Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-01
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DEEP INTO
SCANDAL
More Members Of Department Are
Reported as Frequenters of
Drinking Resorts,

Further sensational disclosures of
alleged police corruption are antici-
pated from new evidence on which
he department officials are working
to-day.
Chief Beavers would not discuss IN
any manner the new developments ex-
cept that the investigation was being
pushed
1t was reported that the latest in
formation in the hands of the depart
ment heads involves names of police
men who have not yet figured in the
scandal as well as several resorts
and blind tigers aside from the one
in the rear Of 127 Auburn Avenue,
which the eight policemen under sus-
pension are said to have frequented.
Claude Gray. one of the negroes
living in the notorious Auburn Ave-
nue. resort, was bound over to the
Criminal Court Monday forenoon by
Recorder Broyles on a statutory
charge. Gray will be given another
severe griIling in the expectation that
he will reveal the names Of still more
policemen who are suspected Of hav-
ing visited the place frequently and
drunk liquor with the negro inmates.
Cases Made Against Eight.
Chief Beavers and the members of
the commission believe that Gray
may be shielding some Of the menu
bers of the force.
Chief Of Police Beavers Monday
| prepared formal charges against the
| eight policemen, the revelations OF
whose alleged conduct in a notorious
| negro resort in the rear of 1877 Au-
burn Avenue created a sensation last
week
The charges will be submitted for
the action Of the Police Commission
when it sits July g. The general ac-
cusation viii be that Of conduct IN
becoming a police officer.
The specific charges will include the
allegations that several Of the officers
involved in the unsavory scandal
were in the habit Of frequenting the
resort; that some Of the men were
accustomed to drink liquor there and
that all of them knew of the exist
ence Of the place. which was being
conducted in violation Of the law.
To Investigate Quarrel.
Reference also will be made to the
quarrel in the resort between two of
the officers one Sunday morning
about three months ago. in which a
shooting is said narrowly to have
been averted by the interference OF
one Of the negroes. Mack C. Folds
and J. p. Born were the policemen
whose names were mentioned in this
connection.
The other patrolmen whose cases
will be considered by the commission
are ]. J. Jackson. J. e. Mcdaniel, L.
w Evans, r. T. David, {. H. Bailey
and R. A. Wood
Wood, as soon as the charges
against him were made public, denied
them in so far as they implied wrong
doing and seat in his resignation.
Chief Beavers said Monday that the
resignation would not be accepted, but
that it would be sent to the Police
Commission along with the charges.
Commissioners Aroused.
The Commissioner have expressed
themselves as greatly aroused by the
revelations of alleged police corrup-
ton and have asserted that the probe
will continue until every person on
the force against whom adequate evil
dence can be obtained has been dis
charged or disciplined.
The eight men admit they have Wis
! tied the place, which IS conducted by
a negro woman, Ola Bradley, but they
say that 1t was in their regular line
of duty Most of them deny drinking
there. Those who admit this phase of
the charges explain that they bought
| liquor to obtain evidence against the
| place. They declare the charges are
unjust in the extreme and that they
will fight to vindicate themselves.
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