Show CHIEF OF POLICE DEFENDS ACTION Declares Department Must Mus Cut Out All Graft and andAll andAll andAll All Booze DISCHARGED MAN TALKS SAYS PATROLMEN SUFFER FOR ACTS OF THE OFFICIALS The shakeup In the police pollee depart Is la pretty nearly over It Is over ove with after a fashion said Chief Chiet of ot Po Police Pollee lice S M Barlow last night How However However However ever If it some of ot the patrolmen and others think that they can take tho the bl blIn bit bitin bitIn In their teeth and run things the sieve Is la again going to tc t be shaken hakea and shaken vigorously and therell be a lot to drop through the mesh I am striving to get an efficient po police police lice department added the chief and andI I am going to keep on until I see very material Improvement Graft must be cut out and booze must be cut out We Weare Weare Weare are not going to tolerate It any longer ar d patrolmen are going to report regu regularly regularly regularly from telephones close to their beats and not from points that are dis distant distant distant tant or are in places place that may be se secluded secluded eluded from direct connection with the streets that they are assigned to walk How about the four policemen who were discharged by the council What were they discharged for the chief was asked I No response was made I Was one man let lot out for grafting he ho was asked No Graft Says Chief I dont believe that the man mean meant ever took a nickel of graft answered the chief He that kind of a man but I want vant to say that he nas one fault and that is he is not cut out to be a policeman he seem to under understand understand understand stand that there are certain require requirements requirements ments In every policeman and member of the tile police pollee department which In their absence are very noticeable I guess that he has been a hardworking fellow and all that but he will wUl never make a policeman If there Is anything wrong In the po 10 police lice Ice department said Chief Barlow I want to know It and I want to be first to know It if It possible I will wel welcome welcome welcome come investigations If It they be made by bythe bythe bythe the council by some organization by br citizens or by b discharged policemen If It they can show me where anything is wrong I will wUl strive to make corrections corrections corrections Raising the Standard The chief stated that the raising of the efficiency and standard of the police department would be a matter he would give g ve his most serious attention In the future until the department thoroughly satisfied him He added that he ex expected expected expected every officer to always do his duty and to see that policies of the de department department department are thoroughly carried ca ried out and he said that he expected every po policeman herman to be a thorough gentleman whether on or off duty I have learned today why I was dis discharged discharged discharged charged from the police pollee department said George Harris of the city jail chain gang It was because I bor borrowed borrowed borrowed rowed 2 from a saloonkeeper the day I was sent out to Murray to try to hunt up Kennedy pal after he had llad escaped from the city jail I told the I would pay him when J I Idrew drew my check at the last of the month but Chief S M 31 I Barlow beat boat me to It Some of the discharged policemen are speaking of asking for an Investigation tion Into the police department I am in for such a movement and If it ever ever amounts to anything some startling things will come to the attention of the public I can contribute my end of the information and when the discharged policemen get together and tell what they know it will be a real case of tak taking ing ng the cover from a can eRn I am not particularly speaking about patrolmen They do what they are told to do but there are certain officials who are the rot daring lot I ever heard or of orThe orThe The chief knows It and the mayor knows it it The mayor is wise and I dont believe he will always make the little ittle ones in the police pollee department suf suffer suffer fer for something the officials are re responsible responsible for |