South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-03-24
MARCH "a, 1919.
TRYING NOW TO SMOOTH THE POLICE
SCANDAL OVER WITH COOPERATION


and apoogists. are wonderfully strong for CO.
operation in these passing Their ward sub
limated audscity. having finally exposed its hand
yond any misaking it, get this administration
The states attorney and chief of police. should
Join forces for the best interests of the
city the dead past bury its dead and
start fresh with understandings"
That sounds very much like proposal that Chief
Kline made Pros. Schwartz just advance Of the
trial of the Barrett the superior court which
brought his very apparent reason; that the
the liquor tried, and was quite
evidently willing anything prevent con-
vetion. put it this way, in substance:
why dismiss all those cases in the
upper courts and start all again. Just
clean the slate. Let know who you
and 1 Will get them for you"
Yes the past bury dead. and start fresh
with a understandings" yes Join forces for the
city meaning quite imagine.
the interests of the city administration forget
ting cussedness leading up to the present
situation Is II a plea, now, to have Pros Schwartz
drop cases. are against
the administrations per vice resorts and apparently
protected ones?
There weren't any offers of cooperation coming from
police department previous exposure
They all saints then: why" they said 'look at
the have made. the prosecutor fails
convict don't try dismsses the cases and what can
do No amount of explaining the prosecutors
part the police furnishing no evidence 20 con-
Wet with, carried weight in those ancient
The miserable humbugs playing the galleries.
enforcement element. arrests we're cam
outage and the failure any evidence with
which convict protection furnished arrested
Now that the prosecutor proven their perfdy
they ready to offer cooperation. as well as
below hypocritical demands for it.
But what kind OF cooperation do you suppose the
Carson administration would have it to be! Maybe this
also from the administration organ is suggestive:
The attorney needs the police de-
psrtment since, if he cannot have the
OF policemen, he must employ special officers
his expense. If they were working to-
gether the states attorney could play into the
hands of the chief OF police and the latter
could be OF great assistance TO the states
torney'
TO get the states attorney play into the hands
chief police afraid is the main idea
That he has done so. preferrins own
office. rather than tool OF the police
department taking the blame acquittals and nee
essary dsmissals mst cases. the very thing that
the police department the board safety.
istratOr have in for the prosecutor foe
They cooperation out the kind of cooperation
that plays exclusively into their hands.
There is question but that there should be CO.
operation between the police department prosecu
tors Office but from recent developments in South
Bend, of the nrst requisites would that
with. The administration organ says:
Investigation by the board OF safety reveals
that the hasco in the Barrett liquor
indirectly a result of = trick whereby the
OF the bottles taken from the Barrett
place by the police were presumably changed
from whisky 10 colored water incidentally the
fasco result OF the prosecution going
70 trial without being sure OF its premises"
Very we'll then who is responsible for he trick and
how indirectly" was it? Chief Kline claims TO have
charge that liquor from the time came into
possession and If the police station has
bed. the OF having police station? As
long the board safety hangs Chief Kline.
is literally the head OF the police
partment. deserving of cooperation, because of his
-dependablity His entire administration
designed vice. and the liquor law viola
tors only by this affair. but
the protection that he threw about the Shamrock
tel she Avenue hotel other questionable places.
which ne always managed 20 permit TO escape-,
orders Policevoman Minnie Evans curbng
vice suppressing activities. his attempt remove
Probation ofncer Larry from his post and his
shunting Of officer Roberts from the downtown dis
tricts he would harmless. and then his
forbid6ins officers with the prosecu-
deputy under his censorship, evidences
the kind Of cooperation chief Baine means TO extend
tors once and police department. again build
up police department The public demands il quite
much as the prosecutors ONCE does. IT, this