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CITY TREASURER
OF GRIFFIN IS
J SUICIDE
Prominent Citizen Slays Self
After the Burning of His
Account Books.
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position to handle their funds for an
other two years.
It was at 11 o’clock Tuesday night
that he again took the oath so fatnillAr
to him. A few minutes later he left
the city hall, apparently in the best of
Spirits, bidding his associates "good
night," and wending his way to his
picturesque old Southern home a few
blocks away. There a few hours later,
with the message of Major Smith,
ailing for an audit and a new system,
ringing in his ears, he placed the muz
zle of a revolver in his mouth and fired
a bullet through his brain. Whatever
may have been his motive, it died a
secret with him.
Members of the city government and
ehlzens generally were saddened Wed
nesday morning when the news went
out that their long-time and beloved |
old clerk and treasurer had been ’
stricken with apoplexy while preparing
to enjoy his breakfast.
Mayor Smith’s desire for a change in
the conduct of city affairs was widely
known even before his inauguration,
owing to the fact that it was an issue
In the campaign and had been dis
cussed from day to day.
A farewell note was left by Nall. Ini
t he made no reference to the destrue- I
tion of the city’s records, but voiced i
his determination that they should |
never be examined. As to the reason 1
of this determination ha gave no word,
so far as has been learned. H< wrote:
•‘My Books Shall
Never Be Examined.’’
”1 am determined that my books
shall never be examined. I have
checked and rechecked them, and have
found them absolutely correct. 1 am
satisfied that no one else could have
found anything wrong."
Then he added:
"But the horror ol it all, and the
thing that caused me to determine on
this course, is the fear that I might be
stricken helpless and left a burden on
those illy able to care for me."
Another sentence read:
"I am very, very tired.”
Nall’s friends are firm In their belief
that he was simply laboring under the
hallucination that he was suspected of
some possible wrong, and that this er
roneous thought that his honesty and
his long-used system were questioned
drove him to desperation and to his
tragic end.
They say Nall suffered a slight stroke
of paralysis a short time ago, and since
then seemed to fear that lie would be
stricken helpless and would have to be I
cared for by his three daughters. Nall i
was a widower.
Douglas Boyd Finds
Books All Missing.
Immediately following the announce
ment of the death, Mayor Smith or
dered the clerk’s office closed until aft
er the funeral on Friday. On Satur
day the finance committee, of which
Douglas Boyd, of the Douglas Boyd
Company, is chairman, opened the of
fice and made the discovery that the
important books were missing. The
finance committee. In called session
Monday, instructed Mayor Smith and
Mark J. Janes, one of the members, to
go to Atlanta and employ expert ac
countants.
The report of the accountants is ex
pected In about a week.
The first evidence as to the destruc
tion of the records was furnished in a
confession to the finance committee by
Bill Holloway, negro janitor In the city
hall. He said that on Tuesday morn
ing. before the new administration took
charge that night, Nail placed two
books on the edge of the furnace door
In the basement of tlie city hall and told
him to push them Into the furnace. He
says he did so.
Members of the committee later
learned that a negro cook in the Nall
home, Mary Holloway—no relation,
however, to the’ janitor—had confided
to another negro that Nall "had been
burning books and papers in his home
for two weeks before his death.” She
■was closely questioned by the commit
tee. but denied this statement.
She admitted, however, that on Tues
day morning three books had been
burned. She said her husband came to
the Nall home that morning -to build a
tire, as usual, and that Nall gave him
three books and told him :o burn them.
Chairman Boyd
Doubts a Shortage.
The negro tore up one pf the books
and threw it in the fire. but as it was
SO hard to tear, laid the other two
books aside. Nall, she said, later came
along and threw these books into the
fire.
Beyond tills, no further evidence has
been found as to the destruction of the
records.
