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Capture of Murderous Thugs
Famous Colusa County Murder
By Officer Peter Fanning
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No. 13.
Murderous Thugs Jailed
Cruel Croo\s Rounded Up After 'Weed's Hunt By Police
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As this magazine was going to press last month,
San Francisco was shocked by one of the most
atrocious and horrible series of wanton murder,
assault and robbery that has been recorded in
this city. For three nights three young bandits
shot to kill, robbed their victims and left them
dead or dying. For ten days people were in fear
of their lives, but with the quickness and dis-
patch for which the San Francisco Police Depart-
ment is noted, the safety of the city's citizens
was safeguarded after the second onslaught of
the murderous thugs, and it was as safe to tra-
vei'se the streets at night as it is in the day
time, so far as any acts of banditry was con-
cerned.
Four men were killed, three others injured and
several more robbed. The perpetrators of these
horrible deeds worked quickly and changed their
places of operation with all the speed made pos-
sible by stolen automobiles.
On the first night the bandits engaged in a
pistol duel with Chief of Police Daniel J. O'Brien
and Sergt. James Neeley after they had killed a
man. The stick-ups had a little too much start on
the officers and escaped.
As was said in the opening paragraph, in less
than ten days the police, by fast work, had the
three boys, booze-ci'azed, locked up in jail, two
confessing, and third, shot through the neck,
maintaining his innocence. They were indicted
by the grand jury and they are now in the su-
perior court, the department presided over by
Superior Judge Harold Louderback, going through
the preliminary stages of their appearance be-
fore a court of justice.
These facts have all been set forth in the news-
papers, but there was brought forth a condition
in the police department that should have all the
emphasis possible by woi'ds, and that is the loy-
alty of the members of our police organization.
of their willingness to work 20 hours a day, 24 if
necessary, to safeguard the citizens of San Fran-
cisco. Of their ready response to the call for
duty, of the giving of their automobiles to patrol
the streets and their answer to the call for vol-
unteers by the Chief, were things that make those
who head the department proud and can make the
citizens feel proud.
On the night of October 13th when the bandits
came out for their second and last raid, people
throughout the city were thrown into a state of
terror. Chief O'Brien, Captain Matheson of the
Detective Bureau, Capt. William J. Quinn, chief
clerk, Capt. Arthur Layne, Lieut. Michael Rior-
dan, with other commissioned officers, hastened to
the Hall of Justice. From the Chief's office re-
quests were sent to the radio broadcasting sta-
tions that they send out an emergency call for
men to return to their stations whither they may
be. The response was wonderful. In less than
half an hour there was such a congestion of
traffic at Kearny, Clay and Washington streets,
caused by the scores of police officers reporting
to headquarters in their machines, that traffic offi-
cers had to be placed on duty to keep the men
moving to the places they were assigned, and to
keep the streets clear.
Men were assigned to street patrol in automo-
biles, two and three men to a machine. Nothing
was done haphazard, every block of the city was
covered from sundown to sunrise. Men worked
16, 20 and as higl: as 21 hours at a stretch. None
complained, and when the Chief asked for volun-
teers to continue the patrol, over 60 per cent of
the department responded. i\Iore than enough.
Another feature that was good to see was the
wonderful co-operation of the San Francisco Fii*e
Department.
Chief Thomas Murphy sent word to Chief
O'Brien that he could spare many men and ma-
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chines. These were accepted to a certain num-
ber and it is a matter of record that the firemen
did as splendid patrol work as the police. This
spirit of co-operation is indeed a gi-eat thing, and
none appreciates it more than Chief O'Brien.
Then there was the Army. The commandant
at the Presidio phoned in to ask if he could dis-
patch men, any number, to assist in patrolling the
streets, in doing anything to lessen the dangers.
He said the Army would do anything suggested to
help out in the matter. The offer was received
with the greatest of appreciation, another indica-
tion of splendid co-operation. However, it was
not necessary to ask anything of the Army au-
thorities but to close the Presidio reservation and
check on all strangers. This request was readily
granted.
Business men, manufacturers, automobile deal-
ers, all sent in word they would help in every way
possible. Men came to the Hall of Justice to
offer their services. It was indeed an inspiring
sight, and shows just how closely associated are
the various units of the city government, the na-
tional government, the people and the business
men.
With some 2,000 men patrolling the streets, the
members of the Detective Bureau, under Captain
Matheson, proceeded to follow every clew. Work-
ing at top speed, night and day, the details under
Sergt. McLoughlin, Lieuts. Henry Powell of the
Pawnshop Detail, Bernard McDonald of the Auto-
mobile Detail, Charles Dullea of the Homicide
Squad, Sergt. Richmond Tatham of the Burglary
Detail, left nothing undone. The vags were
rounded up, suspicious characters taken into cus-
tody and every man who had no good excuse for
hanging around places where honest people fail
to hang around were given a questioning.
Finally Detective Sergt. Louis DeMatei and De-
tective Patrick Wafer got a tip, and that tip led
to the arrest of Lawrence Weeks and Clarence
Kelly. Weeks was brought in first. He confessed,
implicating Kelly. Kelly was then captured after
being shot by Wafer. Weeks also implicated a
17-year-old boy named Papadaches. A day or so
after Weeks was captured, Papadaches was ar-
rested and he likewise confessed, giving even
greater details than Weeks. The gi-and jury
promptly indicted the three for murder, assault
to commit murder, assault to commit robbery,
robbery and grand larceny.
After the three men were safely behind prison
bars a gang of their kind, as an act of revenge,
went down in San Mateo county and set fire to
some houses owned by Paddy Wafer. This gang
was also rounded up and are in jail in Pvedwood
City awaiting trial for arson.
The wanton murderers, the three in jail here
committed, stand without parallel in this state.
Men were shot down and not even robbed. A
young taxicab driver, Walter Swanson, was held
up, robbed, shot dead, thrown out of his cab, and
the two bandits working that night used his car
to commit their other acts of banditry.
But like all other law breakers who will try
their hand in this city now and then their term
of activity was short-lived, and they are on a
fair way to stretch a piece of hemp, all excepting
Papadaches whose youth will save him from the
gallows.
And all praise is due the San Francisco Police
Department, first for safeguarding our citizens,
and secondly at the same time keeping up the
hunt for the murderers. It is something we can
always look back upon with pride.
Following is copy of a letter that the Chief of
Police forwarded last month to the Board of
Police Commissioners :
Honorable Board of Police Commissioners:
I wish to call your attention to the loyalty and
devotion to duty, as exemplified by the men of San
Francisco's Police Department, during the trying
police situation which lasted from October 10th,
1926, up to this date.
The members of the Board are fully acquainted
with the conditions from a police standpoint, that
were presented to this department on Monday
evening, October 11, 1926 — prior to eight o'clock
on that evening a call was broadcasted from the
radio broadcasting stations, requesting the men
of the department to report immediately at their
district headquarters, and within an hour and a
half almost the full strength was engaged in ac-
tive police duty, even men who were on their
vacations reported for duty.
During the early hours of the morning a call
was sent to each police district headquarters for
volunteers among the members of the department
who would be off duty at 6 p. m. on the following
day to report for duty with their privately-owned
automobiles, a report to be submitted by the com-
manding officer of each district at 2 p. m. on said
date, showing the number of men and the number
of automobiles. The response was so gi'eat in
numbers of men and in numbers of automobiles
that it was possible after the first night to divide
the men and automobiles so they would work only
every other night, and the city was patrolled and
policed in a more efficient manner than at any
previous time.
The men of the 8 a. m. to 4 p. m. platoon re-
turned at 6 p. m. each evening, working into the
early hours of the next morning, then returning
for regular duty. Members of the 12 midnight
to 8 a. m. platoon reported on at 6 p. m., remaining
on duty until 6 and 8 a. m. the following morning.
Members of the 4 p. m. to 12 midnight platoon re-
ported on at 3 : 45 p. m. and remained on duty until
2 a. m. and later the following morning.
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PETER FANNING
Famous Murder in Colusa County
An IntcrcsUng Article By Officer Peter Fanninc
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In the year of 1883,
Dr. Hugh J. Glenn who
was known over nearly
the entire world as tlie
Farmer King, was
murdered by one of his
employes in Colusa
County, which caused
a high state of excite-
ment in the commu-
nity.
Huron Miller, who
had been employed by
Doctor Glenn, was the
author of the foul
deed. It seemed that
he and the Doctor had
some difficulty a few
days previous when
Miller called the Doctor a liar wlio later knocked
him down and then discharged him. ]\Iiller re-
turned the next day carrying a double barreled
muzzle-loading shotgun and upon seeing the Doc-
tor standing on the porch of the hotel where he
was stopping, opened fire, shooting him in the
back of the head. The Doctor fell to the floor in
an insensible condition. Miller started across the
road into the fields and was pursued by a foreman
of the Doctor's ranch named R. M. Cochran.
Miller raised his gun as if going to shoot, when
Cochran fired at him with a rifle, the ball entering
the fleshy part of ]\Iiller's right leg just below the
thigh. Miller then surrendered and was brought
to the town of Willowa and charged with the mur-
der.
Dr. Hugh James Glenn had an eventful life be-
ing brought up in Missouri, and had been given
every available opportunity at private schools,
receiving an education also in a medical college at
St. Louis where he went through a course of lec-
tures. Upon the Mexican War breaking out, he
v.-as seized \\'ith a spirit of patriotism and enlisted
in a division of the armj% participating in several
battles. Later he received an honorable discharge,
after which he found his way back to St. Louis
where he continued his medical studies and grad-
uated from there. A little later he started across
the plains to seek his fortune in California with a
party that was composed of three companies and
several ex teams. After an adventurous journey
the party arrived safely in Sacramento. He then
went to the mines and staked a claim out at a place
called the "Murderer's Bar," on the middle fork
of the American River near Colma, where the
original gold discovery was made in California.
Remaining there for a few months he returned to
Sacramento with a little stake he made in the
mine and procured an ox team carrying freight
from that city to Coloma and other mining points
in the mountains. After teaming for about five
months he opened up a livery stable in Sacra-
mento and a little later he returned to Missouri
and brought his family out and settled in the
northern part of Colusa County. He lived in this
place for about three years superintending a sheep
ranch and buying and selling cattle. He then be-
came associated with a man by name of S. E.
Wilson in the cattle trade, the markets being found
at Weaverville, Shasta County, and other mining
centers. He then sold out his interest and with
his family returned to Missouri, intending to re-
main in that state permanently, but his restless
spirit prompted him to return to California again.
With him he brought a large drove of horses and
cattle. In the northern part of Utah the horses
and cattle were stampeded by Indians and Dr.
Glenn, unattended, went on the back track after
h'is property. He had gone but a few miles when
he sighted his horses, and at the same moment
seven or eight Indians made their appearance and
immediately charged on the Doctor. The latter
had no weapon but a revolver, while the Indians
were fully armed with guns, so he began a slow
retreat, keeping himself protected as well as pos-
sible by rocks and trees. Shots were frequently
exchanged but without effect and it was not long
before Dr. Glenn had expended all of his ammuni-
tion. The Indians, ascertaining this, made ar-
rangements with a gi'and rush and the Doctor
thought his last moment was at hand, when sud-
denly a dozen shots rapidly fired, announced a res-
cuing party, consisting of his companions who had
heard the firing and came up as quickly as pos-
sible. After getting together the animals again
the journey w'as continued and the company ar-
rived safely in Sacramento. For several years
following. Dr. Glenn traveled back and forth over
the plains with droves of cattle, horses and mules,
varying the trip occasionally by going to New
Orleans to sell in the markets there. Prices were
ver.v high in California, owing to the scarcity of
horses and mules.
A few years later upon learning this Di\ Glenn
stai'ted from IMissouri with a large drove of
horses. On the way over a severe snow storm was
experienced, in which man and animals came near
perishing. A delay of three weeks was only fol-
lowed by other unfortunate forced stoppages,
and upon arriving again in California, prices had
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I Remember When-
Reminiscences of An Old-Time Police Reporter
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Bob Hogan was a detective detailed in practically all of
the District Attorney's offices up to a few years ago. He
was one of the best known detectives on the force and
Otto Heyneman was the first police stenographer. He
worked under the late Chief Lees and later, in engaging
in the private detective business, adopted the name of Lees.
He is now dead.
* * *
Ed Ring, one of the oldest Central Station men prior to
the fire, was later a Police Court bailiff and is now doing
duty at the Western Addition Station under Captain
Coulter.
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Jim Ward, he of the red hair, was another of the old
time Central patrolmen. Jim was always one of the most
genial men on the force and is now a corporal at the North
End.
* * *
George Weatherford was connected with the Mission
Station all of his police life until recently transferred to
the Potrero as a corporal. He is the champion story
teller of the department.
* * *
Bob Williams was detailed with District Attorney Fick-
ert. Before that he spent years at the Southern and is
now a sergeant at the Park looking after the wide ex-
panse of real estate in the Sunset.
* * *
Thomas H. White was an o'd time motor cycle cop with
P. B. Mahoney. Tom is at present detailed to protect the
banks at the West Portal of Twin Peaks Tunnel.
* * *
Burr Love was on the floor of the old City Prison before
the fire. Before that he patrolled a beat on Battery and
Sansome in the second section of the Central. His wife
was, after his death, a matron in the City Prison. Burr
was one of the few policemen with whiskers and was al-
ways jovial with his contagious laugh.
* * *
Bert Wren, before he went out in plain clothes in the
Central before the fire, patrolled Stockton street. Frank
McGrayan, with whom Bert was detailed, had Pacific
street when it was tough. Wren is now connected with
District Attorney Brady's office.
* * *
Charles Cody, one of the old time detectives under Cap-
tain of Detectives John Seymour, worked on the Nora
Fuller murder case. Nora Fuller was choked to death in
a vacant flat at 2211 Sutter street after being foully mis-
treated by her murderer.
* * *
Achille Ross was foreman of the Coroner's jury which
heard evidence in the Nora Fuller case and recommended
a State reward of $5,000 for the apprehension of, at that
time, an unknown slayer.
* * *
Thomas P. Gibbons, now at the Harbor, drove a stage
over thirty years ago in Tuolumne County where holdups
were moi'e than frequent. Lieutenant "Hank" Helms, re-
tired, also drove stage in the same part of California.
Helms for years bought all the horses used by the depart-
ment.
* * *
George Geimann was a patrolman on Grant avenue from
Market to California. He was always a pleasant officer
and acquired the sobriquet of "Dandy George" because
he was always neatly dressed. George is now clerk at
the Bush after having spent many years in the various
offices about the Hall of Justice.
helped unravel some of the famous cases during the regime
of Chief Lees.
* * *
Fred Esola, now United States Marshal, was a lieuten-
ant in charge of the old California street station located on
Califoi-nia street just east of Kearny. There are a few
old timers in the Central who worked out of that station.
After the Charter went into effect Esola became Property
Clerk under Chiefs Sullivan and Wittman. He resigned
when Jerry Dinan was made Chief.
* * *
Captain Eugene Wall was a patrolman with retired
Captain Bamey McManus. They covered the whole West-
ern Addition from Market street to the old cemeteries
facing Presidio avenue.
* * *
Ed Meredith and Tom Handley, two of the very oldest in
the Central, have for years taken care of the morals of the
North Beach District. Both are still going strong at the
Central and still look like young fellows.
* * *
Joe Nolan, now patrolling the east and west streets
around the Hall of Justice used to be a copper on Ninth
street when a policeman could have a dozen fights in a
night. Joe trained under the master — Johnny Spillane.
He was in the upper office under Captain Mooney.
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Another of Captain Spillane's men, Pat O'Connell, had
the Howard street beat in the Southern. Pat was for
years with Jimmy Regan doing detective work in the
Southern District. Pat and Jimmy are two of the oldest
detectives in the bureau.
* * *
Charles Uhte was for years in the City Hall District.
He is now on Devisadero sti'eet.
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Jim Doran, now a .sergeant with Captain Bunner at Bay
View, was for years a patrolman connected with the
Central.
* * *
Arno Dietel was for years in the Mission and Southern
Districts. He is now alternating with Leo Tackney in
charge of the Detective Bureau at night.
* * *
Al Williams (Handsome Al) was patrolman for years
on the Beach; was afterward Police Court Bailiff' and is
now giving the ladies a treat in the Central District. Al
has a smile that is winning, and despite his years in the
business still looks like a kid.
* * *
The late Captain Pat Shea patrolled a beat on Fifth
street, was a lieutenant at the Central, later Captain of
Detectives and died as Captain of the Harbor District.
■1= * *
Fred Suttman, now a sergeant under Captain Fred
Lemon, was the first department man to be put in charge
of the moral squad.
* * *
Warren Phillips now detailed to shoot cats in the Park,
rode a horse in the Park and Sunset. He was also, when
autos came into real vogue, a trouble shooter out of the
Park Station.
(To Be Continued)
?^ovember, 1926
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By Chief of Police Daniel J. O'Brien
Paper Submitted by DANIEL J. O'BRIEN, Chief
of Police of San Francisco and President of
the International Association of Chiefs
of Police, to the 33rd Annual Con-
vention of the Pacific Coast
Association of Fire
Chiefs.
Taking into consideration the objects to be ac-
complislied by police and fire departments in their
respective spheres I feel we can safely assert
that there are no two branches of government so
closely allied in their functions as these two de-
partments. They are established, organized and
maintained for the specific purpose of manning the
front line trenches in peace times against the
gi'eatest enemies of organized society and civil-
ized government. Indeed, we can better visualize
the necessity for their existence and the services
they render by considering the chaos and confu-
sion which would exist were it not for the activi-
ties they engage in. These two departments prop-
erly co-ordinated and efficiently functioning give
the highest possible degree of security to the law-
abiding citizens. Fire departments as a whole,
and through their sub-bureaus, are always on the
watch for the removal of fire hazards. In other
words, in the first instance, preventive measures
are engaged in and where fires actually occur the
sei'vices rendered by a fire department in extin-
guishing it and preventing its further, spread is
indeed a valuable asset to organized society. As
analogous to that we have police departments
functioning along parallel lines. In the first in-
stance, we have crime prevention bureaus estab-
lished, having for their object the frustrating of
criminal plans ; observing weak points in buildings
and structures which encourage the criminal in
carrying out his unlawful object and finally, where
crime has been committed we have the d'epartment
as a whole, as well as the individual members, run-
ning down every angle toward bringing the perpe-
trator before the bar of justice.
While the foregoing may be stated as funda-
mental and general principles, nevertheless it is
self-evident that the object to be accomplished —
the peace and security of the human being in his
person and property — by both departments is the
same excepting that tliey operate in diflferent
provinces which are closely allied.
Having in mind the general good of tlie com-
munitv and the necessity for a close co-operation
between state, county and municipal officials, it
is hardly necessary to say that the workings of a
fire and police department must be of close in-
terest to each other.
Of course, the details may differ in different
communities and no doubt the efficiency of one
county or municipal department may be increased
by taking advice and counsel with the heads of
other municipal and county departments.
I have always been a strong advocate of con-
ventions for the reason that the discussions car-
ried on, the papers written, the lectures given, by
men who are experts in their particular branches
are highly advantageous to others.
Commenting on conditions in the City and
County of San Francisco, I feel we can safely say
that there is a great deal in common between the
San Francisco Fire and Police Departments.
Where a certain condition is observed by the men
of one department which aflf'ects the other de-
partment, that information is immediately trans-
mitted to the responsible heads and in fact, our
responsibilities to the people of this municipality
are set forth in our charter based largely upon
the same foundation. We are responsible for our
living conditions directly to the people and we can
say with pride that we are the servants of worthy
masters as our experience has been that our rea-
sonable requests have been always met with in a
spirit of liberality.
Among the many acts of co-operation between
the fii'e and police departments of the City and
County of San Francisco there is one which is of
a great deal of importance in dealing \nth fire
fighting. Of C0U1S3, it is a matter of common
knowledge that a ready response to fires is very
essential on the part of a fire department. Ave-
nues of travel must be maintained and kept open
— in fact, every other line of activity on our public
highways must be surrendered to the apparatus of
the fire department responding to a fire. It has
always been our aim and object to give every as-
sistance along traffic lines to the fire department
and I might add this privilege as to right-of-way
has been recognized by the laws of our state and
the ordinances of our municipality.
Supplementing these laws and regulations the
rules of our police department provide for actual
co-operation from a police standpoint at the scenes
of fire. The superior officer in charge of a given
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'M.ovemher, 1926
Modern Crime and Causes
Bv Carlos S. Hardy, Judge of the Superior Court, Los Angeles, Written EspeciaUy for the Los Angeles Examiner
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It is generally recognized that there is more
crime today than ever before in the world's his-
tory, and that is true throughout the world, but
especially so in America. The history of the
world and of our own country shows that, with
the increase of population, there is an increase of
crime. The more cities there are, and the greater
the city and town population, the greater the
amount of crime.
It is a noteworthy fact that there is very little
crime committed in the country districts away
from the cities, and the more sparsely settled are
the country districts, the less there is of crime.
It is seemingly difficult for many members of
the human family to adapt themselves to the com-
plicated social life prevailing in the cities, and
this is especially true when the cities are new or
growing fast.
The cost of crime in treasure is the greatest
expenditure of tlie American people. The money
cost of crime annually in the United States ex-
ceeds ten billion dollars, which is almost an in-
conceivable sum. It is about half the total cost
of America's participation in the World War.
Think of the cost of our part in a great World
War, with over four million soldiers in our army
and navy, who fought for more than one year,
and the entry to realize that crime costs each year
about one-half of the cost of that war.
And what of the cost in degraded manhood and
womanhood, and the tears and broken hearts and
wrecked lives? About one million of our people
are annually in crime. Wasted and misspent en-
ergies and lives, and all for no good purpose, be-
cause crime never pays. No one ever profited
from committing a crime. Crime is a miserable
scourge that plagues society and destroys every
one who engages in it.
Fifty years ago those committing crime were
generally of mature age. There was very little
juvenile crime, so little that there was not a
juvenile court in the whole United States.
Times have changed, and the present day crimi-
nal is a youth, and every city in the country has
a court whose time is taken up with crimes com-
mitted by children. The most violent crimes,
such as burglary and highway robbery are now
chiefly committed by boys of 16 to 21 years of
age.
The great majority of those charged with
crime are under 2.5 years of age. They are mere
youths who have never yet started in any busi-
ness nor, as a rule, have ever done any real work,
except possibly an occasional job for a day "or so.
There are fifteen or twenty automobiles stolen
every day in Los Angeles, and the thieves are
mostly boys.
While presiding as judge in a criminal court,
I have had exceptional opportunities to add prac-
tical knowledge to my theoretical knowledge of
criminality, and from this study of hundreds of
cases under actual observation, I can and do state
that present day crime is a social disease. Its
causes are clearly seen, and, as in the case of all
diseases, knowing the causes of disease, the cui'e
is discoverable. Crime is not confined to any
class of society, but crime invades all classes, the
rich and the poor, the educated and the ignorant
are all alike victims.
Recently, on one day in my court when sen-
tences were being pronounced on the week's col-
lection of cases, there were thirty odd persons be-
fore me who had either confessed their guilt or
had been proven guilty, and over 90 per cent of
them were under 25 years of age.
The parents of two or three were well-to-do,
while the large majority came from the gi'eat
middle class of fairly prosperous people, and the
remainder from the poorest homes. There was,
liowever, an outstanding fact common to about
all of the cases, namely, that the accused were
far below the normal in education, but few of
them liaving got above the fourth grade in com-
mon school, and were almost totally lacking in
moral sense. Many of them were also physically
subnormal.
Investigation further showed that there had
been practically no restraint or discipline in their
home lives, but on the contrary they had done
pretty mucli as they pleased all of their lives,
having eked out the best sort of existence they
could by living upon the support of others. It
was formerly supposed that education was a sure
preventive of crime, but it is not so, although it
undoubtedly greatly lessens crime.
The recent Loeb and Leopold cases in Chicago,
as well as many others, have satisfactorily shown
that intellectual development alone does not pro-
tect against crime. There is but one perfect pre-
ventive, and that is true moral consciousness.
Crime can be prevented by proper moral training,
and it is greatly lessened by education and intel-
lectual development. The complete preventive
treatment against crime can best begin at the
mother's knee, and in the father's lap, where duty
to fellow man and love to God sanctifies the family
home.
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November, 1926
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Highway Traffic Men Meet
Prepare Tv^eif Motor Lmws
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Lt. C. L. Hemphill, veteran head of the Oakland
Ti'afiic Bureau, on Nov. 11, v^^as elected president
of tiie California Ass'n of Highway Patrolmen,
succeeding- Capt. Henry Gleeson of San Francisco,
and the association, concluding its annual conven-
tion, recommended that the next legislature make
five changes in motor traffic laws. Other officers
selected for 1927 are:
M. F. Brown, Los Angeles, first vice-president.
Fred Lotsey, San Francisco, second vice-presi-
dent.
Otto Langer, San Diego, third vice-president.
C. K. Harder, Sacramento, fourth vice presi-
dent.
Ernst jMcCluskey, Fresno, secretary.
The five suggested law changes are as follows:
That state traffic officers shall be selected
through civil service rather than on recommenda-
tion of county supervisors.
That it be unlawful to drive any automobile hav-
ing a cut-out which can be operated from the
driver's seat.
That one dollar a year be charged for each au-
tomobile driver's license.
That injured traffic officers henceforth be com-
pensated out of motor vehicle funds rather than
through the regular State compensation channels.
That driving an automobile while under the in-
fluence of intoxicants or narcotics be made a mis-
demeanor instead of a felony, as at present.
This last recommendation was made, according
to an announcement, in an effort to expedite con-
victions which are said to be difficult to secure un-
der the felony provision. The "five-day" grace
period allowed arrested motorists under the felony
clause before they appear for hearings would be
eliminated if the association's request is granted.
The convention recommended a minimum pen-
alty of $100 fine and ten days in jail for drivers
convicted of drunkenness or narcotic addiction,
and a maximum penalty of $500 fine and six
months in jail.
A plea for uniform traffic laws in California,
both as a measure of protection to the public and
as an aid to motorists in law observance, was
urged by Mayor James Rolph, Jr. of San Fran-
cisco in an address November 10 before the Cali-
fornia Association of Highway Patrolmen in an-
nual convention at Sacramento.
"There is no reason", said Mayor Rolph, "why
Los Angeles traffic law^s against jay-walking, left-
hand turns, etc., should be different from those
enforced in San Francisco. The traffic regulations
should be uniform throughout California. Uni-
formity, I believe, would bring- about gi-eater
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protection to the public, and also assist the motor-
ists in obeying the law."
Mayor Rolph praised the traffic officers for the
splendid service, he says, they are rendering the
State in patrolling the highways, and he admon-
ished them to be particularly zealous in "taking
care of the careless and drunken drivers who con-
stitute a menace to the public and careful auto-
ists."
The Mayor told of the efforts being made in
San Francisco to master the traffic problem, which
he characterized as one of the most serious con-
fronting California. He declared that in the case
of San Francisco the problem could be relieved
to a greater extent by providing more highways
leading out of the city.
"To provide for the traffic of the future", said
Mayor Rolph, "we must have four more high-
ways leading out of San Francisco, which is a
city of automobiles and the converging point for
Northern California travel."
THINGS POLICEMEN SHOULD REMEMBER
Information has reached this office to the effect
that a lottery purporting to emanate from Monte
Carol (Monaco) has been organized in this city by
persons bent upon defrauding local residents.
The information reaching this office is that any
such enterprise is merely a swindle. Should any
such entei-prise be discovered here proper action
will be taken under our lottery laws.
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In the future, where arrests are made in any of
the existing labor controversies, report of such
arrest shall be made in DUPLICATE. Such re-
ports shall be forwarded to this office in the regu-
lar manner, one copy of which will be sent to As-
sistant District Attorney Harman Skillin by this
office. The officer making the arrest or appearing
in court to prosecute such case shall see Mr. Har-
man Skillin or Mr. Peter Mullins, Assistant Dis-
trict Attorney, at the office of the District Attor-
ney, 333 Kearny sti'eet. The duplicate reports
mentioned in this section refer to those made by
company commanders.
* * *
Complaint is made at this office that punch-
boards are being unlawfully operated at many
places throughout this city and county.
You will have a survey made with reference to
tlie foregoing and you will instruct the members
of your respective commands to take proper action
where any violation of law or ordinance is dis-
covered in connection with the said punchboards.
2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
J^ovember, 1926
If ECTIVE BUREAU
Captain of Detectives Duncan Matheson in Charge
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OLD-TIMERS GIVEN GOLD STARS
The first week of this month witnessed a splen-
did ceremony in the Detective Bureau. James
Mackey and James Pearl, recently retired from
the department, following many years as valuable
members of the San Francisco Police Depai-t-
ment, had been served with a subpoena asking for
their presence in the Detectives Assemble room.
These two veteran detective sergeants, whose
records will stand for many decades as examples
of high class police work, rcsoonded, wondering
the while "what's coming off."
They were not kept long in suspense for short-
ly after the roll call they were asked to stand up
and they were presented each with a beautiful
gold retired officer's star.
Captain of Detectives Duncan Matheson, under
whom the two retired officers worked with for
over a quarter of a century, made the presenta-
tion speech and he said some nice things about
the work of these two officers.
The committee in charge of purchasing the
stars, which were bought by funds donated by
every member of the Detective Bureau, was made
up of Lieut. Bernard McDonald, Det. Sergts. Wil-
liam Proll and John J. Dolan, Sr.
Both Mackey and Pearl were so overcome by
the beautiful tokens that they were hardly able
to respond, but you can bet your last pack of
cigarettes they will treasure those stars more
than they treasure anything they were ever pre-
sented with in their life time.
MARINES ON MAIL TRUCKS
QUICK DETECTIVE WORK
I want to congratulate you on havins such an efficient
detective in the person of Detective John J. Palmer.
I had an opportunity of proving his worth a few weeks
ago.
I had a valuable collection of stamps stolen, worth sev-
eral thousands of dollars, from my home, and within
twelve hours, Mr. Jack Palmer had them back in safe
keeping. He not only recovered the stamps, but located
a 16-year old girl, a runaway from Los Angeles in this
man's apartment. Have been intending to wi-ite you, but
read in papers you were out of town.
It's a worthw'hile story, the loss of stamps and their
recovery, the finding of the 16-year-old girl from Los
Angeles, and the arrest of this man, George Baker, a
stiikebreaker from Los Angeles.
It's too long a story to write, but some day, when you
have the time, have Detective Jack Palmer tell you about
it.
MRS. T. LUNDY, JR.,
1545 Cole Street.
Sometime recently the President of the United
States, Calvin Coolidge, directed the United States
Marine Corps to guard mails in transit and in
pcstoffices throughout this country. San Fran-
cisco has been designated as a city to be pro-
tected.
On this date I have had a personal chat with
Major Alexander A. Vandegrift in relation to co-
operation between the United States Marine
Corps and the San Fi-ancisco Police Department.
The Federal law is most explicit in relation to
mails, ^either in transit or at postoffices, and
specific orders have been issued to the members
of the Marine Coi-ps concerning this special detail.
This Department has in the past and will in the
future co-operate with all branches of the federal,
state and municipal governments.
Members of the department will assist whenever
it becomes necessary in the passing through of
mail trucks or wagons through traffic congestion.
At fixed posts clearance and right of way will be
given to mail trucks, particularly those on which
members of the Marine Corps may be detailed.
Among the arrests credited to Detective Sergeants
Michael Desmond and Barth Kelleher are: B. Dancel, en
route to Oakland; Violet Bradlee, embezzlement; John
Westgate, embezzlement; James Davis, violating parole;
and a flock of vags.
"KNOCKOVERS" OF BUREAU
Among the night shift boys we have: Fred Chrisman,
wanted in Redding, and Elias Rector, wanted by the U. S.
Marshal, arrested by Detective Jack O'Connell; James
Roberts, Jr., en route to Berkeley, arrested by Detectives
Charles McGreevy and George Page; S. R. Fernando,
charged with murder, arrested by Detectives O'Connell,
Everett Hansen and Charles White; Albert Bergson, va-
grancy, by Detectives Frank Brown and Charles Dorman.
* * *
Detective Sergeants James Gregson, Irvin Finlay, Ser-
geant Alex. McDaniell and Corporal Nels Stohl, of the
Burglary Detail, worked together to land at various times
during the past month the following: Garvin Caldwell and
Dan Kramer, burglary; Fred Ponzini, en route to Santa
Barbara for auto theft; Lawa-ence Tough, en route to Santa
Rosa; Ben Kreuger, grand larceny; Robert Vargas and
Jack Shanahan, petty larceny.
* * *
Detective Sergeant William Ai-mstrong and his pair of
check passer grabbers. Sergeants Charles Maher and
James Hansen, got among others for the month, eight
476a boys; two forgers, one with three charges; one
embezzeler, a couple of en routes and one maker of ficti-
tious checks.
J^ovember, 1926
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If you think that Sergeant George Healy and Detective
Sergeant Martin Porter, who have the assignment of in-
vestigating "kicks" in the Oriental, North Beach, and some
of the down town districts, don't keep the boys who break
ihe law busy ringing up friends to get them out of the
city prison, read over some of the names on the big regis-
ter upstairs. This pair of detectives soon "spot" an idler
and they watch him pass the time away until they have
enough to uphold a vag charge and in the idler goes. In
less than a week, last month, they brought in a dozen of
$1000 vags. During the month they also arrested Frank
Cosenza, Anthony Cosenza, Carlo Spingole and Amelio
Franehi, a quartette of bad boys whom they booked en
route to Oakland. It was a good knockover; also Edward
Brown, wanted in San Jose, and Fernando Moncado, want-
ed in Sacramento.
Detective Sergeants Arthur McQuaide and William ProU
arrested among others, the past month: Herman Flourney
for forgery; Harry Sherwood for bad checks and Lionel
Swensen for felony embezzlement.
Lieutenant Bernard McDonald and posse of the Auto
Detail, assisted by Detective Sergeant William Armstrong,
arrested Richard Baker, Ray Watson and Frank Wilson,
wanted in Los Angeles. McDonald also arrested Robert
Murphy, wanted in Redwood City.
* * *
Detective Sergeants Andrew Gaughran and James Skel-
ly, of the Retail Stores Detail, put in among others, Claudie
James, bad checks and obtaining goods by false pretenses;
Wenda Boswell, three charges forgery and en route to
Oakland; George Skondin, James Anderson and Harold
Keller, petty larceny; Edward White, burglary and petty
larceny. , » *
Lieutenant Thomas Hoertkom and his side kick. Ser-
geant Morris Harris, knocked over a flock of vags, slick
young men who find a way of making a living without
working. A few of their arrests are: Albert Germain,
receiving stolen goods; Fred Campbell, many aliases,
Harry Glenfall, also extra names; John Murray and Rich-
ard Adams. These latter were vagged and all have police
records. * * *
Detective Sergeants William Millikin, Harry Husted
and Augustus Thompkins teamed up and landed the fol-
lowing in the city prison; Harry Cheader, 4 charges steal-
ing automobiles, 1 burglary, 2 robberies; Everett Wliite,
same; Frank White, same. Detective Sergeant Vernon
Van Matre and Jesse Ayers assisted in this. Jack Rock-
well, for Medford, Oregon; Robert Denny and Frank
Chandler, grand larceny; John Holland and Frank Chand-
ler, en route to Anaheim and Redwood City.
* * *
John Don Q, whose specialty is selling stock in an expe-
dition or exploration into Central and South America to
get animals and pictures for movie companies, was ar-
rested for grand larceny by Detective Sergeant Fred Bohr
and Detective Clarence Herlitz.
* * *
Among the arrests credited to Detective Sergeants
Thomas Reagan and Thomas Conlon are William H.
Burton, grand larceny; Thomas Minzio and William Small-
man, same charge. ,5 ^ .^
Detective Sergeants Frank Brown and Rasmus Ras-
mussen of the Auto Detail, rounded up Charles Weaver
wanted in Los Angeles and Redwood City as a desei-ter
from the U. S. Navy; Harry Lester, grand larceny, and
Frank Noble and Ray Doniel, stealing automobiles.
* * *
Eine.st Aultman, a fugitive from justice, was arrested
by Detectives Daniel Fogarty and John Sturm.
* * *
Detective Sergeants Thomas Conlon and Edward Wis-
kotchill landed Antonio Granera in prison on two charges
of burglary and James Perry, en route to Berkeley.
« « *
Lieutenant Charles Dullea, with Sergeant Alex Mc-
Daniell booked John Cannon at the city prison on a charge
of murder; Richard Huggard, 2 charges assault to commit
murder; Lawrence Weeks, charge of murder and 10
charges of robbery; Michael Papadaches, 3 charges of
murder and 5 of robbery. Lieutenant McDonald of the
Auto Detail, Otto Frederickson of the Homicide Squad,
assisted in these arrests. Albert Moore, assault to com-
mit murder; Sergeant Tatham assisted in this.
* * *
Detective Sergeants Richard Hughes and James Johnson
of the Burglary Detail and Detective Sergeant Richmond
Tatham, landed the following in prison: Stanley Kirby,
burglary; Sam Jenkins, burglary and violating gun law;
George Washington, en route to San Bernardino; Lee
Lawrence, en route to Stockton; Tony Logan, burglary;
Sergeants Dinan and Porter assisted in this one.
if- * *
Leonard Torres was arrested last month for stealing an
automobile by Detective Sergeants Jack J. Cannon and
J. McKenna, of Lieutenant McDonald's Auto Detail.
* * *
Detective Sergeant George Hippely of the Pawnshop
Detail and Detective Clarence Herlitz of the Hotel Detail,
teamed up to get Eugene Addington for burglary.
* * *
Corporal William Gillmore and Sergeants Cannon and
Husted vagged Robert Eldridge.
* * *
Detective Sergeants George Wall and William McMahon
got a couple of auto thieves and potential stickups, who
each had a gun; their names are Everett Wliite and Frank
White and they wei-e given a double booking. They also
arrested William and George Perkins, wanted in Los
Angeles.
* * »
Two more of Sergeant George McLoughlin's boys. De-
tective Sergeants Leo Bunner and Robert Rauer, arrested
James Montgomery for robbery and a half dozen good
vags.
» * *
Detective Sergeant Nicholas Barron arrested Richard
Keegan for petty larceny.
* * *
Detective Sergeant Allan McGinn and Detective Charles
Iredale arrested John Striplin for manslaughter.
* * *
Detective Sergeant Vernon Van Matre and Detective
Jesse Ayers brought in Frank Downs for robbery and
John Restuch for Oakland.
* * »
Detective Sergeant George Stallard of the Pawnshop
Detail and Detective Dan Fogarty picked up Joe Donovan
and Dan Quinn who had another man's automobile with-
out permission.
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y^ovemher, 1926
Careless Auto Owners
This Class of Citizen Causes Much Wor\ For Police, By Opie L. Warner
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It's amazing, when you look at the matter, the
number of automobiles stolen each year in this
city. It is even more amazing that the police re-
cover 99 out of every 100 stolen.
Being amazed, the writer sought a little light
upon the subject and his seeking has revealed
some very interesting things.
For instance, it is generally conceded that 95
per cent of the cars stolen are stolen through
the carelessness of the owners. We will say in
the most of these cases, simply downright lazi-
ness, and in the rest an attitude that implies
the owner bears this sentiment: "I hope some-
one steals the old can, it's insured for more than
it is worth."
Now about this laziness. Nearly every auto-
mobile is equipped with locks. The ignition can
be locked, the transmission has a lock, if it is a
closed car there is another lock provided. Where
there are no such locks outside of the ignition
lock, there are scores of simple and inexpensive
devices for securely locking an automobile.
But, no sir, the average automobile owner will
drive his car up to the curb in some secluded
place, leave it unlocked, too lazy to bend down and
turn the key in the transmission lock. They will
go away and stay for hours, thinking nothing of
it until they return to find their car gone.
Now the car owner who hopes his car will be
stolen. Such an owner, once he has the experi-
ence of having some thief drive off with his car,
never hankers to have the same experience twice.
For after he has recovered the car, found the en-
gine damaged, the other mechanical parts injured,
after he has tried to convince some insurance
company that he should have the car overhauled
at their expense, and awakes to find that the in-
surance company makes a fair adjustment for
the theft and such damage as they can reason-
ably be sure was occasioned by the thief who
took the car, after he checks up and finds he has
lost money on the deal, that he has lost confidence
in his car as he drives five miles from a gai'age;
after he has gone to the inconvenience necessi-
tated by the less of his automobile, of the time
taken to get an adjustment with the insurance
company, and after he tries to sell the car and
gets a comic section off'er for it, he don't "want
no more of his cars stolen."
He lost sight of the fact that his car would be
found. He lost sight of the possible damage that
might be done to it by men who are going to use
it for a short time only. He is set aright on this.
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Now the leaving of automobiles to the prey
of crooks is something that Chief of Police Dan-
iel J. O'Brien characterizes as almost making the
owner the accessory before the fact in many
crimes committed in this city.
The Chief points out that the records show that
in most every robbery, every bank hold-up, in
most safe-blowing jobs, stolen automobiles are
used. They furnish fast getaways; they afford
the thug with a means of getting to safety. In
some of these crimes murder is done.
Now can you see Mr. Automobile Owner where
your responsibility lies? Can't you see that you,
by your carelessness, are aiding men to carry out
some criminal act that may result in murder, and
too often does?
The Chief says, and so does Lieut. Bernard Mc-
Donald, in charge of the Automobile Detail, that
every owner should be compelled to lock his car.
If the car does not come equipped with locking
devices they should be made to put one on the car
and thus make it more difficult for the crook to get
some means of making his escape.
Men or boys who are seeking a car to steal will
not fool long with one they find is locked. They
will pass on until they find one that is ready to go.
This holds true of the criminal who wants one
for his particular job, as well as for the ones who
steal a car to sell, or those who steal a car for a
joy ride.
Lock your car, and lock them sure, and thus
reduce the hazard of auto thievery, the chance of
your unsuspectingly assisting a murderer, and
decreasing the great amount of work the police
must do when a car is reported and which must
be done in recovering it.
MUDU GETS GOOD HUNCH
Detective William Mudd, who drives the detec-
tive car during the day time and who is known
as "Alabama Bill", hps always maintained that
he could spot a colored person who was "wrong."
He brought in a colored woman the other night
and vagged her. She beat the "rap", much to
Bill's chagrin. He said he knew she was bad and
that she should not have been turned loose. The
Judge, however, let her go. Bill remarked as he
went out of the courtroom: "I bet that woman will
be in here in five days on a 'kick' that will be
caused by someone having their money stolen."
Sure enough, the fourth day she was locked up on
a grand larceny charge, being accused of reliev-
ing a gent of several hundred dollars.
J<lovcmbcr, 1926
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That the citizens of San Francisco appreciated
the splendid worl< done by Chief of Police Daniel
J. O'Brien and every member of the department
during the so-called terror bandit outbreak is em-
phasized by the avalanche of letters, phone calls
and personal visits from men and women through-
out the city lauding the police for their prompt-
ness in rounding up the trio of miserable murder-
ers. Herewith are some of the letters received by
Chief O'Brien, headed by one from Mayor James
Rolph, Jr., who hastened at the first opportunity
to express his appreciation of the excellent endeav-
ors of the department. These letters are well
worth reading and indicate that the people of San
Francisco are always ready to extend the credit
deserved to our Department.
The following letter has been received by Chief
Daniel J. O'Brien from Mayor James Rolph, Jr.:
It has been a source of keen gratification to
•me to receive your reports upon the rounding up
of the bandits who committed so many depreda-
tions in San Francisco a little over a week ago.
I am writing you this letter of appreciation to
thank not only the members of the Police Com-
mission and yourself, but also every member of
your Department for the splendid work that has
been done. I appreciate the fact that the men
under your command worked many extra hours to
bring about the capture of these desperate youths.
I know of the determination that they have all
along had to place these criminals behind the bars
and of the unselfish efforts that have been ex-
pended toward this end. Your men during the
hours in which they were supposed to be off duty
have used their own. private automobiles in comb-
ing this City for some trace of the bandits, and it
is through the careful work that has been done
that the men now in custody have been arrested.
I am more than ever proud of what I, like so
many others, feel is the best Police Department
in the world, and in thanking you and everyone
of your command I am sure I speak in behalf of
all the people of this city.
It is with a feeling of keen satisfaction that I
note that those responsible for the killings that
occurred very recently in our City, have been ap-
prehended and are in custody and that there is
no question as to their guilt.
As a Citizen of this Community, I think your
Department should be commended highly for its
efficiency, and the Officers working on the case
commended highly also for their intelligence and
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devoted services.
You probably will not receive very many letters
along this line, but as I know that you are giving
your whole soul, as it were, to your line of en-
deavor, I think a word of encouragement occa-
sionally from those that are vitally interested in
your work, does not come amiss.
Kind assurance of regard, 1 am
PAUL M. NIPPERT,
The Insurance Exchange.
433 California Street.
* « *
The Officers of the Board of Directors of the
North Beach Merchants Association, at a special
meeting held October 28th ult. unanimously
voted to go on record highly praising the efficient
work of our Chief of Police and the officers under
your command, for effecting the capture of the
terror bandits.
We also desire to make mention and highly com-
mend the two officers Mr. Louis De i\Iatei and Mr.
Paddy Wafer for the valiant part they staked.
NORTH BEACH MERCHANTS' ASSOCIA-
TION.
Martin Lewkowitz,
Secretary Pro Tem.
Again we congratulate you and your officers for
your splendid work in capturing Mike Papadaches.
This wonderful piece of work of clearing up and
apprehending this "pack of wolves" will go down
in history as one of the greatest achievements in
police annals. We are all elated here, but sorry
that the law will not permit of the execution of
this last one.
T. N. KOENING,
Chief of Police, Sacramento, Calif.
^: * *
Congi-atulate you on the great and good work
you have done so recently to make our city we
all love safe, and that this may be a lesson to such
bandits. We are all so grateful to the policemen
also for the great work they are doing.
M. SHOPMAN,
440 Scott Street.
* * *
The membership of Golden Gate Post No. 40,
American Legion, is justly proud of the San Fran-
cisco Police Department. The thorough and re-
assuring manner in which the campaign against
the recent "Terror Bandit outrages" was con-
ducted and its successful conclusion is a credit to
you and your men. At our last meeting, a motion
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No. 13.
Strikes are at all times things to be avoided,
they breed hatred; they breed hardships on the
workers and the employers alike, but strikes we
will have. And when an industrial dispute arises
in San Francisco it usually calls for the most ex-
acting police work.
The present building trades strike is no excep-
tion.
In the heat of the contest men sometimes throw
reason to the winds. Injury, personal injury is
done someone, and in the present strike the mat-
ter has gone farther than injuries, it has gone to
murder.
Last month when a non-union carpenter was
killed a great hue and cry went up for different
kind of police action. Suggestions were made by
some of police work that would have been of such
a revolutionary nature that it would have taken
years to bring the department back to its present
high standard of efficiency, had the suggestions
been followed.
Many people took a hand in lambasting the de-
partinent. They cried for quick, direct action;
they sought to infuse something into the police
department, other than a desire to do police duty
in a sane and rational way.
And let it be said that Chief O'Brien, working
with the police commissioners, and captains of
the various districts, sat down and listened to
many unkind things heaped upon their heads,
while they carefully, sanely and with an effective-
ness born of years of experience and of an un-
derstanding of human nature, human traits and
human weaknesses held their counsel, and kept
following the leads they uncovered by tireless
work and energy.
Then they began to get the results that such
a course as they follow always produce. They
got men who confessed to the murder. These
men gave the names of others implicated. With
this information they went before the grand jury
and had indictments returned against eight men,
charging murder.
This done, the men were arrested and now await
trial in the Superior Court.
Many people who were quick to criticize, quick
to say unkind things about the department and
its methods of handling police matters have ad-
mitted privately they were wrong, but we have
not heard any come forth and publicly admit it.
When it is taken into consideration that during
this strike trouble the police department, in addi-
tion to its regular duties, was confronted by a
tong war which resulted, on account of proper
police vigilance, in no killings in this city, two
other strikes, and the careful surveying of the
city, and the prevention of crime in San Fran-
cisco, the preparing for the usual winter's in-
creased work in handling criminal matters, one
can easily see that the department members have
done c'lceptional work during the past few
months.
The San Francisco Police Department has for
many years been free from politics. It has
grown into one of the greatest agencies for the
protection of lives and property there is in this
or any otlier country. It has refused to be made
a football for anyone to kick around, and if a few
people, and we ai-e glad to say there are but a
few such in this city, who always rush in and
demand a lot of extra weight, and expect the
police to do things that are not in the books, will
let the police department do its work, the quicker
will the desired results be accomplished, and the
sooner will all be satisfied.
J^ovember, J 926
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1 am prompted to write this letter by the particularly
cool and efficient manner Police Officer Robert L. Smith
and Special Officer Andrew Brady handled a situation here
at the beach last week which might have developed into a
thinp of serious consequence in the hands of less able men.
In the face of determined resistance, Smith and Brady
took into custody five husky hoodlums who had been in-
sulting women. Although violently attacked by the rest
of the gang, sufficient in number to fill two large automo-
biles, they resisted the attack unassisted and held their
prisoners.
I ha\e come in contact with few members of your force
outside the Richmond district, but I wish to say that if all
your officers and men are of the caliber and character of
those of this district, then I feel that San Francisco is to
be congratulated on her police department.
Considering the large number of people who come to
the beach we have surprisingly little trouble due mainly to
the efficiency of the men assigned here.
I take this occasion to thank you and your men of this
district for your able co-operation.
GEO. K. WHITNEY,
Manager of Chutes at the Beach, Inc.
790 Great Highway.
Permit me to advise that the following resolution was
adopted by the Forty-Second Grand Council of the Young
Men's Institute, held in this city in the first week of
October.
RESOLVED, That the thanks of the Grand Coun-
cil be tendered to Hon. Daniel J. O'Brien, Chief of
Police of the City and County of San Francisco, for
the assistance and co-operation extended to the
General Committee in stopping the operation of
street cars and all traffic along the line of march
during the parade of Sunday, October 3rd, 1926, and
for the assistance given in the sightseeing tour of
October 5th.
We were denied earlier opportunity of acquainting you
wth the action of the Grand Council by reason of Grand
Council work demanding immediate attention; we hope,
however, that you will not hold our deferred acknowledg-
ment as any less sincere.
GEO. A. STANLEY,
Grand Secretary, Y. M. I.
50 Oak Street.
^ ^ ^
Last Monday evening, about 9:30 p. m., I was called to
the phone by Officer John S. Ross of your station who in-
foi-med me that the glass in one of the windows of the
Bancroft-M'hitney Company's building at Hyde and McAl-
lister streets had been broken and suggested that I come
do^^•n immediately to arrange for the boarding up of the
window. I shortly thereafter arrived at my place of busi-
ness and was greeted by Officers John S. Ross and Henry
J. Kieman. Both officers were very courteous and imme-
diately secured lumber and boarded up the window, leaving
same secure.
These officers did everj-thing they could to protect the
property of Bancroft-Whitney Company, and it gives me
pleasure on behalf of Bancroft-Whitney Company to ex-
press the appreciation of this company for the help ac-
corded by your officers in protecting our property. They
certainly are entitled to all the credit that can be bestowed
upon them.
Will you kindly extend to these officers the thanks and
very best wishes of Bancroft- Whitney Company.
S. B. FOLGER,
Acting President,
Bancroft-Whitney Company,
■Je * m
We want to convey our appreciation for the manner in
which traffic is being handled in Jessie street. Officer
John J. Kelly is to be commended indeed, as he is largely
responsible to a great extent for the present conditions.
Jessie street, we believe, is one of the most congested
streets we have in San Francisco and it takes an officer
of exceptional ability to keep this street clear.
C. C. HOLMES, Gen. Superintendent,
The Emporium. Market Street.
* * *
A couple of weeks or so ago we opened the new and
beautiful market at Mission and Sixteenth streets and
whether by request of the mayor, or yourself, or perhaps
at the suggestion of one of the captains of the district, you
had five or six officers there to handle the crowds on our
Opening Day.
As Secretary and Treasurer of the Misison and Sixteenth
Investment Company, the ownership of which partly rests
in the mayor and a number of other prominent business
men of this city, I want to thank you for your great atten-
tion and particularly express to Sergeants J. MacCormick
and S. Aitkens and Officers Henry M. Smith, Michael H.
Dolan, Michael J. Mantell and John L. Kohr, our great
appreciation of their efficiency, tolerance and good will
displayed in making everyone feel comfortable and at
ease.
If you will be kind enough to make this an order of the
day, we will appreciate it and this letter is to signify our
great respect.
J. C. BERENDSEN,
Secretary and Treasurer,
Mission and Sixteenth Investment Co.
* * *
Permit me, although a trifle late, to express my sincere
thanks and appreciation for the splendid work done by
your detective force in the recovery of my clothes, which
were taken from my apartment a short while ago, and, I
am happy to say, were all recovered. Most especially I
desire to thank and compliment Detective Sergeant Hughes
on the very efficient ser\'ice rendered in such very short
time and in praise of which I cannot say enough. Once
more thanking you sincerely,
MRS. WILLIAM KELDAY,
795 Gearv Street.
Phone Sutter 643
Dan* P* Maher
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J^ovemher, 1926
HE WAS A BOY ONCE HIMSELF— A TRIBUTE
TO THE VETERAN OFFICER
GEO. COLLINS
JACK LAWLOR
By Jack Lawlor, Police Reporter, "Daily T^ews"
"Here George, take this telegram and go out
and find this boy and book him en route to Los
Angeles. He ran away from home and his
father wants him arrested", said Lieut. Frank
Winters as he handed
Officer George Collins
a telegram with the
last known residence
of a 17-year-old boy
whose name makes no
difference.
George took the tele-
gram and went out.
In a few hours he re-
turned with a perplex-
ed look on his face
but no runaway boy.
"Where's the kid,
George", exclaimed Lieutenant Winters as he
looked up from his desk in surprise because Col-
lins had never been known to return without his
man.
"Well?" queried the Lieutenant, as the officer
stood mute.
"Well, lieut, er, it's this way, you see, I could
not — er-er-ah — " stammered George.
"You could not— er-ah-huh— what in the devil
ails you?" thundered \A'inters, "Why don't you
talk in Indian language, I can savvee that better
than this lingo you are handing me?"
"Well, the truth is, I liaven't got the heart
to arrest that lad. He's learning a trade, work-
ing hard every day and living a clean moral life
and I'm sure you'll feel just like I do about it
when you talk with him." And George shifted
about as he addressed his superior officer.
"Go bring him in", directed Winters, "and we'll
see what we'll see", and the Lieutenant smiled
to Sergt. Frank Black as George strolled out.
In a short time Collins returned accompanied
by a bright-eyed lad with a freckled face and tow
colored hair.
"Here he is Lieutenant, he's working in a cop-
per shop learning a trade that will pay him $10
a day in tiine", exclaimed the officer as he pushed
the boy forward.
After listening to the boy's story Lieut. Winters
and the officer notified the father by wire that his
son was learning a good trade, going to night
scliool and doing well and there was no good rea-
son why he should be arrested and returned to
a town he didn't like.
That was about a year ago.
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NEW MEN AND OLD
At a meeting- of the Board of Police Commis-
sioners lield on November 1st: Edward L. Quast,
rank 187(11), was appointed a regular policeman
in the Police Department, star number 1004 tem-
porarily.
At a meeting- of the Board of Police Commis-
sioners held on October 25: Richard R. Smith,
rank 184(11), star 1182; Edward A. Miller, rank
185(11), star 1192; Samuel Cohen, rank 186(11),
star 1193, were appointed regular policemen in
the Police Department.
At a meeting of the Board of Police Commission-
ers held on October 18, the following Police Offi-
cers were appointed:
Andrew J. Bell, rank 130(11), star 1010; Peter
H. Schroeder, rank 164(11), star 1066; George A.
Young, rank 176(11), star 902; Fred M. Fitz-
simmons, rank 179(11), star 1045; John V. Cobb,
rank 180 (11), star 1061.
The newly appointed officers mentioned above
shall undergo the usual instructions under'~Ser-
geant Patrick H. McGee, Instructor in the Depart-
ment School of Instructions. During- the period of
their instructions they are hereby temporarily as-
signed with the Headquarters Company and shall
report to Captain J. Henry Lackmann, command-
ing the Headquarters Company, for orders and
assignments.
The following transfers have been made in the
department last month: Officer Frederick J. Flynn,
Co. G to Headquarters Co. ; Officer John L. Rogers,
Headquarters (Chinatown Squad) to Co. G; Officer
Stephen Hinriciis, Co. K to Headquarters Co.;
Officer John Floyd, Co. K to Headquarters Co.;
Officer Walter R. Frye, Co. F to Co. D; Officer
Frederick H. Goessel, Co. B to Co. M; Officer
Charles F. Keck, Co. D to Co. B; Officer Edward
J. McDevitt, Co. M to Co. D; Officer Albert E.
Cronin, Headquarters Co. to Co. J.
The following assignments have been made dur-
ing the past month: Niles E. Driver to Co. D;
John D. Long, to Co. C; Walter R. Frye, to Co. F;
William A. Hanrahan to Co. G; Ralph H. Mc-
Kenna, to Co. H; John J. O'Donnell No. 2, to Co. L;
Raymond F. Doherty, to Headquarters Co.
Police Officer Edward Hagan attached to the
Bush Street Station reports the loss of his star,
numbered 1070. The star was lost between the
City Treasurer's Office and his home at 1202 Pow-
hattan street, on October 10th, 1926.
Police Officer Herman A. Mohr, Ingleside Police
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Just to keep the boys moving and let them know that
though he has been made a Lieutenant don't make him
inactive so far as going out on the street to grab off the
lawbreakers, Lieutenant Frank McConnell and his partner
Detective Sergeant Charles Gallivan now and then "hit
the street" and when they return to the Hall of Justice
they generally have a lad whose mug has been up in
Sergeant Emmett Hogan's room awaiting an opportune
time for comparison. One day last month McConnell and
Gallivan took a "little" walk and when they got back they
had with them John Berg, Jack Fay, Ray Bi-ewer, Tony
Deus and Tony Marquise, all of whom they booked as
thousand Dollar vags. Brewer, who is a card sharp, has
been mugged in other states, but this was his first visit
here and it will probably be his last as long as Lieutenant
McConnell and Sergeant Gallivan are on the job, which
will be a long time yet.
* * *
Detective Sergeant Jack Manion and his posse, who have
kept tong killings out of Chinatown during the war just
ended between the Bing Kongs and Hop Sings, never let
the hired gunmen light. The Chinatown squad boys
brought in five highbinders one night all armed; four other
Chinese, who tried to open up an opium joint in Chinatown
got a nice reception and a nice ride to the station on a
state prison law charge; and two Chinese were booked
for statutory charges; and a couple of Americans who
tried to start something were caught before they could
be booked for anything worse than malicious mischief; and
a half dozen Chinese were arrested as vagrants.
* * *
Among the prisoners booked during the month by De-
tective William Bennett and possee working out of the
Chief's oifice were Edwin Franklin for violating Section
146 of the Motor Vehicle Act; William Fritz, transporting
intoxicants; and a score of vags who were doing no good
for the country or themselves.
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Lieutenant Kinble and Detective Jack O'Connell arrested
John Cavagna for murder following the death of the
prisoner's wife from a gunshot wound.
* * :};
Officer J. Riley got a lad who was unsteady in his opera-
tion of an automobile and Riley locked the lad up for
violating Sect. 112 of the Motor Act. The youth's name is
William Puett.
* * *
Another 112'er was Roy Rooney, grabbed and delivered
by Officer Carlysle Field of the License Bureau.
* * *
Officer E. L. Olivero brought to the city prison, Yoush
Khinoo, charged with violating Section 261 of the Penal
Code, par. 3.3.
* * *
Detective J. J. Masterson picked up Adolph Haupt,
wanted in Los Angeles for non-support of wife and child-
ren.
. * ^ *
Detectives Patrick Walsh and Al Christ removed from
the streets four good vagrants during a round up one
night last month.
* * :K
Coiodore Apichino, carrying a gun and threatening to
use it was apprehended and locked up before he carried
his threats into execution. He was booked on two charges
by Officers W. Thompson, W. Salisbury and J. O'Connor.
* * *
Detective Sergeant Harry Husted and Detective Robert
Smith got enough on Edwin Carey to lock him up on five
charges of petty larceny.
* * *
Charles Carlson won't be so handy with a deadly weapon
the next time he gets all "het up", because the last time
he did he got locked up for assault by Off. Harry Peshon.
* * *
Lieutenant Michael Mitchell didn't like the looks of
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water front, so he "vagged" him, and the next thing he
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T^ovember, 1926
2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 21
Lieutcnnnts:
CENTRAL
STATION
Capt. Arthur D. Layne
Harry I'. Braig and Edward F. Copeland
Drop in to the Central Station and take a few looks at
the business office, note the changes that have been made,
the paint that City Painter Jack Lane and his landscape
artists liave applied with such good effect, further observe
the spaciousness of the quarters since some of the par-
titions have been removed and the phone booth shrunk
and whatever you do, don't spit on the floor or Corporal
John Dower will be on your neck instanter. There is no
new linoleum on the floor yet, but Corporal Donegan
says they are going to get some and that he and Dower
want the visitors to keep from getting the habit of violat-
ing the expectoration ordinance. Yes sir, the improve-
ments are worth while and were needed. Captain Layne
says he is going to have the windows in his private office
washed up one of these days now that the business office
has been renovated.
* * *
Armando Leon knows now that robbery doesn't pay.
He was nabbed by Corporal Frank Hoeckle and Harry
Gurtler and slammed in the well known city prison.
^ * *
It was a hard month for burglars. Sergeant James F.
Rooney and some of his lads rounded up Aladrano and
Ric Spina, giving them two bookings for this species of
larceny. While Officer J. Twoomey administered the same
treatment to Placido Laganapan.
But the automobile law violators were the ones that got
the merry run in. Officer Charles Gallatin got Vivian
Duncan for a 112 and 121 charge; Officers John Dooling,
Joseph Murray and Charles Rogerson locked John Brophy
up for having another man's automobile; Gurtler and
Rogerson gave Leonard Jones four charges of violating
Section 121 of the Motor Act; Lung Hook was arrested
for manslaughter growing out of an automobile accident,
being tagged by Officer Rogerson; Pete Madrianl, arrested
by Officers William Porter, Martin Foley and George
Burkhardt, was booked for 112, 141 and reckless driving;
and S. A. Moorhaub as a hit-runner and reckless driver,
by Officers Rogerson and Dooling.
t- =:: *
Petty larcenists arrested were Charles Snell by Officer
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* * *
Officers Joseph Mulcahy and John Dyer brought in Ir-
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* * *
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* * *
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"2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
"Nfivewher, 1926
SOUTHERN
STATION
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Capt. Charles Goff
Lieutenants Arthur DeGuire and Richard Foley
The winter influx of vagrants, idlers and others who seek
the larger cities during the winter months, has been felt
in this district. During the past month 65 vagrants have
been arrested by the police on the night watches. Corporal
Flynn, Corporal Dennis Dineen, Corporal Jagger, Martin
Brennan, Officers Bongard, Tom Feeney, J. Conroy, Wil-
liam Gleeson, Hachette, J. Ersamy, William Fogarty, J.
Burke, Martin Brannan, Oliver Lunborg, William Henley
and Sergeant Dowie keeping the patrol wagons busy.
* * *
Corporal Emmett Flynn arrested and charged with rob-
bery Edward Bargo, while he and his posse did the same
thing to Michael J. Sheehan; Officers D. Devine and O.
Lundborg arrested Martin Daken for assault with intent
to commit robbery.
* * *
William Cale was arrested for burglary by Special
Officer T. J. Winler. James Wilson was booked for at-
tempted burglary by Officer Andrew Lennon.
* * *
Three gents got all mixed up with the law on driving
while drunk charges. They were Mike Minan, arrested by
Tom Feeney, and who has had a similar experience; Bert
Johnson by Officer Lundborg and Fortune Brasseur by
Officer J. Conroy.
* * *
Officers William Fogarty and T. Maloney spotted two
pair of youths whom they thought were looking over the
district in cars that did not belong to them. They gave
the men a halt and arrested them for violating the pro-
visions of section 145 of the Motor Act. The names of the
men so arrested are: Frank Rossi, Archie Knighton, Walt
Rush, Jack Camerin.
* * *
A few petty larcenists were active for awhile, or until
the gendarmes stopped their pilfering. Five were gath-
ered into the well known police net. They were Fritz Her-
bert, arrested by Officer W. O'Halloran; George Kelchner,
arrested by Officers R. Curtin and Al Wenzler; Charles
Graham arrested by Officers Lundborg and Hanley Delmar
Marchall arrested by Corporal Flynn.
* .i; *
Corporal Flynn and Officers Charles Russell and T.
Herring arrested William Vauglin, a fugitive from justice.
Flynn also arrested Tom Miller charged with mayhem,
and Manuel Silvan and Andrew Silver for assault with
means and force likely to do great bodily injury.
:;; * .f.
Lieutenant Arthur DeGuire and some of the men on his
platoon stepped out October 27 and brought in Hans
Kosky, whom they charged with attempt to commit bur-
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* * *
Berno Solin was arrested, taken to the station and given
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* * *
Danny ToiTes is awaiting trial, having been snared by
Officers William Hyland and T. Hurley.
* * *
Sergeant Lynch with a posse of patrolmen arrested and
charged John W. Hart with assault with a deadly weapon.
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2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
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\wi\m m>y STATION
STATION
Capt. Patrick Herlihy
Lieutenants Wilbert F. Pengelly and Michael Mitchell
Recently Officer John J. Doran, attracted by a crowd
at Market and Embarcadero found a husky Japanese
named H. Hlohitchi giving a Swedish sailor a wrestling
lesson. As Doran came up, the Japanese switched his
attack to Ireland's son, and Doran had plenty to do as
the Jap was fortified with a goodly cargo of sacki. The
officer finally landed his man in the station jail, booking
him for drunk, but the blue coat was nearly smothered by
the fumes of the sacki. Hlogitchi was here to see the
three Japanese boxers at Dreamland, but he never got to
see them.
* * *
Corporal Martin Gallagher has formed a jazz orchestra
of waterfront folks, and every nationality is represented
except the sons of Erin, Martin being the only representa-
tive Ireland has in the orchestra. Nevertheless, the favor-
ite airs are Irish music and the boys are practising twice
a week. The following are the members of the musical
aggregation:
"Spider" Anderson, tin flute; "Scotty" McPherson, first
string banjo; Ole Olson, drums; Napoleon, Jews' harp;
Fighting Kid, harmonica; an undercover agent, horn.
Jack Convey has been trying to get in the band but
Barber Jones says they can't practice in his barber shop
if Convey makes the grade.
First it was Lieutenant Michael Mitchell, with his
trained seagull, who has learned to outdo a homing pigeon;
then it was Officer Samuels, Inspector Ed. Lj-nch's able
assistant who got great results with an owl he trained
to act as messenger from this city to Eureka; now we have
Officer James IMahoney, who comes forward with a parrot.
James got "Polly" and in three weeks had trained him to
call him when it was time to get out of bed, and when
James does not hurry fast enough the Pol sings out
"363, Over the Top, Charge of the Light Brigade".
Mahoney thought it would be nice for the parrot to have
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The bird and the simian became fast friends, but they had
a great fight the other night. Seems like when Jim comes
home the parrot hops upon hi.-: shoulder and the monkey,
not to be outdone, climbs on top of James' head. The
polly didn't like this, and after thinking it over following
Mahoney's retirement for the night, the Pol lit into
"Jocko" and a fight followed that woke up everybody in a
block radius. Jim w-as doing a hot foot in his pajamas
trying to get the combatants and stop the parrot's cries
of "Police, Police".
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and now Jocko is learning to work with a hand organ,
Jim having promised him one.
* * * '
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2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
T^ovember, 1926
MISSION
STATION
Capt. Frederick Lemon
Lieutenants Peter A. Mclntyre and Daniel J. Collins
Captain Fred Lemon's boys have kept the old wagon
going pretty regularly the past month bringing in the
evil doers who were unwise enough to endeavor to ply
their trades in this sector.
* * *
George J. Harney was packing a gun in vnolation of
the muchly referred to penal code as well as ^^olating the
provisions of section 417 of the same well worn book.
He was halted, questioned, arrested and finally booked by
Officer J. Crawhall.
A. Stone Waldo, who has been in trouble before about
mixing gin and gasoline, got hauled in for violating
section 112 and for i-eckless driving by Officer R. Smith.
James Burke, who was also arrested before for violat-
ing section 112 got arrested again on the 17th by Cor-
poral Keene and Officer J. Kenney. This time he was
charged with violating sections 112, 141 and 121 of the
motor act. Plenty of trouble for any one man.
* * *
Sergeant Fred Suttman and Officer James Gremminger
"spotted" Joseph L. Morris in an automobile which had
been reported stolen. They hauled him in on a 146 charge.
* * *
Officers William Barnes, assisted by Officer S. Desmond
arrested Earl Anderson for 146 Motor Act violation and
also for obtaining money by false pretenses.
* * *
Nieman Paulsen, a cook, was arrested and landed in the
station prison charged with manslaughter. His grief was
occasioned by the combined activities of Officers C.
Wennerberg and W. Rausch.
* * *
Vincent Allessandro, wanted by the authorities of Mo-
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Officers Charles Thompson and C. Hess found it neces-
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deadly weapon.
* * *
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* * *
Nicholas Watson, charged with vagrancy, was arrested
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* * *
Sergeant Sheble and posse found it necessary to remove
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charged with being thousand dollar vagrants.
* * *
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2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 2$
BUSH ST.
STATION
Capt John J. Casey
Lieutenants Edward L. Cullnan and Joseph Mignola
Captain John J. Casey was preambulating along one of
the streets in his district the other day when he saw an
automobile running an uncertain course. Experience told
him the driver was not in the proper mental condition to
keep an even course, so he made him pause, investigated
and gathered enough information to justify him in ar-
resting the driver and charging him with violating the
provisions of section 112 and for reckless driving. The
operator gave the name of Horace Springer. Officer John
Dolan, Jr., had a similar experience with Andrew Delaney,
except that Andy was also charged with being a hit-
iTjnner.
* * *
The following were arrested for driving about in auto-
mobiles they had borrowed without asking anyone foi
the loan of them, which as you are well aware is in viola-
tion of the provisions of section 146 of the Motor Vehicle _
Act: Burton Neill by Officer William McRae. Burton
Bergarud by Officer R. Burgerson; Edgar Emanuel by
Officers N. Kieman and E. Vogt; and Charles Poust and
James Cook by Officers J. Riordan and A. O'Brien.
* * *
Threats against human life were numerous in this dis-
trict the past month. The following were arrested and
charged with that offense: Viggi Block by Officer Eugene
Hottinger; John DeWitt by Officers N. Kavanaugh and
C. Engler, Harry Loman by Corporal William Boyle, and
Xick Podeviroff by Officers J. Hart and Gus Betger.
* * *
Officers J. Ross and Kieman booked Nel O. Jimmers for
violating section 21 of the Juvenile Court Law.
* * *
George Kortoff, accused of attempted burglary, was
arrested by Captain John J. Casey and posse October 14.
* * *
Officer John Scanlon brought in Robert L. Turner on a
charge of \iolating section 288 of the penal code.
* » *
Harry Jones, accused of being a petty larcenist, was
arrested and put in a nice steel bar-lined cell by Officer
Ray O'Connell, while the same fate befell Harold Johnson
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* * *
Vagrants are always plentiful in this district. The
idler seems to dote on this sector of the city and the
police just as much dote on giving the ladies and boys
a ride in the covered wagon. Corporal William Boyle
and posse brought in half a score during the month.
* * *
Officer Walter Harrington arrested James Daly, Arnold
Guerra and William Sullivan for vagrancy and disturbing
the peace.
* * *
Corporal James Ray speared a vag or so, as did Officer
Arthur Lahey.
* * *
T6ny Silardi is a thousand dollar vag according to the
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Officer John Dolan, Jr.
* * *
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2-0" rOLICE JOURNAL
J^ovember, 1926
TRAFFICE BUREAU
Captain Henry Gleeson
Lieutenants J. J. Casey. J. (Cliff) Field and Grover Coats
Captain Henry Gleeson, who was the victim of a serious
operation last month, is rapidly recovering from the effects
of the cutting and will soon be back on the job again. He
is still confined at the Lane Hospital, and at this writing
no visitors are allowed to see him. However, his physi-
cians report that he is getting along nicely and is coming
out of the ordeal splendidly.
During the absence of Captain Gleeson, Lieutenant John
J. Casey is in charge of the Traffic Bureau and is handling
the business like an old timer.
* * *
Traffic Officer Byron Getchell laid off long enough from
his irksome labors, answering questions for confused old
ladies, halting near-sighted automobile drivers, who can't
see the signals and generally supervising affairs around
Market, Kearny, Geary and Third streets, to do a little
reg-ular police work. He saw a guy walking away mth
some effects which another gent said was his. In fact
it developed that there were two of these walkaway guys.
Byron surrounded the pair and snapped some nice steel
bracelets on them and went to the box and rang for the
wagon. He told Officer Jack McGreevy to book them for
petty larceny; Byron even got the names of the prisoners,
John Bannister and Lloyd Roy Jones. Nice work, Byron.
* * *
Traffic Officer J. J. Kelly can lay aside the multitudin-
ous duties of directing traffic to make an arrest for any
sort of a crime. He demonstrated this when he snared
Clyde Radcliffe for vagrancy.
* * *
Motorcycle Officer Wi.snon contends a lot of motorists
ought to have their eyes examined, for the first thing they
say when he halts them is: "I didn't see the stop sign".
Wis. says if they can't see these boulevard stop signals,
they couldn't see the Ferry building.
Traffic Officer Harry Lundy |lhinks sober motorists
cause enough confusion, but one who has taken aboai'd a
few too many can sure throw a monkey wrench into the
machinery of traffic. D. Mill did this and Lundy just
naturally booked him for violating Section 112 of the
Motor Vehic'.e Act.
* * *
Motorcycle Officer Edward O'Day, veteran speed chaser
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* * *
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* * *
Traffic Officer Pete Smith has hung about twenty miles
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o\vners think the pedestrian lanes are parking stations,
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* * *
Mounted Officer George Sullivan wonders why some
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2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 27
PARK
STATION
Capt. John J. O'RIeara
Lieutenants Charles A. Pfeiffer and Fred W. Norman
People living in Forest Hill, Morritt Terrace, and other
districts above the Twin Peaks Tunnel can certainly take
joy in the knowledge that they are well protected and
can get some quick police action when such is needed. A
short time ago a resident of Forest Hill telephoned Cor-
poral William Kelly that there was a suspicious automo-
bile driving about the neighborhood after midnight. There
was a peculiar creaking that made the presence of the
machine moie ominous. Kelly told the resident the matter
would be attended to. In six minutes after the message
was received at the station, two police officers drove up in
front of the home of the man who phoned and explained
how the thing happened and that the man and the machine
that had caused the annoyance would bother no one any
more. They explained that it was a gent who had been
to a party and had left in a huff and was trying to find
where the party was so he could go back again. He could
not get his bearing, but when the two officers in the Buick
patrol machine drove up, thrust a gun in his face, he lost
all desire to go anywhere but home. He explained who
he was, produced credentials to show who he was and was
allowed to proceed.
* * *
Leonard Bash will realize henceforth that it is not con-
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the Park district with a gun, especially when the officers
suspect him of assault with intent to commit murder. He
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Bernard Derwin got himself into a lot of grief when
he was pulled in by Sergeant Robert Williams. All Der-
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Joseph Mendenhall had no hit and run "clouf against
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740 VALENCIA STREET
Phone Valencia 1036
24 Hour Senrice
Automotive Eneineering
TOWING
We Know How
PHONE KEARNY 4360
Western-California Fish Co.
556-566 CLAY STREET San Francisco
Page 28
2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
J'lovember, 1926
RICHMOND
STATION
Capt. William T. Healy
Lieutenants Daniel W. Cronin, Francis J. McGuire
One of the surest ways of getting in jail is to walk out,
drive out, or ride out through the Richmond district witli
a gun sticking out of your hip pocket. Seems like the
boys under Captain William Healy can spot these sort of
gentry quicker than a bootlegger can a prohi.
For verification of this statement, one should ask Harry
Wiles and Albert Saunders who were pesticating around
the Richmond. They seemed bent upon nothing in par-
ticular and their presence attracted the official attention of
Officers Francis and Schuldt who conducted a litt'e inves-
tigation and soon found both young men were anned. The
youths wei-e booked for violating the state gun law and
vagrancy.
* :»: *
Another example that gin and gas don't team up very
well is indicated by the case of Harry Walburg. He was
picked off for violating the tenets of Section 112 of the
Motor Act as well as being a hit and run driver. His
arrest was made by Corporal George O'Brien and Officer
J. O'Leary.
* :f: *
Corporal Frank Rhodes and Officer Tom O'Connell let
Charles Lambert know that assault with a deadly weapon
is a serious offense, for they locked him up where he
could meditate upon his predicament.
* ■^- *
Misdemeanor embezzlement is the charge against Edna
Lewis, who was arrested by Officer W. J. Francis.
^- ■-^- *
Aaron Coff was locked up by Officer T. O'Connor for
violating the Juvenile Court law. The same fate befell
Oakley Rice who was arrested by Corporal W. .Jones
and Officer J. Green.
LAWLOR
(Continued from Page 18)
An(i that boy, lielped on his way by a good-
hearted policeman who unconsciously did one of
the biggest things in hfe — a voluntary act of
kindness — is so appreciative of what was done for
him that he never misses a month to call on the
officer at the Detective Bureau and consult and
advise with him.
Kenney Bros*
Cigars, Tobaccos and Soft Drin\s
132 Fourth Street, Corner Minna
SAN FRANCISCO
Ladies' Cloaks, Suits, Dresses,
Furs, Waists, Etc.
Men's Clothing, Hats, Shoes,
Boys' Clothing
Charge Accounts Invited
The Home Clothing Co.
2500 iVUSSION STREET, Cor. 21st
Phone Mission 5036
MERCHANTS
PARCEL DELIVERY
Telephone Davenport 362
FREMONT R. NASH
CONTRACTING STEVEDORE
6 Mission Street :: :: San Francisco
AUTHORIZED
NASH DEALER
JACOPETTI
Gore Columbus Avenue and Washington Street
Full Line of Accessories and Fully Equipped Repair Shop
Phone MARKET 952
New Process Laundry Co.
385 EIGHTH STREET
OOOn WORK AND PROMPT SERVICE
FIOR D'lTALIA RESTAURANT
Music :-: Dancing :-: Entertainment
Banquet Halls for smalt or larse parties
492 BROADWAY
Bet. Kearny and MontgomerySu.
Phone Douglas J 504 SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
FRIEDA M. SCHMIDT. Prop.
F. W. KRACHT. Mgr.
PALM GARDEN GRILL
Good Eats and Good Drinks
931 MARKET STREET
Telephone Kearny 46.33 San Franci.sco
T^ovembcr, 1926
"2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 29
INGLESIDE
STATION
Capt. Eugene Wall
Lieutenant William Lambert
The other day the Redwood authorities phoned up that
shortly before midnight of the date of communication a
pent had wandered into a Redwood cafe and stuck up the
Chinese proprietor. A description of the machine used
and the number of the license was obtained and furnished
the San Francisco Police. A posse under Officer L. Hagen
went forth in the station Buick to await the arrival of the
holdup man. He came along, tried to outsprint the Buick,
fired at the officers and was fired upon, and finally was
overtaken and arrested for robbery and a few other
charges, such as breaking the speed laws, reckless driving
and assault.
The gent gave the name of Millard McClelland. After
being taken to the city prison he confessed to a score of
robberies up and down the state and as many more bur-
glaries. He has enough charges against him to insure his
detention in one of our penal institutions for .some time
to come. The boys from the Ingleside certainly did good
work, as the letter Captain Wall wi-ote the Chief about
it wll indicate, and which will be found on another page
of this issue.
Special J. Cully paused long enough from his duties of
seeing if careless merchants had left ary doors unlocked,
to observe the antics of Frank Vannucci. He watched long
enough to convince him that John was breaking the var-
ious provisions of Section 112 of the Motor Vehicle Act,
and he arrested him and booked him accordingly.
John Holton had an automobile that he had no lawful
right to. He was stopped by Officer Charles King, ques-
tioned and locked up on a Section 146 charge.
^ :^ ^:
Officer Frank McHugh had the number of a car reported
stolen, so when he saw the said car come along the street
he got curious and after asking a few embarrassing ques-
tions of the driver, whom he halted, he satisfied himself
that the you .ng man had driven it off without the owner's
consent. He gave him a "frisk" and the first thing he
found was a loaded gun. The stolen automobile and the
loaded gun gave McHugh much food for reflection, as the
combination usually winds up in a robbery or something
worse. The young man, who gave his name as James
Richardson, was booked for violating Section 146 of the
Motor Act and for violating the revolver law.
^ :!: :}:
Robert Valergo got a lot of charges heaped upon him
when he was arrested by Officer R. L. Smith and Special
Officer Brady. The charges, three in number, are: threats
against life, resisting an officer and disturbing the peace.
* * *
Sergeant Christiansen and a posse of officers rounded up
William Moore who was fracturing the peace of some tax-
payer.
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Telephone Market 7906
Sanitary Towel Supply Co.
84 NINTH STREET
San Francisco, Cal.
Phone Kearny 1628
MASKEY^S
Manufacturer c\
FINE CANDIES
52 Kearny Street, San Francisco
629 W. 7th Street, Los Angeles
Page 30
POLICE JOURNAL
J^ovemher, 1926
NORTH END
STATION
Capt. Herbert J. Wright
Lieutenants D. M. Reavis and George Duffy
Captain H. J. Wright and his force of men have had
time to attend to the lawbreakers as well as devote their
full time to strike matters and the week of the so-called
"Terror Bandits."
* * *
This is one of the few districts that got by without any
drunken automobile drivers tearing up the landscape dur-
ing the month.
However, Mark Jones decided to observe the beauties of
the North End section out of an automobile. He had none
of his own but that meant nothing in his young life. He
just grabbed the first one he found unlocked and ready
to roll, hopped in and fared forth. His faring was short
lived for Coi'poral Meilicke and Officer James Dowd got
a peek at the number on the machine he was in, recognized
it as one reported stolen and they just simply up and
arrested Mr. Jones and charged him with violating section
146 of the Motor Vehicle Act.
* * *
Special Duty Oflncers Peter Neilson and Edward Ken-
eally can handle forgeiy cases as well as they do any of
the other hundreds and one criminal cases. They demon-
strated this when they picked up Mr. John Beeley and
put a forgery charge against his name.
* -^ ^
Joseph Yates got a little too rough and his roughness
earned him a booking entitled assault by means and force
likely to produce great bodily injury. He was arrested
by OflScers Edward Plume, Keneally and Neilson.
Albert Morris has the attractive charge of violating
section 288 of the penal code chalked up to him. He was
sent to the station by Corporal W. Kelly.
+- ^; *
William Dover and Ramon Cortez are two others who
have to face such a charge, having been rounded up by
officers T. Brady and Walter Pullen.
* * *
Pablo Magtoto has a pair of petty larceny charges
marked up against him at the station. He was arrested
by Officers Harry Gaylord, Keneally and Neilson.
:}: ^ 4:
Corporal Jagger and Officer F. Goesse! took into custody
John T. Adams whom they locked up for assault with
intent to commit mui'der.
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2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 31
\Y/E STERN
iWrADDlTION
STATION
Capt. Robert A. Coulter
Lieutenants Emmet E. Moore and John M.
Sullivan
Volent Climes and major criminal acts were scarce in
the terrain in charge of Captain Robert Coulter. How-
ever, there was plenty to keep the boys busy, among some
of the arrests will be found the following:
* * Hi
Cornelius Driscol hurrying through the streets in an
automobile, uncertain in his line of travel attracted the
attention of Lieutenant Emmett Moore and Officer J.
Johnson. They caused him to tarry while they did some
police investigating. They determined Conny was working
in violation of Sec. 112 of the Motor Act as well as
those of section 121.
* * *
Officer Al Johnson and Oliver Josephs took a gander at
Sam L. Rogers and they remarked in unison as he passed
that all was not well. The two officers got busy and be-
fore they knocked off with the case they had Sam en-
cased in some steel bars charged with driving while drunk.
^ ^ :^
Richai'd Walsh, who "fell" once in Tucson, breezed into
this territory the other day to be arrested for misdemeanor
embezzlement and vagrancy. His predicament was brought
about by Officer F. Corby and Special Tilton.
^ ^ ^
Captain Robert Coulter, assisted by Officer L. Oliver
and Detective Sergeant Thomas Hyland had a little strike
matter to handle and they closed the day's work by
arresting George Fredman and charging him with assault
by means and force likely to produce great bodily injury.
* * *
Norman Smith knows just how the police go about
arresting and booking a persori for first degree arson.
He got this bit of intelligence following his experience
w-ith Officers John Clasby and J. Casey,
^•i * ^
Thomas Brown committing an indecent act was ar-
rested by Corporal Zaun and L. Oliver.
* * *
Sidney Hewitt strayed off Folsom street to get arrested
in this district for manslaughter. He was taken in cus-
tody by Corporal McCarthy and Officer L. Berzone.
One lone vag was gathered in this section of the city
during the month being one arrested by Officers L. Linns
and James Fleming. The prisoner gave the name of John
Lonsdale.
REINHART
Lumber & Planing Mill Co*
JERROLD and BARXEVELD AVENUES
Near Army and Potrero, San Francisco
Telephone Mission 902
GENERAL LUMBER YARD
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Page i2
2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
T^ovember, 1926
BAY VIEW
STATION
Capt. Stephen V. Bunner
Lieut. Frank DeGrancourt, Lieut. Wm. Dowie
There was more work for the boys in blue the past
month than usual. Seems like there are a few guys who
won't get the idea percolating through their domes that
this is no district to pull any illegal stuff. They come,
they try and they fall.
