Show AND GRAfT IN Police Department Was Used to Further the Interests of Mayor Dunne GRAND JURY INVESTIGATED A Number of Indicted lion of tins 1111 Civil luw a aA A Common e Chicago JIny Ja S That Thlu tho city elt of or Chicago has hns for fUI years nars been heen violating the civil service law Ill oa us broucht to light by b tho Investigation of or the police department which resulted yesterday e I In belli four city and two detectives under former Mayor Dunnes adminis administration The fhe Investigation began 10 days day ago ugo charges dur during durIng ing tha recent mayoralty campaign former Chief of Police Collins had used ul ed his department to further the Interests of or Dunne by b and receiving money mOlloy from members of the pollen foret In support of the Democratic During the tho Investigation Inspector captains and patrolmen lest that n a arOl rOl ns us they could remember they thc had been a 11 certain amount for campaign in III each ellch city elt election no matter nuttel which party In power According to 10 the Inferiors who tes le herom the thc civil sen tee commis commission sion It was not compulsory to lu sub scribe to this fund Mill sll the lIP Impression always prevailed throughout the Iho de department 11 that It IUS for the Ihl best t Inter Interests ests of everybody iu III the department to comply According to till the testimony on which tho III four Indict Indictments ments were or tho Iho pollen department had been mutilated and destroyed police poUl orn hurl had been used ld for tor political helm being paid by hy tho Ihl city to 10 perform police duty that the persona Indicted hn l been 1 guil ty of or levying on rill city em com together With soliciting and re receiving bribes from The Jho penalty for such offense Is the payment of oC a n line not exceeding or In the The Jury jUI In its leport says RIK wo Indications of 0 corruption anel graft on the part of patrolmen that lead leod UK to i that these mutters we been to on nt 11 count of lit lack of thu III be hI fUlly lully gone olle in to by b the next grand gl jury jUIT The Tho violation of or the th civil service lawn by b the police of Chicago shows the tho necessity II for int vigilance on the part of civil service boards to 10 prevent similar abuses by hy departments ot the county and city It government under civil service regulations Preparations for the thc trial of ot tho Iho for fOl former mel mer superintendent of the Ihl Chicago po jUc Ik department an liS soon as II possible wl 11 be made mado by IW Atty tt Healy Hen Th attorney said tonight that lie hl believed Collins could bo placed on tria by b Juno 1 I The Tho other cases e will not In bt taken ui until un II fall Tho grand jury jur yesterday esterday returnee four joint Indictments against forme Chief of or Police Polke John M 1 Collins one nm d other police and city In III connection cllon with alleged corruption li II the city police department The Tho follow an nn allegation thit the pollet force had been u during the recen mayoralty to 10 further tho in crests of former fa 1111 I I Mayor Dunne Those Thoo Indicted arc John M Collins former chlof of or notice i n fI Connell former commissioner of r 1 works and chairman of the city committee Edmund II city elt purchasing agent member 1 o othe othe the Democratic city dt committee D Comerford former police attorney and InrI Detectives James unu un Patrick McNulty In Us Its the grand jury that while the evidence has caused u uto to 0 hour the tho former chlof ehler of or police am amilo al ilo lla associates u tes In tho unlawful trans trailS transactions actions chiefly responsible re for tin II wo consider tho che tors torI lieutenants guilt jf Jr reprehensible conduct and of or severo against Collins for fol if or of the police denal ment Second II Collins anti Comer Coner ford ord for conspiracy to 10 do an nil Illegal lIgal ac ne by 0 taking laking from the service a IL police cor cel and directing him on special In n I half of nC the Democratic patty Third Collins Hache an all tor COI conspiracy to do clo an all fill Ille sal gal act In violation of or the civil law lawI aws Fourth I against and I y for conspiracy In soliciting and le l for tor political work Tho penalty lIe It for 01 the mutilation o II records Is Imprisonment foi from rom ono to tin five years while that o n oho ho Iho offense charged against Collins nin Is u II HUP ot of not to 10 2000 or 01 Imprisonment from one t I tIve Ive yearn or both bOlh The he bonds of or former Chief Collin placed at lit SOGO Tho Jh bonds ol 01 OConnell ho and Comerford 51 lach and that of or the two detective 2000 each |