Chairman Boyd says:
"I don’t think Nall was short in his
accounts, but I believe he felt offended
at the idea of his books being audited
and his old system changed, and simply
determined that this should not be. He
had been in the office so long that, he
felt that bis methods should not be
questioned. He probably brooded over
the situation until he decided that
uther than submit to the new order of
things he would destroy the records and
then kill himself."
Committeeman Jane.'. '.’ho Alta a
elose personal friend of the aged man
and who lias been In personal charge of
’he office since the tragedy, is firm tn
hi- belief that Nall's mind w.o •.ml.nl-
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•CITY ON SOUND BASIS;
J MAYOR SMITH SAYS;
• •
• This staff ment was made by •
• Mayor J. Henry Smith: •
• "T Griffii ound *
• financially. While the loss of thf •
• rec ires has temporarily demor- •
• allied affairs, th. city is not as- •
• fected seriously. We have on hand •
• a cash surplus of $6,401.01, and the •
• taxes for the year 1912 are, as yet. •
• uncoil* cted,” •
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TALL OF Mill
AGITATES ENVOYS
Real Crisis of Peace Conference
Billed for Resumption of Ne
gotiations Tomorrow.
LONDON. Dec. .11.—Consternation
was caused among the Turkish peace
delegates today by a telegram from
Bejgra.de that Scutari had fallen before
a combined attack of Servians and
Montenegrins. Reiehad Pasha, of the
Ottoman delegation, declared that if
this proved true, it would show fla
il: rant violation of the Chatalja armls-
Toinorrow will s< r the real crisis in
the peace conference. Representatives
of the allies declare that if Turkey con
tinues to balk the negotiations, when
they are resumed Wednesday, they will
declare their mission at an end and war
will be resumed.
Russia Proposes
Demobilization
PARIS, Dee. 11.—The most important
move yet made to relieve the tension in
Europe resulting from the Balkan war
was made here today when P. A. Iswol
sky, the Russian ambassador to France,
called upon M. Haymond Poincaire, the
French foreign minister, and proposed
that Russia and Austria go into accord
upon the immediate mobilization of
their reserves.
Mr. Iswolsky had been authorized by
his government to take such a step,
and It indicated that in the eye of the
Russian government the way to com
plete peace and accord among the pow
ers of Europe is now open. The pro
posal was that the armies, which were
mobilized during the gloomy days of
the war, should be dismissed.
M. Poincaire took the matter under
advisement, promising to consult with
tile Austrian minister.
MRS. W. C. ADAMSON,
CONGRESSMAN’S WIFE,
DIES IN CARROLLTON
j CARROLLTON, GA., Dec. 31.—Fu
’ neral services were conducted from the
■ Methodist Protestant church here this
i afternoon for Mrs. Minna Reese Adam
son, wife of Congressman W. C. Adam
son. of the Fourth Georgia district, in
terment following in the city cemetery.
Mrs. Adamson died yesterday, after
an illness that confined her to her bed
for several months. She had been lu ill
health for several years. She under
went an operation several months ago,
but failed to improve. Her condition
became so critical two weeks ago that
Congressman Adamson was summoned
from Washington.
Mrs. Adamson Is survived by her
husband, three sons. Charles A. Adam
son. New Orleans, who is connected
with the United Fruit Company; Reese
Adamson, Atlanta, of the Ford Motor
Company, and Ernie Adamson, who is
reading law in Carrollton; two broth
ers. Erskine Reese, Decatur, and M. B.
Reese, Heflin. Ala., and one sister, Mrs.
A. R. Blander, Nashville, Tenn.
anced and that his deed was the direct
result of hallucinations and broodings.
Practically every one in Griffin knew
and liked "Uncle Tom" Nall. He had
some few enemies, of course, political
enemies, acquired through ills long
years of political activity, but these
were overshadowed by his widespread
popularity. During his 3S years of of
fice life he had opposition but three
times. Each time he was elected by an
overwhelming majority.