* * *
Now Manueal Corastanzas took a trip out here in an
automobile. The machine did not run like a respectable
machine should run and when Officer D. Twoomey and P.
Finnegan got through investigating, the driver was locked
up for dri\'ing while drunk.
* * *
A couple of weeks later Walter Klumich did the very
same thing and he found himself all surrounded by nice
half -inch steel bars with a section 112 charge tacked
against his name. He was arrested by Officers Gerlack
and J. Doherty.
* * *
Corporal William Harrington and Officer John Sunseri
caught Elmer Walker whom they accused of petty pilfer-
ing. They arrested him for petty larceny.
* * »
John Varnu, came out this way and proceeded to spread
some checks that didn't have the necessary financial back-
ing in the bank- Officers Tierney and James Hansen
dragged him to the station on three 476a charges.
* * *
Jack Lally was carrying away some chattels of another
man worth less than $200 when he was arrested by Special
H. Hughes and booked for petty larceny.
^ ^ 4^
John Carelli evidently thought he was in the wild and
woolly west for he was going about properly armed. He
was observed by Corporal Charles Broen and Officer Ryan
who gave him a gun law violation booking and also for
violating Ordinance 812.
* * *
Carl Smith got a ride in the wagon when he was ar-
rested by Lieutenant DeGuire and Officer McDonnell for
violating the Juvenile Court Law.
* * *
Leo Papen wanted for grand larceny was brought in by
Officers R. Clifford and Charles Keck.
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'hlovembcr, 1926
2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 33
MURDEROUS THUGS JAILED
(Continued from Page 6)
Members of the detective bureau worked con-
tinuously, some of its personnel being on duty
for twenty-four hours and over straigiit; members
of the tralfic bureau worked on traffic control and
then volunteered their services, with their auto-
mobiles at night, and until the early liours of
the morning.
Members of the headquarters company fulfilled
their regular duties during the day, responding at
night with their automobiles, those having no
automobiles volunteering their services, and
worked into the early hours of the following
morning.
Commanding officers of the various units of the
department remained on duty almost continuously,
directing the activities of the members of their
respective commands, counseling with and advis-
ing them in police duty.
Immediately upon the mobilization of the man
power of the department, with equipment, criminal
activities of the so-called bandits ceased alto-
gether, and during the week crime was reduced to
a minimum. Concentrated police effort intelli-
gently planned and developed resulted in the cap-
ture of two perpetrators, one being seriously
wounded by being shot while resisting arrest and
attempting to escape.
I respectfully submit that the devotion to duty
and the loyalty of the membership of the San
Francisco Police Department to the good citizens
bf this city should be presented to your Honorable
Board with a I'ecommendation that proper action
be taken officially.
Respectfully,
D. J. O'BRIEN,
Chief of Police.
Thank you very much for the prompt and intelligent
response of your Officers Moran and Kennedy, in taking
action when the burglar alarm in our Geary street store
rang on October 17th.
ALBERT S. SAMUELS,
33 Kearny Street.
COLUMBIA
STEEL CORPORATION
Manufacturers of
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Page 34
"2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Jslovember, 1926
MODERN CRIME
(Continued from Page 10)
There are many new kinds of crime nowadays
that were wholly unknown a decade ago. Drug-
addiction as a factor in crime is of the present
generation. Habit forming drugs have no doubt
been used improperly ever since drugs became
common. But the drugs of those days did not
make the user a criminal. Cocaine and heroin are
new drugs, and the most dangerous the world
has ever known, and heroin, the most devilish of
all, is no more than ten years old.
The present day dope user is, as a rule, either
a criminal or, in all probability, will become crimi-
nal. Not all crime is attributable to dope, but
all dope is a factor in crime. Many of the worst
crimes are directly chargeable to dope. When
the addict has reached a certain stage he is likely
to commit a violent crime. The State prison is
no terror to the dope addict. As soon as he fin-
ishes one term, he will commit another crime, if
necessary, in order to secure the drug. Recently
I sentenced a man who is not yet thirty years
of age to his fourth term in a penitentiary. Dope
was the cause of each offense. Dope is unques-
tionably the cause of much crime.
(To be Continued)
NEW MEN AND OLD
(Continued from Page 19)
District, reports the loss of his 38 cal. Smith and
Wesson revolver which was lost on October 9th.
The holster also was lost. Loss occurred after he
reported off duty at 8 a. m. last Saturday and
while on his way home at 27 Casselli avenue.
Star No. 1170, used by Robert E. Burns, re-
signed, has been assigned to Patrolman Thomas L.
Bassett, rank 163(11), certification 2488. Officer
Bassett has been permanently assigned for duty
with Company F, but he will remain on duty tem-
porarily in the city prison (Headquarters Com-
pany) until further orders.
Corporal of Police Horace S. Drury of this de-
partment (Bush Street Police District) reports the
loss of his 38 caliber Smith and Wessen revolver.
Description: handle chipped on one side and
wrapped with red tape. Number of gun is 113649,
88 cal. S. & W., and purchased through the Prop-
erty Clerk's office. The revolver was lost some-
where in the first section of the Bush Street Po-
lice District, boundary. Market to Ellis street,
Leavenworth to Steiner street.
Police Officer James A. Carpeneti of this Depart-
ment, having completed his course in the Depart-
ment School of Instructions, has been permanently
assigned for duty with Company L.
Officer Niles Driver of this department has had
his star number changed from 1182 to 792. The
department records shall be altered accordingly.
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Price and Quality
IN MOST instances, price and quality go
hand in hand. Cut the price — cut the
quality. Quality determines the price; price
reflects the quality. The laws of merchan-
dising are unchangeable. They apply to all
sales and all purchases. Little apples are
cheaper than big apples; poor eggs are
cheaper than good eggs; stale butter sells
for half the price of good butter. Cheap
printing is poor printing — almost always.
Poor service costs less than good. Every
thing has its price and quality is the deter-
mining factor.
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Phone Douglas 2377
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20" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 31
CITIZENS COMMP]ND POLICE
(Continued fiom Page 15)
was passed unanimously, "that a letter be sent to
the Chief of Police and a copy of same to the Police
Commission, expressing- our appreciation of the
liigh efficiency of the Police Department in cap-
turing- the "Terror Bandits." Believe us to be
sincere in expressing- our utmost confidence in the
finest police department in the United States.
COPvWIN HANSEN,
Executive Sficretary, Golden Gate Post No. 40.
CAPTAIN WALL COMMENDS OFFICERS
The following report has been submitted to the
Chief's oflice by the Commanding- Captain, Eugene
R. Wall, of the Ingleside Police District:
"I respectfully invite your attention to the effi-
cient and prompt police action performed by Pa-
trolmen Lawrence W. Hagan, John C. Bigelow and
Joseph D. Fitzpatrick of my command in appre-
hending Millard K. McLellan at 12:30 a. m. No-
vember 3rd, 1926, at Guttenberg and Morse
streets. At 11:25 p. m., November 2nd, 1926, a
telephone communication was received at this sta-
tion from the detective bureau, that a Chinese
restaurant was held up in Redwood City, San
Mateo County, by a man with a Chevrolet auto-
mobile, bearing- state license 816-297, wiiich was a
stolen automobile from San Francisco. On receipt
of that communication the above-named officers
were immediately dispatched in the Police Buick
touring- automobile attached to this station, to
cover the Mission Road in the vicinity of the
County Line. The above-named officers appre-
hended Millard K. McLellan, after a chase in which
the Police Department Buick automobile proved a
success for speed in overtaking- the Chevrolet au-
tomobile driven by McLellan who had a revolver,
and it w^as necessary for the police officers to dis-
charge their revolvers and police shotgun to stop
McLellan."
In the premises, the officers mentioned are here-
by commended by the Chief of Police for the po-
lice duty performed.
D. J. O'BRIEN.
CARL LEONHARDT
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Restaurant and Cafe
Telephone San Bruno 1009
SAN BRUNO, CALIFORNIA
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Page 36 "2-0"POLICEJOURNAL
WORK OF MEMBERS APPRECIATED f
7S(ouember, 1926
At various times I have discussed and compli-
mented the men of this department to various
company commanders on their loj'alty to the
police cause and devotion to duty during the try-
ing times just passed.
The men of San Francisco's Police Department
have written police history that will be talked of
in the department and throughout the country
long after some of us have ceased to function as
members of this department.
As Chief of Police, each member of the depart-
ment has my personal thanks for his co-operation
and I am satisfied that proper action will be taken
by the Honorable Board of Police Commissioners.
I feel too, that the Chief of Police knows the aver-
age citizen of San Francisco and that he or she
will not be unmindful of the splendid services
rendered.
Company commanders will compute the over-
time worked by the men of their respective com-
mands so that proper action may be taken at a
later date and when it will not interfere with po-
lice service, so that they may be repaid for tlic
additional time put in doing extra duty.
Company commanders will have reports sub-
mitted by the members of their respective com-
mands, who used their automobiles, giving the
number of hours in which said automobiles were
in service and the number of miles traversed.
From reports submitted company commanders will
compile a report in triplicate to be forwarded to
the Office of the Chief of Police, showing the name
of the member of tlie command, set forth in alpha-
betical order, the make of car and the year model,
also the number of miles covered in police duty.
At a meeting of tlie company commanders held
in the office of the Chief of Police on Tuesday, Oc-
tober 19th, 1926, safeguarding the lives of the
men of the department was discussed and I trust
that each member of the departinent, regardless
of his rank, will co-operate to the fullest extent
with his commanding officer so that the criminal,
who preys upon persons and property will not be
permitted to find a place suspected of illegalities,
which might be a haven of refuge to him, for the
purpose of resting up between criminal activities
and being stimulated to further illegal acts.
Continuous police activities during the past
week have driven undesirables from the city and
those who remained have been taken into custody,
thereby making San Francisco practically safe for
its good citizens, and the duties of the police offi-
cers less hazardous.
Orders and information have been disseminated
from this office on various occasions in the past,
calling the attention of the members of the de-
nartment to thp hazardous duties of a police
DodeeBrothers
MOTOR CARS
J. E. FRENCH CO.
O'Farrell at Polk
2366 Mission St.
Prospect 9000
FIREMAN'S
FUND
INSURANCE COMPANY
401 CALIFORNIA STREET
¥ire ' Automobile • Marine
Phone PARK 6800
Phone PARK 6801
SYMON BROS.
WRECKERS
Full Line of Buildinp Materials — New and Second Hand
Office and Yards - 1435-1437 Market Street
BANCA POPOLARE FUGAZI
(FUGAZI BANK)
F. N. BELGRANO, Pres.
San Francisco — Oakland — Santa Barbara
C«lifomi«
ASSETS OVER $16,000,000.00
Phone Kearny 1701 P. O. Box 2143
San Francisco International Fish Co.
Wholesale and Retail Fish Dealers
535-539 WASHINGTON ST. San Francisco, Cal.
LA CAMPANA CAFE
Italian Restaurant and Hotel
Dancing 440 BROADWAY
Every Evening SAN FRANCISCO
Phone Satter 8805
Islovember, 1926
"2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 37
officer and the vicious nature of criminals as a
wlioie.
We owe a service to tiie good citizens of this
city and a service to our brotiier officers — we can
repay our obligations to both by keeping- the un-
desirables either in jail or on the move.
In conclusion, I wish to say that I personally
appreciate the loyalty and service of the men of
this department, and am grateful to the Almighty
that no member thereof suffered any serious in-
jurv during the trying ordeal just passed.
DANIEL J. O'BRIEN, Chief of Police.
SERGEANT MILLER PROMOTED
Adhering to a policy whereby he has sought to
have at least a sergeant in charge of the License
Bureau, Chief of Police Daniel J. O'Brien the first
of the month assigned Sergt. Sam Miller, for six
years in charge of the reception office of the Chief,
to take over the License Bureau. Corp. John
McCausland, who for the past two years has been
in charge, was given Miller's place.
In appointing Sergt. Miller to his new post,
Chief O'Brien announced that he was giving the
sergeant a well earned promotion, as Miller's con-
duct in his outter office, where he has met thou-
sands of people having business with the Chief of
Police, has been of such a high order that he has
made many friends for the department.
We might also add that those whose business
was of such a nature that it could be attended to
by another were shown the proper police official
they should see, and no one ever went away after
talking with Sam ]\Iiller feeling anything but kind-
ness for the police department.
Corporal McCausland has made a splendid rec-
ord for himself in the License Bureau and we ex-
pect he will maintain the same good reputation in
his new billet.
Meeting the public, and seeing that they are
given the best in police service is the first duty
of a police off.cer and Chief O'Brien has been most
fortunate indeed in his staff of men in the "outer
off.ce", from Capt. William J. Quinn, chief clerk,
down through the line of Coi-p. McCausland, John
Coughlan and Corp. Horace McGowan.
These officers have a difficult task and they
handle it in a manner that make all, the high and
• the low, the rich and the poor, feel that they get
the attention they are entitled to.
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Kearny 3648
48 CLAY STREET
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All styles
and sizes
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HOME LAUNDRY CO.
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We Handle All Classes of Laundry Work
PHONE MARKET 130
IL TROVATORE CAFE ROOF GARDEN
DANCING EVERY EVENING
PAUL KELLrS JAZZ ORCHESTRA
ITALIAN CUISINE
Telephone 506 BROADWAY
Sutter 8547
San Francisco, Cal.
DOUGLAS 6346
EASTMAN KODAK STORES, Inc.
Formerly Ho-wland & Dewey Co.
EVERYTHING PHOTOGRAPHIC
545 MARKET ST. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
Roaches, Ants, Bedbugs,
Fleas, Moths, Rats, Etc.
Scientifically and Permanently
EXTERMINATED by
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Manufacturers and Exterminators
(Established 1892)
MAX SALOMON, Manager
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PREPARATIONS
Sold at Factory Prices
OfBce: 657-659 PHELAN BUILDING
Phone: Douglas 953
SAN FRANCISCO. CALIF.
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T^ovemher, 1926
FANNING
(Continued from Page 7)
gone down again and a buyer could not be found
at any reasonble figure owing to tlie dryness of the
season. The animals were then put out to pasture
and this move put Dr. Glenn in the mood to try
farming. He formed a partnership with Major
Biggs and the big ranch in Yolo was noted
throughout the country. They finally rented it
for ordinary farm operations and these two part-
ners went into stock trading and freighting be-
tween there and Idaho. In the spring of 1867
Dr. Glenn concluded to make his permanent home
in California and with that object in view he
purchased land in Colusa County and moved there
with his family to a place called Jacinto on the Sac-
ramento River which was his home from that time
up to his death. This ranch had become almost
world-renowned and known as the Jacinto Ranch,
it being one of the largest ranches in the world,
extending along the banks of the Sacramento six-
teen miles and averaging a width of over five miles.
The land was devoted principally to wheat raising ;
it being divided up into sections and worked by
separate gangs of laborers, all of whom were per-
sonally overseen by Dr. Glenn himself. He was
not averse to exercise, his hands being hardened
and horny from actual labor, while his bronzed
and sunburned face combined with his gentler
qualities earned him the name of the gentleman
farmer. He was quiet and unobtrusive in his
manners and commanded the respect of all with
whom he came in contact. His distinguished
characteristic was a full flowing beard, but serious
looking eyes, which betokened great mental quali-
ties. His first and only experience in public life
was a member of the State Board of Agriculture.
He was born to be a leader in whatever he under-
took. Educated as a physician, an unexpected
event made him a land holder and in a few years
he became the largest farmer on the globe, and
the only wheat grower in America who chartered
his own ships and sold by telegraph his own grain
in Europe, dispensing with middle men entirely.
His payments for labor and supplies on his gi-eat
ranch would reach as high as six hundred thou-
sand dollars a year. In addition to this he owned
a seventy thousand acre ranch in Oregon stocked
with cattle, neither land nor cattle of which he
had ever seen. He also owned cattle ranges in
Nevada. He was a man naturally given to large
and bold operations. He never lost his balance.
Losses never disturbed him, nor great profits
elate him. Physically, Dr. Glenn was almost a
perfect man. There was not a weak spot in his
1 round, well knit body and broad shoulders. He
could ride a mule 18 hours a day without fatigue,
and had often done it when personally superin-
tending his ranches a long distance apart. He was
an indulgent father, and there never was anything
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Phones: Garfield 4417
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Broemmels Prescription Pharmacy
SECOND FLOOR, FITZHIIGH BLDG.
Rooms 201-202-203
Prescription Department
Open Week Days. 8. A. M. to 9. P. M.
Sundays. 9 to 1 and 6 to 8
Post & Powell Sts.
San Fi-ancisco
Fisher's Dancing Pavilion
Eddy and Jones Streets
DANCING EVERY EVENING
Mnsic by
DR. RITTER'S GOLDEN GATE SINGING BAND
ADMISSION 10 CENTS
Jslovember, 1926
2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 39
too good for his family. He was a popular man
in his own neighborhood, which for so large an
employer was high praise.
The trial of Huron Miller for the killing of the
doctor was held in Colusa before Judge Bridge-
ford. Jackson Hatch was counsel for the de-
fendant, while General Joe Hamilton was for the
prosecution. Hatch argued that if the defendant
firmly believed in his own mind that it was neces-
sary to kill Dr. Glenn in self-defense, then he was
justified in so doing. He said as to the presump-
tion in the case, the law allowed the defendant
to rest upon the presumption of innocence.
Hatch in his argument of this case occupied nearly
eight houi-s. General Joe Hamilton argued that
in the course of the trial after the evidence of the
prosecution was all in the defendant takes the
stand and for the first time pleads self-defense in
justification of the homicide. This plea of self-
defense the counsel argued was an after-considera-
tion. Counsel argued that the prowling about of
the defendant before the homicide and his having
deadly weapons on him proved premeditation and
malice. He said that Dr. Glenn was undoubtedly
not in a pleasant frame of mind at finding Miller,
who was his bookkeeper, drunk, and when he said
"you are drunk again," Miller replied, "you are a
liar," and Dr. Glenn knocked him down and there
was no excuse for the defendant slaying him a
week later. Counsel also said in his argument
that drunkenness was no excuse and he warned
the jury against sentimental maudlin sympathy,
and charged them not to allow an opportunity
for it to be said perhaps a few months later, "an-
other good citizen shot down by a drunken man,"
but let it be telegi'aphed over the world that a jury
in Colusa County had found that unlawful killing
is murder. He devoted one hour and fifteen min-
utes to the closing argument. The case was given
to the jury that afternoon and they remained out
for a long time; there was no possible pros-
pect of their arriving at a verdict and had made no
progress, and the court then made an order that
if there was no possibility that the jury would
agree that they be discharged, and remanded Mil-
ler into custody again. It was stated on the con-
cluding ballot the jury stood 8 for murder in the
1st degi-ee with 4 for murder in the 2nd degree
and this was about the vote throughout when it
was stated that 1 vote was for manslaughter. It
was also stated after that the eight were willing
to vote for a life sentence provided the four would
come up to that degree but the latter stood out.
Phone Prospect 2867
K. B. COBB, Prop.
HOTEL SUTHERLAND
Steam Heat. Hot and Cold Water in Every Room
Private Exchange Connecting All Rooms
465 ELLIS STREET, San Francisco
Special Rates to Permanent Guests
re GRANEY
Billiard Parlor
Finest in the World
924 MARKET STREET
CW.MARWEDEL
EstabUshed 1872
TOOLS METALS
SHOP SUPPLIES
Brass, Copper, Steel, Bronze,
Aluminum and Monel Metal
store and Office— 76 FIRST STREET
Metal Dept.— 31 JESSIE STREET
San Francicso, Cal.
WM. H. HAMBLETON
NOW IN OUR NEW STORE
50 CALIFORNIA ST. San Francisco, Calif.
All TJiat Is Good for the Smoker
KEARNY 5044
HOTEL MELBA
214 JACKSON STREET
CAESAR ATTELL
Watchmaker and Jeweler
6 - 6TH STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
They Advertise — Let'i PationJie
453 GRANT AVE
G.
632 QaANT AVE.
Unilcr Samt Managtrnenl
CHIITESE AMEEICAi; DISHES — ^MEECHANTS* LUNCH, 60e
Jazz Dance Music Every Evening 8 p. m. to 1 a_ m.
REAL CHOP SUEY
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"2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
T^ovember, 1926
CHIEF O'BRIEN
(Continued from Page 9)
district must respond to fires, ropes must be
stretched, persons are not permitted to enter fire
lines except a limited few who are clothed with
proper authority. Details are immediately made
to protect life and property at fire and to pre-
vent crimes. Outposts are established so that
traffic will be properly diverted and nothing is
left undone to prevent any possibility of hindrance
to the efficient workings of the fire-fighting unit.
Our police activities are further extended by
the necessity of maintaining a proper clearance at
all times at fire hydrants. Of course, all activities
along this hne find their authority in the legal
enactments of our state and municipal legislative
bodies. Our officers are constantly on the alert to
^prevent unlawful blockading of fire hydrants and
citations are always given where violations of this
(kind are discovered. That this requirement is es-
sential can be readily seen by the interruption
caused a fire-fighting apparatus in making proper
connections with a water hydrant when an auto-
mobile is found unlawfully parked in front of a
hydrant. It goes without saying that the better
regulation of traffic upon our public highways and
the more orderly and expeditious the movements
of motor vehicles, the more ready will be the
response in cases of fire and the more efficient
will our fire department activities be. While our
traffic problems have been discussed at length
among police officials we have in mind the great
requirement for co-operation with fire depart-
ments along traffic lines. We realize the gi-eat
responsibility resting on fire departments in the
protection of property and we are always endeav-
oring to effect a closer co-operation for the com-
mon good.
Another police activity which is engaged in is
that of the apprehension of those who set fire to
property in violation of our statutory enactments,
particularly the statutes governing arson and the
attempts to unlawfully collect fire insurance. This,
of course, comes strictly within the sphere of
police activity, but in the apprehension of crimi-
nals the preparing of evidence, the arranging of
witnesses and establishing of our cases for the
prosecution in general we have always had the
close co-operation of our Fire Marshal.
The efficiency of one department has a most
favorable and encouraging effect upon the other.
It is the aim and object of each to give the
highest possible degree of service to the people
of the county or municipality in which they sei-ve.
Every efficient improvement is taken advantage
of and I might say in concluding that the i-espect
and confidence of our people has been gained
through this efficiency and the co-operation be-
tween the respective departments.
Telephone Kearny 2453
Night Phones —
Pacific 1333
Oakland, Piedmont 1149
EUREKA BOILER WORKS CO.
Designers and Builders of All Kinds of
MARINE, STATIONARY and
LOCOMOTIVE BOILERS
Special Attention Paid to
REPAIRS OF SHIPWORK, BOILERS,
TANKS and SHEET IRON WORK
Building and Installing of Oil Plants a Specialty
MACHINE BLACKSMITHING
MAIN OFFICE AND WORKS:
166-178 Fremont St. San Francisco, Cal.
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250 STOCKTON STREET
2345 MISSION STREET
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Page 41
The Officers of the San Francisco
Police Department are respectfully
asked to patronize the firms
supporting their paper*
MENTION THE POLICE JOURNAL
CLASSIFIED
ADVERTISING— PUBLICITY
Norman F. D'Evelyn _Balfour Bldg.
Harold Wurts-..
N. W. Aver & Sons_.
Municr, Leon E.-
Chronicle Bldg.
Matson Bldg.
_863 Howard St.
H. K. McCann Co 451 Montgomery St.
Emil Brischer & Staff .Flood Bldg.
AMUSEMENTS
Chutes at the Beach.
AUTOMOBILES
1601 Van Ness
1700 Van Ness
Chandler
Cleveland
Ford
Dodge Cars-
Star Car _
-Sacramento-Van Ness
-Wilbur Smith
G'Farrell & Polk
_1625 Van Ness Ave.
AUTO WRECKERS
Little Autoniobile Cc-TOl Golden Gate Ave.
BADGES
Irvine & Jachens^. __.1068 Market St.
BANKS
.American Bank
Fogazi Bank . ? Columbus
Italian- American —
Montgomery and Sacramento
San Francisco Baiik B26 California St.
BILLIARD PARLORS
-924 Market St.
The Graney .
BONDS & INVESTMENTS
De Fremery & Co 341 Montgomery St.
CIGARS
Admiration "Mild Tampa"
Hambleton, Wm. H 50 California St.
Optimo . "Very Mild"
Shaw-Leahy Co., Inc 207 9th St.
."Your Cigar"
Van Camp
CLEANING AND DYEING
F. Thomas 27 Tenth St.
CLOTHING
Columbia Outfitting C«.— -Mission and 22nd
Home Clothing Co 2500 Mission St.
DAIRIES
Del Monte Creamery 375 Potrero Ave.
San Francisco \ Turk and Steiner
DANCING
Fisher's Dancing Pavilion Eddy & Jones
Roseland Ball Room Sutter & Pierce
DENTISTS
Hoagland, Dr. 908 Market St.
ELECTRICAL GOODS
Collonan Elect. & Mfg. Co. —
3201 Mission St.
EXTERMINATORS, INSECT
Insecticide Co 667 Phelan Bldg.
FLORISTS
Brown & Kennedy 3091 - 16th St.
FOOD PRODUCTS
California Poultry Co 313 Washington
and Sacramento Sts.
San Francisco International Fish Co.
535 Washington St,
Sperry Flour Co Tested Every Hour
Western California Fiah Co._- 656 Clay
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
White's Service _2200 Sutter St.
FURNITURE
Redlick-Newman Co. 17th & Mission
GARAGES
Page's Modem
.-740 Valencia
GASOLINE
"General" —
Look for the Green and White Sign
Richfield Oil Co The Gasoline of Power
HALLS
Dreamland Auditorium >
-Steiner & Post
Lundstrom-.
St. Francis
Bellevue
Fairmont
Lankershim-
Melba.-
HATS
-.10 Inclusive Hat Stores
HOSPITALS
-Bush and Hyde
HOTELS
Geary and Taylor
-California and Powell
5th near Market
-214 Jackson St.
Palace Market & New Montgomery
Van Noys Terminal __60 Market St.
Whitcomb Market and Eighth
INSURANCE
Fireman's Fund . . JM California
James Rolph, Jr., W. B. Swett Co., Inc.
150 Sansome
West American Insurance Co.
1431 Van Ness Ave.
JEWELRY
Attell, Caesar . 6 Sixth St.
KODAKS
Eastman Kodak Stores, Inc.-645 Market St.
LAUNDRIES
-3338 - 17th St.
—250 - 12th St.
_-385 - 8th St.
Home
La Grande & White's.
New Process -_
San Francisco 1432 Turk St.
Sanitary Towel Supply Co _-84 - 9th St.
United States 1148 Harrison St.
LUBRICANTS
"General" —
Look for the Green and White Sign
(Richlube) Pennsylvania Oil
LUMBER
Sudden-Heitman-
1960 - 3rd St.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Rudolph Wurlitzer Co 250 Stockton St.
MATTRESSES
McRoskey, Edw. L 1506 Market St.
MOTORCYCLES
Harley-Davidson The Police Standard
OIlie Cummins 57 Page St.
OIL PLANTS
Eureka Boiler Works ^166 PVemont St.
PAINTS
Fuller. W. P. & Co..
301 Mission
Send for Booklet on Home Beautifying
PUBLICATIONS
"2-0" to Advertisers.
PRINTERS
Dulfer, Alex
Quinn, John F..
-853 Howard St.
Douglas 2377
PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS
Great Western Power Co.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
REAL ESTATE
McGuire, Walter E 220 Monteomery
RESTAURANTS
Blanco's . 859 O'Farrell St.
Fior D'ltalia 492 Broadway
Hoyt's 6 Doughnut and Sandwich Shops
n Trovatore — 506 Broadway
La Campana Cafe . 440 Broadway
New Poodle Dog Polk & Post
Shanghai Cafe, New —
Schwartz's Waffle Inn
St. Germaii
-463 Grant Ave.
126 O'Farrell
-60 Ellis St.
SIGHTSEEING TOURS
Gray Line Motor Tours 920 Market
STEAMSHIP LINES
Luckenbach Steamship Co.
TAXIS
White Top Cab Phone Franklin 6
TAILORS
Kelleher & Browne The Irish Tailors
THEATRES
Loew's Warfield — The Best in
Pictures and Weekly "Ideas"
Pantages — Selected Photoplays —
Six Vaudeville Acts
Union Square — Feature Photoplays —
Five Vaudeville Acts
TIRES
"Serve You Well"
_"Most Miles Per Dollar"
166 - 12th St
C. & L
Firestone-
Michclin-..
TOOLS
Marwcdel, C. W-
-76 - iBt St.
NEW ADVERTISERS
Schluter & Co.
Columbia Steel Corp.
Pacific Metal Works.-
-1400 Market St.
Matson Bldg.
-495 - 11th St.
Byington Electric Co 1S09 Fillmore St.
Golden State Butter \t Your Grocer
Caldwell-Cornwall & Banker- 57 Sutter St.
North Amer. Imp. Co. (NACO) all grocers
John Finn Iron Works 372 - 2nd St.
Schrimer Stevedore C« Pier No. 39
F. R. Nash Stevedore Co 6 Mission St.
Johnson's Saws 26 Stillman St.
Hotel Sutter Kearny at Sutter
Uncle Tom's Cabin —San Bruno
Park Sanitarium
Fernando Nelson & Sons 2 W. Portal Av.
The Envelope Co. 352 - 6th St.
Symon Bros., wreckers 1435 Market St.
Jones-Thierbach Co At Your Grocer
rhas. Hamil. builder 6242 Geary St.
Dan P. Maher .Paints, Oils, Varnishes
Reinhart Lumber Co.
Monterey Packing Co. At Your Grocer
Normans. Inc.. costumes 1061 Market St.
Maske>-8, candies 52 Kearny St.
H. Friedreich, furniture manufacturer
I. Goldman, clothier 788 Market St.
Page 42 "2-0" POLICE JOURNAL November, ] 926
AUSTRALIAN TRAFFIC EXPERT HERE DET. SERGEANT JAMES MITCHELL A "DAD"
They have their traffic problems over in Au-
stralia, the same as they do, here, so says J. H.
Lomperd, head of the traffic branch of the Mel-
bourne Police Department, who has been in San
Francisco for several days and who is in the
United States for a long and intensive study of
automobile traffic in all the cities, and of the
methods employed in handling it.
Officer Lomperd visited the local traffic bureau,
and had several conferences with Captain Dun-
can Matheson, the first traffic commander in the
city.
The visitor declared he was very much im-
pressed with the methods used here and that he
can apply some of them to the problems of his
home city. He says Melbourne is faced with
somewhat similar conditions regarding exits from
the city, as is San Francisco. The Antipodes city
has two bridges that furnish the main outlet and
he says these driveways are taxed to handle the
100,000 machines in the section.
In Australia he says there are no speed laws.
The law says no one must drive at "a speed or
manner dangerous." This system, he said, had
proven very satisfactory and people were careful
not to violate the laws.
Det. Sergt. James Mitchell reported' off early
November 10 and was late the next morning.
All because an eight-pound baby daughter was
born to Mrs. Mitchell at the St. Francis Hos-
pital. James says the mother and young heiress
is doing fine and he expects the first words she
will say will be "Uncle Mike." James found his
desk in the Detective Bureau all dolled up for
him when he showed up, there being plenty of
pink ribbon and several accessories that little
baby girls find handy in their every day life.
HOTEL SUTTER
FIREPROOF
Kearny and Sutter Sts,
EUROPEAN PLAN
Phone Sutter 3060
San Francisco, California
Hotel Sutter is a modem, strictly first-class
hotel, noted far and wide for its fine furnishings,
splendid service and popular prices.
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fact, the Sutter is in the heart of the city, with
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The Killing of Joe Tanko
Edwin C. Gillen, Police Reporter in San Francisco for Oa\land Tnbune. Writes Interesting Article
of End of Jsiotorious Murderer
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It was in a dimly lit basement flat
of a house in jMcAllister sti'eet, re-
pugnant with the smell of gun-
powder and the sight of bullet-rid-
dled, blood splotched walls that Joe
Tanko, arch-bandit and murderer,
with the ferociousness of a cornered
rat, fought a duel to death with De-
Edwin c. Gillen ^gctive Sergeant Earl Roney. And
it was with the traditional courage of the police
department and the individual heroism of a brave
man that Roney, dangerously wounded, \\n'ot<2
"finis" to the bandit's career of crime and col-
lected in full the debt he owed society.
Abruptly, accidentally and with the invariable
uncertainty that accompanies the duties of a
policeman, Roney and his brother officers. Detec-
tive Sergeants Vernon \^an Matre, Jack Palmer
and Edward McSheehy, unwittingly walked into
the lair of the lion Tanko, prey of 100 posses
throughout the country. Before the bare twink-
ling of an eye law and banditry met and fought
it out.
The tragedy was enacted when the officers went
to the McAllister street address to search for
Willie De Bardelaben and his gang, wanted for
an assault on a man and his wife. De Bardelaben
is well known to the police and no trouble was
expected. De Bardelaben, it was thought how-
ever, might make a break for liberty. Precau-
tions to spike such a move were taken. The offi-
cers surrounded the house. Two doors, a window
and an upstairs flat were guarded by the four
policemen as they closed in on their prey. Mc-
Sheehy guarded a rear door; Palmer a side door;
Van IMatre was stationed at the only window to
the place, while Roney guarded an upstairs out-
let to close in behind the men who were sought.
When all men were stationed Van Matre raised
the window and peering through a screen dis-
cerned the figure of De Bardelaben stretched out
on a bed.
"Willie", called Van Matre, "Come out and ^vith
your hands up — we have the place covered."
De Bardelaben leaped to his feet, fully dressed,
and appeared to comply with the command, when
suddenly he recoiled in horror and, hands stretch-
ed high, backed slowly toward the interior of
the room.
"I can't", he choked, "he's got me covered."
"Wlio has you covered"? queried Van Matre.
His question went unanswered. Van Matre
then thrust aside the screen, put his leg through
the window and started to enter.
A shot rang out. Van ]Matre gasped and
slumped from the window. He drew the first
fire from Tanko's gun in the bandit's last stand
for life. The bullet found its way deep into the
officer's groin.
Before Palmer and McSheehy raised the fallen
\'an Matre to his feet a volley of shots reverberat-
ed throughout the house and the officers knew the
battle was ended — Roney and Tanko shot it out.
When Tanko fired at Van Matre. he ran for
the stairway leading to the flat above. That was
his last means of escape. His flight was cut short,
however, for at the top of the naiTOw unlit stair-
case stood Roney waiting for such a move.
Tanko paused!
Roney instantly recognized his adversary!
Not the Tanko who escaped from San Quentin
and carried on a reign of terror in Sacramento,
to be sure, but an emaciated, haggard Tanko with
the look of a hunted deer.
For a fleeting second, officer and criminal stared
at each other! A dramatic tableau and then^ —
it was all over.
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Tanko fired the first shot and with the same
deadly aim that he exhibited throughout his com-
paratively short life, sent a bullet ripping into
Roney's abdomen. Then Roney answered.
Five shots were fired by the officer. The first
plunged close to the bandit's heart and probably
was the shot that saved Roney's life, for Tanko,
mortally wounded, was no longer the "dead" shot
and his other bullets went wild. Roney emptied
his gun and four of his five shots entered Tanko's
body.
As the final lead pellet tore through the bandit's
body, Tanko, king of the underworld, ingloriously
examples of real policemen and a tremendous as-
set to the San Francisco Police Department.
The law won, though at a great sacrifice, for
two brave and courageous officers were shot by
the cold blooded murderer. Roney, who unflinch-
ingly met Tanko on his own grounds and terms,
was felled by a bullet through his abdomen. Van
Matre with a shot through the groin.
Van Matre, though wounded, rushed as best he
could to the assistance of Roney, being outdis-
tanced on account of his injury, by Palmer and
McSheehy. They saw their comrade was badly
hurt. He told them the bandit was dead at the
TWO HEROES GET REWARDS
Detective Sergeants Earl Roney and Vernon Van Matre Being Presented Checks by Chief O'Brien and Captain Matheson
toppled over and rolled heavily to the bottom of
the stairs, his limp trigger finger stayed forever
from his murderous career.
Then Roney, with Tanko's bullet in his abdo-
men, showed the grit and courage exacted from
a policeman. With teeth clenched to lessen the
agonizing pain, and with trembling fingers, Roney
reloaded his empty gun in anticipation of further
combat! It never came. Tanko was dead!
It was because of this that Roney, Van Matre,
Palmer and McSheehy have been commended by
Mayor James Rolph, the Board of Supervisors,
the Police Commission and every citizen of San
Francisco and why they all pray for Detective
Roney's speedy recovery, and it is also why this
writer points to the quartet of officers as shining
foot of the stairs, that he had asked Tanko to
surrender, but he shot first. Ambulances were
summoned and a general alarm sent to headquar-
ters that brought automobile after automobile
loaded with detectives, armed for combat, but
there was no need. Roney had done his work
well. De Bardelaben was in shackles and Palmer
and McSheehy turned their prisoner over to
patrolmen and assisted in the work of caring for
the injured.
Every attention was given the two wounded
detectives. Chief O'Brien, Captain Matheson and
other officials high in police circles rushed to the
hospital where they asked that nothing be spared
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The Career of Jesse James
An Interesting Article By Officer Peter Fanning
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PETER FANNING
Jesse James was
born in Clay County,
Missouri, in the year
of 1846. His father
was a minister and his
mother a well-educated
woman. Jesse and his
brother Frank made
their first experience
in killing and robbing
when they joined
Quantrell's notorious
Guerrilla band. As
mere boys of 18 and 16
years of age, Frank
being the eldest, they
distinguished t h e m -
selves as marvelously
good pistol shots, and
reckless young marauders generally.
At the time he gave his boyish ambitions a
treat and joined Quantrell's gang, Jesse is des-
cribed as having been a youth of pleasant ex-
pression, round, jovial face and merry laugh.
Jesse had always done the talking while Frank
was creditably reported to have never laughed and
never joked with the gang.
After several little jobs were pulled off for
Quantrell, they were then initiated into their first
grand robbing, burning, murdering experience.
That was the sacking of the town of Lawrence,
over the Kansas border. In that horrible affair
the James boys, then actually boys, distinguished
themselves by shooting down an unusual number
of defenseless men, women and children.
In this barbarous warfare Jesse received three
wounds, two in the legs and one through the
lungs.
The latter wound was a terrible one and almost
saved the people and various railroads much sub-
sequent annoyance, but Jesse was taken in by
friends after escaping from his pursuers, and was
sent home to his mother. Just after the close of
the Civil war, Frank James was very badly wound-
ed in the hip by a posse who were looking for
horse thieves; but his great luck attended him,
and after a desperate fight, in which he is said to
have killed three of the posse, he escaped.
The first big robbery after the war credited to
Jesse James' long account, was the holdup of the
Liberty Bank of Missouri taking seventy thousand
dollai-s.
For this Jesse James was wanted by the author-
ities but having established a reputation as a
very bad man and dead shot, his capture was given
to five cavalry men to perform.
As usual Jesse escaped, although surprised,
while still suflfering from the wound in his lung.
He first killed two and badly wounded two
others of his would be captors. The next affair
which brought Jesse into notoriety was the rob-
bery of the bank of Russell ville, Logan County,
Kentucky. This was done in the James style of
doing that kind of work. A gang of mounted men
dashed into Russellville headed by Jesse shouting,
swearing, and firing pistols to reduce the citizens
to a proper condition of inactive fear.
Two of the men rushed into the bank, argued
briefly with the cashier and a large portion of the
safe's contents soon departed.
Shortly after this robbery the James boys came
out to this coast for their health, and proceded
to Paso Robles sulphur springs where a hotel was
kept by their uncle.
The quiet of sulphur springs life was not to the
James boys liking, and they soon drifted up into
Nevada where they were known as tough char-
acters. They got into a bloody fight in a gambling
joint in Battle Mountain and made their escape as
soon as possible.
The next heard of them was in 1869 when the
bank of Gallatin, in Missouri, was robbed in the
James boys style.
In this affair the cashier of the bank was killed
and some of the assets of the bank were taken
away in a sack.
At this time the police and detectives were all
on the hunt for them and all trace of them were
lost; the next that was heard of them was in
1872, when a little village in Adair County, Ken-
tucky, received a visit from this gang, and in regu-
lation fashion held up a bank there.
The Pinkerton Detectives were obtained to hunt
down these bandits, and they scoured the country
for them.
The next that was heard of them was when the
pool seller's cash box and the gate money of the
Kansas City Fair was robbed. This was done with
the usual rush and yell, and in the presence of
twenty thousand people with the gang getting
away on horseback.
The next rally that they made was a holdup of
the St. Genevieve Bank in IMissouri. This was
done in the regulation style, the gang compelling
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December, 1926
I Remember When '
. Reyniniscences of An Old-Time Police Reporter
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Captain Bill Healy was in charge of the China-
town squad in 1912-1913 and was made a tem-
porary sergeant by the late Chief of Police White.
In 1914 Bill was a sergeant in Co. B; an acting
lieutenant from 1916 to 1920 and an appointed
lieutenant in 1920 and a captain in 1923. Captain
Healy was made commander of the Richmond
station which position he now holds. Bill used
to be a molder before he went on the force.
* * *
Hamilton Dobbin, one of the oldest men in point
of service in tlie department, is Captain Healy's
clerk. "Ham" is a corporal and knows as much
about old San Fi-ancisco and the police depart-
ment members as anyone. He began as a Park
policeman under the old Park Commission before
that individual force was merged with the regu-
lar police department. Dobbin and 15 men were
made members of the force when the Charter
went into effect in 1900. He worked in the Park
and old O'Farrell street stations; was a detective
sergeant; was in the Mission, and is now in the
Richmond.
* * *
Of the old Park police there are three men
still in the department. They are Manuel de la
Guerra, Hamilton Dobbins and James H. Kava-
naugh. * * *
Thoinas F. O'Connell, now a trouble shooter at
the Richmond, worked with Charlie Gallatin on
the dip and bunk detail from 1910 to 1917. He
also worked with Tom Reagan.
* * *
Charles G. Budd, the smallest man mounted,
rode in the Park. He is now retired.
* * *
Frank Black, on a horse, patrolled the Cliff
House road and Ocean Beach. Frank is now in
the office of the Detective Bureau.
* * ^N
Tom Guest, retired, patrolled tlie streets from
10th avenue to 25th avenue, from the Park to
the Presidio.
The O'Farrell street station was a sub-station
of the Park district.
^ * ■■\''
Handsome Bill King, with the row of gold
teeth, was at the Park. Bill is now connected
with the North End.
* * *
Frank McGuire, now a lieutenant at the Rich-
mond, entered the department 18 years ago, on
the same night that Chief of Police Dan O'Brien
was appointed. Frank was in the Chinatown
squad for a long time and served under Sergeants
Lionel Shaw, Morrissey and Jack Herlihy. Lieu-
tenant McGuire spent 13 years in the tough old
Southern district.
^ ^ ^
On the day of the earthquake of 1906, and the
succeeding fire, the line-up at the Park station
was : Captain Gleeson in charge ; Lieutenants Jas.
Kelly and John Lackmann ; Sergeants James H.
Helms and Henry O'Day; Corporals Bill Fergu-
son and John Rainsbury. All policemen worked
12-hour and longer shifts and most were detailed
on fire duty.
* * *
Sergeant Rainsbury was in charge of the mount-
ed men in the Park. Kelly, Rainsbury and Fergu-
son are all dead.
* * *
Joseph "Cliff" Field, now a lieutenant with the
traffic squad, patrolled a beat in the Park.
* * *
William E. Rice, now in the city prison, also
walked a Park district beat.
Ed Wiskotchill, for many years, and still, in
the Detective Bureau, pounded the pavements at
the Park. ^ ,^ ^
Captain Eugene Wall of Ingleside was Captain
of Detectives.
^ ^ :}:
Those members who could save a dime or two
always invested their money in flats. Many liv-
ing and retired are reaping the fruits of their
savings. ^ ,,, ^
There were but eight mounted men connected
with the Park station. They were Frank Black,
heretofore mentioned ; Michael J. Greggains, still
on a horse in the Park; Frank J. Haley, also
mounted in the Park; Tom Guest, retired; War-
ren M. Phillips, the Park cat killer; Tom Daly,
yet on the same job; James H. Mann, now a ser-
geant at the Harbor, and Ed. Pidgeon, dead, who
used to ride into the Ocean Beach surf and rescue
many a drowning person.
* ^: *
Jolm Cotter, Joseph B. Kenny and Michael
Brady were patrol-wagon drivers at the O'Farrell
station. That was in 1906. Joe Leary, William
D. Burns and Tom Fitzpatrick guided the horse-
drawn wagons at the Park at the same time.
December, 1926
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*CH1EF'S PAGE
By Chief of Police Daniel J. O'Brien
CHIEF ISSUES NEW WINTER ORDERS
As the winter months are approaching-, the
Chief of Pohce takes this opportunity of again
issuing- a word of warning- to the end tliat the
people of San Francisco will have assurance that
they will not be victimized by the unlawful ac-
tivities of the burglar, holdup man and others of
similar ilk. It is with a great deal of satisfaction
that we can look back on the services performed
during the past year by members of this depart-
ment and more particularly, to the splendid serv-
ices recently rendered in the apprehension of
desperate criminals. It was with keen apprecia-
tion of such splendid services that I communi-
cated with the Honorable Board of Police Com-
missioners on October 19, 1926, advising said
Board of the loyalty displayed by our officers of
all ranks and the efficient and faithful services
rendered by them, and more particularly by those
who were specifically detailed to face a most try-
ing situation. A copy of my letter to the Board
was transmitted in General Order No. 276, on
October 19, 1926.
At this writing, the Chief of Police and I am
sure all other members of the department, are
not unmindful of the heroic and commendable
services rendered by members of this depart-
ment on this date, in the apprehension of the
notorious bandit-killer and fugitive Joe Tanko.
Words- cannot express our appreciation for the
heroic conduct of Detective Sergeants Earl Roney
and Vernon V. Van Matre who, though seriously
wounded, rendered unflinching services in the
very face of death itself.
Indeed, the words of Detective Sergeant Roney,
"I merely acted the part of a police officer", are
inspiring and while we sincerely hope for his well
being and speedy recovery, we can say with pride
that he has bravely played his part as an officer
and hero in the face of the most trying circum-
stances. He well merits to be placed among the
galaxy of heroes who have showered glory upon
this department in the past and whose names
and deeds are an inspiration to us in our future
conduct.
The loyalty and devotion to duty showed by
Detective Sergeant Vernon V. Van Matre and his
persistency in remaining at his post of duty after
being seriously wounded, have received universal
commendation. We can proudly point to his
achievement and in common with our thoughts
for Detective Sergeant Earl T. Roney we look
forward for his speedy recovery. While Fate
decreed that Detective Sergeants Edward J. Mc-
Sheehy and Jolm J. Palmer should go through
this trying ordeal witliout being the victims of
the murder-bandit's bullet they played their part
well and furthermore, saw to it that no criminal
escaped through the barriers established.
A municipality protected by men of this caliber
can well be proud of them and their achievements.
We have in the past been most successful in
apprehending the so-called gangs of criminals
wlio have operated in our midst. The statement
has been made that no crook can operate for two
weeks consecutively in San Francisco, without
being placed behind prison bars by the members
of the San Francisco Police Department. This
statement is not a mere boast as police history will
show it to be a confirmed fact.
The Chief of Police, however, wishes at this
time to remind the members of our department
that the climatic conditions of San Francisco have
a tendency to attract many persons to our midst.
We welcome the law-abiding citizen and we guar-
antee him that a 100 per cent sei-vice will be ren-
dered in the protection of his person and his
property. We must not forget, however, that
the criminal is also attracted by our climatic con-
ditions and with the thought in his mind that
quite possibly he may find a fertile field here for
his unlawful endeavor.
Each member of this department well knows
that the burglar, thug and holdup man is no re-
spector of rights of others and that his vicious
and criminal tendencies are directed more par-
ticularly to the law-enforcement officer whether
in or out of uniform.
It is the wish of the Chief of Police, and I am
sure of every member of this department, that
San Fi-ancisco be kept free from the crook and
criminal. Apprehension of criminals demands in-
genuity, skill and bravery, but let us not forget
that the adage "An ounce of prevention is worth
a pound of cure", is still a living principle. Crime
prevention has always been the aim of our de-
partment and all the laws and regulations should
be applied to those who are known or suspected
of being maintained and dependent upon the fruits
of their unlawful endeavors.
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Modern Crime and Causes
By Carlos S. Hardy, Judge of the Superior Court, Los Angeles, Written Especially for the Los Angeles Examiner
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Bootleg liquor is a large contributor to present
day crime. A few drinks of this liquor cause
many people to commit crime who previously have
led exemplary lives.
The dispenser of bootleg liquor must be classed
along with the dope peddler as a crime producer.
In some respects bootleg is more dangerous to
the general public than dope, because of the great
and ever growing congestion on the highways.
Many deaths and serious accidents which are
criminally caused as the result of poison bootleg
liquor are of daily occurrence. The highway is no
longer safe, because of the man — sometimes a
woman — who has partaken of the merchandise
of one engaged in violating the laws of the State
and of the United States.
The failure and neglect of parents to discipline
their children and instruct them along moral
lines is undoubtedly one of the chief causes of
crime. This duty of parents to their children
is the highest duty.
If children have inculcated in their conscious-
ness in their first seven years obedience, truth-
fulness and honesty, they will never go into crime.
If children are disobedient to parents, they are
likely to be disobedient in school, and if they are
disobedient there, they will be disobedient to the
restraints of law and order. If honesty and
truthfulness are made part of the children's
character, they will be honest and truthful in
adult life.
It has been told of olden times that an ounce
of prevention is better than a pound of cure, and
that is true in matters of crime. When the tree
is bent over, it is not easy to straighten it up, and
so it is with human beings. When criminal
tendencies have been developed, and are culti-
vated, the individual becomes a criminal. It is
not so easy then to remake the character and
change the criminal into an honest, upright citi-
zen.
Crime's best preventative is home discipline and
moral training of the child in the pre-school age.
A human being has a physical body that re-
quires food, drink, exercise and rest in oi'der for
it to be healthy and strong. Such a being also
has a mind which requires training, study, medi-
tation and the exercise of thinking. Also, such
a being has a spiritual nature which requires
spiritual food and exercise and neither of these
parts of the human being can be neglected or
abused without injury to the whole being.
The child's body demands certain care, that it
may gi'ow and become normal, and its mind re-
quires education, and its spiritual nature calls for
moral training.
Many parents are turning over to the schools
the training of their children. This refusal of
parents to meet their responsibility to their chil-
dren is making itself known in the character of
the citizenship of the country. The best school
is but a poor substitute for parents in the early
years of the child's life. Children learn by ob-
servation during their first years, more than by
precept, and the qualities of truthfulness, hon-
esty and obedience to law and order are readily
inculcated in children by their parents. Every
week young men come into my court charged
with crimes which are rooted in habits of selfish-
ness and dishonesty formed in childhood, and
right before the eyes of their parents.
If juvenile crime continues to increase it may
become necessary in a few years to enact a law
fixing the responsibility of the crime upon the
parents. If parents refuse to teach their chil-
dren the essential virtues of society, why should
they not bear some of the consequences of their
neglect
The home training and religious influence which
each child is entitled to receive, cannot be coun-
terfeited. There is no safe substitute for it.
Recently three young boys, whose ages were
between 16 and 18 years, came before me, charged
with highway robbery. An investigation dis-
closed that the trio had committed ten highway
robberies within two weeks. None of the boys
had gone beyond the fourth gi'ade in school, and
all of them had been wild, disobedient boys since
their earliest childhood, and while small children
had been both dishonest and untruthful.
Their parents had allowed them to grow up
without having given them any discipline or moral
training. These boys truly illustrate the Bible
saying that, "As ye sow, so shall ye reap." The
courts are crowded with such examples.
The modern school is the right hand of the
home in the training of children. At the present
time, children spend more of their childhood years
in school than they spend at home. The school
training relates chiefly to mental education. Some
little consideration is given to the body, but prac-
tically very little moral training is given. The
soul, or spiritual part of the child, is ignored.
And yet, who will not say that that is the most
important part of the human?
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Meeting of State Highway Patrolmen's Association
Officer Peter Lotsey, of S. F. Trajftc Bureau, and Vice-President uf State Organization. Owes Details of Meet
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On November 9th, Sacramento citizens polish-
ed up their motor manners and prepared to be
unusually good for three days, 9, 10 and 11, in-
clusive, wliile the California Association of High-
way Patrolmen convened for its seventh annual
convention in the assembly chambers of the
capitol.
There were about 350 of the highway guard-
ians present when I opened the convention in
Ithe absence of the President, Captain Henry
Gleeson. I conveyed heartfelt regrets from the
captain for being incapacitated to such an ex-
tent as to be unable to be present and wished the
organization and every member a good time and
a successful meeting.
Business and pleasure were mingled on the con-
vention schedule with the former occupying the
bulk of the official delegates' time and attention.
Many of the officers brought their wives and a
special program was worked out for the ladies
attending.
The opening morning session convened prompt-
ly at 10 o'clock following an official welcome to
the city by Hon. Mayor A. E. Goddard after
which two addresses were heard during the fore-
noon, Harold J. McCurry, Postmaster of Sacra-
mento, and W. E. Schoppe of San Fi-ancisco, a
representative of the Pacific Coast Automobile
Underwriters.
Mr. McCurry reviewed the history of California
highways, tracing the growth and development
of the main arteries of the state from the early
wagon roads to their present improved conditions.
He also gave some impressions of the work of
policing the highways gained from 250,000 miles
of travel over California highways during the past
ten years.
Mr. Schoppe dealt more particularly with the
theft problems. He recommended the creation
of a theft squad by the state to co-operate with
county officials and the passage of a more drastic
auto theft law by the State Legislature.
At noon the delegates and their families were
entertained at a luncheon at the Sacramento
Hotel as guests of the house.
The afternoon's activity was opened by the
grand street parade, of which the visiting officers
and their families formed an important part.
Four motorcycle officers from the Sacramento
city police department headed the line, followed
by the executives of the association in automo-
biles. Then came the 32 members of the Los
Angeles Police Department, known as their crack
drill team on motorcycles.
Then came the Sacramento Fire Department
Band, followed closely by 15 tow cars with wreck-
ed automobiles attached. This was intended to
drive home to spectators the folly of speeding
and reckless driving.
All members of the Association with motor-
cycles and in uniform rode four abreast ahead of
the union band. Those without motorcycles
followed on foot, and the families of the
officers in automobiles completed the parade,
which was about ten blocks long.
After the parade the convention re-assembled
for the afternoon business session in the assembly
hall of the capitol.
One of the afternoon features of the day's pro-
gi-am was the address by Governor F. W. Pach-
ardson. The Governor was escorted to the speak-
ers' stand by four uniformed officei's and was in-
troduced by Will H. Marsh, chief of the division
of motor vehicles.
Dwelling on his approval of all law enforce-
ment and lauding the State officers for their splen-
did work, he stated that the highway patrol offi-
cers stands well with the people of the State, as
the Governor's office hears but few complaints of
the work of the traffic department.
He signified his belief in allowing the forces of
the law to take their course and in enforcement
of the traffic laws by saying that such measures
are for the protection of the people and their
property, "In such laws is the basis of liberty",
he said.
After a shv^rt talk by Frank E. Merriam, speak-
er of the assembly, the remainder of the after-
noon was devoted to business discussions.
Three speakers were on the second day's pro-
gram.
Geo. G. Radcliff, chairman of the State Board
of Control, urged careful consideration of the
legislative measures planned to refer to the next
Legislature. He pointed out that the traffic offi-
cers were in a position to see needed legislation
and to observe where the present traffic code is
inadequate.
T. A. Rafferty, chief of the Oregon traffic divi-
sion, reviewed the gi-owth of the automobile in-
dustry with the attendant specialization in traffic
enforcement. Mr. Rafferty compared many of
the Oregon methods with those of California and
recommended uniformity of traffic laws in a State
and between States as a much needed improve-
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STRONG ARGUMENT FOR CAPITAL
PUNISHMENT
The following are accounts made by Captain of
Detectives, Duncan Matheson, before the open
forum in a debate on the question of capital
punishment :
Tonight the question is this: "Is Capital Pun-
ishment Right?" That is, is it justifiable. Is it
expedient. for the sovereign power of the state to
punish murder by the infliction of the death pen-
alty? It is often stated that Christianity and
benevolence are arrayed against it, and that
Christianity repudiates punishment and teaches
the doctrine of Love and Forgiveness. But or-
ganized society, in the form of the state and in
the person of a judge and jury has both the right
and bounden duty to administer justice. They
are the instruments of God for the protection of
society. Infliction of the death penalty for mur-
der is not revenge or retaliation. It is in accord
with the teachings of the Bible.
II.
Capital punishment is countenanced by the
Bible and indeed Gen-9-6 made obligatory by it.
"Whosoever sheddeth man's blood, by man, shall
his blood be shed. For in the image of God, he
made man." Nothing can be plainer than that.
It is a world-wide commandment and principle of
justice and a regulation given to society for all
time. It was not a Jewish statute and was not
abrogated by the Mosaic Law. A murderer
strikes at a mortal, being invested with super-
natural glory inasmuch as mankind reflects God's
image.
III.
Then some say that the Old Testament Law is
out of date with modern thought. What does
the New Testament say about it? Romans 13:4
has this word: "If thou do that which is evil, be
afraid for he beareth not the sword in vain, for he
is the minister of God." Paul spoke of the officers
representing the government and the sword was
the sword of the executioner, a clear assertion for
the right of Capital Punishment. Again Paul,
standing at Ceasar's Judgment Seat, said: "If I
have committed anything worthy of death I re-
fuse not to die." He admitted the justice of the
death penalty on proper causes. No solution or
justification can be found for the abohtion of the
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death penalty in the Bible from cover to cover,
but it stands firmly for it and will stand to the
end of time.
IV.
Opponents declare, however, that Capital Pun-
ishment is contrary to the Sixth Commandment.
They claim, "Thou shalt not kill" has no excep-
tions. If they insist on that, then the taking of
all life, such as the killing of cattle, sheep and
fowl is forbidden. Does any loyal citizen deny
the right of the State to exercise the sovereign
power to draft its citizens for its protection and
defense in time of war, knowing full weU that
many useful lives will be forfeited? If the sov-
ereign state may call upon a citizen to sacrifice
his life for the common good and welfare of the
nation, has the people, then, not the right to take
the life of a person who is destructive of society,
bj' taking the life of another?
V.
The literal reading of the Sixth Commandment
is "Thou shalt do no murder." The Mosaic Law
itself directed capital punishment. The Com-
mandment is against personal murder, not against
taking the life of an individual for the preserva-
tion of society, when lie himself is a murderer.
The process of law that inflicts the death penalty
fs not personally taking life, but as the agent of
the State which must protect society.
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Genesis : 9-6.
"Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man, shall
his blood be siied, for in the image of God, made
he man."
Leviticus : 24-17.
"And he that kiileth any man, shall surely be
put to death."
"And he that kiileth a beast, he shafl restore
it and he that kiileth a man, he shall be put to
death."
Numbers : 35-30.
"Whoso kiileth any person, the murderer shall
be put to death by the mouth of witnesses, but one
witness shall not testify against any person to
cause him to die."
"Moreover he shall take no satisfaction, for the
life of a murderer, which is guilty of death, but
he shall be surely put to death."
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Detective Sergeant Firtl Bohr and Detective Clarence
Herlitz of the Hotel Detail certainly have been making it
interesting for the gentry who hang around upon hotels.
Following are some of their arrests: Lester Johnson,
wanted in Los Angeles; James Robson, wanted by his
bondsmen; Rene DeBeer, fugitive from Kansas City; Betty
West, wanted in Monterey ; Graham Ellison, violating state
gun law.
* * *
Detective Sergeants Michael Desmond and Barth Kel-
leher built up a good batting average in their district
along the water front; here are some of their arre.'^ts:
Charles Bailey, burglary; John Kelly, violating Section
476a; Russell V. Roberts, fugitive; Joseph Connors, three
charges burglary; James Grimes, 504a P. C. Detective
Sergeant William Armstrong assisted in this arrest.
* * *
William Schimelpfinig, ex-con, arrested for disturbing
the peace and vagrancy by Sergeant Emmet Hogan of the
Bureau of Identification, was given six months in the
county jail by Judge Lazaras.
* * »
Detectives Dan Fogarty and John Sturm brought in
Eugene Valancia and Samuel Galli for obtaining money by
false pretenses; Detective Sergeants Allan McGinn and
Charles Iredale assisted in arresting the latter; they also
assisted Detective Sergeants James Hayes, James Hansen
and Harry McCrea in arresting Gus Waggenheim, wanted
for bad checks and violating Sec. 504a of the Penal Code.
Lieutenants Bernard McDonald and his aggregation of
automobile thief takers arrested the follo\\'ing: Meyer
Heft, recei\-ing stolen property, by the Lieutenant him-
self; Maurice Toumec and Ray Le\\-is, grand larceny and
two petty larceny, by Detective Sergeant Harry Husted
and Detective R. Smith; James Murphy, for 146 Motor
Vehicle Act, by Detective Sergeants John J. Cannon and
J. McKenna; Jack Bishop, same offense, by Detective Ser-
geants James Hayes and Harry McCrea; Jack Holt, same
charge, by Detective Sergeants William Milliken and James
Hayes; Howard Steele, grand larceny and en route to
Oakland, by Detective Sergeants Frank Brown and Rasmus
Rasmussen; Charles Cole, embezzlement, by Detective Ser-
geants Augfustus Tompkins and Nicholas Barron and Earl
Stanley, same charge by Sergeants Brown, Cannon, Tomp-
kins and Special Britt.
* * *
Lieutenant Charles Dullea and Detective Sergeant Otto
Frederickson brought in Theodore "Creepy" W^ilson,
charged with robbery. Sergeant McLoughlin and Sergeant
Tatham were booked in on this arrest.
« » *
Detective Sergeant Allan McKinn and Officer Richard
Ga\Tior were coming from lunch one day last month, when
on California street they heaid a hue and cry and saw a
man running. They gave chase, caught him, found he was
wanted for grabbing some money from a patron of the
San Fi-ancisco Sa\'ings Bank. The man gave the name of
Orin Dccius and was charged with robbery.
* * *
Bad check passers gave plenty of work for Detective
Sergeant William Armstrong and his gold du.^t twins,
.'■■orgeants Charles Malier and James Handsen. Here are
:.ome of the arrests this trio made during the past few
vccks: For 476a: Thomas Robinson. 3 charges; Charles
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ner, 3 charges; and Edmond P. Jarvis; Paul Marcelli, 2
charges forgery; Warner Ute and Thomas Boone, burglary.
* * •
Here are some of the arrests made by Detective Ser-
geants Andrew Gaughran and James Skelley of the Shop-
ping Detail: Joe Yang, burglary and petty larceny; Max
London, burglary; Edward King.ston, 476a P. C; and Harry
Clarke, burglary.
* * *
Ra>Tnond Rocells, accused of being a forger, was ar-
rested by Detective Sergeants Arthur McQuaide and Wil-
liam Proll of the Banking Detail.
* * *
Sergeant George Healy and Detective Sergeant Martin
Porter booked Naomi Henning at the city prison for grand
larceny; also William Henning for violating Section 266
of the Penal Code and Joe Ybarra for burglary, Officer J.
Amend assisting in this aiTest.
« * «
Detective Charles Dorman of the night shift arrested
John Young for embezzlement.
* « *
Detective Sergeant Richmond Tatham and his Burglary
Detail brought to book the following: James Luttrell, petty
larceny, by Sergeants Palmer and George Richards; Syl-
vester O'Brien by Tatham, Palmer and Corporal Nels
Stohl; Jos. Garby and Joseph Specito, by Sergeants James
Jlitchell and Irvin Finlay; Nick Oakes, larceny, by Palmer,
Richard Hughes, James Johnson and Martin Porter.
* * «
Detective Sergeants Henry Kalmbach and George Rich-
ards picked up Robert Martin, wanted in Los Angeles.
* * *
Sergeant George McLoughlin and the boys of the Rob-
bery Detail chalked up the following among other arrests:
Duke Keith Deavaux, grand larceny; Roy Long, larceny,
by Sergeants Leo Bunner and Robt. Rauer; Basil W^alter,
three robberies, Bunner, Rauer and Sergeant William
McMahon; Perfiro Bonilla, Robert Stevens and Douglas
Mackean, by Sergeants Vemon Van Matre and Edward
McSheehy; William Moore, Harry Brady, fugitives, by Ser-
geants George Wall and William McMahon; James Mac-
Donald, 2 robberies, by McLoughlin and Sergeant Tatham.
* * *
Detective Sergeants Thomas Conlan and Edward Wis-
kotchill and Detective Louis DeMatei arrested James Mit-
chell for burglary.
« * *
Sergeants John Callaghan, James Regan, Thomas Con-
Ion and Wiskotchill brought in Carl Dipple on a burglary
"clout".
* * *
Two potential pickpockets, Eulie J. Rice and Robert
Grey were taken off the streets and put in the city prison,
charged \\-ith vagrancy, by Lieutenant Tliomas Hoertkom
and Detective Sergeant Morris Harris.
Seaboard Garage
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San Francisco
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Proposed New Laws for Coining Legislature
Presentation of Recomrr\endations Made by State Crime Procedure Commission and Adopted by
State Peace Officers' Association
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Outline of tentative program for
revision of criminal procedure by
the Commission for the Reform of
Criminal Procedure of the State
of California.
INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT
The last Legislature of the State of California
created a Commission for the Reform of Criminal
Procedure and directed it to submit to the next
Legislature a new or revised system of criminal
procedure. The Commission has made a careful
study of the subject and has formulated a ten-
tative program, but the subject is one of such
great impoitance that before proceeding to the
completion of its task the Commission desires
to secure comments and suggestions from inter-
ested persons throughout the state. It is, there-
fore, submitting this brief outline of the nro-
posed plan.
The primary purpose of the Commission is to
make the administration of criminal justice in
this state swift and certain in its operation. We
have inherited a criminal procedure which was
developed in past centuries to meet conditions en-
tirely different from those prevailing today. Dur-
ing the time that this criminal procedure was
evolving, it was widely felt that pi'osecution
meant persecution, and as a result many techni-
cal rules were developed, chiefly designed for the
protection of the defendant. These rules, in many
cases, actually prevented the ascertainment of
the truth. If there were any justification for
such a policy, it has long since ceased to exist.
E}ngland, where the system originated, discarded
it three-quarters of a century ago.
The Commission recognizes that no right of
a defendant should be infringed, but it feels that
this principle does not justify the existence of
technical rules of procedure whicli tend to work
injustice to the law abiding citizens of the state.
In other words, while always guarding every right
of a defendant, it is believed that the criminal
law should be framed to give all the people the
fullest possible degree of protection and safety.
Crime has become an organized business ir^
this country. Either society must control organ-
ized crime, or organized crime will control so-
ciety. Experience teaches that the criminal law
which is most effective is the one which oner-
ates with the greatest swiftness and certainty.
This tentative program is presented in order to
secure suggestions for the improvement of crimi-
nal procedure in this state.
Method of Approach
The suggestions of the Commission are pre-
sented under these heads:
First : Declaration of policy governing all pro-
ceedings.
Second : Proceedings prior to trial.
Third: The conduct of the trial.
Fourth : New trials and appeals.
Fifth : Punishment of convicted persons.
Sixth: Certain general provisions.
Seventh: Certain constitutional amendments.
Declaration of Policy, Etc.
The enactment of a new section declaring it
to be the policy of the state that all courts and
district attorneys shall expedite the hearing and
determination of all criminal proceedings to the
gi-eatest degree consistent with the ends of jus-
tice.
(a) Amend Section 872 of the Penal Code so
that the magistrate shall commit simply for a
felony, leaving it to the district attornev to
charge the particular felony which the evidence
at the preliminary hearing shows has been com-
mitted ;
(b) Amend Section 951 by setting up simple
forms of indictment and information and to elimi-
nate, so far as possible, technical questions of
pleading;
(c) Amend Section 969 to require the district
attorney to charge all prior convictions of
felonies ;
(d) Insanity. The Commission is endeavoring
to work out a system which will avoid abuses of
the plea of insanity. In the past this plea has
frequently been made not in good faith, but in
order to open the way for the introduction of
evidence designed to appeal to the sympathy,
passion or prejudice of the jury, and this has very
often resulted in gross miscarriages of justice.
The Commission expects to recommend a statute
which will provide a new plea to be known as
"Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity."
Whatever conclusion is reached as to the form
of pleading insanity, the Commission expects to
recommend that the Legislature shall create a
hospital for the criminally insane. California
now has no such hospital, and undoubtedly it is
one of the state's greatest needs. At the pres-
ent time the criminally insane are either turned
loose upon the public or committed to a hospital
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De Luxe Shoplifters Given a Tough Run
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Coping with the cleverest band of shoplifting
thieves working in the United States, having their
headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, wanted in
a dozen cities on the Pacific Coast, San Fi'ancisco
detectives by just as clever work had the opera-
tives of the mob in their hands but to lose them
through powerful influences that this gang has in
many large cities.
Three women and a man were arrested in Kan-
sas City through the efforts of Lieutenant Henry
Powell of the Pawnshop Detail and Detective Ser-
geants Andrew Gaughran and James Skelly of the
Shopping Detail. Before Lieutenant Powell could
reach Kansas City and advise the police just what
they had in custody for the San Francisco depart-
ment, the quartet made bail and when tlieir hear-
ing on extradition came up they were notable by
their absence, and not a word has been heard of
them since.
The presence of this mob was first felt in this
city in January, 1925 when the women of the
bunch made way with over $12,000 worth of furs,
rugs and Spanish shawls. The next heard of them
in San Fi-ancisco was when the above mentioned
detectives got a line on them last October and tliis
tip led to the recovery of several thousands of dol-
lars worth of stolen goods and the arrest by quick
thinking on the part of the local police oflScials.
Information was obtained that on October 10
a man giving the name of B. Schmidtz alias Jacob
Cohen and many other extra monikers rented a
room in a fashionable hotel, purchased four trunks
which were sent in empty to the hotel. On Oc-
tober 12th the Detectives learned that one trunk
was shipped to Brooklyn; on the day following
two more were shipped by express to the same
city.
• It was further learned from proper sources that
these trunks contained fur coats and silks, one
having $5200 worth in it, stolen during the gang's
two day stay here on their second visit.
Getting a court order to stop these trunks and
hold and search them. Lieutenant Powell, Gaugh-
ran and Skelly wired New York police and inter-
cepted the cases and had them shipped back to
this city where the goods were put on display and
all identified as having been reported stolen, later
being returned to the rightful owners.
The detectives further learned that three wo-
men checked out of the hotel on October 14 for Los
Angeles. Hot on the trail the detectives got the
information that the women and a man had left
a Los Angeles hotel after buying tickets for St.
Louis, Mo., on October 17th.
Powell and his associates, satisfied that the best
place to tie in on this mob would bt Kansas City,
wired the chief of police there to take them off
the train as they were wanted here. This was
done. Powell left immediately after getting extra-
dition papers for the Missouri city, for the return
of Mrs. Rupert Kramer, Rose Bro\\Ti and Anna
Silver and Salomia Schmitz.
Arriving in Kansas City he got some distressing
intelligence. The four had been aiTested at 10
p. m., October 10th. Two days later Schmitz was
released on $1500 bail and on the day following the
women were "hitting the street" on a "gi-and"
bail.
The case was set for November 11. Powell
waited for the day, realizing that his thieves
would be so far away by the 11th that a 9-tube
radio wouldn't reach them. He also found that
none of the prisoners had been photographed or
finger printed. But he found by looking over
rogue gallery photos that the Kramer woman
went under the following aliases : Anna ^Milliman,
May Weinstein, Rose Jold, May Hyman and Yetta
Fein; that the Silver woman had the following
aliases: Beckey Rosenblum, Becky Greenstein,
Becky Schroeder and Becky Sheer; and the other
woman was known as Sara Greenstein, Sai'ah
Weinstein and Sara Goldstein, all wanted in New
York for jumping bail on two charges of shoplift-
ing, had done a stretch in Blackwell Island prison,
were wanted in New York, New Jersey, Detroit,
Rochester and Chicago for bail jumping and shop-
lifting.
Schmitz, with many aliases, was also wanted in
these cities.
The trunks shipped back to this city contained
over $35,000 worth of silks, shawls, fur coats and
rugs.
Another trunk shipped from Los Angeles con-
tained two Persian rugs worth $1200 each, stolen
from a Los Angeles rug dealer by the women.
The "mob" had worked in Seattle, Portland,
Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, Denver and this city
during October. Among their loot was 7 shawls
worth $3500 ; five fur coats worth $5000 stolen by
a highly perfected system of shoplifting.
The women would go into a store, look over the
stock, settle upon what was wanted ; two of them
would get the salesman engaged showing them
various furs, rugs or shawls or silks as the case
miglit be. One of the women would hold aloof.
When she saw the coast was clear she would gi-ab
the article wanted, pass it to the man who was
waiting handy and he would duck for an automo-
bile and be on his way. It was sometimes two or
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2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
December, 1926
About Law Enforcement
By DISTRICT Attorney Earl
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Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Peace Offi-
cers' Association: I am very glad of the oppor-
tunity to be present with you today to discuss
the very important subjects of Probation and
Parole.
I don't know what the difference is between
peace officers and district attorneys — surely, we
are all engaged in the one great problem of sup-
pressing crime, and your problems are mine, and
my problems are yours, and I believe that the
sooner we have a perfect co-ordination, perfect
understanding between, the peace officers of the
state and the district attorneys of the state, just
that much sooner will we really start on sup-
pressing the gi'eat amount of crime prevalent in
this state today, and so firm am I convinced of
that I believe it would be a wise thing to do in
the future — perhaps it is not possible during this
year, or the coming year, but I think our inter-
ests are so much in common, it would be a wise
thing for the peace officers' association and the
district attorneys' association of this state to
meet at the same time and place in order that we
may exchange ideas; in order that we might be-
come better acquainted and have a deeper un-
derstanding of the problems which confront us.
Now, the subject of probation to my mmd is
the most serious problem that confronts law en-
forcement officers today, because it seems to me
that the probation law has been stretched to an
absurdity. It is functioning now in exactly the
opposite way it was designed to do. Probation
is comparatively a new thing; it was thought
by progressive people and enlightened people that
the law under the then existing ciixumstances
was too ironclad ; there should be some light way
for our courts of justice when meeting out punish-
ment to men convicted of crime, and so there
was written into law the probation system which
gave to courts the power to discriminate between
felonies and say one man by reason of particu-
larly extenuating circumstances should have a
right to rehabitulate himself while on probation
rather than be confined in a penal institution. I
believe it is humane; I believe fundamentally it
is sound, but I believe it should not be stretched
beyond the ordinary meaning of the words of
the statute. I believe the probation law should
be applied only where there are particularly ex-
tenuating circumstances. Like all new laws and
things, the probation system worked admirably
for a short time; it was used with discrimination,
but as time went on and the law was handled
more and more people began to stretch it further
Warren of Alameda County
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and further. They say familiarity breeds con-
tempt, and I am not sure that's the real thing
that causes us to really abuse the probation sys-
tem. Men would be convicted of crime and
through influence would be admitted probation,
and as years went on admitted in larger numbers
and larger proportion to the years preceding un-
til at the present time I am very much ashamed
to say, very much alarmed to say at the present
time in a great many communities in this state
we have more probation than we have sentences
to San Quentin; and gentlemen, I am not at all
proud to say that's the exact condition that pre-
vails in my own county, the County of Alameda.
Now, when that situation exists I believe that
probation is functioning just the opposite from
what it was designed to accomplish. No longer
is a man placed on probation only when there
are particularly extenuating circumstances, but
at the present time a man is only sent to San
Quentin when he is particularly depraved or par-
ticularly nauseating circumstances concerning
the commission of his offense. Now, the figures
of the Attorney General of this state for the two
years ending July, 1924 — figures available on this
subject are really assisting, and it won't take
very long for me to point out to you just a few
of the figures which I mention. During these
two years ending June 30, 1924, there were in
the State of California 5336 pleas of guilty to
felony; during the same period there were 2191
convictions of felony, making a total by pleas of
guilty and convictions by juries of 7527 felonies.
Now, how many gentlemen of these 7527 do you
think went to state's prison — it means 4356 were
placed on probation, given a minor fine, or a short
term in the county jail. Now, it seems to me
that we have the situation of the tail wagging
the dog, when the penal code of this state pro-
vides that the punishment for felony shall be
imprisonment in the State Prison and probation
and county jail sentences given only where there
are particularly extenuating circumstances; and,
usually we find out of 7500 convictions of felony
there are only 3100 sentences to San Quentin, I
say to you, gentlemen, that that is responsible
for the large amount of crime which prevails in
this state today.
It was my pleasure to have handled the crimi-
nal activities in my county for a few years prior
to my appointment as District Attorney, and in
the capacity of deputy I came in personal contact
with every man who passed through our court,
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Official Recognition of Brave Deeds
Supervisors of This City and Council of Sacramento Pass Resolutions Ctirn7nencling Detectives Roney and Van Matre
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On motion of Supervisor John B. Badaracco,
tlie Board of Supervisors unanimously adopted
tiie following, following the shooting of Joe
Tanko :
RESOLUTION NO. 26432 (New Series)
"WHEREAS, The San Francisco Police De-
partment has again demonstrated the high order
of efficiency, as well as the unparalleled bravery
of its officers in the recent capture of Joe Tanko,
and previously in the capture of the 'Auto Bandits'
wiio terrorized San Francisco for a week by their
dastardly outrages ;
"RESOLVED, That this Board of Supervisors
deem it proper and expedient at this time that
tiae appreciation and gratitude of the people of
San Francisco be extended to the brave officers
who so nobly risked their lives in the pei'formance
of their duty in apprehending these lawless ele-
ments whose depredations have worked death to
unoffending citizens of San Francisco and brought
misery and sorrow to the homes of their families i
"WHEREFORE, This Board commends to the
Police Commissioner and the Chief of Police the
splendid service of Detective Sergeants Earl
Roney, Vernon Van Matre, Edward McSheehy and
John Palmer, who effected the capture of the
notorious Joe Tanko, the first two mentioned hav-
ing been severely wounded; and Lieutenants
Charles Dullea and Bernard McDonald, Detective
Sergeants George Wall, William McMahon, Leo
Bunner, Robert Rauer, Otto Frederickson, Allan
McGinn, Sergeant George McLoughlin, Detective
Officers Charles Iredale, George P. Wafer and
Louis De Matei, who apprehended the 'Auto
Bandits'.
"FURTHER RESOLVED, That copies of this
resolution be sent to the Board of Police Com-
missioners and to the Chief of Police, and also
to the families of the officers above mentioned."
J. S. DUNNIGAN, Clerk,
The Board of Supervisors.
If anyone has any doubts as to how the people
of Sacramento felt over the killing of Joe Tanko,
brutal slayer, crook, and pervert, they should
read the resolutions which follow*, and which
were passed by the city council of Sacramento
and a copy forwarded to this department.
City of Sacramento
State of California
RESOLUTION NO. 131, CITY COUNCIL
NOVEMBER 18, 1926.
In Honor of the valorous sei*vices of
Sergeants Van Matre and Roney of
San Francisco Police Department.
WHEREAS, Sacramento was unfortunately one
of the cities infested with the ruthless, lawless
and murderous perpetrations of one of the State's
most defiant desperadoes — "TANKO", and
WHEREAS, This city has been deeply con-
cerned in the capture and award of justice to this
and his allied fugitive from incaixeration, because
of the atrocious murder of one of Sacramento's
worthy citizens and merchants, namely, Harry J.
Litzberg, the personal friend and classmate of
the Mayor and other members of the Sacramento
City Council, and
WHEREAS, Patrolman Clyde E. Nunn of the
police department was also the victim of a wound
inflicted by the foregoing convict in a returned
reign of "terror" banditry in this city, and
\A'HEREAS, After many months' search over
the State and country, througli ingenious detec-
tion by members of the San Francisco Police De-
partment the long-sought law-breaker was suc-
cessfully traced, fearlessly encountered, and his
notorious activities forever terminated by Ser-
geants Vernon Van Matre and Earl Roney w^ho
barely escaped fatality,
NOW^ THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That
the City Council of the city of Sacramento, gi-ati-
fied with the cessation of this extended series of
abhorent outrages, recognizes and highly com-
mends the unusual valor and courage displayed by
Sergeants Van jMatre and Roney, and on behalf
of the city extends the thanks of our people to
those detectives for their meritorious services,
and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the City
of Sacramento hereby tenders its congi-atulations
to Mayor Rolph and the Board of Supervisors of
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Tolerance
By Dr. S. L. Katzoff, Dietician, Author and Health Authority; Also
President of the San Francisco Open Forum
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For nearly ten thousand years, the human race
has been taught numerous theologies, systems of
ethics, principles that makes for kindness, bene-
volence, courtesy, patience and tolerance; and
yet, gi-eed, envy, hatred and intolerance still con-
tinues to pester and divide mankind into groups
and factions with its enevitable bickerings, mis-
understandings and disease, even in this, our en-
hghtened age! Why is it so? What are some
of the causes ? Can it be remedied ? If so, how ?
Victor Hugo once said, "Toleration is the best
religion." And no less a character than George
Eliot wrote, "The responsibility of tolerance lies
with those who have the wider vision." How
philosophically true and humanly beautiful!
From observation and reflection one is led al-
most to feel that tolerance is the only real test
of civilization. If the extent of our tolerance in
matters pertaining to religion, politics, science,
medicine, literature and philosophy were the in-
dex of our civilization, how would we register on
a tolerant-ometer? Would we register favorably?
When we look through a retrospective lense,
under a psycho-analytic microscope, we are un-
pleasantly surprised. Wliat do we find? We
observe, as the wheel of human history turns,
that the noble souls and brilliant minds, who
'have enlightened the world, generally have met
with misunderstanding, contempt, ridicule, perse-
cution and poverty, because of intolerance. Most
of the explorers, scientists, philosophers and
humanitarians have drunk from this "fountain
of bitterness."
A few of the many illustrations: Moses was
criticized by his own people because he wanted
to free them of the slavery of Egyptian tyranny.
Anaxagoras, the Greek philosopher, 500 B. C.,
was sentenced to banishment for life for saying
that the sun was a red-hot stove, (that was blas-
phemy) , and he probably would have suflfered the
fagot, had it not been for the eloquence of the
mighty Pericles.
Socrates, the Athenian thinker, was finally
"rewarded" with the lethal cup of hemlock for
his advanced utterances on scientific subjects.
The great Plato was sold as a slave to Aegina
by Dionysius of Sicily.
Xenophon was banished and deprived of his
property.
Aristotle fled to escape punishment and died on
the isle of Euboea.
Demosthenes took poison to escape returning
to the death chamber.
Christ, the great teacher, and carpenter of
Galilee, was crucified because it was said, his
revolutionary teachings "stirreth up the people."
Copernicus, in the sixteenth century, labored
many years applying his fund of observations
and mathematical knowledge to improving the
antiquated theories of astronomy which prevailed
in his time.
The Heliocentric theory was completed in his
57th year, but was not introduced to the world
at large until shortly before his death, because
he feared the lash of intolerance.
Bruno, in the same century, continued the work
of Copernicus, but his career was soon ended.
Seven years of persecution and imprisonment was
his "reward" in the hope that he would recant.
Galileo, who expounded the theory that the
world moved on its axis, was forced to swear that
the world was flat and immovable before he could
regain his liberty.
Harvey, in his work on cadavers, discovered
that a liquid (blood) circulated in the human
vessels (arteries and veins) instead of air, devils
and the like as most physicians believed then.
His contemporaries, of course, had plenty of time
to have their "fling" at him.
Let us continue with our historical outline of
intolerance. Lamark, the great evolutionist, in
the 18th century, was poor, blind and forsaken,
as a result of intolerance.
Columbus was called a dreamer and after mak-
ing three voyages on the "sea of darkness" was
bound in fetters and sent "home" to Spain as a
tyrant and adventurer. He died forsaken.
Marx, the great economist, was forced to flee
Paris, and move to London.
Darwin was abused and maligned for the dis-
covery of the law of natural selection.
Thomas Paine, virtually the instigator of the
American Revolution, is not considered at great
length in our histories, because of his liberal
views on theology.
When Samuel Moore, in 1842 asked Congress
for an appropriation of $30,000 to establish an
experimental telegraph line from Washington to
Baltimore he was ridiculed by most of its mem-
bers.
And so down through the pages of history we
meet such notable characters as John Brown,
William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips and
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Growth of Department in Six Years
By Chief of Police Daniel J. O Brien
Mr. Opie L. \A'arner,
Editor, "2-0" Police Journal,
Hall of Justice, San Francisco.
Dear Mr. Editor:
In response to your request that I write
an article for "2-0" Police Journal, relative
to the many things I have accomplished
during my six years tenure of office as
Chief of Police, I most sincerely advise
that alone I could have accomplished
nothing, but, with the co-operation of the
members of the San Francisco Police De-
partment, of the Hon. Board of Police
Commissioners, His Honor the ]\Iayor, and
other public officials, we of the San Fran-
cisco Police Department have accomplish-
ed much.
We believe that through proper appli-
cation of authority, mingled with the
proper appreciation of our responsibility,
we have merited and receive splendid co-
operation from the decent people of San
Francisco.
The department has progressed, keeping
up with the trend of the times, from a
police standpoint, and developed into a
fairly well modernized department. jMuch
has been accomplished by means of the
automotive equipment of this department.
Proper patrol attention has been given to
the outlying districts, which have been re-
cently and rapidly built up.
