Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1902 — POLICE ARE ACCUSED. [ARTICLE]

POLICE ARE ACCUSED.

Big Municipal Scandal in Minneapolis Grows. Added to the disclosures in Minneapolis of the employment of police officers by criminals, indictments were returned charging a systematic trafficking in positions on the force and accusing two detectives of aiding cracksmen in a $1,500 robbery. As another development in the municipal corruption scandal comes the report that Mayor A. A, Ames, under indictment for offering a bribe to an administrative officer, will resign in Se-p----tember to assume the management of a hotel in Indiana. Indictments returned against Police Inspectors Fred Malone and C. F. Brackett charge them with collusion with cracksmen and with having received from the robbers SSOO. It is charged that a month ago they guarded the entrance to the Pabst brewery building until the cracksmen secured $1,500. The inspectors are also accused of aiding the robbers to escape, and up to the present time the fugitives have evaded capture.