Show d 91 F H A in A r I 1 OLICE ulal old story of i digging Z up for campaign s big sack chicago april 15 Chi cagos police department contributed thousands of dollar to the democratic campaign fund in the recent mayoralty campaign and has contributed in a like manner to whichever party waa was in power as long as the older officers of tho the force torce can remember remember according to revelation revelations S m boado ado today before the civil service commission by police officials among the officers who offered this testimony to the commission were werd in specters govoro and kelly captain and lieutenant jenkins captain Mo who jhb several days ago refused to talk on the subject confessed treaty freely today that he had aided in the collection of large amounts of money to be used in tho the recent campaign according to the civil service corn com mission every man who engaged in the collection of the fund even each patrolman who contributed Is liable to indictment by the grand jury under the provisions of the civil service act one of the sections in the act provides that any person disregarding any of the provisions of the law shall be fined not less than 1000 and may be imprisoned in the county all tor for a term not to exceed six months the commission has engaged its attention atton llon to sift the matter to the bottom but Is said will not prosecute the under officials who it Is asserted merely out the command of chief ot police colllns collins captain told the commission that when ho he was ordered to subscribe toi the fund he was provided with as many blank envelopes as there were men at his station into which the money was to bo be put 1 I was instructed to deliver all the envelopes nv elopes to the inspector said he and I 1 did go so they all contained money A few had 10 bills and a great many 5 bills after captain testimony inspectors revere kelly and wheeler wore were sent for revere and kelly responded at once anc e but wheeler could not be found and he will be subpoenaed to appear before the we commission ts tomorrow morrow on hearing from the commission that jenkins and had told complete stories of the election assessments sess ments revere said that in all ho he collected about from the officers and men under him kelly admitted having obtained 2600 from his men both inspectors said no lists had been kept of bhoge who did not subscribe and that nap dr special cceal favors were given iven those who contributed to the fund the two inspectors testified that it had bad been the custom no iio matter what party was in power to levy assessments on the police stations inspector kelly was asked it if he considered chief colllns collins request for contributions as a command yes I 1 took it le asan atan order replied kelly but I 1 could have disobeyed it if I 1 wanted to both the inspectors testified that tho the money had bad been given to E D H roach formerly commissioner of public works |