Nail’s friends give him the credit for
the re-election of Congressman Bart
lett, of the Sixth district, in the recent
national election. Walter Wise. Judge
Bartlett’s opponent, is said to have
made the statement in Griffin that he
would carry Spalding county by at least
SOO majority, which would mean his
election. Bartlett, hearing this, hast
ened to Griffin to confer with Nall, his
friend ami ardent supporter.
How He Saved Day
For Congressman Bartlett.
"Toni, what about this?" asked the
congressman "Will Wise get 800 ma
jority here?"
’ He will get only 375 majority, Judge.”
replied the astute old politician.
"Well, Tom, if we can keep his ma
jority below 375 in this county I’ll be
elected."
Nall went to work at once, writing
letters to his friends and making a
personal canvass. When the votes
were counted on election day Wise’s
majority in Spalding county walk 871--
Judge Bartlett was re-elected.
Shortly before Nall’s death, Con
gressman Bartlett visited the aged offi
cial and told him he wanted to do
Something for him. as a testimonial of
appreciation.
"That’s nit light. judge, fm satisfied
with th, fact that we beat him." re
plied the old man.
, Nall’s friends .my he could have been
postmaster of Grittit) under the new
Democratic administration bad u live 1
and desired the place
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS TUESDA Y. DECEMBER 31, 1912.
JUDGE FITE ON
HAPS HIGH COURT
Declares Tribunal Which Con
victed Him Has Changed Its j
Recorded Opinion.
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abusing and charging me with hav
ing begun it.
But, fortunately for me, what I
have said is written and in print,
and what the court of appeals have
said also is written and in print;
and the bench, the bar and the peo
ple of Georgia will judge us by the
facts, and no abuse of me by the
court of appeals will help them or
hurt me.
What Judge Hill says as to the
Shope contempt case in my court
is untrue, and he went out of the
record to say it, and I have more
cause to attach for contempt the
judges of the court of appeals for
this than they had to attach me,
and have as much authority to do
so, as my court, like theirs, is a
constitutional court; and it is my
duty to maintain its integrity,
Charges Untruth
To Judge Hill.
It now seems to me that if, as a
court, I am bound by their con
struction of the law in my case, it
is my duty, as a court, to attach
them for what they say as to iny
alleged judicial conduct in the
Shope case, which is untrue, and, to
me, seems clearly libelous and slan
derous. The truth is, I did not find
him guilty of contempt, nor did
1 put him in Jail, but dismissed the
rule on the filing of a proper an
swer by him.
Judge Hill’s attack on Mr. Fow
ler. the prosecutor in the McCul
lough case, a man who loved his
home, his wife and his children
more than he does a "pig and heif
er,” and who is as honorable, truth
ful and virtuous as Judge Hill or
myself, is, under the evidence in the
case, only a pert of which lie
quotes, slrnply outrageous.
And his defense of the negro,
who Is now and has been for some
time in the penitentiary on his own
confession of guilt in open court. Is,
under the evidence in the case, only
a part of which he quotes, abso
lutely pitiful, all of which shows his
inability to comprehend the facts
in the case and that he is not sat
isfied with the final disposition of it.
“In faith, ’tis strange, ’tis passing
strange: «.
'Tis pitiful, ’tis wondrous pitiful.”
Challenges Hill to
Resign With Him.
Judge Hill says: "It is not a
question of the abolition of courts,
but a question of the abolition of
judges," and intimates that he is
ready and willing to refer the mat
ter to the people, and I accept his
implied challenge, and make him
this proposition:
That he and 1 resign immediate
ly, our resignations to take effect
when our successors are elected and
qualified, and go to the people and
let them at the ballot box decide
who "has dragged the judicial robes
through the mire of personal venom,
injustice and slander.”
I will meet him in the open, face
to face, before the people all over
Georgia—not in my own interest,
but in the Interest of any reputable
lawyer who may oppose him, leav
ing my own candidacy in the hands
of the people of the Cherokee cir
cuit.
