South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-03-21
MARCH u, 1910.
DIVIDING RESPONSIBILITY FOR
BARRETT'S BOOZE EVAPOPATIO

The expected merely happened Thursday when the
administration organ. for ouspoken in its d'sap-
proval Of the police derection in the Barrett case
following the exposure began "niggngr itself back
into the city halls good eraces by seeking to divide
the responsibility. ieast semi-excuse the po-
lice chief
To even i1snuate that Pros Schwartz should not
have trusted Chief Kline hold the liquor taken from
Barrett intact is more OF reflection upon Chief Kline
than is upon Pros Schwartz much as The "critique'
may have intended otherwise. Never until this Bar
rett case has the prosecutors office felt reason for
suspicion against the police department it would
go so far to shield protest its friends as was
brought out at that trial, the administration
know Of the reception that the prosecutor
received the next day. asked for the liquor
that was 20 be involved the next trial of Barrett
Evidently very evidently. chief Of police and he
seems TO be acting upon the town lawyer
doesn't regard it much Of prosecutors business
I" be investigating. seeking preserve evidence
that is to be used in liquor cases is not only in
sisting now upon holding the Hquor-or what was
liquor the time the second Barrett case
but he has ordered his patrolmen and other officers
not to converse with the prosecutor his deputy,
regarding this any other matter without FIRST OBJ
tanning his permit When il to the subject of
official antagOnism it has been altogether TOO one
sided-beginning with chiefs secret visit "a
Mishawaka, very much if dodge subponea.-
to admit of than one analysis.
As to the second case. come up in the circuit
court that is matter fer the Judge and jury to
decide at the time and the newspapers
but what the prosecuting attorney do than
to trial with the evidence that the police
him? And he is going have take very apparently
just what Chief Kline hit furnish him. and no
more He can't question the officers way Of get
ting at the facts any Their mouths are sealed
until the chief sees fit to unloose them
Is or, the mart the
office 10 what is expected to go into
with? Was ''antagonisIn' on prosecutor
part TO want know something about even the
COfey ease-after being bulIyragged around by the
police for months. with all kinds of spectacular ar
rests. nothing which to convict What IA p
pened To the Barrett only extraordinary more
aggravating degree than in kind-with to
what has been going every since the Carson admin
istration ushered That has gone far as
70 bring the law and the courts into ridcue and far
enough TO exhaust the patience of the public" i.
quite without question the public outside the aG-
ministratOn clique. its partisan apollo
giss knows pretty well who It is losing patience with
or maybe the administration organ is peevcd and
finds the prosecutors "autagonsm" in his move "a
close of the vicious that have had
police "mollyccddling" by employing the Injunction
independent police assistance? Maybe our wouIdb
dtvider OF responsibility is Of the opinion that he
should have depended upon the police in this as
then be criticised for investing the police depart
nent such confidence We sincerely nope that any
liquor the prosecutor may have as evidence in the
Injunction will stiH LIQUOR when he gets into
court. and sweetened water.
Pros. Schwartz has afforded the police department
every cooperation possible but the kind of cooperation
that ne has received return. merely reached
climsx The "antagonsrn" with which no has met ha:
been quite plainly premedated. part of the Carson
administration policy much noise. arrests and bar
smashfngs parade before the acknowledgements ele
ment; evidence for the prosecutor TO prosecute
with. a OF saving the victims, then a lot
OF talk the failure OF the prosecutor 10 convict
OF the little three-edged humbugs that you
ever saw.
What the administration organ wants in the way
OF Official antagonism" apparently 3,
for Pros Schwartz 10 consent be the goat Of the
police department; Mayor Carsonor Acting Mayor
swygart.-Chief Kline the town lawyer PRIEST Louie
Smith, Of the board Of safety Frank Boone and the
rest. put anything him that they and
then after they have put over. divide the respOn
sibliy; take the blame-for having confidence in
them. Well. henceforth. II he shows any conddenc,
in them. he ought 70 take the blame When a mar
has been fooled long enough il is long enough. and
hope Pros. Schwartz has learned the lesson hnal
- as 20 how long that