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Show JUDGE SWANN ON THE "INNER CIRCLE" "They worship no God save graft, and they bow down at the shrine of their idolatry!" In these words Judge Edward Swann of the court of general sessions in New York, summed up the police situation. Judge Swann has been a careful and patient student of the police po-lice system for many years. He has upon numerous occasions seen fit to speak about police matters from the bench. He has listened, with astonishment at times, to the testimony given by policemen and police detectives at the trials of men charged with being common com-mon gamblers. And upon more than one occasion he has heard the foreman of a jury return a verdict of "Not guilty" in gambling cases' where the district attorney had to rely almost exclusively ex-clusively upon the testimony of policemen po-licemen and their stool pigeons. Judge Swann was asked if in his opinion and from information that had pt? J come to him in his official capacity gambling houses and disorderly resorts could exist unless the police stood for such places and for the violation of the law. "You cannot make me believe that such resorts could run wide open, or run at all, for any length of time, unless the police knew about it," he said. "I wish to say right here that the police department is as a rule is made up of a lot of honest, courageous, fearless men. I am very fond of the every-day policeman. But in this present inquiry that has been brought about by the brutal murder of Herman Rosenthal it is shown that graft exists in the police department today." , i. , |