Ti-affic control has been enlarged upon,
many points being covered, the traffic dis-
trict extending westerly from Sixth and
Market to Van Ness avenue and Market,
and at some points, into the outlying dis-
tricts ; easterly on j\Iarket, from Third St.
to the Embarcadero, taking in intersec-
tions both north and south of ]\Iarket, re-
cently having been augmented with auto-
matic traffic signals designed and manu-
factured by Ralph W. Wiley, Chief of the
Department of Electricity of the City and
County of San Fi-ancisco, as are the police
and fire alarm boxes.
Special attention has been given to Crime
Prevention, and proper education, plus
good example set for the owners and op-
erators of motor vehicles. A world-wide
reputation has been made in the detection
of crime and the apprehension of crimi-
nals. For many years San Francisco has
enjoyed a good reputation and each year
sees more laurels added to it, insofar as
police protection is concerned, the last year
being the banner year, during which the
membership of the department functioned
almost 100 per cent, despite the many
police problems presented.
We recently had a wonderful demon-
stration of the loyalty and devotion of the
men of the depai'tment to Its traditions,
during the time the men were deprived of
their days off, not a murmur of discontent
or complaint was heard, even when men
left their homes, some of them coming
from long distances and vacations, in re-
sponse to the call for help when the so-
called terrorist raid was rampant, in which
Felly, Weeks and Papadaches participated.
The memory is still fresh in our minds of
the activity and courage of members of
th's de'^ai'tment as exemplified in the pis-
tol battle with the well known terrorist
Joe Tanko.
I believe in giving credit where credit is
due, and what could the commanding offi-
cer of a company, a battalion or a regi-
ment accomplish in time of war, without
the whole-hearted co-operation of the men
under his command — nothing. What
could the commanding off.cer of a police
department accomplish, when the police
are always at war with the crooks, if he
had not the loyal support of the men of the
department, regardless of rank — nothing.
So, in conclusion, I must again reiteravt
my statement that it is the rank and file
of the department, co-ordinating and co-
operating for the common good, that ac-
complishes results and renders a perfect
police service to our city, and not the in-
dividuals. The Supreme Being watched
carefully over the membership of the de-
partment this year, as only two men have
met with violent deaths, one of whom was
returning from duty and stepped from a
street car directly into the path of a taxi-
cab which killed him instantly, the other
was killed by a fall from his motorcycle,
while on duty.
We of the police department thank the
Almighty that none of our brother officers
had to die at the hands of any crooks,
from the first of the year up to this writ-
ing, and we sincerely pledge ourselves to
further and progressive police activity.
D. J. O'BRIEN, Chief of Police.
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No. 2.
DANIEL J. O'BRIEN, CHIEF SIX YEARS
Six years ago, the first of this month, Daniel
J. O'Brien, then Brevet Captain Daniel J. O'Brien,
chief clerk to the Chief of Police, was appointed
head of the San Francisco Police Department. At
that time he had spent 12 years as a member of
the organization working rapidly through the
civil service examinations to the rank of lieuten-
ant, which rank he held when appointed chief,
thence to the top rank of a captain, he being on
the list of eligibles at the time of his appoint-
ment.
During those six years the San Francisco Police
Department has witnessed many changes.
More men have been added to its personnel.
More automotive equipment has been given the
members, that they might better cope with the
criminal element which is quick to utilize every
agency for speedy get-aways, sure destruction
and instant death. Armored cars are numerous,
safeguarding greatly, the brave men who patrol
the streets at night, looking for the lurking thug,
prowler or thief. New traffic systems Uave been
installed to better handle this problem that is
attracting the attention of engineers in every
large city; radio and telephoto transmission of
pictures between outside cities have become part
of tlie regular police routine; two new police dis-
tricts have been added, the Western Addition and
the Bayview and the Traffic Bureau has been made
a company during those six years.
The members of the department have received
two increases in pay since he has been chief, get-
ting now a salary that is commensurate with the
high cost of living.
The number of men in the Detective Bureau
have been increased by 50 some odd men and the
bureau divided into details specializing on every
sort of crime common or frequent in a metropoli-
tan city.
The efficiency of the department has been in-
creased in many ways since December, 1920, and
today stands out as one of the best police organ-
izatior.s in either of the Americas.
Chief O'Brien himself, from a reputation that
was purely local, and good, has become the best
known Chief of Police in North America, being
at the present time President of the International
Association of Chiefs of Police, which organization
he has manifested a whole-hearted interest in and
has done much to make the success it is today.
He has seen the fruition of a dream every well
informed chief of police has had for years, the
establishment of a national bureau of criminal
identification, and the one now established in
^^'ashington, D. C. is fulfilling a need that has
been felt for a long time. It is functioning near-
ly perfect now and is proving a wonderful weapon
on the crooks.
Chief O'Brien has seen as well, and has taken
an active part in, the bringing to a high state of
efficiency the State Peace Officers' Association,
made up of sheriffs, chiefs of police, captain of
detectives, constables, town marshals and district
attorneys. This organization has become an im-
portant factor in the matter of legislation per-
taining to criminal procedure, and is looked to
by the members of the Legislature for helpful
advice.
Many innovations have been introduced into
the San Francisco department by the chief dur-
ing his incumbency as head, and they have all
been for the betterment of the service and the
betterment for protection of the people of the
city, their property and their lives.
The record of the department during the past
six years is one all can be proud of. There has
been no crime waves, there has been sporatic out-
breaks of lawlessness by mobs who after a few
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DAHIEL ]. O'BRIEH
Who Has Completed His Sixth Year as Chief of Police of San Francisco
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CURIOUS PEOPLE
One cannot but help wonder wliat is in the
minds of people these days. P"or months the citi-
zens of Central California had been in mortal
fear of the notorious murdering- bandit, Joe
Tanko. His escape from San Quentin where he
was sent for ruthlessly murdering Chief Meehan
of San Bruno, his subsequent acts with his part-
ner in crime, Floyd Hall, awaiting a second trial
for murder in Sacramento; his shooting policemen
in the capital city, his unlawful and brutal acts
against law-abiding folks, were headlined in all
papers.
Everybody wanted Joe Tanko back in jail. They
knew he was a dangerous man. They felt he
might strike most any time and some of the peo-
ple who were out at nights might be his victim.
But Joe Tanko was killed in a duel with the brave
and courageous Detective Sergeant Earl Roney,
who was seriously injured. Joe Tanko shot the
equally brave and courageous officer. Detective
Sergeant Vernon Van Matre. Joe Tanko's body
was taken to the city morgue.
And what happened.
Over 20,000 people visited the morgue to look
upon this vile, debased creature. And a large
number of this curious horde came not to gloat
at the end of a career that was trailed with hu-
man blood. No, sir; they came to sympathize
with this low criminal. Women and girls were
heard to make sympathetic remarks that such
a nice boy should have been killed. They said
he looked so lovely. Some came two or three
times and asked for one more chance to see
"poor Joe."
None of these had much to say of Earl Roney
and Vernon Van Matre, out at the San Francisco
Hospital, over whom surgeons were waging a bat-
tle for their lives.
It was sickening these maudlin visitors, and we
wonder if over 20,000 would have come to the
morgue if Earl Roney had been killed by Joe
Tanko, we regret to say that we don't think they
would.
We don't like to see anyone dead, but the writer
looked on Joe Tanko as he lay propped up in the
morgue, duty forcing him to do so, and he could
not find anything to be sorry over the passing of
such a debased human being.
We join with the thousands who did not come
to the morgue in offering up thanks that the two
valiant officers were spared their lives and will
soon be out ready to meet again any other crook
of the stripe of Joe Tanko.
Robert Styles knows what the formalities are for getting
booked for violating the Juvenile Court Law. He was
y-ivcn some instructions along these lines by Officer George
Hus?ey and J. Regallo.
Qive thanks to the
Officer---
for his great services in time of fire.
We depend on the policeman to
keep the streets clear so that fire
apparatus will have a straight path
and hydrants will be free of obstruc
tion.
It is the officer on duty who does
most to clear burning and threat'
ened buildings of their inhabitants,
saving many lives. Fire lines, keep'
ing people out of the firemen's way
and out of danger, are maintained
by the police.
By night, the watchful officer is
alert to turn in the alarm at the first
sign of fire. By day he is ever ready
to support the fire department in
dealing with needless fire hazards
that threaten the safety of an entire
neighborhood.
Our thanks to the pohce! They
save thousands of lives and millions
in property by their help in fire
fighting.
Board of Fire
Underwriters
of the Pacific
Merchants Exchange Building
San Francisco
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Lieutenant William Lambert, for 24 years a member
of the San Francisco Police Department, died at his home
in Mission Terrace, December 8. Lieutenant Lambert
had been ill for many months.
At the time of his death he was a member of the
Ingleside command, having been there for a long time;
prior to that, having been in the Central district. He
joined the depaitment in 1902, was made a corporal in
1910, a sergeant in 1914 and promoted to the rank of
lieutenant in 1923.
Lieutenant Lambert was very popular in the depart-
ment and had many friends outside the ranks.
* * *
Corporal Tom Mclnemey and Al Christ brought in
their quota of easy winners during the month, making it
tough for the work evaders.
* * *
Frederick Emmons, with a charge of burglary against
him, can give any inquiring soul a lot of information as
to what processes one goes through when arrested for
a crime. He was garnered in by Sergeant Henricks.
» * »
A dozen hop-heads and vags can thank Officer Patrick
Walsh for the nice ride they got in the patrol wagons
during the month.
* * *
Special Duty Officer William Bennett of the chief's
office removed a score of potential crooks from the streets
of recent weeks, placing them where the dogs wouldn't
bite 'em.
* * *
The rail birds of the Detective Bureau welcomed De-
tective Sergeant Frank McGrayan, veteran member of
the department, back to headquarters. Frank has been
ill for some months but has beat the old gent with the
scythe for many moons more we trust. We also welcomed
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Patrick McGee of the training school is chairman of the
board of directors, composed of himself and Officer Pete
Maloney.
* * *
Talking of Sergeant McGee, he has been seriously ill at
the Franklin Hospital but fiom last reports he has the
game beat and will be back on the job soon showing
young policemen how to work.
* * *
Corporal Harvey Deline of the city prison says that he
could equip a male chorus most any night of the week
from the young men full of "Oh, Be Joyful", whose fancy
turns to vocal solos during the still hours of the night.
* * *
Bailiff Joe McCarte of Judge O'Brien's police court
says if Santa Claus will give the judge's chambers a
new carpet he and his "side-kick" can walk about the floor
without getting splinters in their feet.
* * *
Sergeant John Manion of the Chinatown squad brought
in John Wong, charged with vagrancy, the other day.
This is an unusual charge for a Chinese.
* * *
Bailiff Jack Lyons of Judge Golden's department of
the police court, was telling Bailiff Mannie Joy the other
day that the Widows' and Orplians' Ball and Concert
would be the biggest in the history of the association,
to which Mannie agreed.
* * *
Officer Tom Larkin was asking Officer Tom Handley
if he remembered the time when the Bay came up to
Montgomery street, and Handley said, yes: the first time
he went down thei'e Tom was working on a tug boat.
* * *
Bailiffs Charles Bill and Tom Maloney of the police
court presided over by Judge Lazarus must have had
some pull to get that new carpet in the judge's chambers.
* * :^
George "Jerry Jarrett", formerly police reporter for
the Bulletin but for the past few months one of the sales
force of the Howard Automobile Company, Buick dis-
tributors, was down to the hall the other day greeting
his many friends, and wishing them a Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year. George told the boys around
headquarters that he can fix them up with some swell
new Buicks for Christmas presents, they being most ac-
ceptable for that purpose.
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Lieutenants:
CENTRAL
STATION
Capt. Arthur D. Layne
Harry P. Braig and Edward F. Copeland
Captain Arthur Layne wants the rotund white bewhis-
kered December 25th visitor designated as Santa Claus
to bring the new office some linoleum. The way the place
looks now all dolled up and no covering on the floor re-
minds one of a diamond on a dirty shirt. So harken Saint
Nick.
Here are a few of the 112 Motor Act \'iolators gathered
in during the month: Han-y Hill, arrested by Officers
Harry Gurtler and William Cullen; George Brown, who
drew an additional charge of having liquor in his posses-
sion, taken in custody by Sergeant Rooney; Harry Miller,
arrested by Officers John Lawless and W. Curtis; and John
McKenzie, arrested by Officers Frank Pleasand and Frank
Kennedy. The latter two offenders got an additional
charge of 141 of the Motor Act. Aslo Jos. Finley, nabbed
by Officer J. Fitzgerald, charged additionally with having
a stolen car and booze.
Sergeant William Flinn and Officers George Ohnimus
and Ed Christal didn't do so bad when they placed Joseph
Doner behind steel bars, for Joseph is said to be a robber.
« * *
Captain Arthur Layne and posse arrested Steve Tamen
for violating Sec. 337a of the Penal Code.
* * *
Officer J. Bell locked up Thomas Roderiquwz for assault
with a deadly weapon.
* * *
Joseph Margarsino is another gent charged with the
same offense who was arrested by Officer C. Rogerson.
* * *
John Figoni and Edward Nelson, accused of petty lar-
ceny, were landed in the city prison by Officers C. Zipperle
and J. Buckley.
* * *
Another petty larcenist likewise treated was Miguel
Davalos, tagged by Officer George Burkhardt.
* * *
Harry Davis, safe cracker with an eastern record, and
James Hunter, were arrested by Officer Frank Kennedy
and Special Gray, charged with attempted grand larceny
and ^\^th assault by means and force likely to produce
great bodily injury.
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December, 1926
SOUTHERN
STATION
Capt. Charles Goff
Lieutenants Arthur DeGuire and Richard Foley
Captain Charles Goff wants old Santy Claus to know
how much he likes the new Southern Station, and wants
him to keep the law \'iolators out of the district the coming
year.
* * *
There was a wide range of arrests made for as wide a
range of offenses the past month.
* -t *
Corporal Emmet Flynn and Officer William Desmond ar-
rested Amando Garcia for assault with intent to commit
murder.
* * *
The following were arrested for grand larceny: Edward
Everson, by Officer Thomas Feeney; Edward Kennedy, by
Officer 0. Lundborg; and Martha Hudson, by Corp. Flynn
and Officer Desmond.
* * *
Officer Lundborg arrested D. K. Kazangsen; Officers
Erasmy and J. Hourigan arrested James Wallace and Offi-
cers Charles Keck and Robert Clifford arrested John
Martinez for passing worthless checks. Officer P. O'Con-
nell brought in Jose Regreti for robbery.
* * *
Joe Valentino was arrested by Officers R. Curtin and
James King and charged with burglary.
* * *
Floyd Hanks was arrested for attempted extortion
and impersonating an officer, he being arrested by Officers
Andrew Lennon and Lundborg.
* * *
Officers Hourigan and Lennon arrested William Wadill
for assault to commit murder.
* * *
Harry Bond furnished the motive of an arrest for vio-
lating Section 112 of the Motor Act, the execution of the
law being performed by Officers Lennon and Lundborg.
* * *
A 288 charge was hung onto James Wright who was
arrested by Lieutenant Richard Foley.
* * *
An epidemic of petty larceny kicks resulted in the arrest
of the following for that offense: William White and
Frank Bartell, by Officers Lennon and Lundborg; Bert
Robinson, by Officer O'Connell; Charlie Williams and Dan
Gallagher, by Officer Tim Hurley and posse; John Duddy,
by Officer King.
The following were arrested by Officers Erasmy and J.
Horgan, wanted by the U. S. Marshal: Charles Holmes,
Patricia De La Rose and Antone Lecarte.
* * *
A. Darini was arrested as a JIOOO vag by Officer Nutt-
man; J. Keeley and Fred Kohero, same charge, booked by
Officers Slane and J. Crauhall.
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HARBOR
STATION
Capt. Patrick Herlihy
Lieutenants Wilbert F. Pengelly and Michael Mitchell
Captain Pat Hevlihy wants to thank Santa Claus for the
subway on the viaduct and asks him to keep the commut-
ers as good natured as they have been since he has been
in the Harbor.
* * *
Corporal H. H. Ludolph and Officer T. Bluitt grabbed off
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You wouldn't think that a man with any idea of direc-
tion would head for the harbor district with a skin full of
liquor. But nevertheless Officer F. F. Flynn arrested
James A. Parker and Officer W. Olson arrested Hiram
Montgomery for violating Section 112 of the Motor Vehicle
Act. ^ * ,
Thomas Brennan is inside looking out through the steel
bars awaiting some action on his charge of burglary. He
was arrested by Officers Henry Heschon and William
Keane. * * «
Officer Han-y Fi-ustick and Officer John Doran put the
finger on Loxiis Andrades for assault with a deadly wea-
pon.
THANKS FOR CO-OPERATION
Please let me take this opportunity of thanking you
and the San Francisco Police Department for the won-
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day, November 11th.
Also, please let me take this opportunity of thanking
you for having detailed Officer John B. Surges to me.
Without Officer Surges' efficient co-operation we could
not have gone through the crowds and placed our buglers
in position to sound "taps" at 11 a. m.
I would also like to express my opinion that Officer
Surges is one of the most capable men I have ever worked
with and he certainly reflects great credit upon the San
Francisco Police Department whose spirit of co-opera-
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December, 1926
MISSION
STATION
Capt. Frederick Lemon
Lieutenants Peter A. Mclntyre and Daniel J. Collins
Captain Fred Lemon hopes that the well-kno-wn Mister
Santa Claus will continue the era of prosperity that has
favored the district of recent years.
* * *
Three double action crooks were nabbed by Officer C.
Foster the other day. They are: Peter Ruscheinsky,
Charles Wimmer and James Johns, each being charged
with burglary and with violating Sec. 476a of the penal
code. ^ ^ ^
Another burglar man locked up for being such was John
Davis, who has several aliases, and has graced San Quentin
and Folsom. Officers William Ridgeway and W. Hennessey
boosted him into the tail end of the patrol wagon.
* * *
Reckless driving and driving while dinank were the
charges placed against Wm. J. Butler, arrested by Officer
Curran. ^ ^ ^
Charles J. States, wanted in Los Angeles, was arrested
by Officer M. GaflFey. , , ,
Arthur Lucio, accused of violating Section 288 of the
Penal Code, was led to a prison cell by Officer J. Crowley
and Special McClennan.
Henry Vance and Frank Willson, caught trying to walk
off with some automobile accesories, got a double booking
of attempted grand larceny and vagrancy when they were
taken to the station by Officers J. Foley and P. Thompson.
* * *
Officer Thompson with Officer C. Wennerberg and Offi-
cer Frank Nuttman, took into custody Andrew Batliner,
charged with manslaughter.
* * *
Two charges of petty larceny grace the name of William
Kirk, arrested by Corporal Patrick Shannon and posse.
* » *
Clarence Maxwell knows now that there is a law against
going about this city armed with a gun. He was arrested
by Sergeant Fred Suttman and locked up, being accused
of violating the state gun law.
» * *
Officer R. W. Hams booked Gabriel Cazares for assault
with a deadly weapon.
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BUSH ST.
STATION
Capt, John J. Casey
Lieutenants Edward L. Cullnan and Joseph Mignola
Captain John J. Casey hopes that Santa Claus will bring
him a new automobile to take the place of the one smashed
up by a drunken automobile driver last month.
* * *
Talking about di'unken drivers, the followng were
booked during the past month for violating Section 112
of the Motor Vehicle Act: Alexander Lee, by Officer John
Dolan, Jr.; Allan Mohr, by Officer James Toohig; William
Sage, by Officers A. Navembri and R. McCarte; and Wil-
liam Sanborn, by Officer J. O'Keefe.
* * *
Thomas Wiitelaw was locked up by Officer M. Fitz-
patrick, charged with being a hit-runner.
Officer A. Barrett locked up James J. Billings, accused
of manslaughter.
* * *
Clarence Sharps, accused of robbery, was an-ested by
Officers J. Ross and H. Kiernan.
* * *
Edward Bryant found prowling very dangerous to his
liberty for he was arrested and put in the city prison,
charged with burglary. Officers Dolan and P. Considine be-
ing the nemisis of Mr. Bryant.
* * *
Officer Toohig and posse grabbed a couple of auto thieves
when they put the snaps on Michael Donovan and Milton
Cliiford. ^ ^ ^
John E. Goldbery has two charges of burglary to wiggle
out of. His detention was occasioned by the watchfulness
of Officer Benn.
* * *
Corporal William Boyle and Officer William Ward got
another burglary suspect when they brought in Arthur
Dale.
* * *
Thomas Cheeks is facing a charge of assault with a
deadly weapon. His predicament being brought about by
the activity of Officers J. Collins, E. Keane and Dolan.
Officer Tobin and Officer Bergeron sent Larry Lanka
to the city prison charged with violating Sec. 288 of the
Penal Code.
* * *
Richard Hawley, accused of attempt to commit grand
larceny, was locked up by Officer L. Atkinson.
Officer R. Cuicci arrested Jack Cunningham wanted for
petty larceny.
* * *
Officers F. Nuttman and P. Slane let Scott Dahl know it
\vas unlawful to go armed in this city. They booked him
for violating Chapter 339, Sec. 5 of the Statutes of 1923.
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December, 1926
TRAFFIC BUREAU
Captain Heiu-y Gleeson
Ldeutenants J. J. Casey, J. (Cliff) Field and Grover Coats
All of Captain Henry Gleesonjs friends hope that old
Saint Nick will hand him a discharge from the hospital
and doctors and that he will be fully recovered from his
recent operation which has laid him up for some t\yo
months.
* * *
Mounted Officer Mahoney has given autoists some inten-
sive education along lines of traffic \'iolation. You can skip
along Market street from Van Ness to Second and you
won't find any double parking, and the pedestrian lanes are
left unobstructed by machines and you will also find the
proper space between fire hydrants and parked cars. The
drivers who leave "sleepers" along the curb also get a
trip to see Officers John LjTich and Andy Miller at Traffic
Headquarters. Forty minutes is forty minutes to Ma-
honey and he keeps close tab on all parked automobiles.
* * *
Officer Mildahn, one of the officer force of Captain
Gleeson, demonstrated the other day that he can handle
law \'iolators as well as he handles the office work in-
trusted to his care. He noticed that Kenneth Dumal was
not driving with the observance of traffic laws demanded
by those laws. He caused Mr. Durnal to pause while he
asked a few questions. The upshot of it was that Ken was
sent to headquarters charged with driving while intoxi-
cated and reckless driving.
* * *
Traffic Officer P. McEvoy is a good traffic officer and he
can do any other police work with equal dexterity as ex-
emplified by his arresting Edward Ferguson for violating
Section 476a of the Penal Code, which, as all policemen
know, has nothing to do with traffic \'iolations.
* * *
Another traffic officer who can step out from his station
directing autoists is J. Clasby, veteran member of the
traffic bureau. The other day he ups and arrests Walter
L. Roberts who was promising to do dire things to a fel-
low citizen. Walter got a booking for threats against life
and disturbing the peace.
* * *
Officer William Rakestraw pitched in and gave Officer
E. Hansen a hand in rounding up Alphonse Leure and
Louis Monalla who were booked at the city prison for petty
larceny.
Another okl-timer of the bureau who is laid up is Det.
Sergt. Frank McGrayan. He is improving and will be on
his feet again looking as chirper as ever.
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"I want every police officer to feel that he can
come here and make this place his radio head-
quarters.
"He can send his wife or his child here and be
sure they will be treated right."
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December. 1926
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Page 31
PARK
STATION
Capt. John J. O'Meara
Lieutenants Charles A. Pfeiffer and Fred W.
Norman
If old Santy Claus wants to make Captain John J.
O'Meara happy, he will bring a couple of camels, a hip-
popotamus, a giraffe or two, and a few ant eaters to grace
the Park menagerie. He says that if he gets these things
for Christmas, Inspector George Merchant will have them
all doing useful work by New Year's Day.
* ')■' *
Sergeant John Alpers says he had no idea of the build-
ing that has been going on out in the Sunset until he came
out to the Park from the Central, where the most building
consists of new business blocks.
* * *
Corporal Gene Egan contends that Kezar field will be a
better football field than any other stadium in the city.
* * *
John Wetter was wetter than the officers thought he
ought to be. They saw him weaving about the Park
drives and they felt it was up to them to find out if the
axle of his car was bent. They found out it wasn't. They
also found some "drinking licker" in the car. They also
found enough e\idence to charge John with reckless driv-
ing. Violating Section 112 of the Motor act and \nolating
the state prohibition law.
* * *
Officer Julius Hiett got a call from a couple of old ladies
the other day. They said a couple of sailors were gi^^ng
the bears booze. Julius went forth, found the sailors, who
admitted they had, but as the bears had drank all the
e\'idence, the bottle broken and no witnesses to testify.
the ladies going on their way, Hiett and other well legal
versed policemen decided the two sailors could not be
locked up.
* * *
Another 112 boy picked up by this station was John
O'Day. He was arrested by Patrol Driver D. Rollins after
John nearly took a wheel off the patrol wagon.
* * *
Peter Marino tried his hand at robbery. It didn't work,
he was arrested for attempted robbery by Sergeant John
Alpers and Detective Sergeants William McMahon, George
Wall, Robert Rauer and Leo Bunner.
* * *
Patrick Chambeis had the honor of being arrested on
a bench warrant served bv Officer William Casev.
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December, 1926
RICHMOND
STATION
Capt. William T. Healy
Lieutenants Daniel W. Cronii, Francis J. McGuire
Captain William Healy says he always hangs his stock-
ings up Christmas, and he don't know just what he wants
this year. His command has made a dandy record for
catching law breakers, has kept the streets safe for all,
and handled hundreds of thousands of visitors out at the
beach without an accident or any trouble worth mention-
ing. So about all the Captain can hope is that the spreader
of gladness on December 25 can send him in an official
way a lot more law-abiding citizens.
* * *
Joseph Green, charged with violating Section 288 of the
Penal Code, was arrested by Officers W. Francis and E.
Schuldt.
* * *
Corporal Dobbins, who has seen the Richmond grow up,
points out that there is witliin the confines of that district
many things to attract the visitor as well as our own
citizens. The well known Pacific Ocean can be seen in all
its grandeur; the municipal golf links afford a place for
the pasture pool players to cavort; the Palace of the Le-
gion of Honor is a place worth .seeing; the Seal Rocks are
worthy of a few gazes at any time; the Chutes at the
Beach will afford fun for young and old; you can get into
Golden Gate Park from his district at a dozen places;
and there are some swell scenic drives.
« * «
Corporal Frank Rhodes and Officer C. Cornelius, who
don't give much time on fellows who loiter around skip-
ping by work, gave Bert Parker a free ride to the station
on a vagrancy charge.
* * *
Percy Derose, petty larcenist, gave the nod to desk offi-
cer after being arretted by Officers C. Radford and J. Mc-
Kittrick.
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Page 33
INGLESIDE
STATION
Capt. Eugene Wall
Captain Eugene Wall says that if the district presided
over by his command keeps on growing in the next year
as it has in the past year, old Saint Nicholas will have to
slip a lot of new policemen in his stockings to keep up the
high efficiency of police protection that has characterized
the Ingleside district for years.
* « *
Officer Jack Rudden, veteran desk man at the station
says he can remember the time when nearly all the vege-
tables used in San Francisco were gro\\'n ■\\'ithin a half
mile radius of the Ingleside station. Now he says the
folks all have to have their vegetables sent out from the
stores.
* * *
Katherin Launister, arrested for robbery by Officer R.
Hall, con\'inced Judge Sylvan Lazaras that she wasn't
guilty and so she beat the rap. She was accused by an-
other woman of taking some of the latter's chattels.
* * *
Jurgen Robertsen knows what the inside of the station
looks like, for he had to spend a few hours in one of the
cells until transferred to the city prison where he was
charged with dri\'ing an automobile while full of intoxicat-
ing beverages of some kind. His arrest was made by Offi-
cer E. Keck.
* * *
William Rose, charged with robbery, was arrested on
Nov. 21 by Officers E. Donahue, L. Hagen and Special
Lavoy. Rose, who is 43, is a member of the navy.
G. Engler picked up Robert Clay,
Section 476a of the Penal Code.
wanted for violating
Officer G. N. Wuth put James Bowers in a cell on a
vagrancy complaint.
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December, 1926
NORTH END
STATION
Capt. Herbert J. Wright
Lieutenants D. M. Reavis and George Duffy
Captain Herbert Wright wants old Santy Claus to bring
him a lot of good luck and help keep up his record for
crime suppression in the North End District. All the boys
in the station have hit the ball the past year and they
say them are going to bat higher the coming.
Officer William Maguire, on the desk during the day
watch, says that folks wouldn't recogTiize the old Marina
these days, it having undergone some transformation since
the Exposition closed ten years ago.
MERCHANTS' ASSOCIATION PRAISES
The officers of the Board of Directors of the North
Beach Merchants' Association at a special meeting held
October 28th ult. unanimously voted to go on record
highly praising the efficient work of our Chief of Police
and the officers under your command, for effecting the
capture of the teiTor bandits.
We also desire to make mention and highly commend
the two officers,. Louis De Matre and Paddy Wafer for
the valiant part they staged.
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Page 35
\Y/E STERN
iWrADDITION
STATION
Capt. Robert A. Coulter
Lieutenants Emmet E. Moore and John M. Sullivan
Captain Robert Coulter wants Old Saint Nicholas to
make all the law abiding folks in his district as happy as
he did last year. Says he has the best station in the city
and can't think of a thing that he needs this Xmas day.
* * *
John H. Crow-der and Richard Blake stole a car and
went forth to do some fancy robbery work. They pulled
a couple of jobs before Officers W. Classen and W. Casey
got busy. These two officers got the two adventurers and
when the proceedings w^ere completed each gent arrested
faced two robbery charges, one of stealing an automobile
and Blake with carrying a gun.
* * *
Gents full of gin and riding in a gas buggy will persist
in coming out in this district, and the officers, just as per-
sistent, lock them up. Ask Elmer Pearson about it. He
was arrested for violating Section 112 by Officers E. Paul
and J. W. Doyle.
* * *
Lowell Lefler went from the Southern District to try his
hand at a robbery job. He got caught before he had con-
summated his intention, and Corporal J. O'Leary locked
him up for attempt to commit robbery.
* * *
Irving MacKeever thought he could skip through the
district in a car he had driven away without the owner's
consent. He got fooled; also got put in jail by Coi-poral
Cullinan for violating Section 146 of the Motor Act.
* * *
Frank Coleman, accused of violating Section 288 of the
Penal Code, was airested by Captain Coulter.
He « *
Officer Charles Wedekind brought to the station Jack
Lj-nch and George Gibson for statutory offenses.
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December, J 926
BAY VIEW
STATION
Capt. Stephen V. Bunner
Lieut. Frank DeGrancourt, Lieut. Wm. Dowie
Captain Stephen Bunner hopes that Santa Claus will
make all the people of his district be as law abiding as they
have been since last Christmas. He has had but little
trouble with evil-doers and he wants this condition to
continue.
* * *
Corporals Charley BrowTi and Rudy Maier says that Cor-
poral William Harrington is looking fonvard to the time
when there will be a big parade out in this district so he
can put on his nice new Corporal's uniform and give the
villagers a real treat.
* * *
Gilbert Anderson sure grabbed off a bunch of grief for
himself when he drove out into this section. He wound up
in jail by being charged with violating Section 112 and
141 of the motor vehicle act, either charge being enough to
give a lot of work to a smart lawyer. Officers A. O'Brien
and A. Schwind made the "pinch".
* * *
Sergeant Nolan and Sergeant Lance gave Jesus Beun-
rostro a demonstration of the activity of the police force
out in this district. Jesus has had a course in San Quentin
and a post graduate course in Folsom. He figured that the
Bayview would be a fertile field to ply what knowledge he
possessed of burglary and sharpened by association with
some of the best prowlers in captivity, where most of the
prowlers wind up; he figured wrong, for the two above
mentioned sergeants just grabbed him off and when they
poured him out of the patrol wagon, they had enough on
him to charge him with burglary and two attempted
burglaries.
* * *
Alex Vai has mixed forgery with burglary, so he goes
armed. This armed business is "agin the law". Officer
A. O'Brien knows about this law, so he tags Mr. Vai with
a charge of violating the gun law.
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December. J 926
2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 37
POTRERO
STATION
Capt. Harry J. O'Day
Lieutenants Albert S. Munn, J. C. Malloy
Captain Hariy O'Day hopes that Santa Claus will be as
good to him the coming year as he has been in the past.
Records show that his district has been a very law-abiding
one and when some law breaking was done the boys of his
command have been on the job and quickly brought the
violators to book. CaptLun O'Day wishes all the member;-,
of the department from the Chief down, a Merry Christ-
mas and a Happy New Year.
* * *
Lieutenant Malloy feels that the streets are not safe
when a gent ginned up tries to steer a gas wagon. He ob-
served Archie Luna the other day steering an uncertain
course, so he ups and investigates and the investigation
.satisfied him that Archie was breaking all the pro\dsions
of Sec. 112 of the Motor act and he arrested him, booked
him and locked him up on a charge of violating that well
known statute. He also vagged Raymond Flores who was
a passenger with Luna. Sergt. Emmet Hogan found on
checking Mr. Luna's finger prints that he was wanted in
Solano county for burglary, committed in August, 1925.
So Mr. Luna has a heap of grief to break away from.
* * *
George Perkins and Frank Claus were getting an eyefull
of the beauties of the Protrero hills from an automobile.
The automobile belonged to another man, who did not
know the boys and did not know they had the machine.
Officer H. Heracy spotted the lads and seeing they were in
an automobile reported stolen, stopped them and did a
little question and answer work. He wound up by march-
ing the boys to the Potrero station where they were
charged with violating Section 146 of the Motor Act.
* * *
Frank Schmitz was driving an automobile in \aolation of
the provisions of Section 112 when Officer N. Kavanaugh
got a peek at him, and the next thing Mr. Schmitz knew
he was surrounded with a lot of perpendicular steel bars
and the books told the story of his being aiTested for
dri\'ing while drunk.
* * *
Joe Gutirez is a bold sould. He tried a little burglary
in the district and he had the pleasure of being arrested
by Lieutenant Malloy, Sergeant Kerrigan and Officer D.
Henderson.
* * *
Officer H. Doyle believes in an industrial district like
this, there is no excuse for a man to be loafing, so he ar-
rested Salvadore Martinez, who seemed to be avoiding
work most assiduously. Sal was charged with vagrancy.
* * *
Det. Sergt. Tom DriscoU underwent an operation last
month that has confined him to his home for some time,
but the doctors say he is getting along nicely and will
soon be back on the job.
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Phone Garfield 3784
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December, 1926
MATHESON
(Continued from Page 12)
VIL
In a preceding article, (America, May 16), I
put the question as to tlie right of the State to
take human Hfe as a punishment for crime. With
no intent to stir controversy, but merely to re-
flect the mind of Catholic philosophers and theo-
logians, I wrote that tlie question must be an-
swered in the affirmative. The Catholic opinion,
stated broadly, is that the right flows from the
very nature and purpose of the State, and is sup-
ported by the teaching of Holy Scripture as well
as by the common usage of nations.
An examination of the various State laws dis-
closes a surprisingly large number of capital
crimes. I do not pretend to have surveyed the
entire field, but the following synopsis is correct,
I think, at least in general outline. Six States:
Maine, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, South Da-
kota and Wisconsin, have abolished the death
penalty.
(To be Continued)
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LE ROY LINNARD
Manager
MODERN CRIME
(Continued from Page 10)
It is clearly understood that mental education
alone is not sufficient in the making of men and
women. In Amei'ica the church is supposed to
furnish the religious training, and from that each
one is presumed to receive all required moral and
ethical development. It is well to leave to the
church the imparting of religious instruction, but
moral and ethical instruction and training can
be imparted in any properly equipped school.
We extend to you
our Sincerest Wishes for a
Happy aed
ProsperoMS
Ne^w Year
and when New Year's Day has passed
may the many good things
we wish for you linger until this
momentous day comes again
CHIEF COMMENDS OFFICERS
On November 18, 1926, two holdup men, Rob-
ert Schenk, alias Richard Blake, and John Crowd- .. .^ ., - t\ . • /"^
er, were arrested by Police Officers Patrick Glea- /^IgX* DullCr Printing L>0.
[Established 1896]
son and James H. Casey of the Western Addition
police district.
The report submitted, dealing with this ar-
(Continued on Page 40)
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Dixembcr, 1926
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Page 39
SHOPLIFTERS
(Continued from Page 15)
three days before the goods would be missed, and
tlie thieves would be far away.
Pictures of the three women and the man were
shown to storekeepers who had been victimized
and were readily identified as the would-be pur-
chasers who visited the stores at the time the
goods were stolen.
These photographs and descriptions have been
sent broadcast throughout the country, but so far
not a "rumble" has been heard of them.
Lieutenant Powell returned to San Francisco
without his prisoners but he had the satisfaction
of Jvnowing that he had all the goods in his pos-
session that had been stolen here and a lot that
had been taken in other cities on the coast.
He also found that the gang was tipped off that
the trunks intercepted had been grabbed by the
police and they were told not to ship any more to
Brooklyn. This information came from the coast
end of the mob, and he represents a powerful in-
fluence in underworld circles in a city on the Pa-
cific.
However, Powell, Tatham, Gaughran and Skelly
feel certain that sooner or later the gang will
"fall" and when they do they will have a chance
to face a San Francisco jury before they wiggle
out of their trouble.
APPRECIATION EXPRESSED
May I take this opportunity of expressing my appre-
ciation of the wonderful performance of duty as exem-
plified by Officer Leo O'Connor in a case recently as-
signed to him for solution. Officer O'Connor in less
than 36 hours after the report of a theft to him, was
able to notify me of the location of the articles stolen
from my apartment. With the splendid powers of de-
duction as used by this officer, I was enabled to become
again possessed of my personal property within such
a short period of time that its loss was, through the
efficiency of this officer in recovering same, of a negli-
gible character.
I am happy to send this communication to your officers
and through them, to be able to express my thanks to
one who has proven his ability coupled with efficiency.
PAUL F. COLLINS,
347 Mills Building.
Phone DOUGLAS 3164
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niture dealer's.
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and SPRING CO.
5700 Third Street, San Francisco
Telephone Mission 2365
J. G. Johnson
Wholesale
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Office and Plant
.ARTHUR AVE. NEAR THIRD ST.
SAX FRANCISCO. CALIF.
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December, 1926
THE KILLING OF JOE TANKO
(Continued from Page 6)
in the fight for Roney's life and the reUef of Van
Matre.
At the San Francisco Hospital quarters were
inade ready for the two men and they were given
the best modern surgery to be offered. Roney's
mother came from across the bay and took her
place at the bedside of her son, she being a train-
ed nurse.
When Roney could be seen by his brother offi-
cers he assured them he was going to get well,
that he was all right and would be on the job
again.
This brave spirit, coupled with a wonderful
constitution and a body that has never suffered
from excesses of any kind, has assured his re-
covery.
Van Matre had to have his leg opened to get
the bullet and a piece of clothing that was car-
ried into the bullet hole by the leaden missive
that nearly cost him his life.
No one would claim Tanko's body and he was
burried in the potters' field, "unhonoi'ed, unsung
and in disgrace."
The other members of De Bardelaben's mob
were rounded up, "Creepy" Wilson and Theodore
Johnson. They all face robbery chai'ges and in-
dictments for harboring a criminal. Their cases
present no argument for sympathy and the sooner
they are put behind bars the better off law-abiding
people will be.
They admitted they knew their guest was
Tanko and that he had been hiding out with
them for weeks. Tanko, after his escape from
Sacramento, went to Colorado where he got a
"roll" and came back to Sacramento a sick man.
He laid low in a Chinese hideout until able to
travel and came to this city a mere shadow of
hi.s former self.
Once again are the people of San Francisco
brought face to face with the unwavering bravery
and courage of our police department. The mem-
bers meet their duty without fear of personal
injury or death itself.
Nearly a score of vags were arrested during the recent
roundup of undesirables by posses led by Captain Arthur
Layne, Officers Ed. Moran, Jack Mangan, J. Lawless, and
William Sullivan.
CHIEF COMMENDS OFFICERS
(Continued from Page 38)
rest, shows that both officers displayed high effi-
ciency in apprehending the two holdup men men-
tioned, and for the efficient and faithful police
service rendered they are hereby commended by
the Chief of Police.
DddbeErdthers
MOTOR CARS
J. E. FRENCH CO.
O'Farrell at Polk
2366 Mission St.
Prospect 9000
FIREMAN'S
FUND
INSURANCE COMPANY
401 CALIFORNIA STREET
Fire • Automobile • Marine
The WHITElMrCOMPANY
TRUCKS and BUSSES
BANCA POPOLARE FUGAZl
(FUGAZI BANK)
F. N. BELGRANO. Pres.
San Francisco — Oakland — Santa Barbara
Califomia
ASSETS OVER $20,000,000.00
Phone Kearny 1701
P. O. Box 2143
San Francisco International Fish Co.
Wholesale and Retail Fish Dealers
535-539 WASHINGTON ST. San Francisco, Cal.
LA CAMPANA CAFE
Italian Restaurant and Hotel
Dancing 440 BROADWAY
Every Evening SAN FRANCISCO
Phone Salter 8805
December, 1926
2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Pazc 41
NEW WINTER ORDERS
(Continued from Pago 9)
In the premises, company commanders shall
issue proper instructions so that all places wherein
or whereat undesirables may seek refuge will re-
ceive proper attention. Tiie application of the
vagrancy laws is a splendid crime prevention
measure. Under our fingerprint system the vag-
rant can be checked upon and by this means he
can be connected with crimes for which he may
be a fugitive from justice. At any rate, finger-
prints have shown and will show the vagrant's
criminal history and in this way the officer on the
beat, and in fact all members of the department,
will know with whom they are dealing.
It is hardly necessary for me to say that every
precaution must be used by members of this de-
partment in their investigation of criminals. The
penal laws of this state have definitely set forth
the circumstances under which a peace officer may
use his revolver and entirely apart from the penal
regulations the mandates of the natural law guar-
antee the fundamental rule of self preservation.
For the protection of the men of this depart-
ment and in order that they may render the
highest possible degree of efficient service to the
people of this municipality, company commanders
may in their judgment pair men on the beats
within their respective districts on the 4 to 12
midnight and the 12 midnight to 8 a. m. platoons.
This system of pairing men shall commence Tues-
day, November 16, 1926, and shall continue up
to 8 a. m. of February 1, 1927.
TOLERANCE
(Continued from Page 18)
many others who had the shafts of persecution
(the result of intolerance) thrust upon them.
In our very city, this very day, let anybody
try to express themselves, publicly, on such popu-
lar and ordinary subjects, such as Russia, Birth
Control, the League of Nations, the Volstead Act,
Unionism, Capital Punishment, Dietetics, the
Public School System, Political War Prisoners,
H. L. Mencken, Bernard Shaw, the Key Route
System, Hon. James Rolph, Jr., Hon. Daniel J.
O'Brien, our Fire Chief, the four tracks on Market
street, California, Incorporated, or anything else,
no matter how significant or insig-nificant, there
will be enough mortals left over possessing a
medieval spirit of intolerance, manifesting symp-
toms of a sluggisli liver, inflamed spleen and a
swollen thyroid gland — all of which must be ex-
ercised on the "innocent by-stander." Why is
this so, in spite of our progress in other direc-
tions?
(To bo Continued)
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DANCING EVERY EVENING
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Telephone 506 BROADWAY
Sutter 8547 . San Francisco, Cal.
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December, J 926
FANNING
(Continued from Page 7)
the cashier to open the safe and then taking the
cashier with them as a preventive of any shooting
by citizens anxious to bag a James boy.
Their first train robbery was the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific train, which was stopped near
Council Blufi's, by track obstructions, the engineer
was killed and the passenger, mail and express cars
were rifled. In this job the Younger boys joined
forces with the James, and were supposed to have
managed the job.
A Missouri stage was the next objective point
of these active boys and the passengers were re-
lieved of about four thousand dollars and the stage
driver of one of his horses.
The next that was heard of them was in tlie
holdup of the St. Louis and Texas express train,
which was stopped at Gadshill, in Missouri, and
the work was done at night, the robbers getting
about nine thousand dollars. In pursuing the
bandits, two detectives were killed by the Younger
brothers, and a Pinkerton man killed by the
James. This led to a more determined hunt by
the Pinkerton men, and one night the James boy's
house, in Clay County, Missouri, was attacked by
a party who threw into it a hand bomb, which in
exploding tore off' the arm of the boys' mother
and killed a younger half brother. Every possible
effort to capture Jesse failed, although the State
was alive with detectives.
A most remarkable feature about this remark-
able history was the introduction of a bill in the
Missouri Legislature in 1875, off'ering amnesty to
the James boys, if they would return quietly to
their homes and live there.
The next job that they were supposed to have
done was the robbing of the San Antonio and
Austin, (Texas) Stage.
Fi'om the passengers, men and women, a great
deal of jewelry and tliousands of dollars were
taken. There was no resistance at the time and
no one captured.
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767-781 BEACH STREET
Opposite Golden Gate Ferry
Manufacturers of
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Soap Chips and Soap Powder
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Suppliers of Washing Soaps and Cleansing
Materials to Steamship Lines
Prompt Deliveries
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We launder Curtains and Blan\ets, too,
and return them looking almost li\e new.
La Grande and Whitens
Laundry Company
"The Recommended Laundry"
Phone Market 916
250 - 12th STREET SAN FRANCISCO
Phones: MARKET
Little Auto Parts Company
NEW and USED
WHEELS, RIMS, PARTS and ACCESSORIES
701 GOLDEN GATE AVENUE
Cor. Franklin St. San Francisco, Cal.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
WILSON - The Coffee Man
TWO STORES
GRANADA MARKET, Market St., bet. 3rd and 4th
Factory — Mission St., bet. 7th and 8th
.3.5c - 40c - 45c - 50c
Fisher's Dancing Pavilion
Eddy and Jones Streets
DANCING EVERY EVENING
Music by
DR. RITTER'S GOLDEN GATE SINGING BAND
ADMISSION 10 CENTS
December. J 926
"2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 43
The remarkable amnesty bill not passing, the
James boys revenged themselves on a farmer
neighbor who had taken sides against them.
In the latter part of 1875, a train was boarded
on the Kansas, Pacific Railroad, near Kansas City,
and the express car was robbed of thirty thousand
dollars in gold dust, and twenty-five thousand dol-
lars in other valuables. None of the passengers
were molested. This robbery was supposed to be
done by the James Gang.
The next job, showing the handiwork of the
James Gang was the robbery of the Huntington,
West Virginia, bank, in open air dash style. One
robber was captured in the pursuit and sent to
prison.
Then a great sensation was created in tlie City
of St. Joseph, Missouri, by the announcement that
Jesse James, the notorious bandit and train rob-
ber, had been shot and killed, the news spreading
with great rapidity, and most people received it
with doubt, until investigation established the
fact beyond question. The excitement became
more and more intense, and crowds of people
rushed to that quarter where the shooting took
place, anxious to view the body of the dead outlaw
and to learn the particulars. In a small frame
shanty Jesse James had lived with his wife and
two of his gang, Robert and Charles Ford, made
their headquarters at the house. They were in
the act of making preparations for a raiding expe-
dition on which they were to start. Jesse had
planned to rob a bank at Burgess City. While the
Ford boys had been in the house with Jesse, they
had watched for an opportunity to shoot him, but
he was always heavily armed, and it was impossi-
ble to draw a weapon without him seeing them.
They always declared that they had no idea of
taking him alive, and they considered the under-
( Continued on Page 60)
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December, 1926
CHIEF O'BRIEN
(Continued from Page 20)
days have fallen into the hands of the police and
put in prison.
The rambling crook has learned that this is a
"tough town" for all their kind, and we have but
few of the migTatory sort trying their game here.
Pickpockets and buncomen are and have been
scarce. Bank robberies have been few. Payroll
stickups have been almost unknown, and the
crook has been kept on the move and out of this
city.
The achievements of the chief, so splendid,
have been made possible by his police of crime
prevention. He has done much to educate the
public to assist in their own protection, by taking
precautionary measure to outwit the thief. He
has had in all his undertakings the heartiest co-
operation of the board of police commissioners,
Theodore Roche, Jesse B. Cook, Dr. Thomas Shu-
mate and Andrew Mahoney, as well as the rank
and file of the men under him.
Every modern weapon of defense possible to
obtain has been .adopted in this department by
Chief O'Brien, to combat the thug, the crook, the
thief. Tear bombs, gas, machine guns, etc., are
ready at a moment's notice.
He has brought about a gi'adual change from
old time metliods to new, and he is working out
all the time better means to give to the people
of San Francisco the maximum of police protec-
tion, and he can look back upon his six years as
chief of the department with the satisfaction that
he has done his task well and has the support
of all honest people and the appreciation of the
citizenry of San Francisco generally.
We wish him continued success and happiness.
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MACHINE BLACKSMITHING
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STATE PATROLMEN MEET
(Continued from Page 11)
ment and stated that lack of co-operation between
enforcement officers and those who are called
upon to impose the penalties of the law was held
detrimental to the good of the community.
Geo. E. Sanford, general attorney of the Cali-
fornia State Automobile Association, completed
the day's program with an address on methods of
law enforcement by traffic officers.
* * *
A delegation of 30 uniformed officers on motor-
cycles met Mr. and Mrs. James Rolph, Jr., Mayor
of San Francisco, at the Southern Pacific Depot
who made a special trip to Sacramento to be on
hand to fulfill his promise. Therefore the chief
speaker at the afternoon session was the Mayor,
who was escorted to the platform by six uniform-
ed officers.
Tracing the great growth of the motor indus-
try during the last ten years and the concentra-
tion of population in cities during the same
period the Mayor termed traffic regulation as one
of the major problems of the nation.
The keynote of the program was struck in an
address given by Senator J. M. Inman, who pledg-
ed his support of any measure proposed by the
traffic officers in the coming legislative session.
* * *
Our friend from up country was sm-e there on
the job. Hon. Judge R. G. Cornell of Chowchilla,
under whose judicial power Ralph De Palma, fa-
mous racing driver, and Tom Mix, of the movies,
were fined for speeding. In addition to the above
mentioned, Judge Cornell mixed it with Jack
Dempsey but lost the decision to the ex-heavy-
weight fighter when a jury returned a verdict of
not guilty for speeding.
The judge gave reasons for the strict enforce-
ment of the speed laws, saying that the majority
*■£ accidents came from ordinary speeding.
* * *
Ivan Kelso, head counsel of the Southern Cali-
fornia Auto Club, stressed the need for uniform-
ity in State motor laws and declared that arbi-
trary enforcement of traffic rules by a fair officer
was often better than absolute enforcement by
one of tyrannical nature.
F. K. MacComber of Tulare introduced a new
note in suggesting that traffic officers should be
ready to give information to tourists concerning
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December, 1926
points of interest, and play the part of booster.
Earl Warren, district attorney of Alameda
County, whose talk favored points brought out in
previous discussions, concluded the day's session.
At 8 p. m. reconvened to take action on im-
portant committee matters. Decision was reach-
ed to recommend some changes in the present
motor vehicle law at the session of the Legisla-
ture in January, which were as follows:
That State highway patrol officers be selected
through civil service rather than on recommenda-
tion of county supervisors; that injm-ed officers
be compensated through the motor vehicle fund
rather than the regular State compensation chan-
nels; that it be unlawful to drive a car in which
the cut-out can be operated from the driver's
seat; that driving while drunk or under the in-
fluence of narcotics be changed from a felony to
a misdemeanor, eliminating the five day clause
with punishment of minimum $100 or 10 days,
or both; maximum $500, or 6 months, or both,
and to eliminate chaufi:eurs' license entirely, and
charge $1.00 annually for an operator's license.
A committee was appointed to request that a
record of the entire registration in the State be
kept at all branches of the motor vehicle depart-
ment, with 24-hour service.
Purchasers of Live Stock
Liberal Advances on Consignments
Beef, Calves, Sheep and Hogs Bought or
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" 2 - 0 " POLICE JOURNAL
Page 47
'SAFETY-FRONT" STREET CARS
By SAMUEL KAHN, Executive Vice-President
(Market Street Railway Company)
Chief of Police Daniel J. O'Brien has asked for
a short statement in "2-0", the Police Journal,
explaining why so many white-front street cars
are appearing on our lines.
There seems to be a general impression among
tlie public that the "white-front" is for display
pui"poses. This, however, is not its purpose.
It is an experiment in safety. So far as we
know this city is the first place where the idea
has been tried and it has already begun to cut
down accidents to pedestrians, and accidents be-
tween street cars and automobiles.
The standard warning for street cars seems
to have been the headlight. This is necessary
to show the motorman what is on the track. Our
thought was to go further and improve on the
lieadlight by lighting up the car front behind it,
so that people in the street can get a prespective
on the street car and know whei'e it is located.
Two lights, hidden from the eye, illuminate tlie
white fronts below the motorman's window at
night. This makes the front of the street car
visible for some distance. Also, this offers an
object to the vision of street travelers which
gives perspective and enables the observer to
judge accurately the distance to the street car.
Even though it be daytime, if the weather is
foggy we find that pedestrians and auto drivers
see the street cars much more readily since we
began painting the fronts white.
We have found that the traveling public likes
the white fronts. Man),' auto and truck drivers
have expressed their approval of "safety-fronts"
to us. By avoiding accidents and assisting driv-
ers to more accurately judge the position of a
street car, we believe the "safety-front" tends to
cut down traflSc delays and congestion.
"Safety-fronts" are standard with the ]\Iarket
Street Railway Company now. More than 300
cars have them, and others are being equipped
as rapidly as possible.
The Market Street Car Co. has ever co-operated
to the furthest extent witii the police department
and this safety first policy has been a feature
that has attracted great favorable attention. The
terse window paragraphs found in all cars have
given a course in education that has caused cau-
tion and care on the part of the public. — Editor.
The Harbor station has been getting a renovation. New
tan tinting with brown trimmings make the old station
look like it ain't. A few more needed articles and the
place will be a regular place and no fooling.
As Christmas comes this year
— We can express our greetings to you in no better way
than promising to keep your gas and electric service as
nearly perfect as possible.
So when your Holiday dinners are cooking merrily on
your gas or electric range, you'll then know our Christmas
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December, 1926
NEW LAWS
(Continued from Page 14)
for the ordinarily insane from which they are
very frequently paroled within a few months. The
Commission expects to recommend that when a
hospital for the criminally insane is created, all
persons who are acquitted of felonies on the
ground of insanity shall be committed to such
hospital and there detained until it has been judi-
cially adjudicated that their sanity is restored.
This will serve both to protect such persons from
themselves, and to protect society from the depre-
dations of this class.
A new statute which will require defendant,
relying- upon the defense of alibi, to give notice
at the time of his plea that he will make such a
defense. The purpose of this is to minimize the
perjury that so frequently accompanies this de-
fense and to give the people a fair opportunity
to meet it; in other words, to make it more cer-
tain that the trial will arrive at the truth.
Section 1050. A new section which will re-
quire the court to set all criminal cases for trial
for a date not later than thirty days after the
entry of plea by defendant, providing that no
continuance shall be granted except upon affirma-
tive proof that the ends of justice require it;
that no continuance shall be gi'anted for any
longer period than it is proved the ends of jus-
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2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 49
tice require, and that when a continuance is
granted, the court shall enter upon its minutes
the facts proved which require it.
This is a very important provision. The more
quickly a case can be brought to trial, the more
likely it is that the trial will arrive at the truth.
Delays have always been one of the greatest
loopholes for the escape of the guilty. The
promptness with which cases are heard and de-
termined is one of the greatest factors in the effi-
ciency of the British and Canadian systems.
Conduct of the Trial
A new section requiring the trial court to con-
trol all proceedings during the trial and to limit
examination, cross-examination and argument to
relevant and material matters. One weakness in
our criminal procedure has been that it is too
much a game between opposing counsel, with the
trial court frequently sitting simply as an um-
pire. The matter of the administration of crimi-
nal justice and the ascertainment of the truth
is too important a matter to be a game.
(b) Amend Section 1070 to provide that the
people and defendant shall have the same num-
ber of peremptory challenges. In capital cases,
ten; in all other cases, five. At the present time
the defendant is allowed twice as many perempt-
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December, 1926
NAVAL COMMANDER PLEASED
It gives me pleasure to send you herewith, copy
of letter addressed tb the Mayor by Vice-Admiral
L. R. de Steiguer, in which he compUments you
and the members of your department upon the
co-operation and courtesy given to his Patrol
Officer and the men under his command during
their recent stay in San Fi-ancisco. I would sug-
gest that you transmit the letter in one of your
Department Bulletins in order that the members
of the Police Department may know that their
efforts are appreciated.
W. F. BENEDICT,
Assistant Secretary to the Mayor.
To the Mayor :
I have received a letter from my Patrol Officer,
Commander F. Cogswell, U. S. Navy, stating that
during the stay in San Francisco, from 25 to 28
October, he received from your Chief of Police
Daniel J. O'Brien, the utmost co-operation and
courtesy. Such reports indicating the efficiency
of your organization must be pleasing to you.
Thanking you for the courtesy shown us during
our recent stay in San Francisco, I remain,
L. R. DE STEIGUER.
Vice-Admiral, U. S. Navy,
Commander Battleship Divisions,
United States Fleet, Battle Fleet.
The writer wishes to commend the action of one of
your officers, Motorcycle Officer Edward D. O'Day. Yes-
terday, I was leaving a home on 25th avenue, after making
a sales call. As I was getting in my auto with the two
heavy sample cases which I carry. Officer O'Day drove
along side and made pertinent inquiry as to my business
and the contents of the grips.
He was very courteous but persistent enough to satisfy
himself that everything was right before letting me leave
the vicinity.
I liked the way he did his duty and I believe it right
that I should express myself to you and tell you that I
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TONG AVARS ENDED ON THE COAST
Following' months of bitter warfare among two
powerful Chinese orsanizations, the P>ing Konp
and the Hop Sing Tongs, leading Chinese citizens
have, after working assiduously for some time,
brought about peace and the hostilities are over.
This tong war lias been the most fatal since 1913
when the streets of our own Chinatown were made
red witli human blood and over a score were kill-
ed in this city alone.
The following was issued out of Chief O'Brien's
office relative to the ending of the war, and in it
Sergeant Manion and his squad come in for a
just amount of praise, for by their strict, firm
and judicious handling of the situation they pre-
vented any bloodshed in San Francisco's Oriental
quarters. In fact, there has not been a tong
shooting or death in Chinatown since Sergeant
Manion has been in charge of the policing of that
district.
The Chief's observations:
"The tong war between the Bing Kong Tong
and the Hop Sing Tong came to an end at 2 p. m.
November 6, 1926. This war started at Santa
Barbara on July 1, 1926.
26 men were shot during this outbi'eak.
18 men were killed, and 8 men were wounded.
11 members of the Hop Sing were killed, none
wounded.
3 Bing Kong men were killed and 3 men were
wounded.
4 men were killed who were not connected
with either the Bing Kong Tong or the Hop
Sing Tong and .5 such men were wounded.
"There was no shooting in the Chinatown dis-
trict of this city during this war."
Chief O'Brien issued the following orders:
Detective Sergeant John J. Manion and the
members of the department assigned to duty
with him in the Cliinatown section during the
period mentioned in the report quoted are hereby
commended by the Chief of Police for the splen-
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WARREN
(Continued from Page 16)
and I took particular occasion to talk with these
men, and I tried to get their viewpoint, their
attitude, tried to find out what they thought of
the law and what they thought of their chances
of going to San Quentin, of getting probation,
and as often as conditions would permit I would
ask these gentlemen, "What are you going to
do?" and I was going to say hundreds of times,
but invariably when I asked this question of these
young men the answer would come back, "Plead
guilty and take probation", not ask for proba-
tion, not beg for probation — they were going to
plead guilty and take probation; now, why?
Because they knew in the great majority of cases
young men not twice convicted of felony are al-
most certain to obtain probation, and what do
you think of that effect on the mind of a young
man predisposed to crime? They go and commit
it, and I believe you will agree with me. You
gentlemen perhaps see more of that than I do
because you see them in the field, and I only see
them on their good behavior in the office.
The same applies to our parole system. I be-
lieve parole systems in county jails are abused
just as much as the probation system. Out of,
yes, three men of ten who go to state prison —
no, three out of seven who go to state's prison —
I wager that a large majority get out at the
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niininnim length of time tlirougli the pai'ole sys-
tem, and they go out througli tlie state and na-
tion and commit more crime. Now, the persons
who advocate the parole system as it functions
at the present time — the probation system as it
now functions, will tell you it is a success because
tliey have less than five per cent of parole viola-
tions. In other words, they return to tlie state's
prison less than 5 per cent of all men wlio are
admitted to parole, and they revoke less proba-
tion— to less than 5 per cent of the total number
placed on probation, but I wonder what that indi-
cates to your mind. I'll tell you wliat it indicates
to me. The reason they don't revoke more pro-
bation and parole violators is because they don't
know what is going on among their probationers.
I know this: I have called attention to the pro-
bation officers throughout the state the fact that
men placed on probation in one county have com-
mitted felonies in another county, and in my
county I have asked them if they will kindly
send for the man by terminating their sentence,
and I don't know where a probation officer has
said, "Yes, we will take care of the man." The
usual comment is that if he has committed a
crime in your county, go ahead and try him by
jury and convict him, and if we cannot convict
him the man goes scot free. We have perhaps
five or six or seven hundred persons on probation
every year with 1.50 or more on probation, and
we have people in that office who investigate
those 150 cases who are supposed to take care
of and supervise several hundi'ed old probation-
ers, and they don't have any idea of what they
are doing. We had a case two and one-lialf
years ago where a man was convicted of rob-
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and because of the fact he had only committed
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on probation by the court for a period of twelve
years, and he was given the most scathing lec-
ture I ever heard, and the probation officer given
the most stringent orders concerning his conduct
in a court I ever heard — this man was placed on
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December, 1926
probation — had a couple of pals who didn't plead
guilty, and two or three weeks after that we had
occasion to try them, and I wanted to use this
fellow placed on probation as a witness, and to
my sui"prise the probation officer of our county
didn't know where he was. The man hadn't skip-
ped— the man hadn't ducked out, but the proba-
tion officer hadn't made sufficient efforts to lo-
cate him, and I had to send out a couple of de-
tectives until I found him working in the oil
fields of Bakersfield. That's a typical case — the
probation officers don't have any idea where their
probationers are, and that's the very reason we
don't have more sent to state's prison for viola-
tion of their parole.
(To be Continued)
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(Continued from Page 17)
the City of San Francisco upon the employment
of such efficient officers, through which Board
the City Clerk is hereby directed to transmit a
copy hereof to Sergeants Van Matre and Roney
with best wishes for their speedy convalescence.
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That the above and
foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of
Resolution No. 131, of City of Sacramento,
adopted by City Council on date of November 18,
1926.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set
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my hand and caused the Official Seal of the
City of Sacramento to be hereunto affixed
this 20th day of November, 1926.
(Signed) H. G. DENTON,
City Clerk of the City of
Sacramento.
* :j! *
Though I am not at present the official moutli-
piece of this branch, still I feel safe in assuming
that I voice the sentiments of many of our good
members in congratulating you and your brave
force and asking you to transmit our sincerest
prayers for a speedy recovery for Detective Ser-
geants Earl T. Roney and Vernon V. Van Matre.
The department's efficient work in clearing this
city of undesirable characters ought to bring ad-
miration from people in all walks of life and my
humble appreciation with those of my fellow mem-
bers is but a scant recognition of the valuable
services rendered by you and your efficient force.
I had occasion to admire the San Francisco
police force under yom- able leadership while
serving as Secretary for this branch for the past
five years.
I and the members of this branch have re-
ceived untold expressions of friendsliip and kind-
nesses at the hands of your department and you
will, therefore, accept my sincere letter with the
same warmth of the heart as it is meant to be.
May the good Lord protect your brave officers
from harm and here is hopes that the criminals
responsible for the ills to Detective Sergeants
Roney and Van Matre may find speedy and well-
deserved punishment.
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The Chief
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"Everybody knows that down-
town crowds will be at their
annual peak during the next
three weeks," says Police Chief
Daniel J. O'Brien. "The days are
the shortest of the year. And
we may have wet weather.
"These three factors — crowds,
short days and wet pave-
ments— make the year's greatest
traffic danger season.
"If pedestrians will take it upon
themselves to obey traffic
signals, street accidents will be
greatly reduced. Crossing streets
with traffic is crossing streets
carefully. Walking contrary to
traffic is to walk into danger."
The police are working for your
safety and comfort. They
have a big job. Your co-opera-
tion not only helps them, but it
helps you. Chief O'Brien says
you can make your own traffic
laws by simply doing what is best
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with traffic signals.
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GRAND JURY COMMENDS POLICE
December, 1926
Herewith is a set of resolutions passed by the
grand jury in regular session and a copy sent
to our department. These' resolutions have to
do with the splendid work of the members of the
police force in handling the short reign of terror
of the Kelly-Weeks-Papadaches murderous gang,
and who are now all in jail, Kelly's trial having
started in Superior Judge Harold Louderback's
court December 7th, and is still on at this writing.
The resolutions follow:
Honorable Board of Police Commissioners,
Hall of Justice, San Francisco, Calif.
Gentlemen :
At a meeting of the Grand Jury held in regu-
lar session I was instructed to send you the fol-
lowing resolution passed at that meeting:
WHEREAS, During the course of the past two
weeks, San Francisco was suddenly turned from
a peaceful, progressive metropolis, proud of the
safety, comfort and opportunity it offered its
citizens, into a place of chaos, brought on by a
reign of terror perpetrated by bloodthirsty,
plundering killers who outraged our community
with five cold-blooded murders and a score of
robberies of the boldest description, causing our
citizens to tread the streets of their own city
apprehensively and in fear of their lives, while
the killers were at large; and
WHEREAS, Our efficient and capable Chief of
Police, Daniel J. O'Brien and his colleague. Captain
of Detectives, Duncan Matheson, realizing they
faced a crisis never before equalled in the annals
of police history in this city, threw the entire
resources of the police department into service
and by stratagem and good generalship, kept the
killers off of the streets; and
WHEREAS, Through the subsequent diligent
and efficient metliods of Detectives George P.
Wafer and Louis De Matei of tlie Bank Shofo-un
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Detail in obtaining a slender clue and working
out the same, and later by the courageous and
heroic efforts of these iwo Detectives and Detec-
tive Sergeants George McLoughlin, Leo Banner,
Robert L. Rauer, William McMahon, George Wall,
Allan JMcGinn, Charles Iredale, Lieut. Charles
Dullea, Lieut. Bernard McDonald and Detective
Sergeant Otto Frederickson, San Francisco saw
the capture of the three terror bandits and con-
fessions obtained from two of them within a
week after the commission of their crimes;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, By
this Grand Jury in meeting assembled, that the
members of this body want to take this occasion
of expressing, not only their own feelings, col-
lectively and individually, but the feeling as well
of the entire citizenry of San Francisco, for the
brilliant work done by members of the depart-
ment heretofore mentioned, and the entire per-
sonnel of the department, and offer thanks and as
much well-earned praise as a few words can con-
vey, for the splendid spirit, the stratagem, the
intelligence and the courage, displayed by all in
arising to meet so unusual an emergency, and for
saving the reputation and restoring the peace,
safety and comfort, for which San Francisco is
noted, boasts of and cherishes above all else.
JOSEPH H. FINIGAN,
Secretary of the Grand Jury.
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Joseph Burks and Jay Corliss, who the Lieutenant found
were fugitives from justice as well as being drug addicts.
Tlie pair also were booked for vagrancy.
* * *
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MARK HOPKINS HOTEL— ITS MANAGER
December, 1926
"Hullo, Georgie!"
"Hullo, Chief!"
It was the night of the opening of the new
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$5,000,000 Hotel Mark Hopkins on Nob Hill and
among the hundreds of George D. Smith's per-
sonal friends who shared in his triumph that
gala evening, there was none more pleased than
Chief Daniel O'Brien.
For George D. Smith has not only had time to
achieve a name for himself as the youngest and
one of the most successful hotel builders and
owners in America today.
Ever since the day when Mr. Smith first start-
ed building hotels in San Francisco, during the
years he operated the Canterbury Hotel on Sut-
ter street and while erecting the magnificent
Mark Hopkins, every officer on the force from the
Chief down who has come in contact with Mr.
Smith has become his friend.
So it was a hearty handshake, that one be-
tween the Chief of the San Francisco Police De-
partment and the head of San Francisco's finest
hotel on the hotel's natal night.
The event was the most brilliant hotel open-
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1300 guests who filled every available room paid
homage to Mr. Smith for his great achievement
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There are 500 guest rooms at the Mark Hop-
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December. 1926
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COACHING CLASS EXAMINATION FOR
CORPORALS
The eligible list of Corporals expires on Decem-
ber 20, 1926, and Messrs. William P. Golden, Asst.
Dist. Attorney, and Joseph L. Sweeney, Asst. U. S.
Attorney, announce that they will conduct a coach-
ing class in preparation for the next examination
as soon as the date thereof has been set by the
Civil Service Commission. As such an examina-
tion is usually set many weeks before the date
of the holding thereof, they plan to begin their
class sessions about five weeks before the date of
the examination so as to cover a period of four
weeks and thus accommodate the men who are
affected by the changes in watch.
All the written subjects, except Miltary Tactics,
will be covered in the class and a test similar to
that given by the Civil Service Commission will
be given each night.
In order to facilitate the preparation for the
class patrolmen who desire to participate therein
are requested to enroll at once and may do so by
communicating with Mr. Golden in the forenoon
at the Warrant and Bond Office, Phones Daven-
port 213 and 170, or in the afternoon at 1005 De
Young building, Phone Hemlock 6991, or with
Mr. Sweeney, Phone Hemlock 2800.
AUTO DETAIL THANKED FOR WORK
Would you kindly tharik for me Detective Sergts. Peter
Hughes and Phillip Lindecker for the able manner in
which they recovered my automobile which was stolen on
Friday evening and returned to me Saturday. It is a
gi-eat pleasure to know that such efficient officers are at
the sei-vice of the citizens of this city and we may well
feel proud. Again with tlianks, I remain,
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Phone Market 432
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"2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Decemher, 1926
FANNING
(Continued from Page 43)
taking suicidaL After they had all had breakfast
on the morning of the shooting, Charles Ford and
Jesse James had been in the stable currying their
horses, preparatory for their night's ride.
On returning to the room where Bob Ford was,
Jesse said : "It's an awful hot day." He pulled off
his coat and vest and tossed them on the bed.
Then he said, "I guess I will take off my pistols
for fear that somebody will see them while I walk
in the yard." He unbuckled the belt in which he
carried two 45 caliber revolvers. He laid them on
the bed with his coat and vest. He then picked up
a dusting brush with the intention of dusting
some pictures which hung on the wall. To do this
he got on a chair. His back was now turned to
the Ford brothers, who silently stepped behind
Jesse and at a motion from Charley both drew
their guns. Bob was the quickest of the two, and
in a moment had the muzzle no more than four
feet from the back of the out^aw's head. Even in
that motion, quick as thought, there was some-
thing that did not escape the acute ears of the
hunted man. He made a motion as if to turn his
head to ascertain the cause of that suspicious
sound, but it was too late. A nei-vous pressure on
the trigger, a quick flash, a shai-p report, the well
directed ball crashed through the outlaw's skull.
There was no outcry, but just a swaying of the
body, and it fell heavily upon the carpet. The shot
had been fatal, the ball entered the base of the
skull and made its way out through the forehead,
over the left eye. It had been fired out of a Colts
45 Caliber, improved pattern, silver mounted and
pearl handled revolver, presented by the dead man
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December, 1926
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Page 61
to his slayer a few days before. Mrs. James was
in tiie kitciien when the shooting was done; she
heard the shot, ran into tlie room wiiere she saw
her husband lying- on his back and his slayers,
each holding his revolver in his hand, making for
the fence in the rear of the house. She cried out,
"Robert, you have done this." They then returned
to where she stood. Mrs. James ran to the side of
her husband and lifted up his head. Life was not
extinct, and when asked if he was hurt it seemed
that he wished to say something, but could not.
She tried to wash away the blood that was cours-
ing over his face, but it came faster than she
could wash it awaj', and in her hands Jesse James
a moment later died. Charley Ford explained to
Mrs. James that "a pistol had accidently gone off."
"Yes," said Mrs. James, "I guess it went off on
purpose."
In the meantime Charley and Bob Ford left the
house and telegraphed a message to the sheriff, to
the Governor and other officers, and then sur-
rendered themselves to the Marshal. A reward
for fifty thousand dollars from the State Govern-
ment for the capture of Jesse James, dead or
alive, had been posted and the Ford boys set up
claim for this reward. Nevertheless the Ford
boys were tried and convicted of the murder, and
the Governor immediately pardoned them.
CHANGES IN DEPARTMENT
The following changes have been made of stars
in this department:
Officer Edward J. Hagan, Co. E., star changed
from 1070 to 1194 ; Officer Walter Thompson, Co.
L, star changed from 429 to 1195; Officer Edward
Healy, Co. J, star same as he had, 1. e., 429.
PHONE MISSION 8007
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Phones: Market 154
Pacific 161
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Page 62
"2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
December, 1926
THE RISE OF HALSEY MANWARING
(Manager of Palace Hotel)
The first time Halsey
E'. Manwaring ever saw
the Palace Hotel (the
stately old building that
preceded the present
structure) he was stand-
ing- at Mission and New
Montgomery Sts., won-
dering where he was go-
ing to get a job. That
was in 1898.
"It looked like a fairy
palace to me", Manwar-
ing says reminiscently.
"All I saw of it was the
bright lights, the plate
glass and the rich car-
pets as I walked by the
door."
Today Manwaring is general manager of the
Palace Hotel. His offices are less than 100 feet
from the spot where he stood in 1898 and looked
out on a world that seemed to him to be entirely
devoid of promise.
With the arrival of the first troops bound for
the Philippines in the Spanish-American War, he
enlisted and served as a hospital steward.
After the war he became manager of the Grand
Hotel at Yokohama, Japan, a famous hostelry,
owned by English stockholders.
In 1919 D. M. Linnard, prominent Califoi-nia
hotel magnate, engaged him to manage the Pal-
ace— and there he has been since.
HALSEY MANWARING
Office Telephone Sutter 1044
Slaughterhouse Phones
Mission 6926 — Mission 7651
H. MOFFAT CO.
WHOLESALE BUTCHERS
Beef, Cattle and Calves Bought or Slaughtered
On Commission
Office: Crocker First National Bank Building
1 Montgomery Street
Abattoir: Arthur Ave. and Third St., San Francisco
RUBBER STAMPS ■ SIGNS
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369 MARKET STREET SAN FRANCISCO
Phone Davenport 1750
FEDERATED
METALS
CORPORATION
Great Western Smelting & Refining Branch
75-99 FOLSOM STREET
San Francisco
Phone Davenport 2540
METALS
BABITT, SOLDER, TYPE METAL,
INGOT COPPER, INGOT BRASS, LEAD,
and All White Metal Alloys
Telephone Kearny 804
Established 1895
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wholesale dealers in
Dairy Produce and Provisions
CRANBERRIES
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S. W. Cor. Davis and Sacramento Sts., San Francisco
Electric Signs and Theatre
Lighting
Established 1912
Electrical Products Corp.
255 Golden Gate Ave. San Francisco
Phone Hemlock 7220
December. 1926 "2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
DAYS OFF RESUMED
Pnge 63
The following is a copy of a resolution passed
by the Board of Police Commissioners:
"At a meeting of the Board of Police Com-
missioners held on November 8, 1926, days
off for the members of the police department
were ordered resumed under sucli conditions
and in the manner prescribed by you."
To which Chief of Police O'Brien added:
"Pursuant to the discussion held and agree-
ment reached by commanding officers of this de-
partment at a meeting held in the office of the
Chief of Police on Monday, November 8, 1926,
and agreeable to the Board of Police Commission-
ers, company commanders may immediately per-
mit days off for members of this department on
all days, but will do so with the thought in mind
that it will not interfere with the efficient per-
formance of police duty within their respective
distx'icts.
"In the event that a situation should arise
necessitating the stopping of days off immediately
such action shall be taken by the commanding
officer and . immediate notification given to this
office by telephone, followed by a written report."
JUVENILE COURT CASES CHANGES
The following communication has been received
from E. M. Leonard, Assistant District Attorney,
Juvenile Court Department, 150 Otis street:
"Beginning on December 3rd the court sessions
in Conti'ibuting Cases will begin at 2 o'clock p. m.
instead of at 2:30 p. m. as has been the custom.
We will appreciate your letting the police stations
know of the change of time and also the Detective
Bureau and the protective officers. Will you
kindly notify the city prison of the change of
time in bringing out any prisoners that may be
in custody.
"Thanking you for your attention to these mat-
ter's, I am, Very truly yours,
E. M. LEONARD."
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Page 64 "2-0"POLICEJOURNAL
TIM CRONIN OF THE "B OF I"
December, 1926
By Jack Lawlor, Police Reporter, Daily ?iews
JACK LAWLOR
It's the County Kerry, one of the finest in the
Emerald Isle, next to the Queens County and the
County Kildare.
No one in the County Kerry places "stirabout"
on their back stoop at
night for the little men
in red and green to eat
before morning and if
they meet a banshee
wailing near anyone's
house they chase her
clean off the premises.
Besides the Kerry-
ites have a keenness of
vision that's uncanny.
It's said of them that
they can see even the
wind.
That's the kind of people Tim Cronin comes
from. So when Chief Dan O'Brien looked around
for a good man for news editor of the police de-
partment it was natural for him to select Officer
Timothy Cronin with this backgraund behind
him of romance and legend given to but few here
below.
Tim holds the unique distinction of being the
only police exchange editor in the world so far
as is known.
It is liis duty to read every item of police news
published in all the San Francisco newspapers and
everytliing else published affecting the depart-
ment directly or indirectly. His 25 years as a
police officer and his natural ability give him
especial fitness for the job.
When reporters and city editors can't find
police news they want to check on in their paper
files they send down to Tim to look it up and he
never fails.
With his gi-een eye shade and shears and his
always present "dudeen" Tim keeps pace with the
Telephone Davenport 291
WM. LYONS
BAIL BONDS
657 MERCHANT STREET
Between Montgomery and Keamy
R. M. J.
Armstrong
Attorney for
SHERIFF
Thomas F. Finn
Harry I. Stafford
ATTORNEY
Banks Wrecking Co.
1610 HARRISON STREET
Phone Market 5760 CHAS. J. TRONOFF
Pacific Granite & Marble Works
MONUMENTS
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1281 FOLSOM STREET
NEAR NINTH SAN FRANCISCO
December, 1926
2-0" POLICE lOURNAI,
Page 6 J
police news of the world.
And a well-informed man is Officer Timothy
Cronin.
Few questions can be asked of him that he
fails to answer on any subject.
OFFICER RONEY
"The San Francisco Police Department added a
creditable episode to its record when two of its
officers ended the career of Joe Tanko, escaped
convict, murderer and bandit.
"Officer Earl Roney was the central figure in
tliis affair. He displayed a personal heroism
equaled only when a man scorns death and is pre-
pared to yield his life to service. Tanko shot
Roney first, a dangerous bullet blow in the in-
testines. With a body immediately paralyzed,
Roney's mind and fingers worked and Tanko is
dead. A murderous career has been brought to
an end. jMay Officer Roney speedily recover from
his wounds! The world is a better place to live
in because of the likes of him."
— Sacramento Union.
* ♦ *
"Congratulations to you and your brave officers.
Detective Sergeants Earl Roney and Vernon V.
Van Matre, also to Detective Sergeants J. Palmer
and E. McSheehy, for their wonderful work for
protecting the people of San Francisco; and my
deepest sympathy for the brave officers who were
shot while in line of duty. Earl Roney and Vernon
Van Matre. Hope for their quick recovery and
wish to be remembered to them."
WILLIAIM BERGSTROM,
Deputy Sheriff, Island Mt.,
Trinity County, California.
Phone Hemlock 1062
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Page 66
"2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
December, 1926
A STERN DUTY TO THE HEAD OF EVERY
FAMILY
Do you love your wife, your children? This is
a question that every man is faced with.
What is known as the Pioneer Casualty Com-
pany, has home offices at 503 Market street, San
Francisco, California, headed by its president, J.
L. Maritzen, and it has been the object and ambi-
tion of Mr. Maritzen to make it possible for every
home to be properly cared for. As a matter of
fact, the campaign that Mr. Maritzen conducts is
one for humanity.
The Pioneer Casualty Company have antici-
pated that perhaps you might need the aid of
a doctor, you may need financial aid, you may lose
a leg, an arm, you may meet with an accident in
traveling, you may be sick or certain contingen-
cies may happen that your widow and children
need money.
This has all been provided for in a most un-
usual way by this organization.
To those who are not protected it would be
our suggestion to call at the offices of the Pioneer
Casualty Company and there consult with them
concerning protection for those you love.
Tliis is their work and will be freely given with-
out any obligation on your part.
DOWNTOWNERS ADD PRAISE FOR RONEY
AND VAN MATRE
Tlie Board of Directors of the Downtown As-
sociation have asked me to express to you and
through you to the entire police department their
high appreciation of the splendid work of the
department. I refer particularly at this time to
the prompt arrest of the boy bandits and to
courageous action of the members of the police
force that resulted in the death of the notorious
Tanko.
On behalf of the Downtown Association I have
taken much pleasure in sending flowers to De-
tective Sergeants Earl Roney and Vernon Van
Matre with the message that San Francisco's
business interests admired their splendid courage.
ANDREW G. McCarthy,
Chairman, Police Committee of the
Downtown Association.
OFFICER DELAHANTY PRAISED
At the last regular meeting I was insti-ucted to com-
municate with you in regards to the parade held by us
on November 1, 1926.
We want to thank you for sending us so fine an officer
as I. S. Delahanty in helping us conduct our parade.
Thanking you for past favors received, I beg to remain,
BERNAL BOOSTERS, INC.,
J. H. PIERSON, Secretarj-.
California Stevedore
and Ballast Company
ROBERT DOLLAR BUILDING
311 Calif omia Street San Francisco
Phone Prospect 3780
Hotel Mentone
387 ELLIS ST., AT JONES
San Francisco, California
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From Ferry take Geary or No. 4 to Jones
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TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 1255
L. J. BORCK
Fine Tailoring
175 O'FARRELL STREET
Between Powell and Stockton
San Francisco. California
The GOLDEN STATE THEATRE
AND REALTY
CORPORATION
Extends
to the boys in the Department
the best
wishes
and gratitude for the
efficient
service
rendered in behalf of
the pubh
c and our Theatre.
E.
H. EMMICK
R.
A. McNEIL
C.
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By Theo. M. Newman
J. J. REGAN, Prop.
JACK REGAN
Builder of
MOTOR TRUCK BODIES
General Blacksmithing Light Forging Tool Sharpening
459 to 465 Eleventh St. Telephone Market 1525
Between Harrison and Bryant San Francisco, Calif.
December , 1926
2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 67
SOCIETY MAKES HUMAN SACRIFICES TO
TANKOS
Helpless desperation of the law, reports of vari-
ous crime commissions, the maudlin viciousness
of pacifism in the war on criminals — all these are
graphically dramatized in the Tanko affair. Con-
sider the facts:
On September 19, 1923, Tanko and Floyd Hall
murdered the Chief of Police at San Bruno. The
pair were quickly captured. There was no ques-
tion as to their guilt. They boastingly confessed
the murder and more than forty robberies.
Through a quirk in the law, a concession to
mawkish sentimentality, the murderers' confes-
sion saved their worthless necks. The pair were
sentenced to San Quentin for what the law fool-
ishly called a life term. Tanko and Hall had
other ideas on the subject. They made a desper-
ate attempt to escape while on their way to
prison. In less than eighteen months after their
arrival they did succeed in breaking jail, and
began another long series of crimes which in-
cluded at least one murder.
To this record of slaughter now is added the
shooting of two San F'l'ancisco policemen, witli
the possible death of one of them.
Students of criminology who approach the sub-
ject from the point of view of the protection of
the public are virtually unanimous in their con-
clusion that the extermination of tlie Tankos in
the first instance would have done more than
save their later victims. Swift, inexorable
punishment — capital punishment for capital
crime — would deter those youths wlio now see
in the activities of the Tankos heroic exploits to
be emulated, and who are urged to crime by the
amply justified hope that they can get away
with it.
The vitiating influence of these false heroics
on a certain light-minded portion of the public
was illustrated in the scandalous outbreaks of
sympathy for Hall, a confessed murderer, during
(Continued on Page 70)
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Phone Franklin 364
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During the month of December we will
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Day Phone Market 118
Night Phone Mission 3680
DANIEL R. BUCKLEY & SON
Merchants of
Mining. Electrical and General Machinery
449 TENTH STREET San Francisco
Phone Mission TOOii
ROTH BLUM PACKING CO.
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Page 68
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December, 1926
"THE COP"
By George Sidney
Look out, here comes a "Cop",
A name that rings with awe,
A feeling- of dread creeps in your heart
Look out, here comes the "Law."
At the sight of his unifoi-m
Your soul is filled with fear.
Why should you be afraid of him
If your conscience it is clear.
He's just as you and I
You never thought of that;
Well he is, and possibly a little more —
Now get this through your hat.
Did you ever stop to think
What a "copper" has to do.
When he takes that solemn oath
He does it all for you?
For he pledges all he has —
His heart, his soul, his life.
Yes, sir, even more than that
His children, home and wife.
He stalks the street the whole night through
While you soundly snore.
Keeps disaster, thieves and trouble
From your home and business door. .
In daylight it's the traffic
And the "birds" that run you down.
Do you think they earn their pennies
In tliis or any town?
In the night when thieves are cornered
Escaping with their loot.
The "copper" — does he waver?
No, he'll dare a crook to shoot.
His life is yours, he's pledged it.
Like tlie solider in the war,
He'll fight, protect you till he drops
Can anyone do more?
He has loved ones waiting
The same as you and I
But you come first and they come next
His oath he's standing by.
Did you ever think of all the tilings
Did you ever even stop.
