Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 310, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1926 — Page 14

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JOKER STATUTES HELP GAMBLERS TO FI POLICE So General Butler Struck Blows at Pocketbooks of Proprietors. Editor's Note—This is the Twentieth installment of Genera! Butler s story of his work as head of Philadelphia police and his dismissal early this year. The articles will appear daily. The Times owns exclusive rights to the articles in this territory. By Smedley I). Butler Silly, toothless laws, filled with jokers, hampered the police in the work of vice suppression, and because of them, clever criminal lawyers were able to interfere greatly with the meeting out of justice. I was constantly flooded with reports of gambling dens, speak-easies and disorderly houses. These places were just as constantly raided. But little could be done because of the inadequacy of the laws. Take gambling, for instance. The owner of a gambling den is perfectly safe from conviction unless police can prove that he receives a rake-off from the stakes. A policeman has a fat chance of getting such evidence! The mere fact that gambling goes on, day by day, and that scores of patrons visit the den is not considered evidence; nor is the witnessing Cf actual gambling and seizure pf gambling paraphernalia. constantly shifted the men on this kind of work and made every effort to gain evidence that would send the gamblers to jail. Finally we decided just to raid and raid and smash and smash the places, even though the prisoners were all discharged by friendly magistrates. Pinindal Drain Weaken It cost the propietors money to refurnish their gambling places; It cost them money for legal talent; and it cost them money to fix things even with friendly magistrates. This constant drain, we knew, eventually would put them out of business. In the same way we broke up hundreds of speak-easies—at least their lawyers broke them up by their fees. In raiding race horse gambling dens, even though police were successful in seizing the raeipg sheets and run-down forms, the money bet. and six or eight telephones to tracks, no conviction could he secured because police had not actually placed a bet and received a written receipt. We followed the same raiding tactics at these places, and also at breweries. The result of one brewery probe rather startled Philadelphia. Four policemen, after a month’s investigation, reported that the Fred Fell brewery was running beer from their plant, with the apparent aid of the police. Police Load Beer The investigators worked as laborers and street cleaners in and about the brewery. They reported that policemen assigned to watch the brewery so that no beer could go out actually helped to load trucks, acted as lookouts, staged drinking bouts in the brewery, and accepted bribes from brewery officials. Also they reported that fake raids were being made on this brewery to avert suspicion. Asa result, I suspended the captain of the district, his lieutenant and forty policemen, and ordered them before a special board of inquiry. The two police officials testified that Matthew J. Patterson, a member of the State Legislature, leader of the ward in which the brewery was situated, and an aspirant for the office of city treasurer, had asked them to let beer flow from the brewery, and had told them that two higher police officials were in on It. Further investigation revealed

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A few weeks ago a pair of midgets employed by a motion picture studio were married. The wedding took place in a cathedral set in the studio. Viola Dana was the bridesmaid and Ralph Ince best man. The set was decorated with the same number of roses and peonies. And after the bride and groom had left Viola distributed the flowers among the guests. After each guest had received one dozen roses there were five dozen roses left over, and when each guest* had received sixteen peonies there were sixteen peonies left over. How many guests were at the wedding? Last puzzle answer: R | The boastful jockey was Willie Munden. He had a good reason for boasting. His horse, Carlaris, won the handicap race at Tia Juana. If you start at • the cross and travel clockwise around the circle you will read this sentence: “Carlaris is the winner.’ Os course you must take into acount that this was printed by an amateur. Some of the letters are printed upside down and some axe backward. that Patterson had loaned thousands of dollars to Harry Ebald, a policeman friend of the mayor, in a $35,000 private garage venture. Ebald was a $5.50 a day cop. He was dismissed. The district police officials were demoted and the men involved were fined as we had no other method of dealing with such offenders. The notoriety ruined Patterson’s chances for the city treasurership. A little while after this expose, T had another row with the civil service commission. The commission agreed ’to discharge policemen found drunk on duty, but they were only fooling. I soon discovered, and their leniency was fast disrupting the force. In one day the commission restored to duty five cops who had been found drunk on their beats. A report on one case is typical: “Patrolman Thomas J. McCullough. On .Tan, 19, 1920. he was dismissed from the service by* the civil service commission. On July 15, 1924, McCullough was ordered reinstated by the civil service commission. He was sworn in on July 23. 1924. On Sept. 2, 1924, misconduct .report was sent to t.he commission charging McCullough with absence without leave. The case was never tried. Later McCullough, at the request of the superintendent, of police, submitted his resignation, effective immediately.” Many Reinstated My records show that 75 per cent of the men dismissed for drunkenness during my administration were reinstated during my term, and over my protest. The civil service commission was created, the good people were led to believe, to restrain dishonest office holders, and prevent them from discharging decent policemen and hiring bums. Actually, it turned out to be a cute political trick to enable the gang to control offices. It took employment and discharge of policemen out of the hands of their chief, who alone knows them, and who alone is re sponsible for them, and put it in the hands of a board selected by the city council. The public held me responsible, entirely, but would not trust me with the power to hire and fire my subordinates. Public service will

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