In conclusion, 1 will say what 1
have heretofore said, in substance,
that I did not charge the Judges of
the court of appeals with corrup
tion, but did charge them with in
competency, and criticised their de
cisions accordingly, and in doing so
I was not in contempt, but was
within my constitutional rights as
a free American citizen, and every
well Informed lawyer knows it, and
more, the people know it, and the
judges of the court of appeals
would know it but for their incom
petency.
21 ATLANTA GREEKS
WILL SAIL FOR HOME
TO HELP FIGHT TURK
In response to a call from their na
tive hind for volunteers In the war against
the Turks, twenty-one young Greek resi
dents of Atlanta will leave tomorrow
afternoon for New York, where, on Jan
uary 4. they will embark on the steam
ship Ixicorila, bound for Greece.
The party is made up of Greeks from
even part of Atlanta, and Is not bound
into an organization. They will leave At
lanta together, having secured transpor
tation in a body, but the group will dis
integrate upon reaching tlie shores of
Greece, each member betaking himself to
the detachment representing his native
community.
A call was made by the Greek gov
ernment upon ti>e declaration of the war
with Turkey. The Greeks in America
who still owed allegiance to the native
land were given four months grace in
which to wind up their affairs in this
country before leaving. Impatient, how
ever. a detachment of 150 left Atlanta
several weeks ago. ami those who will
leave Wednesday have yet much respite
left.
Several of the twenty-one who will leave
Wednesday ure American citizens, and
owe no duty to Greece. Bach of the
party will pay his own expenses of trans
portation and subsistence.
THROWS CAN OF CORN
IN QUARREL: KILLS MAN
MARKED TREK. ARK., Dec. 31. Wil
liam JohtiH ami Alex .Smith quarreled over
a girl. Johns threw a ran ■ f corn, which
hit Smith .n the head tin-' killed him.
Johns was arrested.
Secret Friends Engage Lawyer for Mrs. King
INSANITY TO BE DEFENSE
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Nick Wilburn, (he Jones county farm Hand, held for the
murder of James King, which h e confesses he plotted with
King’s wife.
Attorney Hopes to Send Con
fessed Death Plotter to the
Asylum Instead of Gallows.
MACON, GA., Dec. 31. —A leading
Macon lawyer, who wants his name
withheld for the present, has been em
ployed by parties, whose identity will
not be divulged, to represent Mrs.
Katherine King, confessed death plot
ter. This lawyer is going to Grays to
morrow by automobile for a confer
ence with the prisoner. If she gives
her consent, the lawyer will at once
start a legal fight in her behalf. He
intimates that he will not be content
with saving her from death on the gal
lows, but that his hope, if his employ
ment is ratified by Mrs. King, is to
send her to the state asylum for the
insane.'
“1 accepted the employment, such as
it is, witii great reluctance,” he states,
“and am proceeding mostly in the case
on account of a feeling- of sympathy
for the woman. If she does not want
counsel, if she herself wants the law to
take its course, xvhj, of course, I shall
drop the case at once. However, if she
assents to my conduct of her case, 1
will get busy without delay. The chief
condkion of my employment as attor
ney for Mrs. King is that I must not
disclose to her the names of those who
have paid me my fee.”
Sheriff Fearing
Suicide Attempt.
Fearing that Mrs. King- may attempt
to commit suicide and that she may
endeavor to secure outside aid to that
end, Sheriff Charles Roberts, of Jones
county, is closely watching the jail at
Grays, where the woman is a prisoner.
Today a woman sent Mrs. King a quart
of buttermilk. The sheriff received it
and poured it on the ground, saying,
”1 don’t know whether anything is in
that milk or not.”
The sheriff declares he will take no
chances with his prisoner. He allows
no one to send Mrs. King articles un
less first inspected by him. He de
clines to permit food to be given her
except by himself.
