The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-09-07
General Orders Were to Sup
press Them; Verbal Or
ders the Opposite.
so DECLARES c. @. HAYES, sUs-
PENDED POLICE INSPECTOR,
WHEN PLACED ON TRIAL
CHARGED WITH MAKING FALSE
STATEMENTS REGARDING HIS
POLICE DUTiEs-WALDo DENIES
ALL STATEMENTS.
BY Associated Press.


Commissioner Waldo gave general in
structions to suppress disorderly
houses and private and verbal orders
to tolerate them If conditions OF out
ward decency were maintained, be-
came an issue today when suspended
Inspector c. @. Hayes was placed on,
trial before Deputy. Police Commits
sioner Mackay, charged with making
a false statement regarding his police
duties.
Hayes's counsel virtually turned the
partment and an arraignment of
Mayor Gaynor's policy toward vice
regulation. Hayes's counsel grillei
Waldo in an effort to show that out
which the mayor wished the question
of vice suppression was to be de-
.termined. Then Hayes, on the stand,
testified that the commissioner gave
him verbal orders to this effect which
were not countermanded until they
became known publicly. Every ma
terial statement made by Hayes
Waldo denied.
The cross examination Of Hayes Is
scheduled for tomorrow.
For nearly an hour Thomas Thacher,
Hayes's counsel sought to read into
the record the mayors speeches and
utterances on the vice problem.
y, t. 1T
Farley, assistant corporation counsel,
the Law er finally gained recognition
from the trial commissioner. Douglas /.
Mckay. by this declaration:
HOW IT WAS RECOGNIZED.
81 am merely trying to prove that
Mayor Gaynor's policy was one under
which the social evil was recognized
as an uncomfortable problem which
had to be endured but that the evil
had to present a frost OF outward de-
cency; that in the failure of Inspector
Hayes to raid disorderly houses he
was merely rejecting this policy and
that any orders to him by Police Com
missioner Waldo were directly In vio-
lation OF that policy"
Mr.. Thacher was then permitted to
proceed with his cross s-examination
Does not Mayor Gaynor direct
your policy toward vioe7" he asked
Waldo.
He does not" snapped the commits
sioner.
Have you ever observed tie mayors
views on the excise question:"
THE mayors views" Waldo replied
were given to the police in general
order No. II. in 1910. That order is
still in force"
Don't you know that the mayors
views on vice is that we have to suffer
: this evil?"
Il don't know anything about the
mayors views except what he told me;
he never told me anything like that
HAS Mayor Gaynor ever instructed
you how to deal with disorderly
houses7"
He has never given me any instruc.
tions on that subject"
AS a matter of fact you didn't ex-
pect Hayes to raid disorderly houses
within his district. now did you?"
II expected him to raid every dis.
orderly house as to whose operations
he could obtain evidence"
You knew, didn't you. that disor
derby houses had iourished for siz
months in Inspector Hayes's district
that these houses were operating every
day and that they were not being
raided?"
Yes, I knew It. I knew that dis.
orderly houses had been fiourishing ir
that district fer a year. But I pre-
sumed that Inspector Hayes wa.
making an effort to close them up"
Commissioner Waldo was a refrac.
tory witness. His replies were lout
and eouched in general terms and h.
had frequent encounters with Mr.
Thacher.