Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1898 — CORRUPT POLICE FORCE. [ARTICLE]

CORRUPT POLICE FORCE.

Opimn Joints of Chicago Systematically Blackmailed. The State Senate committee investigating the Chicago police force heard testi- i mony tending to show that there was an irregular police system of blackmail on the opium joints. Several Chinese were examined, most of them saying they were nfruid to testify. Sjng Jigi,proprietor of j an opium joint, said if Gov. Tannef oIF i Mayor Harrison would guarantee him protection he would tell all he knew. The police recently visited all the opium joints and warned the keepers against testifying, ho declared, and Sam Moy, a prominent Chinaman, has been locked up for fifteen days for “talking too much,” and Mam Soy was compelled to leave the city. Moy Tui said most of the opium joint proprietors paid ten dollars a week for police protection. The man who collected the tribute told him Alderman Coughlin was the beneficiary.