Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-20

F.whethcr It IS advisable for him TO do
,his duty or not.
SWEET TELLS OF FINDING
MCCARTHY IN NOTORIOUS PLACE
SIS Policeman Sweet told OF finding Com
missioncr Mccarthy ut n notorious re-
sort. ON another occasion. he said, he
& was called to qucll disorder at an
y other resort, only to find there Com
missioncr Goode in an intoxicated con-
dition
Together with Policemen Aiken and
Duke. Sweet testified. on one occasion.
he kept under surveillance woman
who entered tho fat above Goodies
store, on East Main street. Goodc, he
said. came over TO him angrily and
told him sharply that if ho were not
allowed to rent the rooms over his
store. tho property would remain un-
rented
Policeman Sweet told tho two mem
ncrs Of the Vice Commission before
whom he was ,cs,ifyins that the po-
lice were afraid to do their full duty,
in tho matter OF supprcssing doubtful
resorts for fear of being disciplined
through the influence OF members of
the Police Board whom such acts
might offend
EttHRAITH FEARED REMOVAL
IL HE REPORTED CERTAIN PLACES
Policeman ualhraith testified that
while no member OF tho Police Board
had ever nterfercd with him. he felt
al the time that he would be moved
from his beat If he vCnturcd to in
tcrfcro with certain houses on his beat.
lSoliccmau I;nldshy gave evidence to tho
same effect
According to Galhraith, moral condl-
ttons in Jackson Ward arc not improv-
ing Although convinced Of the bad
character of twu houses ON his beat,
lie said, he felt that he could not afford
to interfere with them. lie did not
want TO be cut of. he said. from earn
ing living for his wife and children
Policeman Goldsby said that he felt
That he would be discharged by tho
Police Boards committee on super
vision IL he were active In certain di-
rections In raidiuE certain disrcpu-
table resorts, he said. he was conscious
ihat he was defying certain members
Of the Board of Police Commissioners
GAMPoDoNICA SUMMONED
Di GO0DE TO HIS OFFICE
Policeman Campodonica testified to
having being summoned one day to the
oflicc OF Police Commi ssioncr Goode,
who curtly demanded to know why he
had gone to a certain resort outside
the segregated district. The commits
Sioncr, he said, warned him that lie
might have found him there. Upon
taking the matter up with Chief Wer-
nor, said Campodonicn, he was told by
the chief that no one had the right
10 interfere with him I'm the discharge
Of his duty
Campodonca told of one occasion
when he and Policeman Goldsby were
in the store Of w. T.. Leaman. The
latter. he said, told them that in few
,l.,.rG Il
form. The prediction, he said, came
true. He did not think, he said, that
vice conditions I'm the city arc getting
better.
soWELL SAYS CONDITIONS
HAVE NOT IMPROVED
The Vice COMMISSIONS report gave
considerable space to the testimony Of
captain II. l.. Sowcll, of the First Dis
trlct. His evidence was given in tho
presence OF two members of the COM
mission. Vice conditions, Captain
Sowell testified. have for the past six
ar eight years been getting worse in
stead of better. Houses Of common re-
sort, he said, were scattered all over
the city. No member of the Police
ioard, he said, had ever nterfered
with him.
lle always got his men detailed where
ne asked that they be placed.
Concluding it's report the Vice Com
mission made the statement that all of
She evidence summarized in the fore
going abstract was corroborated by
the special investigators who spent two
months In the city aiding the commits
Sion In its work.
The commission drew attention fur
tlier to the fact that the men whose
testimony was quoted We're in the best
position 10 know conditions as they
actually exist. The policemen, the re-
-;
cord, but under orders from the Chief
Of Police WHO. in directing them TO tes-
tify, was ..cazryinG out the Mayors
instructions to give the commission
every assistance in his power.
REPORT Is READ AT LENGTH
BEFONE COMMON COUNCI,
The report was read AT length bv
,Ntftr Clerk August following the read
ing OF the Vice Commissions rcports
NOS. ana = The substance of the Two
iaSt named reports. relating to The
extent OF commerCialized Vice within
and without the onc-timc segregated
distract. has already been given puh
'Icity through the press
large and orderly crowd witnessed
nc proceedings motion offered by
Councilman Rogers to suppress the rc
ports and refer them to the inves,i
eating committee that Will be appoiut
cd. for its disposition, was declared 10
ne out OF order by President Peters
VINO sustained Councilman Pollock's
objection that such n motion would not
be III order until after the Council had
:oncnrred In the Boards resolution pro-
viding for the appointment OF the Joint
committee.
WIN 'hia motion ruled out. Council
man Rogers moved ii Suspension Of mo
rules for the purpose OF rcnewin. m.
'notion OF its merits. The motion To
suspend the rules failed to muster the
required number OF votes and failed
Ihereupon Mr. Rogers demanded that
All inc reports he read. and tho papers
were reported City Clerk August and
t!erk OF Council Committees McDoweu
i,vided the labor Of the recital, which
consumed more than an hour.