Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1901 — NEW YORK’S POLICE SCANDAL. [ARTICLE]

NEW YORK’S POLICE SCANDAL.

Prominent Figures in the Present Henan tian. The two most conspicuous figures in the police investigation which is now going on in New fork City are District Attorney Eugene Phllbiu and William S. Devery, chief of police. The former is determined to learu who are responsible for the evils which are said to thrive under the protection of the department of which Devery Is the head, nnd the disclosures which nre being made are furnishing sensational gossip nnd news for the metropolitan papers. It flktbe hope of the prosecuting officer of the second city in the world that he will be able to fasten enough violations of law and neglect of duty npon Devert to compel his removal. Phllbiu has been District Attorney of New York for about a year, and Devery has had the supervision of the police force ever since Tammany regained control by Van Wyck’s election in IW7. Mrs. Louise Hheridan, luff ter known as Ixtuise Davenport, widow of W. E. Sheridan, the Shnksperenn actor, was foun I dead in a squalid room, where she had been living, in Bnn Francisco. - Whites tried to drive negro laborers from their work on a railroad, Jellico, Tenn. James Hatfield, white, was killed and his brother, Winfield, fatally injured.