Notwithstanding that petitions for a
speedy trial for Mrs. King and Jesse
Nick Wilburn are in circulation in Jones
county, it is not likely that tlie con
fessed slayers of Jami s King will hear
their doom pronounced until the regu
lar April term of th, Jones county su
perior court.
it is stated bj those in touch with th,
situation that Judge James B. Park
does not favor special terms of court,
believing that tlie.' t-iigenilei feeling and
promote an unhealthy sentiment, ad
verse to the defendants. No request
for a special term of court will 1 come
from Solicitor Joseph E. Pottle, so if
one is ordered, the action will be taken
in response to the petitions now being
signed at Round Oak, Hillsboro. Grays
and Bradleys.
The petitions recite that the killing
of James King by Wilburn, as the re
sult of the plotting of Mrs. King, is
the worst and loulest crime in the an
nals of Jones county, and tliat tlie good
people of the county, condemning such
outrages, desire that the guilty parties
shall be given early trials and the iaw
x indicated.
Mrs. King Refuses
To See Visitors.
.Mrs. King lihs requested Sheriff Rob
erts to turn away all persons other
than her relatives who call to see her.
unless the visitors want to pray with
iter md give her spiritual encourage
ment. She lias not s.en a single one
of hvt ninth<> since her jail confine-
ment. A Bible has also been furnished
her, by urgent request.
The woman is heartbroken at the
refusal of her children to visit her, and
today wrote Nina, her sixteen-year-oid
daughter and favorite child, begging
her not to forsake her mother.
Tells of Poison in
Another Confession.
In another confession to Detective
Moore last night, Mrs. King admitted
that she had put morphine in his coffee,
but the poison hardly affected him. A
second attempt was made when Wil
burn, at her suggestion, put strychnine
in the husband’s whisky, and this failed
because Mrs. King saved his life with
a narcotic. The third attempt, when
the man was shot with his own gun,
was successful.
Mrs. King also declared that two
months ago she and Wilburn planned to
kill King w ith a pistol, using a weapon
belonging to Frank Wilburn, Nick’s
brother. They were then to take the
discharged cartridge out of the pistol
and put it in King’s revolver to make
it appear that he committed suicide.
This plan was never executed because
they could not get King alone, one of
the children always being present.
Mrs. King’s second confession shows
that for at least four months she and
Wilburn daily plotted to end the life
of her husband.
Fool for Confessing,
Says Nick Wilburn.
Wilburn lias also declined to receive
any more visitors at the Bibb county
jail. Today he told Jailer Hicks that
he was “the biggest fool in the world
for ever confessing.”
"If I hadn't acted like a crazy man
and told that confounded detective all
about the thing, I believe I could get
out of this scrape,” he said.
Wilburn is buoyant at the expecta
tion of having active legal representa
tion, his father, who visited him yester
day, having decided to engage counsel.
Lawyers See Nothing
To Halt Conviction
“There should not be the slightest
difficulty in convicting Mrs. Katherine
King and Jesse Nick Wilburn of the
murder of James King. The legal dif
ficulties in obtaining conviction on an
unsupported confession do not apply to
this case,” said Thomas R, Felder, of
the new firm of Felder, Anderson, Dil
ion \\ hitman, today. He was
asked by The Georgian to define the le
gal status of the noted case.
"The prisoners will not be permitted
to plead guilty of murder, but should
they make no preparation for defense
attorneys won d be appointed for them
and pleas of not guilty entered. Under
the law a confession, entirely unsup
ported by other evidence, is not per
missible as evidence. But if there Is
ot.<r e\idetice—such as the negro's,
who might swear he saw Wilburn go
ing toward King in tin. woods —this
would serve to convict.
"And where there is such evidence
the confessions will be admitted, if they
were made voluntarily und without fear
of punishment or hope of reward. Con
fessions elicited under the 'thi:d degree’
would not be admitted.
“In this case, for instance, tlie sheriff
and other officers and the newspaper
men to whom Wilburn and Mrs. King
made free and voluntary confessions
might be summoned to swear to the
substance of the confessions, and this
evidence, taken with the corroborative
testimony and circumstances surround
ing tin- ease, should be sufficient for
conviction."