And think kindly of the man
You fear, and call a "Cop"?
If you don't think he's human
Just talk to him a while.
He'll greet you with "How are you, sir"?
And always with a smile.
He'll laugh and tell a joke with you
Even though he's duty bound,
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Page 69
And grateful for any little thought
When the Yule-tide comes around.
Of course in all the cities
And in every foreign clime,
The discipline is different.
For these enemies of crime.
But up in San Francisco there's a gang,
A dandy little force;
Efficiency's their middle name
And you know who's the boss.
This is no boost for San Francisco.
Just shows what can be done.
If you're honest and you're human
And have love for everyone.
Now there's the Cohens — the Kellys,
The Chinks — the Greeks — the Wops,
They all are treated with respect
By Dan O'Brien's "Cops."
Religion doesn't enter
Where humanity is at stake.
Their motto is "To always give
A man an even break."
And after all I'll tell you
It's a saying old and true.
Just spread a little sunshine
And love comes back to you.
So before your days are counted
And you hear the curtain drop,
Just remember he is human
The guy they call a "Cop."
ITEMS OF INTEREST
At a meeting of the Board of Police Commis-
sioners held on November 1st, Edward L. Quast,
rank 187 (11), certification No. 2535, was ap-
pointed a regular policeman in the police depart-
ment of the city and county of San Francisco;
said appointment to take effect immediately and
to be subject to the probationary period of six
months as is provided for in the Charter. This
officer has been given star number 1004 tem-
porarily. Officer Quast shall undergo the usual
course of instructions in the Department School
of Instructions under Sergeant Patrick H. Mc-
Gee, instructor in the department school. He
shall report to Captain J. Henry Lackmann, com-
manding the Headquarters Company, in which
company he is hereby temporarily assigned while
undergoing the course of instructions in the de-
partment school.
Officer Joe O'Shaughnessy of Judge Jacks bailifFatorial
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HUMAN SACRIFICES TO TANKOS
(Continued from Page 67)
his trial for a killing committed after his escape
from prison. He was cohvicted, but the verdict
has been overturned, and he is now awaiting a
second trial, with the statistical chances of 100
to 1 in favor of his escaping the noose.
In the meantime, Policeman Eai-1 Roney lies
at the point of death for no reason other than
that he had the courage to face a killer coddled
by the law. The answer is obvious. It seems
idle to point it out, but there it is. Had Tanko
and Hall been swung off for their first known
murder they would have committed no more
crimes. There certainly can be no argument on that
point even from the most perverted sobsister.
The human sacrifices which society is making
to the Tankos are in most cases absolutely un-
necessai'y. — S. F. Chronicle.
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CONTENTS
TakinK of Statenft-nts, by Robert Fitzperald _-
Cruelties on the Hi^'h Sens, by Officer Peter Fanning ,
I Remember When, by An Old Time Police Reporter >_
Chiefs Page
Industrial Orders
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James Cottle's Police Star No. 15. by Patrol Driver Wm. D. Bums 21
Captain Goff Lectures - — 22
A Thought for Every Day 23
Coverincr Beats by Stations.
They Have Passed On
Widows and Orphans Aid Officers.
A. J. Kane Praises Police
Retiring Federal Officer Pleased
Coroner Commends Officers ....
New Assignments
Commendatory Letters -.-
Richards and Kalmbach. Federal Aids, by Jimmie Hicks
Law Enforcement, by District Attorney Earl Warren
Knockovers of the Detective Bureau
Proposed New Laws for Le.gislature
"Vale Amigos". by Detective Sergeant James Cottle
Police Ball and Concert
Tough Going. But Officers Win. by Corporal Tom McEnerney
Editorial Page
Advertising That Didn't Pay
Another Hall of Justice Bomb Scare
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New Bullet Proof Glass
Officers of Bush Commended
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No. 3.
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Taking of Statements
By Robert Fitzgerald, Formerly Assistant District Attorney
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Broadly considered, the rule against the admis-
sibility of hearsay evidence forbids the reception
of any statements made outside the courtroom.
For this rule there are several extremely cogent
reasons. The declarant was in most such cases
not under oath and all testimony should be pro-
tected by at least this formal sanctity and assumed
safeg-uard against deception. The defendant un-
der the constitution is guaranteed the right to be
confronted by the witnesses against him and, as
well, that he be afforded, if he desires to exercise
it, the privilege of cross-examination.
But to this as to so many principles and rules of
law there are exceptions which should be known
to the officers engaged in the gathering of evi-
dence if they would adequately prepare for trial
the case against the accused. We can not con-
sider all of the exceptions. Some of them are of
more peculiar interest and importance to the law-
yers. There are those, however, which are of
importance to the investigator and should be kept
by him in mind from the outset of his work if he
would be assured of gathering and perpetuating
all of the evidence which may later be found to be
of value in the proof of the ultimate fact — the de-
tei-mination of the guilt or innocence of the ac-
cused.
First of all there are the statements which were
part of the crime itself. Statements made either
by the accused, his victim or other factors in the
affray, known to lawyers and the law as the "res
gestae". Roughly speaking, this means the thing
done or part of the thing done which makes up
the offense itself. The most familiar examples
arise in cases of assaults. The pei-petrator of a
robbery or of assault, or attempt to commit injurj'
or homicide may have introduced against him
proof of the statements made not only by him
but as well by the complainant and any others en-
gaged in the affray which were made during the
affray and serve to explain it and the actions and
motives of the accused. The testimony may be
received from one of the parties to the encounter
or from any other who may have heard such state-
ments. Our Appellate Court has said:
"Res gestae is a matter incidental to the main
fact and explanatory of it. It is made up of acts
and words which are so closely connected with a
main fact as to really constitute a part of it, and
without a knowledge of which the main fact might
not be properly understood." People vs. Edwards,
13 C. A., 551.
What are and what are not parts of the "res
gestae" is a question often difficult to decide. It is
therefore well to furnish to the prosecutor a rec-
ord of all statements made before, during and im-
mediately following the commission of a crime by
any of the actors in it.
Next after the statements constituting part of
the "res gestae" come dying declarations, admissi-
ble, of course, in those cases only in which the
accused is being tried for ha\ing caused the death
of the declarant. Such declarations are state-
ments of material facts concerning the cause and
circumstances of the homicide, made by the victim
under the solemn belief of impending death, the
effect of which on the mind of the declarant is re-
garded as the equivalent of the sanctity of an oath.
They are permitted to be received under Section
1870 of the Code of Civil Procedure, which pro-
vides in part, "evidence may be given upon trial
of the following facts: * * in criminal cases,
the act or declaration of a dying person made un-
der a sense of impending death, respecting the
cause of his death."
Before such statements can be received it must
affirmatively appear to the court that they are
made undei' a belief that the declarant was about
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to die and had no hope or beUef of recovering.
Any expression on his part tending to show doubt
as to his condition or even remote hope he may
recover will render the statement inadmissible.
Whenever possible the statement of the dying per-
son should be reduced to writing and should con-
tain an expression indicating an expectation of
death. Proof of the belief of impending death
may, however, be made from other statements of
the deceased or from the circumstances alone, such
as the nature of his wound or injury, and accom-
panying proof of his knowledge of it. It is enough
if it satisfactorily appears in any mode that the
declaration was so made, whether directly proved
by the express language of the declarant or in-
ferred from his evident danger or from his con-
duct or other circumstances of the case, all of
which may be resorted to in order to ascertain
the state of the declarant's mind.
There are also admitted in evidence cases in
which the crime charged was committed as a re-
sult of or as a part of a conspiracy or where the
crime charged is itself a conspiracy proof not
alone of the acts but also of the declarations of any
of the conspirators which were made by him dur-
ing the life of the conspiracy and for the purpose
of furthering its objects and attaining its desired
results. Such statements are admissible not alone
against tlie person proved to have uttered them
but against whichever of his co-conspirators may
be on trial.
In all these cases the extra-judicial statements
made by other than the accused are admissible as
direct proof of the truth of facts therein stated.
There is another class of cases in which proof
of hearsay statements made by others than the
accused are admissible for a limited purpose.
These are accusatory statements. These are based
upon subdivision 3 of Section 1870 of the Code of
Civil Procedure, which provides that evidence may
be given upon a trial of "An act or declaration
of another, in the presence and within the observa-
tion of a party, and his conduct in relation thereto
* * * ." Not all statements made in the pres-
ence and hearing of the accused are admissible.
It is only when such statements have to do with
some of the circumstances of the crime and wlien
there is something in the conduct of the accused
in response thereto which is material to the issue
that they are admissible at all and they are then
admissible, not as proof of the truth of anything
contained in the accusatory statement, but for
the purpose of explaining his conduct. In other
words, it is only the conduct of the accused that
is evidence in such cases. There is a theory of
law, evolved from ordinary experience of human
conduct, that an innocent man when accused of
participation in or commission of a crime will deny
his guilt. Upon that theory there is based the rule
that incriminating statements or admission in res-
ponse to the accusation, and even the fact of the
silence of the accused upon accusation, may be
given in evidence to the jury so that they may de-
termine whether he failed to act as might rea-
sonably be expected an innocent person would act.
It is necessary, therefore, that the accusations
made to him be read to the jury, not as evidence
of what is contained in the accusation, but so that
the jury may fully understand the significance of
his conduct. It may readily be seen that it is good
practice to read to him the various statements
made either by his accomplices or by other wit-
nesses against him. This is not for the purpose of
providing a means of getting these statements be-
fore the jury (for the court must instruct them
they cannot consider the statements as evidence) ,
but for the purpose of eliciting admissions, either
by silence or otherwise, of the main charge on
materially connected circumstances.
Of course it must be shown that the accusations
were made to him under circumstances which af-
forded to him and reasonably called from him a
response.
If he fully and promptly denied the charge,
then there is no admission to be received in evi-
dence and it has been held to be error for the Dis-
trict Attorney to read the accusation before the
jury. This rule, however, is subject to qualifica-
tion. If in addition to the denial he makes a state-
ment calculated to deceive or which is subsequent-
ly shown to be false, or if he later admitted the
accusation or material portions of it the accom-
panying falsehood in the first instance or the pre-
vious denial in the second are evidence against
him upon the same principle that flight would be
and the accusations are admissible to give color
and effect thereto.
(To Be Continued)
BAND PRACTICE RESUMED
On January 4th, regular practice by the Police
Band was resumed to be continued on Tuesdays
and Fridays until further notice.
The practice is held between the hours of 3 p. m.
and 5 p. m. instead of in the morning as last year.
Lieut. Richard Foley, director, promises to have
the band up to its high state of efficiency as
marked it appearances last year. This he says will
be accomplished by the time the annual Ball and
Concert comes off next month.
The band is one of the best musical organiza-
tions on the Pacific Coast and has made a hit with
all citizens of this city, and we are pleased to see
that it will be continued as it is an asset to San
Francisco.
January, 1927
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Cruelty on the High Seas
An Interesting Article By Oll-iChR PtTtR F.\nnin(;
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PETER FANNING
The horrible brutal-
ity practiced by the of-
ficers of the ship Gath-
erer on her voyage to
this coast in the year
1882 and the story told
by the crew after they
arrived in this port,
presented a chapter of
startling incidents that
not only corroborated
the old adage that
'truth is stranger than
fiction", but even
transcended some of
the barbarities of the
Inquisition.
The ship Gatherer
w a s commanded by
Captain G. N. Sparks, whose officers were William
Watts, the first mate, Cornelius Curtis, second
mate, and John Driscoll, the third mate, all of
them being comparatively young men. Loaded
with railroad iron, this ship sailed out of the port
of Antwerp, and while the dim outline of the
Fatherland was yet perceptible to the sailors, the
fiendish brutality of Watts and Curtis was dis-
played. For a trifling breach of discipline they
unmercifully thrashed a seaman named Peter
Clark, and shortly afterward a seaman named
Turner, who was so badly beaten that he was laid
up for months.
A few days later, Curtis, the second mate, so
brutally dealt with John Hanson that one of his
eyes was nearly put out and his mouth so badly
injured that eating and speaking was rendered
very painful and difficult. Another sailor named
John Burns was lashed to the rail, and his nose
was broken by a pair of brass knuckles, when a
boy, whose spirit would not permit him to stand
by without giving expression to his horror, was
struck on the head by the mate.
The mates lashed a heavy capstan bar to the
back of Burns, compelling him to sti'ide up and
down the deck, at the same time revengefully kick-
ing the helpless sailor as he passed. They then
compelled three sailors known as Peter, George
and McCue, to strip themselves, and they were
forced to submit to hoi-rible treatment. George
took his revolting treatment so much to heart,
that to escape further torture, he jumped over-
board and was drowned. Hanson, one of the other
sailors, was so brutally treated that he either de-
liberately committed suicide by jumping over-
board, or fell from sheer weakness into the water.
Anotlier sailor was struck in the face with a be-
laying pin by the mate and his nose was broken
and permanently injured. The steward of the ship
was also struck by one of the mates over the head,
and then placed in confinement and deprived of
food for five days.
They then took McCue and fastened a strap to
his waist and hoisted liim up to the mizzen stay,
and held him in this position head downward till
black in the face from the effects of the blood
rushing to his head. Gustave Adlung, a youthful
German who was so unfortunate as to ship on
the vessel made a statement that the brutal treat-
ment of the men which was often repeated on
the voyage, was known to the captain, whom he
said was a witness to a great deal of it and he
further stated that the cruelty that was practiced
on the Chinese steward drove him crazy by in-
juries inflicted by the first mate.
Taking pity on the Chinese steward, the seamen
carried him back to his bunk, in which he re-
mained until the vessel reached Wilmington where
he was removed from the ship to a hospital. An-
other member of the crew was ill-treated by one
of the mates because he had spilled some paint on
the deck while painting and this sailor offered to
go and clean it up, whereupon the mate shouted
and knocked him down, jumping on him and beat-
ing him unmercifully, kicking him in the eyes,
which laid him up for four weeks. After getting
up again this same sailor on a dark night was
ordered aloft by the mate, saying "I wish you
would fall and kill yourself." John Anderson, an-
other of the crew went half crazy by beatings
about the head, shoulders and legs with knotted
ropes so severe that the flesh was cut from his legs
and his entire body was a mass of bruises and
sores.
He was ordered aloft to mend the sails and the
poor fellow, being exhausted and weak, fell into
the sea from the mizzen. Two victims had found
a watery grave; tliere was no cessation in the bad
treatment. A gi"eat deal of the time the sailors
were fed on hard-tack and water. The spii'it of
the first mate at times displayed itself when he
exclaimed: "I am king of you low beasts" and
he split a belaying pin over a sailor's head named
"Frenchy".
On another occasion a sailor named Chai-lie was
at the wheel and he received a heavy blow under
(Continued on Page 38)
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I Remember When -
Reminiscences of An Old-Time Police Reporter
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The O'Farrell street station was in charge of
three sergeants, one for each 8-hour watch. They
were, Albert A. Perrin, David W. Boyd and Bar-
ney Harper. Boyd is retired and the other two
are dead. The only other ranking officer in that
old station was Corporal John P. Herlihy. He
was a patrol officer.
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Martin Judge was killed by a Geary street car.
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Philip Brady, now a sergeant at the Central,
was a "copper" connected with the old Park.
Sergeant Bill Flinn of the day watch at the
Central was a patrolman and station keeper at
the Park.
* * *
Cleve Peters, who afterward conducted a saloon
on the "Coast", patrolled Pine and Bush streets.
Cleve is now dead.
Jim Rooney, sergeant, was before the ffre on
Sixth street as a patrolman ; also on Second street
and after the fire, ten years on Market street.
Jim is now sergeant in the second section of the
Central.
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Ren W. Harris was detailed with the Dumbrell
Grand Jur/. Ren now has a beat in the North
Beach district.
* * *
Charlie Jenkins was assistant to Sergt. Owen
Gorman, head of the old hack detail; later the
auto detail.
* * *
Former Detective Sergeant Tom Gibson caught
and got a confession from John Winter, who cut
into the floor of the bouillon room of the Selby
Smelting Company at Crockett and stole gold
bars worth $280,000. All of the precious metal
was recovered from the Bay where Winter dump-
ed it, to later reclaim it.
"Little Pete", clever boss of Chinatown, cor-
rupted jockeys at the old Bay District Race Track,
made. a fortune and was later killed while being
shaved in a Chinese barber shop.
* * *
"Begie" O'Donnell, an alleged tough character
along the cocktail route, took Attorney George
D. Collins across the Bay so that Collins could
escape to Canada. Collins was wanted for bigamy
and perjury.
San Quentin.
He was extradited and sent to
Harry Seguine was at the old Southern. He
still is and probably will spend his life there.
Seguine's father was the first real Chief of Police
in San Francisco. He bore the title of Marshal.
* * *
Frank Scollin, another old-timer, was at the
Harbor for many years. Frank is now a Corporal
at the Mission.
* * *
Lieut. Fred Green (retired) known as "The
Admiral" because of his flowing mustache asked
for key inspection at the old Central and told the
watch that he "asked for key inspection and not
for beer bottle openers and bung starters."
* * *
Sergt. Johnny Green, so many years around the
Hall of Justice in the business offices, went to a
fight in Oakland where his son, who had trained
Harry Foley, was substituted in a mill at the last
moment and under an assumed name. When his
boy was announced as "Kid Somebody", Green
jumped up and announced his boy's true name —
GREEN!
Joseph A. Murphy, now with the Mercantile
Trust Company, was secretary to the late Chief
White.
* * *
Katheryene Eisenhai't, Margaret Higgins and
Kate O'Connor, were the first policewomen ap-
pointed on the force.
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Peter Peshon was for years a patrolman at the
Central and is now the movie censor for the de-
partment. Pete has seen service.
* * *
Sergeant Frank Norman, former Chief Clerk
to Chief Wittman, used to halt newspapermen
when they became too inquisitive. Frank is now
at the Bush and has three sons in the business.
One, FVed, is a lieutenant at the Park; another,
with Co. J ; and the third is with Co. F.
Charles Sheble used to be sought for his knowl-
edge of Chinese, as a member of the squad by
many Chinatown sergeants. Sheble is now a ser-
geant at the Mission under Captain Lemon.
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Captain Fred Lemon seldom had anything to
say unless it was worth while. Fred still has the
same trait.
January, 1927
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^CHIEF'S PAGE
By Chief of Police Daniel J. O'Brien
INDUSTRIAL ORDERS
The attention of Company GL.nnianders and the members
of this Department is called to the many orders issued
by this office since March 31st, 1926, dealing with labor
controversies and in this connection you are advised that
from information received at this office it is very evident
that participation in violations of law and ordinance will
be indulged in again by the respective parties to the con-
troversy.
There is very little that can be added by the Chief of
Police to the orders already issued by him dealing with the
path to be pursued by members of this Department in
dealing with controversies of this kind, but it may be well
to again remind the membership of this Department that
they sci'upulously refrain from expressing any opinion or
participating in any activity which would be indicative of
partisanship and that there is but one road for them to
follow and that is, the rigid and impartial enforcement of
the penal statutes and penal ordinances against those (ir-
respective of affiliations) who violate the provisions of said
penal laws and ordinances.
In connection with contemplated labor difficulties you
will again call to the attention of the members of your
respective commands the provisions of General Order No.
279 issued under date of October 23rd, 1926. The said
order, as well as many others, clearly show that those who
violate the penal statutes and penal ordinances are no
friends to a police department or to the individual police
officer and that the officer who through negligence or wil-
ful laxity allows such conditions where he can prevent
them, detracts from the reputation and efficiency of his De-
partment and renders himself useless as a law-enforcement
unit.
As has been heretofore stated on numerous occasions,
we have no grievance against any party to labor difficulties,
but by our oath of office and the solemn obligation we have
assumed it becomes our duty to fearlessly and impartially
enforce the penal laws and ordinances and to comply strict-
ly with the rules and regulations of this Department and
the orders issued by our superiors.
It is a matter of common experience that the police
officer who performs his duty in an efficient manner cannot
be "all things to all men", but when he has accomplished
his task in the efficient performance of duty he has satis-
fied his conscience and has fulfilled the trust imposed upon
him.
The merit of the individual officer and the efficiency of a
police department is put to the "acid test" when a crisis
arises between well-organized conflicting forces. It is then
he can show the integrity and the courage which he pos-
sesses and the ability to accomplish a task which is laid
down for him by the legislative branch of Government in
the proper execution of his duties, that is, by the fair,
fearless and impartial enforcement of those statutes and
regulations which are applicable to a particular set of
facts.
DANIEL J. O'BRIEN,
Chief of Police.
CORONOR'S JURY COMMENDS OFFICERS
The following communications have been received by
Chief O'Brien from Dr. T. B. W. Leland, Coroner, and deal
with the killing of the notorious Joe Tanko in this city:
Enclosed please find verdict of Coroner and jury in case
of Joseph Tanko, deceased.
The commendation, from the people of the City and
County of San Francisco, represented by jury and Coroner
is for duty well and bi-avely performed.
The jury requested me as a mark of approval of the
good work of the department to have official copies of the
commendation made and either posted at each station or
read by Company Commanders to their watches. I am sub-
mitting this request to you for official approval.
With kindest personal regards and most cordial Christ-
mas and New Year's greetings from myself and staff to
you and the officers under your command, I remain,
THOS. B. W. LELAND.
"Inquisition taken at the Coroner's Court on the 30th day
of November, 1926, before Dr. T. B. W. Leland, Coroner
of said City and County, upon viewing of the body of Jos-
eph Tanko find:
"That the said Joseph Tanko, male, white, about 24
years old, nativity, residence, occupation, unknown, came
to his death at 1378 McAllister street, from shock and
hemorrhage following gunshot wound of body.
"And we further find: That said deceased came to his
death at the hands of Detective Sergeant E. Roney in
the performance of his duty, attempting to arrest certain
men known to have committed a crime.
"We wash to especially commend Detective Sergeant E.
Roney for his bravery in having shot and killed this des-
perate criminal after having been almost fatally wounded
by the bandit.
"We also wish to commend the bravery of Detective
Sergeants Van Matre, McSheehy and Palmer, the other
detectives concerned in the arrest as excellent represen-
tatives of the personnel of the San Francisco Police De-
partment who, in the recent wave of crime in San Fran-
cisco, having shown themselves efficient, brave and 'wild
to go' when ordered by their superiors.
"In witness whereof, as well as the said Coroner, the
Jurors aforesaid have to this Inquisition set their hands
and seals on the date thereof. Thomas Roche, Foreman,
George N. Bro^\'ning, C. N. Fulcher, John T. Lucas, A. L.
Rabing, Leo P. Hurley, H. C. Spoerer, Albert Springer,
Geo. Seeger, L. Keady.
"Approved: Thos. B. W. Leland, Coroner."
GREETINGS FRO.AI DULUTH
It is my hope that you and the members of your De-
partment enjoy a very merry Christmas and a happy and
prosperous New Year.
Thanking you for your co-opei-ation in the past and
hoping our relationship this coming year will be as pleas-
ant, I am,
E. H. BARBER, Chief of Police.
Duluth, Minnesota.
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ASSIGNMENTS
At a Special Meeting of the Board of Police Commis-
sioners held on December 27th, 1926, the following named
police officers were appointed ajid promoted to the rank of
Corporals of Police: James L. McDermott, William B.
Henley, Jeremiah J. Coughlan, Martin Brennan, James J.
Ruane, John F. Cavanagh, Henry M. Smith, Thomas P.
Naughton, Tevis L. Herring, Thomas J. Feeney, Michael
Goffey, James P. Johnson, Allan G. Moran, John J. Hor-
gan, Frederick T. Jewett, Peter R. Maloney, John T.
Trainer, Edward P. Donahue, Thomas R. Ritter, Gregory
D. Higuera, Raymond W. O'Connell, James M. R. Hayes,
George R. McKenney, Alfi-ed C. Williams, Edward A.
Mitchell Albert P. Christ, John C. Hachette.
The following newly appointed Corporals will remain on
their present assignments until further orders: James
P. Johnson, Detective Bureau; James M. R. Hayes, Detec-
tive Bureau; George R. McKenney, Detective Bureau;
Peter R. Maloney, Headquarters Co.; John T. Trainer,
Headquarters Co.; Albert P. Christ, Headquarters Co.;
Thomas R. Ritter, Co. K; James McDermott, Co. K.
The following transfers of non-commissioned officers
were made: Sgt. Arthur L. Christiansen, Hdqrs Co. to
Co. E.; Corp. Harvey A. Deline, Hdqrs. Co. to Co. J.; Coitd.
James J. Muldoon, Co. F to Co. B; Corp. Robert E. Lind-
sey, Co. B to Co. F; Corp. Luther H. Arentz, Co. A to
Co. K; Corp. Alfred C. Williams, Co. A to Co. E; Corp.
William B. Henley, Co. B to Co. G; Corp. Jeremiah J.
Coughlan, Co. B to Co. L; Corp. Martin Brennan, Co. B
to Co. C; Corp. Tevis L. Herring, Co. B to Co. P; Coi-p.
Thomas J. Feeney, Co. B to Co. H; Corp. John J. Horgan,
Co. B to Co. I; Corp. John C. Hachette, Co. B to Co. F;
Corp. James J. Ruane, Co. C to Co. B; Corp. Allan G.
Moran, Co. C to Co. B; Corp. Henry M. Smith, Co. D to
Property Clerk; Corp. Michael Gaffey, Co. D to Co. H;
Corp. Gregory D. Higuera, Co. D to Co. L; Corp. Edward
A. Mitchell, Co. D to Co. B; Corp. Raymond W. O'Con-
nell, Co. E to Co. P; Corp. John F. Cavanaugh, Co. F to
Co. G; Corp. Thomas F. Naughton, Co. G to Co. L; Corp.
Edward P. Donahue, Co. H to Co. G; Corp. James L. Mc-
Dermott, Co. K (not transferred); Corp. Thomas R. Ritter,
Co. K (not transferred); Corp. Wm. T. Moran, Co. J to
Co. I; Corp. F. T. Jewett, Co. I to Co. J.
The following transfers of patrolmen were made on
January 2nd:
Patrolman James B. Miles, Co. F to Co. A (day watch);
Patrolman James M. McEachern, Co. A to Co. D (day
watch); Patrolman Peter H. Murphy, Co. L to Co. A;
Patrolman James A. Carpeneti, Co. L to Co. D; Patrolman
Frederick Spooncer, Co. F to Co. A; Patrolman James J.
Hart, Co. E to Co. B; Patrolman Bernard A. Smith, Co.
F to Co. D; Patrolman Edward P. Fewer, Co. F to Co. A;
Patrolman William J. Riley, Co. F to Co. D; Patrolman
John J. McDonnell, No. 2, Co. L to Co. H; Patrolman John
Donovan, Co. F to Co. B; Patrolman Vernon S. Olsen, Co.
H to Co. B; Patrolman Charles Neary, Co. I to Co. B;
Patrolman John P. Haley, Co. J to Co. C; Patrolman Clar-
ence E. Kronquist, Co. L to Co. A.
The following named members of the Department School
of Instruction were permanently assigned to the Com-
panies hereinafter shown: Andrew J. Bell to Co. L; Fred
M. Fitzsimmons to Co. F; John V. Cobb' to Co. F; George
A. Young to Co. F; Peter H. Schroeder to Co. F; Samuel
Cohen to Co. F; Edward A. Miller to Co. F; Edward L.
Quast to Co. H; Thomas J. Lynch to Co. I; Richard R.
Smith to Co. J; John E. Gleeson, Jr., to Co. L (Officer Glee-
son, however, will remain temporarily in his present as-
signment in the City Prison).
Robert P. Brown, Rank 188, assigned Star 170; John
E. Gleeson No. 2, Rank 189, assigned Star 1197; Ferdinand
Bork, Rank 190, assigned Star 279 ; Dewey Kauffman, Rank
191, assigned Star 959, were appointed regular policemen
in the Police Department of the City and County of San
Francisco; said appointments to take effect immediately
and to be subject to the probationary period of six months
as is provided for in the Charter.
Andrew C. Wood, Rank 36 was appointed a chauffeur
in the Police Department.
Thomas C. Naylor, temporary patrol driver-, has been
assigned patrol driver's star number 29.
Louis T. Lammers, temporary patrol driver, has been
assigned patrol driver's star number 28.
Police Officer Walter Talleur of this department reports
the loss of his police star, number 489. He has been given
star number 163.
COMMENDATORY LETTERS
You have no idea how much your talk was enjoyed at
yesterday's meeting of the Altiurians. I heard nothing but
praise from everyone and the talk was not alone enjoyable
but very informative and I am sure that all of the Club
members appreciated your sparing the time to lunch with
us.
Personally, I am sorry that more ladies were not present
as some of the advice and counsel you gave was particu-
larly valuable.
Please accept the Club's thanks and my thanks, person-
ally and also thank the Chief for permitting you to spare
the time. (Note: Letter was addressed to Mrs. Katherine
Sullivan, Woman Protective Officer). Sometime I will ask
you for a return engagement.
LOUIS A. COLTON, President,
Alti-urians of San Francisco.
559 Monadnock Building.
* * *
It is my pleasant duty to extend to you on behalf of our
Board of Directors and members our sincere appreciation
of the splendid co-operation extended by the San Fran-
cisco Police Department during the visit to San Francisco
of President Thomas P. Henry, officers and directors of the
American Automobile Association.
Acting under your orders Lieutenant John J. Casey, com-
manding the Traffic Bureau, took personal charge of the
detail of motorcycle officers which included Officers Claude
Ireland, Joseph Perry and W. Martin. This detail escorted
our distinguished visitors from place to place during their
two-day stay in San Francisco. The courteous manner and
efficient handling of the arrangements by Lieutenant Casey
and his men brought forth enthusiastic praise from every
member of the party.
We are most grateful to you as the Chief Executive of
the Police Department for your personal appearance at
the Ferry building upon the arrival of President Henry
and party and your attendance at the luncheon given in
their honor at the St. Francis Hotel.
D. E. WATKINS,
Secretary and General Manager,
California State Auto Association,
150 Van Ness Avenue.
* * *
Just a line to thank you for your Idndness in delegating
certain officers to the Hotel Mark Hopkins on Saturday
evening, December 4th. I desire to state that these gentle-
men carried out their duties in a very splendid manner,
and that we had no trouble of any nature, which I consider
is due to the foresight of the Detail in anticipating possible
fracases in time to prevent their occurrence.
With very best wishes, and again thanking you, I am
HOTEL MARK HOPKINS,
W. P. Taylor, Jr., Resident Manager.
January, J 927
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Richards and Kalmbach, Federal Aids
By Jimmy Hicks, Police Reporter, San Franasco Bulletin
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You have undoubtedly heard of unsung heroes.
And undoubtedly you have sympathized with them
and then promptly forgotten them.
Now, f'rinstance, you may take George Rich-
ards and Henry Kalmbach, detective sergeants
extraordinary. Give them the passing thought of
these few lines and then forget 'em. The powers
that be in \^'ashington that rule on Uncle Sam's
personal obligations demand that.
George and Henry are San Fi'ancisco's tribute
to the Federal machine of law enforcement. They
are unsung heroes. And unsung heroes are mar-
tyrs.
Captain Thomas B. Foster, chief of the San
Francisco bureau of the Secret Service, testifies
to that.
Some wit once called them the "kid glove boys".
He had watched them, "soup and fish", keeping
an eagle eye on a foreign dignitary. And he had
seen them uncomfortably taking in the weddings
of prominent people. Or sitting in at the gather-
ings of political generals. Hob-nobbing with the
upper crust, as it were. Unsung heroes !
George Richards has been doing that for fifteen
years. When the Post Office Inspectors decided
that they wanted a police assignment to aid them
in their endless and tireless investigations, they
requested the pick of the Department. Michael
Burke and George were sent to the Post Office
building. When the beloved Burke got hurt and
retired, Kalmbach took his place.
Catering to the notables is "the night shift in
the Mission" to the pair. It brings longer hours
and no extra pay. While they may dislike that
end of the work intensely, they never say so.
But Captain Foster, the genial chief, has that sort
of a hunch.
So now you have the idea that George and
Henry are the perfect "kid glove" pair. They are !
But let's get away from the social lights. Did
you ever hear of Ed Nicodemus, Fred Elkins, Bob
Yates, Frank Cole, Johnny Coy, Parker B. "Jerry"
JMillisack, Ralph Brightman, Joe Fiegin, Harry S.
Sullivan, Leo Hannan, Bill Crowe, Jim Nagle and
Nick Rudonick. Y^ou probably have. Each one
represented a high light in San Francisco's crime
history. "Kid glove" crime.
Do you remember when Secret Service men,
playing a hunch, went to a certain bank vault and
found $150,000 in jewels, $40,000 in cash and
?20,000 in "hop" and how "Jerry" Millisack and
Brightman stood trial for violation of the narcotic
law and went to prison and how the robbery of
the Continental Loan Association in Los Angeles
of its fortune in jewels was solved?
And if you search back in your mind you will
remember the fake ?20 Federal Reserve notes that
flooded the Pacific Coast a few years back. $3,000
had been passed here when Richards found $10,000
worth of the paper in a bank vault. Nicodemus
got four years, Elkins, eight years, Yates and
Cole two years and six months and Coy one year
and a day.
And then the Beal street holdup of the mail
truck in which $60,000 was taken. Over a year
later, out of a clear sky, Hannan, the government
guard, was arrested. Crowe, under cross examina-
tion by Richards and Kalmbach, revealed the plot.
Then came the arrest of Nagle and Rudonick. Sul-
livan was taken in London a short time ago. Sen-
tences of twenty-five years resulted.
Joe Fiegin, the poison-booze druggist and coun-
terfeiter, was taken into the net. He knows Rich-
ards and Kalmbach. Unless the memory of the
others is impaired by the toll taken by the Gov-
ernment, they also remember the pair.
Desperate men cast the dice in the gamble
against Federal law. They are brainy men, grad-
uates of the school of ordinary crime, scholars in
tlie college of crookdom. They flunk in their
studies only when smart masters take them in
hand. That is why Richards and Kalmbach have
been loaned to Uncle Sam.
Now, let's forget it.
POLICE FUND GETS $500 FOR BANK AID
The Widow's and Orphans' Fund of the San
Francisco Police Department was presented with
a check for $500 yesterday by the Crocker First
National Bank. The presentation was made on
behalf of William H. Crocker to Chief of Police
Daniel O'Brien in appreciation of the police assis-
tance during the recent gas explosion in the bank.
14 PASS LIEUTENANT TEST
Arthur L. Christiansen, 1346 Twenty-fourth
avenue, heads the list of fourteen sergeants in the
San Francisco Police Department who successfully
passed examination for promotion to the rank of
lieutenant, the Civil Service Commission an-
nounced this month. The examinations were held
on October 29.
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DIRECTIVE BUREAU
Captain of Detectives Duncan Matheson in Charge
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LAW ENFORCEMENT
By District Attorney Warren of Alameda
Now gentlemen, of course there is no use con-
demning the system unless we can do something
to remedy it, and I suppose you are saying in
your mind, what would you suggest to remedy
this situation? I don't know how it can be en-
tirely remedied, because the people at the pres-
ent time are for the probation system. They
have been taught that it is the humane system ;
they have been taught that the criminal is the
under-dog, and the criminal is entitled to th'^
court protection and rehabitulation just as a sick
man is entitled to be healed, to such an extent
that it is my opinion that the public believes that,
men of bad reputation or character, and any of
and that the public believing in the probation
system, it is a hard thing to make it anything
different than at the present time, but I believe
if we can bring to the public through the press
every flagrant abuse of the probation system, I
believe that the public can be educated against
the present method of administering that law
just as it has been propagandized for it at the
present time, and there isn't a large district in
this state where the probation law isn't violated
and abused. I wager there isn't a large commu-
nity in this state where probation isn't given at
times to men who have served a term in San
Quentin, and it is a crime to give probation, in
my opinion, to a man who has once had his chance
on probation on felony, or in state's prison for
felony, but it is done right along, and if things
of that kind are brought to the attention of the
public they will get out of sympathy with the
present method of administering the probation
laws.
I think one case where the peace officers can
assist in taking care of these probationers is
this: These men placed on probation of course
are under strict rules — cannot drink, nor fre-
quent places of ill repute, cannot go around with
these things would constitute a violation of pa-
role, and I believe if the peace officers of this
state were to definitely undertake to report all
violations of that kind to the court — you can
get no sympathy from probation officers — report
it to the court directly, and I believe some good
can be accomplished.
Truly I believe that the work of all law enforce-
ment officers should be co-ordinated, and by law
enforcement officers I mean peace officers, dis-
trict attorneys and judges. Why, gentlemen,
there should be no discord between these three —
each are relying on the other, each should co-
operate with the other and give help to the other,
because it is all one task — the arrest, trial, con-
viction and sentence of men convicted of criminal
ofi'enses, and lastly I think the main thing that
can be done by this Peace Officers' Association is
to maintain a militant lobby at the State Legis-
lature.
Gentlemen, all of you don't go to the Legis-
lature, and all of you don't know what goes on
at that place. You don't know how the forces
of vice and criminality work in our Legislature.
You don't know how many men in our Legislature
are subsidized by vice — people who are interest-
ed in vice conditions. Captain Matheson knows
something about it; Chief Drew knows some-
thing about it, and the Chief of San Francisco
knows something about it because they are
there — they are on the job all the time. Would
you believe it if I told you there was a law in-
troduced in the Legislature last year which gave
a defendant in a criminal case the right to re-
sist by force a search warrant which he deemed
to be insufficient. In other words, this law re-
quired a peace officer before executing a search
warrant to first find the defendant, show him the
search warrant and if the defendant believed that
that search warrant was insufficient he had a
right to resist with force the action of the peace
officer in executing it. Now, that's fine, isn't it;
but, let me tell you that very law gave Captain
Duncan Matheson and some more of your peace
officers many sleepless nights because it looked
as if it would pass, and they worked on it night
and day, and a large percentage of the lawyers
in the Senate, Legislature, were going to vote
for it ; and, another law along the same line made
it a felony for a person to swear to a search war-
rant if they didn't find the subject matter they
were looking for, and likewise that took very
seriously with the members of our State Legis-
lature.
Joe Phontes was walking off with some small articles
of less than $200 value when Officers L. Morch and J. Dyer
arrested him.
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Sergeant George McLoughlin's Robbery Detail was forced
to engage in other crimes than robbery the past month,
as there were not so many of this sort of major crime
committed. However, Sgts. Leo Bunner, George Wall and
Robert Rauer brought in Fred McCormick and James
Hombeck, charged with robbery, while Bunner and Rauer,
with Sergeant Edward McSheehy, gave Joseph Perioni
three such "raps". McLaughlin, with McSheehy and Sergt.
Jesse Ayers arrested Homer Ford and Charles Johnson
for the same offense; and Wall, with Sergt. William Mc-
Mahon, grabbed off another pair of stickup boys when
they landed Henry Leroy and Frank Dominguez in the
city prison. The detail brought in a dozen other men
charged with lesser crimes.
* * *
Detective Sergt. Martin Porter, Lieutenant-to-be George
Healy's side-kick, doubled up and were responsible for the
arrest of Jos. Ditsky for grand larceny, and they picked
up Thomas Clark, wanted in Oakland.
* * *
Following are the most important arrests made by De-
tectives Daniel Fogarty and John Sturm: Aleo Andrakin,
Nick Milasky and Peter Lelikoff, charged with assault with
a deadly weapon; W. Leagarrigus, assault to do great
bodily harm; John Picetti, same charge; and Frank Ed-
wards, for violating Juvenile Court law.
* * *
The Burglary Detail, under Detective Sergt. Richmond
Tathani, checked in for the month their most important
arrests as follows: Theodore Miller and Chester Hook,
burglaiy, by Tatham and Sergts. Jack Palmer and Finley;
Tony Stipovich, receiving stolen goods, by Tatham and
posse; by Detective Sergts. Richard Hughes and James
Johnson, Robert Foster, burglary and en route to Fresno;
Ben Kaplan and Phillip Beyer, burglary; Detective Sergts.
James Gregson and Joseph Lippi booked the following
for burglary: Harry Leonard, Leonard Maclsaac; Sergts.
Irving Finlay and James Mitchell locked up Moses Grow.
* * *
Detective Sgts. William Armstrong, Charles Maher and
James Hansen of the Bad Check detail, arrested 250 bad
check passers during the last three months of 1926. These
men and women passed checks varying from S2.00 or
$300.00 for a total amount of ?8000.00. This sum is not
a total loss as the prisoners "squared" some of the "beefs".
* * *
Detective Sergts. Fred Bohr and Clarence Herlitz of the
Hotel Detail got a varied lot of complaints to work out.
They did just that thing. Their names appear after the
following: Ray McCullough, en route to Monterey; William
Lamberton,. bench warrant; Kenneth Await and Edward
Felix, grand larceny.
« * *
Sergts. George Richard and Henry Kalmbaeh of the
Federal assignment, nabbed Phillip Peterson for the U. S.
Marshal.
* * »
Jack Van, who has had a score of charges of embezzle-
ment against him, was locked up again the other day by
Detective Sergts. Thomas Reagon and Thomas Curtis.
* ? iK
Detective Sergts. Andrew Gaughran and James D.
Skelly kept the wheels of justice and the patrol wagons
busy during the month with their "Knockovers", the more
important ones of which run like this: Burt Brown and
James Rose, burglary and petty larceny; Harry and Ed-
ward Keller, same offenses; Albert Cable and Jean Mar-
gette, ditto; Matilda Leyba and Mernice Putnam, likewise;
John Lenoe, 476a; Harry Allen and Harry Keller, petty
larceny; John Spenee, burglary.
» » *
Lads who don't like to do honest work flocked to the
city during the holiday sea.son to eke out some sort of a
livelihood. They played crowds and .stores. Lieut. Thomas
Hoertkom and his partner Detective Sergt. Morris Harris
gave them a merry time. Here are some that they es-
corted to the Hall: Harry Castro, Juan Lopez, John J.
Horan, Gordon Foxall, Louis Walker, Helen Hase, burglary
and petty larceny; Damarole Aligio, burglary; Aaron
Schwartz, Joe Levin and David Rubin, fake platinum wire
peddlers, and Manuel Sousa, petty larceny.
* * «
Lieut. Bemard McDonald's Automobile Detail gave the
courts plenty to do last month. Here are some of the
arrests made by various members of the detail : Detective
Sergt. James Hayes and his partner, Harry McCrea: Rob-
ert Ai^hbum and Harry Allen, violating Section 146 of the
Motor Act; Albert Brose, dri\-ing while intoxicated; Salva-
dore Tapia and Frank McDermott, larceny.
T- t *
Detective Sergts. John J. Cannon, James McKenna and
G. Wafer were in on the following arrests: Jack Taylor
and George Mitchell, grand larceny and carrj-ing guns;
Frank Mclntyre, \'iolating parole and James Howard, en
route to Weed. , ^ ,.
Detective Sergts. Frank Brown and Rasmus Rasmussen
arrested Fred Clark and Frank O'Connell for the Watson-
ville authorities.
* * *
Willis Peterson was nabbed by Detective Sergts. W'illiam
Milliken and Phillip Lindecker when they saw him dri\-ing
off with some one else's automobile; 46 was the charge.
* » »
Detective Sergts. Augustus Thompkins, Nicholas Barron
and Detective P. Evans and Special Britt, had a hand in
getting the names to follow: Roy Ostrander, \-iolating
Section 504a; James Marley, grand larceny; Harry Beal,
fugitive; Jesse C. Hopkins, vagi-ancy; and John Conley,
embezzlement.
* * »
Detective Sergts. P. Badaracco and Edward Jones ar-
rested Frank Vidal for violating Sec. 146 of the Motor
Vehicle Act and %-iolating parole.
4: « *
Nick De Pinto was arrested by Detective Sergts. Phillip
Lindecker, Peter Hughes and Millikin.
* * *
The boys on the night shifts certainly were busily en-
gaged during the electric light hours. Read further: De-
tectives J. McKenna and Jack O'Connell picked off George
Vamey for the Oakland police; Coi-poral Da^•id Stevens
and Jack O'Connell nabbed James Bresnahan for Hills-
borough and Roger Menchaca and Rogue Arande for Sac-
ramento. * » *
Detective Sergeant Harry Cook ought to be a very popu-
lar man with sundry wives who complain about their hus-
bands leaving them and the childi-en. Harry picks these
husbands up for most every city in the state. Some he
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January, 1927
Proposed New Laws for Coming Legislature
Presentation of Recommendations Made b>' State Crime Procedure Commission arid Adopted by
State Peace Officers' Association
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(Continued from Last Month)
(c) Selection of Jui-y. A new section providing
that it shall be primarily the duty of the trial
judge to select the jury, but authorizing the trial
court in its discretion to permit reasonable ex-
amination of prospective jurymen as to their
qualification by counsel. At the present time, one
of the gi-eat abuses in criminal trials is the ex-
cessive length of time that is taken in the selec-
tion of juries. Experience in all other English
speaking jurisdictions, as well as United States
courts, has shown that a gi-eat amount of time,
inconvenience and expense can be saved by mak-
ing the selection of a fair jury primarily the duty
of the court.
Proceedings on New Trial and Appeal
The recommendations of the Commission as to
handling matters on appeal are designed to in-
sure that the records shall be brought up and
the case heard with the utmost promptness. To
this end the Commission expects to recommend
the enactment of statutes having the following
effect :
Motion for new trial must be made immediately
upon return of the verdict and heard within ten
days ;
Notice of appeal must be given immediately
after sentence;
All appeals shall be set for liearing for a date
not later than thirty (30) days after the filing of
the transcript.
It is made the duty of the district attorney
trying the case to co-operate with the attorney
general in presenting the matter on appeal.
A new section providing that where defendant
moves for a new trial and a new trial is granted,
or when defendant appeals and on appeal the
judgment is reversed, the effect of such order
shall be that the verdict is vacated and abrogated
in every respect and that defendant be retired
on the original charge the same as if there had
been no prior trial. The reason for this rule is
that at the present time if the jury convicts for
a lesser offense than that charged and the ver-
dict is then set aside on motion for a new trial
or on appeal, defendant cannot be charged with
or retried for any crime greater than that of
which he was convicted. If the verdict is set
aside, it should be set aside completely and the
case left in the same situation as if there had
been no verdict.
A new section providing that where on appeal
or on motion for a new trial it appears that the
evidence is not sufficient to justify conviction of
the crime for which the defendant was convicted,
but is sufficient to sustain conviction of a lesser
crime included within the crime for which de-
fendant was convicted, the court may either
grant a new trial or order judgment rendered on
the lesser offense. The need of this section is
illustrated by a recent decision of the Supreme
Court of this State. A defendant bad been con-
victed of arson in the first degree. A conviction
of this crime in the first degree requires proof
that the building burned was inhabited. The
evidence failed to show this fact, but did clearly
show that arson in the second degree, a lesser
offense, had been committed. On account of the
absence of any such statute as that proposed the
Supreme Court was compelled to reverse the case
and gi-ant a new trial.
Punishment
It is not the purpose of the Commission to
recommend any genei'al sj'^stem of harsher punish-
ment. Neither is it the purpose of the Commis-
sion to recommend the repeal either of the Pro-
bation system or of the Indeterminate Sentence
law or Parole law. Our studies indicate that both
the Probation and Parole systems and the Inde-
terminate sentence law have certain very definite
merits. It is true, however, that they can be,
and sometimes have been, seriously abused. The
attempt of the Commission has been to devise
statutory provisions which will retain all the
benefits of these sj'stems and at the same time
lessen and minimize the possibility of their abuse.
Probation
The fundamental purpose of probation is to
afford to the first offender, who has not shown
himself to be a dangerous criminal, an oppor-
tunity to reform and become a useful member of
society without being stained with the disgrace
of having served a penitentiary sentence. In cases
of this character probation serves a most useful
and valuable purpose. But when probation is
granted to hardened or vicious criminals, it is
entirely misapplied, its function prostituted, and
great harm may result to the public. To this
end the Commission expects to recommend as
follows :
No person shall be eligible to probation unless
it shall appear to the satisfaction of the court
that he has never theretofore been convicted of
a felony either in this state or elsewhere.
(To Be Continued)
January, 1927
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DET. SERGT. JAMES E. COTTLE
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In bidding good-
bye to one's voca-
tion, there is gen-
erally the solace of
relief, particularly
so if one's line of
activities have
been tinged with
strenuous issues,
issues involving
certain risks of life
and fortune. I
would not be hu-
man, I suppose,
were I to say that
rest and leisure of-
fer no appeal at
sixty - six, and I
would stand self-convicted as a liar, and a big one,
were I to state that I left the department without
sincere regret. One cannot serve and mix daily
for over a quarter of a century without forming
ties of friendship and affection which rebut at
severing.
These sentiments are mine in leaving the Police
Department of my city, which the weight of years
and failing health have forced me to do.
Appointed by the late Patrick Crowley, then
Chief of Police, in 1892, I have seen many heads
of this fine body of men come and go, and the
department itself grow to the splendid showing
which it makes today in numbers and efficiency.
I am proud to have been a member of it and can
conscientiously say I don't believe I have an enemy
within its ranks; I hope not anyway.
During my long years of service, I have ever
endeavored to be both human and humane and
have tried to mind my own business, a perilous
stunt, but one which pays big- dividends in the
end. At any rate, I was never rebuked by my
superior officers, which helped some. \Miere I
could lend a helping hand to those unfortunates
of tender years when fate threw them in my
path, I have extended it and have yet to regret a
single instance of doing so; my hand was never
bitten. Only so recently as my late serious ill-
ness a young fellow now occupying an important
position of trust whom I was instrumental in put-
ting upon the right path instead of charging him
with a felony, heard of my sickness and wrote to
me saying his purse was at my disposal. To my
mind, kindness disarms and softens. There should
be more of it used, it is a gi'eat weapon !
Vale Amigos
By James E. Cottle, Detective Sergeant. Retired
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In the course of my duty, I have been obliged
to send some to San Quentin; it is a i-elief to
know that I have saved others from going there.
To the young men going onto the force today
tliere looms before them gi*eater chances and op-
portunities for advancement and for distinguish-
ing themselves than we old birds ever had in the
days of our novitiate. You have now a Police
Commission of which few cities can boast, and a
Chief second to none. In closing, let me hand
down to the younger members of the Force a
couple of crisp epigrams which old Chief Crowley
slipped to me wlien I was a "beginner". They are
worth remembering. He said :
"Use, at all times, good horse sense. If you
have not got it, try and borrow some.
"Never play tlie bully or the brute.
"Never strike a man on the head with your
club, unless you mean to kill him.
"Alind your own business."
There were other gems of sage advice which I
have forgotten, but these have lingered longest
in my memory.
I could say much more in reminiscence of the
past, and of those of the department wjio have
crossed the Great Divide ahead of me, but I must
not usurp all the space in this issue with my swan
song. I must leave some of it for the advertise-
ments.
So, in conclusion, let me simply add in passing
from the ranks to the oblivion of private life, that
the Boys of the department, all of them, will not
entirely forget me until I cease to remember tliem,
which will be a long time from now.
And in closing, let me take you, each one, by
the hand in parting, from our good Chief down,
and say with all my heart to all of you.
May God bless you.
There was a lot of gladhanding around the Hall
of Justice January 8, and a lot of gladness. It
was all occasioned by the return to duty of Sergt.
Patrick jMcGee, in charge of the School of Instruc-
tion of new police officers.
Sergt. Pat has been sick for a long time and
the boys around the hall missed him. The news-
paper boys missed him and the folks who liked ti
have the exhibition teams appear at various func
tions, and listen to the sergeant's able and inter-
esting talks, missed him. And each and ever,
one of them were glad when he came back and
that includes the writer of this article.
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Annual Police Ball and Concert
. Plans Being Made for Biggest Celebration at Auditorium
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Again is the Police Widows'
and Orphans' annual ball and
concert ready to entertain the
people. The date has been set
at February 19th, and from the
advance sale of seats the Civic
Auditorium will be crowded
again this year, and a show
will be presented to the thou-
sands who will attend, that
could not be equalled anywhere for ten dollars,
let alone a dollar.
This annual benefit of the Association has be-
come one of the fixed entertainments of this city
and it has become recognized as a show where the
ticket holder gets his money's worth and a lot
more.
■ Then the cause for which it is put on makes it
one that appeals to all law abiding people. The
Widow's and Oi-phan's Association, an insurance
concern made up of members and retired members
of the department, has by hard work, careful in-
vestment of money, earned by the ball, monthly
payments of the members and donations, been
■able to make easier the burdens of the families of
deceased police officers.
There is no money paid to salaried officials, every
dollar but the barest sums needed to carry on the
business being devoted to the payment of life
insurance.
Owing to the hazardous life of a policeman, life
insurance companies cannot carry these men ex-
cept at heavy premiums. Therefore the only way
an officer can protect and provide for his family in
case of death is through this mutual association
made up of members of the department.
The 1927 event is under the direction of a gen-
eral committee headed by Captain William J.
Quinn, -chief clerk to Chief O'Brien, and he has
subdivided this general committee into the follow-
ing sub-committees, and each one is functioning in
a manner that insures this year's celebration one
well worth seeing.
The sub-committees follow:
Hall and DecoratinR Committee
Capt. Herbert J. Wright (Chairman) Company J
Lieut. George Duffy Company J
Lieut. Frederick W. Kimble Company D
Lieut. Joseph Mignola Company E
Sergt. Louis H. C. Nye Company E
Sergt. Peter S. Hinrichs .Company L
Corp. Frank P. Scollin _ Company H
Officer Edward J. Plume :Company J
Inspector John F. Ryan Headquarters
Printing Committee
Officer Peter R. Maloney (Chairman) Headquarters
Detective Sergt. William R. Proll Det. Bureau
Sergt. Thomas G. Roche Company D
Sergt. Arthur T. McQuaide Det. Bureau
Corp. Charles J. Ward Headquarters
Officer George R. P. Grunwald Company A
Officer Joseph P. Maloney Company D
Officer Edward J. McNamara Company 1
Concessions Committee
Corp. William C. Gilmore (Chairman) Det. Bureau
Detective Sergt. Leo. E. Bunner Det. Bureau
Detective Sergt. Harry L. Cook Det. Bureau
Corp. Eugene J. Egan Company P
Corp. William J. Harrington Company M
Officer John J. Lyons Company A
Officer Patrick McAuIiffe Company B
Officer Walter E. Harrington Company E
Edward J. Thomson No. 404
Inspector John F. Ryan Headquarters Co.
Music and Talent Committee
Capt. Frederick Lemon (Chairman) Company D
Capt. John J. Casey Company E
Capt. Henry J. O'Day Company I
Capt. Robert A. Coulter Company L
Capt. Stephen V. Bunner Company M
Lieut. Daniel J. Collins Company D
Lieut. Frederick O'Neill Company G
Lieut. Emmett Moore Company L
Sergt. Patrick H. McGee Headquarters
Officer J. Griffith Kennedy Company A
Officer George F. Barry Company C
Publicity Committee
Lieut. Michael Riordan (Chairman) Headquarters
Lieut. Arthur H. DeGuire Company B
Lieut. William E. Dowie.. Company M
Sergt. Patrick H. McCJee Headquarters
Sergt. Patrick J. Murray _ Headquarters
Corp. John L. McCausland Headquarters
Officer Charles J. Gallatin Company A
Officer George F. Barry Company C
Officer William I. Bums Headquarters
Frank C. Tracey No. 1621 Market Street
Frank J. Egan No. 333 Kearny Street
Radio Committee
Officer William F. Bennett (Chairman) Headquarters
Sergt. Patrick H. McGee Headquarters
Officer Peter R. Maloney Headquarters
Corp. Thomas P. Mclnerney Headquarters
Invitation to Mayor Committee
Chief of Police Daniel J. O'Brien (Chairman)
Police Commissioner Jesse B. Cook O'Fan-ell St.
Capt. William J. Quinn Headquarters
Capt. Duncan Matheson •.. ._ Headquarters
Capt. Arthur D. Layne Company A
Capt. Charles Goif Company B
Capt. John J. O'Meara Company F
Capt. William T. Healy Company G
Capt. Charles F. Skelly Headquarters
Lieut. Michael Riordan Headquarters
Lieut. Michael J. Griffin Det. Bureau
Officer John J. Cummings Company C
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January, 1927
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Tough Going, But Officers Win
By Corporal Thomas McEnerney
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One of the most thrilling expei'iences that three
members of my command and I have ever had
since becoming members of the Police Depart-
ment took place on the afternoon of January 10,
1927. No doubt, Officer John Scanlon will never
forget it so long as he lives. The knowledge he
gained in the Department School of Instructions
in preventing the fire of revolver in the hands of
a thug undoubtedly saved his life.
About 3:30 p. m. on that eventful afternoon,
while waiting for the auto patrol to convey to the
Bush Street Station a petty thief whom we had
just apprehended, Officer Morrison, attached to
the Headquarters Company, accompanied by In-
spector John McCarthy of the State Board of
Pharmacy, hailed me as they were passing in
their machine and informed me that they had
just recognized a notorious narcotic peddler
getting into a Chrysler roadster parked on Hyde
Street between Eddy and Ellis Streets. Inasmuch
as Officer Morrison and Inspector McCarthy were
in pursuit of another notorious dope peddler and
could not stop to arrest the man in the Chrysler
car, they requested me to effect his arrest, and
in company with Officers Ray O'Brien and John
Scanlon I proceeded to investigate.
Upon arriving at the spot where the Chrysler
was parked I recognized the driver of the machine
as Alex McDonald, a notorious narcotic peddler
and an ex-convict, who had on a previous occa-
sion been arrested by Corporal Albert Christ and
Officer Patrick Walsh (also of my command). I
questioned McDonald regarding the ownership of
the machine and as he could not give me a satis-
factory answer I decided to place him under arrest
and ordered Officer Scanlon to take him in our
machine and make a thorough search of his per-
son for weapons and narcotics, while Officer Ray
O'Brien and myself made a search of the Chrysler
car. Unfortunately McDonald had cleverly con-
cealed in a secret compartment located in the up-
holstery of the Chrysler car a loaded 45 caliber
Colt's revolver, which could not be detected ex-
cept by one who was aware of its hiding place. I
then instructed Officer Scanlon to take McDonald
in the Chrysler car to the Hall of Justice for fur-
ther investigation.
Accompanied by Officer Ray O'Brien, I followed
in the Department's Buick and picked up Officer
James Coleman at Turk and Hyde streets. We
then proceeded to closely follow the Chrysler ma-
chine. As it passed Grant avenue and Washing-
ton street I noticed a scuffle taking place in the
Chrysler car. McDonald had taken from its hid-
ing place the 45 calibre Colt revolver previously
concealed by him and had thrust it against the
side of Officer Scanlon who was driving the car
and at the same moment threatening his life if
he (Scanlon) did not comply with his command
to speedily drive the car as he directed.
This is the point where the training which Offi-
cer Scanlon received in the Department School of
Instructions was brought into play and with the
agility of a cat, combined with the knowledge
obtained in the Department School of Instruc-
tions, he baffled McDonald's plans. He promptly
set the foot brakes which stopped the momentum
of the car and with his left hand quickly thrust
the revolver to one side, and with his right hand
grasped the barrel of same, thus preventing its
discharge. In doing this it was necessary to leave
go of the steering wheel and the machine jumped
the curb and came to a stop against a building
at the corner of Brennan Place and Washington
street. Officers James Coleman, Ray O'Brien and
myself presently came to the rescue of our brother
officer who was still grappliing with McDonald for
possession of the revolver. The thug tried des-
perately to shoot one or more of us, but he was
finally outwitted and overpowered. During the
scuffle Officer Scanlon's finger was badly lacerated
as the result of being caught by the trigger of the
45 calibre revolver which prevented the gun from
being discharged and which, no doubt, saved his
life.
The harrowing experiences of all of us during
those brief moments will never be forgotten and
we all can truthfully say that had it not been for
the knowledge as to blocking of "gun play" re-
ceived in the Department School of Instructions,
Officer Scanlon would certainly have been shot and
one or more of us might have made the supreme
sacrifice in the service of the police department.
MORE PRAISE FOR RONEY AND VAX MATRE
There has been much favorable comment e.xpressed by
some of our representative business men on the acts of
bravery of Detective Sergeants Earl Roney and Vernon
Van Matre, who participated in the capture of Tanko.
The sentiment has been expressed that when our brave
police officers perform their simple duty, regardless of con-
sequences, that some e^■idence of commendation should be
conveyed. May I, therefore, on behalf of the San Fran-
cisco Chamber of Commerce, reflect to you these senti-
ments, that in addition to any commendation which you
find it proper to give to these men, that you may also add
the appreciation of the business community.
SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,
ROBERT NEWTON LYNCH,
Vice-President.
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Vol. V.
January, 1927
No. 3.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM QUINN, CHIEF CLERK
With the close of 1926, Capt. Wilham J. Quinn,
Chief O'Brien's right hand man, completes his
sixth year as chief clerk.
Capt. Quinn, since his membership in the San
Francisco Police Department, has been an officer
of which the city can well be proud. In the days
of the Barbary Coast, when things along that dis-
trict were so tough policemen had to work in pairs,
Patrolman Quinn performed his police duties in
a manner that won the respect of his superior
officers, and fear from the characters who hung
around the Coast. He could do police work on any
basis, and if some tough bird thought a little phys-
ical combat might free him, he got a chance to try
it and always came out second best.
Then in Chinatown he was a valued member of
Corp. O'Brien's squad. Fi'om there to the license
bureau, thence to the outer office of Chief D. A.
White. When Chief White passed away and
Daniel J. O'Brien was made Chief of Police, the
new Chief's first official act was to appoint his loyal
fellow officer as chief clerk.
In this position Captain Quinn has acquitted
himself with the same credit as has marked his
years of duty in the department. He has handled
the varied details of the Chief's office in a com-
mendable manner, arranged the details for all the
big events that have been held during the past six
years, competently held down the Chief's chair
when the Chief was away, and has generally
proven liimself a high-class, competent executive
officer.
We trust he holds the job as long as he desires.
COMMISSIONER ROCHE RE-APPOINTED
On January 3, Mayor James Rolph, Jr., reap-
pointed Tlieodore J. Roche, police commissioner,
making tlie fifth appointment to this position the
president of the board has been honored with.
President Roche was re-elected as head of the
Board at the meeting following the appointment,
a position he has had since he was first appointed
in September, 1912.
Reappointed in 1915, again in 1919, then in 1923
and lastly this year. Commissioner Roche has
brought to tlie Police Commission a legal mind, a
keen understanding of the police business, a sym-
pathetic heart, an unwavering fairness to all who
come before the Board, that with Commissioners
Jesse B. Cook, Dr. Thomas Shumate and Andrew
Mahoney, makes it a commission that is un-
equalled in any city in this country.
Only one member of the Board has longer ser-
vice than Commissioner Roche, and that is Com-
missioner Cook, who was appointed in January,
1912.
The progress that the San Francisco Police De-
partment has made in its work, and the reputa-
tion it has attained, commenced with the admin-
istration of the present Board, and they can look
back on the years they have served and feel a
satisfaction in the knowledge that they have func-
tioned well and have been behind every move for
the bringing of police work to the highest state of
efficiency it is possible for a municipality to attain.
BEST WISHES FROM THE MAYOR
The following telegram has been received by Chief
O'Brien from Mayor James Rolph, Jr.:
"Please convey to all the members of your Department
through your usual channels my very best wishes to them
and their families for a Happy New Year."
George Stone, accused of being a hit-nanner, was taken
in custody by Officer J. Benn.
* * *
Mike Nichols, arrested by Officers A. Novembri and
Walter Harrington, and George Kalcjner, nabbed by Lieut.
Cullinan and posse, were booked as petty larcenists.
January. 1927 "2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
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Page 19
Xavier S. Joffre, alias Santibanez, was arrested
in tlie Palace Hotel on Jan. 10, 1927. His arrest
was due to an advertisement inserted by him in
the local morning papers, stating:
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enterprise, hunting with guns and cameras,
Indian tribes, wild animals, etc. Also import-
export business. Investment required. As-
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Saturday or Sunday, room 5032, Palace Hotel.
This advertisement was noticed by Curtis and
Reagan who called on Joffre at the Palace Hotel
in company with Loren Davis, house detective of
the hotel. Curtis recognized Joffre as the pro-
moter of a like scheme in 1922 in which fourteen
men were induced to jgin in a hunting trip to
Panama. Joffre secured $14,000.00 from the vic-
tims and left them stranded at Panama. Joffre
was attempting to put over the same scheme at
the time of his arrest and during the time spent
in his room investigating and questioning him,
several persons called in response to the adver-
tisement.
Investigation showed that Joffre was a lying
swindler. His entire capital when he entered the
hotel on January 7th, 1927 was $100.00. At the
time of his arrest this had dwindled to about $5.00.
He was booked on a vagrancy charge and held
for investigation. Later two victims of the 1922
scheme showed up and filed Grand Larceny charg-
es against him. He is now in jkil awaiting hear-
ing on those charges.
At the time of arrest Joffre had a brief case in
his room. On searching same it was found filled
with shirts, stockings, etc., just received from the
laundry. Joffre intended taking French leave from
the hotel without bothering paying his bill, only
he intended moving with the brief case instead of
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Corp. William Boyle kept the wagon running, shooting
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"2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
January, 1927
HALL OF JUSTICE HAS ANOTHER BOMB
SCARE
Last month some fiend in'human guise left in the
telephone booth on the first floor, one of the most
destructive bombs that has come under the obser-
vation of the San Francisco Police Department.
Before it had time to explode Robert Berg, police
reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, dis-
covered it, and with members of the detective bu-
reau night shift opened the Gladstone bag contain-
ing the infernal machine.
When it was discovered that a bomb was inside
the bag, the contraption was isolated. A call was
made for volunteers to take the bomb apart and
reduce it to uselessness. Detective Sergt. Rich-
mond Tatham was on the job and he took it apart.
It was an acid bomb, that is, it was exploded by
a vial of acid eating its way through four layers
of silk; three layers had already been penetrated
by the acid and but one more, a few minutes, and
the chemically filled cylinder, capped at both ends,
would have set off the explosive and more dam-
age would have been done to the Hall of Justice
than the bomb a couple of years ago.
Powder experts say the chemicals in the cylin-
der, when exploded, would have produced a strik-
ing force of 10,000 pounds to the square foot.
Lives would have been snuffed out had it not been
for the timely discovery by Berg and the fearless
action of Tatham.
Tathan's bravery brought the following from
Chief O'Brien:
"The greatest exhibition of personal courage I
have ever seen."
Tatham said: "It's all in the business; some
one had to do it, why not I."
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"2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 21
By Patrol Driver William D. Burns
Apropos of the retirement of Detective Sergt.
James Cottle during the month of January, I am
reminded of a series of incidents that happened
during the first trying days of our earthquake
and fire, in which the veteran poHce officer played
an unknowing, and certainly an unwilling part, in
a little drama that almost proved tragical to the
writer.
During the first days of the great calamity,
when everything was in disorder, and excitement
ran high, Cottle, like all other members of the de-
partment was doing police duty day and night
as best he could. In some unaccountable manner
he lost his police star and continued to perform
his duty with a badge given to him by Chief
Dinan who was in charge of the department at
that time.
Now it so happened that a report was received
by the military authorities within a few days that
a civilian wearing a police star number fifteen
had torn the earrings from the ears of a woman,
and orders had been issued to shoot the wearer
of said star on sight.
The writer was attached to the Park Police
Station on Stanyan street at that time, as a patrol
driver and my star number was also fifteen. I
was in ignorance of the brutal attack on the wo-
man, as no orders had been received by me at that
time.
During those days all members of the Police
and Fire Depai'tments wore their badges at all
times on their civilian clothes, and on one of these
occasions I reported for duty at midnight, and
Lieut. Kelly said to me, "You better bury that
star," but, as he made no further explanation, I
continued to wear it.
On the following day I was stopped by a sol-
dier while walking through the cut on Duboce
avenue where a Militia regiment was encamped.
I was brought before the officer in charge and
questioned as to who I was and where I obtained
that star. I was able to prove my right to it, and
continued on my way to Haight and Scott, when
I was again stopped by a sergeant and two pri-
vates and marched back to another military out-
fit in Duboce Park, where I was again questioned
even more thoroughly than before, and then one
of the soldiers said he didn't think that was the
star the order referred to. Luckily I had several
letters in my possession that at least proved my
identity and once more I was allowed to go, still
in ignorance of the order issued to the soldiers.
That night when I reported for duty I was met
by Chief Dinan who explained the whole mys-
tery to me, laughed at my experiences of the day
and loaned me a newer and safer star.
WM. D. BURNS.
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2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
January, 1927
CAPTAIN GOFF LECTURES IN CHURCH
Extracts from an address made at Howard
Presbyterian Church on a recent Sunday, by
Captain Charles Goff of the Southern district.
Captain Goff made the following- references to
Chief O'Brien and the police department:
During the years of 1919 and 1920, the ex-
convicts being released from the Northwestern
Penitentiary were coming to San Francisco. One
of the officials of the State prison at Walla Walla
had warned Captain Matheson and myself, at that
time, that such was the case.
The Northwestern States were dry. San
Francisco was wet. Under the National Prohi-
bition act the police had little or no control over
the blind pigs.
You remember the Howard street shack case
and its revelations — that over 50 desperate ex-
convicts were in our midst. Public opinion was
worked up to a dangerous pitch. So it was a
trying situation that Dan O'Brien faced when he
was sworn in as Chief of Police, but he tackled
the job with a smile and immediately started a
clean-up.
Chief White had been sick for some time and
the ex-convicts were flocking here from Northern
dry States, seeking shelter afforded by numbers.
But Chief O'Brien knew the police business, also
he knew men and how to place them to get re-
sults. He said he would clean up the city and he
did.
Now and then you see headlines in the daily
l)apers, headlines about waves of crime, but I as-
sure you that the crime wave has not swept this
city, and I can prove it by those very same papers.
Here is a statement from one of the daily papers
showing that San Francisco has one of the lowest
burglary and robbery insurance rates of any city
in the United States. These insurance companies
are not a bit sentimental when it comes to figur-
ing rates of insurance. You will find their fig-
ures based on facts, for they are cold-blooded
when their mpneyis at stake. You will find our
rates on such insurance about one-third of the
rates in other cities.
One Hundred and Eighteenth Half Yearly Report
THE SAN FRANCISCO BANK
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Assets —
United States Bonds, State, Municipal and Other Bonds and Securities
(total value $32,674,080.25), standing on books at $29,573,305.89
Loans on Real Estate, secured by first mortgages 69,335,912.91
Loans on Bonds and Stocks and other Securities...... ..." 1,776,558.10
Bank Buildings and Lots, main and branch offices (value over $1,880,000.00),
standing on books at ." 1.00
Other Real Estate (value over $60,000.00), standing on books at 1.00
Employees' Pension Fund (value over $565,000.00), standing on books at 1.00
Cash on hand and checks on Federal Reserve and other Banks 11,090,787.56
Total $111,776,567.46
Liabilities —
Due Depositors $107,226,567.46
Capital Stock actually paid up 1,000,000.00
Reserve and Contingent Funds 3,550,000.00
Total $111,776,567.46
GEO. TOURNY, President A. H. MULLER, Vice-President and Manager.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 31st day of December, 1926.
(SEAL) O. A. EGGERS, Notary Public.
A Dividend to Depositors of FOUR AND ONE- QUARTER (4M) per cent per
annum was declared, Interest COMPUTED MONTHLY and COMPOUNDED
QUARTERLY,
AND WHICH MAY BE WITHDRAWN QUARTERLY
Deposits made on or before January 10th, 1927, will earn interest from January 1st, 1927.
January, 1927
"2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 2i
"We have the best record of any city in Amer-
ica in automobile losses and other offenses. By
checking up on crime reports you will find that
San Francisco is second to none in police effi-
ciency.
"It is true we occasionally have morons like
Kelly and his gang, who suddenly run amuck and
after stealing an automobile, commit several
crimes, but they are always caught. A crowd of
such morons can, by use of the automobile, com-
mit thirty crimes to one such crime before the
advent of the automobile.
"How about pay-roll bandits? The San Fran-
cisco Police Department has transported millions
of dollars in pay-rolls and have never lost a penny
of any pay-roll they were guarding. The South-
ern district keeps one officer and automobile es-
pecially for conveying pay-rolls and bank deposits
alone. One week we handled over one and one-
half million dollars. We have been doing tJiat
very thing for 5 years and 10 months and liave
never lost a penny of any pay-roll that we were
covering. Only two small pay-rolls have been
lost in six years, and they were lost by companies
who refused our help.
"The San Francisco Police Department takes
great pride in its friendship for children — a sort
of partnership which is reflected in the lack of
Juvenile offenses. Considering the increase in
population, there has been a decrease in such
offenses since 1917. The records of the juvenile
court show that 678 juvenile offenses were com-
mitted in 1918; 911 in 1921, and only 753 in 1925.
"In the Southern district alone there has been
a decrease in both crime and property loss since
1919. There were 1299 felonies committed in
that disti-ict in 1919, with a property loss of
$134,365.64 from those felonies alone. In 1925
there were 1080 felonies and a total property
loss from all crimes amounted to $80,680."
A THOUGHT FOR EVERY DAY
When you work for a man, in lieaven's name
work for him. Speak well of him and stand by
the institution he represents. Remember an
ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
If you must gi'owl, condemn and eternally find
fault, resign your position, and when you are on
the outside damn to your heart's content; but
as long as you are a part of the institution do
not condemn it. If you do, the first high wind
that comes along will blow you away and proba-
blv vou will never know why. — Exchange.
Sergt. Mark Higgins, who will be a lieutenant one of
these days, rounded up Lloyd Murphy, who was landed in
the city prison with a "kick" of assault by means and
^orce likely to produce great bodily harni.
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The publishers of 2-0 Police Journal wish every member
of the department the happiest and most prosperous 12
months of 1927.
* * *
Officer Samuels, chief deputy under Inspector Edward
Lynch, says Ed hasn't changed much since he got married.
Sam does say, however, that Ed has been pricing washing
machines, dish washing contraptions and other modern
inventions that make house work less irksome. Ed says
Sam has been exposed and may break out in matrimony
most any time now.
* * *
Police Officer Richard Manning of the Richmond Station
reports the loss of his locker and signal box keys as well
as the keys to his home. They were lost between the sta-
tion and 29th and Castro streets.
* » *
Officers John Dooling and James Morley of the Central
District, brought in Jose Ayla, Jesus Balmeron, Fred Cur-
reon, Vicente Carlok, Mike Castillas and William Felix,
who were engaged in doing some petty stealing.
* * *
The many friends of Leslie C. Gillen, efficient and well-
liked police reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, will
be sorry to learn that he has been in St. Mary's Hospital
where he underwent a serious capital operation earlier in
the month. All the members of the department around
the Hall of Justice will certainly pull for his speedy re-
covery.
* * *
Charles Metzger, wanted by the U. S. Marshal, \vas ar-
rested by Detective Sergeants George Richards, Henry
Kalmbach and Officers C. Christensen and P. Geauge of
the Ingleside Station.
* * *
Detective Sgts. Arthur McQuaide and William ProU and
Officer Joseph Barker of the Bush Station, arrested John
Lehner, wanted for defrauding a taxi driver, en route to
Oakland, and passing worthless checks.
* * *
Chester Beam, wanted down in Ventura, was arrested on
the 13th of December by Detectives George Page, Frank
Jackson and Charles Dorman.
* * =*:
Detective Sgts. Michael Desmond and Barth Kelleher
curtailed the following of their liberty during the past few
days: Arthur Jatton, embezzlement; Varnon Gill and
James Sullivan, manslaughter, violating state prohibition
act; Harry Franklin, fugitive; and Candidjo Andrado, re-
ceiving stolen property.
* * *
Officer Al Williams, for years in the central district, has
gone out to the Bush District. Al is assistant engineer on
the Station Ford.
* :is *
Corp. Thomas Mclnerney kept up his batting average,
maintained since being assigned to the Chief's office. He
had over a dozen wrong doers whom he landed behind
chilled bars.
Special Duty Officer William Bennett, from the Chief's
detail, also kept on high and demanded the sei^v'ices of the
patrol wagon a dozen or more times.
* * *
Officers Patrick Walsh and Al Christ heaped a lot of sor-
row on the heads of gents who would not heed the ad-
monition of "seek ye honest work". This pair landed a
score in the city prison and among them were a couple
of shoplifters, Joseph Lemon and Aruelio Gayton, who
got a burglary charge against their names, which had been
written on other police prison books.
* * *
Sgt. John J. Manion and his squad of boys in Chinatown
rounded up a gang of tong gunmen, who, being out of work
since the recent peace signing between the latest warring
tongs, flocked to this city, and as they needed money, they
might get busy trying to start something, so Manion and
his men vagged about a dozen of them.
* * »
The Chinatown Squad also arrested Edward Bailiff for
manslaughter; Pauline Stark for grand larceny; Lee Fook,
for selling opium; and Otto Davis and John Brown, for
larceny.
* * »
Officer Tom Handley, veteran member of the San Fran-
cisco Police Department, and for years and years doing
duty in the Central District, particularly along the docks,
has been assigned bailiff in Judge Joseph Golden's court,
filling a vacancy in the list of bailiffs made by the appoint-
ment of Luther Arentz a corporal. Arentz was in Judge
Jack's department of the police court, but Bailiff Mannie
Joy was switched from Golden's court and Handley took
Joy's place. Bailiff Handley is a good man for the place
and his host of friends sure are pleased to see him get
the job.
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and comforts. Economy
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lowest prices.
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January, 1927
'2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 25
POTRERO
STATION
Capt. Harry J. O'Day
Lieutenants Albert S. Munn, J. C. Malloy
Captain Henry O'Day says if the year 1927 is as good
to his district as 1926 was, he will certainly be pleased.
Crime in the Potrero has been at its minimum, and that
which was committed was quickly solved and those respon-
sible put where the canines would not bother them.
* * *
Sam Degrura needed a box of shells. He came across
some; they were just what he wanted, so he took them.
However, he did not comply with the provisions of Sec.
496 of the much used penal code. Officer Tom O'Connor
brought him in after the "kick" was registered.
* * *
Officer O'Connor also, assisted by Officer John Coglan,
speared Nick Nelson, who was wanted on a charge of
robbery.
^ :^ df
Once in a while a gent wanders out this way in his
automobile and does not observe the tenets of Sec. 112 of
the Motor Vehicle Act. When he does amble out this way
and does this thing, he is sure to bump into a police officer
who will take the proper actions to remove him as a
hazard to innocent bystanders. Joseph Boroak did this
very thing and he bumped into Officers P. King and Frank
Mascarelli and the next thing he knew he was in the sta-
tion booked as above and a charge of reckless driving as
well.
Officer King assisted Officer Charles Neary in the cere-
monies attendant to the arresting of Alex. Kornof for
grand larceny.
"KNOCKOVERS"
(Continued from Page 13)
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Angeles; John Gustavson for Riverside; James Sterling
for Florida; John Hughes and Balus Jacobs, wanted here
for omitting to provide for minor children.
* * *
Fred Dorris, wanted for abandoning his wife, got locked
up by Detective Charles Dorman.
* * *
Detective Sergt. Allan McGinn and Detective Charles
Iredale booked Frank Kelly at the city prison charged with
being a hit-runner.
* * *
Detective Sergts. Edward Wiskotchill and Thomas Con-
Ion arested Edward Harner as a fugitive.
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January, J 927
BAY VIEW
STATION
Capt. Stephen V. Bunner
Lieut. Frank DeGrancourt, Lieut. Wm. Dowie
Captain Stephen Bunner says one of the greatest events
attending the year 1926 was the malcing of William Har-
rington a corporal. Corp. Harrington now has two uni-
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* * *
Guess John Frazer will be sort of careful when he oozes
out this way hereafter, especially if he is taking a "gander"
at the varied and beautiful scenery that projects itself
here and yon in the Bay View District. John got this use-
ful bit of infomnation as a result of his experience with
Officer Edward Gerlach who watched him trying to drive
his car as a man in possession of all his faculties should
not operate it. John got a reading of violating Sec. 112
of the Motor Act. Yes sir-ee-bob, as Corp. Charles Brown
says, you sure have got to be law-abiding if you want to
get along in the Bay View.
* * *
Officer Thomas May gave Frank Hughes a pretty fair
idea of the efficiency of the personnel of this station the
other day when he locked Frank up for violating Sec. 417
of the penal code. Corp. Rudy Maier says he bets there
are policemen in this department who don't know what
Sec. 417 is. Sergt. Cyrus Lance says Rudy sure knows
what he's talking about.
THEY HAVE PASSED ON
During the past month the grim reaper lias
reached in and taken from our midst a number of
police officers.
Officer Fred Smith, for many years an efficient
and courteous officer in the city prison, was called
as the old year was passing out. He was as well
liked by the unfortunates who came under his care
as he was so well liked by his fellow officers.
* * *
Lieut. William Lambert of the Ingleside Station,
after a long illness, succumbed to the call of a
higher Chief and was buried on Dec. 11. Lieut.
Lambert was connected with a number of stations
during his police career and had many friends in
and out of the department.
* * *
Retired Lieut. Shadrick Campbell, who in years
gone by was in charge of the Golden Gate Park
District and who was known for his strict en-
forcement of laws pertaining to the Park, died on
December 26.
* * #
Fire Marshal Michael Hannon, though not a
member of the department, was so near so that he
was considered part of the organization. At his
funeral on December 4th, Chief O'Brien assigned
a police escort for the able and fearless marshal.
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Page 27
HARBOR
STATION
Capt. Patrick Herlihy
Lieutenants Wilbert F. Pengelly and Michael Mitchell
They don't get by when they bounce down the bad paper
along the front. Bert Haywards found that out after he
was arrested by Sergt. J. J. Farrell for passing worthless
checks.
Samuel McMasters is said to be a fugitive. He was
picked up by Officer Robert Husted.
* * *
John Parker must have read something about the water-
front of early days and felt it was not safe unless you had
a six gun strapped to your belt. He tried going armed and
Corps. Emil Hearne and J. Byrne ran him in for violating
the state revolver law.
* * *
Harry Snowden got hooked by Officer W. Doran when he
was steering an uncertain course along the streets down
this way. He was charged with driving while intoxicated.
* * *
Inez Zarraga, charged with assault with intent to com-
mit murder, was kept from a more serious charge by being
arrested by Lieut. Wilford Pengelly.
« « *
Officer Harry Frustick grabbed Carl Wagner, wanted for
manslaughter.
* * *
Edward Barrett got himself surrounded by a lot of steel
bars when he was pulled in by Officers H. Peshon and J.
Long, who accused him of assault with a deadly weapon.
* * *
Two charges held Frederick A. Rapp for assault with a
deadly weapon. He was arrested by Officers Doran and
Frusdick.
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2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
January, 1927
MISSION
STATION
Capt. Frederick Lemon
Lieutenants Peter A. Mclntyre and Daniel J. Collins
There sure was an epidemic of violators of Section 112
of the Motor Vehicle Act out this way. Those arrested,
however, do not live in this district, selecting the fine paved
streets as a means of passing in or out of the city.
The roll call is:
Joseph Taylor, arrested by Officers J. McVeigh and
E. Keck.
Jesse Pledger, arrested by Officer Joseph Brouders.
David Ryan, arrested by Officers P. Griffin and F.
Glennon.
Lester C. Wilson, arrested by Sergt. John McCormack.
Martin C. Rhode and Henry Fowler, arrested by Officer
F. Nuttman.
John Lesto, arrested by Officers William Barnes and
F. Desmond.
Thomas Curtin, arrested by Officer P. Slane.
Frank Phillips, arrested by Officer Charles Foster.
Joseph Birch, arrested by Officer C. Wennuberg.
* * »
Herman Stahl was arrested by Lieut. Oollins and
charged with murder and two charges of assault with in-
tent to commit murder.
* * *
Sergt. Fred Suttman and posse brought in George Car-
rolle, who was given the following bookings: Robbery,
having a car without the owner's consent, and assault by
means and force likely to do great bodily injury.
* * *
Officer George Ewing got a hit and run charge put
against Joseph Polger, as well as one charging reckless
driving.
* * *
Reed Mosoo had an accident with his automobile that
resulted in a death. He was booked for manslaughter by
Officer C. Foster and Detective Sergt. Allan McGinn and
Detective Charles Iredale.
» * *
Fred Pidgeon knows by now that it is "agin the law"
to be "totin' a pop" in this state. He was put into the
covered wagon by Officers Foster and W. Curran.
» * *
"Felony Embezzlement" was the charge opposite the
name of Alfred Herman, who was arrested by Officer
Nuttman.
* * *
Officer Frank Molke booked Frank Goldie on a charge
of violating the juvenile court law.
* * *
Tony Bozonovich walked off with a couple of cans of
coffee and was apprehended by Officers J. Donohue and
C. Meyer, who charged him with petty larceny.
* * *
Sergt. Thomas Roche and Officer A. Smith "knocked
over" Elmer Wheadon, whom they charged with petty lar-
ceny and vagrancy. Wheadon took a course at San Quentin
and a post graduate course at Folsom. First thing he
knows he will be a permanent guest at the latter place.
* * *
Arnold Ortaga and Lester Ford were the only two vags
arrested in this district during the month. Their down-
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Page 29
BUSH ST.
STATION
Capt. John J. Casey
Lieutenants Edward L. Cullnan and Joseph Mi^rnola
Gents who partook too freely of the flowing bowl, and
who could not navigate an automobile according to the pro-
visions of Section 112 of the Motor Vehicle Act, gave the
police in this sector plenty of work during the month,
almost equalling the arrests in the Mission for off'enders
of this sort.
Those who ran afoul of the law were:
Julius Quistberg, arrested by Officers Gus Wuth and
Matt Tiemey.
Raie Snow, arrested by Officers C. Tobin and J. Reardon.
Louis Goz, by Officers Joseph Barker and Fred Kcrsch-
ner.
George Eldridge, arrested by Officer John Dolan.
Dementre Dcmstrof, arrested by Officer Engler.
Ruby French, arrested by Officer J. Cloney.
