them, picking up two other
men of like character on the way to
police headquarters where all were
charged with yagrancy and sent out
of town at once, he and Officer Wade
conducting them TO the bridge ap,
proach. On cross examination. how-
ever, he said he had understood from
LaHue that the two men had some
files" and he assumed that they had
been peddling without a license; and
that this was the charge he had pre-
ferrei against them at police head
quarters (Which confirms statement
that this was the man who had been
in Mrs Giants office. Being asked
by Alderman Nellis If he hal asked
LaHue or anyone else what tne men
mad done, he admitted that he had
not.
The mayor and Chairman Greaney
were satisfied with the officers state
ment, expressing the belief that he
had. done all that could have been
expected of MIN under the circun.-
stances.
The committee then took up the
matter referred to in yesterdays Bull
letin, the offer by some one who pro
fessed to know something about the
men who had been committing the
depredations in the city during the
last half month, to turn them up and
convict them for a reward OF $50. The
committees purpose seemed to be, in
the main, to find fault with the Bnl.
letin's informant, because ne had NOT
notified the police, and incidentally
to nave who had made the offer to
turn up the thieves for reward. f.
e. Ellis, city editor Of the Bulletin,
gave them this information, telkng
them that Jim Gilmore was the man.
Says 1t Was Joke.
Last night Gilmore was arrested
and "sweated' regarding his offer.
He admitted having made the state
ments and offer referred to hut said
| II was a Joke; and signed paper to
this effect at request Of Chairman
Greaney.
AS to the articles which Gilmore
claimed he had bought from a man
who had stolen them from the Busy
Bee. Samuel Green, proprietor of that
establishment, stated they had not
come from that place.