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Show Police Investigation. Some rather racy things are coming up before the investigating committee, Councilor Simons. Mayor Rolbrook and Councilor Ward, hearing Marshal Knight's charges against Night Policemen Police-men liatton and Elliott. The marshal lays it down cold that no policemia working under him must go into any saloon in the city and take a drink of beer or whisky although they may take a cigar because he, himself, does" that. He charges that Hatton spends most of bis time on Elliott's beat and in the saloons; that both men have been seen in the saloons drinking after 12 o'clock at night and brings Councilor Ross before be-fore the committee to prove it. lloss says he never saw the men in a saloon after hours himself, but he has heard men say the night watchmen are guilty of going in and taking a drink with the bartenders after midnight. On the night that the bartender at the Diamond Dia-mond was pulled for keeping after hours (the night before Christmae) the nightwatchmen allege that they were in there only a very few minutes when the officers came upon them at ten minutes to 1 o'clock, that no one else was in the room and they had gone in there by request of the bar tender to receive re-ceive "a little Christmas present" and a cigar. The Christmas presents were wrapped up in paper and no business was transacted in the building while they were in it. There are many petty charges being brought up by the marshal such as Mr. Elliott has advised a drunken man to go home in-steak in-steak of arresting him and taking him to jail; Mr. Hat ton has in his possession a key that fits the locks in tne doors of the upstairs roorrs in the Excelsior block in which it is understood men take women for lewd and lacivious purposes and has not told the msrshal that he had such kev. Hatton savs that he tried a whole bunch of keys before he found he had one that would fit and was quietly working to get a case against the parties suepected and bring it up as constable which office he holds. He prefers to bring up any f aes he may get by virtue of the office which pays him. He is not paid for leing police. But the mcst sensational charge made by the marshal is that some months ago he, and Mr. Buckley vtho was then a policeman arrested two young men and two young women one morning at about 2 - o'clock, brought them from ihe 'Hines bloci where they were caught in compremis-ine compremis-ine positions to police headquarters, ran out and got the father of one of the girls, consulted with him and then discharged all four prisonere; that the matter was never reported to him, and he was in entire ignorance of the occurrence occur-rence for some days. Hatton explains that he had no case against the young people and that had they been kept in durance vile and finally tried thev would have been acquitted, and the only result would have been two youDg girls would have been ruined for life and the city put to unnecessary ex. penee. The trial is still on as we go to press. Something may yet "drap." If it does Dispatch readers will know it tomorrow. |