Mamie Dobin, arrested by Officer Matt TieiTiey.
Clara Hughes, arrested by Officer E. Connell.
* * *
Officers Eugene Hettinger and E. Keene were responsi-
b'e for the arrest of Joseph Keefe on a charge of assault
with a deadly weapon.
* * *
Officer Edward Gough rounded up a flock of schoolboys
whom he caught burglarizing a school house. They were
all charged with burglary and taken to the juvenile deten-
tion home.
* * *
Some folks will insist on going armed in the Bush Dis-
trict, and when they do it is a long odds bet that those who
so insist will get a ride to the station. Ask John Kazarin,
arrested by H. Kiernan and R. Vogt, or Raymond Baldwin,
arrested by Corp. James Ray, or William Bigley, arrested
by Officer J. Cooper, all booked for violating the State
revolver law.
* * *
Alfred Molvik was nabbed by Officer C. Tobin and
Thomas Natthes by Officer L. Rose, when they were appre-
hended enjoying the scenery from an automobile they had
surreptitiously taken while the owner wasn't around.
* » *
John L. Winn tagged by Officer A. Hutchinson and John
L. Winn, likewise by Officer J. Gleeson, were charged with
assault with a deadly weapon when taken to the station.
* * *
Lieut. Mignola escorted R. Morrow Hamilton to the
city prison after arresting him for assault to murder.
* * *
Lemuel Ledford, wanted in San Jose for auto stealing,
was apprehended by Officer J. Cooper.
* » *
Officer Engler gave Louis Shankland plenty of grief to
wiggle out of when he booked him for vagrancy, violating
the state revolver law, the state poison law and threats
against life.
* * *
Hilton Farrell and Kenneth Turner, a couple of youths
who had no car, took one that looked good to them, though
they did not know the owner. This little act cau.sed them
to be arrested by Officers J. Ross and H. Kiernan, who
charged the pair with violating Sec. 146 of the Motor
Vehicle Act.
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'2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
January, 1927
TRAFFIC BUREAU
Captain Henry Gleeson
Lieutenants J. J. Casey, J. (Cliff) Field and Grover Coats
Captain Henry Gleeson, who for the past three months
has been laid up from a serious operation, is steadily
mending and his family say he will soon be fully recov-
ered.
* * *
Lieut. John J. Casey, in temporary command of the
Traffic Bureau, is handling the job like he had been used to
it all his life. Well, it is said a good policeman can make
good in any job of his calling.
* * *
Detective Sgt. Harry Walsh, for years in charge of the
so-called hack detail, which now handles the automotive
traffic attendant upon theatres, has taken a pension and
is going to recover from injuries to his pedal extremeties.
Harry has been a member of the department for many
years. He was an honest, efficient and capable officer. As
a member of Corporal Daniel J. O'Brien's Chinatown
squad in 1913 he displayed a loyalty to his superiors that
won for him continued advancement as the Chief pro-
gressed. His going will be missed by many who will wish
for him every happiness in whatever undertaking he en-
gages in.
* ;.^- *
And Officer William Rakestraw, who for years has been
associated with Sgt. Walsh, has been drafted for the
detective bureau and this month took up his duties on the
night detail in the bureau. As a traffic officer and as a
member of the hack detail, Rakestraw has displayed abil-
ity, courtesy and pep. He will prove a valuable addition
to the bureau.
* :|> *
Some day Traffic Oflncer Mildahn of Captain Glee.son's
clerical staff will get a job as efficiency e.xpert. He deliv-
ers the goods on his present job and as the boys up on
Broadway say, "comprehends his garlic".
* * -p
Traffic Officer L. O'Connell displayed his ability to step
off a corner and grab a wrong doer in other lines than
traffic. He arrested Nicholas Brown, many aliases, for
i)etty larceny and en route to Redwood City.
* * *
, Another petty larcenist arrested by a traffic officer was
one taken in custody by Officer E. Anderson.
« * «
Luther Arentz, for over six years bailiff in Judge Lile
T. Jacks Department of the Police Court, was promoted to
the rank of Corporal last month following the death of
Lieut. William Lambert.
Corp. Arentz has been assigned to motorcycle duty with
Corp. Archie Schmidt, and this pair of non-coms will have
the handling of the motorcycle squad.
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With my heartiest thanks and kindest personal regards,
I am,
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* * *
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2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 31
PARK
STATION
Capt. John J. O'Meara
Lieutenants Charles A. PfeifFer and Fred W. Norman
Captain Jolin O'Meara says the people are getting wiser.
Says the flock of sheep in the park haven't been sold to
some visiting yokel for over a year.
* * *
The month's toll of intoxicated drivers was small for
December. The following got their names smeared on the
police records for mixing gin with gas: Joe Lapkin, ar-
rested by Officer P. Gleeson; Charles Pazok, arrested by
Officers R. Smith and Ed Fewer; Ernest Roberts, by Officer
Joseph Foye. ^ ^ ,
Fred Smith got himself enmeshed with the well-known
law when he drove off in another man's machine without
the formality of grabbing permission to do so. Officer
Foye presided at this function, hanging a Sec. 146 charge
after his name. * , »
John Doretti, who has a charge of assault to commit
murder facing him, was given police escort by Corp. Glen
Hughes and Officers J. McCarthy and B. Smith.
* * *
Officers A. Nicolini got a trio of prow-lers who were
making things bad for the residents around the Forest Hill
sector. The gents taken to the hoose-gow, properly
charged, were Robert Henning, Herb Parmenter and Robert
Marquero. * * *
Officers Andrew Coleman, C. Weyman, B. Hall and J.
Tuemey combined their police ability in rounding up one
John Dunlap, who had been, according to well founded re-
ports, engaged in some window lifting and house prowling.
* * *
James Maher was hanging around the district trying to
evade work. Officers W. Ryan, W. Riley and J. Palmer
took him to prison on a vag charge.
A. J. KANE BOOSTS POLICE
In an address before the Mutual Business Club,
at their weekly luncheon at the Palace Hotel one
day last month, and which was broadcasted, A. J.
Kane, of the Kane Detective Agency, after telling
of the robbery and apprehension of the robbers of
the Alvarado Bank in 1920, when $23,000 was
stolen, paid a high tribute to the San R-ancisco
Police Department when he told of the able work
of men in our department in solving and rounding
up this dangerous band of bank thugs, as well as
of the splendid work of the Alameda authorities.
Then he told of another I'obbery. He said :
On January 11, 1924, the Orpheum Theatre was
held up and the men pulling the job got away with
over $7000, receipts of two performances.
"Realizing the necessity of getting some depend-
able co-operation and knowing the reputation of
Captain of Detectives Duncan Matheson, I went
to him, and he assigned the Robbery Detail, under
command of Sergt. George McLoughlin. And I
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"2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
January, 1927
RICHMOND
STATION
Capt. William T. Healy
Lieutenants Daniel W. Cronin, Francis J. McGuire
This district is the only police section which got by the
month without any drunken automobile drivers trying to
tear up the landscape. Other evil doers were not so active,
but the police promptly attended to the small number that
did try their luck. * si *
Special Gillispie eliminated a dangerous hazard when
he picked up John Winthrop who was skimming along
serenely with a big gun strapped to his hip. See another
story of this arrest in this issue.
* * *
William Bourns laid down one "bum check", and see
what happened to him. Officers Walter Francis and Ed
Schmidt gathered him in their arms, poured him into the
waiting wagon and booked him for violating Section 476a
of the penal code. * * *
Dominico Guglielmini was another dangerous risk for
the folks out here. He was ambling along in devious places
when obsei-ved by Officers George O'Brien and E. Schuldt,
who also obsen'ed a familiar bulge, no bottle bulge either.
They gave Doiie a frisk and found a gat. They booked
him for breaking the revolver law.
* ^ *
Officer Charles Cornelius found Thomas 0. McCabe walk-
ing off with some chattels of another person worth less
than $200, so he gave Tommy some reading that said petty
larceny. ^ ^ ^
William Lester had no valid reason for going about
the Richmond armed with a gun so he was arrested by
Officers J. Green and Robert Manning and booked accord-
ingly.
* * *
Officers George O'Brien and J. O'Leary found it incum-
bent to arrest and lock up Ludwig Reise for disturbing the
peace and vagrancy.
* * *
Kenneth Vancours, percolating through the Richmond
scenery too unsteadily, was arrested as a 112'er by Officers
J. Green and Richard Manning.
KANE
(Continued from Page 31)
want to tell you gentlemen how, working in close
harmony with these valiant and capable officers we
went to work, and the men of the San Francisco
Police Department working with me, got some hot
tips on the hideout of the men who had connec-
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"This place was in a bootleg joint out on Geary
street. We went there, expecting to find trouble.
Without any great display of authority or arguing
. over what was the best way, Sergt. McLoughlin
placed his men at strategic points, and we got
ready to "crash the joint", which is a way of say-
ing entering it.
"McLoughlin and I led the way, and I want to
impress upon you gentlemen that the feeling of
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2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 33
INGLESIDE
STATION
Capt. Eugene Wall
Maybe Reno Sibona and Andrew Piazza thought they
had lawful use to carry guns out in this district, but they
couldn't convince Officers S. Dubose and C. Wafer that they
had legal grounds for going about armed with revolvers.
This failure on their part caused the pair to be booked
for violating the state gun law.
* * *
Anna Johnson got a ride to the station on a burglary
charge, having been arrested by Officers T. Whalen and A.
Smith.
« * *
Perry Mann kept this district from having a clean score
as far as violations of Section 112 of the Motor Vehicle Act
is concerned. He had to wander out this way and he got
liimself arrested by Officers C. Radford and M. Driscoll.
* * *
Officers Dominic Hogan and James McVeigh felt that
Harold Strunk was wasting too much time dodging work,
so they made up their minds to make the dodging easier;
they ragged him and put him in the station cells where
there isn't very much to do but watch the time fly by.
KANE
(Continued from Page 32)
security, under such circumstances, when you
know there were half a dozen guns backed bj^
brave, fearless and courageous officers, was one
that made a person feel that he was with a bunch
of fellows who would finish with you when once
they started with you.
"McLoughlin broke in the door, and we found
three men, not the men wanted for the Orpheum
job, and from these we got information that led
to even better clews.
"The three men apprehended were jail breakers
and were wanted in half a dozen cities, and had
there not been the necessary precaution taken in
entering the house, a windup akin to the shooting
of Sergt. Earl Roney and Sergt. Vemon Van
Matre.
"These two brave officers, with their equally
brave companions, Sergts. Jack Palmer and Ed-
ward McSheehy displayed the fortitude and nerve,
the bravery that has marked every crisis faced by
a San Francisco police officer. In all its history,
never a man has hesitated to meet the crook on
his own terms, no quarter asked, none given.
"I am glad that at this time I can say to such
a representative body of men what 1 feel and think
of the San Francisco Police Department, and I
would I were a gifted orator that I might frame
a tribute in keeping with their gi'eat and glorious
deeds."
Tlie lecture of Kane was received by loud and
long applause by the business men present.
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January, 1927
NORTH END
STATION
Capt. Herbert J. Wright
Lieutenants D. M. Reavis and George Duffy
Dolores Vejar is a slick, fast working young man who
tried to talk himself out of a bad jam when caught by
Officers Henry Gaylord and Edward Plume. Mr. Vejar
went to the Palidini home and represented himself as a
government officer. The family, a law abiding one, hav-
ing no fear of an officer of this kind, notified the police.
Gaylord and Plume hastened to the Palidini home and took
Mr. Vejar to the North End Station. Here he protested
his innocence to Capt. Wright, insisting he was a Federal
officer. He was turned over to the U. S. Marshal and
booked for impersonating a United States Officer. Later
he was found to be a probation \'iolator and got a book-
ing on that too.
* * *
James Jones, arrested by Officer W. Norman; August
Martin, arrested by Officers Gaylord and R. Oppenheim;
and Jack Miller, arrested by Corp. Cagney, contributed to
the month's "knockovers" for driving an automobile while
intoxicated.
* * *
August Becchi was arrested on Dec. 19th by Sergt. J. J.
Wade and charged with assault.
* -^ *
August Silva, accused of attempted burglary and booked
also en route to Los Angeles, was gathered into the net by
Officers Walter Pullen, T. Brady and Kenneally.
* * *
Corp. James Casey arrested Robert C. Crouche on a
charge of assault with intent to commit murder.
31: * *
Joseph Smith is in the city prison charged with violating
Sec. 288 of the Penal Code. Officers W. Lawless and J.
Haley turned the keys on him.
RETIRING FEDERAL OFFICER EXPRESSES
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Especially do I wish to mention Captain Peter McGee
and Lieutenant James Boland of the City Prison and
Sergeant Emmett Hogan of the Bureau of Identification
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All this was made possible by your good self and I wish
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2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 3 J
W/E STERN
iWrADDITION
STATION
Capt. Robert A. Coulter
Lieutenants Emmet E. Moore and John M. Sullivan
Of course when anyone wants to go any place in San
Francisco from do\\Titown out to the ocean beach, Cliff
House, The Chutes, or to see the Seal Rocks, they have to
pass through the Western Addition. This, mayhaps, lias
something to do with the fact that during December,
twelve gentlemen neglected to weaken their toddies so
they could keep their minds on their business of driving an
automobile. Thus they violated the muchly abused Section
112. The readings for the month are: Charles Curtis
and Thomas F. Ball, each for 112 and 121, arrested by
Officers J. Doyle and Edgar Paul, who also arrested Lloyd
A. McLead for Sec. 112; D. C. Metz, arrested by Officer
John Clasby; H. M. Crowell, by Officer C. O'Leary; Cecil
Baldwin, arrested by Officers L. Linns and Frank Corby;
Harris Klein, arrested by Officers T. Leary and D. Des-
mond.
* * *
Quite a epizoodic of 288 out this way during the past
month. Officer Charles Wedeldnd arrested Charles Ketler,
Wilfred Kemp, Victor Sitran, Henry Reilly, Thomas Xat-
sumo, Carl Reinke and Charles Bluhm for this serious
statutory offense. Officers Paul and W. Salisbury brought
in Walter Cissow.
* * *
Thomas Neilson got a boost into the police patrol wagon
by Corp. John Crofton, who charged him \\'ith assault b\"
means and force likely to do great bodily injury. Corp.
Crofton and Special Hoeffer also brought in Richard Allen
as a thousand dollar vag.
* * *
Corp. Henry Zaun, Jr. and Officer L. Oliver put James
Keeler, wanted for stealing an automobile, where his folks
had to look at him through a quarter-inch mesh wire
screen.
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should be urged to extra police activity on account of
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January, 1927
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SOUTHERN
STATION
Capt. Charles Goff
Lieutenants Arthur DeGuire and Richard Foley
Robbery seemed to be a great pastime among the evil
doers during the past month down in this district, and
scooping up the robbers seemed to be equally as great a
pastime among the police, as the i-ecords show an aggre-
gate of eight hauled to the station.
* * *
George Adams, Charles Larson and Albert Larson gave
some added work to Corp. Emmett Flynn, Officer William
Desmond and a few of the other boys. This trio of prison-
ers were charged with robbery.
* * *
Howard Odum needed some change which he sought by
the gun route. He got a booking as a robber by Officer
Charles Russell.
* * *
Hugh MeCall was another who suffered likewise, Officers
Thomas Feeney and F. J. Kerr assisted by Special Blakes-
ley, pouring him into the wagon.
* * *
Officer Feeney and Officer J. Conroy locked up Frank
Mansfield on a like charge.
* * *
Officers A. McDonnell and J. Coughlan treated Martin
Morris to the same medicine.
* * *
The violators of Sec. 112 of the Motor Vehicle Act were
as follows: Robert Tobin, arrested by Officer A. McDon-
nell; Louis Smith, arrested by Officer R. Curtin; George
Young and Oscar Sweeney, arrested by Officer Thomas
Feeney.
* * *
A few burglaries in the di.strict resulted in the arresting
of the following during the month: Domingo Cancel, by
McDonnell; Lester Hasson and Dodd Wasmuth, by Officers
Andrev- Lennon and T. Mahoney; and James M. Stewart,
by Corporal J. Johnston.
* * *
Capt. Charles Goff stepped out and arrested George
Hutchinson, who is a fugitive from justice.
* * *
A couple of grand larcenists, Jean LaRue, arrested by
Officer J. Driscoll; and Manuel Serras, by Officer Feeney
and Special Kane, were booked during the month.
* * *
Ted Unitt, lugging a "gat" around with him, got snared
by Officer E. Morarity for violating the State gun law.
* ^ *
Corp. Jaeger assisted Detective Sergt. Fred Bohr in
arresting James Leonard, wanted by the Los Angeles
authorities.
Officer E. Anderson led James Staves to the station be-
cause he wouldn't support his children.
* * *
Harry Katzer coveted the automobile of someone else
and took it without the owner's consent. He was arrested
by Officers Hachette and O. Marshman.
* * *
Simon Sequestra was caught riding around in a machine
that he had no one's permission to have. He was arrested
by Officers McDonnell and James Begley, and charged with
violating Section 146 of the Motor Act.
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CENTRAL
STATION
Cupt. Arthur D. Layne
Lieutenants: Harry P. Braig and Edward F. Copeland
Captain Arthur Layne has a new carpet on the floor of
his office in the Central Station, and when visitors come
in to' see the captain, they have to scrape their feet and
wipe their shoes, and a guy who would violate the anti-
expcctorating ordinance might as well ring for Officer
James Coleman and get himself locked up. Seems like
Supervisor Jack Badaracco had occasion to call upon Capt.
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Seven 112ers got a chance to explain to the Judge how
they were not driving while drunk, how "there was some
awful mistake" and "the very idea", and so on.
Here are the violators of that well known section of the
Motor Vehicle Act and their captors:
Ralph Bose, by Officer M. McDonald; Mark Handich, by
Officer James Fitzgerald; Joseph O'Leary, by Oflicer E. J.
Johansen; Dave Tucker, by Sergt. J. J. Rooney; Fred
Kurtz, by Officers Harry Gurtler and Tom Stack, who
charged Kurtz with an additional charge of having another
man's car unlawfully; John Sullivan, by Officer J. Mul-
cahy; and Irvin Barrett, by Corp. Hoeckle and Officer
Gurtler.
* * *
Burglars didn't have much luck during the month, for
the following were booked at the Central:
Alfonso Bagutti, by Officers Harry Gurtler and Dan
Cahill; Manuel Betels and Manuel Cardoza, by Officers
Martin Foley and George Lillis; Wong Ching and Harry
Ching, by Officer James Murray and Special J. Clark;
August Consull, by Officer A. Balhaus. This last arrest
has a record that takes an extra sheet of paper to set
forth.
Gabriel Cazares got an object lesson on being arrested
for assault with a deadly weapon. His tutor was Officer
R. E. Harris.
* * *
Thomas Casper got into a lot of grief by being booked
on a grand larceny "rap". He was booked by Officer
Walter Savage.
* * *
Another charged as a grand larcenist was Morris Agron,
who walked away with a suit case full of valuables, left
parked in a parked automobile. He was speared by Officer
C. White.
* * *
William Allison hankered after a Chevrolet coupe. He
spotted one and started off with it. He didn't get far
before Officer Frank Hoepner grabbed him and placed him
in a cell with a charge of violating Section 146 of the
Motor Vehicle Act.
* ^ *
John Bryan was lost, so he pulled a fire box to find
where he was at. Officer Charles Wiite on the job,
showed Bryant where he was at when he s'ammcd the city
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FANNING
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the ear, knocking- him senseless to the deck, des-
troying his hearing.
The sailors were afraid to rebel against their
persecution on account of the mates going about
armed with a brace of pistols. Driscoll, the third
mate, who was a friend of the sailors, was appealed
to for protection, but declared he was powerless
to interfere, but at the same time he always as-
sured the men that while he was on watch he
would protect them and when he was questioned
at the Marshal's office, he corroborated the sailor's
story, declaring at the same time that he was
powerless to protect the men some of the time.
He said he witnessed a fiendish attack on two of
the sailors and said that the treatment was the
worst that he had ever seen. A meeting of fellow
countrymen of the outraged men was called and
among many prominent citizens, ship owners and
business men were present for the purpose of tak-
ing action in behalf of the unfortunate crew of
the Gatherer.
The direct object of the meeting was to engage
counsel to assist in the prosecution of the officers
of the ship who caused so much suffering and
deatli. Nearly all of the crew were young men
and the best friend the men had on board the ship,
the third mate, when interviewed at this meeting,
told of some of the recent horrible experiences.
And then the trial of Captain Sparks, who had
been arrested, took place in the United States
Court, where a multitude of people had gathered,
and the first witness that was called was John
Driscoll, the third mate of the Gatherer, who testi-
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tember 1st, 1881. There were 18 men before the
mast and 23 on board, all told. The officers were
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tain Sparks. I saw Watts knock down Gustave
Adlung with his fist and kick him in the eye.
The captain stood about one hundred feet away.
When Adlung fell, his head hit upon a spar and
he made a loud outcry that could be heard 60 yards
distant. He got up and wiped the blood from the
deck and from his face. Before that, his eyesight
was good; now he could not open his eyes until
after witness left the ship and had hardly been
able to see out of them since the occurrence. He
was laid up below for months from his injury.
The Captain made no inquiry into the matter, nor
supplied any medicine for the boy, so far as wit-
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slightest attention after he was beaten. The wit-
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24th of December. The Captain was at the wheel
60 feet away; the second mate beat Broyer first
with his fists and then with a belaying pin over
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There was fresli blood on tlie deck every day
during the voyage. Every man liad to clean up
his own blood. Saw iron rings put on Carl Ander-
son's wrists. His face was badly cut up by the
mates. He attempted to jump overboard, but I
prevented him. Archibald Turner and George
Bloucher were beaten by both mates with their
fists and with a rope's end also. The third day
after leaving port, the second mate called William
Olman down out of the rigging, beat him and
kicked him on the head and he bore the marks for
two or three weeks. Saw him beaten by the mate
tliree times during a single watch.
The mate broke his nose with a wooden belaying
pin. The man cried out, and blood flowed freely.
He was 22 years of age and a very good seaman.
Saw the mate beat Joseph Brown, a colored man,
when the Captain was but a short distance away.
For about 8 weeks all hands were on deck from 8
in the morning until 5 in the afternoon without
any watch below except the dog watch.
This trial excited a profound interest, especially
among seafaring men, and a great deal of indigna-
tion was manifested against the Captain.
Gustave Adlung was sworn, and testified as fol-
lows: Was born in Hamburg, am 19 years old,
was one of the boys on board the ship Gatherer.
Was struck by the first and second mates of the
ship during her voyage from Antwerp to this
coast. The first mate struck me on the first of
October, when I was in the afterpart of the fore-
rigging. He struck me with his feet and his fist.
He knocked me down against the rail, and put his
foot on my throat. He said if I was not a boy
he would have kicked me more. The Captain was
walking up and down on the deck ; he saw the act
and never said a word. The mate kicked me in
the eye and it began to swell and everything
looked black. I reported to the captain the next
day. I went to him for medicine. He asked me
what was the matter with my eye and I told him.
I was laid up below for 4 weeks on account of these
injuries. I made a loud outcry; there was blood
from my injuries on the deck and rail. The mate
told me to wipe it up, and I did so. I spilled a little
tar water on the white paint, and I was struck for
that. While I was going below the captain passed
my room many times and asked me how my eye
was. After I came out I could see a little. The
mate made me turn to. My other eye was also
affected. I cannot see to read, and I can only dis-
tinguish a face by going close to it. I was first
struck the second day out of Antwerp by the sec-
ond mate. This happened between one and two in
the morning.
The assault by the mate on the 2nd of Septem-
ber gave me a black eye. I saw Henry Able struck
by the first mate in the presence of the captain
and Ahle's face was bloody all over. The marks
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January, 1927
remained on Ahle's face about 4 days. All hands
were on deck at the time he was struck. We were
just getting ready to 'bout ship. Saw the mate
and second mate strike McCue — his face was all
swollen from these effects and the marks remained
on him during the rest of the voyage. Saw the
mate strike Peter Tomassen, but do not know
whether the Captain saw it or not. While I was
lying below I often heard the men crying out when
they were being beaten. My eyesight was right
enough when I first went on the vessel. After we
arrived at San Pedro, I asked the Captain to let me
go ashore and see a doctor. The Captain said "No,
the best thing you can do is to stay on board and
go with me to San Francisco and I will put you
in a hospital." I afterwards went ashore. I stayed
at a hotel last night. Witness was here requested
to identify a person present as the one who took
him to a hotel. He was unable to see him until the
individual had got close up to him. Before I was
hurt, the mate said he did not want me at the
wheel. Nobody told me to say these things. The
Captain never did anything for my eye, nor or-
dered anything to be done. The mate brought me
some poultices. He got them from the third mate.
Defendants' counsel made several attempts to
lead the witness into an admission that would
show his blindness to be a pretense and sham, but
failed.
Henry Mills was sworn. Was one of the crew
of the Gatherer; was on the mate's watch. Re-
membered the circumstances of the mate's strik-
ing Gustave Adlung and injuring his eye. The
Captain was on the starboard side of the ship
when this occurred and was in full view. In about
a quarter of an hour the boy's face swelled up
about the size of your fist and his eye closed.
There was blood all over his face and coming from
his nose. He cried out so that he could be heard
all over the ship. The mate was afterwards cup-
ping it every day, using a sharp needle. The boy's
eyes were all right before this occurred. He was
kept below on account of this for four weeks and
when he came up on deck again his eye was still
closed. Saw the second mate strike him about
a half hour after the mate kicked him. The man-
ner in which it occurred was this — the boy was
leaning over picking up a bucket of water. He was
singing. The mate put his hand over his mouth
and knocked him down and then kicked him. Saw
the mate also strike McCue just after leaving
Antwerp.
I was born in Germany, and I have gone by the
name of Henry Mills. Never went over the dates
with Driscoll, from his memorandum. I never was
struck. Heard the Captain call McCue a vile name
about eight or ten days after we left port. I was
at the wheel. I saw the mate beat Gustave Adlung
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mast. About a quarter to 9 P. M. one evening
while off Cape Horn, I saw the Captain strike Gus-
tave on tlie head and knock him down. I saw a
man up on the top gallant cross tree bending sail
and he was so weak from beatings he got that the
poor fellow fell, striking the forward chains and
bounced into the sea.
After the examination of several more witnesses
who testified more or less the same as the others,
the prosecution rested. There was a disagreement
of the jury in the case of the Captain; but the
mates were convicted. Watts, the first mate, after
the Gatherer had arrived in this port, skipped out
on another vessel, and was captured in Queens-
town, Ireland; he was detained in Clerkenwell
Prison until officers from this city went after him
and brought him back.
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January, 1927
POLICE BALL
(Continued from Page 16)
Committee on Badges and Programs
Capt. Eugene R. Wall (Chairman) Company H
Capt. Patrick N. Herlihy Company C
Capt. John H. Lackmann Headquarters
Capt. Peter M. McGee Headquarters
Lieut. Frederic W. Norman Company F
Lieut. Albert S. Munn Company I
Lieut. James Boland Headquarters
Detective Sergt. Thomas F. Regan Det. Bureau
Officer William Isaacs Company H
Officer Frank G. Fella Company L
Committee on Invitations
Lieut. Charles W. Dullea (Chairman) Det. Bureau
Lieut. Michael E. Mitchell Company C
Detective Sergt. William McMahon Det. Bureau
Detective Sergt. William R. ProU Det. Bureau
Sergt. John M. Morrissey Company E
Sergt. Samuel Miller Headquarters
Corp. George F. Kopman Headquarters
Officer Gilbert P. Chase Headquarters
Officer Charles Ute Company L
Committee on Sale of Tickets
Lieut. Henry N. Powell (Chairman) Det. Bureau
Detective Sergt. George F. Wall Det. Bureau
Sergt. William D. Flinn Company A
Sergt. Thomas G. Roche Company D
Corp. Martin F. Gallagher Company G
Corp. Charle.s W. Brown Company M
Corp. Charles J. Ward _ Headquarters
Officer Patrick McAuliffe Company B
Officer James W. Boyle _ Company E
Officer Thomas D. Daly _._ Company F
Officer Elwood F. Cordray _ - Company G
Officer William Isaacs Company H
Officer Edward J. McNamara Company I
Officer Edward J. Plume Company J
Officer James L. McDermott Company K
Officer Frank G. Fella Company L
Transportation Committee
Capt. John J. Casey (Chairman) Company K
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January. 1927 "2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
NEW BULLET PROOF GLASS
Page 43
Crash ! Fifty men covered their ears as the bul-
lets flew. It was a series of shootings in the Hail
of Justice, but every shot may save the life of a
San Fi-ancisco police officer.
A new form of unbreakable windshield glass
was ofllcially tested before Chief O'Brien and mem-
bers of the Board of Supervisors, and after being
subjected to what the chief termed "the most
severe test imaginable", was given the stamp of
approval. Tlie glass will be installed on thirty
armored police automobiles, twenty of them oper-
ating from the Detective Bureau and ten as patrol
cars from the district stations.
McGee Does Firing
Sergt. Patrick McGee, in charge of the instruc-
tors' school of the San Francisco Police Depart-
ment, did the firing with four high-powered guns,
and after each shot a big star appeared in the
glass, but the plate did not shatter. The impact
tore the bullets, all steel jacketed, into shreds.
The back of the glass showed no effects from the
shooting.
The test was conducted on the police target
range in the basement of the Hall of Justice.
Sergt. McGee stood at distances ranging from ten
to twenty feet from tlie glass target. Among
those observing the test besides Chief O'Brien,
were Captain of Detectives Duncan Matheson;
members of the Supplies Committee of the Board
of Super\'isors ; John B. Badaracco, chairman;
Charles J. Powers and Warren Shannon; Leonard
S. Leavy, city purchaser of supplies, and many
police officers and glass experts.
Supplied Locally
The new glass is manufactured in Philadelphia
and is supplied by a local automobile firm. It is
seven-eighths of an inch thick, a quarter-inch
thicker than the present glass used in armored
cars of the police department.
"It is a remarkable glass," said Chief O'Brien
after the test. "The shots, fired direct, will hardly
ever be met in actual practice. Of course, each
shot destroys a windshield as far as further use is
concerned, but the city of San Francisco can buy
windshields as long as it can save its police officers.
I consider adoption of this glass will be an impor-
tant step forward in the police figlit on automobile
and street bandits and thugs."
The guns used to fire at the glass target were of
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January, 1927
OFFICERS OF BUSH COMMENDED
The following is a copy of a report submitted to Chief
O'Brien by Captain John J. Casey of the Bush Street Police
District, and deals with excellent police services performed
by the following officers: Edward Gough, Walter Har-
rington, James J. Cooper, Special Patrol Officers Woods
and Shelley. The foregoing officers were commended by
the Chief of Police for the excellent police services per-
formed which terminated in the capture of George Der-
ringer and Joseph Maxwell, and the subsequent arrest
of Harold Kocher, Robert Cordero and Ray Barthow.
Captain Casey's Report
"To Platoon Commanders:
"Burglaries have been committed of late on stores on
Fillmore street, also on Polk street, and it is evident that
a gang of burglars intend to work those thoroughfares
during the holidays. Therefore, officers detailed to patrol
these streets mu.st be strictly on the alert on their differ-
ent tours of duty and use their utmost efforts toward ap-
prehending these burglars.
"Discontinue the practice of having the second section
Larkin and Polk street officers, of calling in for orders at
this station. They must devote all their attention to the
duties on the street on the night watches.
"Lieutenants will instruct Special Patrol Officers Baci-
galupi and Deasy to give strict attention to the stores on
their respective tours of duty, and in connection with the
regular officers on Fillmore street, as well as the Polk
street officers, do all in their power to effect the capture
of these store burglars, as well as other classes of crim-
inals.
"Further: I instruct all members of your platoons who
patrol beats intersecting Fillmore street, also Polk street,
to give this form of crime their strict attention, while
patrolling in the vicinity of stores on the above-mentioned
thoroughfares.
"In connection with the above order, will call your atten-
tion to the excellent police work accomplished by Officers
Edward Gough, Walter Harrington, James J. Cooper, and
Special Patrol Officers Woods and Sheeley, who arrested
George Derringer, age 17 years and Joseph Maxwell, age
16 years, while they were in the act of burglarizing the
ladies' and gents' furnishing goods store conducted by Dil-
ler and Farbe, 1642 Fillmore street, at 11 p. m., December
1st, 1926.
"These lads made a confession in which they implicated
Harold Kocher, age 16 years, Robert Cordero, age 15 and
Ray Barthow, who later were arrested by the said officers.
"Attached hereto will be found a list of 27 burglaries
which these boys confessed to have perpetrated in different
parts of this city, and in the list is mentioned the Fair-
mont School, located at Randall and Chenery streets.
"Dorrigan and Maxwell confessed that they entered this
school, stole 80 cents, ate some pineapple, and lit a candle
on a desk in the office of the principal and left the same
burning, when they left the school premises at 4 a m.
A few hours later, the building was afire, and it is appar-
ent that the candle that had been left lighted by the boys
was the cause.
Max Bohr, brother of Detective Sergt. Fred
Bohr of the Hotel Detail, who is associated with
the Chandler-Cleveland automobile agency, circu-
lates around the members of the department and
gets a customer here and there.
Max is a popular young man with the members
of the department and is always given a genuine
welcome when he appears about the Hall of Jus-
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OFFICE CHIEF OF POLICE
SAN FRANCISCO. CALIFORNIA
BUREAU OF IDENTIFICATION
Page 45
Wanted for
Embezzlement
CARL WIEDEMANN
Age 40 years; height, 5 ft. 8 ins.; weight, 145 lbs; grey blue eyes, round face, long
nose, black hair, black mustache. Native of Germany. Speaks German, French, English,
Spanish and Chinese. Always speaks with German accent.
Is neat dresser; carries a cane. Always brags about his appearance. Wears gold
wrist watch with radium dial ; platinum ring with two diamonds with blue stone in center.
Tears off finger nails and also scratches his head continually which has caused scabs
and bald spots.
Was with German Embassy in China ; acted as director for Rudolph Valentino at one
time; knows medicine, stock markets and all subjects in general. Is habitual dice player,
very quick and hasty. Has a German Police Dog with him.
The above described man is wanted in this City for the embezzlement of $10,000.00
from Florence E. Mogan, General Credit and Loan Association, #659 Pacific Bldg. in this
City where he was employed as Clerk and Manager on December 24th, 1926. Felony
Warrant on file. A reward of $50.00 is offered by Mrs. Mogan for information leading to
his arrest.
If located, arrest, and I will send Officer with proper papers for Jiis return to this City.
Dated-
San Francisco, Calif., Jan. 15, 1927.
D. J. O'BRIEN,
Chief of Police,
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January. 1927
JACK BLACK'S BOOK OF CROOKDOM "YOU
CAN'T WIN"
Stories by men who have been professional
crooks, ex-convicts and such, have always been
frowned upon because the wi'iters who claim to
be giving- the inside of their questionable busines''
always have a tendency to give themselves the
best of the deal.
They may start out with the honest intention
of telling the truth, whether it places them in
an unfavorable light or not, but some how they
wander away from that intention and before
one gets through with such a story he finds the
writer trying to justify his condition, his plight
or his vocation.
Not so with Jack Black, master burglar, safe
blower, jewelry store thief, payroll robber. In
his book, just out, entitled "You Can't Win", pub-
lished by the MacMillan Company of New York,
he puts the cards on the table, and tells a story
of a misspent life with a frankness that is aston-
ishing and holds the reader from start to finish.
Jack Black does not spare himself. He does
not lay his life of crime to economic conditions,
fate, or in fact upon anything that he had no
control over. He tells the reader that he went
into crime as a business and he got beat. He
paid dearly for tlie money he stole, dearly in
liberty, health and cash.
He tells of his imprisonment in many penal
institutions of punishment meted out for various
crimes. He tells of those crimes, how lie com-
mitted them, how he disposed of the loot, of how
they were planned, of the get-aways. He tells of
the code among the underworld, of the places one
could in his day hide out. He tells how he re-
formed, how for over 10 years he has been an
employe on the local papers, for the most part
librarian on the San Francisco Call.
He winds up his interesting book thus:
"What chance hss a young man, inclined to
crime, with shotgun squads, strong arm squads,
with crime crushers cruising tlie highways and
by-ways, with the deadly fingerprinting, central
identification bureaus, the telephoto, police radio
broadcasting stations, shooting ahead your de-
scription?"
For thirty years he followed a life of crime,
half this was spent in prison he says, and he
handled some $50,000 in those thirty years, and
when he decided to go straight he had nothing
but his health and liberty.
"Had I engaged in some honest labor during
those thirty years I would be independent today",
he concludes, "instead of being satisfied to get
along with necessities of life."
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The employees are part-owners — and
service is given with a smile.
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No. 4.
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International Association of Chiefs of Police
Written b>' Chief of Police Daniel J. O'Briek, Its President
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The International Association of Chiefs of Po-
lice is, as its title indicates, an organization made
up of police officials from the various states of the
American Union, from the Dominion of Canada,
and from other Nations outside of the American
Continent. The purposes for which the Associa-
tion is organized are set forth in Article I of its
Constitution which reads as follows:
To secure a closer official and personal
relationship among police officials at home
and abroad ; to secure unity of action in
police matters ; to elevate the standard of
police institutions by urging the elimina-
tion of politics from their conduct; a
tenure of office for those employed in
the ser\'ice; the maintenance of honor-
able men and means in the transaction of
police business; the general adoption of
pension and relief laws; the adoption of
humane efforts in the enforcement of
laws; the provision of temporary relief
for its worthy members and their fami-
lies in certain emergencies ; advancement
along all lines pertaining to prevention
and detection of crime and the identifica-
tion and treatment of prisoners.
From a reading of this statement it will be
readily seen that the organization as such looki,
upon police problems in their widest application.
Unity of action in police matters is one of the
essential purposes of the organization, but we
must bear in mind that insofar as the police
units in the United States are concerned, their
organizatiors must necessarily follow the theory
of government upon which the American Nation is
established. We have our federal police officials
enforcing the federal laws ; we have our state
police enforcing state laws; and finally, we have
our county and municipal police officials to en-
force, in addition to the state laws, the regula-
tions and ordinances of their particular counties
and municipalities. While the frame work of our
form of government is not of the making of our
present generation, we do know that under that
structure our people have progi'essed and our Na-
tion has become prosperous and gi'eat. Indeed,
the rapidity of the development of our Nation,
since our national Constitutional was brougiit
about, has brought many changing problems for
police departments to deal with, necessitating
changes in the material and machinery of law en-
forcement.
Demands are made quite frequently for a closer
centralization of our police organizations. The
answer is apparent when we consider the original
theory of our government, that is, the delegating
of powers to our federal government and the
states retaining all the rights of sovereignty
which were not ceded to the central federal gov-
ernment. Of course, this form of national and
state governments has established certain bar-
riers against absolute centralization which cannot
be overcome, and in their respective splieres each
police unit has full power to act within the con-
stitutional limits set forth. The police problems
in each state and each municipality differ, depend-
ing upon area, location, population, traff.c, condi-
tions, seaport and railroad conditions, and upon
tlie laws and ordinances in effect.
It is the theory of our International Association
that notwithstanding legal barriers which may
exist between federal and state governments and
the diversity of police problems in various states
and municipalities, there is a great deal in com-
mon among police departments and with a view
of obtaining the best results possible, our organ-
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February, 1927
ization calls its membership together at least once
a year for discussion of existing problems and
for the purpose of giving concrete expression to
the statements of the purposes hereinbefore
quoted. It has been my pleasure to meet a goodly
number of police executives of the United States
and of the Dominion of Canada. These police
executives are men of integrity who take a keen
interest in the affairs of the Nation and are using
every effort to safeguard the lives of our people
and to protect their properties by up-to-date and
scientific police methods.
The membership of our organization recognize,
however, that the first and most essential pre-
requisite to the official functioning of a police de-
partment is the enactment of necessary laws and
regulations. The police officer being the instru-
ment through which the people preserve law and
order, he can only function efficiently when the
necessary power from a legal standpoint has been
placed in his hands. They are also mindful that
when this essential requirement of necessary laws
and regulations is furnished by the legislative
branch of our government, proper material must
be secured to make up police department person-
nel. Based on common experience, police execu.-
tives are united in asserting that no one should
be accepted as a law-enforcement officer unless he
possess integrity and an aptitude for that par-
ticular calling. First class physical make-up and
unimpeachable integrity are necessary, and in
addition thereto our police executives recognize
the fact that the police officer must be well versed
in the application of the laws and regulations
which govern his conduct. Unless he has a good
working knowledge of these laws and regulations
liis achievements will fall short of that which is
demanded of him by the American people. In-
deed, this demand for service and efficiency made
by our citizens is a matter which cannot be lightly
looked at.
I think we can say without fear of contradiction
that as a general rule our police departments arp
manned at the present day by men well developed
physically, by men whose integrity is carefully
scrutinized before appointment, and by men who
interest themselves in understanding the applica-
tions of the laws and regulations which they are
bound to enforce. In fact, the careful examina-
tion made as to the integrity of our police ma-
terial prior to appointment has as a general rule
borne good results. We can point with pride that
notwithstanding the many temptations surround-
ing the official life of our police officers, they have
with very few exceptions kept clear of all en-
tanglements which would impede faithful per-
formance of police duty.
It has been truly said that the police officer is
the unit of the nation's first line of defense. On
his shoulders rests the burden of making it pos-
sible for the law-abiding citizen to carry on his
calling without being the victim of the burglar,
thug and others of similar ilk. We have many in-
stances of heroism and extraordinary bravery on
the part of individual officers. In fact, our police
system demands that the individual officer face
single-handed the most trying situations. His re-
sponsibility to police a given territory alone has
caused him to rely upon himself and the so-called
mass psychology has no place in his make-up.
He realizes that he has a duty to perform and he
faithfully executes this duty against the most un-
favorable odds.
While the prevention of crime and the appre-
hension of criminals may be called the major
portion of his responsibility, we must not forget
that our present-day police officer engages in
many activities which may be deemed to be out-
side of his strict province, but these activities
he carries on for the benefit of the community
in general. For a few specific illustrations we
can look back to the days when our Nation was
engaged in a world war and during that great
crisis we found the peace officer doing, in addition
to his regular police work, a one-hundred-percent
service in the sale of bonds, war trading stamps,
and in soliciting subscriptions to replenish the
treasuries of those agencies who were doing work
in aiding and sustaining the active fighting units.
Many other instances may be given where he has
engaged in many undertakings as a matter of co-
operation with citizens as a whole. Indeed, the
activities of our national life in its various aspects
are well reflected by the diversity of the police
officer's duties.
The one great object which our International
Association seeks to accomplish is the co-ordina-
tion and co-operation of all law-enforcement units.
It is the one organization which seeks to bring
about unified and concentrated effort on the part
of our police officials throughout the country. It
admits and encourages peace officers' organiza-
tions in each state, but with the realization that
some central agency is most essential as a bind-
ing link in giving a national aspect to the activi-
ties of the various state organizations. It is now
some thirty odd years since our International As-
sociation was first formed. In common with all
movements in their incipiency, progress was
rather slow at first. As years went on it became
more and more apparent to police executives that
to successfully combat the organized efforts of
criminals, close co-operation should exist among
police officials. Experience has demonstrated
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The Hoodlum of Former Times
An Interesting Article By Officer Peter Fanning
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PETER FANNING
In the days long
gone by, quite a num-
ber of young men
would assemble every
evening on different
street corners in dif-
ferent sections of the
city and quite a num-
ber of amateur crimi-
nals sprung up among
tliem from these asso-
ciations. As time went
along there were
gangs formed and a
title given to each
gang in that particu-
lar part of the town.
The careful San Fran-
ciscan of those days
when circumstances called him from his home
after dark, very often went out armed, sallying
forth with eyes wide open for a garroter or high-
wayman in the shadow of every corner of the
gloom of each awning. There possibly might
be some who did not take all these precautionary
measures from the fact that they were not aware
of those conditions. That robberies and gar-
roting had been numerous to an appalling degi'ee,
and that when one garroter was captured, ten
got away with their booty and left their victim
in a greater or less state of demoralization ac-
cording as time committed them and circum-
stances would allow. The irascibility of the aver-
age citizen thus treated, might or might not be
modified, did he consider the fact that these mid-
night operators who had thus despoiled him, were
productions of his own city and who had grown
up and perfected themselves in their calling un-
der his own eyes; hoodlums, in fact, the crop;
the abundance and evil effects of which bade fair
in the future so as to make the city almost un-
tenable for law-abiding residents.
The curse of hoodlumism had become more
and more apparent as the years rolled along and
the fact began to be understood that, like mus-
tard seed in a hayfleld, the more it spreads the
larger grows the ratio of increase. These bands
who made their presence felt by constant practice
in their particular lines of burglary, sneak-
thieving, garroting and the like, made themselves
masters of their profession. Odd periods of I'e-
tirement, and meditation in the county jail had
helped them along. Besides this class, however,
the small fry, that is the boj;s growing up, some
of them began to be faithful copyists of their
predecessors, and endowed with a remarkable
aptitude for crime in all shapes, they ranged the
city in all directions, and kept the police con-
stantly busy and it would have been of just pride
to the city if at that time she could point to as
many young skilled mechanics of her own pro-
duction, as she could to skilled idlers, for it is
an unfortunate fact that Satan's pupils learn
twice as industriously and quickly as any others.
The life of tliose hoodlums had a series of
graduations and they were mostly gathered into
what was known as the "Kearny Street Gang",
members of wliich had always been in jail; that
rather disagreeable ceremony was a necessary
initiation to membership of this gang. They
lived a precarious life in the avenue, Olympic-
Racine, and other cheap lodging houses in the
vicinity of Kearny, Jackson and Pacific streets.
Nearly all kept, or rather were kept by hoodlum
girls, who had adopted lives of infamy and who
shed their basely gotten earnings to the disrepu-
table brutes. The revenue thus obtained partially
supported the "hood" and paid the room rent.
His time was divided among the genteel pastimes
of playing cards, rolling drunks, coping in green-
horns to the various swindles, with which he was
acquainted; night robberies and garrotings,
sneak-thieving and burglary, and the more am-
bitious branciies of this art was crib-cracking
and safe blowing. Ofttime it happened that the
hoodlum or his mistress got in jail, in which
case "Darby" sought another "Joan" or vice
versa, and the life was resumed as before.
The Kearny Street Gang made its headquarters
at the New York Saloon, a free and easy "joint",
located at Kearny and Jackson streets. This
gang ranged along Kearny street and on Pacific
street and a squad could be generally found at
the corner of Broadway and Kearny streets, to
pass compliments of the season to their unfor-
tunate friends as they passed to and from the
county jail, which was located in the middle of
the block on Broadway street. The enumeration
of names would be useless as the gang had time
and again adorned the police records and the gal-
lery contains pictures of them all. Next in promi-
nence, perhaps, was the North Beach Gang, who
took care that Chinamen and grocery keepers had
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I Remember When - -
Reminiscences of Wm. (Doc) Mun
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Runaway accidents were common in the down-
town district and Park and developed many an
unsung- police hero.
* * *
Officer James Cook was murdered by one of four
men he caught stealing telephone cable at Sev-
enth and Brannan in 1902.
Dick Bell was one of the popular detectives in
the old bureau.
* * :<=
The late "Scotty" Campbell was in charge of
the Chinatown Squad and had with him but few
men. His force included Jim Skelly, now a de-
tective sergeant, Jack Kramer, retired, "Black"
McCormick and "Doc" Flynn (not the present
corporal but an officer who afterward studied
medicine while detailed about the old Hall of
Justice). Flynn was often dressed up as a
"Chink" and succeeded in crashing the gate in
many a Chinese gambling joint. Those were the
days when banging oak and iron-bound doors
sounded like pistol shots all throughout China-
town.
* * *
The department used to issue a police bulletin
and Bill Harrington was the editor and printer.
The isheet was pattenied after eastern police
bulletins and was valuable in refreshing an offi-
cer's memory as to wanted men.
* * *
Arthur McQuaide was in charge of the Bureau
of Identification and Detective Tom Reagan
worked with him.
* * *
Lieutenant Frank Winters, now in charge of
the outer office of the Detective Bureau, was a
mere corporal connected with Company E. Frank
has gone through the ropes in police work.
* :!c *
The late and lovable "Gus" White when first
appointed Chief of Police, refused to wear a gilded
uniform but finally succumbed to the importuni-
ties of the Police Commission. When in civilian
clothes "Gus" always wore a broad-brimmed
black fedora hat, commonly known as a sheriff's
hat. His father was once sheriff of San Fran-
cisco.
* * *
Captain Henry Gleeson, as a lieutenant, wore
star No. 3, and James H. Helms, a lieutenant
with Co. G had star No. 1. In those days every
DELL, An Old-Time Police Reporter
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man was after a low-numbered star. The late
John Freel and Captain Steve Bunner, who used
to work together out of the Detective Bureau had
stars No. 4 and 5, respectively. Tom Atchison,
former Chief Clerk, possessed star No. 2.
* * *
Mounted Patrolman Arthur J. Dolan, the hero
of the Ocean Beach, saved many persons from
drowning in the surf. Arthur, on the force since
1906, spent a short time on a beat at the Harbor
and since then has been mounted. His first horse
"Don" had the intelligence of a human. "Don"
swam into the surf many times with Dolan to
rescue drowning people. Now Dolan's horse is
"Pete." George Merchant bought Pete and Dolan
taught him to like the water. Dolan saved a
Mexican girl from drowning and brought in a
man who tried to rescue her from the beach un-
dertow and got a medal from the Government of
Mexico. Dolan learned to throw the lariat while
working in old Butchertown.
* * *
Captain William Quinn, Chief Clerk, Arthur
Dolan, George McLaughlin and Jack Mangan all
joined the force the same day — November 20,
1906. All have made more than good.
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Pat McNamara, now at the Richmond Station,
is one of the old timers. Pat, known as the "Ter-
rible Swede," learned police work under Captain
Johnny Spillane. Pat patrolled a beat under Capt.
Short and worked as a traffic cop at Third and
Mission before the days of autos under Captain
Short. He later patrolled Market street with
Dan Driscoll. Pat was a tough fighter. Captain
Spillane, after Pat had brought in a fractious
hodcarrier from Clementina street who put his
wife's eye out and threatened to kill McNamara,
looked the badly battered prisoner over and said:
"You can always depend on McNamara to bring
in a piece of his man, anyway."
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The days wlien every patrolman in the old
Southern District had to battle fiom one end of
his watch to the other and it was no place for
weaklings.
Frank Lord, the neatly dressed, had a beat in
the old City Hall District, was for many years
on the bank detail out of Va.i Detective Bureau
and, now retired, is in charge of the safe deposit
vaults of the Bank of Italy at Eddy and Powell.
February, 1927
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By Chief of Police Daniel J. O'Brien
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS
(Continued from Page G)
that criminals take advantage of progressive in-
novations and to cope with situations of this kind
it became essential that police officers should be
equipped witli the best and most up-to-date in-
struments. The instruments for efficient police
service are many. Our International Organization
has been the medium through which better laws,
better working conditions and better organiza-
tions have been promoted. Profiting by the many
masterly papers read at our conventions and the
learned discussions carried on at our conventions,
our delegates have returned to their respective
communities and through their state organiza-
tions have been instrumental in securing from the
legislative body more effective laws for the re-
straint of criminal activity. In many cases, de-
fects in legislation have been pointed out and it
has been our experience that legislative commit-
tees who prepare legislation have on many occa-
sions sought the advice and counsel of our police
executives.
Nothwithstanding the constitutional barriers
which have been laid down separating our state
and federal governments, our International Asso-
ciation has persistently endeavored within legal
limitations to bring about that close co-operation
between federal and state officials. Many splendid
achievements have resulted by means of this co-
operation and among those worthy of mention I
feel that the greatest step which has been taken
in recent years along police lines is the establish-
ment of a National Bureau of Criminal Identifica-
tion at Washington, D. C. This bureau has been
the dream of police executives for more than 20
years and from a dream it has at last become a
reality.
Some few years ago, through the co-operation
of a committee authorized by the International
Association of Chiefs of Police and federal offi-
cials, the necessary congressional legislation was
brought about and this bureau was established
under the jurisdiction of our federal government.
Prior to the establishment of this bureau at Wash-
ington, D. C, a bureau was maintained by the
International Association, but due to the lack of
legislation and the lack of central control it was
found that it could not function efficiently. After
the new bureau was established under federal
control the records of the former bureau of the
International Association of Chiefs of Police and
the records of the bureau formerly conducted at
Leavenworth, Kansas, were consolidated. As a
nucleus for the working of the present federal
bureau, over 130,000 criminal records with office
equipment were turned over to the United States
Department of Justice without any cost or obliga-
tion on the part of the federal government. At
the present time, the new bureau has over 1,100,-
000 criminal records classified and it is function-
ing most efficiently. A very sex'ious objection had
to be overcome in the establishment of this bu-
reau, that is, the rights of state officials to secure
information from this source. Now that the Na-
tional Bureau has been in existence for practically
three years it has been the experience of our
state officers that the services rendered are high-
ly efficient and that the records of the bureau
are available not only to federal officials, but to
the constable of the smallest township in our na-
tion. When we consider the roundabout metiiod
which had to be adopted some years back in re-
ceiving the criminal history of a particular in-
dividual we can realize very well the efficiency of
the present bureau. Heretofore, if a complete
criminal history of an individual were required,
it was necessary to communicate with a large
number of departments and to be conclusive on
the subject every police department of our nation
should be communicated with. Now that we
have our police departments contributing their
criminal records to the central national bureau we
have but to communicate there and within a few
days we have direct and definite information as
to the criminal history of a particular individual.
In police life where work must be done quickly
this bureau is an invaluable asset and if the In-
ternational Association of Chiefs of Police had no
other achievement but this, it has well fulfilled
the purpose of its organization.
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN—
The "Midway Plaisance," a replica of the old
Bella Union on Kearney street put on risque
shows in its booze theater on Market street near
where the Humboldt Bank is now located. Po-
lice were frequently called by the "suckers" to
recover their bank-rolls from the painted ladies
who both "acted" and "gathered" as cappers in
the booths on the balcony.
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Commissioner Cook's Narrow Escape
Bv Opie L Warner
With the arrival of the Chinese New Year this
month, with all the pomp, customs and noises
that have been lianded down from time immemor-
able, Police Commissioner Jesse B. Cook, became
reminiscent the other day, when down at the Hall
of Justice.
In talking with Captain of Detectives Duncan
Matheson and Chief Clerk, Captain William J.
Quinn, he told a most interesting incident which
occurred back in 1895, the first year of over five
trips he made to the Chinese quarters to head
the Chinatown Squad.
This incident was one of the rare occasions
where Chinese deliberately made plans to do in-
COMMISSIONER JESSE B. COOK
jury to a member or a commander of a squad
of police officers in Chinatown.
It was designed to remove the then Sergeant
Cook from activities that had been the forerunner
of suppression of gambling and worse vices in
the Oriental quarters.
Commissioner Cook said he was given a tip on
a place in Washington street, near Waverly Place.
The tip intimated tliat something of interest
might be found if the Sergeant investigated. He
started out alone to investigate.
He gained entrance, in a way police officers
have, and began a survey. He found a lot of
empty rooms on the ground floor. He went down
into the basement and found the same there.
Then he went into a sub-basement. His progress
was retarded by cleverly concealed panel doors
and he was some time getting to the bottom.
Finally arriving at a place that seemed as far
as he could go, he satisfied himself that nothing
was wrong below ground, so he started to go
above ground.
Imagine his surprise when he found the door
through which he had gained entrance securely
fastened, blocking every effort of his to open it.
He shouted and knocked and made all efforts to
get out or attract attention from members of his
squad or someone friendly to him. His efforts
were in vain.
Finally he managed to work his way up under
the sidewalk, into a small space. This place of-
fered no avenue of escape. He tried everything
in his power to get someone to hear him, but all
were dumb. Even his police whistle failed to draw
attention, or if it did those who heard it could
not locate from whence it came.
After five hours of his involuntary imprison-
ment, and after he had made up his mind that
the imprisonment was a deliberate plot to put
him out of the way, a way that would have been
a long and torturing one, he decided that he would
liave to wait for something favorable to happen.
Through a small hole in the flagstone coping,\
through which he could look out on the sidewalk,
a hole no larger than a half dime, he pinned his
hopes. After what seemed hours to him, he final-
ly spied through this little hole a pair of feet, en-
cased in a pair of shoes that were familiar and
unmistakable of an American.
He recalled that but a short time before George
Downey, for years a special officer in Chinatown
and of whom there were none better posted on
matters of Chinatown, had bought a pair of shoes
that were a little different than the ordinary run
of shoes. He recognized the pair he was looking
at, as those of Downey's. He began to call "Dow-
ney", "George", "George Downey". He could see
the feet move, as Downey, whom it proved to be,
turned this way and that, trying to locate the
source of the noise.
Finally recognizing the voice as that of Sergt.
Cook, he asked:
"Where in the dickens are you, Sergeant?"
Sergt. Cook tried to tell him, but it was several
minutes before he could make his exact presence
known. When he did Downey got busy, and call-
ing members of the squad, of which Officer Mannie
Joy, bailiff in Judge Lyle T. Jacks' police court is
the last surviving member, the Sergeant was soon
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Police of Harbor Praised
By H. C. Emmons, Special Agent, T^orthem Pacific Railway
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In the June issue of Douglas 20 for 1926, you
printed on page 15, my letter under the caption
of "A Record to Be Proud Of".
In this letter I commended the activities of your
different departments for their alertness during
the year of 1925 in the district in which the
Nortli western Pacific Railroad handles millions
of dollars worth of merchandise, baggage, mail
and other valuables, and thousands upon thous-
ands of passengers who represent all the nation-
alities, colors and creeds on earth. It was the
alertness of the officers of your department that
enabled me to report that during the year of 1925
we had only one small pilfer and one of your offi-
cers recovered the loot taken within a few hours.
It was that record that caused the caption as
described above.
\ATien we have good information I do not be-
lieve in hiding it ; therefore, I beg to report to you
that we have found, after checking our records
for the year of 1926, no pilferage for the entire
year that can be charged to the San Francisco
district. There were no reports of theft of any
kind at the Ferry building where we handle the
thousands of passengers to and from the north
bay district. There was not one case of pocket
picking. In fact, we liave a clean record for the
entire year.
During the past year the press has carried, con-
tinually, stories of the great crime wave. I won-
der how many people realize the importance of
the statement I made above. Few can, unless
they know the district in which we do business
and the conditions under which the officers work.
All local people know pretty well the Ferry
building. They do not know, though, how many
hundreds of moves your officers have to make
around that same building during a year so as
to insure safety to the people, and their property,
moving through it. In order to understand the
situation thoroughly, they would have to have a
lot of experience as an officer. I have watched the
system work as an outsider and can say it is ex-
cellent. The crooks have looked the place over
many times and liundreds have traveled back and
forth through there, and their judgment has been
good, for they leave the place strictly alone.
A suspicious move is made by a crook. Instant-
ly, I see a uniformed officer pass, observing every-
thing as he goes. A plain clothes man has his eye
on the crook, who may or may not know him. If
he does know him, he shoves off. If he does not
know him, he is soon very much acquainted, and
leaves the Ferry building off his list thereafter.
An old lady witii a perplexed expression wanders
off one of the boats, looking here and there, as if
not knowing where she is going. Instantly one
of the officers is at her elbow, and a few moments
later she is smiling and on the right track. If
her people are not there to meet her, she is soon
in the good care of tlie Travelers' Aid and sure to
have the best of care. "I want my mamma", is
heard, and the oflficer knows another absent-
minded mama has boarded the boat leaving baby
behind. Soon after the boat has landed on the
other side of the bay, the telephone rings and a
frantic voice inquires if a baby has been found.
She is always happy to find the officer has taken
the baby to the Travelers' Aid, and it is well taken
care of. These are only a few of the thousands of
cases handled. All are handled, quickly, thorough-
ly and efficiently.
Between the Ferry building and Pier 43, we
have sometimes in one night, thousands of dollars
worth of valuable merchandise. It is scattered
over the entire length of the Embarcadero, and
the side tracks connecting. Most of it is plunder
a thief would take great delight in looking over.
No doubt, if he could, he would carry off a lot of it.
He cannot get away with it though, and it is safe,
for your officers are here and there, all through
this district, at all hours of the night. This is the
district novelists have written books about in the
past, describing it as a very dangerous place to be
at night, a place where thieves lurk in every dark
corner and no one is safe. There must have been
a great change, for I have moved around this dis-
trict at all hours of the night, and have sat at
the foot of Telegraph Hill for an hour, around
midnight, witliout seeing anyone but your officers.
They were moving thither and hither seeing that
all was well. Peace reigns supreme on the Em-
barcadero at night now, and property is safe.
I thank you myself, and in behalf of the North-
western Pacific Railroad, for this protection, and
too much credit cannot be given those loyal men
who work so diligently to bring about so good a
record.
H. C. EMMONS.
Chief Special Agent of
Northwestern Pacific Railroad.
Sei-gt. Doherty and Officer L. Morch arrested and
charged Cliff Leonard with being a $1000 vag.
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Dooling also made a good "knockover" when he brought
in John Herbert and Ed Long on robbery charges.
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D^^rPXTlVE BUREAU
Captain of Detectives Duncan Matheson in Charge
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CODDLING OF CRIMINALS
"Coddling-" of criminals was scored by former
Governor George C. Pardee recently when he said
that instead of being punished, a law-breaker is
entertained by bands, dances, motion pictures and
has bouquets and gifts sent to him while he is in
prison.
In a discussion of the growth of crime in the
United States before the Oakland Kiwanis Club,
Pardee declared that a criminal is made to feel
that he is being persecuted.
"Society is to blame for this attitude, and the
I'esults will be dangerous for all of us," he said.
In England, he pointed out, a murderer comes
up for trial almost immediately and he is sent to
the gallows often in as short a time as three
months, while in the United States it takes from
eighteen months to three years to convict a mur-
derer.
He continued:
It is no crime to kill a policeman nowadays,
and apparently any time is open season on the
guardians of the peace. It is time our lawyer
friends took this situation in hand.
First, they should see that proper laws are
passed; secondly, that these laws are enforced,
and in the third place that delays in the convic-
tion of criminals be avoided.
Pardee appealed to the Kiwanis Club members
to attempt to arouse a feeling of interest in seeing
that ci'iminals are punished in order to make it
impossible for them to continue to follow this
profession.
The difference between a boy who steals cher-
ries and the confirmed criminal whose deed is
premeditated was brought out by the speaker.
"Who of us is not daily breaking a law?" he
asked. "But we are doing it unconsciously, with
no desire to become criminals. Others, with
malice aforethought, do it intentionally."
It is not a crime wave, but a rising tide of
crime that is sweeping the country, he stated.
The crime is organized and in every city are to
be found organized gangs of gun men to dispose
of anyone's enemy at his wish.
DR. CAMPBELL COMMENTS ON CRIME
Versatility is a characteristic of Detective Thomas Mur-
phy. Tom is good on any kind of a "kick", but the one
he particularly shines in is when he gets an assignment
for picking up an insane man. Then Tom "do smile."
Prohibition, coupled with a lack of proper home
training of children, is bringing about an increase
in crime in the United States, Dr. William Wal-
lace Campbell, president of the University of
California, said recently upon his return from a
three months' tour of Europe.
In comparing this country to England, where he
spent the greater portion of his stay in Europe,
Dr. Campbell said that he was "appalled at the
seeming increase in crime in the United States."
"Murder and anti-social acts seem to be on the
increase", the educator said. "The sentiment of
the American people is too lukewarm on that
phase of national life. Many criminals escape,
and after they are captured oftentimes they are
not punished severely enough. Many culprits are
never caught and made to suffer for their crimes.
"There is too much feeling against capital pun-
ishment and too generous a system of parole.
Criminals should be apprehended promptly and
punished speedily. Capital punishment, I believe,
is a great deterrent to murder."
That prohibition was forced upon the Nation
too suddenly was the belief of the educator.
Dr. Campbell laid particular stress upon the
lack of home training and its effects upon the
children of the present day, or what is known as
the "jazz age."
"Lack of home training", he said, "in addition
to prohibition, is responsible for a great deal of
the increase in crime. In the last decade there
exists a higher percentage in the United States
than earlier of parents who do not exercise proper
care in bringing up their children. There is
need for stronger supervision within the home."
* * *
At a meeting of the Council held by the Golden
Gate Council No. 80, United Commercial Travel-
ers of America ; Resolutions passed congratulating
the Chief of Police and the personnel of the police
department on their efficient efforts and capture
of the terror crooks that have kept our city in
suspense for the past two weeks. And we wish to
assure you that we are mighty proud of our won-
derful police department and assure you of our
heartiest co-operation at all times.
GOLDEN GATE COUNCIL NO. 80,
By B. Hirschberg, Secretary.
February, 1927
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Detective Sergeants Andrew Gaughran and James D.
Skelly of the Shopping Detail took the joy out of life for
a lot of shoplifters and people who try to "gyp" the de-
partment stores. The following were arrested for burglary
and petty larceny: John C. Coman, Grace Moore. Maria
Garcia, Sophie Mannix, Fred Gardiner, Dan O'Connell,
for forgery: Elsie Rowan and Fred Lathrop; for grand
larceny, Frank H. Dunham; for bad checks, Roy Patter-
son; for petty larceny, Frank Fay, Alphonse Borge, James
Harris.
* * *
Lieut. Bernard McDonald's autotaker.s apprehenders
registei-ed the following: By Sergts. Nicholas Barron
and Augustus Tompkins, Jesse Nettles, burglary; Morris
Keegan, James Murphy, felony embezzlement; John
Bautiste and Leland McFall, Section 504a, Richard Hedke
and Jerome O'Brien, forgery and fugitive, assisting in
this arrest was Sergts. Hansen and Maher of Check De-
tail; by Sergts. Jack Cannon and Jack McKenna, Frank
Mclntyre, en route, Thomas Bologna, Lawrence Gasperi
and Al Hicks, first and second 146'ers and obtaining goods
by false pretense. Sergt. DeMatei and Officer Sunseri
assisted in these arrests. Sergts. William Milliken and
Harry Husted got John Allen in a stolen machine; Sergt.
Hayes and McCrea got Sidney Hoskins for same.
Corp. Frank Brown and Officer Percy Keneally got
Harry Xash for like kick, and Millikin and Husted added
Jack Blaney, Wm. R. Jordan and A. Davis for similar
offenses. 'Vt
* * *
Det. Sergts. Fred Bohr and Clarence Herlitz of the
Hotel Detail led the following to the Hall: James
Michaelson, Henry LaMoureaux and James Mastei'son
(two charges) 476a; William Gamberg, 504a.
* * *
Javier JofTre, charge grand larceny, and Harry King,
with three charges of petty larceny, were arrested by
Det. Sergts. Thomas Curtis and Thomas Reagan.
* * *
The following were booked by Det. Sergts. William
Armstrong, Charles Maher and James Hansen of the
Bad Check Detail: William Dentis, Frank R. Miller,
Richard Sennett, George Murov, Max Rosengard, John
Fezzi, Norman Clark, Alex Hillman, 476a, and William
Garrell, Jos. Rosberg and Edgar DeWolf, two charges
of same; Clay M. Lewis, three charges forgery, and
John Meldrus, embezzlement.
* * «
Det. Sergts. Henry Kalmbach and George Richards of
the Federal Detail turned the following over to the L". S.
authorities: Robert Rogeis, Martha Richards, Fred Bor-
den, Chester Clubb, Harry Edwards, Harry Hardman.
* » *
Here is a part of the record Lieut. Thomas Hoertkom
and his partner, Det. Sergt. Morris Harris, made during
the month: Chester Ayhens. burglary; Joe Harris, fugi-
tive; Jose Burget, Oscar Mejia. Pete Garcia, Benito Mora
and Stewart Thj-nn, petty larceny.
* * *
John Baggett, specializing in carpenters' tools, was ar-
rested by Det. Sergt. George Hippely on a burglary
charge; other arrests by Lieut. Henry Powell's Pawnshop '
Detail were: By Hippely and Sergt. Michael Desmond,
Manuel Suares and Raymond Rodriquez, two charges of
burglary; Roy Jackson, en loute to Los Angeles, by
Sergts. John Callaghan and James Regan; Fred Norton,
by Hippely and Sergt. L.vnch; by Hippely and Sergt.
George Stallard, Frank Berryl, vagrancy; by Sergts.
Gable and Jere Dinan, John San Jose, larceny.
* » »
Among the "knockovers" of Sergts. Arthur McQuaide
and William Proll were George Kyle, forgery; Charles
Karpel, fugitive, and John R. Williamson, 653 Penal Code.
* * •
James McKnight and James Ricketts were arrested and
charged with assault to murder and assault with a deadly
weapon. Lieut. Charles Dullea and Sergt. Otto Freder-
ickson took them into custody.
T * *
Detectives Daniel Fogarty and John Stui-m apprehended
Joseph Under, a fugitive.
* * *
Sergt. George Healy and Det. Sergt. Martin Porter of
the North Beach Detail brought to headquarters Richard
Trabert, Thomas Moore and Harold Fitzgerald, wanted
in Sacramento; Charles Edwards, wanted in San Jose,
and Fred Peri and Frank Constantine, assault to murder.
* * *
The members of the Burglary Detail, under Sergt.
Richmond Tatham, registered the following on the prison
books: Walter Anderson, embezzlement; Harry Drake
and Eugene Rrou.se, burglary, by Sergts. Lippi and Jas.
Gregson; James Wallace, burglary, by Sergts. Jack Palm-
er and Nels Stolz; Gorden Whelan and James Phillips,
burglary, by Sergts. James Mitchell and Irvin Finlay.
* * *
Det. Sergt. Harry Cook got Sam Jones, wanted in
Fresno; Donald W>Tnan, wanted in Eureka; John C.
Tunigan. wanted in San Jose, and William Myers, want-
ed in Los .\ngeles.
-:: * *
Murray XeA\Tnark, en i-oute to Fi-esno, and Amo
Bretenberg, larceny, were arrested by Det. Sergts. Thos.
Conlan and Edward Wi.skotchill.
* * *
Det. Sergts. Michael Desmond and Earth Kelleher
skooted the following into the "kooler." Grant Knight,
vagrancy; Albert Berg and Thomas Conway, same, and
Angel Rodriquez, larceny.
* * *
Sergt. George McLoughlin, in charge of the Robbery
Detail, and Det. Sergt. Edward McSheehy arrested Ar-
mand Betters for robbery; Sergts. George Wall and Wil-
liam McMahon arrested Ralph Russell for same charge:
Wall and Sergt. Robert Rauer assisted in the arrest of
Russell Chelini for stealing an automobile; McLoughlin
assisted Policewoman Katherj-n Eisenhart in arresting
.\gostine Piagniri for vagrancy.
« # *
Det. Charles McGreevy and Policewoman Kathleen Sul-
livan arrested John Neves and James Dawkins for vag-
rancy.
» * «
Det. Sergts. Fiank Jackson and Det. George Page
brought in during the night shifts Harry Da\ns for em-
bezzlement.
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Proposed New Laws for Legislature
Presentation of Recommendations Made By State Crime Procedii.re Commission and Adopted By
State P'eace officers' Association
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No person shall be eligible to probation who
was armed with a deadly weapon when the offense
was committed or at the time of his arrest. A
person who arms himself with a deadly weapon
and commits a felony is a potential murderer.
Disregard of human life has become so great in
this country that it must be made known that
any person who commits a felony while armed
with a deadly weapon shall not be eligible for
probation.
Parole and Indeterminate Sentence Law
Under tlie system formerly in force in this
state, and still in force in many states, the trial
judge fixed the term of a defendant's sentence
for a conviction of felony. This system had cer-
tain definite advantages and also certain definite
disadvantages. Under the present system, the
trial judge has nothing to do with fixing the
sentence. He simply pronounces the judgment as
fixed by the indeterminate sentence law. The
fixing of the actual sentence is committed to the
Board of Prison Directors, which body is also
given power to release convicts on parole. This
plan, too, offers certain definite advantages as
well as disadvantages and these have been so gen-
erally discussed as to make further consideration
here unnecessary.
Since this state has had a number of years'
experience under both systems, it has seemed that
it should be possible to devise a plan by which
tlie benefits of both could be retained and their
disadvantages eliminated or reduced to a mini-
mum. The Commission has directed its studies to
this end and has evolved a plan which it is hoped
and believed will bring about this result.
The plan briefly is this :
That tlie trial judge, at the time of imposing
sentence and as a part thereof, shall recommend
the minimum term which the defendant should
serve in the penitentiary before being eligible for
parole, and that the Board of Prison Directors
shall not release the defendant on parole or other-
wise prior to the expiration of such period, unless
in its opinion exceptional cause therefor is shown.
If this statute should be adopted, it will give an
opportunity for the trial judge, who sees the de-
fendant during the trial, who sees and hears the
witnesses, and who knows the local condition to
have some voice in the matter of the amount of
punishment which the defendant shall actually
receive, and at the same time will leave in the
Board of Prison Directors the power to correct
any injustice, or to consider and give proper
weight to any new facts or circumstances that
may be presented.
In this connection the Commission expects to
recommend an amendment to the constitution
(for it cannot be accomplished by statute) by
which the Legislature may provide fair compen-
sation to the members of the Board of Prison
Directors, and may furnish them necessary scien-
tific assistance, such as psychiatrists, etc. At
the present time our constitution provides that
the Board of Prison Directors must serve without
compensation. This constitutional provision was
adopted long before the members of the Board of
Prison Directors had imposed upon them the
heavy and important duties which the law now
devolves upon them. With their present onerous
burdens and important I'esponsibilities it is un-
fair, both to the public, to the members of the
Board, and to the persons under their jurisdic-
tion, to expect the Boai'd to serve without com-
pensation and to give gi-atuitously the time, study
and effort which the proper performance of their
duties requires. It seems clear that the Legis-
lature should have power to compensate them
properly, and to give to them the benefit of the
advice and services of scientific men.
The Commission will probably recommend a
statute providing that in certain cases a fixed
minimum must be served in the penitentiary be-
fore the convict is eligible for parole. The fol-
lowing are being tentatively considered:
That no person who is sentenced to life im-
prisonment shall be eligible for parole until he
shall have served a minimum of twenty-five (25)
years ;
No person who, at the time of the commission
of the felony, or at the time of his arrest, was
armed with a deadly weapon shall be eligible to
parole until he shall have served a minimum of
ten (10) years in case of first conviction of a
felony; or a minimum of fifteen (15) years in
case of second conviction of a felony;
That one convicted of a felony who was not
armed with a deadly weapon, but who has been
theretofore convicted of a felony, shall not be
eligible for parole until he has served a minimum
term of seven (7) years.
It seems desirable in the interest of making
punishment certain and for its deterrent effect
that in these cases there should be a definite
minimum term which must be served before the
convict shall be eligible for parole.
(To Be Continued)
February, 1927
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Officer Farley's Uniform Pants
By Patrol Driver William D. Burns
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After years of silence I am about to make a
confession. After countless nights of lying awake
battling with a troubled conscience, I am going
to make an open breast of the partial wrecking
of a fire engine, and the total destruction of Offi-
cer Elliot Farley's uniform pants. And as a fore-
word to my confession, permit me to state, that
as a recompense for my part of the offense against
the "peace and dignity of the people of the State
of California" 1 am now willing to go so far as to
purchase a pair of pants for any of the male des-
cendants of Farley's or even to the extent of buy-
ing a new fire engine for the city and county of
San Francisco.
Come back with me to the days of wooden side-
walks, when school boys were more interested in
such characters as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry
Finn, than the average boy of today is in who "put
over" the Eighteenth Amendment. To be more
definite, let us go back to the days when the South-
ern Police Station was on Folsom street between
Fourth and Fifth, when the cops wore derby hats,
and only buttoned the top button of their coats.
Come back I ask you, to the days when movies
were unthought of, %\hen Morosco opened Union
Hall on Howard street as a theatre, and the public
play gi'ounds consisted of the vacant lots of the
neighborhood.
It was on one of these improvised playgrounds,
situated on the Southeast corner of Folsom and
Hawthorne streets, that I did unwillingly, and un-
knowingly, personally conduct the wrecking of a
part of the city's fire apparatus, and the complete
destruction of Elliot Farley's trousers.
It all came about in this manner. Several other
lads and myself, after a careful reading of Mark
Twain's books had decided to emulate his boy char-
acters, and had dug a large cave into the clay bank
of the lot before mentioned. We had spent a full
week on the task and now all that was needed was
a stove to make things homelike. \A'ith the as-
sistance of an old coal oil can and a length of stove
pipe I was enabled to fashion a sort of makeshift
heating apparatus and one day when the grass
in the lot was good and dry I ventured to give the
stove a tryout before my companions arrived. Well
I started the fire all right, and along with the
fire I unknowingly started several other things. I
did not figure that a spark from the chimney of
our dugout was going to find its way to the far
corner of the lot where the grass was high, and
I certainly had no knowledge of what was hap-
pening in the outside world until I saw firemen
from No. 10 Engine on Bryant street, battling
with a fierce grass fire in the immediate vicinity
of our cave.
Just about that time the patrol wagon from the
Southern Station hove in sight with Officer Elliot
Farley in charge. It was my first meeting with
the officer and he seemed anxious to meet me, but
just about that time I remembered that I had
business out on Folsom street, and I took a short
cut over a barbed wire fence to get there. But
Farley appeared more anxious than ever to make
my acquaintance and he likewise followed me.
And then for the space of a few minutes, he
seemed to hesitate as if giving up the chance
meeting, and remained on top of the fence. Re-
mained is hardly the word to be used in this
case. I might better say that he was suspended.
Yes, suspended between heaven and earth. And
for a few moments he remained in that position
lield by the barbed unre, and then with a dull
sickening sound, like the falling of a hot water
bottle, he fell to the earth. But only Farley's
body reached the gi'ound. His new uniform
pants, still clung to the top of the fence.
\Miile poor Elliot was taking stock of his sur-
roundings I disappeared in the direction of Fol-
som street, but as I went, I could still hear him
calling to me "Come back boy, I'm not after you,"
but I never even hesitated. I just kept going
until I met a fireman, and I told him that a police-
man wanted him on the other side of the fence.
^\'ell it was some time before I saw Farley again
and when I did, he was draped in the fireman's
overcoat looking more like a Roman gladiator
than a cop, but while the Romans wore their
togas thrown over the shoulders, Farley wore his
mostly from his waist down. After the patrol
wagon had departed for the station I discovered
that No. 4 Engine had broken an axel while re-
sponding to the alarm, but luckily no one was
hurt. And now after all these years, I want to
"come clean." I want to restore my peace of
mind. And in conclusion I further wish to state
that if the Statute of Limitation does not prevent
it, all bills for tlie above mentioned damages may
be sent to U'm. D. Burns, Room 9.
I REMEMBER AVHEN—
Patrolmen used to keep mobs of eager melo-
drama lovers from wrecking the "nigger heaven"
entrance to the old Grand Opera House on Mis-
sion near Third and where special cops circulated
with clubs tlirough the gallery gang and main-
tained peace during the performance.
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Taking of Statements
By Robert Fitzgeic^ld, Formerly Assistant District Attorney
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(Continued from last Issue)
We then come to the subject of the admissions
and confessions of the accused other than those
admissions in response to accusatory statements.
It must be kept in mind that these two classes of
Statement are essentially different. A confession
is an admission of the accused of his guilt of the
crime charged and for which the accused is then
on trial. An admission is less than a confession
and relates to the statements by him of facts or
circumstances, from which when considei-ed to-
gether with other facts and circumstances proven
in the case, guilt of the main charge may be in-
ferred. Thus one on trial for robbery or burglary
prosecution do first affirmatively and conclusively
show an entire absence of either class of inducing
circumstances.
(To be Continued)
EXAMINATION HELD
Corporal to Sergeant examination held October
22, 1926. List adopted December 23, 1926, as
passed in the following order:
John Alexander Reed, Maurice Reardon, Jos.
M. Walsh, George S. McCullough, Henry H. Lii-
dolph, Edward R. Pootel, Glen L. Hughes, Patrick
may "admit the possession by him of the stolen Shannon, Joseph Edward Powers, Howard H.
property ; or charged with a homicide he may ad- Chamberlin, Alfred J. Strei, John J. Donegan,
mit his presence at or near the scene thereof, or John O'Leary, Clarence A. Byrne, Austin Cagney,
may admit the ownership of the weapon with William L. Danahy, Lawi-ence Mclnerney, Nels
which the crime was committed. His admission Steven Stohl, Thomas P. Mclnerney, John F.
may amount to a confession of guilt of some other
crime than the one for which he is on trial. In
the admission of possession of stolen property he
may explain this possession by stating he pur-
Quinlan, John J. Mullin, Patrick Hallisy, Cornelius
J. McCarthy, David M. Stevens, William F. Bran-
nan, Frank P. Scollin, Theobald H. McCarty, Ern-
est Bortfeld, William J. Quinn, Horace S. Drury,
FOURTEEN PASS LIEUTENANT TEST
chased the property from the actual robber or James Carrig, John C. Crofton, Fi'ank F. Brown,
burglar and may even admit that at the time of Emmett C. Flynn, John R. Dower, Charles A. Ma-
the purchase he knew it to have been stolen. The her, William Denser, Edward J. Lynch, Hezekiah
fact such admission carries with it the admission Combs, John J. Feeney, Marvin E. Dowell, Otto
of guilt of crime of knowingly receiving stolen Frederickson, Michael McCarthy, Michael J. Cole-
property does not put such admission in the class man, James J. Breen, William T. Jones.
of confessions for the reason that it is not a con-
fession of guilt of the crime for whi(5h he is on
trial. The distinction is important. Confessions
can not be received in evidence except after and
upon preliminary proof (called foundation) that
they are freely and voluntarily made, without any
inducement through offer of reward, or threats
calculated to inspire fear of any danger in event of
reward, or threats calculated to inspire fear of
any danger in event of refusal. It may safely
be admitted that in the past there have been
innumerable instances of confessions obtained
through inexcusable use of the so-called third
degree — confessions made by the accused solely
for the purpose of escaping further administra-
tions of these persuasive influences. It has also
been known that the desire to escape the em-
barrassment, delay and expense of trial has
caused innocent persons falsely to admit guilt up-
on assurances that there would be no resulting
prosecution, or that other pending charges would
not be pressed. These cases may be, and we hope
they are, indeed rare, but the possibility of their
recurrence causes the court to limit jealously proof
of confessions to those cases alone in which the
Arthur L. Christiansen, 1346 Twenty-fourth
avenue, heads the list of fourteen sergeants in the
San Fi-ancisco Police Department who successfully
passed the examination for promotion to the rank
of lieutenant in the order of the grade received:
Arthur L. Christiansen, Samuel Miller, Aloysius
L. O'Brien, Alexander E. McDaniell, George M.
Healy Michael Flynn, John B. Carney, Henry A.
Reilly, Patrick J. Murray, Thomas J. Sullivan,
Mark Higgins, William J. Dougherty, John Alpers
and Thomas G. Roche.
I take great pleasure in complimenting Detective I.
Findley and Detective Sergeant J. Mitchell in their clever
work in apprehending one Mollie Moses, a maid in my em-
ploy, who took some cash and clothing from my home.
They were courteous, patient and gentlemanly. Trusting
you will acknowledge this, I am,
HENRY ROSS,
848 33rd Avenue,
San Francisco.
February, J 927
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In the event that a traffic violation occurs,
wlietlier of minor or serious importance, in rela-
tion to trucks which are being protected by guards
of tiie United States Marine Coi-ps, there will be no
stopping of said trucks for the obtaining of infor-
mation. No citation shall be issued at the scene
of the violation, and under no circumstances shall
a member of the department board a mail truck
or wagon, except at the request of the Marine in
charge, to assist him in preventing a violation of
the law, or the apprehending of a violator of the
law.
Should a violation occur, officers will make
proper notations, taking number and description
of mail trucks, time, etc., and shall immediately
submit a report covering all these matters in de-
tail, through proper channels, so it may be for-
warded to this office and the same referred to the
proper Federal authorities.
In various localities throughout the country
men posing as peace officers have in the past in-
tercepted mail trucks and when the operators of
same were at a disadvantage, have committed
felonies.
Members of the Marine Corps are subject to
strict discipline and the officers in charge will not
permit any laxity. They desire to co-operate with
this department and ask for our fullest co-opera-
tion, which the Chief of Police has promised.
United States mail must be moved. Trucks and
other methods of conveyance are protected by Fed-
eral statutes, but the individual is not immune
from violating the state or local regulations, and
such violations will not be immediately dealt with,
but will be dealt with later on through the office
of the Chief of Police, the commanding officers of
the United States INIarine Corps in charge at San
Francisco, and then through the proper channels.
D. J. O'BRIEN, Chief of Police.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE OPERATION OF
TRAFFIC SIGNALS
To open signals — Turn main snap switch to the
"ON" position with the control switch on the ex-
treme left, or "STOP" position, then throw the
control switch to the middle position. This will
open the shutters in signals on north and south
streets, displaying the "STOP" signs. Next,
throw control switch over to the extreme right,
or "GO" position. Ths will open the shutters on
the east and west streets, displaying the "GO"
signs.
To close signals— With control switch at "GO"
position, press shutter button, throw switch to
center position and then to "STOP" position. The
shutters in all signals will now be closed. Turn
off light switch, if the lights had been turned on,
then tuiTi off main snap switch.
General Instiuctions— The words "STOP" and
"GO" on top of the control switch designate the
position of the signals on the east and west
sti-eets. With the control switch in the center
position all signals will display the "STOP" signs.
This i)Osition of the control switch permits the in-
tersection to be cleared before opening traffic in
the opposite direction. It also permits the officer
in charge to stop traffic in all directions upon the
approach of fire apparatus or for any other rea-
son when it is desired to stop all traffic.
The foregoing is for the information and guid-
ance of the members of this department.
