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Show PROBING "OFFICIAL" PROTECTION OF VICE Police Inspector iUcCann oi' Chicago Chi-cago Indicted and Removed From Ollice. CHICAGO, .fuly 2-1. Police Inspector Edward C. Mc.Caun was iudicfed today, charged with ma I feasance in oflico in the alleged collection of ' prot oct.ion money front illegal cstnbhshnients ol the west side "tenderloin. McCann'H predicament, was loi Cbh-id-owed vesterday, when an indictment was returned against Detective rgcant Jeremiah C?rifliii, alleged lo have been tho collection agent working out ot 3U-Cann's 3U-Cann's ollice. . ... , , Half a dozen witnesses testified before be-fore the grand jury and Ktatcd riiat Criflin harvested as high as .HIUU month, most of which went to nun 1. igher up. ' ' The nggrcgato ovxod under this system is said to. bo :)0,000. Vice or ovcry sort, including the selling sell-ing of cocaine, is alleged to have been protected. ... The indictment against the inspector contains ton counts, live charging malfeasance mal-feasance in office, and an equal i number charging the acceptance of bribes. Others Aro Involved. Besides McCann and Griffin, four others oth-ers are under indictment in tho case. They are Louis frank, said to bo n millionaire, mil-lionaire, who has always been politically potent, in the "levee ' districts oT the west, side; Michael IleiMor, otherwise known ns "Mike tho Pike," Morris: ShnU, who is said to Iklvc confessed as to details of the alleged "grait, and M. A. Sanchez, who is charged with collecting money 011 the pretext that ho would secure protection. nspoctor McCann has been with the police depart incut for n generation, rising ris-ing from I ho ranks to his present position. po-sition. Jle declares that the charges come from a powerful clique which, despairing de-spairing of forcing him to protect vice, has determined as a last resort to try to ruin him. Inspector McCann wns arrested following fol-lowing the grand .jury's action, and soon after gavo bond for $20,000 and ivns released. He went at nnco lo the office ol Acting Chief of Police. Schucttler and handed in his star. Later Schucttler Schuct-tler ordered his formal suspension, saying say-ing that no policeman under indictment could work on the force until the charges wore dismissed. |