CORONER PROBING DEATH.
ANNISTON. Al.\ . Dec. .: I—(’oroner
J 1,. Murphy is invesilgating the al
leged sulcidi of Marshal Davis, a negro
of Hobson City, found <li ad todaj.
Th< Is suspicion tli-'- a intirdet. has
be,m committed.
WOODWARD FOR
SANDSREFORNIS
Heads of Police and Park
Boards. Hit by Expert’s Re
port. Are Angry.
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would see the police department as en
tirely different—they Jiave, in fact,
”\Ve've got the best police depart
ment of any city of the size of Atlanta
in America.
Cites Compliment
Taft Paid Police.
“President Taft said it was the best
regulated town he had ever seen. When
he was here last he noticed that the
policemen were able to keep back the
crowds during the parade without rop
ing off the streets, and he commented
on their fine work.
“Abqlish the police commission? The
department hasn't been conducted so
harmoniously and so businesslike in
years.
"He says our policemen lack ‘punch
and snap.’ Well, the greatest part of
the work of our policemen is to catch
negroes. We’ve got men who are ex
perts. I had rather have one of these
brave men than ten who stand up with
awesome military bearing and then run
when a negro ‘pulls’ a rock or a razor
on him. our traffic officers are as good
as such officers in New York.”
Park Board Head
Resents Criticism.
President J. O. Cochran, of the park
board, was bitter in his reply to the
statement of Expert Sands that the
park board was useless and even re
tarded the work of the park depart
ment.
“He was hired to report certain
things, and those things he had to re
port.” said he.
"Outside of his recommendation that
the park board should be abolished, he
did not say anything that was not al
ready known. The trouble with our
parks is lack of money. Why didn't he
tell us where to get more money?”
Colonel F. J. Paxon’s Chamber of
Commerce committee on municipal re
search will consider the report at length
within a few days. Then the report will
be submitted to council, through the city
board of municipal research.
Legislation Necessary
To Adopt Suggestions.
Council will have to get charter
amendmepts from the general assem
bly in order to adopt the more impor
tant provisions of the report.
Councilman Clarence Haverty, chair
man of the city board of municipal re
search, said today he was w’ell pleased
with the report. He said it was full of
material for great good.
The report of 8. G. Lindholm, the ex
pert who investigated the schools and
health departments, is expected within
a few days. The Sands report not
be submitted to council until the Lind
holm report also is ready.
ZACK ROWAN GOES
TO FLORIDA RESORT
TO BENEFIT HEALTH
Zack Rowan, chief of the county po
lice, who has been ill for the past year,
has gone to St. Petersburg, Fla., to re
cover his health. Chief Rowan expects
to spend two months at the Tampa bay
resort. During his absence Lieutenant
Robinson will be in charge of the coun
ty force.
During the past summer Chief Rowan
spent several months at the Robinson
sanitarium in an effort to recover his
health. He was told by physicians that
he was* suffering from a form of kidney
trouble.
MAKESWIFEHIS"
BOXING PARTNER
TO TRAIN FOR RING
CHICAGO, Dec. 31.—“ My husband
insisted on putting the boxing gloves
on with me, and this is why I started a
fuss," says Mrs. Harry Bullard, 3716
South Wabash avenue, when she was
arraigned before Municipal Judge John
Courtney.
“He thinks that he is to follow in
Johnson s footsteps, and, as he can not
afford to pay men to train him, he
forced me to spar with him.”
Mrs. Bullard and her husband were
arrested at their home, where they were
found in ilsti" combat. Each was fined
$2.
COLORADO APPLE KING IS
LOOKING FOR BLOND WIFE
NEW YORK. Dec. 31.—1 V. B. (Toss,
"apple king” of Colorado, whose prod
ucts are entered in the apple contest
here, says lie would like to find a wife.
A blond one about So is preferred, and
he’ll accord interviews to all appli
cants at the Breslin hotel.