TRAFFIC OFFICKR BIRDSELL,
Sometimes I think we all like to hear nice things about
ourselves and our interests so I thought that I would
drop you a line and tell you about one that occurred
under my window last Tuesday.
The Powell street cable car started down the hill back-
wards and had it not been for the coolness and quick
thinking of Traffic Officer Birdsell, stationed at the cor-
ner of Sutter and Powell streets, it might have been a
very serious affair. It was as beautifully handled as any
traffic emergency I have ever seen and reflected great
credit on you and your department.
ARTHUR COLLINS GIBSON, M. D..
Physicians' Bldg., 516 Sutter Street.
\ MEMBEai OF SUNSET DISTRICT BOOSTS
In connection with the parade held a few weeks ago in
the Sunset District, preceding the Carnival for the Boy
Scouts Building Fund:
I feel it is my duty to inform you of the many very
favorable comments received by the Committee in gen-
eral, in regard to the efficient manner in which the Police
Department handled the crowds and more so, the auto-
mobile traffic immediately after the parade. It is being
called to our attention by a number of residents that
there were no traffic jams and that the streets were
cleared of machines to the normal condition without the
least confusion.
I have been directed by the General Committee to
write you in this connection as a token of appreciation
for the excellent police duty performed on the evening
of November 9, under the direction of Captain O'Meara
and Lieutenant Pfeitfer of the Park Police Station.
CARL L. MARITZEX,
Chairman of the Parade Committee,
Sunset District Carnival.
* « *
Oflicer A. Barrett arrested Melvln Wagner on a va-
grancy charge.
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WHERE PENALTY FOR ROBBERY IS
FIFTEEN DAYS
From the humanitarian standpoint few men
are so well equipped to discuss crime and crimi-
nals as Professor George W. Kirchwey. In the
Survey he has written his regret that the atten-
tion given to the increase of crime is resulting in
public demands for more severe laws because he
does not believe that harshness of punishment is
the right way to reform criminals.
Alarm on this score seems groundless in view
of a report just issued by the Missouri Crime
Commission. In this, the most ambitious docu-
ment of the kind that has come to hand, the
severity of laws has little to do with what happens
to the criminal. Perhaps it is not reasonable to
take the Missouri report as a cross section of con-
ditions everywhere, but in a general way it prob-
ably is fairly typical.
The report discloses that the average penialty
for a robbery in Missouri is fifteen days.
Over the period covered 2075 cases of robbery
came to the attention of the authorities. There
were 379 arrests, showing that the criminal had
something better than one chance in five of es-
caping the police. Of these 379 prisoners, eighty-
five, were convicted and sentenced. This gave
the prisoner better than one chance in four of es-
caping conviction. The average sentence was
something more than four years. As a result of
pardon, parole, commutation and the like, the
average sentence served was less than twelve
months.
Eighty-five robbers served aggregate sentences
of 1020 months. This averages less than half a
month apiece for the 2075 robberies.
Put it another way. The chance is almost 25
to 1 against being caught and convicted. This is
a better chance than the law of averages gives
an honest business man to succeed in legitimate
industry.
The report further shows that the average 99-
year sentence really means 11.19 years. The
average life sentence means eleven years. And
even these penalties are not certain. In Kansas
City the chance of escaping conviction for mur-
der is 10 in 11, in St. Louis 5 in 6.
Everywhere that statistics are available the
evidence shows a very large part of the crime
tide due to professional criminals. This would
seem to divide the crime problem into two classes
—the casual or first offender and the profession-
al. The only means at hand to discourage the
professional is to make his trade unprofitable, and
that the mills of justice, if the Missouri report is
accepted as typical, do not seem to be accomplish-
ing. The penalties are, perhaps, severe enough
as they stand on the books.
If they are made reasonably certain, crime
will become a hazardous occupation.
—The S. F. Chronicle.
To the Policemen and Matrons
The Journal would like very much to run arti-
cles of events happening in your homes or sta-
tions. Anything that is interesting to you would
be interesting to others, but it is necessary to re-
ceive them. We would be very thankful to re-
ceive the cooperation of the women members of
the department.
If you feel that you cannot get the item or
news matter together in the correct way give
us a call, and we will be glad to do the rest.
* * #
Grace Walker was locked up by Officers J. Ross and
H. Kiernan on a vag-rancy charge when she was seen
gliding along the dark side of a street.
* * *
Layon Harper got a charge like that slammed against
his name when Officer Cornelius Cregan spotted him
dodging- work.
February, 1927
"2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
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I
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE
BUREAU OF IDENTIFICATION
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
WANTED
for Murder
QUAN GIN LEONG
Alias Quan Gin, age about 38 years; height, 5 ft.
8 ins.; weight, 165 lbs.; heavj^ black eyebrows; is neat
dresser, wears bow ties and fancj^ woolen vests. Wore
dark suit and gre}^ Fedora hat.
Wanted in this Citv for murder of Low Wah on
February 6th, 1927. A reward of $1000.00 is offered
by the Four Famih' Association and Low Family Asso-
ciation for his capture.
If located, arrest and I will send Officer with proper
papers for his return to this City.
D. J. O'BRIEN,
Chief of Police.
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Sergeant Patrick McGee, Corporals Thomas Maloney,
Horace McGowan and Detective Sergeant William Bennett
have been using the radio to broadcast the Policemen's
Widows' and Orphans' Aid Association concert and ball.
They have broadcasted some excellent programs, nightly
using the microphone to advise the people of the big
show and to state the cause of the big benefit given an-
nually to keep up the funds for the wives and children
of police officers. One of the features was the singing of
old time songs by Sergeant McGee, and another was the
harmonica solos given by Corporal McGowan.
* * *
Lieutenant Richard Foley of the Southern Station ar-
rested Geraldine Fitzgerald on a burglary charge.
* * *
Detective Sergeant Thomas Hyland, some times referred
to as the Demosthenes of the Detective Bureau, says that
from his long and varied experience as a member of the
San Francisco Police Organization he has become more
than ever convinced that if you want to keep the prisons
free from patrons, the principles of crime prevention must
be more and more inculcated into the minds of the grow-
ing youth. Hyland says he has locked men and women in
jail, sent men and women to State's prison for nearly
every crime in the well known penal code, city ordinance
book, national statutes, and despite his activities along
this line he does not have to use a telescope to see that
crime still thrives and in some places increases. Sergeant
Hyland says the object lesson he strived to impress upon
the evil doers by active police work, able presentation
of the mass of evidence he gathered in each and all of
his cases, personal attention to all details, advising the
members of the district attorney's office just what to do,
have failed, and he gets sometimes discouraged in his
work. However, he says that the only beacon light lead-
ing him out of the darkness of discouragement is offered
by what he has attained since he put in working condition
and saw to a successful fruition, the Crime Prevention
Detail. Using his own words, "This detail will prove a
panacea of all wrong doing if followed along the lines
which I have suggested."
* * *
Inspector John Lyons says he will be at the Ball in a
full dress outfit and that the fellow who tries to switch his
outfit this year will get a ride to the top floor of the Hall.
* * *
They have painted the interior of Room 9. The color
scheme was selected by Boss Painter Jack Lane after
waiting several days for Joe Lee and Officer William
Kearny to agree upon a color scheme. Joe wanted robin
egg blue and Bill said black was the right color for the
place as it didn't show the dirt so easily. Sergeant John
Caples and Corporal Peter Peshon tried to get some sort
of a compromise but Bill and Joe were adamant and so
Lane had to spread on a cream colored paint.
* * *
Sergeant Frank Latulipe says he hopes to get his photo-
graph detail up on top of the Hall of Justice by next
Chri.'tmas. The new horseless elevator leading from the
B of I to the gallery on top is about ready for service and
it will prove a great convenience to prisoners being taken
from one place to another, though Officers James Galla-
gher and Tim Burke of Sergeant Emmett Hogan's bureau
will be shortchanged out of a lot of exercise by being
able to be hoisted from the fourth floor to the prison
or gallery.
Lieutenant Frank McConnell and Detective Charles
Gallivan, experts on pickpockets, bunco men and other
easy winners, whose activities are usually centered in
keeping such gentiy who do come to this city circulating
on their way, now and then find it necessary to have the
keys turned on some insistent ones, who think their ad-
monitions are now well meaning. Such fates befell Ed-
ward Drown whom they vagged and booked en route to
Los Angeles; and Frederick Walker who got the same
treatment. They also arrested Robert Evans, who has
been in several cities and who has a whole set of phoney
monickers. This gent was booked as a fugitive and for
vagrancy.
* * *
Chinatown is a different place than it used to be. Hop
smoking is a thing of the past, yet now and then some
brave celestial tries to sneak a puff and smuggle a little
hop into the Chinese quarters. This year the weeks pre-
ceding China New Year saw some try these things, and
the vigilance of Sergeant Manion and his squad caused
the arrest of nine Chinese, who were charged with vio-
lating the State Poison Law. The squad also arrested
three or four gunmen, who, owing to the tongs all being
at peace, are for the time being without employment. They
booked the prisoners for violating the state gun law.
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CENTRAL
STATION
Capt. Arthur D. Layne
Lieutenants: Harry P. Braig and Edward F. Copeland
Sergeant William Flinn says that one of the greatest
musical treats he has ever heard was Officer Jack
Evatt's solo "The Star Spangled Banner," played on a
bass drum. The Sergeant says radio broadcasting sta-
tions are overlooking a hot bet when thoy don't sign Ofii-
cer Al Williams, formerly of this station but now director
general on the Bush Station's Bustling Buick for the cele-
brated deaf and dumb act.
* * *
Officers Harry Gurtler and Walter Leonhardt brought
in a brace of burglars, when they nabbed Charles Collins
and Forest Durling. These latter bozos drew additional
charges of assault by force.
* * *
A couple of lawbreakers were landed behind prison
bars by Officers George Ohnimus and Edward Christal
when they turned the keys on Angelo Sabini for burglary
and Anna Bert for grand larceny.
* * *
Officer Edward Fewer found Salivo Segale "totin' a pop"
and he hung one of those gun law charges onto his name.
Fewer also got Peter Pera who was doing a little plain
paper hanging.
James Clifford was walking off with a vacuum cleaner
when Officer L. Morch appeared on the scene. James got
vacuumed into the wagon on a petty larceny "kick."
* * *
Officer Fred Hoepner found Lawrence Martines ambling
about with unlawful sidearms. Larry went in on the gun
law violation.
^ ^ ^
(Jeorge Cavanaugh got gay with a damsel who did not
want to do what he wanted her to do, that is work while
he idled. He was locked up for assault to do great bodily
harm by Officers Spooncer and George Lillis.
^ ^ ^:
Russell E. Graham had the pleasure of being locked up
on a bad check charge by Sergeant William Dougherty.
Pedro Areda has two assault to commit murder charges
pending against him. He was arrested by Officer Ballhaus.
* * *
Officers William Jurgens and C. Rogerson spotted James
McNemy dashing hither and thither in a car that had been
reported stolen. They grabbed Jimmie and gave him a
booking for violating Section 146 M. V. A.
Santiago Carrion, in on a petty larceny "rap", was lo-
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SOUTHERN
STATION
Capt. Charles Goff
Lieutenants Arthur DeGuire and Richard Foley
Corporal Emmett (Doc) Fljmn, the active special duty
Corporal of the Southern gave John O'Kely and James
Clayton a ride on a robbery charge, and his posse con-
sisting of Officers William Desmond and William Fogarty
also brought in Frank Young charged with burglary.
* * *
Officer J. Hart also got a burglar when he arrested
Ernie Inbrigton, while Officer Oliver Lundborg got an
attempt burglar in the person of Vic Cejo.
» * *
Officer Charles Russell is "agin" guys carrying pocket
artillery and when he sees a bulge of a gun on a gent
he calls for the prison conveyance. This happened to
two persons the past few days. One of them was Tony
Loon and the other Jasper Madicon, each charged with
violating the state gun law.
* * *
Only three of inebriated auto drivers invaded the South-
ern precincts the past month, or who were charged and
caught as such. One was Don Holcomb, arrested by Offi-
cer James Morley, another was George Roach, arrested
by Officer Clarence Tregonning, while the third was Ben
Bell, arresteed by Officer T. Mahoney.
* * *
Officers John Erasmy and Lundborg found Ira Smith
in illegal possession of one automobile. They also found
him in illegal possession of one pistol. They arrested
him for violating Section 146 of the Motor Act and for
violating the state gun law.
* * »
Lundborg with Officer Francis Kerr locked up George
Henderson for carrying a gun and got two of his pals
for vagrancy. * # *
Ben Seay, charged with burglary was put in the prison
cell by Officers William Fogarty and John Bongard.
* * *
Percy McClellan "bounced down a bad check" and got
entangled with the law under one of those 476a charges.
He was nipped by Officer Charles Lyons.
* * *
Officers Andrew Lennon and A. McDonnell brought in
John Moran for grand larceny.
* * *
Cliff Pecery, accused of assault to do great bodily harm,
was arrested by Officers Pootel and Richard Curtin.
* * *
The boys of the Southern Station are wondering how
"Red" Moriarty, the Beau Brummel of Third street, has
such a "drag" with Lieut. Foley that he gets off every
Monday of each week. He must be hanging hams.
* * *
Daniel Dineen has resumed practice on his bora so he
can take part in Lieut. Foley's Band.
* * *
"Short story writers" attracted the attention of some of
the members of the Southern. Dan Kamajin got a book-
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STATION
Capt. Patrick Herlihy
Lieutenants Wilbert F. Pengelly and Michael Mitchell
There was a small sized crime wave in the district the
past month, but the boys "cleared all kicks" as following
addenda will indicate.
* * *
Sergeant Lawrence Boland and some of his trusty
assistants arrested Jess Campoe for burglary.
* * ♦
Corporals Byrne and Emil Heam, two of the depart-
ment's handsomest and best dressed police officers favored
Fred Katun with their attention. Fred who has worked
the other side of the bay extensively was locked up for
grand larceny.
* * *
Byrne and Officer Cliff Dunleavy snared John Thomas
and Frank McGrory for petty larceny.
* * *
George W. Connett was saved from the chill waters
of the bay when he was arrested by Officer J. Mulcahy
and charged with violating Section 112 of the Motor Act.
* * *
Mike Cunningham got too loud in telling what he was
going to do to a certain party. Officer J. Phelan locked
him in the station cell for threats against life.
* * *
Antony Caponi will know that the Harbor district is
no place to pull a robbery. He got cuffed on a robbery
"clout" by Special Officer C. Hoerber.
* * *
Ray Bates charged with grand larceny, arresting Offi-
cer George Barry; Frank Kerwin, same kick, arresting
officer, T. Fljiin, were a pair of prisoners booked by the
sergeants at the station.
* t' *
Ottis Barber packing a gun was nabbed by Officer James
A. Mahoney and J. McLaughlin, charged with carrying
a gun and en route to Redwood City.
* * *
The boys have the details about completed for a flight
race between Lieutenant Michael Mitchell's trained sea-
gull. Officer Jim Mahoney's parrot and Officer Samuels
long distance flying Owl. Details wdll be ready later.
On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Crocker
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We would like to express our appreciation to you and
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We ask that you kindly accept the enclosed check for
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February, 1927
MISSION
STATION
Capt. Frederick Lemon
Lieutenants Peter A. Mclntyre and Daniel J. Collins
Special Officer Cahill works while a lot of folks sleep
and the other night while following this custom he ap-
prehended Charles Fitzpatrick whom he locked up on two
charges of robbery.
* * *
Officer McDaniel don't like burglars and when he sees
one he locks him up. He did this to Laura Brewer.
He also detests degenerates and he turns the keys on
them too. He did this very thing to Waynne McCormick
on a 288 charge.
* * *
Sergeant Thomas Roche booked John Edwards for vio-
lating Section 330a of the code, conducting a disorderly
house and violating the prohibition law. Which would
furnish sufficient efforts for any dock hound.
Officer F. Nuttman gathered in Pete Caumon for wob-
bling too much while driving his car. 112 was the charge.
* * *
Sergeant Fred Suttman and Officer C. Foster got John
J. Brown on exactly the same sort of a charge.
* 4: It:
And Officer J. Begley not to be out-done brought in
Thomas Logan on a similar "kick."
* * *
Corporal Keane, assisted by that noble gladiator, Officer
Stephen Clark, demonstrated how two good men arrest
one bad man, when they gave the police rites to Frank
Boroho for violating Section 288. Lieutenant DuUea gave
additional grief to Frankie by booking him en route to
Oakland.
* * *
Officer P. Griffith locked up Henry Kaufman, Jay Tower
and Horance Tower for violating the Juvenile Court Law;
while Corporal Patrick Shannon and posse arrested George
Walter on the same charge.
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I wish to call your attention to the excellent work of the
Police Department, under the supervision of Captains
O'Meara and Coulter, in handling the large crowd that
witnessed the "East and West Football Game" at the
Kezar Stadium on January 1st.
Over twenty thousand people witnessed this game and
about two-thirds of the crowd used their automobiles,
and it is impossible to estimate the number of machines
that were in this district.
While the spectators were arriving for the game, and
also when leaving, at no time was there any congestion
of traffic, and our cars were not blocked in any way.
Too much credit cannot be given for the excellent work
of your Department, and especially Captains O'Meara and
Coulter, for the excellent manner in which this crowd was
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of our Director, Rev. E. T. McCarthy, who completed ar-
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and Corporal Coghlan, our Sodality recently made a tour
through Chinatown and the Hall of Justice, and spent a
most pleasing and instructive evening.
We thought it only fitting that we should express a few
words of gratitude to you and your staff for having made
this possible, and wish to make particular comment regard-
ing the high type of officers from the Chinatown Squad,
under whose guidance we made the trip. Not only were
they most courteous, but they took a personal interest in
seeing that we enjoyed ourselves and were very kind in
giving answers to our many questions.
Again thanking you, we are
THE PARTHENIANS,
By RUTH HOFFMAN, President,
Y. M. L Building, 50 Oak Street.
February, 1927
'2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
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BUSH ST. .i^pHlT&si
STATION ^M^^ERVIC^^
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Lieutenants Edward L. Cullnan and Joseph Mi^ola
Capt. John J. Casey
Corporal William Boyle anil his shock troops consisting
mainly of Special Duty Officers Gus Betger and William
Ward, among the scores of arrests they made during
the past month, Louise Slydelle for grand larceny, Frank
Hayden for vagrancy, and Arthur Knott for Santa Rosa.
* * *
Lieutenant J. Mignola and some of his fleet footed and
nimble brained assistants garnered John Bousquet and
Horace Grammer for attempt burglary and John DriscoU
for burglary.
* * *
Officer Gus Wuth kept the wagon drivers hopping about.
Some of the numerous arrests he made included Frank
Skain vagrancy and Leslie Lansdowne for driving while
intoxicated.
* * *
Vernon Johns and Cliff Jepson, accused of robbery were
arrested by Corporal Feeney and Oflficer H. Kiernan. This
duet of thief takers also arrested Francis Dioboso for em-
bezzlement.
* 4; H«
There is no occasion for going about the Bush district
armed. So Ira F. Smith got a ride in the covered vehicle
when observed doing so by Oflficer J. Dolan.
« » *
Haron Hallory needed an overcoat so he grabbed the
first one he saw that was not being used. It belonged to
another party. Officer L. Atkinson saw him with the coat
which had been reported stolen and he marched him to
the book.
:*: * *
Officers G. Engler and F. McCann arrested Constantino
Scoger for using the streets for driving an automobile
while under the influence of intoxicants.
* * *
Henry Shelby got caught while he was driving a stran-
ger's car. Officer John Dolan, Jr., gave him the well
known rites attending a "pinch."
* * *
Ofl^cer E. Talbott surrounded William Brady, George
Anthony and Thomas Reilly who were wanted for petty
larceny and vagrancy.
We very much appreciate your presence with us at the
distribution of our Christmas baskets last Friday. We feel
that everything went off very satisfactorily and that at
least some of the Christmas festivities were brought to
some hundreds of worthy people on that occasion.
It was very nice indeed to hear from you at that time.
Your presence and your words added to the success of the
day. We very much look forward to having you with us
again.
C. WILFRED BOURNE,
Lieutenant Colonel,
Corporal Thomas Mclnemey and his posse of recruits
made many arrests during the past month, the most
imrortant being the arrest of Andrew McDonald for as-
sau't to commit murder, vagrancy, violating the state
poi.'Jon law and violating his probation.
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February, 1927
TRAFFIC BUREAU
Captain Hciu'y Gleesoii
liieiitenajits J. J. Casey, J. (Cliff) Field and Grover Coats
Captain Henry Gleeson who has now been laid up for
some foui- months is reported "to be steadily improvinj:
and from reports received by the writer will be able to bo
about in a short time. The Captain has had a tough
seige of it, and nothing but such a rugged constitution
such as he possesses would have pulled a man through.
* * *
Motorcycle Officer Elmer Esperance, who spent four
months in Europe with his family, visiting relatives and
many places of interest is home again. He says the old
country is all right to visit but he is not hankering for
any steady diet of it. Elmer will have some articles in
future issues of "20" Police Journal.
Lieutenant Jack Casey in charge of the Traffic Bureau
says he hopes the people will heed the aroused public
interest that has been aroused over the enforcement of
the traffic laws. His records for arrests and citations are
excellent but there has been a lack of co-operation on
the part of the driving public to heed the laws, and it will
take a campaign such as is now in pi-ogress to make peo-
ple realize just how serious is the traffic problems of
today.
* * *
Traffic Officer John Vann has dished out about two
miles of tags to people who fail to make boulevard stops,
who insist on going the wrong way on a one-way street,
and who park their cars where their fancy indicates with-
out regard to such signs that might be placed in advan-
tageous places giving implicit instructions as to what a
driver should or should not do.
* :>: -■!:
Officer Andrew Miller, who administers with Officer John
Lynch necessary reprimands and instructions for arrests
to the matinual influx of traffic violators is wearing a
nicely bandaged eye. Andy says it wasn't a stick of wood
as they bum gas in his house, nor was it a door that he
ran into, neither was it a pole he bumped into. When
asked how it happened he says "You ought to see the
other guy."
* :^ --fi
Traffic Officer C. Lyons nabbed a 112'er the other day,
and Corporal Luther Arentz, motorcycle rider grabbed
another for the same offen: e.
:!s * ••::
Mounted Officer Jack Hanley, who has a domain that
includes Montgomery street, which thoroughfare allows no
parking to Sacramento street from Market, says it's re-
markable how few people believe in signs or either can't
lead the English language. Jack wears out about two
pencils a week filling out tags for folks who pay no at-
tention to the "no parking" signs.
John Torres got gay with a knife while visiting some
lady folks and his capriciousness got him booked on a
charge of assau't with a deadly weapon. Officer Charles
White did the honors.
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trrmk PARK
STATION
Capt. John J. O'Meara
Lieutrnants Daniel W. Cronin, Francis J. McGuire
With a new amusement park a possibility now at the
junction of the Great Highway and Sloat Boulevard,
Capt. John J. O'Meara will shTire with Captain William
Healy of the Richmond, who has in his precincts the
Chutes-at-the-Beach, one of the greatest amusement
centers on the Coast, and which has grown until It is
one of the largest.
* * *
"It won't be long now" is a phrase used by Sunset
folks about the new car line that will soon be running
through the Duboce tunnel to the ocean. It will make
the district grow as did the Richmond when they got
the Geary street line, and on what are now sand dunes
will rise homes for thousands of people now housed in
flats and crowded places in the cities, as well as fur-
nish homes for the thousands who annually come to San
Francisco to make their homes.
Officer Sam Higgins, detailed to the city treasurer's
office, says they have a lot of money there but it is safe
from those who have no business with it. We'll say it
is when we look over the list of officers guarding it, among
them being beside Sam: Officers John Edwards, Edward
Hagan, Smith Carr, William Gilford, William Wilson.
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SPEEDY JUSTICE
At 5 o'clock on November 24, just 33 hours
after he entered the Mechanics' Bank in Rich-
mond with an armed confederate and escaped
with $16,300 in cuiTency, Hicks Anderson, Al-
bany plasterer, was being registered in San Quen-
tin prison, where he will spend from five years
to life for robbery in the first degree.
Anderson's arrest and sentencing provided one
of the fastest convictions on a major crime in
the history of Contra Costa county. The au-
thorities are looking for his confederate, declared
to be James Edgar McFarlane, 23, who is said
to have the remaining $8,000 of the loot. The
other $8,000 was in Anderson's possession when,
he was arrested at his home, 646 Madison street.
Once taken into custody, Anderson told his
story without reserve to Undersheriff William
Veale and Chief of Police Cox of Richmond. He
repeated it twice today.
The first time was before Justice of the Peace
Frank L. Glass, at Martinez, before whom he
waS( arraigned in the morning. He waived pre-
liminary examination in the justice court, and
was pi'omptly held over. The same afternoon he
was arraigned before Superior Judge A. B. Mc-
Kenzie, again pleaded guilty, and was sentenced
to San Quentin.
GOOD THIEF CAUGHT
A man jailed by police following an automobile
accident last month admitted to detectives eight
burglaries in San Francisco apartment houses
since November 20, in which loot valued at more
than $10,000 was taken.
The admitted thief, who has been souglit for a
month as the "Lone Wolf", the burglar aristocrat
of San Francisco's underworld, gave the name of
Robert Foster and the address of 344 Ellis street.
Detective Sergts. Richard Hughes, James John-
son, Martin Porter and George Healy, who ob-
tained the alleged confession, however, said his
real name was Al Falkin, and that he lives in Santa
Rosa when not operating in San F^-ancisco. He is
24 years old.
Police began questioning him yesterday when
Hughes recognized a tie pin he was wearing as
having been stolen from the home of Albert Zuck-
erman, 1745 Fi-anklin street, December 12.
Falkins' mode of operation, according to police,
was to come to San Francisco fi'om his Santa Rosa
home, swiftly execute a series of burglaries and
then depart on a peddling trip through the Sacra-
mento Valley to dispose of his loot.
His first coup was the latter part of November.
He was said to have admitted being at the end of
another series of raids, and prepared to leave the
city on another selling expedition.
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POLICE JOURNAL
February, 1927
RICHMOND
STATION
Capt. William T. Healy
Lieutenants Daniel W. Cronin, Francis J. McGuire
Pearl Wilson will know better the next time she gets
the urge to try any illegal operations. She is a colored
lady who invaded the district and got arrested by Officers
C. Cornelius and L. Lang for grand larceny and vagrancy.
She has had occasions before to learn just what happens
to people who break the law.
* * *
John McGill wanted to see all the beauties of Rich-
mond. He wanted to see them from an automobile.
Having none of his own he annexed one belonging to a
fellow he had never seen. He started forth on his mis-
sion, but his enjoyment was short lived for Officer M. J.
O'Rourke "spotted" the "sneezed sled" and called a halt
to all further proceedings, and John was saying "Howdy"
to the booking sergeant, who duly checked him in for
violating Section 146 of the Motor Act.
* * *
Officer Cornelius with Corporal Frank Rhodes had a
similar experience with Harold Davis, who was booked
for violating Section 148 of the Motor Act.
* * *
Officer Edward McKevitt got Joseph L. Morris for aban-
donment and neglect of wife. Ed says a man shou'd
never do that out in the Richmond where everyone is
happy and peaceful.
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INGLESIDE
STATION
Capt. Eugene Wall
Lieutenants Charles A. Pfeiffer and Fred W. Norman
With the completion of the new bridge over the gulch
on San Jose avenue, past Geneva avenue, the traffic on
San Jose avenue hap increased until the stream of auto-
mobiles going in and out of the city equal that on Mis-
sion street and affords another problem in automobile
traffic for Capt. Eugene Wall of this station.
This district now has three main arteries out of the
city and yet the congestion seems to increase. How-
ever, let it be said to the credit of the district commander
the machines are kept moving and for the number that
pass over the three highways, the number of accidents
are kept at a minimum.
COTTLE GIVEN GOLD STAR
Speech of James E. Cottle on being presented
with a g-old star by members of the Detective
Bureau, San Francisco Pohce Department, Feb-
ruary 1st, Captain Matheson making- the presenta-
tion address:
Captain Matheson and Fellow Officers:
In accepting- this tribute of kind regard and
friendship, I want to assure you that the bright-
ness of the metal will at all times mirror and re-
flect the features, individually of you all. And
while I need no star or emblems to remind me of
the good fellows and kind friends I am leaving
officially, I can promise you that as long as I
wear clothes, that this- golden badge of comrad-
ship will be a part and parcel of my daily ward-
robe.
I am very grateful. I stand here today amongst
you, ex-officio, at the end of the trail, near the
cross-roads. And I want you to know that it is
with sincere regret that I sever my connections
with the Police Department, and the friends and
comrades with whom I have associated for over
a quarter of a century. And even at this time
I find it hard to express the feelings of depression
and loneliness that fill my heart at parting. I
do not want to presume too much, but in leaving,
I hope I have the good will of every member of
the department.
I am going away to try and regain my lost
health. But no matter where I go, no matter
in what part of the State I may find a resting
place, it will be with the kindest feelings that my
thoughts will wander back to the Police Depart-
ment, to the kind friends and good fellows I
leave behind me.
So in parting let me say with all my heart, and
from my heart, that I wish you all long life, hap-
piness and success in all your undertakings.
I thank you.
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February, 1927
NORTH END
STATION
Capt. Herbert J. Wright
Lieutenants D. M. Reavis and George Duffy
Getting a guy before he can "kickover" a joint is bet-
ter than getting him after he pulls the job, is the belief
of Corporals James Casey and Carl Meilicke. They ap-
plied this bit of practical philosophy in the cases of Joe
Armentas and Frank Cruz whom they locked up for at-
tempt to commit burglary.
* * *
Corporal W. Kelly accused Clarence B. Council of
being a hit and run driver. He therefore booked him for
violating Section 141 of the Motor Vehicle Act.
* * *
A few autoists who could not drive in accordance with
the precepts of Section 112 of the Motor Vehicle Act
were taken to the station. They were: Walter Murray,
arrested by Officer Smith. Frances Black, arrested by
Officers J. Fleming and F. Corby, and Fred Volkman,
arre.sted by Corporal Michael Callanan and Officer Corby.
Corporal Meilicke and Officer J. Dowd gave the boys a
chance to look up and see what violating paragraph 3,
Section 261 of the Penal Code means, when they booked
Roy Feres on that charge.
* * *
Thomas Duffield, found that this section is no place to
play the trade of begging, especially when it comes to
using battery to do such a thing. Tommy got a double
booking when arrested by Officer Thomas Brady.
"THE HUE BRIGADE"
"The Fire Brigade" which has finished a run in this
city, and in which members of the local fire depart-
ment assisted In making, is a filmization that shows
more forcibly the hazards which firemen face than any
lecture or book could do. This great organization, like
the Police Department, engage in a line of \york that
has dangers not realized by the ordinary citizen, and it
takes a picture like "The Fire Brigade" to impress it
upon them.
It shows the life of the fireman, how his family, torn
with anxiety, face the realization of the dangers their
menfolk face when a big fire breaks out.
It is a picture all should see, and as it is shown
throughout the United States it is bound to prove a
strong lesson for drawing closer understanding between
the people and their brave fire fighters.
Your Captain, Mr. Charles Goff, gave us a most interest-
ing and helpful talk at the Father and Son Banquet held
here last evening.
Such messages as his will do much towards making
friendly relations between the police and the boys of the
Mission District.
A. J. HART, Director,
Young Men's Christian Ass'n of S. F.
Corporal A. Chri.st and his partner, Officer Patrick
Walsh, who keep the downtown parks as free as possible
from drifters, degenerates and such, gave the boys a
merry time. They vagged a score and brought in a dozen
for violating the state poison law.
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February, 1927
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Page il
W/ESTERN
iWrADDITION
STATION
Capt. Robert A. Coulter
Lieutenants Emmet E. Moore and John M. Sullivan
Officer W. Salisbury and A. Bell nipped a hit-runner
when they arrested George Bunn on a -Motor Act charged,
141.
* * *
Salisbury, with Officer P. Gleason arrested John E.
O'Brien for driving in violation of the provisions of
Section 112 of the Motor Act.
* * *
Salisbury also locked up Samuel Bozio for illegally
carrying a gun and threats against life.
* * *
Officers John Clasby and James Casey sure "knocked
over" a couple of bad ones when they arrested Joseph Bell
and Edward Free, a couple of youths accused of robbery.
Bell had a gun and got an added charge of violating the
gun law and Free was booked also as a deserter from
the navy.
* * »
Officers J. Doyle and A. Bell found it necessary to lock
up Michael L\-nott whom they were convinced was under
the influence of intoxicating liquor to the extent that he
could not drive a machine in accordance with such pro-
visions set forth in Section 112 of the Motor Act.
* * *
Benjamin Sedlowski was arrested by Officers Peter
Henricks and Oliver Josephs.
* * *
Gerald McMahon, charged with burglary, attempt burg-
lary, violating Section 3 of the State Revolver Law and
the State Prohibition Law, who was caught in a spec-
tacular manner by Lieut. Enimett Moore, Corporals Cal-
lanan and Higuera and Officer Lloyd Groat, was booked
at the city prison, January 19.
BOOST FROM FORMER HARBOR OFFICIALS
Indeed would I be unappreciative if I did not
acknowledge the splendid co-operation of your de-
partment with this Board in the handling of the
tremendous crowds through the Ferry building
Saturday, November 20. There was not a single
accident or mishap of anj' kind in the building
during the day. The streets were also kept suffi-
ciently cleared so that, had there been any nec-
essity to call out the fire department or an am-
bulance, there would have been no delay because
of congestion. Such splendid co-operation un-
questionably creates a most favorable public opin-
ion for the various departments of government.
Your co-operation has always been outstanding
and greatly appreciated by this Board.
With kind personal regards, I am,
WM. A. SHERMAN, President,
Board of State Har. Commissioners,
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February, J 927
POTRERO
STATION
Capt. Harry J. O'Day
Lieutenants Albert S. Munn, J. C. Malloy
Elmer Sacherer, on parole from Preston, could not re-
sist taking another chance, and this lack of will power
caused his arrest by Officers T. O'Connor and J. Coghlan
on a burglary charge and an added "kick" of vagrancy.
* * *
The two above named officers also arrested H. Argo for
vagrancy, assisting Policewoman Kathleen Sullivan.
* * *
Officers Stanley Doyle and J. Cronin can tell when a
man should be stopped as he tries to fool people in di'iv-
ing his car. They observed Pete Armanta nudging other
autoists to the side of the highway and they observed
long enough to satisfy themselves that Pete was violating
Section 112 of the Motor Vehicle Act.
* -t. =|:
Officer J. Sunseri who is assisting Detective Sergeant
Louis DeMatei on some special bomb investigation teamed
up with DeMatei to lock George Palo up on a thousand
dollar vagrancy charge.
PRAISE FOR EFFICENCY
The following letter was written to Captain Stephen
Bunner of the Bay view Police District:
"Undoubtedly, you are aware that our company is just
completing a new factory building in your district. I
wish to take this occasion to thank you for the attention
given this activity by your department within the last
few months.
"We have experienced no trouble whatsoever, and am
certain it has been due largely, to the close super\'ision
you have given to the building operations in your district.
"We will be moving into our plant within the next sixty
days, and I want to drop over to your station some day
and make your acquaintance. We are moving into the
district and into San Francisco with the idea of being a
help to the community and wish to establish friendly
relations with everyone concerned.
"With best regards and wishing you a happy and
prosperous New Year,
E. R. TESENSTRATOR,
Kroehler Mfg. Company,
1636 Bryant Street.
OFFICER PRAISED
It is with pleasure and appreciation that we pen these
few words commending your splendid officers of the Mis-
sion District Station, especially referring to Officer No. 788
(i.e.. Officer Patrick Griffin) who, on the 10th instant, when
he was off duty and on his way home between 12 p. m. and
1 a. m., noticed two suspicious characters loitering at our
store entrance and when they could not give a satisfactory
answer, explaining their presence, he locked them up for
the night.
Then it was this same officer who telephoned our store
manager, Mr. Solomon, recently, when he found one of our
plate glass windows broken and two overcoats missing.
JOS. V. NELSON,
c|o Cherry's, Incorporated,
512 15th Street, Oakland, CaUf.
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February, 1927
2-0" POLICE rOlJRNAL
Pa^e 33
,BAY VIEW
*A^ STATION
t'apt. Stephen V. Bunner
Lieut. Frank DeGrancourt, Lieut. Wm. Dowic
Joe Cardoni skittered out this way and tried to show
this station up. He tried several lines of criminal endeavor
and when it was all over and the smoke of battle had
cleared Joe found himself charged with robbery, violat-
ing Section 476A of the Penal Code and malicious mis-
chief. He got himself tangled up with the law when Ser-
geant A. O'Brien and J. Ross nabbed him.
* * *
Some one telephoned the .station that a guy in a ma-
chine was raising some ruckus in the district. Corporal
William Harrington nodded to his posse to follow him.
They did, and when the expedition was over they had
landed behind the perpendicular barred cell Jacob Frank.
Jacob was charged with dri\nng a car while drunk and
also for being a hit and runner. He got a lot of service
and the gent he bumped into got a lot of action.
* * *
Sergeant Lance and Officer J. Murray got a call to
look upon the condition of Eugene Valencia. They gave
him close scrutiny and their diagnosis convinced them
that Gene was not a fit person to be allowed to steer an
automobile. They therefore booked him for driving while
intoxicated and with violating Ordinance 811, which has
to do with being drunk in a public place.
* :J: *
A COUPLE OF BOQUETS
Allow me to congratulate you and the Department of
which you have the honor to command, on the capture of
Joseph Tanko by Detective Sergeants Earl Roney and
Vernon Van Matre.
The action of these men was certainly very brave and
deserving of the highest commendation by the citizens of
San Francisco, as we'l as by the Officers of the Department,
and their act should be an incentive to all citizens as well
as members of the Department, to perform their duty
regardless of consequences.
I am sending this to you as a small token of my appre-
ciation of the deed and trust that others will do likewise.
WM. M. Fitzhugh,
The Fitzhugh Building,
Post and Powell Streets.
* * *
I am taking this opportunity to congratulate you on
the unusually high efficiency of your department. My
Chrysler sedan, license No. F 60-407, was stolen from
in front of the Fleishhacker Tennis Courts last Tuesday
about 4 o'clock in the afternoon — at which time the de-
scription of the car was given to the officer on duty there
at that time. Less than ten hours later the car was
located by Officer Charles H. Foster of the Mission Police
Station — over in the Mission District. His locating the
car was particularly commendable as it was covered with
dust and the license plates scarcely readable. Feeling
grateful that my car was recovered so speedily and again
complimenting you on the efficiency that made this pos-
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Officer J. Hart booked Elcodero Lopez for robbery.
I wish to express my appreciation to you of the service
rendered me by two of your men. Corporal Henry Zaun
and Officer L. J. Olivier of the Western Addition Station.
My Nash Coupe automobile was stolen on December 7th,
1926. On December 8th, I received notice from the Centra!
Station, Auto Detail, that it had been located at Colma,
stripped of wheels, batteries and most everything else
rcmovab'e. In some manner Corporal Zaun, Jr., got a line
on the property and has recovered the five wheels and tires
as well as the battery. The work of locating the property,
the recovery of it an<l arresting of the thief speaks of high
efficiency of Corporal Zaun and Officer Olivier.
I cannot thank these men enough for their work and I
desired you to know of their good work and that they are
men to be proud of in the service of our city.
ROBERT D. SCHOLES,
Office of General Manager,
The Southern Pacific Company.
Page 34
2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Fehrnary, 1927
FANNING
(Continued from Page 7)
just as hard a time. In this gang, which num-
bered about 40, ranging from 16 years up to 20
years, made themselves very obnoxious in the
numerous varieties which hoodlums generally ef-
fected. Grocery stores were raided and stripped
of their wines and liquors and canned edibles.
Chinese were plainly informed by means of brick-
bats, clubs and other impressive arguments, that
the beach air was unhealthy for them.
The headquarters of this bunch was a saloon
on Francisco street, adjacent to Meigg's Wharf.
In a cage which was hung in front of this saloon,
was an Australian magpie. Whenever a police-
man hove in sight tiie magpie would chirp and
the boys would be making their way under the
whai'f. The leader of this gang was Tom Mc-
Guirk, who was about as handsome hnd well
built a man as could be found in that section.
The Telegraph Hill Rockrollers usually hung
around Montgomery and Alta streets, and they
were led by the redoubtable "Brick" Butler, who
was known as the terror of the Hill. Their fa-
vorite pastime was rolling boulders down at
Chinamen whenever they hove in sight. The
First Street Gang made its headquarters at a
saloon on First street, between Mission and How-
ard sti-eets, and their leader was Mich Wetherby.
Many of tiiis gang were formerly leading spirits
of the Tar Flat Gang. This was formerly about
the toughest gang in the city, ranging around
Fremont and Beale streets, towards the water-
front. Their depredations became so notorious
that a police station was established in that lo-
cality and called the South Harbor Police Station,
which was instrumental in breaking up this gang.
The arrests made at this station would number as
high as 200 men per month and little by little
the gang faded away. The Brannan Street Gang
was unpleasantly prominent. They hung out at
Sixth and Brannan streets and ranged from there
down to the foot of Fourth street and the South-
ern Pacific Railway Depot. NumeroRs raids were
made on freight cars by them. The Post Street
Gang hung out at a grocery store in a small
street running from Jones to Taylor streets, north
of Post street. They ranged all around up as
far as Bush and Sutter streets and the vicinity
of the Hill. The Brady Street Gang ruled over
tlie territory at the old San Jose Depot, which
was located at 12t]i and Market streets and rang-
ed along that section up through the Market
street cut. The Vallejo Street Gang hung out at
Vallejo and Card Alley and they were a bad lot,
composed of young Mexicans and negroes. The
leader of this gang was Locksy Dill and they
numbered about 30 men. The Russian Hill Gang,
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Page 35
whose meeting place was at Hyde and Union
streets, kept the people of tlie western slope of
tliat mound in hot water. As lamp post destroy-
ers, this gang- had the popular impression that
they could hit a pane of glass as far as they could
see it. They also had a good deal to say on the
Chinese question, and Coolie laundries in that
section were not marked with financial successes.
Tiiey ranged over Larkin and Polk streets.
The Clay and jMason streets gang was another
bad crowd ; there were only about two dozen in
this gang and they ranged around Clay, Sacra-
mento and Yerba Buena streets and always made
their headquarters in Happy Jack's saloon. The
Hayes Valley Gang centered in Hayes and Gough
streets and they consolidated with their not dis-
tant neighbors, "The Sunrise Gang", who were
well known to many in this city. The cemeteries.
were gi'eat hiding places for those lads after pul.
ing some trick. The Mission and Bernal Height.
Gangs; the former crowd congi'egated at the coi
ner of 15th and Mission streets and ranged ah
around the vicinity, their forays extending down
to Mission Bay. A branch of this gang made
their headquarters every Saturday night at
Sheers Hall where a dance was held. The Ber-
nal Heights leader was Mountain Jack, assisted
by Jim Agee, who was known as the "goose" on
account of his weakness for web-footed animals.
These lads ranged along the San Bruno Road and
throughout the Ingleside country. Tlie advent
of Officer ^^'illiam King, of the Ingleside station,
into that territory produced results, when he ulti-
mately wiped out the gang, which made him a
friend of the neighborhood and a credit to the
department.
These various gangs comprised all tlie "hood"
organizations in the city and the most of them
enumerated were only amateurs to a certain ex-
tent and not up to the standard of the "Kearny
Street Gang". Those operators were well school-
ed on the Barbary Coast and when they found
business dull on Kearny street, they ranged all
over the city selecting the best spots for their
enterprises. After the booty had been obtained
they would make their way back to the "Coast"
and enjoy a spree over the proceeds.
The greatest hardships that a policeman had
in those days was the irregular hours and the
moving of his prisoner when arrested to tlie sta-
tion with a crowd following. A passing express
wagon would be hailed to assist him when he
was far distant, or else walk ; and even wheel-
barrows have been used to bring in the drunks.
The increase of the force from tiiat time and
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SHERIFF T. C. McGOVERN INDUCTED
February, J 927
Sheriff McGovern
By Mrs. Laura F. Collins
Sheriff .Thomas C. McGovern,
familiarly known as "Brick" by
his close associates, was inducted
into office as Sheriff of San
Mateo County at Redwood City,
January 3, 1926.
Sheriff McGovern's victory was
won at the primary election when
lie beat his opponent by 6,101
votes.
The votes won at the primary
election, together with the large
complimentary vote scored at the
general election, gave Sheriff McGovern the en-
viable record of being the first, of any county
official, to receive the highest number of votes
cast in San Mateo County to date, since the
county's organization in 18.56.
Sheriff McGovern ranks as the sixteenth
Sheriff of San Mateo county, his experience of
over fifteen years of service being attained when
he served as deputy sheriff under the adminis-
tration of Sheriffs Robert S. Chatham, the late
J. H. Mansfield, Michael Sheehan and the late
H. W. Lampkin.
Born and reared in San Mateo county, of which
his late parents were pioneers, gives Sheriff Mc-
Govern the advantage of knowing every short
cut, path and roadway which is a great aid in
running down crime. Time saved in reaching
scenes of trouble plays an important part in the
duties of a sheriff and one knowing the lay of
the land in San Mateo county as well as Sheriff
McGovern gains over the person who is un-
familiar with short road cuts.
The new sheriff has over 400 square miles of
territory to guard, tlie larger portion of this be-
ing on the coast side and areas outside of the
incorporated cities.
San Mateo county is growing by leaps and
bounds and more deputies are needed to assist
the sheriff in carrying out the increased amount
of work which is enlarging daily.
Sheriff McGovern's many friends predict a suc-
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I wish to convey to you and to Capt. Quinn. through you,
our appreciation and thanks for your kind co-operation in
helping us to we'.come the Oakland Aerie Drum Corps and
its friends.
I learned, at the last moment, that the Oakland friends
of the Oakland Aerie Drum Corjis had decided, at a meet-
ing held in Oakland on Monday evening, to take earlier
boats so as to be at the San Francisco Lo<Jge rooms when
the Corps arrived. Consequently, most of the friends of
the Oakland Aerie arrived in San Francisco last evening
in advance of the boat on which the drummers came. The
reception committee was, therefore, reluctantly obliged to
dismiss the detail you so kindly furnished. The Oakland
visitors packed our Aerie room to capacity and evidently
had a good time as those to whom I spoke pronounceil
the entertainment a huge success. I feel confident that
each visitor went home with the thought in mind that "San
Francisco knows how." If there is ever a time at which
we, the members of Golden Gate Aerie No. 61, can be of
service to you, Chief O'Brien, or to your Department, we
shall be only too glad of the opportunity. I again thank
you and the Captain for your co-operation."
CHELLIS M. CARPENTER,
Worthy President,
Golden Gate Aerie No. 61. F. 0. E.
February, 1927
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Page 37
POLICE CHANGES
The following transfers have been made in the
department.
Officer Joseph Murphy, Co. E to IL Q. Co.
Officer James F. Sullivan, Co. H to IL Q. Co.
Officer Charles i\L Rogerson, Co. A to H. Q. Co.
(C. T.)
Officer John L. Kohr, Co. D to H. Q. Co. (C. T.)
Officer Chas. L. Zipperle, Co. K to Co. A.
Officer George F. Laine, H. Q. Co. to Co. D.
Officer ^^'illiam J. Riley, Co. D to Co. E.
Officer Lawrence P. Delmas, H. Q. Co. (C. T.)
to Co. K.
Officer Peter A. Conroy, Co. G to H. Q. Co. (C.
T.)
Officer William Minahan, Co. H to Co. D.
Officer Jei'emiah J. Hurley, Co. D to Co. H.
Corporal \Mlliam T. IMoran, Co. J to Co. L
Corporal Frederick T. Jewett, Co. I to Co. J.
Police Officer Albert E. Birdsall of Co. K has
been transferred to Co. F to do mounted duty
there.
Patrol Driver Charles Smith has had his star
changed from No. 13 to No. 30.
Patrol Driver Andrew C. Wood has had his star
changed from No. 30 to No. 31.
Police Officer Albert F. Kern, Richmond Police
Station, was granted an additional leave of ab-
sence from January 27th, 1927, to April 27th,
1927, said leave to be without pay.
Rudolph Herman, certification No. 2575, was
appointed a regular policeman January 27. Star
No. 15 has been given to this officer. He shall be
temporarily assigned for duty with the Head-
quarters Co. during his course of instruction in
the Department School of Instructions under the
immediate jurisdiction of Sergt. Patrick H.
i\IcGee, Instructor in Department School. As a
member of the Headquarters Co. he shall report
to Captain J. Henry Lackmann, commanding
Headquarters Co., for orders and assignment to
the Department School.
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COMMISSIONER COOK
(Continued from Page 10)
rescued, and it's a safe bet that there was some
repair bill after the rescue.
Sergt. Cook was sent into Chinatown at a time
when there was about 30,000 Chinese in those
quarters, where there was not a half dozen Chin-
ese women who could speak English, where gamb-
ling was syndicated, where Chinese lotteries were
being run openly, where slave girl traffic and
opium using was at its height.
He had orders to stop all these vices. He went
up there the first time in 1889. His efforts were
so successful that he was sent back time and time
again, and each time he left the district clamped
down more tightly. Naturally he brought upon
himself the enmity of the powerful Chinese who
controlled the gambling, lotteries, slave traffic and
opium traffic.
When he first went into the district, he was
convinced that the understanding, and the speak-
ing of Chinese would be an invaluable asset to
him or any other squad man. He found encour-
agement in his determination to leani Chinese in
the persons of a Chinese Baptist minister and
his wife. For months they taught him, furnished
him rare books, dictionaries and gave him per-
sonal coaching that made him proficient in read-
ing, writing and speaking Chinese fluently.
The deadwalls of Chinatown in years past have
contained in Chinese characters many things that
were intended to stir up unlawful acts, proclama-
tions that had a hidden meaning and other warn-
ings. Through his knowledge of the language,
gotten by hard application in spare time, Sergt.
Cook could translate these placards and thereby
gather valuable information. Many a place was
raided on information furnished by one of these
red paper, black lettered bulletins, and it was
years before the Chinese became aware that the
"Sargie" could read Chinese, most of them think-
ing it impossible for a white man to do such a
thing.
In 1901 Commissioner Cook says he went into
the district again; there were over 250 gambling
places, with from 12 to 1.5 tables each. Lotteries
were being run in a score of places. Before he got
through with his raiding, there were but a very
few getting by. On this occasion he had as a
member of his squad, Captain Duncan Matheson.
Matheson, then a young officer, went into the du-
ties of the squad with a will, and soon became one
of the most feared men among the lawbreakers of
Chinatown.
Commissioner Cook, however, still retains the
respect of all law abiding Chinese who have lived
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CONTENTS
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Career of Sir Harry Westwood Cooper, by Officer Peter Fanning-
I Remember When— By William (Doc) Mundell
The Chiefs Pane
Church Bomb Detai! Report, by Lawrence Mclnemey.
Drills for Annual Police Review.
Church Bomber Killed
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Captain William J. Quinn Tells How All Wor\ed to Ma\e It the Biggest Ever Held
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EDITOR'S NOTE — The Widows' and Orphans' concert
and ball this year was an unqualified success. Never was
one like it held before. In the article below, I notice that
the writer — Captain WilHam J. Quinn — wishes it to be
known that the success was all due to the hard work of
the members of the association. He may feel that way
about it, but of my own personal knowledge and observa-
tion, I can say without fear of contradiction that Captain
Quinn was the man more than any other responsible for.
putting the ball over this year. He was the originator of
the slogan — "Make it at least $50 OOO". He was the brains
— the guiding spirit of the whole scheme. He was tireless.
In addition to being chairman of the Executive Committee,
he never lost touch with the work of any one of the sub-
committees; in fact he was a most active worker on each
and every committee.
On February 19th, 1927, the
twenty-first Annual Grand Con-
cert and Ball of the Widows' and
Orphans' Aid Association of the
San Francisco Police Depart-
ment was held at the Exposition
Auditorium, and although the
night was stormy, rain having
fallen all afternoon and evening,
c.pt. wm. J. Quinn ).j-,g largest crowd that ever at-
tended this annual function was present.
This ball, without a doubt, was the gi-eatest so-
cial and financial success ever given by the Wi-
dows' and Oi'phans' Aid Association of this de-
partment. Appi-oximately fifty thousand tickets
were sold for this event, and the net proceeds
will more than offset the deficit created by the
deaths of our brother members during the pre-
ceding year.
It was the aim of the committee in charge to
arrange something new and novel, and, if possi-
ble, to get away from the staid and routine af-
fairs of preceding years. Working upon this
plan, two additional committees were appointeu
by the Chairman of the Executive Committee in.
mediately after his appointment, the first o
which was the Committee on Sale of Tickets, o
which Lieutenant Henry Powell, of the Detectiv.
Bureau, was made chairman.
Many new plans for the sale of tickets to th>
community were worked out by this particula
committee, with the result that a public demam.
was created for the tickets which assisted mater-
ially the men of the department in disposing of
them.
Much credit for the success of the ball is due
to this committee, because in the main, no matter
how successful the entertainment and ball may
have been, from a theatrical or social standpoint,
if it was not a financial success the work and the
endeavors of the Executive Committee would be
for naught. This committee was considered the
rock on which the structure was built.
A Radio Committee was also formed with De-
tective Sergeant William F. Bennett, as Chairman.
This committee worked in close conjunction
with the Ticket Sales Committee, and with the
Publicity Committee, with the result that every
possible feature for disseminating information
in relation to our affair and the sale of the tickets
therefor, which was the ultimate object of us all,
was co-ordinated to such an extent that our suc-
cess was assured from the outset.
This committee made arrangements with K. F.
W. I., K. P. 0., K. F. R. C, and K. J. B. S. broad-
casting stations of this city to broadcast adver-
tisements each day through their respective sta-
tions. In addition to this, a weekly progi'am of
police talent was arranged for each Wednesday
night, beginning on Wednesday, January 27th,
1927, and up to and including Wednesday, Feb-
ruary 16th, 1927. On each of these occasions
advertising matter was worked in with the police
talent at our radio station entertainments, with
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the result that we received communications, not
only from San Francisco, but from all over the
State in relation to our Annual Concert and Ball
through our weekly entertainment. Telegrams of
good cheer, wishing us success, etc., were received
from all over California.
This, together with the publicity which was
procured in newspapers and other periodicals by
Lieutenant Michael Riordan and his Publicity
Committee, covered all other angles which might
have been overlooked by the committees above
mentioned.
His Honor, Mayor James Rolph, Jr., always a
friend of the Police Department, sent for the Chief
of Police and the Chairman of the Ball Committee
to come to his office and discuss the Annual Con-
cert and Ball of the Widows' and Orphans' Aid
Association of the department, and much to the
surprise and delight of the Chief and the Chair-
man of the Ball Committee, the Mayor informed
them that it was his intention to set aside Satur-
day, February 19th, 1927, by proclamation to the
citizens of San Francisco as "Police Day". For
the first time in the history of the United States,
such a day was set aside and dedicated for such
a purpose. On behalf of the Police Department,
Chief O'Brien thanked His Honor, Mayor James
Rolph, Jr., and on behalf of the Executive Com-
mittee of the 1927 Concert and Ball, Captain Wm.
J. Quinn, Chairman thereof, thanked Mayor Rolph
for having been so thoughtful. The Mayor res-
ponded in his usual gracious manner and assured
both these gentlemen that he would do everything
in his power to help towards the success of the
ball. Much publicity was given to the declaration
of the Mayor in setting aside this day as "Police
Day" to such an extent that telegrams were re-
ceived from all the principal cities of the United
States and Canada by Chief of Police Daniel J.
O'Brien congratulating him and thanking Mayor
Rolph, through Daniel J. O'Brien, for having pion-
eered the matter of recognizing the work of the
police officer by setting aside a day in his honor.
All these telegrams speak of the movement as
being for making "Police Day" a nationally or in-
ternationally recognized day.
The entertainment put on at the ball was one
that will be long remembered by those who were
fortunate in being present on the eventful Satur-
day night of February 19th, 1927. The doors
were open at 6:00 P. M., to admit the thousands
who had already assembled in front of the Audi-
torium, and before seven o'clock, the time for the
opening of the program, the Auditorium was
crowded. At 7:00 P. M., Lieutenant Richard F.
Foley and his band of fifty-two pieces opened the
program with a concert that lasted until 7:30 p.m.
And how these men of the police department did
play! They had been preparing for this, their
second concert in aid of the Widows' and Orphans'
Aid Association, for a year. Their one desire was
to play as they had never played before — which
they succeeded in doing, as was attested to by the
frequent encores of the audience. Lieutenant
Foley and his musicians are to be commended for
the wonderful strides they have made in advanc-
ing themselves as musicians since their last ap-
pearance before the public.
The Sciots— S. F. Temple No. 1, A. E. 0. S.
H. T., Drill Team, came on the floor, and for fif-
teen minutes executed every possible military
maneuver and a number of special drill movements
of their own creation. The drill of the Sciots was
a revelation even to those familiar with the mili-
tary movements, and the way these young men
acquitted themselves on the ball-room floor was
really wonderful. The drill of the Sciots fitted in
very nicely in this part of the program and much
thanks is due them from the Widows' and Or-
phans' Aid Association.
Captain Frederick Lemon and his Music and
Talent Committee members, in collaboration with
our dear friend, Karl Eber, put on a performance
which included theatricals, dancing and singing
numbers which lasted until 9:00 p.m. This fea-
ture of the program contained the most beautiful
and entertaining bits of theatricalism that have
ever been seen in the Auditorium or elsewhere.
The dancing, the costumes, the singing and the
music were all perfect; and the lighting effects
blended in such harmony that one was wafted to
the land of dreams and fairies. The hard work
of members of this committee and Karl Eber was
clearly demonstrated by the wonderful perform-
ance that was given us. No impresario — profes-
sional or amateur — could, or ever did, put on a
better program or a program that worked with
such clock-like precision. As the circus barker
would say — there were "No Waits, Stops or De-
lays". Everything was run on schedule. The
professional producer had better look to his lau-
rels as it has been here clearly demonstrated that
we have many budding impresarios in our midst.
Had the entertainment ceased here, those who
had attended would have been well repaid for the
time spent, but after the conclusion of this part of
the entertainment. Detective Sergeant William F.
Bennett and his Radio Committee assumed charge,
and for the first time in the history of theatricals,
a radio broadcasting station, fully equipped, was
depicted for the edification of the audience.
The curtain rose on the beautiful scene of a
radio studio furnished elaborately with the rich-
est of drapes and rugs, the artists standing
around waiting for their turn at the microphone,
which was exposed to the view of the audience.
The entertainment was started by Detective Ser-
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Career of Sir Harry Westwood Cooper
By Otuci-R I'trtR Fanninl,
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PETER FANNING
Dr. Ernest Edward
Moore Chadwick, alias
Sir Harry Westwood
Cooper and a great va-
riety of otiier names,
was known as one of
the most vicious crim-
inals that made his ap-
pearance in this State
many years ago, being
charged with forgery,
bigamy and many
other crimes. Previous
to his coming to this
State, he operated long
and extensively in
Australian and East-
ern cities. His meth-
od of obtaining money
under false pretenses were marvelous in their in-
genuity. The Bankers' Association of the United
States had detectives everywhere on his trail. A
fictitious title and an aristocratic air enabled him
to pose successfully as a gentleman of means. His
wanderings brought him to San Francisco, where,
after perpetrating a half dozen swindles, he was
captured for attempting to pass a draft upon the
Crocker-Woolworth Bank of this city, for which
he was given a three year sentence. During his
trial several women, each of whom claimed to be
his wife, were heard from, and it was generally
expected that upon being liberated from prison he
would be arrested and charged with bigamy.
While serving his term he was known as an
incorrigible and was the leader of several plots
to escape. He was for a time kept in solitary con-
finement, yet he had managed to communicate
with desperate convicts on the outside by a tele-
graphic signal code of raps. When his time was
up and upon leaving the prison, he was extremely
nervous, his gaze shifting from point to point,
fearing- that after all, he might be confronted with
a warrant to prevent him from regaining his free-
dom. "This will be a lesson to me," he said. "If I
ever get out of this, I shall get into no more
trouble."
The next heard of him was when he obtained
a position as a waiter in a liotel up at Crockett,
Calif. Hardly a week had passed when he met a
pretty girl named Nora Sclineider, and from that
moment seemingly, dated iiis purpose to woo and
win her. Being educated as a physician, and a
fraternal society member, gave him a chance to
rise and resume the position of a professional man.
In a fortnight he was assisting in the practice of
a Port Costa physician. Directly thereafter he
posed as a capitalist, as the possessor of money
in hand and the heir to a large estate of an aunt
in England. Then he felt qualified to pay his ad-
dresses to pretty Nora, and as many another girl
has done, she listened to his ardent words and
looked upon him as a desirable suitor. Sir Harry
was not slow to see his advantage; like Claude
Melinot, he promised jewels, costly apparel, a
iiandsome home and luxury. In due time the par-
ents sent out notices of the engagement of their
daugiiter to Sir Harry. Then followed a momen-
tous visit to San Francisco, when he took her and
iier mother to select the girl's trousseau. None
but the costliest fabrics would do. The pretty
country girl must be gaibed like a queen to suit
the esthetic taste of this princely purchaser. A
bill of goods amounting to §700.00 was ordered.
On her engage-
ment finger a dia-
mond ring glitter-
ed. He ordered for
her a diamond tia-
ra to cost $1,500.00
and diamond ear-
ings costing $400.
Was ever a
young and innocent
country girl given
a better opportu-
nity to be dazzled.
Furniture galore
was ordered. A fine
settlement would
Nora have — $20.-
000.00 at least. Sir
Harry had an at-
torney draw up a
prenuptial settlement giving her $20,000.00 in
lier own right and the attorney was instructed to
find a location in Oakland, Calif., upon which to
erect a mansion. At tlie same time, to provide
for the present emergencies, pending the payment
of the coming $1.5.5,000.00, the amount of the
legacy from his deceased aunt, the attorney drew,
by instruction, papers to effect the transfer of
the lucrative practice of a certain country physi-
cian to Sir Harry. So far the course of love had
run smoothly for Nora. As an assurance of the
reality of his coming wealth, Harry presented to
his prospective father-in-law and mother-in-law.
a document which bore a gilt seal and covered
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IR HARRY WESTWOOD COOPER
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I Remember When ' -
Reminiscences of Wm. (Doc) Mundell, An Old-Time Police Reporter
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render a daily report of all birds and animals
killed and was to bring into the Park Station the
wing of each bird, the foot of each squirrel or
gopher, the tail of each rabbit, the ear of every
dog, rats to be brought in whole and THE HEAD
OF EACH CAT.
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Capt. Steve Bunner used to drive a horse-drawn
patrol-wagon at the Park Station and was known
as "Stevie." Steve not only took a great pride
in his personal appearance but also kept his team
and wagon in apple-pie order. In his day as a
driver, himself, his team and wagon were the
envy of all department members. His horses were
named Jim and Lucy. Lucy did all of the pulling
while Jim loafed along just far enough ahead of
the patrol wagon to keep from being run down.
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Bunner then had Al Williams on the wagon
with him and Al was instructed to throw rocks
at Jim when he loafed, but was explicitly told by
Steve not to hit Lucy.
James T. Gallagher, one of the most genial of
upper office men did plain clothes duty in the
Mission with Bill Meltke. They succeeded Bill
Harrison and Bob Graham. In those days there
w?s plenty of work for that detail. In the detec-
tive department Gallagher teamed with Miles
Jackson. Both are now dead, their end coming
in the line of duty.
Henry Pyle, one of the oldest in the game, kept
the cattle and goats off of the streets in "Cow
Hollow." Henry is now and has been for a long
time turnkey in the City Prison.
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Bob Curtin, known as "Literary Bob," when in
the upper office, wrote his reports in verse. Bob's
brother was State Senator Curtin from the
Mother Lode District. Bob is now a rancher.
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Harry Webb, now pensioned, was one of the old-
timers patrolling in the Harbor District and par-
ticularly around East street.
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Harry L. Sauer, one of the old Southern Sta-
tion gang walked every day along Bryant street
from Fourth to Eleventh. Bryant was a lively
street then. Harry is now dead.
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George Clark, a middle-west squirrel shooter
and good marksman, joined the force and was de-
tailed to shoot destructive birds and animals,
principally cats, in the Park. One day having
been delayed by this added duty, to square him-
self he reported to Lieutenant James Kelly, after
ward Captain Kelly, that he had killed a cat with
a head as big as a tiger. Kelly, ever skeptical,
in his gruff manner told Clark to bring in the
cat. Clark reported back that a taxidermist had
gotten the carcass from a Park laborer and taken
it to Oakland. Kelly repeated his order that
Clark bring in the cat. Clark was gone two days
and returned with the information, unconvincing
to Kelly, that the body of the mammoth feline was
so much in demand that it had been shipped from
Oakland to Oregon. Kelly, not to be outdone,
issued an order to Clark that henceforth he was to
William H. King was with the late Joe Redmund
on the slot machine detail when royal flushes
were impossible to get, no matter how many nick-
els one dropped in the groove. Bill is now with
Captain Al Wright at the North End Station.
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Larry Boland, now a sergeant at the Harbor,
watched over the safety of the motley aggregation
living on Sacramento, Clay and Commercial
streets near the old Hall of Justice.
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All that a police reporter had to identify him-
self with policemen and firemen, to whom he may
have been unknown, was a fire badge, issued
yearly by the Fire Commission. Bill Levings,
once a policeman, then a first-rate police reporter
got Jerry Dinan, when Chief of Police, to issue
metal press passes to every accredited newspaper-
man.
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George F. Kepman, now in the business office
with Captain John Lackmann, did his bit as a
patrolman in the Mission. George has been many
years around the Hall of Justice and is now a cor-
poral.
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The yearly roster of department members got-
ten out by Captain Jack O'Meara, then chief
clerk, listed the two Caseys as John J. Casey No.
1 and John J. Casey No. 2. It was a relief to
department heads that the rest of the John J.
Caseys did not join the force, for segregation
would have been made more difficult.
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John Annear, now at the Potrero, killed in
South Park a saki-loaded Jap "who tried to knife
him.
March. 1927
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By Chief of Police Daniel J. O'Brien
CHURCH BOMB DETAIL REPORT
Bv Corporal Lawrence McInerney
Captain Arthur D. Layne,
Central Police Station.
Sir:
As per Chief's order, the following members of
this department reported to you for orders on
February 10, 1927, and were detailed by you to
prevent the bombing of Saint Peter and Paul's
Churcii and capture the bomber, in accordance
with instructions given by the Chief:
Coi-poral Lawrence McInerney Company H.
Patrolman Andrew P. Lennon Company B.
Patrolman Joseph C. Gremminger.._. Company D.
Patrolman Joseph Wickstrom .—Company K.
Patrolman Dewey A. Kauffman, Dept. School Inst.
Patrolman F^-ank Davis .Dept. School of Inst.
Patrolman Alfred W. Hutchinson Company E.
Patrolman Willis A. Casey Company M.
This squad was distributed to the various points
of advantage as worked out in the general plan.
Each man was instructed as to his particular
duties and the duties of each post was fully ex-
plained to each officer before taking that post.
Each man alternated around the several posts.
thus equally dividing the work, some of which
was very difficult. This detail was kept up con-
tinuously from February 10, 1927, to and includ-
ing March 6, 1927, on which date the bomber was
captured at 4:20 a. m.
At 4:17 a. m. of Sunday, March 6, 1927, an un-
identified man walked quietly up the church steps
and crouched doM"n against the East wall of the
vestibule. There he placed a package, lighted a
match and ignited something; he lit a second
match and used on the same object. The object
immediately began to sputter fire. I saw from the
sputtering flashes that it was a djTiamite fuse; I
knew that he had placed a dynamite bomb which
would soon explode. This man stood up, turned
and started away. I commanded him to halt,
which he failed to heed and continued on his way;
I fired a shot from my pistol to prevent his escape.
The shot which I fired took effect in his back.
Officer Dewey A. Kauffman, w^ho was also in the
look-out station with me fired one shot from the
shot-gun, part of the shot-gun load taking effect
in the bomber's right cheek and neck. At this
moment Officer Joseph Gremminger, who had been
previously instructed to do so, passed out of the
door, gi-abbed the bomb and cut the burning dyna-
mite fuse, which prevented the explosion of the
dynamite bomb. It was then discovered that the
bomb was made up of twenty (20) sticks of dyna-
mite, each stick twelve inches long, packed in
wet clay and inserted in the bomb was a dynamite
cap attached to the burning fuse.
While the man was placing this bomb there was
a man acting as a look-out across the street, who
was also captured. He was shot at by Detective
Sergeant Louis De Matei, when he attempted to
escape.
Immediately, the ambulance and patrol wagon
were called. Instructions were given to notify
the Central Station, Detective Bureau, Captain
Layne and the Chief, which was done.
During the 25 days this detail was in effect
members of the squad performed vigilant duty,
and I feel it is my duty to request that they be
commended for their services.
Respectfully submitted,
LAWHENCE McINERNEY,
Corporal of Police, Star No. 4.
DRILLS FOR ANNUAL POLICE REVIEW
STARTED
The following is a copy of a communication re-
ceived by me this date from the Honorable Board
of Police Commissioners:
"In view of the fact that no inspection and
review of the department was held during
1926, you are hereby directed to make prep-
arations to have an annual inspection and re-
view held sometime during the month of
July, 1927, and the definite date of which will
be subsequently fixed."
In conformity with the foregoing companies
will start drilling in the School of the Soldier and
the School of the Squad immediately. This drill-
ing will be conducted three times a week for a
period of approximately fifteen minutes. Partic-
ular attention shall be given to the "facings" and
to the "squad movement," that is, insofar as mov-
ing and fixed pivots are concerned. The time of
falling in will be 3:30 p. m. The officers from
the 4 to 12 platoon and such members of the day
platoon as company commanders may direct will
constitute the drilling classes. ]\Iembers of the
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Church Bomber Killed
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After a year, San Francisco Police Depart-
ment's one big unsolved crime has been practi-
cally cleared, and with the solution one man lies
dead at the city morgue and another lies wounded
at the San Francisco Hospital, while the depart-
ment has been glorified by the wonderful work
of less than a dozen policemen to whom was en-
trusted the work of getting the fiend who four
times had hurled a bomb into the vestibule of
Saints Peter and Paul's church on Filbert and
Powell streets.
Eluding every effort to trace him or get any
clue rs to his movements, or a line on his motive,
the bomb thrower selected Friday morning and
Sunday morning to commit his dastardly deed.
Chief of Police Daniel J. O'Brien, Captain of
Detectives Duncan Matheson and Captain Arthur
D. Layne of the Central police district determined
to get the bomber if they had to keep a detail on
the church for months.
Selecting three men, well known for tlieir ability
to work and obey orders. Chief O'Brien detailed
these three men, Detective Sergeant Louis De-
Matei, Sidney Dubose and James Sunseri of
the Bayview Station to start the preliminary
watching.
DeMatei, after a few weeks on the job in-
formed the chief and Captain Layne that it would
be necessary to have assistance and some system
whereby all men detailed might keep in toucli
with each other.
Captain Layne was told to decide on what de-
tail he needed and apply for the men. He asked
for a non-commissioned officer, Corporal Lawrence
]\lclnerney, and seven patrolmen to work with
DeMatei and Sunseri. The added patrolmen were
J. C. Gremmenger, Andrew Lennon, Willis Casey,
Joseph Wickstrum, Alfred Hutchinson, Frank
Davis and D. A. Kauffman.
The next thing was the communicating system.
General Manager Thomas Dulury of the Tele-
phone Company was consulted. He made sug-
gestions and offers to furnish what materials
were necessary. He said the man to install the
work was Ralph Wiley, chief of the Department
of Electricity. Wiley was taken into the secret,
and detailed an expert who put in a system of
phones and buzzers where every man could be
advised of any untoward event.
With all this arranged, and anticipating the
fifth stroke of the fiendish bomber for the night of
the policemen's concert and ball, Chief O'Brien,
on February 11. called all men detailed on the job
to appear before him, also Captain Layne and
Detective Matheson.
The chief told them the necessity of the ut-
most secrecy. He impressed upon them the dan-
gerous and hazardous assignment they were going
on. Of the absolute dependence of one on the
other for continual vigilance. Of how they must
act and never for a moment relax any vigil they
were assigned. Without as much as batting an
eyelash, and with the courage of San Francisco's
police force, each man went forth to work with
DeMatei, Dubose and Sunseri, and for 25 days
these men, face to face with impending death,
kept up the watch, until the morning of the 9th,
Dubose and Sunseri up in a flat saw a figure
stealthily approach the church with something
under his coat. They held their breath until they
saw him turn into the entrance and start up the
steps. Instantly they pressed the buzzer, giving
a general alarm.
DeMatei, on watch in the priest's house heard
it, Lawrence Mclnerney heard it and his assist-
ant in the rear of the church at another phone
heard it. They answered and heard Dubose
whisper, "He's gone up the steps."
Mclnerney looked through a little isinglass
peek hole and saw the man take the package from
under his coat. Saw him take a paper off the
package, which revealed a small box. Saw him
strike a match, saw the match blown out. Saw
liim strike another, and saw the man bend over
to light a fuse.
The man took one look at the burning fuse and
started away. Mclnerney yelled, "Halt, we have
you covered."
The bomber hesitated for one instant, thrust
his right hand into his coat pocket and started to
run. Mclnerney fired. The bullet took effect.
Kauffman jumped out and let a charge of buck-
shot loose from a sliot gun. The man fell dead
to tlie pavement, a loaded revolver clutched in his
right hand. It was well he was killed for he
would have fired had he been able to see anyone
before he was laid low.
DeMatei, who had been obsei'ving a man across
in \\'ashington Park for some time, jumped from
his hiding place and ordered the man across the
street to throw up hia hands, that he was an
officer.
The man across the street took one look, and
shot his right hand under his coat as if to reach
for a gun held in a shoulder holster. He started
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Mayor Rolph Proclaims Police Day
Police Officials from All Over Country Send Congratulations
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For ihe first time ui the history of this country,
a day was set aside desigTiated as Pohce Day, by
Mayor James Rolph, Jr. Mayor Rolph proclaimed
February 19, as that special day.
In issuing his proclamation the Mayor set forth
the splendid series of achievements of our de-
partment. He reviewed many of its notable cap-
tures during his long term as chief executive and
of the work that had been done in crime preven-
tion as well as the apprehension of criminals. He
pointed to the fact that we had comparatively
little crime in San Francisco, due, as he said, to
the vigilance of our police department.
The day was generally observed in the city,
and policemen were saluted by many of our citi-
zens as they walked their beats, and made to know
that this recognition had met with general favor
and indicated that it should be a custom from now
on. The big concert and ball given by the Police
Widows' and Orphans' Association wound up the
day in a blaze of glory.
The innovation of a Mayor setting aside an
especial Police Day caught the fancy of the police
chiefs and city executives throughout the United
States and Mayor Rolph was deluged with tele-
gram and letters commending him on this idea.
We reproduce some of the many messages re-
ceived.
My sincere congratulations to you as the originator
of Police Day as one day that should and will be estab-
lished peiTnanently in memorial of the many brave offi-
cers who have lost their lives in line of duty in their
respective communities. Your name will always be hon-
ored as the one who made this possible and it is confi-
dently hoped that your efforts will be crowned with de-
served success. (W. T. Stanford, President, Peace Officers'
Association of California, Vallejo, Calif.)
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This department sends its hearty congratulations and
thanks to you for establishing a certain day each year
to be known as Police Day. We will do all we can to
make Police Day a national affair. Knowing Chief
O'Brien as I do I know that the widows of San Francisco
are safe in his hands. (Herbert C. Wildey, Chief of
Police, Morristown, N. J.)
* * *
It is indeed a pleasure to commend and co-operate with
you in the interest you are displaying and the heartfelt
thoughts you have in mind for those dear to the men
who were always sincere in the preservation of the peace,
my best wishes and hearty co-operation. (John M.
Tracey, Chief of Police, Patterson, N. J.)
Thanks for invitation to Widows' and Orphans' Ball, and
congratulations as the father of the movement to make
Police Day a national institution. (James F. Quigley, Ex-
Chief of Police, Indianapolis, Ind.)
Camden, New Jersey, congratulates the father of Police
Day and e.xtnnds to you personally its expressions of
thanks and hearty accord. (James E. Tatem, Chief of
Police, Camden, New Jersey).
* * *
Heartiest congratulations to you for proclaiming Feb-
ruary ILth Police Day. Regret that distance prevents me
from participating in this celebration. (H. L. Denton,
General Superintendent of Police, Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road ) .
* * +
Congratulations for your great movement for Widows'
and Orphans' Aid Association, and wishing you greatest
success as it is a grand idea to have such a day as Police
Day for so worthy a cause. I surely would be with you
all if I owned an airplane but in my heart I am there.
(John C. Rosencrans, Chief of Police, Westfield, N. J.)
MAYOR JAMES ROLPH, JR.. Who Proclaimed First Police Day
In recognition of the honor conferred on members of
police department by your proclamation designating this
day as Police Day I send you this message of apprecia-
tion and congratulation and extend to you, all officials,
members of the department, and friends, my every good
wish for a continuance of the success that has come to
you on this occasion. (William F. Clossey, Chief of
Hudson County Boulevard Police, Jersey City, N. J.)
* * *
Your proclamation declaring February 19th Police Day
in San Francisco is no doubt the first step toward making
this day a national institution and the effect it will have
on the public sentiment will be very far reaching. Please
accept my sincere thanks and appreciation for your efforts
in fathering this great movement. (Edward Brickk, St.
Cloud, Minn.)
* « *
Congratulations on your good work. (J. E. Smith, Chief
of Police; L. W. Hammond, Chief of Detectives, Green-
ville, South Carolina).
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Captain of Detectives Duncan Matheson in Charge
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NOTORIOUS WOMAN "PICK" JAILED
By Lieut. Thomas Hoertkork
The holiday season of 1926-27 found the shop-
lifting and pickpocket detail particularly on the
alert, as numerous complaints had been received
from the larger department stores of customers
reporting the loss of their purses and handbags.
The detail, following a check made with nu
merous arrests, established the fact that they
must apprehend a stranger, a new operative who
plied the trade among the many thousands th&l;
daily visited the different stores.
Only descriptive identification had been mad*.,
but acting on this, the efforts of the Detectiv*^
Bureau were redoubled with those of the Specials
employed by the various stores.
The Modus Operandi was shopping, standing
alone at a counter, her handbag on her arm, the
bag opened and contents extracted without her
knowledge; a large handbag opened and purse
taken out, handbag closed, never worked a floor
where a detective watched, was evidently cool and
calculating knowing those on guard in protecting
the merchandise and property of customers, as a
prospective customer she rubbed elbows with
salesladies, salesmen and customers.
The managers of several stores made a special
detail of employees but without meeting with any
success, various subterfuges were used without re-
sult, purses were placed in conspicuous location as
bait but the thief would not even nibble.
On January 31, 1927, a saleslady stated she was
astonished at the very boldness exhibited by this
clever thief, when she observed her working in
this way. Close to the counter she held up a towel
she had taken from the counter, evidently for the
purpose of examination, holding it in such a
screened position she would or could not be ob-
served by any person in front of her. With the
towel in this position, she swiftly opened the
handbag of an employee of the local post office
who was making a purchase nearby, taking the
sum of $60 from her handbag as it hung on her
arm ; at this point the saleslady called the loser's
attention to the fact she had been robbed. The
thief walked calmly towards the entrance and the
loser ran after her, accosting her, demanding her
property. The small puree extracted from the
handbag was on a counter nearby and recovered
by the loser ; a slight wave of excitement followed
and as the culprit made such a pitiful appeal, the
loser allowed her to go her way.
In the report made on this theft, we obtained
the best description received up to this time and
from a casual remark made by a saleslady that
a certain woman of this description came into her
store many times, loitered a short period of time,
made no purchases and left. From this point of
deduction, I detailed Det. Sergt. M. Harris at the
store witli instructions to conceal himself in the
rear.
On February 7, 1927, the thief entered this
store at about 1 :00 P. M. and being immediately
observed by Harris, he quickly approached and
began to question her. She became quite indig-
nant, making threats if arrested, etc. Being
convinced, she was taken to headquarters where
I saw her. Immediately I recognized her as
Frances Matthews, a notorious pickpocket who
was wanted on charges of violating her parole on
release from San Quentin, where she had served
a term, being committed from Los Angeles county,
charged with grand larceny (pickpocket).
She had been taught the art of picking pockets
by her mother, Mrs. Kate Dietrick, whom we ar-
rested in 1924, charged with opening handbags.
At this time Mrs. Dietrick was 78 years of age
and had a long record in the East as one of the
best developed pickpockets during a period of
perhaps 40 years.
FOLEY AND MOORE IN BUREAU
New faces are seen on the night watches in
the detective bureau. New faces so far as com-
missioned officers are concerned.
Lieutenant Richard Foley, band master, and
for a number of years a foe to the evil doers down
south of Market Street, has swapped jobs with
Lieutenant Arno Dietel, who has been with the
bureau for the past year or more. Lieutenant
Emmett Moore from out the Western Addition
station, where he has sei-ved since the station was
re-opened traded jobs with Lieutenant Leo Tack-
ney.
Lieutenant Foley says the only kick he has
about the new job is that he can't practice on his
cornet, realizing as he does that the music might
disturb the prisoners up stairs.
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Lieut. Bernard McDonald's Auto Detail registered high
the past month. The following were booked to Det.
Sergts. James Hayes and Harry McCrea and Det. Richard
Smith — Sam Gordon, Robert King, Paul Reynolds, Solo-
mon Daniels, violating Sec. 146; Ralph Carriers and
Al Mars, en route to San Mateo; by Lieut. McDonald and
Det. Sergts. Frank Brown and Rasmus Rasmussen, Wil-
liam C. Friedel and Anton Friedel, 146'ers; by Det.
Sergts. Percy Keneally and J. J. McKenna — Kenneth
Peters, Gimmurd Nordquist, Leon Feurstein and Lawrence
Carey; to Det. Sergts. William Millihin and Harry Rus-
ted— Theodore Kurrell, William Harris and William
Kidder, grand larceny; to Det. Sergts. Nicolas Barron
and Augustus Thompkins — Settimio Murra and Law-
rence McBride, embezzlement; Joe Paris and Harry Cas-
tro arrested for larceny by McKenna, Keneally, and Det.
Sergt. Jack Cannon.
The bad check detail, composed of Det. Sergts. Wil-
liam Armstrong, Charles Maher and James Hansen,
booked, among others, Gerard Del Corro, 476a; Ordell
Marthal, same, Policewoman Kathleen Sullivan assisting
In this arrest; Alexander Klein, arrested by Officers
Eugene Hottenger and D. DoUiver of the Bush Station;
Klein has two more 4 7 6a's and an en route to Oakland;
Frank De Lai, forgery, and Frank Gordon, Calvin Lucas,
John Lucas and Ferman Kellum, fugitives.
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Among some of the arrests of Det. Sergts. Andrew
Gaughran and James Skelly of the Shopping Detail,
were Bernard Ephriam, forgery; Edwin Schultz, three
bad check charges; and Albert Jones, burglary.
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Det. Sergt. Fred Bohr and Clarence Herlitz of the
Hotel Detail locked up Joseph Gemme and Earl Nelson
for burglary and their side kick, Jack Lavender for
vagrancy; Ralph Hogan, wanted in Modesto; and Jack
Lee and Alfred Robb, for vagrancy.
* * *
Detectives Frank Jackson and George Page of the
night crews rounded up Jess Boydson, who was charged
with driving an automobile while intoxicated and with
reckless driving.
The Robbery Detail in charge of Sergt. George Mc-
Loughlin, kept the tough eggs moving into the city
prison. Among some of the knockovers noted were: by
Det. Sergts. George Wall and William McMahon — James
Ross, Charles Hotaling, Frank Berg, Pat Kelly, Gus
Oldenberg, Lawrence Mallery, Patrick Kelly, en route
to Los Angeles, and Orley Horr, on a bench warrant.
Wall and Det. Sergt. Leo Bunner booked James O'Mal-
ley, James LaVette, Amos Parks and Robert Marek,
wanted in Los Angeles. Bunner, Wall and Det. Sergt.
Robert Rauer booked Melvin Bellmer for robbery, while
Bunner and Rauer arrested William H. Ford for the
same offense, and Rauer, Bunner and Det. Sergt. Ver-
non Van Matre booked Theodore Mostowski en route
to San Mateo.
* * *
Dets. Daniel Fogarty and John Sturm brought in Jas.
C. Howard on a grand larceny "clout".
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Here are some of Lieut. Thomas Hoertkorn and Det.
Sergt. Morris Harris' bookings: Frances Matthews, grand
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larceny, and parole violator; John J. Byrnes, violating
Sec. 786; Sara Byrnes, en route to Paso Robles; Frances
Stewart, John Horan, D. M. Soto and Gabriel Arellano,
vagrancy.
Det. Sergts. Thomas Conlan and Edward Wiskotchill
landed Ted Lewis in jail on a charge of burglary.
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Edward Gallisforder, Clarence Spratte and Albert San-
ford, charged with vagrancy, were arrested by Det. Sergt.
Martin Porter and Sergt. George Healy.
* * *
Det. Sergt. Harry Cook fixed up Chester Hogan for
Los Angeles, and Vernon Gayton for Fresno.
Det. Sergt. Richmond Tatham and Sergts. Jack Palmer,
James Gregson and Joseph Lippi of the Burglary Detail
arrested Theodore Cronek for extortion and violation of
Sec. 476a of the code; other members of the detail plac-
ing offenders behind the bars were: Sergts. Hughes and
James Johnson, who arrested John Williams, wanted
in Pittsburg; Abraham Stolzoff, for burglary; Hughes,
assisted by Officer H. Garrick and P. Porter, arrested
Anthony Del Sol for burglary; Det. Sergts. Irvin Finlay
and James Mitchell booked Pedro Flores for violating
Sec. 504a of the code.
