Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 145, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 October 1921 — Page 16

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RELATES CHIEF EVENTS DURING SHANK REGIME 'V Hyland Says Botii Mayor and Police Were Handicapped During Strike. RECALLS NFNAMARA CASE Assertion that some • f the backers of Boyd M. Ralston, democratic nominee for mayor, among- whom he particularly named Frank P. Baker, tried to send him to the penitentiary for enforcing the law as chief of police while Samuel Lewis Shank was mayor, made made by Martin J. Hyland in a speech at the Irvington Theater last Mr. Hyland reviewed the activities of the police department under Mayor Shank and declared the mayor and the police did everything in their power to keep order during the street car strike of 1913, but were handicapped by the failure of Governor Ralston, brother of the Democratic mayoralty aspirant, to back them up with State militia at the proper time. “As I am not a candidate for any appointment under Mr. Shank, I can have no selfish motives,” declared Mr. Hyland. “Mr. Shank, when he was mayor, gave me orders to enforce all laws without fear or favor, and that I did to the best of my ability.” CLOSED RED LIGHT DISTRICT. How the red light district was closed for the first time in twenty-five years under Mr. Shank’s order was related by Mr. Hyland. For bis work in apprehending J. J. McNamara, who later was convicted of dynamiting the Los Angeles Times building, and getting him into the hands of authorities who took him to California for trial, Mr. Hyland said that Frank P. Baker, then prosecuting attorney, tried ; to get him sent to the penitentiary on a charge of kidnapping. Judge Joseph j Markey of Criminal Court, “would not, stand for it.” said the speaker. McNAMARA INVESTIGATION.

Following McNamara’s arrest and a police investigation which disclosed much evidence tending to show that dynamite plots were directed by the iron worker chief out of this city, Mr. Hyland said he turned the facts over to Mr. Baker and Mr. Baker ordered a grand Jury investigation. “A few days later, Frank P. Baker went to Washington, D. C.,” he said. “After his return, he told me ‘some one is going to get his fingers burned for the part they took in this McNamara affair.’ Sure enough, it was only a short time until I learned that W. J. Burns. Mr. Frd, the deputy prosecuting attorney of Los Angeles, then assisting Walter Drew of New York, attorney for the Manufacturers’ Assocliition, and Mr Fox of this city, who drove the automobile that took McNamara to Terre Haute, were indicted for kidnaping by the Marlon County grand jury. I also would have been Indicted but for Judge Joseph Markey, then judge of Criminal Court, who would not stand for it. Then Mr. Baker tried to show that my work in the McNamara case here was unlawful and if he could get a court decision to show this, I would be guilty of the charge of kidnaping, which was a penitentiary offense.” HYLAND REFUSES REWARD. Mr. Hyland said he refused a handsome reward from Mr. Burns and Mr. Drew for “the great service you have rendered the country,” telling them he wag paid a salary by the city of Indianapolis for doing his duty. The speaker related how Mr. Shank ordered food confiscated from box cars when flood Isolated citizens of West Indianapolis were starving and told of the personal relief work Mr. and Mrs. Shank did among the flood sufferers during and after the high waters. FACTS IN STREET CAR STRIKE. Coming to tfee much-discussed street car strike, Mr. Hyland said: “I read an article in the Indianapolis News one evening last week where Mr Shank was accused of running away during the street car strike. I say that is not true. The street car rtrike was settled three weeks before Mr. Shank resigned. “We had an interurban car strike here in August. 1913. I had a notice five days in advance that the strike would take place. I prepared for it. I had sixty special men that I detailed on night duty in districts with older men—took sixty members from the regular force and assigned them to look after the strike. I had four automobiles stationed in different parts of the city, with four policemen for each machine and in case of trouble in any part of the city, they could arrive on the scene in a hurry. On the morning of the strike I sent forty men under Lieutenant Barmfurer and one sergeant to the Terminal Station with instructions to put two men on every car that went out of the station, ride it to the city limits, catch the next car there coming back and ride it to the Terminal Station. They kept this up for four dayj and the strike was broken. ASKS GOVERNOR RALSTON FOR AID.

“The next street car strike occurred on Halloween evening, the last night of October, a night on which thousand, of people were gathered on the streets and the police had all they could handle. Od this night at 8 p. m. I first learned there was to be a strike at 11 p. m. that night. I had no opportunity to prepare for it. I got in touch with the mayor, told him I needed men. I put an advertisement in the morning papers for three hundred men and at the time that strike ended how many men do you suppose I got? By actual count, Just thirty-four. This strike occurred on Friday night On Sunday night there was a meeting of the citizens at the Commercial Club on South Meridian street, at which Mr. Shank and myself were present I stated to this body of men that with the few men 1 had it was absolutely impossible for me to cope with the situation. Thereupon, there was a committee appointed to call on Governor Ralston and Lave him come down to this meeting. The Governor came, and said he would like to hear what I had to say. I told the Governor that with the limited amount of men that I had and being unable to get any citizens to serve on the police force, I was np against a tough proposition, and needed help and the only way that I could sea would be to hare him call out the militia and give me the necessary assistance. To which the Governor replied, ‘Mr. Superintendent, why don’t you make the people get off the streets? Shoot into the crowds if necessary.’ I said, ‘Governor, you are a lawyer, you know that no policeman has the right to shoot into a crowd of citizens on the streets of this city. If they should kill any one they could expect to spend the rest of their life in the penltenttlary or go to the electric chair. But you, as Governor, can call out the militia, they can give orders to the people to clear the streets and If they don't fhey can shoot Into the crowd and kill a hundred or more people and the law says they not be indicted nor tried for doing That is the difference between the department and the State militia.’ ‘Well, the calling out of the ls a very serious thing.’ ‘That is replied, ‘but we have a very seri\i€Sfuation on hand right hare and was on Sunday night. The

