Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1907 — No Place for Ex-Chief Collins, [ARTICLE]

No Place for Ex-Chief Collins,

Chicago, April 17.—The door of the police department was closed in the face of John M. Collins, policeman. The former chief approached the new chief, George 81. Shlppy, with a request that he be assigned to duty as a captain. He was told that there was no place in the department open to him. While this dramatic meeting was taking place In Shippy’s office Inspector John Wheeler was telling the Civil service commission upstairs that, under protest, he had collected coinpulgn funds from members of the force, under Collin’s orders.