* * *
In their drive to stop the moulders' war, Lieut. Charles
Dullea, Sergt. Alex. McDaniell, Det. Sergts. Thomas Hy-
land, Marvin Dowell, Otto Frederickson and Jesse Ayer
arrested Earl Parent!, violating gun law, Frank Brown,
conspiracy, William Allen and Tony Mello for assault,
the first to commit murder and the other to do great
bodily Injury.
* * *
Chester Papineau arrested by Officer T. Doyle of the
Western Addition, was found to he a fugitive from jus-
tice by Det. Sergts. Henry Kalmbach and George Rich-
ards.
* * *
May Grant, brought to the city prison on a minor
charge, was found to be a young lady wanted very badly
in Los Angeles. Sergt. Emmett Hogan of the Bureau of
Identifi<»tion, checking her fingerprints and photos,
quickly found that May has many aliases and she was
booked en route to the Southern city.
MRS. COWHIG GETS AUTOMOBILE
Irene Cowhig', wife of Officer Cowhig of the
Mission station, has a new automobile. It is the
one members of the department disposed of for
Mrs. James O'Donnell, whose husband, formerly
attached to the Harbor station, recently died.
Officer Massing of the Richmond station had
charge of the disposal, assisted by Lieut. Fi-ank
McGuire, Corp. Fi-ank Rhodes, and Officers Pat
McNamara and Thomas O'Connell. Some $1200
was realized for Mrs. O'Donnell.
Coi-poral Hoeckle brought to the station Dan Cruz,
charged with vagrancy and disturbing the peace.
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Desmond Gets Two Bodies From the Bay
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Detective Sergeant
Michael Desmond
The San Francisco Police De-
partment is in a position to meet
most any emergency. This is
demonstrated most every week.
Whicli leads us to refer to a
couple of deeds performed by
Detective Sergeant Michael Des-
mond, who with Detective Ser-
geant Bartholomew Kelleher do
the follow-up on the "kicks"
from the water front.
Sergeant Desmond is a powerful man, and he
has used this strength as a swimmer on many
occasions. He has done some wonderful feats
on the bay in a swimming role. He has learned
the bay, studied the tides and currents. He is an
authority on these matters.
So when recently there was need for someone
with such knowledge to assist in recovering from
the bottom of the bay, bodies of a man and a boy,
Desmond was called upon.
Last January Elton McMahon with a friend,
drove off the wharf at the foot of the Embar-
cadero. It was some days before the police were
advised of the accident, and Captain Matheson de-
tailed Desmond and Detective Sergeant Phillip
Lindecker, who is a sea dog of some ability, and
who has a record for recovering machines and
bodies as well.
These two officers got the police boat and with
Engineer Badaracco went to the scene of the ac-
cident. Though several days had elapsed they
succeeded in getting a line on the sunken car in
short time. It was hoisted and carried ashore.
Captain Matheson then detailed Desmond to
see what he could do about locating the body of
McMahon. Though ten days had passed since the
accident, Desmond went to the task with a deter-
mination. He studied the tides of the night of
the accident, of their changes, of the strength of
the current and finally decided where to lower the
grappling irons.
Again taking the police boat and the necessary
equipment, Desmond set out and the grappling
hooks had scarcely been lowered when they hit
something. The spool was turned and up came
the body of unfortunate McMahon. But few peo-
ple had any idea the body would be thus found.
Most folks thought the body would have been
washed far from the spot where it was sunk.
Desmond was sure it had not and he found it a few
feet from where the automobile was located.
Then on February 19 an 11-year-old newsboy,
Ivan Judson, went over the 16th street bridge.
His body did not appear on the surface and three
days later Captain Matheson again called uppn
Desmond to see what he could do about finding
tlie little fellow. Desmond made a trip to the
scene of the accident, again got a line on the tides
and currents and in less than an hour after arriv-
ing at the place with the police boat brought the
lad's body to the surface.
Desmond has recovered many bodies, dead and
alive from the waters, not only in this city, but
back in Ireland. Once along tlie coast of South-
ern Ireland he was in a shipwreck when the boat
upset. He and his brother and a companion,
Micliael Sullivan, held on for two hours before
they were able to get to safety.
He has from years of experience perfected a
stroke tliat enables him to help save drowning
people and bring them ashore.
Only last summer he showed liis ability as a
diver, when at Capitola he dove into the Capitola
river and brought up the body of a young boy
who had drowned. He had to remain under water
for some time until he could locate the body, and
when he brought it to the river bank he proceeded
to display a knowledge of resuscitation that won
him the admiration of several doctors who came
to the scene. Had Desmond been advised of the
accident a few minutes before he was, there is no
doubt that he would have revived the lad.
Sergeant Desmond has been commended for
his work in recovering the body of McMahon and
that of the Judson boy, but as he says it's all in
the day's work.
May I take this opportunity to convey to you
my appreciation for recent very valuable assist-
ance rendered our service by your officers, which
resulted in the apprehension of a number of aliens
of the deportable classes. In this connection I
wish to mention especially, Officer James Cole-
man, through whose diligent efforts a number of
important cases have been brought to our atten-
tion, the most recent of these being the case of
Mrs. Rita Leslie, alias Pachie, alias Forneris, alias
Menzio, a foreign born prostitute. May I assure
you of the desire of this office to reciprocate when-
ever opportunity offers.
JOHN D. NAGLE, Commissioner,
Department of Immigration.
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Captain Max Fisher of Sacramento
By Eugene Jones of Sacramento Union
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Captain Max Fisher, head of the Bureau of
Identification of the Sacramento Police Depart-
ment, and father of the movement that brought
about the estabhshment of a State Bureau of
Criminal Identification in the Capitol City, known
by many San Fi-ancisco detectives, and by them
recognized as one of the best experts on identifi-
cation in the West, was given a splendid writeup
in the Sacramento Union this month in a feature
article by Eugene Jones of that paper.
A copy was received by Sergeant Emmett
Hogan of our bureau, and we are reprinting a por-
tion of the article.
Officer Peter Fanning, who has probably taken
more finger prints of men arrested for crime than
any man in this Western country, tells many in-
teresting things of Fisher's ability to remember
crooks and obtain from them confessions by his
methods where every other means had failed.
The article says:
"There is only one Captain Fisher in the world
— and the crooks wish there was one less. Fisher
founded the Sacramento Police Department of
Criminal Identification years ago, and ever since
then he has been dumfounding law breakers from
coast to coast. Having heard a gi'eat deal about
what he did, but little about how he did it, we
cornered him in his office the other day, and put
the matter squarely before him.
Guilt Apparent
"Well," he said, examining us through a pair
of eyes that saw the hair on the back of our rep-
ortorial head, "I don't really do it; the criminal
does it. His guilt and his history are stamped
all over him for those who can observe. There
is an enormous diff'erence between seeing and ob-
serving. Here, I'll show you. Sit down in that
chair!"
We sat timidly.
Fisher, facing us, closed his eyes for a few sec-
onds, then opened them. After that he closed
and opened 'em again. "What do you think you
look like?" he asked. We admitetd we had no
very clear idea, but outside, unsolicited opinions
had never been complimentary.
Haven't you ever seen your ears?" asked Cap-
tain Fisher. "They're not mates; one is a half-inch
lower than the other. You have a mole on your
right cheek; your nose extends slightly to the
left; one side of your face is broader than the
other ; your mouth tilts up at the corners ; one
tooth in your lower set has been broken and filed
"That's enough !" we said firmly, moving out of
even — "
the light. "How on earth could our wife ever
have married us?"
When we had managed to compose ourselves
again, Fisher continued: "First comes observa-
tion; I have demonstrated that. Then comes the
ability to recollect. Anybody can learn visual
identification who will devote sufficient effort to
the subject. You have seen examples of this in
doormen at famous clubs, head waiters and so
forth. Now if you'll come into the laboratory I'll
explain a basic principle of this science."
Fisher's laboratory contains, among other
equipment, a large plate camera, and it was this
he pounced upon. "Look here. Do you know the
function of a lense? It is the eye of the camera.
It merely reflects on a sensitive plate the image
placed before it. No lens on earth can retain a
picture. And so it is with the eye, which
is the lens of the brain. Prepax'e your brain to
forever retain a picture given it, then adjust your
lens at the best focus to view the picture. Never
stand too close to your subject; you can't tell what
a man really looks like when you are close to him.
Don't you know that when a crook walks into a
bank to pass a bad check he keeps his head down
until he is as near the cashier as possible. In the
brief clcseup the cashier sees an image out of
focus, and afterwards he has no accurate idea of
what the man looked like.
"That is why a one-eyed person remembers
faces better than a two-eyed person. He has no
focus to adjust. Watch out for the one-eyed fel-
low if he sees you commit a crime. He'll identify
you some day for the police.
"Of course, features may be changed by acci-
dent or disease, but the expression of the eye — -
never! Eyes never lie, although they often try
to. Sleepy eyes may half hide a villian ; innocent
eyes may half hide a crook. Half, remember. So
when you are memorizing a face, get a good,
square look at the eyes. In fact, always be sure
you are on the same angle as the subject. I al-
ways demand that a corpse be placed vertically if
I am going to identify it. That is why so few
people searching morgues and hospitals for
friends are able to recognize them — they look at
a face on an angle, and naturally it is unfamiliar."
We next asked Fisher to tell us exactly how he
went about extracting confessions from criminals
whom he had never before seen.
Some years ago, when Grant Williams, retired
New York captain of detectives, visited the Sac-
ramento Bureau of Criminal Identification, he
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POLICE SHOW
(Continued from Page 6)
g-eant Bennett, who acted as announcer, and who
introduced in turn each of the artists who ap-
peared before the microphone, and from then on
until two o'clock a.m. the following morning, radio
star after radio star followed each other doing
their own particular specialty before the micro-
phone.
A halt was called in the radio program on the
entrance to the Auditorium of His Honor, Mayor
James Rolph, Jr., who was met at the door by the
Caledonian Pipers' Band, who escorted His Honor
about the Auditorium and then to his box.
Immediately after the Mayor's entrance, the
Grand March was started. This was the most
colorful and beautiful of any of the grand marches
for which the Police Department Concert and Balls
have become famous that has ever been held by
them. San Francisco's finest, dressed in evening
clothes, accompanied by their beautifully gowned
women, marched around the Auditorium, led by
His Honor, The Mayor, followed by the Honorable
Board of Police Commissioners, the Chief of Po-
lice, Daniel J. O'Brien, the Chairman of the Ball,
Captain Wm. J. Quinn, the Officers of the Widows'
and Orphans' Aid Association, members of the
Police Department, and distinguished visitors and
guests. The salvos of applause that greeted the
conclusion of the grand march indicated very
plainly that the vast attendance had been touched
by the beautiful picture that was produced for
their edification. Immediately at the conclusion
of the grand march. His Honor, Mayor James
Rolph, Jr., was called upon to present medals to
the four distinguished heroes of the Police De-
partment for the preceding year. The Mayor
made his annual address to the vast audience, and
in a very touching tribute to the heroes, Detec-
tive Sergeant Earl Honey, Detective Sergeant Ver-
non Van Matre, Detective Everett Hansen and
Motorcycle Officer Walter Mathes, presented and
pinned on each, medals of distinction and honor.
Lieutenant Michael Griffin, past president of the
Widows' and Orphans' Aid Association, was then
presented with a beautiful watch for the wonder-
ful work that he had done for the organization
during the preceding year.
Band Leader, Lieutenant Richard F. Foley was
next called to the platform where he was pre-
sented by His Honor, Mayor James Rolph, Jr.,
with a beautiful baton, given by a naval officer
to the Lieutenant, in recognition of the wonderful
work he had done in organizing the San Francisco
Police Department Band.
Following these presentations, dancing was re-
sumed and continued until 2:00 a.m., Sunday
morning. Intermissions were created in the dance
progi-am to admit the radio artists who were pres-
ent to appear and entertain from time to time.
Not a dull moment was had from 7:00 p.m. until
2:00 a.m. the following morning. Dancing was
held in Larkin and Polk Halls; in the latter the
old timers held forth, while in the former, jazz
was indulged in from 8:00 p.m. until quitting
time.
For the success of this ball, no one individual
or set of individuals is responsible. All credit
must go where it belongs — to the entire rank and
file of the Widows' and Orphans' Aid Association
of the San Francisco Police Department.
(To be Continued)
MOLDERS ARRESTED FOR MURDER
The concentrated efforts of months by Lieut.
Charles Dullea, Sergts. Alex. McDaniell, Thomas
Hyland, Marvin Dowell, Otto Fredrickson and Jess
Ayer culminated this month in what Capt. Mathe-
son characterizes as the end of the long moulders'
war.
Acting upon advice obtained, and information
gained by weeks of quiet work, this aggregation
of detectives swooped down on a Stockton hotel
and, assisted by Detective Cannon, (brother of
Detective John J. Cannon of this city), arrested
Tony Mello, William Allen, Robert Burton, T. Par-
enti, purported leaders in the moulder's union, and
whom police say have been responsible for the
reign of terror, beatings and killing of numerous
non-union workers during the past thi-ee years.
Dashing back to this city these officers took
into custody Frank Brown, business agent. At a
specially convened session of the Grand Jury, Bur-
ton and Brown were indicted for murder and the
others with assault to murder.
The detail making these arrests have worked
hard and persistently on this case and they have
been obstructed many times in gathering the in-
formation necessary. However, they stuck to
their tssk and they now feel they have rounded
up the men responsible for the trouble.
However, all the men protest their innocence
and have retained able attorneys to make their
fight.
OF INTEREST TO POLICE OFFICERS
You will instruct the members of your respec-
tive commands that in all cases where prisoners
are arrested under section 21 of the Juvenile
Court Law, the said prisoners shall be instructed
before being released on bail that they must ap-
pear in 150 Otis street on the following Friday
at 2:30 p. m.
Detective Sergeant William Bennett working out of the
Chief's office arrested Louis Reed for driving an automo-
bile while intoxicated.
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DK. T. B. W. LELAND
Pel haps in no large
city in the United
States does the cordial
relationship between
the Police Department
and the Coroner's of-
fice result in such effi-
ciency as does that
existing between the
two departments in
San Francisco.
It has been the con-
stant effort of Coroner
Leland during the
years he has occupied
tliis office to promote
these cordial relations.
The routine worked out and adopted by him and
perfected after a most wonderful experience with
a great number of all types of cases has estab-
lished a reputation for his office as being one of
the most efficiently administered in the United
States.
The type and character of men and women se-
lected by him as assistants has been of the high-
est and they have in turn sustained the reputation
of the office for honesty, efficiency and faithful-
ness in their service to the public.
The office of Coroner in San Fi'ancisco is a most
important and trying one. The great number of
deaths occurring under such a variety of circum-
stances require immediate and most careful in-
vestigation, and the possibility of overlooking
crime in connection therewith is constantly pres-
ent.
Trained deputies as investigators with years of
experience carefully performed autopsies and tox-
icological examinations in every case where there
could be a shadow of suspicion, together with most
searching examination of witnesses and evidence
at inquests by the Coroner — make the overlooking
of death from violence or crime verj^ remote.
All deaths reported to the Coroner's Office are
required by the Coroner to be immediately report-
ed to the Police Department. A patrolman arrives
on the scene coincidently with the deputy and
after careful investigation, if circumstances war-
rant, the detective bureau is immediately notified
and the body with its surroundings is not allowed
to be disturbed until the arrival of the detectives
who take charge. The evidence gathered is pre-
sented at tlie Coroner's inquest when the sworn
testimony is taken and becomes available at the
future trial of the case.
The careful, strictly adhered to, co-operative
routine of Coroner's office and Police Department
makes the commission of those types of crimes
due to carefully planned attempts at poison and
murder by similar means infrequently attempted
in San Francisco. Among the most famous ones
uncovered by the vigilance of the Coroner's office
are the Soder case — a murder for life insurance
and the Bowers case — gradual and protracted
poisoning of husband — love for another man.
While the office of the Coroner primarily deals
with deceased persons and their affairs. Coroner
Leland has developed what he terms the "life
saving function" of tlie Coroner's office. The
important facts concerning all accidents are care-
fully noted, accurate statistics are compiled, and
after their intelligent study remedial legislation
is recommended by Coroner and jury. These life
saving measures enacted into safety laws have
been the means of saving lives of innumerable
workmen and others.
Coroner Leland, in San Francisco, has pioneered
the effective work of diminishing the death toll
from auto accidents, his measures actively sup-
ported by Chief of Police Daniel J. O'Brien, the
San Francisco Police Department, and the news-
papers of San Francisco leading to the strenuous
campaign now being prosecuted.
Coroner Leland served the city first under the
late Coroner, Dr. R. Beverly Cole, an autopsy
surgeon, and had his training with the old school
of detectives. Bob Hogan of the District Attor-
ney's office, Dinan, Wren, Gibson, Thomas Ryan
and other men of those times.
He married the daughter of a police officer, the
late Philip P. McMahon, and his uncle by marriage
was the late Detective Sergeant George McINIahon
for so many years specially detailed in Chinatown
and the Mexican quarter. He is also a cousin by
marriage of Sergeant Patrick McGee of the San
Francisco Police force.
Coroner Leland resigned his office as Coroner
to serve in the United States Navy in the late
World War, serving as Senior Medical Officer of
the U. S. S. Oregon and of Division Two Pacific
Fleet. He was promoted for efficient service dur-
ing the war from the rank of Lieutenant Com-
mander to that of Commander.
At the end of the war he was reappointed Coro-
ner by Mayor Rolph, Dr. John Gallagher, who
had served in his absence, resigning for that
purpose. Dr. Leland was re-elected the following
year without opposition, receiving the highest vote
given to any city official.
San Francisco is justly proud of its Coroner's
office, visitors from over the world pronouncing
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No. 5.
NOTABLE WORK OF OUR POLICE
The past month has been particularly notable
for work done by the members of the San Fran-
cisco Police Department. During- the first week,
members of the Detective Bureau, led by Lieut.
Charles Dullea of the Homicide Squad, and com-
prising Sergts. Alex. McDaniell, Det. Sergts.
Thomas Hyland, Otto Fredrickson, Jess Ayer and
Marvin Dowell, arrested four men, prominent in
moulder union affairs, whom they have had in-
dicted for murder and assault; while Det. Sergt.
Louis DeMatei, Patrolmen James Sunseri, Sydney
Dubose, Corp. Lawrence Mclnerney, and 6 patrol-
men under him brought to an end the reign of
terror occasioned by the persistent bomber of
Saints Peter and Paul's Church.
These are two outstanding accomplishments of
the police department during the year. The kill-
ing of Joe Tanko, notorious bandit and murderer,
is another one; the capture of the Matthews wo-
man by Lieut. Thomas Hoertkorn and Sergt. Mor-
ris Harris is another that has put at ease many
large stores where this woman has worked at
times.
The San Francisco Police Department meets
every contingency in a manner that causes it to
stand out as an organization any community could
well feel proud of. In the war on crooks the mem-
bers ask no quarters and give none when that
issue is make by the crook.
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-Business Manager
EOrrORIAL ASSOCIATES
THFOPnRF. J. ROCHE. President
XESSE B. COOK: ANDREW F. MAHONY; DR. THOS. E. SHUMATE
DANIEL J. O'BRIEN, Chief of Police
AUGUST VOLLMER, Fast President International Association of
Chiefs of Police
Captain of Detectives Captain BERNARD JUDGE
DUNCAN MATHESON Captain JOHN J. O MEARA
Captain HENRY GLEESON Captain «• J- BRIGHT
CsntBin EUGENE WALL Captain ARTHUR D. I.AYNE
Captain HENRY O-DAY Cant.-n PATRTCK HERT.IHY
CaptMn ROBERT A COTTLTER Captain CARLES GOTT
Captain JOHN J. CASEY Captain WIT.LIAM J^ OUINN
Capt»in FRED T.EMON Captain WM. T. HEALY
Captain STEPHEN V. BUNNER Captain J. H. LACKMAN
Captain PFTER McGEE Captain CHARLES SKELLY
The law enforcement officers of this State may
well feel proud of the position they occupy in
California today. It is a splendid tribute to the
State Peace OflScers' Association to have every
bill they fostered adopted by the present State
Legislature. The men who deal with criminals,
who have the enforcement of the law in their
hands should be the men who should be consulted
on matters pertaining to stricter laws and punish-
ment. In the past this has not been done. How-
ever, for the past few years these men have been
asked for advice and suggestions and it has been
found by experience that their advice and sug-
gestions have been good and of benefit to the
State, generally.
Ci-ime prevention costs less than criminal ap-
prehension.
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It is indeed pleasing to observe how well the
commands in the outlying districts keep down
criminal acts. The daily crime reports reveal a
condition of freedom from crime that many a
small town would be rather proud to boast.
TO THE WIVES OF OUR POLICEMEN
"Two-O" would like very much to run articles of
events, such as parties, graduations, births or
other happenings which occur in your immediate
families. But to do this it is necessary to receive
the articles first. Someone must be the first one
to contribute, so why not let it be you.
We would be thankful for any co-operation on
the part of our readers. Anything that is inter-
esting to you will be just as interesting to others.
Perhaps there has been a new amval in your
home or a guest arrived out of town, or you had
a party of some sort. If you find you cannot get
the notice together in the right way, just write
us a letter and we will do the rest.
Remember our address. Room 9, Hall of Justice;
telephone number is Douglas 2377.
Captain of Detectives Duncan Matheson has been
called to Sacramento on several occasions since the sec-
ond session of the legislature has convened, for consulta-
tion and advice on some of the bills having to do with
crime legislation and change in criminal procedure.
March, 1927
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South San Francisco and Colma Section
CHIEF OF POUCE LOUIS BELLONI (Center) OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO
I — Vincent Bianchini: 2 — Floyd Menzie: 3 — Henry McGraw; 4 — Joe Bildhauer ; 5 — Tony Martin.
MAYOR FRED ALONZO CUNNINGHAM
The city of South San Francisco was incorpo-
rated in the year 1908. Two years later Fi-ed
Alonzo Cunningham, real estate man and insur-
ance bi'oker, ran for the office of city trustee. He
was duly elected and has served in that capacity
ever since — 17 years in the service of his com-
munity.
Now it so happens that South San Francisco's
municipal charter does not provide for a mayor.
The highest official is the chairman of the board
of trustees and to this position Cunningham was
recently chosen by his fellow members of the
boai'd. "Mayor" is the title that rests on him
more by common consent than by official designa-
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tion, and in his 20 or more years as a resident
of South San Francisco, 17 of which he has served
as city trustee, that honor has been so securely
earned that no questioning voice has ever ques-
tioned it.
"Mayor Fred" was born in Nebraska. He spent
the early years of his life on the farm, learning
the meaning of hard work. The same industry
and activity have characterized his entire life and
success has come to him both in his public and
private endeavors.
His education he received largely in Kansas,
where he became a student of the State Univer-
sity. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American
war, "Mayor Fred" enlisted in the United States
Army, which brought him for the first time to
the coast. His regiment was encamped at the
Presidio for some time prior to going to the
Philippines, and here "His Honor" saw opportu-
nity.
After the war was over, and Cunningham's
service in the islands, under General Frederick
Funston, was completed, he made his home in
South San Francisco. Here he made his "mark",
and here he is honored to the fullest extent that
South San Francisco can honor any man.
Following are the members who make up the
Board of Trustees of South San Francisco and
their business:
F. A. Cunningham, Chairman, Real Estate.
A. J. Eschelbach, Theatre Manager.
Reese Lloyd, Steel.
. M. Minucciani, Contractor.
R. Tibbetts, Mechanic.
Officer Bill Kearny of Room 9 is glad the voters did
not ask for a weekly pay day for the municipal em-
ployes. He says with a twice a month payroll to make
up he often has to ask the assistance of his little play-
mate, Joe Lee, the rapid typist of the General office,
who is always willing and ready to give Bill a helping
hand.
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March. 1927
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CHIEF LOUIS BELLONI
Bv R. L. Spangler
It is written that "A prophet is not without
honor but in his own country." Eitlier Chief of
Police Louis Belloni holds this quotation in con-
tempt, or endeavors to prove it by being tlie ex-
ception, he is in every sense one of South San
Fi-ancisco's own. Chief Belloni was born and
raised in South San Francisco. Five years ago
he was merely a member of the force, officially a
"deputy marshal." For the past two years he has
been chief, and under his leadership the police
department of the city has become more active
than ever before in the history of the community.
Belloni's war service is perhaps one of the chief
reasons for his popularity. As a member of the
famous "363rd", Belloni became a crack gunner of
the "suicide squad", the machine gunners, and
soon won the title of sergeant. Ask any of his
friends and they ^^ill tell you of Belloni's daring
in the four great drives. "Yes", they will tell
you, "Louis mowed down quite a few 'Dutch-
men'."
As to the details of Belloni's career as chief,
the story can be best summed up in fable fashion.
Once upon a time there was an election and three
men were put into office by the narrow margin of
one or two votes. Belloni was promoted to chief
by these men, but when they failed to agree as
to the duties and obligations of the Chief of Police,
Louis was let out.
Then it was that his friends gathered round
him, and with much hard work and intelligent or-
ganizing, recalled the three trustees who had re-
lieved him of his job. When the new officers of
the board were installed, Belloni was once again
made chief. So you see how really important a
man Chief of Police Louis Belloni is in South
San Francisco.
Louis Belloni, January 1, 1922, to April 17, 1924.
April 17, 1924, to present.
Following are the police officers who make up
Chief Belloni's force:
Vincent Bianchini, Officer No. 1, appointed Apr.
17, 1924.
Floyd Menzie, Officer No. 2, appointed Sept. 1,
1925.
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Henry McGraw, Officer No. 3, appointed Decem-
ber, 1917.
Joe Bildhauer, Officer No. 4, appointed Septem-
ber, 1924.
Antone Martin, Officer No. 5, appointed Novem-
ber 23, 1926.
DAN O'BRIEN, JR., ATTORNEY-INSURANCE
BROKER
Deciding that lie could do just as well, if not
better, for himself in the insurance business, as
for someone else, Daniel J. O'Brien, Jr., the young-
est son of the Chief, has opened up an insurance
service office on the sixth floor of the Adam Grant
Building, 114 Sansome street.
Following several years of experience in this
interesting and, today most important business
young Dan has gained a knowledge of insurance
that has gained for him a reputation in that line
of endeavor that will prove a valuable asset, now
that he has gone into it on "his own hook."
He will have a brokerage business in all lines
of insui'ance, fire, life, theft, automobile, accident
and so on. He will handle claim adjustments and
all subrogation matters that the owners of dam-
aged property may desire to handle through his
office in the interest of saving time.
Young Dan goes into the business with a com-
plete understanding of all the angles of insurance,
and those who give him their business will know
that he will give to each account, no matter how
large or small, his best personal attention.
Just after he announced his intention of open-
ing up his office, Daniel, Jr. was notified that he
had successfully passed the bar examination, ad-
mitting him to the practice of the law. He says
he will continue along the line of insurance until
some future date, being convinced that his license
to practice law will be of valuable assistance in
his new venture, particularly to adjustment mat-
ters.
Young Dan has made good as an insurance man,
has devoted his spare time to the study of the
law, and is now besides being in business for him-
self, entitled to practice the legal profession.
All these coming while he is yet a young man,
barely past his majority.
We join with his many other friends in wishing
him success in his new work.
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h4arch. 1927 "2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
COLMA'S COMPETENT CONSTABLE
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That Your Lights May Keen Rnrning
^ANO^"^
Constable S. A. Landini of the First Township
of San Mateo County is a police officer to the
"manner born."
In taking- care of his district for the past 13
years, he has proven his ability as an officer. The
solution of many famous cases are placed to his
credit but "Sil", himself, claims this was due to
the untiring co-operation of Police Chief D. J.
O'Brien, Capt. Duncan Matheson and their aids.
Constable Landini has the confidence of the police
force of the entire State, the mail each day bring-
ing' police news of problems from all over the
country. The constable keeps a record of all cases
that come under his supervision for future refer-
ence. His superiors regard him as a valuable
man of few words and depend on him for quick
results. He, like many other successful men, was
born and reared in San Francisco. Landini is al-
ways on the alert for suspicious characters, but
never overlooks an opportunity of giving the
"first-time bad boy a chance."
The Landini home in Daly City was one of the
first five homes built in Crocker Tract almost 20
years ago. His office is in Colma, where the folks
feel secure in knowing that this district is patroled
and guarded bv Landini.
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STREET MEN PRAISED FOR RECOVERIES
OF STOLEN AUTOMOBILES
The following- reports, submitted to the com-
manding officer of the Detective Bureau, Captain
Duncan Matheson, and approved by him, have
been received at this office, and I hereby com-
mend the officers mentioned in the said reports:
Respecting the attached report of Officer David
R. Dobleman of the Bush Street Station, forwarded
to this office by Captain J. J. Casey. I have
checked the records of the Automobile Detail for
the month of January and believe that the record
made by Corporal A. C. Williams and Officer David
R. Dobleman, in recovering automobiles during
the month of January, deserves commendation by
the Chief of Police.
LIEUT. BERNARD J. McDONALD,
Star No. 62.
During the month of January, Coi^poral A. C.
Williams and I have recovered fifteen stolen auto-
mobiles while touring the district in the Buick
automobile attached to this station, also five aban-
doned automobiles taken to the Columbia Garage.
DAVID R. DOBLEMAN,
Police Officer, Star 978.
Report on recovered automobiles as per your
request of this date.
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OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE
BUREAU OF IDENTIFICATION
SAN FRANCISCO. CALIFORNIA
Wanted
For Safe Blowing
MAX GOLDMAN
Alias Sam Kaufman, alias Rosen. Los Angeles Police No. 17,187.
Age, 47 years; height, 5 ft. 5 in.; weight, 140 lbs.; dark brown eyes,
black hair, dark complexion; Jewish.
This man has operated in Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon. He is
a very thorough worker. He usually rents a room over the place he de-
cides to burglarize and then proceeds at proper time to gain entrance to
store. He also opens account in nearest bank to pay expenses for his
room.
The above man is wanted by the Department for blowing safes of two
local jewelry stores, in April and June, 1926, taking jewelry amounting
approximately to $30,000. Insurance carriers offer reward of 10% of
value of property recovered.
Dated — San Francisco,
March 15, 1927
D. J. O'BRIEN,
Chief of Police.
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After a re-check of the sergeants who took the recent
civil service examination for lieutenant, Sergeant George
Richards of the Detective Bureau was found to have
passed and is on the eligible list for promotion.
« * *
Augustus and Sil Oliva of Oliva Brothers are reported
to have sold over 1,500 tickets to the policemen's con-
cert and ball last month. This is a record that many
members of the department could shoot at, and the
activities of this pair of brothers to hold the widows'
and orphans' fund is a worthy demonstration of cooper-
ation and appreciation.
Among the men booked at the city prison by Detective
Sergeant John J. Manion, in charge of the Chinatown
Squad, were Quong Fong for murder, Vincent Oiara,
grand larceny.
Officer James Coleman and posse working out of the
Chief's oflice. brought in Charles Robinson and Edward
Adams for larceny.
Among Detective Sergeant William Bennett's con-
tribution to the city prison population were three drug
act violators, a half dozen vags. and several street beg-
gars.
Corporal Al Christ and Officer Patrick WaLsh rounded
up nearly a dozen drug addicts whom they booked at
the city prison.
Detective Edward Mills, who did his bit in settling the
recent building trades strike is back on the job helping
Mrs. Martha Evans of the Domestic Relations Bureau
of District Attorney Brady's office, round up neglectful
husbands and fathers.
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Joe Spohn, who sees that most of the first floor is
kept -tidy, suggests that if they had made a swimming
tank oft the light well space instead of putting in more
offices, there would have been more joy among the hired
help of the Hall of Justice.
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Officer Tim Connell of Tax Collector Edward Bryant's
police guard, is recognized as one of the best tax experts
in the city. Tim never comes down to the hall but what
some policeman asks him what the assessment will be
on their 1921 Ford, 1922 Chevrolet or on their 1925
Buick. Tim's got it all down in his head and he can
give the boys the lowdown right off the reel.
Sergeant Frank Latulipe, assisted by Officers Hugo
Dietel, George Blum, Peter Fanning, Louis Meyer and
Janitor William Foley, have been busily engaged of
recent days moving the photograph gallery from the
fourth floor where it has been since the fire of over a
year ago, to the new quarters atop of the Hall of
Justice. A "horseless, self-commencing" elevator has
been established which will convey the attaches having
business in the gallery from the fourth floor and the
city prison, to and fro.
Officer Henry Pyle, who has turned the keys on the
elevator doors in the city prison on more men and women
arrested for every crime on the books, and who for
nearly a year has been off duty is back on the job again.
Though still not fully recovered, Henry has his same
glad greetings to all comers, prisoners, visitors and
officers alike. Henry Pyle has been on the job for over a
quarter of a century and he has seen hundreds of thou-
sands of men locked in the jails of this city. But
through it all he has maintained a kindly and sympa-
thetic feeling' for the unfortunates whom he lets in and
out. The writer, who has watched him for some fifteen
years, has never heard him utter an unkind word to any
unfortunate who came in, and has heard him give a
cheery speeding, and a few words of advice to many who
were being turned out. All around the Hall are sure
glad Harry is back, and trust he will he hitting on all
six before long.
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Inspector Edward Lynch and his trusty assistants, I.
Samuels and Kenney, have been given a lot of additional
space in the basement for parking police cars. The
increased area was made possible by the additions being
completed on the Hall of Justice whereby Captain Bern-
ard Judge of the Property office is given a lot of addi-
tional space for his department.
Officer Harry Higgins got his picture in the paper as
a baby expert recently and all the boys in the Property
Clerk's office were somewhat envious. Harry looked
very paternal in his poses with the infant.
:!t * *
Detective Sergeant Pat O'Connell was telling Detec-
tive George Collins the other day that strong drink as
made by the modern moonshiners was one of the con-
tributing factors to the appalling increase of juvenile
crime.
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CENTRAL
STATION
Capt. Arthur D. Layne
Lieutenants: Harry P. Braig and Edward F. Copeland
Corp. F. Hoeckle and George Burkhardt, landed the
following at the city prison: John Rohinson, assault with
a deadly weapon; Paul Romero, en route to Oakland;
and Edward Seymour, assault.
* * *
Joseph O'Donnell, charged with burglary, was arrested
by Officer Charles LaDue.
* * *
Officer Vincent Lewis did the same to George Wong.
Carrying a gun is a serious offense these days, but
there were a number of folks in the district who seemed
to think the "totin' of pops" was okeh. The following
were shown the error of such thoughts: Pete Cresci,
arrested by Othcers Martin Foley and James Twomey;
John Orlando, arrested by Jerry Fitzgerald; Jesus Perez,
arrested by Officers Edward Meredith; and Bert Davis,
arrested by Officers A. Ballhaus and J. Gallagher. Davis
was also booked for passing worthless checks.
Grand larceny was another favorite pastime in the
Central confines the past month. The following were
booked on such charges: Ray Williams, by Officer Ed-
ward Fewer; John Rogers, by Officers John Dyer, F.
Hoepner and E. Argenti; Harry Van Horn, by Officer J.
Schinkwind; and George Alexakis by Sergt. Rooney and
Officer Ray Harris.
* * *
Louis Romino was not steering a straight course along
the street when Officer Joseph Murray spotted him.
After due questioning, Louis was locked up for driving
an automobile while under the influence of "licker".
Joaquin Rivera was locked up by Officers Edward
Christal and George Ohnimus for petty larceny.
THANKS FOR QUICK WORK
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March. 1927
SOUTHERN
STATION
Capt. Charles GofF
Lieutenants Arthur DeGuire and Arno Dietel
Corporal Emmett Flynn and his husky sidekick, Of-
ficer William Desmond, brought in three bad young men
when they unloaded William Beck, charged with bur-
glary. Edward Day, charged with robbery, and James
Brown, charged the same. The trio were not unacquaint-
ed with the operation of the law as applying to the acts
of the enforcement department for they had all been
"in'' before.
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Officers Al Wenzler and Richard Curtin grabbed off
three burglars when they locked up Domingo Cancel.
Paul Pigueroa and Leo Sanchez.
Another prisoner charged with burglary was Stanley
Morris, tagged by Corp. Dennis Dineen.
Carl Overman will tell you that if there is any doubt
about your being under the influence of liquor, don't
try and drive an automobile in this dsitrict. He couldn't
pass the sobriety tests as propounded by Officers J. Dris-
coll and J. Donovan, so the officers locked him up for
violating Sec. 112.
* * *
Jack Snyder found a gent down this way who trusted
him enough to cash a check. Try this some time and
find out how tough it is to get some rash on a check in
this district. Officer P. Zgraggen was told the check was
no good and he went forth and arrested Snyder for vio-
lating Section 476a of the Penal Code.
POLICE DAY
(Continued from Pape 11)
Many thanks and congratulations in recognition of your
efforts towards creating a national Police Day period.
May every success crown your efforts. (A. E. Bargren,
Chief of Police).
* * *
May I extend my hearty congratulations to you for
designating today as Police Day in San Francisco. The
fact that in conjunction with this day you are holding the
annual ball for the benefit of the Widows' and Orphans'
Aid Association of your police department is a further
evidence of your well kno^^^l interest in providing for
dependents of police officers who have answered the last
call. San Francisco is to be congratulated for having
as its chief executive a man who is so sincerely intere.sted
in the activities of the police department. (William P.
Rutledge, Commissioner, Detroit Police Department).
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Hearty congratulations and well wishes for your interest
in designating a day to be known as Police Day. My
wife, Grace G. Bliss, when a child, was a pupil of your
grandmother, Mrs. Henry C. Rolph, in Sunday School at
Congregational Church in Ayer, Mass. (Charles A. Ken-
dall, Chief of Police, Somerville, Mass.)
* * *
Congratulations for instituting a Police Day. You have
thus blazed the trail for a bigger and better appreciation
of police officers throughout the country. (H. E. French,
Police Chief, Columbus, Ohio).
(Continued on Page 29)
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HARBOR
STATION
Capt. Patrick Herlihy
Lieutenants Wilbert F. Pengelly and Michael Mitchell
OfBcers E. L. McLaughlin and Clift' Dunleavy nabbed a
couple of "birds" wanted in New York. Thomas Bruno
was one, and Frank Paulus was the other. The latter
has a record that didn't help him any. Lieut. Charles
Dullea of the Homicide Squad assisted in the knockover.
William Colwell, who has an intimate acquaintance
with the police along the way from Oregon to San Jose,
was meandering around the waterfront when he was
observed by OfBcers G. Ball and A. Walsh. He was
shown the inside of our well known city prison.
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Corps. Emile Hearne and Byrne, special duty men,
have no use for a work dodger, so they vagged Thomas
Gilgan, engaged in doing nothing in particular.
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Austin C. Hussey picked a nice district to try a little
plain burglary. He didn't get far with his ideas when
he was lamped by OfBcers James Mahoney and C. Ave-
dano. He was duly charged.
^' POLICE DAY
(Continued from Page 28)
Congratulations on the initiative taken by you in offi-
cially proclaiming that one day be observed as Police Day.
It is a splendid tribute to the profession and I want you
to be assured of my co-operation in effort to have it
nationally observed. (John A. Curry, Superintendent of
Police, Niagara Falls, N. Y.)
* * *
Best w'ishes for great success of this most praiseworthy
venture. (Guy C. Payne, Chief of Police, Huntington,
Ind.)
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Congratulations, thanks, and best wishes for this and
future Police Days. (Henry Rex, Chief of Police, Stna-
thers, Ohio).
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Best wishes for successful ball for Widows' and Orphans'
Aid Association. (Alfred Seymour, Chief of Police, Lan-
sing, Mich.)
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Heartiest congratulations and sympathy in your move-
ment for the benefit of the Widows' and Orphans' Aid
Association in declaring Saturday, February 19th, Police
Day and with the hope that your example will be followed
by all the cities throughout the United States, very truly
yours. (E. F. Reilly, Chief of Police, Montclair, N. J.)
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Congratulations on your proclamation on Police Day,
February 19th, 1927. (Martin Feeney, Chief of Police,
Fall River, Mass.)
Syi'acuse, New York, Police Department wishes to ex-
tend thanks and congratulations to the father of Police
Day. (M. L. Cadin, Chief of Police, Syracuse, N. Y.)
* * *
Thanks for invitation ball Widows' and Orphans' Aid
Association. Congratulations on adoption of Police Day.
(W. H. Hackett, Chief of Detectives, Chattanooga, Tenn.)
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March, 1927
MISSION
STATION
Capt. Frederick Lemon
Lieutenants Peter A. Mclntyre and Daniel J. Collins
Seems like the boys who get full of gin like to drive
out this way, and Capt. Fred Lemon's men proceed to
give them an object lesson on the evils of so doing.
Here are three gents who were snatched off the streets
while in a condition, according to the officers, that ren-
dered them unfit to drive an automobile as demanded
in Section 112 of the motor vehicle act: Sloan Barbee,
arrested by Officers C. McDaniell and Earth O'Shea;
Alvie Bicker, arrested by Officer Thomas Cole; Oroville
Cline, arrested by Officer Charles Thompson.
Emile Bouille was the only burglar who tried his hand
in the Mission. He was arrested by Officers C. Foster
and F. Nuttman.
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Frank Gallagher tried a little burglaring, but before
he could get so tar as to have his efforts dignified by a
burglary charge, he was apprehended on an attempted
burglary charge by Officers C. McDonald and Thomas
Feeney.
Ridney Lynn has a pretty name and that is probably
why he was able to get a merchant to cash a check that
proved to be worthless. Officer G. Laine arrested him
for violating Section 476a of the code.
Raymond Krau.se had an automobile that he surrep-
titiously took while the owner wasn't looking. He got
a 146 Motor Act booking when arrested by Officers M.
O'Malley and Barth O'Shea.
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Officer R. Smith brought in John Fennuchi and Dom-
inic Frugeli, whom he charged with violating Section 148
of the Motor Act.
Officer P. Conroy and E. Keck locked up Alex Chris-
tiansen on a petty larceny kick.
STREET MEN PRAISED
(Continued from Page 24)
During the month of January, 1927, the Buick
automobile attached to this station on the late
watch has found five stolen automobiles. During
the month of January the Buick has not been on
patrol during the late afternoon watch. This
does not include automobiles placed in the garage
at the owner's request after accidents.
JOHN S. ROSS, Police Officer,
Star No. 407.
Recovered automobiles for the month of Decem-
ber, 1926.
During the month of December, 1926, while
detailed to the Buick automobile on the 6 to 2
watch, Officer H. Kiernan and myself recovered 14
automobiles.
JOHN S. ROSS, Police Officer,
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BUSH ST.
STATION
Lieutenants Edward L. Cullnan and Joseph Mig^iola
Capt, John J. Casey
Frank Burroughs, loaded for action, was apprehended
by Corp. T. M. MoCarty and posse attempting to bur-
glarize a store. He was accordingly led to a prison cell
and properly charged.
Robbery is a serious offense as Frank M. Hertzler can
attest. He is booked in the city prison on such a charge
having been arrested by Officers Frank Jeschki and Edward
Talbot.
* * *
Driving a stolen automobile through the Bush District
is a hazardous undertaking, as will be vouched for by
Edgar Martin, who was caught doing just that thing by
Officer J. Roger, who gave him a booking under Section
146 of the Motor Act.
Leslie Downing, 23, dapper, and looking like ready
money, "laid down a coppla bum checks" in this district.
Corp. Drury laid a "coppla" husky hands on Mr. Down-
ing's shoulders and he faces two charges of violating
Sec. 476a of the Penal Code.
John Ramsey picked this district to try and prove to
the world that he was able to drive an automobile though
he was accused of being intoxicated. Officer G. Engler
stopped, arrested and locked him up for breaking the
proviso of Sec. 112 of the Motor Act.
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Another gent who did this same thing was Albert
Thornton. He was arrested by Sergt. Christensen and
Officer John Dolan, Jr.
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Officers Dolan and Fred Bauman brought Clarence
Miller to the station, where they charged him with petty
larceny. On searching him they found a nice loaded
black jack. Two "raps" were put against Clarence.
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March. 1927
TRAFFIC BUREAU
Captain Henry Gleeson
Lieutenants J. J. Casey, J. (Cliff) Fields and Grover Coats
Captain Henry Gleeson, who for many weeks
has been seriously ill and who submitted to a
dangerous operation, has recovered to the extent
that he can come down to his office in the Traffic
Bureau.
Though a little shaky yet Captain Gleeson says
he will be as fit as ever just as soon as he gets
used to ambling out in the sunshine.
He has already taken over much of the business
in the Traffic Bureau and announces that he will
be able to do his share in putting a stop to reck-
less and careless automobile drivers.
During the Captain's illness Lieutenant John
J. Casey has acted as captain of the bureau and
he has conducted affairs in such a manner that
he has won much favorable commendation for
himself, not only from his superior officers, but
from organizations which have taken an active
interest in seeing that the traffic laws are prop-
erly enforced. This is but natural for Lieutenant
Casey has had long and active service in the bu-
reau, having been connected with it since it was
practically formed, working up from the lowest
rank to that of lieutenant. There are but few
people in this city who have a better knowledge
of traffic conditions in San Francisco than Jack
Casey No. 2, as he used to be known.
* * *
Corporal John McCausland has been assigned
to the job held for years by Sergeant Harry Walsh
as head of the detail handling vehicular traffic
around the theatres during the night hours, and
as a sort of supervisor of taxicabs and rent cars.
* * *
Traffic Officer Andy Miller, on office duty at the
traffic bureau, says on these rainy days the inside
job has the crossing job skinned to death.
* * *
Motorcycle Officer Edward O'Day, acting as a
committee of one on welcoming and bidding de-
parting motorists to slow down along Mission
street, notices that the average driver thinks
more of his own progress than of the other fellow.
He gets a great kick out of calling down the gent
who crowds in ahead of a law abiding di'iver.
* * *
Motorcycle Officer Joe Perry figures that the
recent crusade has discouraged the hasty driver
in going on the wrong side of a street car.
* * *
Corporal Luther Arentz opines that a few more
weeks of the present method of education of mo-
torists will learn a lot of careless drivers to stop
and read the boulevard stop signs.
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March. 1927
2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 33
PARK
STATION
Capt. John J. O'Meara
Lieutenants Daniel W. Cronin, Francis J. McGuire
Capt. John J. O'Meara points out that during the year
every outdoor sport can be seen in Golden Gate Park,
as well as most indoor sports. Football of the best is
played at Kezar stadium, soccer as well; there ai-e no
better tennis courts anywhere than those in the park,
baseball, professional as well as amateur, is played in
the stadium as well as a half dozen games at a time on
the park grounds, along the south drive, bowling on the
green is a well patronized sport near the Childrens'
playground, croquet, as well, fly casting on Stow Lake
draws many a follower of Ike Walton, who keep in
training for the open season in the mountain streams.
Now, with the opening of the new Kezar gym on Stan-
yan street side of the park, every indoor game imaginable
is played. Basketball, handball and such, di'aw crowds
out every day and many evenings.
# * *
Seems like people come out here and become so fas-
cinated by the beauties of the park and the opportuni-
ties offered to enjoy themselves, that no one wants to
commit crime. The Park District is another large sec-
tion that has comparatively little crime, and that little
is ably and promptly handled by the boys of the station.
* * *
Now and then some wanderer without any visible
means of support will amble out this way and try and
hang around and do nothing. It's an odds on bet that
he will get a ride in the wagon when he does. Frank
Retzloff and James Forrester tried it and they were shot
to the station pronto by Officer Tom Lavell.
A BRAVE ACT RECOGNIZED
At the intersection of Grant avenue and Sutter
street at about 12:15 p. m. recently, I chanced
to witness one of those Uttle everyday acts of
courageous pohcemanship which makes San Fran-
cisco justly proud of its police personnel. A team
of excited gray horses drawing an American Ex-
press Company's wagon No. K-347, driverless,
were hitting a runaway gait up Grant avenue
near Sutter street. The intersection was jammed
with noon crowds igiiorant of the danger. Officer
Nels Mathewson, S. F. P. 820, directing traffic,
quickly saw the possibilities of a tragedy, mo-
tioned a street car across the intersection to turn
the excited team, rushed out and regardless of
danger to himself, grasped the bridles and hung
on, tliough off his feet, for nearly half a block
down Sutter street. When one reahzes what
would likely have occurred in property damage
and possible injury to, or loss of life, had this
officer not acted as keenly and quickly as he did,
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March, 1927
RICHMOND
STATION
Capt. William T. Healy
Lieutenants Daniel W. Cronin, Francis J. McGuire
Captain William Healy has a young police officer at his
station that certainly made good with a bang the other
morning, and an account of whom will be given more
elaborately in the next issue of the Police Journal. His
name is Robert Caldwell, and he saw some gents working
suspiciously going in and out of a garage. Without sum-
moning assistance he tackled five hijackers and after
engaging in some gun work, got all of them to the station.
PRAISE IN SONG
Parody on "Remembering", written and sung at Police
Concert by Hugh B. Dobbs.
I.
Once friends, a brave young soldier,
Came back home from overseas,
He did his part for home and country,
And fought bravely for you and me.
But coming home — his old job taken.
Had a hard time to get along,
Then took the examination, and became
A Police Officer — both brave and strong.
H.
His Sweetheart and he were married.
Then came the kiddies — a girl and boy.
They were oh, so very happy,
Their hearts thrilled with pride and joy.
But one night a bandit's gun barked,
Our Laddy fought bravely, I'll say —
He got his man and brought him in, friends,
But in the dawning our lad passed away.
HI.
Remembering at that dear fireside,
Sits a widow alone and blue.
Remembering are two little kiddies,
Their little hearts are broken, too.
Oh, remember, kind friends, remember!
For it's our duty for me and you,
To show by our contributions,
We surely remember, too!
IV.
And tonight, friends, four brave officers
Mayor James Rolph Jr. will pi-esent to you :
Vernon Van Matre and Earl T. Roney,
Walter T. IMathcs and Everett Hanson, too.
On each breast he'll pin a hero medal,
They each got their man, though wounded, too.
And these medals will tell the world, friends.
That their comrades — Remember, too!
February 18, 1927— Hugh Barrett Dobbs.
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Page 35
INGLESIDE
STATION
Capt. EuRene Wall
Lieutenants Charles A. I'feiffer and Fred W. Norman
For a district that embraces the largest area in the
city, and which as well includes probably the fastest
srowing residential district in San Francisco, the Ingle-
side has less crime, population considered, as will be
found'in any section of this state. Capt. Wall's problems
are varied, and the tenants of his district as various as
will he found in any portion of this city, yet with the
men at his disposal he has maintained such order that he
has received much praise from men high in the affairs of
public life. Major crimes are few and such are quickly
cleared up and closed by arresting and prosecuting such
offenders responsible for the acts. The past month is a
splendid example of the wonderful work done in the
Ingleside. No robberies or burglaries, murders or as-
saults, and the arrests for the month run for lesser of-
fenses as will be noted below.
Hugo Falk was arrested for driving an automobile
while intoxicated. He was stopped and queried by Offi-
cers Harry Honnef and E. Hippely, who locked him up.
Minnie Kaiser was going around the neighborhood
loaded with a gun. She was arrested by Officers T.
Price and J. Kennedy for violating the State Revolver
Law.
.lohn Senimellasck, fooling with little children, was
apprehended and booked on a Section 288 charge by
Officers Dominic Hogan and E. Mahoney.
Esteven Cisoci got a reckless driving charge and a hit
and run charge put opposite his name when he was
brought into the station by Officer A. Smith.
Officer Jerry Kelleher says he has to get a new road
map every week now as they are putting so many new-
streets in his district.
FISHER
(Continued from Page 15)
said that Sing- Sing convicts knew about Fisher
and called him "the man who doesn't forget."
He also said emphatically: "New York City, with
all its millions of people and its marvelous police
system, cannot boast such a bureau as I have
seen today."
When we walked thoughfully out of the Hall of
Justice where Fisher works his wonders, we
understood why the Legislature passed a bill at
his instigation in 1917 for the establishment of a
State Bureau of Criminal Identification. Califor-
nia, and Sacramento particularly, should be very
proud of this wizard who has taught the entire
underworld to fear and respect him.
LOEWS WARFIELD
OfTicer Martin Brennan got enough on Charles Lenand
togh'ehim a booking on_a^ robbery charge.
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March, 1927
NORTH END
STATION
Capt. Herbert J. Wright
Lieutenants D. M. Reavis and George Duffy
Everyone about the station is happy these days.
"Whiskers" the North End District mascot attached to
this command was sick. He is now well and again on
duty. So pleased with Whiskers' recovery which was
brought about through the efforts and attention and
treatment of Dr. T. R. Creely, well known doctor of
dogs, that Captain Herbert J. Wright sent the following
letter to the eminent doctor:
Dr. T. R. Creely,
3170 Sacramento St., City.
Dear Sir:
Please accept my thanks and that of the members of
this Company in the rejuvenation of our mascot, "Whis-
kers." When he arrived here he looked like the Valen-
tino of the dog world, and when he made his appear-
ance on the street on patrol, he was the envy of all the
dog fanciers in this vicinity.
Again thanking you, I remain.
Yours truly,
H. J. WRIGHT,
Captain of Police.
» * *
George Shoemaker was fulla gin, according to Ser-
geant James Wade and Officer Walter Pullen, when he
hit another machine and drove on. The two police
officers rounded up Mr. Shoemaker and when they got
through with their end of the investigation the prisoner
was charged with being a hit and runner and driving
while intoxicated.
* * *
Pullen with Officer T. Brady arrested and booked Ray
Williams as a $1,000 vag.
ED HEALY WITH DISTRICT ATTORNEY
AGAIN
Edward Healy, brother of Captain William
Heal.v of the Richmond district, and Sergeant
George Healy of the Detective Bureau, and who
for years was a valued member of the Warrant
and Bond Office under District Attorney C. M.
Fickert, has been appointed as a member of Dis-
trict Attorney Matthew Brady's staff.
Ed Healy, one of the best known entertainers
in this city, has a following in all parts of San
Francisco. He is active in South of Market Boys'
affairs, has given of his ability as a singer and
story teller to every worthy cause during the past
dozen years, and is popular with organizations of
all kinds for his services.
His appointment is particularly good for the
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understanding of the business and a personality
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March. 1927
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Page 37
W/E STERN
iWrADDITION
STATION
Capt. Robert A. Coulter
Lieutenants Leo Tackney and John M. Sullivan
Robert Durand, William Gonzales, and Louis Richards
were starting something that they thought was all right
but before they got through with the minions of the law
they had a pretty good idea that what they were doing
was not alright. The first two were arrested and charged
with assault with a deadly weapon and the other, in addi-
tion to the same charge, was booked for assault to murder,
and assault by means and force likely to produce great
bodily injury. Officers J. Casey and W. Salisbury attend-
ed to all the details.
» * »
Lester Hancock was arrested by Corporal J. O'Leary
and Officer Salisbury and charged with driving an auto-
mobile while intoxicated.
* * *
George Meyers forgot to pause when he hit another
machine with a driver, and this neglect got him into
considerable trouble. Officer J. Flemming apprehended
him and booked him for reckless driving and as a hit-
runner.
* * :?
Thomas Matthews will learn that when he comes out
this way, he had better have some lawful means of mak-
ing a living. He did this the other day and got locked
up as a $1000 vagrant. Officers L. Lunnes and Lester
Brooks arrested him.
POLICE DRILLS
(Continued from Page 9)
department on the midnight watch shall not be
required to drill until further orders. Patrolmen
of the Department who have had twenty years'
service will be excluded from the said drills. All
commissioned and non-commissioned officers of
the Department will drill excepting those excused
by company commanders on account of sickness or
other physical disability.
The Detective Bureau and Headquarters Com-
pany shall be combined as a single unit in the
preparatory drills mentioned.
Each company commander shall designate one
member of his command who will supervise and
instruct in the preparatory drills. The name of
the said officer shall be submitted to this office
not later than Thursday, Mai-ch 3, 1927, and at
the same time and date company commanders
shall submit a list of the names of men of their
respective companies who are excused from par-
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Captain Duncan Matheson shall designate the
officer in charge of drill for members of the detec-
tive bureau and the headquarters company who
will be available.
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March, 1927
POTRERO
STATION
Capt. Harry J. O'Day
Lieutenants Albert S. Munn, J. C. Malloy
This district has a couple of mighty active special
duty men in Officers Tom O'Connor and J. Coughlan.
This pair of lads can cover more territory and clean
up a kick quicker than a lot of folks can think about
them. They have the district pretty well under their
ideas of lawfulness and they keep the evil doers on the
move. If they don't move out of the district the offi-
cers move them to the city prison. Most of the people
who live in the Potrero are woi-king people who have a
general plan of attending to their own business and the
lawbreakers are for the most part those who come from
without.
* * *
O'Connor and Coughlan. assisted by Detectives John
Sturm and Daniel Fogarty, arrested Peter Dariotis
wanted on a charge of assault to commit murder.
John Carpoff and John Shubin got themselves locked
up for disturbing the peace when the neighbors com-
plained that they were pulling a lot of rough stuff.
BAY VIEW
STATION
Capt. Stephen V. Bunner
Lieut. Frank DeGrancourt, Lieut. Wm. Dowie
Corporal William Harrington wa.>; telling Corporal Rudy
Maier the other day that it look.<; as if the gents who mix
gin with gas were convinced that thi.^: district was a bad
place to operate under such circumstances, for they
haven't had a 112 case in the Bay view thi.s year. Rob-
beries and burglaries are al.«o a .'scarce charge found in
the daily reports to Captain Stephen Bunner.
When they need a good, active and capable as well as
fearless police officer to carry out some especial work
this station can furnish the men. Jim' Sunsari sure proved
that he knew his onions when he helped put the church
bombei' out of commission.
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Page 39
BOMBER KILLED
(Continued from Page 10)
to run and DeMatei fired, hitting- him in the leg.
The injured man's name is C. S. Eklund, though
at first he gave the name of Moss. He will re-
cover.
The name of the dead dynamiter is yet un-
determined.
As the firing began there was enacted as great
a piece of bravery as was ever enacted any place.
Joe Gremmenger, terror to the lioodlum, feai'less
in his everyday duty, rushed out through the
front door, quickly stooped over and with a knife
he had prepared for such an emergency cut the
burning fuse.
Joe Gremmenger did not know whether there
was one foot or fifty feet of fuse. He did not
know whether it was instantaneous, slow or fast
burning fuse, he just knew he had to go out there
and stop it from exploding the 25 sticks of dyna-
mite, covered with clay, that had been set there
by a villanous murderer. And he did just that
very thing.
One should stop and think and then realize just
what it meant to these 11 policemen in that
church, if a TNT bomb had been hurled into the
building. It would have killed every one of them.
These men knew that, yet they kept unflinchingly
to their duty and they brought honor and glory
to themselves and to the department of wiiich
tliey are members.
The whole thing was a magnificently staged
piece of police work arranged in detail, and which
went ofl: without a hitch.
It reflects great credit to Chief O'Brien and
Captain Layne particularly, and these two officials
iiave come in for their share of the congratula-
tions.
The day following the killing of the bomber
Father Oreste Trinchieri, in charge of the church
came down to the Chief's office to thank him and
his men, and to present them with the $1,000 re-
ward offered for the apprehension of the bomber.
Be it said to the credit of each of the men en-
titled to the reward they refused the same and
asked the Reverend Father to put it so some good
use.
Cliief O'Brien called the men before him and
personally commended each, pointing out the
wonderful way they had executed the task given
them, of their courage and bravery, of their splen-
did judgment and of the way they guarded their
secret work. He gave each man five days off'.
When the Police Commission met. President
Theodore Roche elaborated in his able manner
upon the splendid work of the officers and said the
police commission was giving two weeks more
•off in addition to the Chief's order.
(Continued on Page 42 i
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Confentment
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March. 1927
FANNING
(Continued from Page 7)
over with several official looking stamps, and the
document read as follows:
The High Court of Chancery in its probate jur-
isdiction: The estate of the late Eliza Adelaide
Chadwick, widow, deceased — All to whom these
presents shall come, greeting: Whereas, on the
24th day of November, in the year 1900 at Stock-
well Park Road, London, E. C, Eliza Adelaide
Chadwick died, and .by virtue of an instrument in
writing executed by her, the said Eliza Adelaide
Chadwick, opened and read by Edward Patrick
Hayden, a barrister of Grays Building, Strand,
London, and Mrs. Edith Adelaide Oliver, now of
Stockwell Road, London, E. C, executors of the
aforementioned instrument; Ernest Moore Chad-
wick, a physician and surgeon of San Francisco,
CaUf., was named as heir at law in the said in-
strument, it being the last will and testament.
The aforesaid Ernest Moore Chadwick was be-
queathed the sum of thirty-one thousand pounds
sterling in good and lawful coin of Great Britain.
And it has been decreed that the petition of the
executors be granted and final distribution of said
estate be made. These are therefore to command
you, the said Ernest Moore Chadwick, to appear in
person or by your attorney or counsel to receive
the sum of thirty-one thousand pounds sterling,
the sum being your share of the estate, by virtue
of the afoi'esaid will.
Given under my hand and seal at Somerset
House, London, E. C.
JAMES BOW]MAN, Probate Judge.
Shortly after, Nora's mother asked Chadwick
why was he so hasty to marry her girl, because
he had known her only a few weeks. He replied
with a flood of the most ardent declarations. Then
Nora's parents became suspicious that all might
not be right after all. They immediately came
to this city and sought the services of an attor-
ney, who advised that cablegrams of inquiry he
sent to London and the result did not disprove
his judgment. The first answer received was:
London, Feb. 22, 1901— Eliza Adelaide Chad-
wick. No such case in the Registry. (Signed)
Probate Registry, London.
Another cablegram was received stating: No
St. James Road, Blackfriars. No name Patrick
Hayden, either barrister or solicitor, in Directory.
Mr. and Mrs. Schneider, sorry to dash the hopes
of their daughter, but unwilling to have an en-
gagement continue under these circumstances,
gave Nora to understand that her dream was over.
The same night she returned her diamond ring
and other gifts. Nevertheless, she was mamed
to Chadwick the succeeding night. Concerning
the event and immediately preceding it, Mrs.
Schneider told the following story: "My husband
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and I came down to the city and went to see our
attorney. Chadwick had come in the same train
and entered the building before we did. He met
us and told us there was a mistake, that the at-
torney had telegraphed to the wrong court, and
that he, Chadwick, would send a cablegram and
get an answer showing that it was all right as he
had represented. We were together during the
day after that. He said he wanted the diamond
ring, which he had left in Crockett, Calif., for
some reason, and he would go up there and get it,
returning on the next train. After he had gone
I felt uneasy, so went down to the foot of Market
street to meet him when he returned. The train
he should have come on was late, and when it came
in I found he was not there ; in the meantime our
train to Crockett had gone. Chadwick married
our daughter in this way : He took a forged tele-
gram which he signed with our names, to Nora,
telling her we wished her to marry Chadwick at
once. At that she was very happy. She kissed
her grandmother and two sisters and went out
with Chadwick and was married that night by the
Rev. Mr. Travis in Crockett." The next morning
they ate breakfast at Dr. Riley's house at Port
Costa. Dr. Riley had taken him in as a partner.
It was then afterwards learned that Chadwick
began his operations in San Francisco at the
Donahue-Kelly Bank some time before. Accord-
ing to the statements made at the Bank, Chadwick
called there with a draft for $1,000.00 from the
New Zealand Bank on New York. He was allowed
to deposit this and received a pass book with the
understanding he would not check against it until
the genuineness of the draft had been ascertained.
A few days later a check for $250.00 came in
from A. Andrews, for a diamond ring. That was
paid. After that there was a continual succession
of checks from people to whom they were given
by Chadwick. Some were for goods, some were
for money. A number came from Crockett, others
from San Francisco. In the aggregate they
amounted to thousands of dollars. The bank re-
fused to pay any of them. Then telegraph lines
to the east, north and south carried the name and
a description of Sir Harry Westwood Cooper, alias
Chadwick, all 'round rogue, beguiler of innocent
maidens and ex-convict, with a request that he
be apprehended wherever found, and held until he
could be returned here. He was arrested in Ogden
on a telegram from the police of San Francisco,
charging him with forgery ; his wife was with him
at the time of his ai'rest, and as the jailer took
Cooper to lock him up, he turned to kiss her, but
she spumed him. She said that she did not want
anj-thing more to do with him and she was anxious
to return to California.
"I cannot love a man who has deceived me,"
she said, "and I want to go home to my mother,"
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and she returned to California. Nora's mother
immediately consulted an attorney with the result
that it was decided to have the necessary papers
served on the notorious swindler as soon as he
reached the city to the end that the courts would
nullify the marriage. Arriving in this city at that
time was a woman named Miss Bertha Young, who
was married to Sir Harry in Brisbane, Queens-
land, Australia. She was a tall, pretty girl with
brown eyes and dimpled cheeks. The story she
told of how Cooper wooed and won her was in
many particulars like the sad experience of Nora
Schneider.
When Sir Harry met Miss Young he was posing
as a poor physician at Brisbane. Little by little
he built around himself a tale in which he figured
as a hero who had fallen heir to an English estate
that grew gradually from 2,000 to 18,000 pounds
sterling. After Cooper married Miss Young, he
managed to borrow 400 pounds from her aunt in
Melbourne and then went with his bride and her
little brother to England, and then to Toronto,
Canada, where he deserted them. In the mean-
time, the mother of Bertha also arrived in the city
and with two wives and two mothers-in-law. Sir
Harry found himself in an awful predicament.
Miss Young produced a paper showing that they
were married by a minister at his residence in Har-
court street, Brisbane. The groom recorded him-
self as Henry Irving Lewellyn Cooper, a medical
student, a bachelor, 27, native of Dublin, Ireland.
His father's name was given as Henry \\'estwood
Cooper, Baronet, and his occupation, surgeon in
the Royal Navy. The bride was aged 18 and the
daughter of a drover. The certificate was signed
by the contracting parties and the witnesses were
the bride's mother and the minister's wife.
(To Be Continued)
BOMBER KILLED
(Continued from Page 39)
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He was also loud in his praise for the assist-
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An Instructive Article
Career of
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Paddy Walsh— Some Detective
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CON T ENTS
Keep Your Car from Being Stolen-
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Career of Sir Harr>' Westwood Cooper, by Officer Peter Fanning-
I Remember When — by Wm. (Doe) Mundell
Chiefs Page , ,,,
Police Vigilance Lauded ,
It Pays to Be Nice
Paddy Walsh — Some Detective, by John G. Lawlor_
Mayor Rolph Proclaims Police Day
Detective Bureau
Shoplifter "Lifted"
George Stallard Kills Thug_
Knockovers of Bureau
Taking Statements, by Attorney Robert Fitzgerald
Letters to Chief Praising Officers
Success Crowns 1927 Police Show, by Captain William J. Quinn>^
Coroner's Jury Extols Police
Worth While Reward
Editorial Page . .
Commendatory Letters to the Chief
Patrol Wagon Ser\'ice, by William D. Buma
Peninsula Traffic Police Organize
The Desert Shall Rejoice. Poem, by Chief Arthur E. DowelL
Couldn't Escape Our Bureau of Identification-
Department Changes
Police Baseball League Formed
Covering Beats by Stations^-.
Mayor Thanks Police for Good Time at Annual Show.
Clever Thief Pulls One Here.
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More freedom when electric range
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COOKS AUTOMATICALLY WHILE YOU'RE OUT IN THE SUNSHINE
The electric range eliminates the hours of watching in the kitchen.
That is why many women — perhaps some of your neighbors — have
more freedom. For an electric range cooks automatically.
While you're away the electric cuiTent turns on at any time you wish.
After the cooking is finished it turns off.
When you return, the dinner is deliciously done and ready to serve.
Even if you come home an hour late, the insulated oven keeps the food
warm.
One of our representatives will gladly tell you about the electric range
and how it gives you freedom, a cool summer kitchen and keeps cooking
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Vol. V.
APRIL, 1927
No. 6.
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Keep Your Car from Being Stolen
Drive Away With an Automobile
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be avoided if the owners used ordinary precau-
tions and jotted down the engine number and
Hcense number of their cars on a memorandum
pad and put it where it would not get lost. In
addition, if owners will place secret markings at
several points on the car, identification can be
made positive. A vmtten notification of owner-
ship hidden within the upholstery is very good.
Oui- statistics show that 83 cars out of every
hundred stolen are taken by the thief within five
minutes after the owner leaves his car. It is a
practice of experienced automobile thieves to be
on watch and to notice the car drive up and take
a good look at the occupant and watch him go
away before attempting to steal a car. Exper-
ienced thieves are familiar with all makes of cars,
and it is usually just as easy for them to drive off
a Cadillac as a Ford. Consequently, it takes very
little time for them to jump into the driver's seat,
turn a switch key, start the motor, and be off.
The owner does not have to go very far or be gone
very long to give the thief all the time he needs.
However, if the thief experiences trouble in
starting the motor, he may do one of two things.
If he is pretty sure the o\vner is going to be de-
layed and is not coming back right away to sur-
prise him, he will investigate the cause of the
trouble. If the thief is in doubt about the owner
returning immediately, he will likely get out of
the car and abandon the attempt to steal it.
Thieves are lazy people as a class and do not like
work. Here is where the oviTier can take ordinary
precautions — the ignition system of your car. The
more difficult it is for a thief to start your motor,
the less chance there is of your car being stolen.
Ignition System Precautions.
Most makes of cars have standard types of
switch keys, and most thieves have a supply of
these keys to unlock the switch of any car they
attempt to steal. Under no circumstances leave
Read Wfi>i Thieves Find it Easy to
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Editor's Note — The following is a series of in-
structions to motor car owners which is to be
broadcast over various radio stations and which
has been submitted to Lieut. Bernard McDonald
of the San Francisco Automobile Detail of the
Detective Bureau.
Investigation shows that, of the thousands of
automobiles stolen in this county, the owners of
the cars have themselves, in most cases, contribut-
ed negligence. Of those persons who have their
cars stolen, nearly all invite theft by failing to
take ordinary precautions.
In the campaign against crime and criminals, if
we can fight from both ends toward the middle,
so to speak, with our officers doing their work
effectively on the one end and the public using
ordinary precautions to make the work of crim-
inals more hazardous on the other end, crime will
be sandwiched between two mighty forces that
will not give it breathing room.
Ordinary precautions do not aim to make the
theft of an automobile or its accessories impos-
sible, but they do serve to make it harder for
thieves to steal, and often are sufficient to cause
him to fail entirely to do so, or cause him to get
caught in the act.
Some automobile owners take no precautions of
any kind against theft. It is sui-prising that, with
so many careless owners, there are not more auto-
mobiles stolen than there are.
License and Engine Numbei's
Hardly five percent of the people who report
their cars stolen to this oflice know the number of
the engine or the State license. These two identi-
fication numbers are perhaps the most important
means of identifying any car. It frequently takes
days to get the correct license and motor numbers
of stolen cars by writing or wiring to the State
office at Sacramento. This time and expense could
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April, 1927
the switch key in the lock, but remember, the
thief may have a duphcate key, so do not put too
much confidence in your switch key alone.
To render the ignition inoperative even when
the thief has a duplicate key, you may find it a
simple matter to raise the hood of your car and
take the top off the distributor box, if your car
is so equipped. Inside the distributor box is a
small roller which can be taken out very easily.
The motor will not start if this is removed. This
is a good precaution, especially if you intend to
leave the car parked for some time. Of course,
experienced thieves are familiar with this precau-
tion, but it serves to hamper their quick opera-
tions, especially if they do not see the owner re-
move the roller, as in that case, the thief might be
forced to take quite a little time discovering why
the motor does not start.
Another means of rendering the motor inopera-
tive is to have a secret switch hidden somewhere,
perhaps behind the dash board or under a seat, so
as to cut off all power from the battery to the
motor. Such a switch may give the thief no end
of trouble trying to discover where it is located
and may prevent the theft of the car entirely.
Ti-ansmission Locks
Many makes of cars are equipped with trans-
mission locks. These locks are very good, but
many people have them and never use them. It is
just an ordinary precaution to get into the habit
of locking the transmission every time you park
your car. Do not think that just because you are
going into a bakery for a loaf of bread and will
be right out again, that you can afford not to lock
the transmission. A car was recently stolen under
just such circumstances. The owner had not been
gone four minutes before it was taken.
Protecting Tires
Probably more than one-half of the spare or
extra tires being carried on automobiles in this
county can be removed from the car by unscrew-
ing two or three nuts. This condition is a stand-
ing invitation to thieves. In fact it encourages
thieves to steal from you. It is just too easy to
steal spare tires. That is why so many 14 and 15
year old boys ai-e able to do it. If every car owner
took just ordinary precautions and bought three
feet of heavy chain at about 10 to 20 cents a foot
from a hardware store and padlocked this chain
about the spare tire to some fixed part of the car,
one-half of the spare tire thefts in the county
would stop. Use heavy chain — too heavy to be cut
with snippers. Use a good heavy padlock.
Also make a memorandum of the numbers on
your tires and jot down the name of the manufac-
turer, the size and type of the tire. The law pre-
vents us from returning stolen property that has
not been properly identified by the owners, and
every year we are forced to sell at auction large
quantities of recovered property which can not be
properly identified.
Closed Cars
A closed car provides many means to make it
difficult for a thief to get the motor started, but
many people are careless about using these means.
If you own a closed car it is only taking ordinary
precaution to elevate all the windows every time
you park and lock all the doors on the inside except
the driver's door, which usually has to be locked
by a key from the outside. Also be doubly sure
and lock tiie transmission if you have a transmis-
sion lock. Do this every time you park. Get
into the habit. Do not think you are going to
too much trouble just to leave the car for a few
minutes. Don't forget that 83 per cent of all
stolen cars are taken within five minutes after the
owner leaves it.
Tire Locks
Cars with small tires can not be conveniently
driven off under their own power at least, if locked
with a heavy safety tire lock. Such locks have
proved very effective in the past and their use is
strongly recommended by insurance companies
and the police.
Theft Insurance
Some people have an erroneous idea that it is
not necessai-y to take ordinary precaution against
theft of a car if they have it fully covered by in-
surance. Irrespective of how much insurance you
carry, insurance companies seldom settle for more
than 80 per cent of the value of a car at the time
it is stolen. You can over insure, but do not think
you will beat the insurance company by trickery.
You can put it down as a fact that every stolen
car means a loss of 20 per cent or more to the
owner, whether insurance is carried or not. Help
to create a reduction in the number of cars stolen,
and insurance rates will come down.
Auto Thefts and Major Crimes
Statistics show that most major crimes are
committed with a stolen automobile as an acces-
sory to the crime. The average holdup man, or
burglar, does not make the mistake of riding to,
or from, the scene of his crime in his own auto-
mobile. He steals one for the purpose — one that
is easy to steal. Hence it follows that every
citizen who does not take ordinary precaution
to prevent the theft of his car is indirectly guilty
of creating conditions which help the holdup, the
burglar, the miu'derer, and all types of lawless-
ness against society. Few automobile owners
realize this.
Auto Thefts and Juvenile Crime
More than half of the stolen cars are taken by
juveniles — boys below the age of 21. In the be-
ginning the cars were merely taken for joy rides
and abandoned. Soon, however, the practise of
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PETER FANNING
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Career of Sir Harry Westwood Cooper
By Officer Pftfr Fanning
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Another paper indi- he did, he would not have spoiled her life. As a
pastime while fleecing some of the people of the
town where he wooed this girl, and to gi'atify his
vanity, he led her away from home and clouded
her life. He must have had in mind that his in-
famous conduct toward the young woman who
loved him would insure him the full penalty of the
law should he be caught and convicted, but reck-
less and foolish daring is a characteristic of the
criminal mentality, and it has been shown that
he was without conscience or mercy. He was a
unique study in criminology and in a class by him-
self. Suave, interesting, educated, possessed of a
nerve that experience made strong and sure of its
footing, it was not hard to understand how he
got to the purses of unwary men and the hearts
of unsuspecting maidens. But, clever as he was in
the ways of crime, he was caught up at last and
found himself inside the prison bars.
When Sir Harry was asked to show- cause w-hy
sentence should not be passed, he stated that he
merely requested that the usual rebuke adminis-
tered to felons upon being committed to prison be
omitted in his case. The court replied that a
judge was but the servant of the people, and that
it was but right that comment should be made.
Judge Lawler reviewed the checkered and inter-
esting career of the prisoner, censuring him in the
most bitter terms as follows: "It was by means
of the forged message to the parents of Nora
Schneider which forms the basis for the charge,
that the marriage ceremony between the defen-
dant and this young woman was brought about.
The message in question purported to give the
consent of the mother of the girl to the marriage,
and this expedient was resorted to by the defen-
dant because an inquiry instituted for the purpose
of verifying his representations concerning him-
self disclosed that he was a sham and a fraud. He
exhibited as little concern in giving testimony
which reeked with perjury, as he did in using his
arts and blandishments in bringing about the dis-
comfiture and humiliation of a respected and con-
tented family. As a witness, he shocked the moral
sense of all who heard him and exhibited a de-
pravity as pronounced as it was rare. The place
for this defendant is behind prison bars. His free-
dom in any country is a menace to its tranquility
and a danger to the best interests of society."
Judge Lawler then said: "The maximum pen-
alty for this offence is 5 years in the state prison.
Lender the law governing increased punishment,
the former conviction brings the maximum pun-
ishment to 10 years and it is the judgment of the
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Gated that Cooper's
system of securing the
confidence of his vic-
tims was much the
same in Australia as
elsewhere. It was a
printed bulletin enti-
tled "Special Gazette"
in large type. It pui'-
ported to have been is-
sued by the Royal Col-
lege of Surgeons, and
to describe an opera-
tion performed by H.
W. Cooper at the To-
ronto General Hospi-
tal. It proceeded that
the case was of such a
grave and complicated nature that the visiting
and residing staff were afraid to perform the
operation. Then Cooper appeared on the scene
and notified the physicians that their treatment of
the case w'as all wrong. To their astonishment
he then performed successfully one of the greatest
operations ever known in Toronto, removing a five
and one-half pound tumor. He is described as a
graduate of Christ's Church College, Oxford, Eng-
land, "who was an extremely clever student, be-
ing graduated at the age of 17." He was also a
member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and the
son of Sir Harry Cooper, Bart. The bulletin con-
cludes: "He sailed for Australia, where he won
fame as a specialist for women." This was one
of the many papers that Cooper displayed to in-
gratiate himself with his victims. He also had
some official papers from the Probate Court of
London ordering sums of money paid to him on
account of legacies from fictitious relatives.
It has been often said that if criminals of the
more intellectual classes would spend half the
energy in honest industry that they spend in de-
signing and perfecting crime, they might be hon-
ored and well to do instead of hunted, miserable,
and much of the time in prison. No better exam-
ple of the perversity of the criminal intellect is
needed than the case of this man. He had the
criminal kink in his brain, and an honest life, how-
ever prosperous, was insufferably tedious to him.
He had spread a story of the death of an English
relative who had left him sole legatee of a rich
fortune: had borrowed money from a number of
people and then we see him elope with an innocent
young girl, the daughter of a leading citizen of
Crockett. This man did not love the girl, for if
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2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
April, 1927
I Remember When ' -
Reminiscences of Wm. (Doc) Mun
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A brewer working in Wielands' Brewery at
Second and Clementina streets drank about a bar-
rel of beer per day, weighed 560 pounds and went
calmly to sleep on any patrolman's beat. One
midnight he parked himself on the footboard of
a bootblack stand at Second and Howard streets.
The stand faced on neither street but was still
on the corner, or it might be said to have faced
on both streets. Pat Tracey and Jim Tuite walk-
ed the Howard and Second street beats respect-
ively. They met and discovered the brewer, an
old acquaintance.
"Take him in," said Tuite.
"Take him in yourself", replied Tracey. "He's
not on my beat."
"Neither is he on mine", replied Tuite."
"Then we'll leave him lie", said Tracey.
Two hours later Sergts. Jim Donovan, Jack
O'Meara, (now captain at the Park) Tuite and
Tracey all met on the corner. It was decided to
try to get the drunken brewer into the wagon.
Billy Kearney, then driver at the Southern, re-
sponded to the call. With the aid of the saloon-
keeper, his bartender and a few hangers-on, the
policemen got the beer-drinking prodigy into the
wagon. Reaching the station it was found the
brewer could not be aroused so the officer in
charge ordered him taken to the Emergency Hos-
pital where Dr. Fitzgibbons announced that the
prisoner was dead. Next day, in his character-
istic high-pitched voice, Capt. Johnny Spillane, as
the men lined up on watch, went from Keaniey
to Tracey. Each officer said the brewer was all
right when picked up. Reaching Tracey, "Black
Jack" asked him how he knew the prisoner was
alive when put into the wagon. Tracey, with his
usual Irish wit, quickly responded: "Because he
called me a lot of dirty names." Spillane gave a
snort of defeat and walked away.
Charlie Gallatin used to be one of the fast upper
office men.
* * *
Charlie Brown, now a corpoi-al on special duty
with Bill Harrington over at "Bunner's Reform
School" (Bay district station), alternated with
Jim Reade on Merchant, Clay, Commercial and
Sacramento streets. Charlie has been on the
force over 30 years and still looks like a young
fellow. He was the first jitney driver in San
Francisco and operated a horse and buggy.
* * *
The shooting range in the old Hall of Justice
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was used as a temporary morgue during earth-
quake days and was filled with 37 bodies, later
buried in trenches in Portsmouth Square. The
officers who acted as grave-diggers were: Al
Holmes, Charlie Brown, "Big Jim" Kavanaugh,
Jake Nelson, Felix Dougherty, Eddie Mills and
Detective Charlie Taylor.
The wooden door leading from the basement
to the old shooting range was not even burned,
though the old hall was destroyed. Lockers, etc.,
in the range were found intact after the fire
swept by.
* * *
Lieut. Grover Coats, now one of the heads in
the Traffic Bureau, rode a horse on traffic duty.
Louis Cornelius, one-time plain clothes man in
the City Hall District with Leo Bunner and
"Kiddo" Walsh while detailed at the City Treas-
urer's office, used to buy and sell junk. Louis
has been dead some time.
* * *
Charlie Fennell, one of the old regulars, was
guardian of the peace in the before-the-fire ten-
derloin.
Sergt. John Mooney, later captain and Captain
of Detectives, was sent to the then new Park
station on Stanyon street, near Page, to prepare
in about 1899, for the taking over, when the Char-
ter went into effect in 1900, the Park police force.
Patrolman Charles Waterman was then day man
in charge of the station.
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Old Beechner operated the front elevator in the
old Hall at night time. This and another elevator
located where the stairs to the second floor now
are, ran direct to the old city prison. When
Beechner went to eat at about 10 p. m., some one
of the police reporters acted in his place.
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John Phelan was once pensioned and then re-
stored to duty after over 30 years' service in the
department. John, the Mercury of Bay View
station, is loved by all of the kiddies he helps
across dangerous crossings on their way to the
Taylor Elementary School at Goettinger and Bur-
rows streets.
* * *
Richard J. Hanley rose to be six feet four inches.
He is better known as "Big Dick" by his fellow
officers and all the kids. He has been 33 years
on Third street from 9th to San Bruno avenue.
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By Chief of Police Daniel J. O'Brien
POLICE VIGILANCE LAUDED
The public at times are startled and shocked
when some bandit wounds or shoots at one of the
department and gloom is all over the city, and in
the rush of affairs it passes along with other
events. Seldom, if ever, we hear of the vigilance
and human side of the rank and file of the de-
partment in its silent watches of the night when
all is still.
I was visiting in West Portal District last night.
My two daughters were attending a shower in an-
other part of the city. They called for me about
midnight and we drove home along the Great
Highway and just at Balboa we ran out of gas.
I went around the corner to a garage, but it was
closed. I took a No. 7 car. The conductor said
that there was a garage at 7th avenue and Lin-
coln way. I got the gas and was leaving with it
when two police officers were leaving and they
asked me where I was going and I told them.
"Oh, I guess we can help you a bit", they said.
I was worried, because the girls did not know
where I was and I did not go back to tell them
to close the window of the machine. I got in
their machine. They rang in their station on the
way and took me to our machine. Just imagine
if I had to stand on the corner and wait for an-
other hour for the street car, and the girls scared,
at the other end of the line. We reached them
as a machine was leaving and I was scared. What
happened to them was this: Two officers pati'ol-
ling the beach saw them in the machine alone
and flashed a light in the open windows on them.
"What are you girls doing alone at this hour on
the beach ?" they inquired. The girls related the
circumstances. They flashed the light on the
back seat and there was the silver the girls had
loaned for the shower. "Oh, so your mother has
gone for gas, has she?" and the girls explained
the loan of the silver. We filled the tank and the
officers took the can back, saying they had to get
back that way in time and would return it. I
offered them a tip for a cigar, but they absolutely
refused to accept anything, saying they were
glad to serve us.
I want to thank you, Chief O'Brien, and those
two fine officers for their kindness to me and my
two girls and did I not write this it would, no
doubt, be hidden along with thousands of other
human little acts of good works your men do in
the silence of a sleeping gi-eat city. What a won-
derful thing it is and we realize it only after our
experience, and it's fine to know that mothers and
their daughters are safe and protection is afforded
in its most isolated sections by such a chief of
police as yourself and your efficient department.
I tliank you and trust you will be blessed with
good health to continue your good work.
(Signed) ANNIE A. SCANLON,
601 Forty-first avenue.
The two officers referred to in the letter %\'ritten
to the Chief of Police by Mrs. Annie A. Scanlon,
601 41st avenue, are Antone De Paoli and Chris-
tian Grutzmacher, both of Company F.
IT PAYS TO BE NICE
A very nice thing, in the writer's judgment,
happened a few Sundays ago with one of your
sergeants at the Ferry building, and I think it
should be called to your attention because I be-
lieve it reflects the management of the Police
Department.
