Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-10-05
avs REPUD|ATES
attack ON POLICE
a.. Statement Which Ar'osed
cotelyou's Ire Was Not
| Sanctioned by Him
AuBLIcI1y MAN BLAMED

statc prohlDi'lo'' ,. T., hi,
' .orudiatcd the attack h''."' !" ~. ",'
DAY rcp"' .,o rolicc Of this city which
same on '"' ..a of Director of Public
s,oused the lr' VI
s.h,y Cortclyou. A..
pdN" ,,,ucnt issued yesterday ht '"e
A st"'' a,forrcmcnt office charged
1rrOhbltloh f,;,ol 70 20 .opcratc In
.bst the police la''v" w. 49,.
.,forccmcnt OF the ", n,,. sncb informa-
~ ncvcr, GI;roctor G1;,r Davis ut his office
ton, .Sshmrgh. He left TINS c',N MI M,
n ... for n vocation ana saio h' wiz
slonuaI aro on Monday.
return con stand by the stateh'.n' 'n's
'py p,;.o failed TO cooperate WIN YOUR
The p.i,'b p.' bc was asked. .,.
olhcTy' .y uill not say that nave hp'n'''T LIN
.ar nntil / return MonnnE. w..
I Issd then TO go into th' N'o'''''
sonlied. .,,l roc.
Dc u,Ion rp the statement was lsSnru w;
.-sor hy VI. r. stokes Pupin's 'so;aa
Nlaa. fcr the local enforcement oln.si
N", "os understood to have the approval
a Director DAVIS. , ,,,o, hi, sumo.
,,or had not passed prrs','a;s J.; ,'tbnrs
nOt nO,nSnt, m"n lie added that ne Is a,ithor.
. ,,od TO issue statements u,!' S"n'
siyrn ont for pub'ici'F pull"," I,,,.o nj.
tnn n"nirector Cortelyou can accuse ~
.,,tor Davis Of being wrong s'ohrS
rI.,.N,;rucd "but the fact remains 'n"'
,b,D contrcvcr~y was started by the n"-
ioo , themselves when they gave our rE-
r,cs on the hummer VI "'''''' '''''''
More for Drunkenness
co.,os po,;co ApatI,y
'" .,;a, o,u,lt ,,I,
"The fact t'ia' NV r','' ,i, 7on,l,,
seventeen bootlrg@'rS ~ r''r .h. ' "iinn
k nothing 70 'ht 'rr",. VI ,.,;,,,, @ ] pn,,,,.,
Thp police Knew tn'I' WIS ".n''n,i'''II '.,i o,,I
before the \ols''nn u't Wa .,a,' p.i" n". "",
because there Is ''Ss 'I.oMu',,v ,a.,nn,,,". "'
k no discredit 10 our "'p'a '.n.'.
lhe police were rea'i! sincere. .n'
would have boon more di'iseht III ro"h"
ing up bootlegg'rS' 49,, , A..
The police report Whlc, S'hr'r.1 ~, nmn ,n
NnsS' !sv.s,S for riolotions of the dry laws
reS made by the police in the last
rine % months.
The comment attributed to Director
Davis follows:
"When it is considered that there are
1000 bootleggcrs IN Philadelphia and
tbst they are active day and night.
and also that hundreds of persons have
ipen transporting liquors illegally every
dav and night. and when it is consid-
srJ that during the last nine months
| 1000 policc of this city have been
Ale 10 corral only seventeen bootleg
rprs-less than two a month-and that
hpy have arrested only 40 transpOrtcrs
N ninc months. the figurcs given do
not talk as loudly as they might.
practically all of the other thou
pndS Of arrests the statement con-
tnues, (which are emphasized in the
nOlice statement. were still more nu-
rprOus before the Volstcad law went
into effect and cannot be considered as
bsinc caused by this law. but in spite
o. l. or rather in the line Of regular
noca regulations.
MAYOR Moore and Director Cortrl-
,,,S w own admissions thar thcro 1hnvc
Been more than 10000 arrests in nine
months carries with II the admission
tha, they have known that the Nolstcad
law was being dctiantly violated in this
dtv and that they considered their duty
ended when they had jailed the unfor-
tnate victim and regarded it no part
NJ ,he duty of their great force of no.
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