The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-16
Governor Calls Extraordi-
nary Session of N. Y. SUI
preme Court to Investigate
Gotham Scandal.
ACTS ON REQUEST
MADE BY WHITMAN
If a Crime Syndicate Exists,
the Executive Wants 1t
Trampled Out.-Issues a
Statement Today.
(Naticnal News AssociatioE)

(National News Associatior)
ALBANY. N. Y, Aug. 16.-Governor
Dix today designated Justice John w.
Golf of New York, to hold an extraor-
dinary term of the supreme court for
the trials growing out of the Rosen-
thai case. District Attorney Whitman
asked for the court to be convened
September 10, and his request was
granted.
Governor Dix issued statement af
ter designating Justice Goff to hold
the extraordinary session, which in
part was as follows:
81 have promptly complied with the
request of District Attorney Whitman
for an extraordinary term of the su-
preme court in New York and have Sc
lected Justice Goff to preside in such
term in the belief that his designation
will be accepted as assurance that the
court will be conducted with absolute
integrity, justice and persistency.
While there has been no reason to
doubt the purpose and determination
of local authorities to thoroughly in
vestigate the shameful conditions
which are declared to exist and to
prosecute therefor through the ordin-
ary channels, I had already come to
the conclusion that the ends of JUS
tice would be best served by the con-
vening of an extraordinary term of
court for the expressed purposes both
of aiding such investigation and of
providing for a speedy and vigorous
prosecution of the indictments which
may be found, and for that reason
am free to express my satisfaction
that the district attorney has now
made it possible for me to carry out
BILE embarrassment to the Office of the
prosecuting attorney.
What Governor Plans.
81, of course, have been aware that
the district attorney was engaged in
a determined effort to ascertain the
facts and bring the guilty to punish.
ment; and that the board of aldermen
has already entered upon an investi
cation of the police system. But what
ever might be the scope and extent
of those investigations l believed that
an immediate, determined and fearless
inquisition under grand jury auspices
and authority, set in motion by execu
tive order, was imperatively demand
ed by the grave exigencies of what
might be termed unofficial Indictment
of the metropolitan police system. The
citizenship of the entire state has
been deeply stirred by the shocking
allegations in regards to an alliance
between the police and certain class
of lawbreakers in New York City. II
| it is true that there exists money
| traffic in officially paid crimes, OF
which murder has finally become an
! incident, that fact, however so terri
BILE and terrifying, should be authori
lively determined and proclaimed in
it's every ascertainable details to the
end that everything which has made
such a shameful condition possible
may be trampled upon and destroyed
| In conclusion, Governor Dix says
"If there actually exists an Infamous
crime syndicate which has been sc
precisely charged, the punishment oi
few individuals is only an incident
in that broader justice which would
as far as possible, obliterate the stair
and infamy of the past by sternly pro
viding for a righteous future. Such q
provision can be effectively made only
after an exhaustive and relentless in
vestigation. which shall result in a
full disclosure of the facts"