Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-19
SLAYERS ESCAPE
POLICE GUN USERS
Critics Note Killings for
Minor Offenses as Muir
derers Go Unpunished
ONE PATROLMAN OUSTED
Germantown Cop Returned to
Duty, but Indignation Later
Forced Removal

NUlle no definite date has been set Tor
the Coroners ipn,,est into tho deatb of
.r,,,u r. -,
N'pp"N' 'ne Schoo'ooE ""' was ''''
'o uea'h ny policemen last night week
ago, 1t is predicted that Coroner Knight
viii call tho ,,,.. ..,.,,. ,,,t ,.,,,
~ -,,. .,-. IL.
IL predicted that Coroner knight VIII
severely arragn the police for their part
in the affair. bu, inst how severe he will he
4, , ,,a,,., - ,-. ,,...,.. .,,,t
''"'''' VI conjecture '"I'"'"' ''''''
Ileht III 'he case Is about the same aS III
the cases Of the other killings by policemen,
There is n cer,,t,, ,i,,,,t,t i, ,h. mind of
-
''""' ''o'.e "'''" was
years ago ny the widow nt one OF tue
slain men Mrs Iar,es ritsnrn,ors
eft doesn't secr, sb, s,,d "tbat the policc
from what I've saen rar ,atcb "a slick nur.
derer or criminal These Get away. and the
ones killed bv the police are generally harm
less boys who could be caught easily by
hand"
Two lists bayo r,r,od ,,on,sc,yas side
h, sido In tho ,,t,,ds ,,S s,,,,a ,,,rsnrs look.
i,,, into ,bis ,,h,s, 80 ,,,,I ,,lir,. activity
nrs is ~ thnsa ,n,,r, ,,,er committing
,,t,, 1,,,it,ai, ,i,.I, 80 ,,croxi,,.nt
, - ,,',,'"'H '" ", ,i,,a o,,,,, i
,ho ,o,t ,broo ,.o,,.. o,,d th, other covering
n lu,o nsriod is or local murders for which
mo one has even been anurercnded.
Tt.a cases v,hara tho philadelphia poIice
"feli down ., whore thry didn't yet the mar.
darars at all and the instances in which
,olire,nen liiIed tho rnru,trators Of trivial
crimes or Of no crimes at all have been
thrown together and will be given in chro-
biological order
Early on the morning Of February I,
1914. James Mitchell was stabbed to death
by one whom the philadelphia police never
touched.
ON March Il of the same year, NiIllam
Murphy, a youth of eighteen years was
killed by Policeman trederlck hnmer on
Germantown avenue near MahheHh f,ree',
re was S.ne'"s' '""'",H !" ''s W -
e N''''''' "''
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on the m,1' .'.h h VI '"te ,, ',, ,o
otrEon' iVV1 NV wa, H ~, ~, t,,,.i sb,t,,
'u'.'"e iU i."ll q ~ n u .,o,tad
anu S""u''"s "eai "." i,,tat ,lro,,tT
10 run o"' ~ ,n'l u',r -, ~ Ii,o,,,,,, 80
ms paCN' ~ u, -. '''' .''''v'' -, s,atio,,
,he lIIu on" 40 az ,,,, ,,,, h,i,,g hoid
hau susPe',Gu 70, h, " , ,'@ t,,',hs ond bad
gred Tater no was sentenced to three
| n,ontbs in prison. Now he is back on the
| force serving at the Fifteenth and Locust
streets station
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JulE o. N',No' '''uoN.N' ,r, r,i'"' ~ III
! SHoPIlH6 i''", ''' 'N"9 -" ,,c. -.
| ION, s'auptu, Nusu', u,ti,i r,ha,,
staopeu' oep's.,u'r <i =" ,i,,"''' nt,,i
killed WIN p.lcN' NV nn ."' 81,
| NTello' sho.' ->oNe''lui --' '''""' WV
Nc'""''' '''.' W
| Early in 1915, Tony LagrosSa' news
| boy, near Ninth and kahstead streets ran
| into a saloon on that corner shortly after
| midnight and complained to jim Fltzslm-
| mons a porter, that a man had been abus-
ing him in the alley. Fitzsimmons went
| ont and objected to the man alleged to be
| doing the bullying, who was Granville JEFF
| ferson a poIiceboat piIot son of the super
| ipterdant Of citv boats and nephew of the
| NcCoach family
,os,,,o, ,no,,od fro and ybep be had
| enished titzsimnons Law dead with twelve
| buIIet holes in his body jefferson was
| tol,en 10 trial after a vear and acquitted
tIa ,otd a 1ong story of attemnted robbery
lie 'o'I a 'oe ~ hnd hoan drir,,irs The
/ an" "' ,', -, , ,IarJ H., r,,,rd
vvharo,,non Jefferson recovered his back
| ,,.o,a, IN tbo poIica Denartment and he is
| nov in tbe nilot house of a police boat
| his revolver in his pocket
,, - ,o,5 i,cob cdorsLi be,ta,
| '"n.%' ',',o,,,' a. hrtL,,r Crinio etahhod
" , ue",I LSna''aaS ,,arter found hrried i,
'uile ~, .,, ''"'N'' -
| uulCN''lIIie, :, ,,, ,,rr,a,,a, ooEt ,to
| Ci' 'o'.e ttnrtod n,,t 20 end ,,nrt,
| ' 'el.'" .,,',,, e. ,d NIo,ri, otraats :,
| '\e"l ~ H. ,o', ,,,,,as,ad Ia, - Fniand
oie 81 iod hi,,, 70 na,,n a niece nr iaweiry
| Who asNeu ,' W ,aI .h, ',.,,.,,. .
ior MN Mui aus, ,,i e NV ''" , 'i,'.p .t
AT lWeh'S ms @ "'ii it 'Ii N w.,
pawnoroher, Sc"ni,ane e ''S po,'Ie 'iH' ~
touhd that tue Jt"eInH 'au pe'n S'o,r''' Ii'
telephoheu 10 'ne i"eh'','H anu reuel"