following Tuesday wss election day. After the polls had closed on election day there were orders for the militia to report here, and they did report here, and the strike was soon put down.” CONDUCTS VICE CRUSADE. Speaking of the vice crusades of the Shank administration Mr. Hyland said: “Shortly after Air. Shank was elected mayor, he came to my office and asked me if the sporting houses were selling beer, wine and liquors, and if so, for how long. I informed him that they were and had been for twenty-five years to my personal knowledge. He then asked if they paid a license for this privilege, to which I answered, they pay a Government but no city license. Ho said it did not seem fair they should sell without a license when other men paid license for such privileges, and ordered me to see that there was no more liquor sold in these houses and that order was carried out by me. I had sergeants go through and search their premises and bottles marked 'near beer’ were brought to the City Chemist for analysis amU when his analysis showed it was real beer, they were arrested and their houses closed.

“Later on, in the Shank administration, the Indianapolis Church Federation requested Shank to close the redlight district. The mayor asked me what I thought of closing these houses. I told Mm it would be an easy matter to close their places, but I doubted the wisdom of doing so, as there was no law to make them leave the city, and the result would be that they would be scattered all over the city and it might be worse than leaving them as they were. Some time later the mayor again came to me and said the church federation insisted on closing up the redlight district, and as it is a violation of the law, you close them up, which I did. These houses were closed at 12 that night, midnight. To my surprise, a day or so later, I took up a paper and read an article In which C. S. Denny, head of the Church Federation, was quoted as saying he had reason to believe the police department hnd been receiving graft, and that was the reason they did not want to close the redlight district. “I called up Mr. Denny and asked him if he had any information to give me about graft in the police department from the houses of prostitution. He said it was the general impression that the department had been receiving graft, and not being willing to stand under that cloud I then went over to the Crmiual Court and called upon Judge Joseph T. Markey, and requested him to call the, grand jury that day before any of the keepers or Inmates had an opportunity to leave the city, and the grand Jury was called that day by Judge Markey and I appeared before the grand Jury, gave them a printed list of the names and addresses of every keeper and Inmate known to the police department of this city, and requested them to call Mr. Denny of the Church Federation and make him give the information that he refused to give me, if he had. any such information.

“I also requested the grand jury to bring before them the keepers and inmates and make them tell if they had been paying graft to any member of the Indianapolis police force. The grand jury was in session for nearly a week making this investigation, but found no evidence of graft in the police department from this source. The Church Federation sent me lists at different times of places to be investigated, and an investigation was made in each and every ease, and a report sent to the federation of what had been done. On many of the cases we did not have enough evidence to make arrests.” Mr. Hyland said he had known Mr. Shank for twenty years and never had known him to be guilty of a dishonest act.

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NEW YORK, Oct. 28.—Once again William Travers Jerome is rattling the skelton of little old New York. The livest district attorney Gotham ever had, with a first page record equaled only by th.-. ’ate Theodore Roosevelt, is campaigning for Henry H. Curren, the coalition candidate for mayor. Mr. Jerome appears to have staged a picturesque “comeback” for himself, and. incidentally, given Mayor Hylan and Tammany their first intimation of the existence of any serious opposition. The Jerome harking back to past suggests a question. “What has become of the old-time confidence men and crooks, gamblers and gentlemen rogues?” Let us peep behind the frayed curtains. Alfred R. Coslin, the genius of several amazing credit swindles, has been living quietly in 'Paris for a decade. I saw him in front of the Notre Dame Cathedral on Easter Sunday of the closing year of the war. He had a small American flag in his buttonhole and was in the company of Col. Abe Hummed, the disbarred lawyer, also a permanent Parisian. “Honest John” Kelly is up and down Broadway most any evening, and he looks actually seedy. Age has crumpled the boldness of his tread, but his smile is as inviting as ever. He has been out of luck for several seasons now. Ilis last venture that paid was the proprietorship of a roadhouse In Westchester County. His methods of procuring a "play” for such tables might preside over are completely o"ut of cate. A much cleverer and younger crowd is running the gambling business of the metropolis with a daring that is passing belief. HUNGRY TOE NOW OLD. BROIEN AND BENT. Remember “Hungry Joe," the famous confidence man of twenty-five years ago aud longer? I saw him in Broadway the other afternoon, broken and bent, but with the same shrewd look in his cold, steely eyes. He is now engaged at selling barbers’ tools. “Oh he is runuine a furniture factory in Detroit,” said Toe when asked of the whereabouts of Larry SommerfieUl, another veteran confidence worker. Looking at Joe’s white hair, it was hard to realize that he was the same person who with the notorious Torn O'Brien stole a SI,OOO bill from Oscar Wilde, who in America on a visit, was at the zenith of his fame as a writer. The money was FOB COLDS. GRIP OR INFLUENZA and as a Preventive, take Laxative ItKOMO QUININE Tablets. The genuine bears the signature of E. W. Grove. (Be sure you get BROMO.) 30e. —Advertisement.