You’ll Never Be" Lonely at the Grand"
PD A kin TH,S WEEK
“The Antique Girl”
Keith with 15 Musical Com-
Vaudeville , edy Stars.
Daily Mat- Jl U u ray &Lane. Frank
Many max Mullane. Grant &
Inees and Hoag. 4 Florlmonds.
Evening Per- Venetian 4. Gere &
formances £^Td X . NeXt WCek
LYRIC M,t »- Tue «-
“ ■ Thurs. and Sat.
S W Cia Z N^d?pa r r e 8 B .^s y -
BABY MINE
WITH WALTER JONES
AND THE NEW YORK CAST.
BEAVERSOPPOSES
PULICEBDARO
ABOLITION
; Declares Sands Recommenda
tion Would Give Too Much
Power to One Man.
Taking issue with Municipal Expei
Herbert R. Sands, Chief of Police Junaq
L. Beavers tqday declared hfnisei
against tlie abolition of the police board '
which had been recommended br tlie
prober.
The chief declared that und« r th e
civil service rules the board is perform
ing a valuable service to the depart,
ment, in that it chooses policemen who
are capable, mentally and physically,
from the heads of the force on dowr
through the supernumeraries.
To abolish the police board, accuru
ing to Chief Beavers, would place too
much power in the hands of tlie chief
and his under-officers, and this privi
lege might be abused.
Likewise, he asserted, it might leadtol
the choice of chief by popular elec-1
tion, and bring back into the depart-j
ment the politics of the old days prior
to civil service.
‘Little Politics in
Department Now.”
"There is less politics in the police;
department,” declared Chief Beavers,
"than there has been in the 24 years I
have been on the force. Prior to
years ago, when civil service was inau
gurated, policemen shook in their boots
for fear they would be left off the fores
by.a turn of the political wheel. Thej
needed to know who their friends were,
and about election time, when changes
were looked for. they were mighty anx.
ious. Citizens against whom officer
made cases said, ‘Never mind—l'll ge:
back at you on election day.’
"Now all that is changed, and the
members of the force are free to do
their duty, without feeling that thej
owe anything to anybody in a politics,
way. This has increased the efficiency'
of the force, and it would be a grea*
mistake to take any step calculated t<
upset the civil service.”
Answering a question as to the heir
or hindrance of police boards, Chiel
Beavers declared:
"The poltce -board never has ham
pered me.”
“The entire police force does not ap
pear to have the ‘punch’ or ‘snap,’’
said the expert’s report. To this Chle;
Beavers replied:
"I think the police force has enoug?.
of both ‘punch’ and ‘snap.’ At least, a
lot of people think the ’punch’ is prettj
strong.”
Opposed to Military
Training for Men.
As for setting-up exercises and ex
treme military features, Police Chic:
Beavers dissented again. He takes th*
position that the members of the de
partment should at all times present ;
neat appearance and exhibit suffleien
authority and force to maintain the nee
sary discipline, but that there siiouli
be no czar-like measures or lack (■
civility toward citizens.
“If strict military measures are "
qulred of a police chief,” says Chit
Beavers, “the chief will take ft out vi
his men, and his men will take it out o'
the people. There is such a thing
going too far in such reforms.
“Our traffic squad and men on t'n
front in the day watch are required i.
have white gloves and white collar-:
the ensemble und march to and fron
the station is in the nature of a dail?
drill, and there is a daily inspection "
each watch as it goes on and comes of
duty.
"The men are provided with two uni
forms a year—winter and summer—ar.<
are required to keep the uniforms i'
good condition at all times. They alsi
are required to shave clean whenevi
necessary. You can go to anj- of th'
larger cities in the country, and I deul'
if you will find a force of men wh<
present a better appearance. I went t»
New York and Toronto, and found s n:
policemen who looked lots worse tlw
members of the local force.
"The tendency'of military featur
would make a machine of the force
knock-down and drag-out affair. '
soldier applies one principle, obey*
rule, while the policeman must fit '■
to individual eases.”
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