Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 318, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1926 — Page 7

MAY 10, 1920

BOILER POINTS 10 RESULTS OF MINISTRATION Believes His Battle With Forces of Crime Was Worth While. Editor'* Note—This 1* the twenty ninth installment of General story of lus work as,head o! 1 tMlHoiMphia police and his dismissal early t year. The articles will appear daib. Vho Mimes owns exlusivc, right to the artides in this territory. By Smedley D. Butler. 1 have told the story of the fight. Now. what was the result? Was the effort worth while? Was it successful, or was it a dismal failure? The main objective of the war was complete divorcement of police from politics. That objective was reached, I believe. The constant demotion and transfer of police, and redistricting, removed the force from the influence of politicians. The fact that ad knew I was in earnest stiffened tlie backs of the men. Several incidents illustrate this. The gang debauched the fall elections of 1925. I sent police out to gather evidence against the very ■ward leaders who had previously controlled them, and they got it. They got evidence that might have sent some of these ward leaders to jail had not the district attorney “been disheartened at lack of help in sending politicians to jail!" The Unopened Safe Then there was the case of the unopened safe. The safe was Seized in a drug store. Police could hear the clink of bottles in it and were convinced it contained liquor. But the proprietor, active in politics in bis ward, refused to open it. The safe was seized and placed in the station house. Later we discovered the seals on the door had been tampered with. I ordered an investigation and while this was being made bottles inside broke and liquor leaked out. It was taken up in sponges for evidence. Meanwhile the owner of the safe secured an injunction preventing police from opening it. So when the safe was accidentally tilted and evidence leaked out, the court summoned police to answer for contempt. This, politicians believed, was a great opportunity to discredit me. but the police raiders, despite pressure, stood up nobly and the court was forced to drop proceedings. Previously. I am sure, police would have yielded to political pressure in testifying.

Crime Reduced The second objective was reduction of crime. The records show j this was accomplished. In eleven months of 1923 there were 84S hold ups reported, in aver- ! age of seventy-seven a month. In the same period of 1925 the total j was 259 hold-ups, about twenty-three a month. Robberies decreased from 1,926 to 1.549 and larcenies from 3,848 to 2,945. The value of property stolen was $1,810,007 in 1923; in 1925 it was about ha1f—5992,495. One-sixth of the stolen property was recovered in 1923, in 1925 one-third of all stolen was recovered. Records for 1925 show 1,400 more arrests a month than in 1923. We did not have as much success with murder as with other crime. In 1923 there were 140 murders in Philadelphia; in 1924 there were 122 and in 1925, 132. It should he taken into consideration. however, that in 1925 a real crime wave was sweeping every important city except Philadelphia Vice Suppressed The third objective of the war was to suppress vice. Again I refer to official police records. In 1923, 401 disorderly houses were closed by police; in 1925, 774. Gambling houses were raided 134 times in 1923, 350 times in 1925. Police arrested 1.197 for dry law violations in 1923; 9,242 in 192*5. Before f left, 140 places had been

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An all day program featured dedication of tlie SOO,OOO Fountain Square Christian Church Sunday. The Rev. l\ S. Johnson pastor was In charge. The Rev. William H. Book of * o!uinbus. will preach in the mornning following Sunday school at 9.30 a. m. Union services were held in the afternoon following luncheon.

padlocked and the cases of 182 other properties were before the courts. Looking back, I believe that the experiment was successful, I believe that the effort was worth while and that a substantial gain was made. It was demonstrated that a police force, freed from the tentacles that hold it, could do real work, and that all laws could be properlj? enforced by police if other legal machinery functioned properly. That, to my way of thinking, was worth while. (Copyright. 192(5, tby the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) (Next: In the concluding installment General Butler tells how "militant” Philadelphia pastors voted him a resolution of thanks—with a joker clause.) YIXC'KNMiS PIOXKER BURIED Hit Ti'iicx Snrriul VIXCEXXKS, Inch. May 10.— Funeral of August Schultheis, 73. wealthy pioneer Vincennes business man, was held Sunday. He was one of the promoters of southern Indiana's first traction line and was interested in the furniture and milling; business.

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Following young people's services In (he evening, the Rev. Book preached and the Rev. Johnson formally dedicated the building, Shelby St. and Lexington Avc. The modern plant includes a spacious auditorium, Sunday school rooms and basement with modern kitchen, dining rooms and lecture rooms.

BUS REROUTING ASKED In petitions filed with the public service commission the South Side Motor Coach Company asked to reroute its Beech Grove line via Emerson Ave. and Raymond St. and to alter Its Bluff Rd. route to pass Sunshine Gardens addition. The com mission Friday authorized the Kibler Trucking Company to abandon its Indianapolis-Lafayette route and to sell its Bedford certificate.

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WIN VINCENNES CONSPIRACY CASE Federal Jury Hears Facts in Liquor Raids. Evidence against more than forty Vincennes residents for alleged conspiracy to violate tho national prohibition law was to be presented the Federal grand jury today. Evidence was collected In wholesale liquor raids there several weeks ago in which all members of the Indiana prohibition staff, including Deputy Administrator A. R. Harris, participated. Judge John Rabb Emison of the Superior Court of Knox County, who aassisted Harris In the raids, will be called before the grand jury. United States District Attorney Albert Ward said. Another partial report of the

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