The Detroit times., 1911-11-25
Anti-Vice Campaign in Ohio City
Expected To Send Unde-
sirables Here.
WILL GET MovE-oN SIGNAL
Justice Jeffries and Prosecuting
Attorney Shepherd Are Still
Snarling at Each Other.

W TURN ludl CITY numerous uUueslT-
ables adrift. and Capt. Baker and his
officers in the central precinct. are
all prepared to welcome an influx OF
scarlet women. disorderlies. and the
est OF the denizens OF the under
world to which Toledo wishes to bid
farewell.
They'll move right on TO Chicago
when they get here said Capt Bak-
er. They won't stop here. We are
getting things cleaned up so that our
own old-timers are all under cover,
and there will be no field for the To-
ledo importations.'
Toledo and Detroit. in the eyes OF
the local police. occupy the relative
positions OF shipping and receiving
room for crooks and disorderlies
There has always been sentiment
in police circles here. that crooks
can stay in Toledo as long as they
guarantee not TO pull off any stunts"
in that town. Whereupon the gentry
and their women accomplices sally
to neighboring cities-principally De-
troit-and when they have accumulat-
ed sufficient prosperity TO retire" for
o spell. they hurry back to Toledo.
Toledo has not been over severe
with the disorderlies, until now, and
the anti-vlce crusade there may have
the effect of dumping all OF their
eastoffs in this directionA
But Capt. Baker says kti
on signal will greet them here. which
means Chicago. Everybody Is we'll
come in Chicago.
Meanwhile, things are so quiet local
ly, and in the suburbs, that 1t may
prove hard to get police estimates
through the board of estimators next
year, on account of slack business
Detectives Wilson and Black cruise
through the transient hotels without
results. Prosecutor Shepherds raid
ers wander through the city and SUI
burbs and find not a violation Of law
to be under the influence OF the big
gest and most thorc agh wave OF real
reform in years.
But the little disputes among the
crusadng parties are, still rife.
Justice Jeffries says: Prosecutor
Shepherd has got complaints against
the Burns hotel and the Griswoid
house. Let him go ahead after the
other big ones. Let him get after the
Pontchartrain, on that Sunday dining
room proposition. Let's not have cold
feet on this proposition. I'll enforce
the law II. he will put II up TO me.
AS prosecutor 1t Is his duty to en-
force the law. treating all alike"
Prosecutor Shepherd says he be-
lieves he is right in his contention
about hotel dining rooms being legal
ly open on Sunday, but, he adds: III
Justice Jeffries is right, and the law
demands that those dining rooms
should close, and If Justice Jeffries
should get supreme court decision
that such dining rooms must close,
/ still would refuse TO take any such
complaints before him, law or no law,
because believe tfat such a proposi-
ton would be childish, absurd and
ridiculous. Ask Jeffries, who claims
to be the representative OF the poor
man, whether he wants me to close
up the dining rooms or cafes, In con-
nection with small saloons In the fac
tory districts, where meals and no
liquors are served on Sunday and hol-
idays. II he does want those places
closed up, | shall get a little senti-
ment on the matter, and see whether
ne is a poor mans representative or
hot"
Prosecutor Shepherd, in discussing
Jim" Burns bet that Shepherd
wouldn't prosecute him personally,
said
Taking UP that bet would mean
descending to the level OF Jim Burns.
III / have to descend TO the level OF
lawbreakers to prosecute them, then
| will resign first. didn't gamble
when | was a private citizen, and
won't gamble now as a public official.
AS to charges that play favorites
with the big fellows was born and
raised on a farm, / am poor man,
and my sympathies are all with the
poor. want to see whether Justice
Jeffries wants to close up the poor
mans hotel, the rear room Of the
law-abiding saloon where he can get
meals on Sunday, so long as no drinks
are served.
Among the warrants issued, Friday
morning, Is one in which Jacob Kraft,
who, with his wife, Sofia, was shot
and killed by Charles +. Fuller In the
Six-mile house, last October, Is made
defendant. Just what construction or
the law permits a complaint against
a man for keeping saloon open on
Sunday, Nov IL. when the man was
shot and killed in October, is puZZling
the police court. The complaint Is
against the saloon on Bates-st., across
from police headquarters, formerly
conducted by Jacob Kraft Jacob
Kraft, Charles Kraft. Emil Taller and
Hugo Schutzler are made defendants.
Other warrants for Sunday viola
tions. issued Friday, are against the
following Paul Fekete. No. 176 Mac
kie-st.: Stanislaus Kuna, No. 80 Greu-
sel-ave.; Alex Verstraette. No. 1856
Jefferson-ave. Arthur Victor Tack,
No. 81 Jos. Campau-ave.; Joseph Fec
teau. No. COS Dix-ave.. and Charles
Mann, No. Medina-st.
In the next meeting OF the Detroit
Federation of Labor. TO be held next
Tuesday. George Harris, representa-
tive OF the Metal Trades council, will
introduce a motion for discussion,
calling for a big mass meeting, SINH
lar 10 that called in reference TO the
prosecution OF the McNamaras for the
Los Angeles dynamiting case. in
which the conduct OF the various Of
fcials I'm connection with the anti.vice
campaign will be discussed.
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