Evening journal., 1918-11-26
CHESTER Police
ARE CONDEMNED
Newspaper Demands All
Around Shake-Up in
Department
GIRLS ASSAULT
PROMPTS ACTION

CHESTER, Pa, Nov. 26.-The sixth
day OF the expose In the Police De-
rartment yesterday brought the sus'
pension OF PatrOlman Samuel Scott
pending investigation by the Mayor OF
the charge that the patro.man released
prisoners accused OF attacking girls
Scott is the fifth policeman to go In th'
expose.
Scott became entangled in what Dor.
ders on one Of the oruelest crimes her.
since the memorable race riots OF 1871
lie is charged with deliberately per
mittlng man to escape who was ac-
cused OF attacking Emma Grace and
Bessie Egner, both Of Wilmington, Del,
last Friday.
The McClure-controlled police admin
istration received its first bitter jo.i
IN seven years from the local press yes
terdsy. when the Chester Times. the Of
flcial mouthpiece Of the Republican or
ganization, In a first page editorial, cali
ed upon Mayor Mcdowell 10 immediate
ly remove from ofllce police heads re-
sponsible for the present inferior force.
The Times accuses the police adminis-
tration as having bungled things up In
sulch a way that action is demanded
before present conditions assume the
proportions OF a riot-whlch we have
narrowly escaped several times re-
Gently"
The newspaper says:
when violators Of the law openly
defy arrest and get away with II; when
police authority winks and laughs at
violations OF the law; when that au-
hority releases parties who have COM
mitted crime; when attempts are made
to bribe a magistrate, as is alleged by
citizens; when lawyers are summoned
for prisoners before the proper authori-
ties have seen the party charged with
the crime, thus obstructing the pro-
cesses OF the law; when loud-mOuthed
libertlnes openly defy the police atr-
Ehority Of this city. we declare, and de-
clare IL without equivOcatiOn some
thing must be done, and that quickly.
before present conditions assume the
proportions OF a riot-which we have
narrowly escaped several times re-
sently.
The citizens OF this city are entitled
md should receive full and efficient po-
lice protection. and so should those
who enter our gates. We DO not agree
either have received this most neces-
iary consideration"
Concerning the attack on the VIII
mlngton Girls. the former says in its
news columns:
startling developments have been
nnearthed by Captain Davenport OF the
mounted squad, who says he has signed
itatements from witnesses to show that
Scott shielded Whitley one Of theyoung
men connected with tho brutal affair
Mrs. Mabel Nicholson, ilii Crosby
street. In whose house the girl was
Eaken. says she was drugged and ap
parently dying when taken TO the Ches-
ter Hospital.
The assault occurred alongside the
stone wall at the back entrance 90 Ship
creek woods, near Fourteenth and Cros-
by streets. shortly after Thursday mid
1ight. but the facts OF the case were
suppressed and nothing was made pub
lie until Saturday morning. The two
girls. Emma Groce, 49, and Bessie Egner,
~, were In a critical condition when
admitted to the Chester Hospital, and
according to DR.. Shaw were 'doped.'
Deputy Sheriff Buffsno and another
member OF the Citizens Corps witnessed
Me attack on one OF the girls and placed
The assallant under arrest he was
laken TO a house at iiil Crosby street,
and the patrol was summoned. Mean