The Washington times., 1919-07-11
CALL DISTRICT
POLICE FORCE
INADEQUATE"
Inspector Grant and Major Pull
man Say Department Now
Cannot Guard People.

"The police force OF Washington Is
entirely inadequate for the proper
protection OF property and the safety
of. its people. Clifford L.
Grant
THE Washington Police Department
needs more money to attract the
right type OF men to join the force.
There should be a salary attractive
enough for policemen for the depart
ment to have a waiting list OF more
than 100 at all time. From this list
the OF high type OF men could be
selected.
"The citizenship and business Of the
NaNtional Capital has outgrown its
police force" Major Raymond ".
Pullman. Superintendent OF Police.
These statements were made this
morning by the two police officials
when discussing the apparent inabil-
ity Of the Police Department to run
down the criminal who assaulted Miss
Mary Saunders, the young war work
er, and three other women In the
suburbs or Washington and In Mont
gemery county.
Two Suspects stu Held.
After examining 1--WE other suspects
all of them with the exception Of
Thomas Creek and Lewis Randall.
both Of whom it is alleged have made
many conflicting statements and who
the police say tally with the descrip-
ton Of the assailant OF Miss Saunders =.
Miss Saunders when she saw Ran
dali yesterday declared he 'loked
something like" her assaiIant, but she
would not positively identify him
Mrs. Bessie Gleason, another OF the
women attacked in Rays woods. made
the same statement, but augmented It
by declaring his voice IL similar 20
that Of the negro who attacked me. .
Creek and another negro. who gave
his name as Barnes, and who was
arrested yesterday near Rockville BIZ ]
Sheriff William L. Aud. OF Montgom-
cry county, will be taken today to
the bedside at the Georgetown Uni !
versity Hospital of Miss Saunders in /
IN effort to have her identify either Of !
them.
While every available policeman
Ind detective in Washington has been 3
working day and night since the at :
ack on Miss Saunders to capture her Z
they have not given up
hope of getting the right man.
Men who are joining the force
aid Major Pullman, ARE doing so in :
he hope that Congress will increase
heir salaries"
Want VagPaney Law.
There are precincts IA washing
-on." said Inspector Grant. (which
before the war were sparsely settled.
today Is crowded and the
'parsey settled sections are now
-hickly settled. This means police
work-and there are not enough po-
licemen in the department to properly
patrol the precincts and run down
the hundreds of reports received al
most daily"
Inspector Grant also says that since
the war hundred OF persons Of aues-
tionable character have reached the
Capital He said there should be an
adequate vagrancy law and other
regulations to permit the police to
arrest and lock up these people.
There should be a vagrancy law
which would permit the police depart
ment to lock up and investigate
every one of the negroes who do not
workout who seem to have money
and who own and ride about town in
eW also should be able
to lock up the unemployed men, white
and black, who hang around pool
rooms and such places, and who don't
do any actual work. II these persons
could be arrested, crime would be on
the decrease"