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stolen from Wilde in an internationally known tenderloin resort. The woman who ran, the place is now the wife of a former New York policeman and she lives in New Jersey. She can lock across tho Hudson and speculate who is moving around under the lights of Manhattan. There was a time not so far back when this same woman had her own oceangoing yacht; that was before the powerful black-haired admirer, Tom O'Brien, in a fit of Jealous rage, shot and killed "Kid” Waddell on the railroad platform in Lyons, France. I recall when Waddell lived at the Hoffman House. He was a handsome young chap with curly hair who wore a chrysanthemum in his coat lapel. The woman spent thousands of dollars in an endeavor to free O'Brien, whose trial ended with the impositiqn of a life sentence. Even then the woman did not despair, for she sent her yacht to Devil's Island, where O’Brien was a prisoner; but (he effort to effect an escape was frustrated by the vigilance of the French prison officials, and at last she gav® up hope. ORCHESTRAS OF BANJOS, VIOLINS AND HARPS. In the old days “Hungry Joe” was known for his singing voice, his rendition of the ballad, “Sailie in Our Alley” being an Impromptu afternoon treat of the .Empire Garden, in Sixth avenue, near Thirtieth street. Another popular hangout of the various confidence workers was “Pop” Clark's saloon, farther north in Sixth avenue. Clark, himself, played the accordion. That was before the period of pianos in back rooms of saloons. Most of the Joints were equipped with orchestras made up of banjos, violins and harps. “Red” Austin, who came from a Western city, the son of a shoemaker, was another who trained with “Hungry Joo.” He used to act the part of "The Dying Engineer” or "The Sick Indian.” who would tell where the “mine" was located. Then the victim would put up the money supposedly needed to develop the property. He has passed on; likewise have "Doc" Trumau, the Imposing-looking card sharp, who in appearance resem bled a famous attorney of that time named De Los McCurdy; lairry O’Brien, known as the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo, and who was the Inspiration for the popular song, "As lie Walks Along the Bols de Bologue With on Independent Air," and Spanish Pete, I’arraelee Jones, Bill Hawley, Frank Tarbeau and others famous on both sides of the Atlantic. The Gllsey nouse, in Broadway, was the center of high grade crook activity

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then, with tbe lesser lights operating from Bill Tracey’s place across Broadway, or “Buck” Taylor’s place, close at hand. Only a few days ago there died at one of the leading hotels in New York a man who tvas known as the best “ready-up-guy” in the profession. He was a swell dresser and came from Canada. His scheme was to approach a man of known means and say: “I am going to play a horse for you." A few hours later he would appear and toss S4OO or SSOO In the man’s hands, remarking, “Your winnings.” That would establish the friendly relationship, after which he would trim the victim for thousands. He was given a fine funeral and not a half-deaen who attended it knew his astounding past history. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OLD AND NEW CROOKS The difference between the crooks of a quarter of a century ago and those of today is that now the crooks are not known. Many of them are college-bred. They usually hire offices in the proximity of Wall Street and pose as brokers. You meet them everywhere, at Long Island garden parties, la the lobbies of the smart hotels and in tho homes of millionaires. They have cute lawyers and seldom get into the newspapers. Hence the public does not become familiar with their names. The Gondorf Brothers are crude workers compared with the modern confidence man. And even such astute card sharps as “BUI” Torrence. “Doc” Owens and “Frankie” Dwyer find themselves outclassed when arrayed against the rising generation of card manipulators. On a liner recently arriving in New York two of the old-timers were actually lured into a game of poker and robbed of a neat sura by one of the new type of swindler. To understand the change one ought to hear "Bright Eyes" McDonald wail about the skill of the present day confidence men, and McDonald makes his beast that he always "works” alone. One of the new generation is Don Collins, with half a dozen aliases, lie met his match some years ago in a detective who fathomed his attachment to a blonde girl, who was accustomed to go into a certain Seventh avenue hotel and from there write to him. The detective learned of this, and one day when the Monde sat down to write to Don sha had before her u new blotting sheet upon which she unconsciously blotted her envelope with an address in Florida. This led to the only arrest that Collins has ever experienced aud his facing a charge which still hangs over his head. And this 1* what Mr. Jerome has done —started everybody in the big city talking about the old and the new underworld. NORMAL ALUMNAE ENTERTAINS. Alumnae of the city normal school will entertain tonight at school No. 10 with a Halloween party. Members of the faculty and former students of the school will compose the guests. MOTION PICTURES.

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