My boy, with one of his chums, had gone to
Palo Alto to attend the basketball game and one
of them had laid 75 cents aside for fare crossing
the Bay. On arri\ang at the Ferry building they
found that this money had been lost. They
therefore looked into your station at the Ferry
building and explained their predicament to the
sergeant there. I do not recall his name, as he
was not there when I returned the money the
next day, but he understood their condition and
gave them enough to take them home. I fully
realize this was not a police matter, but the ser-
geant was impressed with their honesty, and I feel
that in most instances the officers might have
accepted their story as being untrue and told
them to go elsewhere. I wanted to thank the
sergeant personally, but he was out when I called,
so I just left the money and advised one of your
other officers to thank him.
Little acts like this are what make the world
so much better and I am so pleased that the
cahbre of your men is such that in dealing with
the class they do that the human side is not lost.
R. W. MYERS,
1 Drumm Street.
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JOHN G. LAWLOR
By Jack Lawlor, Police
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Paris had its super-detective, the great Vidocq ;
London its Sherlock Holmes, but it remained for
the City by the Golden Gate to produce a "Paddy"
Walsh.
A typical police officer of the old school, with a
hard fist and a warm
heart, "Paddy" is de-
veloping into one of
the keenest sleuths in
the department. Some
of the cleverest work
seen in many months
is his present crusade
against the narcotic
smugglers and mem-
bers of the opium ring.
Recently, with other
officers, h e swooped
down on a rendezvous
of a "hop queen". Dago Mary and her associates,
"Charity Alice", a female peddler, and a couple of
the scum of the universe that play around with
them. The women were in the room but the
men were missing. "Paddy" determined to get
them.
"I guess we'll wait around and. see what turns
up", said he to the others, as he sat down and
lit his pipe for a comfortable smoke.
He noticed that the girls were nervous and
anxious to go.
"Oh, don't be so anxious to go to the Hall,
Mary", said "Paddy" with a reassuring smile,
"you will get there in good time."
Just then the telephone rang.
"Ting-a-ling-a-ling."
"Dago Mary" darted tovard the phone but
"Paddy" beat her to it. Imitating Mary's voice
to perfection in a way that would have made
Julian Eltinge turn as green as a St. Patrick's
day shamrock with envy, he carried on a rapid
fire conversation in a high falsetto:
"Paddy"— "Hello, hello."
Hophead— "Hello— that you Mary?"
"Paddy"— "Yes, dear."
Hophead — "Alice and the boys there?"
"Paddy" — "Yes, honey dove."
Hophead — "Any 'bulls' around?"
"Paddy" — "No, dear, everything is eggs in the
coffee, hurry and come up."
"Paddy" — "And say, sweetheart, bring Frank
with you."
Hophead — "Alright, I'll be there in a jiffy, leave
Reporter, "Daily T^ews"
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the door unlatched."
"Paddy" — "Absolutely, honey bunch, hurry
now."
In fifteen minutes more or less the hophead
appeared, was gi-abbed by the scruff of his neck
by "Paddy" as he dodged back and tried to do
a Charley Paddock down the hall and soon was
on his way to the city prison in the patrol wagon
with his female consorts.
"Paddy" got a big tumble on this clever catch
from D. Wooster Taylor, one of the star reporters
on the Examiner, who told this writer that
"Paddy's" work was the cleverest that had ever
come to his notice.
This police officer is a quick thinker, loo. A
few days ago in Judge O'Brien's court "Knock-
out" Brown, a former fighter, attempted to swal-
low the morphine used as evidence against him
while the case was being heard. "Paddy" was
some distance away but like a streak of lightning
he jumped half-way acrcss the room and gi'ab-
bing the defendant by the neck forced him to
disgorge enough of the evidence so that he will
be convicted when he appears in the Superior
Court. Had he swallowed it all he would have
beaten the case with ease.
THANKS FOR POLICE CO-OPERATION
As you are no doubt aware, I am severing my
connection with the Department of Justice and
taking up the duties of Prohibition Administrator
of Northern California and Nevada. Before
leaving the Bureau of Investigation, Department
of Justice, I desire to express to you, and through
you, my deep appreciation for the splendid co-
operation I have always received from you and
those who come under your jurisdiction. It has
been a pleasure to work with your department,
and those with whom I have come in contact with,
have always been efficient, courteous and depend-
able. I am particularly sorry to lose the kind,
efficient help of Detective Sergeant Henry Kalm-
bach and Sergeant George Richards, who have
always been ready to assist me with their intelli-
gent co-operation. However, in changing to the
Prohibition Department, I feel that I am simply
changing my residence, not my friends, and that
I can feel still that I will have their co-operation
which in the past has been so very helpful. With
kindest personal regards.
(Signed) EDWARD R. BOHNER,
Department of Justice, S. F., Cal.
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Mayor Rolph Proclaims Police Day
Police Officials from All Over Country Send Congratulations
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For the first time in the history of this country,
a day was set aside designated as Police Day, by
Major James Rolph, Jr. Mayor Holph proclaimed
February 19, as that special day.
The innovation of a Mayor setting- aside an
especial Police Day caught the fancy of the police
chiefs and city executives throughout the United
States and Mayor Rolph was deluged with tele-
grams and letters commending him on this idea.
We reproduce some of the many messages re-
ceived.
* * *
Accept my thanks and congratulations for your official
proclamation on Police Day in recognition of your police
department. (J. A. Thomas, Chief of Police, Winston
Salem, North Carolina).
* * *
Congratulations for success you have achieved in recog-
nition of Police Day in San Francisco. Hope same will
receive national recognition. (C. H. Vanduesen, Chief of
Police, Omalia, Neb.)
* * *
Many thanks for kind invitation to Police Widows' and
Orphans' Aid Association entertainment and ball. I wish
to congratulate the good people of San Francisco for
their eiforts in their behalf. I hope the affair will be
a grand financial success. (George Black, Superintendent
of Police, Secretary International Association, Chief of
Police).
We wish to congratulate you for the inauguration of
February 19th as Police Day in your department. We
believe this movement can and will be universally adopted
by all police departments. A national Police Day could
be made of untold value to such departments and their
constituents. (H. D. Harper, Chief of Police).
* * *
Congratulation on Police Day proclamation. May all
first class cities soon follow suit and make national fea-
ture. Will be glad to sponsor success. Movement in
Houston, Texas. (T. C. Goodson, Chief of Police, Houston,
Texas).
* * *
May I extend to you my congratulations for your recog-
nition and support of law enforcement officials in dedi-
cating today as Police Day. Greetings and best wishes
to you and your associate. (J. Edgar Hoover, Director,
Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice).
* * *
Best wishes to you and your highly efficient police
force. (C. E. Caine, Post Office Inspector in Charge,
Berkeley, Cal.)
* * *
Accept felicitations on your proclamation, naming
February 19th, Police Day. All honor to you in initiating
this worthy movement. Trust it will be followed by
mayors throughout the country issuing like proclamation
for a Police Day. (Jos. P. Thompson, Chief of Police,
Harrisburg, Penn.)
Proclaiming Police Day wonderful idea, if national
practice better understanding and re.spect for law will
result. Regret did not know in time to .'iend Duluth
Police Chorus of twelve voices to your celebration to say
hello with a song or two. Sincere congratulations. (E.
H. Barber, Chief of Police, Duluth, Minn.)
* * *
Congratulations on your proclamation to observe Sat-
urday, February 19th, as Police Day in your city. (Peter
B. Walsh, Superintendent of Police, Pittsburgh, Penn.)
* * *
Heartiest good wishes to yourself, Chief O'Brien and
the San Francisco Police Force on Police Day. Sorry
I am unable to be with you. (H. C. Long, Chief Con-
stable, Vancouver, B. C.)
* * *
The Spokane Police Department congratulates you on
your forward step in police affairs and wishes you all
MAYOR JAMES ROLPH, JR., Who Proclaimed First Police Day
the success the movement deserves. (A. McDonnell, Chief
of Police, Spokane, Wash.)
* * *
Congratulations for originating Police Day. Entire co-
opeiation from me assured. (Warren Burch, Chief of
Police, Mobile, Alabama).
* * *
Wish to express thanks for kind invitation to annual
ball and to wish you every success. (Wm. J. Lahey,
Chief Inspector, New York).
* * *
Congratulations to you and your chief of police chiefs
on your national Police Day program. We are in hearty
accord with the movement. Our mayor, Ben F. Staple-
ton, will proclaim Monday, April 18th, date of our annual
ball, Denver Police Day. Sincerely yours. (Robert F.
Reed, Chief of Police).
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April. 1927
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SHOPLIFTER "LIFTED'
Shoplifting is a time worn occupation for those
out of money, those who need some articles of
wearing apparel, or those seeking a living without
any great physical exertion.
Store keepers must necessarily place their wares
where they can be seen by shoppers. The dis-
plays are sometimes left unwatched. They afford
a temptation to the above mentioned folks, and
too often the annual, semi-annual or quarterly
inventory discloses to the shopping house owner
a very decided discrepancy in the goods on hand
and that which should be on hand after legitimate
disposals have been taken into account.
The Shopping Detail of the Detective Bureau,
composed of Detective Sergeants Andrew Gaugh-
ran and James Skelly, by their many arrests, de-
monstrate how common is this store thievery,
and be it said to their credit they clean up most of
the "kicks".
Most of the shoplifting is done by those who
display no particular cleverness. Now and then
there appears in this city a shoplifter, male or
female, sometimes several forming a ring, who
have made this sort of crime a matter of deep
study, and who have developed schemes of getting
valuable articles that baffle the cleverest of house
and police detectives. The apprehension of these
kind is difficult and only comes about through
the disposal of goods stolen.
Last month there showed up in this city a young
lady who has made shoplifting a life's work. She
has operated in many cities, and in San Francisco
she was going strong, several stores having been
"touched" for over $5000 worth of merchandise
before she was caught.
She was Frieda Shienberg, pretty, well dressed,
educated and of a splendid presence. But Frieda
went to the well once too often and now she is out
at the county jail "lying out a 90 day jolt".
She was arrested by Detective Sergts. Michael
Desmond and Barth Kelleher, Lieut. Hem-y Powell
and members of his Pawnshop Detail, who, acting
on information they had gathered as well as on
information fuiTushed by Gaughran and Skelly of
the Shopping Detail, finally trapped the young
lady. In trapping her they recovered a great
quantity of loot and made an arrest of Mrs. Mary
May, who conducted a slightly soiled garment
place on Geary street.
Frieda says Mrs. May handled all her stuff and
that she stole on orders furnished by Mrs. May.
Mrs. May denies any such thing, but nevertheless
she is held under high bail and her case will
come up later this month.
Frieda is out on probation from Los Angeles,
and under various aliases is wanted in other cities,
especially in Chicago.
GEORGE STALLARD KILLS THUG
Detective Sergeant George Stallard of the
Pawnshop Detail went home one night early in
April. He dl'ove up to his garage and got out to
open the door, at 2010 Golden Gate avenue.
As he climbed out of his car, a man with a
gun slunk up and told him to stick 'em up. George
complied. He was then ordered to turn the lights
off. He complied with that order, using his right
hand. As he leaned over to throw the switch he
pulled his gun with his left hand and fired. The
holdup crumpled to the pavement. Seeing he had
his man, Stollard took the gun from the mortally
wounded man, summoned an ambulance and had
the thug taken to the Park hospital where he died
a few minutes afterwards.
The only information obtained from him was
his name, which he gave as Herbert Cardoza. On
his person were found some very risque letters
from a love smitten maid across the bay, who
poured out her "love" to the bandit.
Sergeant Hogan of the Bureau of Identification,
identified Cardoza as an ex-convict released from
San Quentin, January 28th, after semng three
years for burglary. Cardoza had been arrested
by Detective Sergeant George McLoughlin, Leo
Bunner and Harry Cook.
Some four yeai's ago he was implicated in a
kidnapping which wound up in a big robbery in
Gilroy.
Sergeant Stallard certainly displayed courage
and coolness in a position that had originally
placed him in a mighty uncomfortable position,
and he has been highly commended by his asso-
ciates and superior officers.
April. 1927
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"Knockovers^' of Bureau
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Sergeant George Healy and Detective Sergeant Mar-
tin Porter arrested as some of their Knoekovers, George
Webster, en route to Los Angeles; John Weber, bur-
glary; Irving O'Neill, felony embezzlement.
* • *
Lieutenant Thomas Hoertkorn and Sergeant Morris
Harris arrested Mike Silver for grand larceny.
* * *
Among the evil doers brought in by Detective Ser-
geants Arthur McQuaide and William Proll were: Jacob
Adamonuk, grand larceny; Ray Burrill, felony embezzle-
ment; Russell Griffin, bad checks; James Kleupfer and
Martin Walsh on two forgery charges.
* * *
Detective Sergeants Andrew Gaughran and James
Skelly made things hot for the shop lifters during the
past month. They registered among other Mercedes
Secins, burglary and petty larceny; Abindo Colio, Robert
Vilches, Helen Cress, Pablo Fernandez and Peter
Christopher, same charges; Alejandro Morales and John
Murray, petty larceny; Helen Murray, forgery; Angelo
Rappa, obtaining goods by false pretenses, and Arthur
Young, bad checks.
* * *
Harry Cook, detective sergeant, brought in Chester
Wiggins, wanted in Fresno; Otto Metzger, wanted in
San Jose; Gerald Stevens, fugitive; Louis Wolfinger and
Peter Trois, omitting to provide for minor children.
* * •
Lieutenant Henry Powell and posse arrested Elmer
Wheadon and Ray Wheadon, larcenists. Other members
of the Pawnshop detail bringing in law breakers were
Detective Sergeants George Hippelu and George Stal-
lard, who arrested Harry Martin, larceny; Patrick Mona-
han, burglary; Harvey Harris, tool burglar, while Ser-
geants John Callaghan and James Regan, assisted by
Sergeants Kalmbach and George Richards, arrested Hen-
rietta Cunningham, wanted by the Postal authorities.
* • *
Some of the arrests by the team of Sergeants Thomas
Reagan and Thomas Curtis were: Malcolm Lowrey,
larceny; Thomas Paterson, same; Joseph Silverman, two
charges felony embezzlement; Anna Silverman, receiving
stolen goods, and Thomas Muehlisen, obtaining money
on false pretenses.
* * *
Detective Sergeants Thomas Conlan and Edward Wis-
cotchill locked up Donal Fen for burg-lary, and Albert
Lemmon and George Higgen for larceny.
* * *
Mears Hansen, who has a penchant for tying ladies
up and then fondling them, was arrested by a clever trap
set by Detective Sergeants Fred Bohr, Clarence Herlitz,
and Detective John Sturm. Bohr and Herlitz arrested
Fred Halmos on two charges of embezzlement; Henry
Verne, two charges of burglary; Jules Hecht, Phillip
Taylor, Mack Griner and Edith Reyndlds for larceny.
* * «
Detectives Daniel Fogarty and John Sturm nabbed
Owen Wells on a conspiracy charge.
Amerillo Bonills and Frank McGorrlty were a couple
of burglars booked by Detective Sergeants Michael Des-
mond and Barth Kelleher.
* * *
Detective Sergeants George Richards and Henry Kalm-
bach booked Sam Borzellino and Frank Diminnie as
fugitives.
* * *
Some of the activities of the Automobile Detail under
Lieutenant Bernard McDonald for the month were as
follows: Arrests by Detective Sergeants William Milli-
kin and Harry Husted, Harold Smith, Fred Keyes and
James Cahalan, violating Section 146 M. V. Act; by
Detective Sergeants James Hayes and Harry McCrea,
Clark Torres for 146; by McCrea and Rasmussen and
Frank Brown, James Smith, same offense; by Detective
Sergeants John Cannon, James McKenna and Richard
Smith, Theodore Klemuskiken, Pete Lelikotf and Charles
Hunter; en route to U. S. Marshal's office by Brown and
Rasmussen, Merle Overholtzer and Sam Bono, wanted in
Sacramento; by Detective Sergeants Nicholas Barron
Augustus Thompkins, Edmond Oil, burglary; Maurice
Hessel, embezzlement.
* * *
Detective Sergeant Richmond Tahtham's bunch of
burglar bouncers operated as follows: Arrests made
by Detective Sergeants Irvin Findlay and James Mitch-
ell, Frank Madamba, Julis Wolfe and Wm. Hopkins, vio-
lating Section 472 P. C; by Gregson and Lippi, John
Cardoc, John Hyde and Frank Knox, burglary; by Rich-
ard Hughes and James Johnson, Monroe Russell, William
Ford, burglary; James Beltran, Section 146 Motor Act;
by Corporal Nels Stohland, Jack Palmer, assisted by Of-
ficer J. Amend, James Lopez, burglary; Frank Backulich,
112.
* * *
Detective Charles McGreevy of the night force, with
Detective George Page, rounded up Ella Hall, wanted
in Seattle; Julius Ebel, for Santa Maria; Dan Adler,
Santa Ana, and James Hall, for Seattle. Page, McGreevy
and Detective Sergeant Frank Jackson brought in Phil
Zimmerman and Val Taylor for grand larceny and Leo
Wilson for receiving stolen goods; Jackson and Page ar-
rested E. Baldonado for assault to commit murder.
* * *
Sergeant George McLoughlin, of the Robberj' Detail,
got Clayton Hall for Oakland. Other members of the
detail operated as follows: Sergeants George Wall, Mc-
Mahon, Leo Bunner, Vernon Van Matre and Edward
McSheehy arrested Jerry McCarthy, Teddy Mosfowski,
William McShea and Wilmer Florence for robbery, the
latter getting three kicks; Sergeant Robert Rauer
brought in Frank Andreas, assisted by Clarence Herlitz
of the Hotel Detail; Wall, McMahon and McLoughlin,
George Stratos, robbery; Wall and Bunner, Wm. Ivy,
robbery; McSheehy and Van Matre, John Mills and Jack
DeVreaux, robbery; McSheehy, Lionel Wolff, grand lar-
ceny.
* * *
Lieutenant Charles Dullea, Otto Frederickson, Ser-
geant McDaniell, Marvin Dowd, Thomas Hyland, Jesse
Ayer locked up William Burton and Earl Parent! for as-
sault to murder; Dullea, Van Matre and McSheehy
locked up Grist for murder.
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April, J 927
Taking of Statements
By Robert Fitzgeeiald, Formerly Assistant District Attorney
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(Continued from February Issue)
It has been held that a statement by a sheriff
he "would do all he could" for the prisoner and the
statement that it "would be better for" the ac-
cused to make full disclosure or to tell all he knew
rendered the resultant confession inadmissible.
Any statement made by the officer to the prisoner
from which the latter might infer, or the court
might consider that he perhaps did infer, that he
might be granted immunity upon that or other
charges or might be granted lesser punishment
or might in fact receive any official leniency or
consideration are dangerous. For the thii"d de-
gree nothing need or can be said. Its use for the
purpose of compelling confessions is inexcusable.
There are no doubt occasions when either the ag-
gravated character of the prisoner's crime or his
conduct toward the officers when under arrest are
such as to provoke from one or more of the officers
reprisals which under other circumstances might
well be excused, but in many instances the fact
of such conduct has prevented the introduction of
proof of confessions made, not as a direct result
thereof, but during the same period of custody;
and has resulted in the discharge of a guilty defen-
dant. Not only is such method dangerous (be-
sides being unethical) but it is far inferior in its
results to that of persistent examination of the
accused. It has recently been said by a man for
many years in the Detective Bureau in New York
City and more recently the head of an eminently
successful private detective agency in that same
city that "one lie is better than three beatings".
If the accused be guilty, and will talk at all, there
must inevitably in his answer be some false state-
ment. It is the theory of the man I mentioned
that this one little lie when vigorously followed up
by the inquisitor whose previous investigation of
the accused, his antecedents and his movements,
have been thorough, will call forth two lies to cover
it up, two call for four, four demand eight and the
geometrical ratio progresses until the accused
weakens under the weight of his own fabrication
and his inability longer to stimulate the truth. In
such practice whether the confession finally fol-
lows or not we inevitably discover that the relation
of such falsehoods accompanied by proof of their
falsity has an extremely beneficial result when
presented to the consideration of the trial jury.
When a confession is obtained from an accused
it should be reduced to writing and should either
be read by him or read carefully to him and he be
asked whether he then desires to make any amend-
ments or additions thereto. If any be made they
should be added and the accused's signature, if
possible, be subscribed. Witnesses who were pres-
ent should add their signatures and either at the
outset of the confession or at its conclusion there
should be a notation of the time and place where
the confession was made and written and the per-
sons who were present, if any were present in ad-
dition to those who signed as witnesses.
Since objection is frequently made at the trial
to the introduction of a confession or proof of it
because it does not contain the exact words of the
accused but rather the substance of them as writ-
ten by the interrogator, it is advisable when pos-
sible to have all of the questions and answers taken
down by a shorthand reporter and later ti'ans-
cribed by him. In sucli cases for the avoidance of
the effect of later denials the accused should be
asked to sign the reporter's notes and when the
latter are transcribed you should seek to obtain his
signature on the transcription. In the absence of
a reporter there is the better practice, though
often impossible to obtain, to have the accused
write out his confession in his own handwriting.
If this for the reasons which are obvious is im-
possible, the person writing the confession should
endeavor so far as possible to use the words and
expressions of the accused and to avoid the use
of words which are obviously foreign to his vocab-
ulary and understanding. It must not be forgot-
ten that when the prosecution has in its hands a
weapon against the accused so dangerous as a con-
fession, the defense will have recourse to every
ingenious attack and argument to weaken its ef-
fect in tlie minds and consideration of the jury,
and since many a confessing criminal has become
subsequently repentant of his confession after se-
curing the services of counsel and when on trial
repudiates such confessions, claiming either it
was not made or that it was extorted from him by
violence or threat of further violence, it is indeed
important that the investigator should not rest
content upon securing the prisoner's admission of
guilty responsibility. The investigation should
continue and there should be furnished to the
prosecutor all possible evidence corroborative of
the facts and circumstances mentioned in the con-
fession as well as independently pointing to the
guilt of the accused. For while it is a rule of law
that a confession resulting in any way from vio-
lence or threats of violence is inadmissible and
wliile the court in a given case may reject the con-
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Letters to Chief, Praising Patrolmen
Two Captains Commend Officers
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Two letters are herewith published emphasizing
the ability of two police officers, whose alertness
and fearlessness attracted the attention of their
respective captains. Tlie two officers are properly
pra'sed for their actions and commended by the
Chief.
The following- report has been received by Chief
of Police Daniel J. O'Brien. It is signed by Cap-
tain \A^illiam T. Healy, commanding officer of our
Richmond Police District. In connection witli the
same, the Chief commended the officers mentioned
in Captain Healy's report.
"Your attention is respectfully called to the fol-
lowing police service rendered by Coi-poral Frank
P. Rhodes, Star 884, Patrolman Charles H. Corne-
lius, Star 59, and Robert C. Caldwell, Star 1172.
"At about 3:25 o'clock a. m., March 9th, 1927,
Patrolman Robert C. Caldwell, detailed to patrol
in uniform, California and Lake streets from 18th
to 33rd avenues, observed two automobiles drive
into an alley in the rear of 293 28th avenue. On
approaching the garage for the purpose of making
ah investigation, a large automobile drove rapidly
away and another roadster backed out of the
garage under 293 - 28th avenue and also drove
away, disregarding the patrolman's order to halt.
Five shots were fired at the roadster, two taking
effect in the body of the automobile. Patrolman
Caldwell unhesitatingly entered the garage, find-
ing concealed therein one Carl McGee. Carl Mc-
Gee was brought to this station, where he refused
to make a statement. Coi"poral Frank Trainor,
acting Lieutenant in charge, summoned Corporal
Frank Rhodes and Patrolman Charles Cornelius,
detailed in citizen's dress, to this station, and Carl
McGee admitted that one of his accomplices was
named Tucker and lived at 770 Larkin street. The
three officers went there; they received informa-
tion that Tucker was employed at irregular in
tervals in the Essex Garage at 819 Ellis sti-eeH,
The officers repaired to the named garage, ancJi
on the second floor found Tucker with three othei
men and five boxes of assorted liquors, which thej
admitted hi-jacking from 293 28th avenue. Also,
in garage was found a Hupmobile automobile,
stolen by Tucker. The Chrysler roadster automo-
bile also used in committing this burglary was re-
covered at 847 Olive avenue. The men gave their
names as Carl McGee, Alfred Freitas, Lawrence
Parlette, Ira Tucker and George Parker and were
charged at this station with burglary and crim-
inal conspiracy. A second charge of violating Sec-
tion 146, California Vehicle Act, was placed
against Ira Tucker. Name of owner of premises
attached, Maurice Salomon. Crime committed
3:25 a. m. and at 6 a. m. all participants an-ested
and property recovered. Police service rendered
shows courage, initiative and a rare knowledge
of how police service should be rendered. Res-
pectfully recommend that this police service re-
ceive your commendation and be published in or-
ders."
The following report has also been submitted
to the Chief by Captain John J. Casey, command-
ing the Bush Street Police District, and concerns
the arrest by Officer William J. O'Brien, a member
of his command, of one Roy Frenna, alias Roy
Renner, who had previously murdered two women
at 331 Octavia street, this city. Chief O'Brien
likewise commended this oflScer.
"Your attention is respectfully called to the
splendid police service rendered by Patrolman
William J. O'Brien, a member of Co. E, in arrest-
ing Roy Frenna, alias Roy Renner, about 9:15
a. m. on March 26, 1927, at Post and Webster
streets. Frenna, who had been a former boxer,
murdered a Mrs. Klatt and a Mrs. Olson about
10:10 a. m. on March 24, 1927, at 331 Octavia
street, and escaped immediately following the
murders.
"Officer O'Brien, who some years ago had been
detailed at boxing exhibitions, did not know Fren-
na personally, but on observing him on the street
recognized him as a man who had previously en-
gaged in boxing exhibitions, and as he had given
close attention to the description of Renna, in
the orders issued through this department, he im-
mediately placed him under arrest and Frenna
admitted that he was the party wanted.
"Frenna was then transferred to Headquarters
where he made a complete confession of the mur-
ders.
"Officer O'Brien did not know whether or not
Frenna was armed, but immediately approached
him, exhibiting courage, and a strict observance
of the orders and description of the criminal is-
sued through this department and in effecting this
arrest, Ofl!icer O'Brien performed a commendable
piece of police service.
"I therefore respectfully recommend that Offi-
cer O'Brien be commended by you for the service
so rendered."
Al Hicks (Big Al) was on traflfic duty at Fourth
and Market streets and also was a patrolman in
the old Central. Al is now connected with the
Western Addition Station.
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Success Crowns 1927 Police Show
Captain William J. Quinn Tells How All Wor\ed to Ma\e It the Biggest Ever Held
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The work of the Reception
Committee under the direction
of Chairman John J. Casey was
of the most strenuous kind. It
was the task of himself and his
committee to receive and care
for the guests of tlie evening.
Considering that this was done
without any complaint being re-
capt. wm. J. Quinn ceived, but on the contrary given
much commendation, it can be easily seen how
well the work of this particular committee was
taken care of.
Another very important committee which di(
its work with credit to itself and the society, wat,
the Floor Committee, under the direction of Cor-
poral Thomas P. Mclnerney. It was he who had
charge of the grand marcii and the dance, not only
in the main hall, but in the two side halls — and it
is easily seen how this was so successful. The
members were given many rehearsals by their
chairman and his assistants, and the members of
the committee were thoroughly drilled in theu
duties. When we speak of the success of the ball,
every committee should be considered as a detei-
mining factor in that success. Each committee
had its work to do, and in the success which
crowned the aiTair, tlie work of the various com-
mittees co-ordinated, of necessity, to a nicety.
Take the Reception Committee, for instance, of
which Captain John J. Casey was chairman.
When you entered the hall, you were met by a
member of the Reception Committee and escorted
to your seat.
You heard the concert, which was under the
direction of Band Leader Lt. R. F. Foley, and
saw the theatrical program and enjoyed the other
entertainment, all of which was under the direc-
tion of the Music and Talent Committee. You
either saw or took part in the grand march, which
was under the direction of the Floor Committee.
You heard and saw the Mayor — when he spoke
on his presentation of tlie medals and other things
— which was under the direction of the Presenta-
tion Committee. You heard or saw, for the first
time in a theatre or public hall, a presentation
of a radio station, the artists depicting for your
edification, their mode of transmitting the human
voice over the microphone; and you also saw the
other necessary adjuncts of a radio station. All
this was under the direction of the Chairman of
this particular committee. You enjoyed the mu-
sic. Yon listened to the wonderful music of the
Municipal Band. All this was under the direc-
tion of the Music and Talent Committee; or maybe
you danced in either Palk or Larkin Hall. Perhaps
you enjoyed yourself in these halls, which were
under the direction of the assistants of the Floor
Committee Director. You may have enjoyed the
decorations and the lighting of the hall, which
were under the direction of the Hall and Decora-
tions Committee. Your ticket and your invita-
tion and your program were the work of the Print-
ing Committee. The ice cream and refreshments
that you were served with were the work of the
Refreshment Committee. No doubt what brought
you there was the fact that the information you
had about the Concert and Ball, was learned
through the newspapers or over the radio or other
method of getting news to you. This was the
work of the Publicity Committee. You may have
admired the sashes and badges worn by the var-
ious committees and their aides. The Badge and
Program Committee was responsible for this. An-
other committee that was hard pressed and res-
ponsible to a great extent for the success of the
affair, wrs the Committee on Invitations. The
chairman and members of this Committee were
responsible for the proper issuance of the invita-
tions.
The Mayor was there through an invitation
sent to him through the Widows' and Orphans'
Aid Association of the San Francisco Police De-
partment. This invitation was tendered to him
by no less personages than our Chief of Police,
Daniel J. O'Brien and the Honorable Jesse B.
Cook, Police Commissioner. So you see, it re-
quires thought and consideration to determine
how a big success has been achieved.
All of these committees were absolutely neces-
sary to the success of the affair and the personal
co-ordination of each with the other, is what gave
the thousands who attended the biggest and best
entertainment they ever had.
The success of this year's event will be dupli-
cated, if not improved upon, next year — and so on,
each year.
The Widows' and Orphans' Aid Association of
the San Francisco Police Department is a progres-
sive organization. It is imbued with progres-
sivism. It is always going forward, continually
making improvements on the past. So, we can
look for each succeeding year to produce a bigger
and better event than the preceding one.
Every member of every committee and every
member of the department who in any way worked
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Coroner's Jury Extols Police
Detail Praised for Killing Church Bomber
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A verdict teeming with praise for the officers
who shot and killed the bomber of SS. Peter and
Paul Church, on Union street last month, was
rendered by the coroner's jury investigating the
death of the dynamiter.
Coroner Thomas B. W. Leland, at the instance
of the members of the jury, mailed a copy of the
findings to each man detailed, including Detec-
tive Sergts. DeMatei, Detectives Sunseri and Du-
Bose, Corp. Lawrence Mclnerney and Officers An-
drew Lennon, Kaufman, Casey, Gremminger,
Wickstrum, Hutchinson and Frank Davis.
The following letter from the coroner to Coi-p.
Mclnerney, together with the jury's verdict, in-
dicates the appreciation of those who had charge
of the inquiry:
Corp. Lawrence Mclnerney,
Hall of Justice,
San Francisco, Calif.
My dear Corporal:
Have forwarded to you under separate cover
copy of the verdict of Coroner's jury with recom-
mendation in tlie case of John Doe No. 21, de-
ceased, shot and killed by police officei-s while he
was endeavoring to dynamite the church of SS.
Peter and Paul in the early morning of March 6,
1927.
The jury desired me to forward to you as a
participant and each of your detail, a copy of this
verdict and recommendation to which I wish to
add my personal commendation for a duty in
which intelligence, patience, fidelity to duty and
the unflinching meeting of personal danger were
rewarded by accomplishing the object for which
detailed. Once more by your actions have you
reflected credit upon the officers and members of
the San Francisco Police Department.
Very sincerely.
Dr. T. B. W. LELAND,
Coroner of the City and County of San Francisco
INQUISITION taken at the Coroner's Court on
the 18th day of March, 1927, before Dr. T. B. W.
Leland, Coroner of said City and County, upon
viewing of the body of John Doe No. 21, upon the
oath of seven jurors, who being duly summoned
and sworn to inquire into all the circumstances
attending the death of the said John Doe No. 21,
and by whom the same was produced, and in Vv-hat
manner and when and where the said John Doe
No. 21 came to his death, do say upon their oath
aforesaid :
"That the said John Doe No. 21, male, white,
about 38 years old, nativity, occupation and resi-
dence not known, came to his death on March 6,
1927, at the Harbor Emergency Hospital from
shock and hemmorhage following gunshot wound
of chest, severing aorta (arch).
"And we further find: That on March 6, 1927,
about 4:20 a. m., deceased was seen to light a
fuse attached to 26 sticks of dynamite which he
placed in the vestibule of the Church of SS.
Peter and Paul with intent to destroy the church.
Upon refusing to surrender to the police and
while attempting to draw a weapon he was shot
by police and died as a result.
"We desire to commend in the highest terms
the diligence and bravery of Coi-p. Mclnerney,
Officers Kaufman and Gremminger, Detective
Sergt. DeMatei and Detectives Sunseri and Du-
Bose who endangered their lives in the perform-
ance of tiieir duty."
(Signed by Jurors) : Aaron A. Levin, K. A.
Wellman, Wm. A. Medina, Percy P. Grisez, Car-
lyle Tibroe, Jerome S. J. Bettman.
George E. Starr, Foreman.
(Approved) : Thos. B. W. Leland, Coroner.
WORTH WHILE REWARD
At a meeting of the Board of Police Commis-
sioners, the following resolution, which is self-ex-
planatory, was adopted:
RESOLVED, That the following members of
the San Francisco Police Department be and they
are hereby gi'anted a leave of absence of two
weeks with pay in addition to their annual vaca-
tion for meritorious police work performed by
them in the capture of two men in the act of bomb-
ing SS. Peter and Paul Church, Filbert and Stock-
ton streets, on March 6th, 1927:
Detective Sergeant Louis P. De Matei.
CoiTJoral Lawrence Mclnerney.
Police Officer Andrew P. Lennon.
Police Officer Joseph Wikstrom.
Police Officer Joseph C. Gremminger.
Police Officer Alfred W. Hutchinson.
Police Officer Willis A. Casey.
Police Officer Dewey Kauffman.
Police Officer Frank J. Davis.
Police Officer James Sunseri.
Police Officer Sidney B. Du Bose.
Respectfully,
THE BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS,
BY CHAS. F. SKELLY, Secretary.
In addition to the above time off, Chief O'Brien gave
each of the men mentioned 5 days more vacation.
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April, 1927
No. 6.
WINTER SEASON FREE FROM CRIME
The winter season is about over. The season
that brings so much apprehension to police offi-
cials of large cities, especially of the West, for it
is then that crime seems to increase and the
problems of the police department multiply.
Winter usually brings to this coast an influx of
crooks who, like the law-abiding tourist, seeks
the salubrious climate in preference to the frigid
East. Naturally, the crook must make expenses,
so he plies his nefarious trade and brings woe and
trouble to the honest citizen, storekeeper, banks
and others.
But we of San Francisco can look back over
the winter months and point to an enviable low
record of crime. We find that the crook has
given this city the go-bye, not that our climate
is unattractive, but because the migi-atory yegg
has learned that the members of the San Fran-
cisco Police Department, under Chief of Police
Daniel J. O'Brien, has constituted itself a recep-
tion committee for the crooked visitor that is
anything to be desired. The reception is invari-
ably followed by an ai-rest and incarceration in
one of our penal institutions.
The vigilance of the police, the system of pro-
tecting law-abiding folks and the rapidity with
which apprehension is accomplished, has built up
a reputation for achievements for our police or-
ganization that does not encourage the bandit to
invade our city during the winter months, or any
other month, for that matter.
It is well for us and speaks well for our police-
men.
* * *
Police Officer Robert Caldwell has not been in
the department very long, but he was given the
acid test one morning, early last month, and he
came through with colors flying. He suiisrised a
hijacking expedition, engaged in a pistol duel
with one of the men, arrested him, and in less
than three hours had the entire gang in jail.
Read Capt. William Healy's recommendation to
Chief O'Brien, in another part of this issue. Offi-
cer Caldwell will be heard of again.
* * *
Detective Sergt. William Bennett, working out
of the Chief's office, has done more than any one
man to spread the reputation of our department
outside of this city. For weeks he has been
engaged in broadcasting from various radio sta-
tions, preparing and presenting programs that
have made a hit among the fans of radioland, and
it is sui*prising how much of an impression these
programs have made. Letters to the stations
from listeners throughout the State indicate how
they are received.
BURGLAR CAUGHT SELLING LOOT
Joseph Lawrence prowled a house out in the
residential district and got away with a lot of loot.
Having the loot on his hands he realized he had to
hypothecate it into cash. This realization led
to the time honored custom of taking it to a sec-
ond hand store for barter. Like many of his kind,
he found a couple of detectives present, who, hav-
ing a description of the loot, proceeded to do some
questioning and finally Mr. Lawrence was locked
up. Detective Sergeant Bernard Riehl and Detec-
tive Leo O'Connor of the Pawnshop Detail pre-
siding at ceremonies of incarceration.
Chief Daniel J. O'Brien, who was taken ill in
Los Angeles, is home and has so recovered from
his illness that he is on the job again.'
Sergeant William Fb-nn arrested C. W. Yamako, wanted
in Oakland; Ed Christal and Georg-e Lilli.s arrested Sam
Valenzuli, wanted in San Jose.
April 1927
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Commendatory Letters to Chief O^Brien
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I wish to convey to you the thanks and appreciation of
this organization for your courtesy in detailing Lieut.
Field to address the membership on the subject of traffic
regulations and control on the occasion of our monthly
meeting the evening of March 22, 1927.
Lieut. Field's graphic exposition of the various angles
of traffic work, and his explanation of the reasons for the
different necessary regn^lations was of very real interest
to all who heard him. It is firmly believed that talks of
this character are of great value in helping to establish
and build up a feeling of co-operation between the gen-
eral public and those charged v^ith the responsibility of
administering our traffic laws, thus contributing to the
solution of this complex and serious problem.
FKITZ R. CLAXTON, Chairman,
Education Committee, San Francisco
Federal Reserve Bank Club.
* * *
On the night of March 17th, I was dining with friends
at 2751 Clay street. I was in the back part of the house
and I heard my wife go to the telephone and call the
Police Department. On inquiring what was the matter,
she told me there was a woman screaming on the street
in front of the house and was being robbed and that she
had phoned for the police.
I had hardly reached the ground floor of the apartment
before two representatives of the Police Department ar-
rived. Their promptness was so unusual and, in addition
to the quickness of their arrival, the businesslike manner
in which these officers conducted themselves is worthy of
considerable note and was commented on most favorably
by the crowd which usually gathers under such circum-
stances.
I inquired from these officers who they were and the
station to which they were assigned. They stated that
at that time they were under Lieut. John Sullivan. The
officere' numbers were 1104 (Officer Nicholas D. Eniser)
and 614 (Officer Louis H. Linss, Jr.). The promptness
. and conduct of the representatives of the Police Depart-
ment I thought you would be pleased to note.
H. R. C.A.SEY, Lt. Col.. Q. M. C,
Fort Mason, California.
Permit us to thank you for the splendid co-operation
rendered in the case of the above-named man. We feel
greatly indebted to Captain Quinn, Corporal Thomas Mc-
Inemey arid Officer James Coleman for the splendid service
they rendered.
MISS EGIE ASHMUN,
Executive Secretary,
American Red Cross, Civic Auditorium.
* * *
I have been requested by many parents of children who
attend the State Norman School to communicate to you,
commending the painstaking work and interests of Officer
Slade A. Earle, Jr., who is stationed at Guerrero and
Market streets. Personally, let me state that those reck-
less auto drivers of days gone by have learned to re-
spect this officer. He is to be appreciated and I hope
he retains his present position for many years to come.
Accidents will then be unlieard of while he is on duty.
EUGENE PFAEFFLE, President,
Market and Guerrero St. Imp. Club,
45 Guerrero Sti-eet.
The writer was parked in front of 1245 California
street, Sunday, and during my stay there some "long
fingers" came along and removed my wife's handbag
from the car. I do not think I was there more than an
hour and during that time the handbag was stolen and
recovered by one of your "plainclothes" men and he was
back with the thief getting his information to prosecute
him. Surely this was quick action and I would not be
recognizing what I term 100 per cent efficiency if I did
not commend your organization.
I am just recognizing and appreciating your organiza-
tion and the protection given the public.
Thanking you and the department, I am, sincerely,
J. MYRON CARR, M. D.,
Physicians and Surgeons Physio-Therapy
Clinic, 25 S. San Joaquin street, Stockton.
NOTE: The "plainclothes" men referred to just above
are Lieut. Thomas L. Hoertkom and Detective Sergeant
Morris M. Han-is.
* * *
The committee for the All-Veteran Smoker wish to
thank the police department for the police troupe and
quartette that sang at the Smoker. Your representatives
did themselves well, and I am most certain that the chair-
man in his introductory remai'ks made no mistake when
he introduced the officers as San Francisco's first line of
defense. The men assigned to keep order carefully car-
ried out their work, and too much praise cannot be given
both Sergeant Patrick H. McGee and the troupe, and
Corp. James W. Ray, in charge of the detailed men. It
was, indeed, a very successful affair, but the success was
obtained through the kindly efforts of the San Francisco
Police Department.
PAUL F. COLLINS, Commander, 818,
347 The Mills Building.
:f * ^*-
May I take this opportunity of thanking you and the
pawnbrokers detail for your efficiency in recovering all of
the instruments stolen from the high schools of this city
during my term as bandmaster for the Board of Educa-
tion extending over five years. Such efficiency is to be
commended and I hope I am not too late in offering
such commendations. During my term of sel■^•ice as head
of the Music School, L'nited States Naval Training School
on Goat Island, San Francisco, two insti-uments were
stolen and were immediately recovered by your pawn-
brokers detail. After observing such efficiency and ob-
taining such co-operation I hope you will accept this letter
of thanks.
THOMAS J. KENNEDY,
Chief Bandmaster, U. S. N., Retired,
Director of R. 0. T. C. and High School
Bands, S. F. Calif.
» * *
We wish to acknowledge with sincei-e thanks the kind
expression of your sympathy and we assure you that the
honor and respect accorded to our dearly beloved departed
by yourself and the members of your department will never
be forgotten.
GERTRUDE and JOAN CAMPBELL.
* * «
The family of the late James O'Donnell acknowledges
with grateful appreciation your kind expression of sym-
pathy.
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April, 1927
THE PATROL WAGON SERVICE
Little is known these days of tlie difficulties of
the old-time policeman, in arresting and conveying
to the City Prison persons charged with crime,
prior to the introduction of patrol wagons into the
police department in 1891.
In those days when nearly every corner har-
bored a saloon or liquor store, the class of prison-
ers charged with drunkenness were more numer-
ous than now, and as a consequence of the ample
supply of liquor to be had, the policeman was often
called upon to send some unfortunate to the City
Prison or hospital.
As the department had no conveyance of its
own, it was necessary to press into service any
sort of horse-drawn vehicle that happened to
be found in the vicinity of the arrest, and the
owner, after delivering his load at the City Prison
received a check for two dollars for his services.
This state of affairs continued until about 1891
when one of our city newspapers began advocating
the purchase of several patrol wagons for the
benefit of the department, and after vainly trying
to get the Board of Supervisors to appropriate
money for such a purpose, the paper started a
campaign that opened the eyes of the public to
"The Power of the Press".
One fine summer afternoon a young woman
stylishly dressed, was taken suddenly ill, and fell
in a faint near Lotta's Fountain. She remained
there, apparently unconscious for some time, sur-
rounded by men and women who were unable to
help her. Finally a policeman arrived and after
engaging an express wagon he conveyed her to
the Receiving Hospital, at that time situated in
the basement of the old Hall of Justice, now oc-
cupied as a department garage.
On the following day the newspaper printed an
article on its first page, exposing the crude meth-
ods of the city in caring for its unfortunates, and
dwelt on the humiliation imposed on one of their
female reporters who had been purposely assigned
to write up the existing conditions, on the previ-
ous day.
This episode eventually resulted in the super-
visors appropriating money to purchase a couple
of open wagons similar to the Fire Department
hose wagons of the present day, and for a short
time those vehicles seemed to satisfy the wants
of the department, but the winter rains soon
brought about the demand for covered wagons
and in a short time they were replaced by more
suitable ones built in this city, and were a familiar
sight on our streets until 1912, when the first
motor patrol was installed in the Richmond Police
Station.
Since that time the patrol wagon service has
taken great strides in the matter of equipment.
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nearly all stations being supplied with the most
modern motor vehicles, and with the prospect of
several more in the coming year.
Tiie position of driver in the department has
always been rather unique. In 1891 when the
first wagons were put in service, civilians were
employed to do the driving. After a few years
police officers were detailed for that purpose, and
continued until 1902. Those officers performed
no other duty than that to which they were as-
signed, and this arrangement depleted the num-
ber of men on the street to a minimum.
About that time Chief Whitman made a demand
on the Board of Supervisors for fifty more patrol-
men, and when the board failed to appropriate
the necessary money, he took the policemen off
the wagons, put them back on their beats and
compelled the Supervisors to once again employ
civilian drivers.
In July of that year, the first of the present
day drivers were appointed, several still remain-
ing in the department. In April, 1907, they were
placed under Civil Service, and in 1913 the first
examination for chauffeur was held and all new
appointees since that time have been taken from
that list.
The status of the police patrol driver is defined
by the Charter in Section 1, Chapter 1, Article
VIII, and Section V.'-j, Chapter VI, Article VIII.
Numerous old-time police officers have driven
the wagon during their younger days in the de-
partment, and within the memory of many of us
a present day Captain of Police did his bit on the
covered wagons. Wm. D. BURNS, :
Patrol Driver.
PENINSULA TRAFFIC POLICE ORGANIZE
Marking the opening of a new drive on law-
breakers in the San Francisco peninsula, with spe-
cial attention to traffic law violators, police offi-
cers from communities from Daly City to San
Jose met March 3 and formed the Peninsula Police
Officers' Association.
The organization will seek more thorough co-
operation between the forces of the various cities.
The organization was brought about through the
initiative of the officers themselves, and is an as-
sociation apart from that entered into by the
chiefs of the various forces.
Police Oflicer Jack Thuer of Burlingame was
elected temporary president and R. C. Lawrence
of Palo Alto, secretary.
Among those leading in the formation of the
rssociation were Officers Edward McAuliffe and
Stanley Woods of Redwood City, C. A. Caldwell
of Belmont, Sergeant A. Lawrence and Officer R.
C. Lawrence of Palo Alto, Officers John Hartnett,
Earl Christenson and A. Waldeck of Burlingame,
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"THE DESERT SHALL REJOICE"
April, 1927
The poem below was written by Chief Arthur Dowell
of Fort Worth, Texas, who is an uncle of Detective Ser-
geant Marvin Dowell of the S. "F. Department.
What a wealth the desert holds
Of our Lord Omnipotent ;
Amid the cacti in the waste,
The myriad rose was sent:
To teach and please the Sage Hen,
With her brood, and passers by ;
To show life, within solitude.
Beneath a desert sky !
The hand that made the desert.
Cast the mesa and the buttes ;
In reach of purple mountains.
Where the mirage ti-embles mute !
To the Desert's vast wilderness
The rays from stars were sent
To show the wealth of love,
In our Lord Omnipotent!
Every desert has its purpose,
To compete with mortal mind,
In fixing lack and limitation ;
The strictest one could find;
. But no place in God's Kingdom
Fails to yield a share of gold.
If our thought is ever perfect;
Like God's blessings manifold !
Our privilege to seek the desert,
To commune with God, Omnipotent;
In the vastness of this world.
Where Bethlehem's Babe was sent ;
To teach the Mighty Doctrine,
Of Love — the only power —
That heals sin and disease,
Within this present hour !
— Envoi —
The mirage is only seeming.
Like a dream within the night;
And our fear within the desert.
Is a lack of Spiritual Light!
—ARTHUR E. DOWELL,
Chief of Police, Fort Worth, Texas.
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COULDN'T ESCAPE OUR BUREAU OF
IDENTIFICATION
Samuel T. Stewart is a negro door tender nearly
seven feet tall. April 5th he was arrested by De-
tective Sergeants John J. Cannon, J. J. McKenna
and Special Britt, of the lilotor Vehicle Depart-
ment for trying to beat an insurance company out
of a fee by having a companion wlieel an auto-
mobile over a cliff. In fact, he had two compan-
ions, Frank Reynolds being one, and John Mc-
Donald, the other. There was some dispute about
the compensation the companions were to receive
after they had performed their task, and as a re-
sult, as generaly is the case, when "thieves fall
out, honest men get their dues". Anyhow they
turned Stewai-t up.
He was quizzed after being charged wth vio-
lating Sec. 548 of the penal code. He denied ever
being arrested before, in fact the experience of
having the heavy hands of the law set upon his
broad and elevated shoulders was something new
to him. Also he had never been mixed up in any-
thing that would call for any activity of any police
department, so far as he was concerned.
Yes indeed, Mr. Stewart was somewhat cha-
grined, confused and confounded by being locked
up in his nice gray uniform, trimmed wdth red.
He didn't think it was right, in fact he insisted it
was wTong.
All this was before Sergeant Emmett Hogan.
of the Bureau of Identification, Officers James Gal-
lagher, and Timothy Bm-ke, got busy on Mi'.
Stewart.
Then the scenes changed, as the show folks say.
It was found by comparing his finger prints, that
he was badly wanted back in Detroit by Chief
William T. Rutledge for murder. He was accused
of having murdered a man named Gurnsey ^^■hit-
field back in January, 1924. He was immediatelj'
given an additional booking as a fugitive and the
Detroit authorities notified.
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April. 1927 ■
DEPARTMENT CHANGES
At a meeting of the Board of Police Commis-
sioners held on March 28th, 1927, the following
proceedings wei'e had:
Corporals John A. Reed, rank 1 ; Maurice Rear-
don, rank 2; Joseph M. Walsh, rank 3; George S.
McCullough, rank 4, and Henry H. Ludolph, rank
5, were appointed and promoted to the rank of
sergeants of police, said appointment and promo-
tion to take effect April 1st, 1927.
The above promoted Sergeants remain with
their present respective commands.
The following transfers have been made in this
department, effective March 28th, 8 a. m.
Sergeant Bernard Maloney, Co. C to Co. H.
Corporal Edward A. Mitchell, Co. B to Co. F.
Corporal Robert E. Lindsey, Co. F to Co. L.
Coiijoral Thos. F. Naughton, Co. L to Co. F.
Officer Michael F. Fitzpatrick, Co. E to Co. A.
Corporal Thomas F. Buckley, Jr., 1. to L., Star
885.
Corporal Thomas R. Ritter, K. to M., Star 141.
Corporal Albion Erickson, L. to 0., Star 878.
Officer Herman T. Lewis, G. to E., Star 665.
Officer Frank J. Corby, L. to A., Star 175.
Officer Frank Robert Pleasants, A. to L., Star
1021.
Officer George B. Marshman, B. to F., Star 952.
Officer John S. Duryea, F to B., Star 1044.
Officer George W. Clark, H. to L, (day watch)
Star 387.
Officer Edward William Schuldt, G. to B., Star
1023.
Officer Michael Sweeney, B. to G., (Relieved
from temporary detail with Co. K. He is at pres-
ent on disabled list.) Star 753.
Officer Frank J. Davis, having completed his
course of instruction in the Department School of
Instruction, has been assigned to duty with the
Bush Street Police District, Company E, effective
8 a. m., March 28th, 1927.
Paul T. Sullivan was appointed a patrol wagon
driver in the Police Department, said appointment
to take effect immediately and to be subject to the
probationary period of six months as is provided
for in the Charter.
KEEP YOUR AUTO FROM BEING STOLEN
(Continued from Page 6)
stripping the accessories of such abandoned cars
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If you value your life, the lives of others, if you
believe in law and order, if you believe in reducing
all types of crime, take ordinary precautions
against the theft of your automobile, for this one
crime is responsible for many others of a more
serious nature, and is the most prevalent of all
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POLICE BASEBALL LEAGUE FORMED
A four-team league has been formed to partici-
pate in the police baseball tournament whicli
started April 1st.
The stations participating in tiie league are
Mission, Bush, Park and Ingleeide.
Two years ago the Missions won the pennant
and they are out with a strong team to repeat,
but the other stations have strengthened their
line-up and it will be a meiTy battle.
PLAYING SCHEDULE
1927 SAN FRANCISCO POLICE LEAGUE
At Mission At Bush At Park At Ingleside
*May 6 Apr. 22 Apr. 8
Mission *June 17 June 3 May 20
*July 29 July 15 July 1
Bush
Apr. 15
May 27
July 8
*Apr. 8
*May 20
*July 1
*Apr. 22
*June 3
*July 15
*Apr. 1
Apr. 29
May 6
Park *May 13
*June 24
*Apr. 29
June 10
July 22
Apr. 1
*Apr. 15
June 17
July 29
Ingleside *June 10
*July 22
May 13
June 24
*May 27
*July 8
*To be played at the Harrison street diamond
Weekly Sche<lulc
April 1: Park at Mission — Ingleside at Bush
April 8: Mission at Ingleside — Bush at Park
April 15: Bush at Mission — Ingleside at Park
April 22: Mission at Park — Bush at Ingleside
April 29: Ingleside at Mission — Park at Bush
May 6: Mission at Bush — Park at Ingleside
Park at Mission — Ingleside at Bush
Mission at Ingleside — Bush at Park
Bush at Mission — Ingleside at Park
Mission at Park — Bush at Ingleside
Ingleside at Mission — Park at Bush
Mission at Bush — Park at Ingleside
Park at Mission — Ingleside at Bush
Mission at Ingleside — Bush at Park
Bush at Mission — Ingleside at Park
Mission at Park — Bush at Ingleside
Ingleside at Mission — Park at Bush
Mission at Bush — Park at Ingleside
club plays 18 games. Each club plays
No club plays any other
May 13:
May 20:
May 27:
June 3:
June 10:
June 17:
June 24:
July 1:
July 8:
July 15:
July 22:
July 29:
NOTE— Each
every other club 6 times
club twnce in succession. Each club plays ha'f its
games on the Harrison street diamond as indicated
by stars in the schedule given at top.
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April, 1927
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Officer Cornelius Desmond has been transferred from
ollice man at the Central station to a similar position
with Lieut. Bernard McDonald in the otiice of the Auto-
mobile Detail. Officer Evans, whose clerical ability is
well known, has been shifted to the general office where
he is assisting under Captain John Lachman.
* * *
Joseph Skelton and Charles Dunn are looking out of
the barred side of felony row, each faced with two
charges of robbery. They were placed in durance vile
by Officers J. Toohig and Special V. Bacigalupi.
* * ^:
Perambulating along the streets of our city, Thomas
Newbar attracted the attention of Officer J. Rogers, who
felt that Tommy wasn't easing along as he should be,
so he caused him to pause, asked a few embarrassing
and personal questions, and satisfied that his suspicions
wei'e well grounded, the next thing Tommy knew he was
surrounded by a lot of up and down half-inch steel bars
and the station clerk was writing infomiation that indi-
cated to all who cared to read that Tommy was duly
charged with violating Sections 112 and 121 of the
Motor Vehicle Act.
« « *
Detective Sergt. Thomas Hyland has taken up the
study of hypnotism and those who have seen him demon-
strate his knowledge of this fascinating science say he
has the goods.
* * *
There are a few Chinese who think they can still carry
on a traffic in narcotics. It is Sergeant John J. Manion's
idea to dispel this belief and to do this he and his
squadron certainly give plenty of free rides to these law
violators. Here are a few scooped in during the past
month, all for violating the State poison law: Sam Yet,
Tom Lung, Chin Foo, Lai Tin Yee, Jue Chun, four
charges. Other arrests by the Chinatown squad were
Yee Lock, carrying a gun; Charles Graney and Joe Lynch,
grand larceny by trick and device.
« « 4:
Corporal Thomas Melnerney arrested Edith Edwards
for grand larceny, Thomas Varnum for bad cheeks,
George J. Walsh, violating the juvenile court law, to-
gether with a score of vags.
In addition to contributing heavily to the prison pop-
ulation with vags and such, Corp. Al Christ and Officer
Patrick Walsh arrested Georgia Zollicoffer for violating
State poison law.
* * *
Corporal Daniel O'Neill of the Bureau of Identification
was assigned by Chief O'Brien the beginning of the
month to entertain Congressman Jarrett of Honolulu.
Some years ago Corporal O'Neill was detailed by the late
Chief White to the police department and sheriff's office
of the Hawaiian capital to install a bureau of identifi-
cation. At that time the now Congressman Jarrett was
high sheriff, and during O'Neill's stay in the Islands he
and the Congressman became fast friends. So well did
the San Francisco identification expert do his work that
he was highly commended by the authorities of the
Island province.
Oflicer Harry Ross of Company
number changed from 783 to 1198.
M has had his star
Members of the department were deeply grieved the
early part of this month to learn of the death of the
wife of Sergeant J. J. Farrell assigned with the Harbor
station. Mrs. Farrell passed away at St. Mary's hospital
after a brief illness.
H: * *
Sergeant Hayden and Officer J. McCarthy arrested L. F.
Connors for driving while intoxicated.
* * *
Patrol Wagon Driver John J. Flynn of the Bush station
died March 27th, the funeral taking place on March 29th.
The deceased was accorded a police full honor funeral
and associates of the department tenderly carried him
to his last resting place.
# * *
Officer John Keeley of the General Office, was strut-
ting around the other day because of the arrival of a
second daughter in the Keeley family. Mrs. Keeley and
the young lady are both now able to be home and John
says the new arrival will either be a movie star or a
policewoman.
* * «
Away back in New York State, with plenty of snow on
the ground, it makes me proud to have been bom in San
Franci.sco when I read about the fine work of your noble
army of policemen.
May I congi-atulate you and the brave officers on last
Sunday morning's wonderful work in the capture of the
Church bomber.
JOE McCARTY, Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
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April 1927
2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 27
CENTRAL
STATION
Capt. Arthur D. Layne
Lieutenants: Harry P. Braig and Edward F. Copeland
Officers George Ohnimus and E. Chrlstal with Officers
F. Corby arrested Jolin Nesbit and Charles Snell on
charges of robbery.
* * *
Lieutenant Harry Braig headed a posse that arrested
Henry Flores on an assault charge.
* * *
Joe Bentince and Danacio Torres were another pair of
assaulters taken in custody by Officers Ray Harris and
James Morley.
* * *
Officer George Lillis grabbed off Peter Perry, who was
also wanted on an assault by means and force.
* * *
Lillis and Officer George Burkhard brought in William
Meyer charged with driving while intoxicated and with
reckless driving.
Mi * *
Officers Harry Gurtler, Dan Pallas and John Twomey
booked Ed Sing for violating the state gun law and en
route to Oakland. Gurtler also arrested Alfred Soria for
manslaughter.
* * *
Bailiff Mannie F. Joy booked Frank Resales on a kick
of threats against life.
* * *
Helen Williams, charged with assault with a deadly
weapon, was arrested by Officer James Morley.
* * *
Elmer Hull, charged with violating Section 146 of the
M. V. Act, was locked up by Officer John Bell.
* :^ *
Charles Foster, accused of grand larceny, was taken
to the city prison by Officer James Gallagher.
Frank Peterson, charged with refusing to support his
children, was served with a warrant by Officer Frank
Akers.
^ ^ ^
Reginald Wilson, grand larcenist, was put behind
prison bars by Officers William Porter and J. Lawless.
* * *
Officer L. Rosa brought in George Ricasa and Carlo
Ricci, a couple of petty thieves.
* * *
Mike Fachin, charged with assault to commit murder,
was tagged by Officer F. Hoepner.
* * *
Russell Kenney was another grand larcenist who was
put away by Officers Pallas and Edward Fewer .
* * *
Sergeant Dougherty and Officer M. Carmody grabbed
off Edward McGovern. who was driving around in viola-
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April, 1927
SOUTHERN
STATION
Capt. Charles Goff
Lieutenants Arthur DeGuire and Arno Dietel
Gents charged with not fulfilling the requirements
of Section 112 of the M. C. Act, and arrested for not
so doing are: Thomas McCullough, arrested by Officer
G. Sullivan; John Hooland, arrested by Officer William
Gleeson, and William Wanderer, arrested by Officers
Oliver Lundborg and L. Bubose.
Officer A. Wenzler brought in Edward Holzer, a 112'er
and charged with driving oft with another man's auto-
mobile. Holzer's partner, Eldon McLeod, got a book-
ing also on the latter charge.
* * :!;
Officer M. McCarthy No. 2 arrested Charles Dolan,
wanted for grand larceny.
Corporal Emmett Flynn, one of Captain Charles Goff's
shock troops, arrested Algernon Montigel, wanted in Los
Angeles, and Dwyte Wolfe, wanted by the U. S. Navy.
Harry Johnson, a petty larcenist, was snared by Offi-
cer William Kruger and the same officer hung two petty
larceny charges on John Burge.
H.: If. -J:.
Officer P. Zgraggen grabbed off James O'Conner, who
was enjoying an outing in another gent's car.
* * *
Layton Main got two counts of 288 and two of 288a
when he was locked up by Officers Charles Keck and W.
Frye.
:;: S: *
Officer J. Hart charged Thomas Corra with assault to
commit robbery and violating the gun law as he marched
him up to the booking desk.
* * *
Thomas Meehan walked off with a flock of fountain
pens and got himself all locked up by Sergeant John
Dowie and Officer J. Donovan.
••:: * *
Carl Ewert was wanted down in Burlingame, so Offi-
cer Richard Curtin picked him up and sent him down to
Chief John Harper.
POLICE SHOW
(Continued from Page 16)
towards the success of the ball, is entitled to credit
for our great success, because without the whole
machine co-ordinating perfectly, the affair could
not have been the success that it was. As Chair-
man of the 1927 Executive Committee of the Wi-
dows' and Orphans' Aid Association of the San
Francisco Police Department's Grand Concert and
Ball, I want to personally thank every member of
every committee, and every member of the Police
Department who helped to make this, our recent
ball, the greatest social and financial success that
has ever been given by the Widows' and Orphans'
Aid Association of the San Francisco Police De-
partment.
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Page 29
HARBOR
STATION
Capt. Patrick Herlihy
Lieutenants Wilbert F. Pengelly and Michael Mitchell
Alex Alexanderoff was steering an uncertain course
along the front in his automobile. Otficer J. J. Cum-
mings observed hira and decided he was breaking the
provisions of Section 112 of the Motor Vehicle Act,
and arrested him in accordance with those provisions.
* * *
James Walsh tried a little plain burglarying and he
got snared by Officer J. Argenti, who can tell a burglar
as far as he can see him.
* H: *
This is all Officer Peter Peshon, Jr.. did to Charles
Ray when he got him to the station. Put two charges
of 146 of the Motor Vehicle Act; two charges of hit and
run, and one charge of driving while intoxicated.
* * :!:
When a citizen approached Officer Thomas Bluitt and
said a couple of guys had tried to stick him up, the citi-
zen was asked a general description of the assailants.
The description was forthcoming and in no time Bluitt
had James Morro and Frank Spencer at the station, and
they were identified as the birds wanted and were each
booked on a charge of assault with intent to commit
robbery.
FITZGERALD
(Continued from Page 14)
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for homicide in which the accused in a confession
made immediately following his arrest not only
admits his guilt but relates the details of the
tragedy he may on the advice of counsel repudiate
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such. If the prosecutor then by independent evi-
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details related to the confession, the establishment
of the proof then renders such portions of the con-
fession admissible and the guilty knowledge and
complicity of the accused is thus brought con-
clusively before the jury and renders ineffective
his claim of alibi. Their arrival at the verdict is
then but a short step.
Percy Smith, now patrol sergeant at the North
End used to walk a beat at the old Central.
* * *
Jack ]\Ianion, detective sergeant in charge of the
Chinatown Squad \\as on street duty in the Cen-
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"2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
April. J 927
MISSION
STATION
Capt. FYederick Lemon
Lieutenants Peter A. Mclntyre and Daniel J. Collins
Officer P. Keeling brought in a couple of young men
whom he charged with burglary. The pris-oners gave
the names of Howell Collins and Vincent Gavigen.
Corporal Patrick Shannon arrested Clarence Emery
wanted in Santa Clara, and George Salzman, a juvenile
Court Law violator.
•^ -i^ *
Jack Long accused of manslaughter and Prank Esman,
charged with the same offense, were locked up by Offi-
cer F. Nuttman.
* * *
Officer Charles Foster booked George Devince for
grand larceny.
* * *
Harold Dornberger invaded this district in a condition
that warranted Officer William Byrne arresting him on
a 112 charge.
Officers Cliff McDaniell and J. Laine arrested Ray
Thompson on a similar charge.
While Officers Charles Wennerberg and Laine locked
up Gustaf Kaasik as another driver while intoxicated.
* * *
George Murray, accused of grand larceny, was brought
to the station by Officer J. Carpenti.
S: « S:
James Allen, charged with petty larceny, was taken
in custody by Officer McDaniell.
Charles Russ^ell was another likewise charged when
arrested by Officer C. Andrus.
:|: * *
Eugene Dower and James Murphy spread some bad
checks out in this section, as is the case with all evil
doers, they got locked up. Officers J. McKenna and J.
Keeley turned the keys on the pair.
* * *
Officer C. Thompson gave John Egui a ride on a
charge of receiving stolen goods.
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Page 31
BUSH ST.
STATION
Lieutenants Edward L. Cullnan and Joseph Mignola
Capt John J. Casey
Robbery arrests in this station included Frank Longuy
by Sergeant Christensen and Officers John Dolan, Jr.,
and Frank Jackson: John Nosoff by Officers J. Riordan
and G. Tobin, and Joseph Brandon, by Corporal Drury
and Officer E. Clancy.
* -■:: -i-
The list of 112'ers reads as follows: Virginia Linehan,
arrested by Officer N. Kavanaugh; Harold Waganiau, by
Officers John Dolan and L. Atkinson; John Johnson, by
Officer Gus Petger; Harry LaVerne, by Officers J. Ross
and F. Jescke; Mike O'Connell, by Officer G. Bergerson.
:i; ^; ^
Burglary arrests recorded were Fred Lacey, Dewey
Brigman and A. Whitehead by Corporal T. M. Mc-
Carthy and posse; William Walsh, by Officers E. Clancy
and G. Fitzpatrick.
* * *
Captain John J. Casey headed a bunch of his boys on a
raid and they met up with John Jackson who was "totin"
a pop. Jackson got a gun charge booking and charges
of violating several other well known laws.
* * *
Hugh Orr, accused of manslaughter, was brought to
the station by Officer R. Anderson.
Richard Wallace, wanted for embezzlement,
prehended by Corporal Thomas Feeney.
was ap-
Milbrand Bell, accused of grand larceny, was taken in
tow by Corporal Boyle and William Ward.
William Reynolds, violating gun law, and William
Brown, charged with assault with a deadly weapon, were
a couple of others that Boyle and his posse brought in.
Officers Robert Garrick and E. Connell got Joseph
Sullivan, who was wanted for assault with a deadly
weapon.
* * «
Lawrence Castner, accused of assault, was locked up
by Officer M. Fitzpatrick.
Corporal James Ray headed a posse that arrested Al-
bert Gross for threats against life.
* * «
Edgar Jacobs, arrested by Corporal Ray and Emory
Lowe, arrested by Officer John Dolan, were a couple of
auto takers, put behind prison bars.
* * *
Officer Gus Wuth brought in James Moran for omit-
ting to provide for his child.
^:: * *
Thomas Wagner, charged with assault to murder, was
locked in by Officers Dolan and L. Atkinson.
* * *
Officer Edward Keane booked John Crenshaw for vio-
lating Section 442% of the P. C.
* * *
Ernest Fleming, charged with violating Section 504
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April, 1927
TRAFFIC BUREAU
Ca|rtain Hcni>- Gloeson
liieuteiiants J. J. Casey, J. (Cliff) Fields and Grovcr Coats
Here are the boys who ride, the motorbikes and keep
the speeders within check, working under Corporals
Archie Schmidt and Luther Arentz: I. Bittles, A. J.
Curry, L. Delehanty, Elmer Esperance, E. A. Franke,
C. C. Ireland, W. J. Martin, W. T. Mathes, G. M. McArdle,
Charles Neary, J. H. Nyland, Edward O'Day, M. J.
O'Rourke, J. E. Perry, C. E. Perscheid, G. W. Thulander,
J. Wichstrom, J. Wisnom, Jr.
These lads cover this town in a manner that is sur-
prising when one considers the small number of the
squad, which, divided into two shifts, each having to
spend considerable time in police courts to present their
cases.
Corp. Harold Levy got oft his horse to assist Detective
Clarence Herlitz arrest Charles Snell, who was wanted
for vagrancy.
* * --i--
Traffic OfBcer W. O'Halihan quit directing trafiic long
enough to spear Edward Moll, who was making away
with some radio tubes from a Market street store. Moll
was booked for larceny.
* * *
Frederick Plack was wobbling about a bit in his car
when Traffic Officer J. Kelley spotted him. Freddie was
halted and marched to a nearby police box where he was
shunted into a patrol wagon, properly charged with
violating Section 112.
* -f- *
Traffic Officers H. Lundy and E. Anderson had a sim-
ilar experience with Victor McMahon. McMahon was
given one of those driving while intoxicated bookings.
* * *
Traffic Officer Andrew Miller, the serious minded
young man who greets the tag holders each morning,
says some folks think fire hydrants are erected for the
purpose of anchoring autos to.
MAYOR THANKS POLICE FOR GOOD TIME
AT ANNUAL SHOW
The following communication which has been
received by Captain William J. Quinn, chairman
of the Grand Concert and Ball Committee of the
1927 Widows' and Orphans' Aid Association Po-
lice Ball:
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I enjoyed the concert and ball immensely and
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With my compliments and best wishes to the
entire department,
Yours very sincerely,
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Page 33
PARK
STATION
Capt. John J. O'Meara
Lieutenants Daniel W. Cronin, Francis J. McGuire
Arthur Robinson found hanging around this district
a good way to get a ride in the wagon. Officers C.
Murphy and F. Haley brought him in on a vag charge.
* * *
Donald Booth got the same sort of an object lesson
when he was arrested by Haley and Officer T. Lynch on
Dewey Boulevard.
* ^ *
Moses Vexelman was doing nothing of any conse-
quence so long that he attracted the attention of Offi-
cers H. Hayes and C. Pruitt, who finally vagged him.
* * •
Officers W. Hansen and P. Schroeder arrested a couple
of youths who were hanging around the park and hav-
ing no apparent reason for so doing. The officers sent
the lads to the juvenile detention home.
CLEVER THIEF PULLS ONE HERE
One should be careful in hiring- domestics. This
has been indicated on several occasions during the
past year. There is a class of women who get a
job, generally in some well-to-do family, remain
a while, get a lay of the valuables and then when
the family is out, move all such articles away.
And the domestic doesn't come back.
Margaret Kerringer, with a flock of extra names
to fit all occasions, is such a woman. She got a
job in this city recently as a maid. She presented
a ten month's old baby which threw the family
who employed her oflf guard. She was a good maid
for a few days. Finally the lady of the house
went out for the day. When she returned, her
maid was gone and so was about everything that
could be moved.
Some of the stolen articles showed up in the
pawnshops, and Lieut. Henry Powell and his boys
recovered it.
There had been four similar jobs pulled in Los
Angeles and they had been fastened on Mrs. Ker-
ringer, who had been arrested, but escaped to
Denver. Pictures were shown the woman who em-
ployed her here and she readily identified her as
the missing maid.
Beside a ten months old baby, the Kerringer
woman has a husband who undoubtedly furnishes
the transportation for the loot taken.
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April. 1927
RICHMOND
STATION
Capt. William T. Healy
Lieutenants Daniel W. Cronin, Francis J. McGuire
Corporal Frank Rhodes and Officer Charles Cornelius
brought in a bunch of young men whom they charged
with burglary. There were five in the party and they
gave their names as George Parker, Alfred Frietas,
Ira Tucker, Lawrence Parlette and Carl McGee. The
first two were given additional charges of conspiracy and
all were booked en route to Los Angeles.
* * *
Timothy Crowley and Timothy Howard were picked
up by Officers R. Smith and R. Nierney who booked them
at the station on robbery charges.
* * *
Officers M. O'Rourke and G. McArdle saw an automo-
bile reported stolen. They gave chase and when they
stopped it they found a couple of kids taking a joy ride
in the car. They booked the pair on Section 146 charges.
* * *
Albert McAllister, charged with driving while intoxi-
cated and reckless driving and of violating the state pro-
hibition law, was arrested by Officer George O'Brien.
* * *
Officers John Glennon and E. McCann made no mis-
take when they arrested John Hill on a charge of at-
tempted burglary. Hill is a two time loser.
* 4: *
Officers George O'Brien and J. Healy combined to
capture Charles Worden, a hit and run driver.
:!: ;i: *
Leslie Curran and Ann Ballard were vagged by Offi-
cers C. Radford and Edward Cordray.
* * *
Charged with assault by means and force likely to
produce great bodily injury. Gene Alice was locked up
by Officers R. Smith and J. Glennon.
POLICE DAY
(Continued from Page 11)
Congratulations on your official Police Day movement.
Your pioneer efforts in this direction commendable and
such a move should be made national in scope. Success
to your annual concert in behalf of the Widows' and
Orphans' Aid Association of your police department.
(William P. Walter, Chief of Police).
* * *
Congratulations for Police Day with hearty endorse-
ment for permanent national recognition and richest bless-
ings on widows and orphans. (J. L. Beavers, Chief of
Police, Atlanta, Georgia).
* * *
Please accept thanks and congratulations on institution
of Police Day during celebration today. (A. E. Foote,
Commissioner of Public Safety, Massachusetts).
* * *
Thanks for invitation to Widows' and Orphans' Aid
Association concert. Thanks also and congratulations for
your proclamation of Police Day. (Joseph Gilholly,
Deputy Chief Constable, Ottawa, Canada).
* * *
The Far East greets the Golden West and congratulates
you as father of Police Day, Febi-uary 19, 1927. Best
wishes to your Widows' and Orphans' Aid Association.
May love, happiness and prosperity be writh you always.
(Continued on Page 35}
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INGLESIDE
STATION
Capt. Eugene Wall
Lieutenants Charles A. PfeifFer and Fred W. Norman
Clifford Peterson and John Frisella were arrested by
Officer D. O'Connell and charged with manslaughter,
the arrest growing out of an automobile accident.
* * #
There were a few of the lads who were accused of
using too much gin with their gasoline brought to the
station for proper action by our legal machinery.
* * *
Thomas Malcolm was brought in by Officer O'Connell
ind given a section 112 booking.
:;: :;: *
John Bouchi was another who ran his car in a manner
that indicated he was breaking some of the demands of
Section 112. and Officer J. O'Brien scooped him in.
* * *
Officer H. Mohr felt that Ben Taylor should be taken
in on a like charge, so he took him to the station.
* * *
Officers Jerry Kelleher and Dominic Hogan, recently
restored to patrol duty after months on the strike de-
tail, arrested Maurice O'Callaghan. former prohibition
igent, on a charge of felony embezzlement.
* # *
Lester H. Ninnie and Bert Seward were arrested by
Officers R. McKenna, Charles Flanagan and A. Smith.
Minnie got bookings as a violator of the gun law, the
juvenile court law, state prohibition act, sections 410
ind 6 7 of the Motor Vehicle Act. Seward was locked up
is a vagrant.
* * *
Officer H. Honnef arrested Jose Fernandez as a petty
larcenist.
* * :;:
Alex Culba was booked by Officers Higan and Kelleher
is a vag.
POLICE DAY
(Continued from Page 34)
Police Day instituted by you and advent in police af-
fairs are worthy of emulation. Convey to those present,
greetings from Toronto Police Department. (S. J. Dick-
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PRAISE FX>R GOOD POIJCE WORK
As an old time citizen of San Francisco and a.'; a na-
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of admiration for the very extraordinary work of the de-
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The recent work of the police in rounding up and effec-
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come to the notice of our commonwealth is especially
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I take great pleasure, and I hope you will allow me to
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April, 1927
NORTH END
STATION
Capt. Herbert J. Wright
Lieutenants D. M. Reavis and George Duffy
CORPORAL CASEY COMMENDED
To Police Captain, North End Station:
I wish to thank the personnel of the North End police
station for their co-operation in locating my stolen car.
I also wish to commend Corp. James Casey for his brave
and efficient work in capturing the thieves responsible.
"He is a man on the job."
B. P. McBRIDE, 1363 5th Avenue.
* * *
Charles P. Connoly, who has a lot of extra monikers
and who has a nice record up on the books In Sergeant
Emmett Hogan's department, was grabbed off by Cor-
poral Casey who got Connoly's partner, Elmer E. Dunne.
The pair of prisoners have two charges of having a stolen
automobile and one charge each of Section 147 of the
Motor Vehicle Act.
VACATION ANNOUNCEMENT
The following is a copy of a communication re-
ceived by me from the Honorable Board of Police
Commissioners which is self-explanatory:
"At a meeting of the Board of Police Commis-
sioners, held on April 4, 1927, the following reso-
lution was adopted:
RESOLVED, Tliat all members of the Police
Department, both uniformed and civilians, be and
they are hereby allowed an annual vacation of
15 days during 1927, excepting those appointed
since May 1, 1926, who will be allowed one day
for each month of service; said vacations to com-
mence April 18, 1927, and the senior members of
the department will be permitted to have first
choice as to time; and be it
FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Annual Re-
view and Inspection of the Police Department will
be held on Saturday, July 23, 1927.
You are hereby directed to arrange the vaca-
tions for the members of the department in ac-
cordance with the above resolution, and arrange
vacation periods so that all men will be available
for the Annual Review and Inspection, except
those excused on account of old age or disability."
Company commanders will be governed by the
foregoing in allowing vacations to the members
and employees of their respective commands and
they shall note on watch reports, daily, the names
of the men on vacation. They shall also make a
complete report at the expiration of their vaca-
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dates on which each member was away.
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Page 37
\Y/E STERN
WrADDITION
STATION
Capt. Robert A. Coulter
Lieutenants Leo Tackney and John M. Sullivan
Nathan Meister, charged with violating Section 112
and reckless driving, arrested by Corporal McCarthy,
shared the honors with Lawrence Dinelli, charged the
same, and arrested by the same oflRcer.
* * *
Sonya Michael, another 112er, was taken in custody
by Officer Patrick Gleason.
* * *
Lieutenant Jack Sullivan, Corporal Callanan and Offi-
cer L. Lines arrested Erling Johansen on an attempted
burglary charge.
» * *
Lines, with Oflficer Frank Small, did the same thing
to Raymond Thompson on a charge of assault by means
and force, likely to produce great bodily injury.
* * *
Officers John Clasby and E. Paul brought in Ben Gor-
don, who was accused of assaulting a fellow-being with
a deadly weapon.
* * »
Officer Frank Pleasants and Special Tilton picked up
Edward J. Bradley who was percolating around the dis-
trict in an automobile that he had taken from another
man without the owner's consent.
* * *
James Hallan, charged with a 288 kick, was taken in
tow by Officers Paul and J. O'Connor No. 2.
* * *
Officers J. M'right and Oliver Josephs vagged William
Brady.
* * *
Michael Aguilar, a petty larcenist, was brought to the
station by Officers Lines and Small.
* » *
Officer J. Casey tagged Frank Lazzari for violating
Section 51 of the Motor Act.
I REMEMBER WHEN—
William F. Krueger, participant in several gun
battles, killed "Big Mouth" Smith, a gambler,
dui'ing a stick-up by five men of the old Powell
Social Club. One of the thugs, Gl'iffith, shot
point blank at Krueger but missed. Griffith was
an escape from an Ohio penitentiary.
4: * *
About 1897, jMike Carroll, afterward captain,
Jim Aiken and Joe Burnett, later captain of de-
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Post in the old O'Farrell street station district.
An earthquake occurred while they were standing
there and bricks fell from a chimney. Aiken
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to know who was throwing bricks at him.
* * *
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April, 1927
POTRERO
STATION
Capt. Harry J. O'Day
Lieutenants Albert S. Munn, J. C. Malloy
If your car is driven away by a joy rider or an auto
thief, get in touch with Special Duty Officers Tom
O'Connor and John Coghlan and you'll get a lot of
action. A brother officer from the Bay View had his car
taken and in no time after being advised of the loss,
Coghlan and O'Connor had Daniel J. Neal and the car
at the station and Daniel charged with violating Section
146 of the Motor Vehicle Act.
* * *
Officers Charles Wyman and N. McDonald know how
a man should act when he drives a car. When they saw
Thomas Durno he wasn't acting like they knew he should
so they investigated and the first thing Durno knew he
was in the station locked up and charged with violating
Section 112 of the Motor Act.
* * *
Sam Moreici. Harold Butler and Vincent Guardino
were arrested by Officer T. May and Special Officer
Hughes. The first was charged with receiving stolen
goods and the latter two prisoners with driving away an
automobile without the owner's consent.
* * *
Coghlan and O'Connor got another bozo when they
put Joseph Lazerich in the "can" charged with assault
with a deadly weapon.
BAY VIEW
STATION
Capt. Stephen V. Bunner
Lieut. Frank DeGrancourt, Lieut. Wm. Dowie
Sergeant Aloysius O'Brien nabbed William Del Carlo
as he was trying to get along the best he could in his
automobile. Del was not driving as the makers of Sec-
tion 112 of the Motor Act expects all to drive, and Carlo
was locked up for driving while intoxicated.
* * H:
Corporals William Harrington and Thomas Ritter
didn't like the way John Ribero was hanging around
doing nothing, so they finally decided he was a regular
vag and they arrested him as such.
* * *
• George White, charged with petty larceny, was given
a trip in the station's covered wagon after being arrested
by Officer H. Schwind.
* * *
Harry Bennett got all het up and was so riled that he
sought to take his feelings out on a fellow citizen. This
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SOUTH OF MARKET BOYS "21 YEARS
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Tender memories of a quarter of a century ago
in tliat favored part of San Francisco, "South of
the Slot", will be revived at the "21 Years After"
Pag-eant and Grand Ball of the South of Market
Boys, Inc., in the Civic Auditorium, Saturday
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duced under the personal direction of Ralph Pin-
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and favoi'ites of the San Francisco of olden days.
Then will come the fasti y-changing periods in the
city's history, and a culmination in a great pres-
entation of modern-day musical, dancing and
singing attractions, on the specially-constructed
stage in the Civic Auditorium.
The Pageant will open the evening's perform-
ance and will be followed by the Grand Ball. Ac-
cording to President Thomas P. Garrity of the
South of Market Boys, who will officiate as
floor director, dancing will hold sway until the
early hours of dawn.
Probably the most unique and equally active
organization in San Francisco, the South of Mar-
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April, 1927
FANNING
(Continued from Page 7)
law that you be confined in the state prison at
San Quentin for 10 years."
While Sir Harry was confined in the Broadway
jail, his marriage to Miss Schneider was annulled
by Judge Sloss upon the testimony of Miss Bertha
Young of Melbourne, Australia, and once more
his penchant for matrimony was indulged in. He
was married in the Broadway jail unbeknownst
to his jailors and the authorities. In fact, with-
out even arousing their suspicions. In the most
novel and original manner he achieved an elope-
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in prison to achieve an elopement. He had been
in the jail quite a long time languishing there,
trying to escape his ten year sentence on techni-
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without the formality of divorce or the interven-
tion of death in the cases of the already acquired
wives. Locked fast in jail it was generally sup-
posed that his polygamous tendencies were curbed,
but with him the marrying habit was second na-
ture. So in spite of the fact that he was in jail,
and in spite of the fact that he was booked for
ten years, and in spite of the shameful record of
his past and the dismal prospect of his future, this
man of many names and many wives found one
more woman willing to marry him. She was Mrs.
Tressa Van Velden, widow, a worker in a gospel
mission. It was in the prosecution of her work
of soul saving in the jail that she met and loved
"Sir Han-y" and the courtship was carried on
while this lady in the case was presumably leading
"Sir Harry" into the straight and narrow path
that leads to salvation. She had a permit to visit
"Sir Harry" made out in the name of Mrs. Van
Valden, and it was through this permit that the
matrimonial aff'air began to leak out. Then again,
when she made her customary call, she presented
the permit with the name of Van Valden erased
and Mrs. Ernest Moore Chadwick inserted in its
stead. The chief jailor asked about the change.
"I am now," said the lady, with downcast eyes
and becoming humility, not unmingled with sat-
isfaction, "Mr. Chadwick's wife."
(To be continued in next month's issue)
Please allow me to express my appreciation of the
courtesy and kindness sho'WTi to me by Officer J. King,
March 1, 1927, in an accident which occurred to me on
the Mission street car line. While I was getting off, the
car started, throwing me to the ground and causing the
fracture of my wrist. Officer J. King, being on the
scene, pi-omptly came to my assistance and extended to
me the help I needed, personally seeing that I reached
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McGinn and iredale
No detail Ox the Detective Bureau has the con-
tinuity of hibor as does that Iiandled by Detectives
Sergeants Allan McGinn and Cliarles Iredale.
Their work has to do with the cleaning up of
automobile accidents, hit and run cases and often
of driving while intoxicated.
When such of any one of these "kicks" come
to the bureau it is their duty to take the reports
from where the patrolman on the beat left off and
gather the evidence, determine if there is enough
cause for arresting an offender, prepare the case
for the courts and see that all the details are
properly presented to the jury.
And they have plenty of material to work on.
They get a bunch of "prospects" every week, and
their work never seems to get slack, yet this pair
of detectives keep at their task and never fail to
bring into court the man they go after.
They have been given some cases where the
information placed in their hands was so meagi'e
and so incomplete that one would never believe
there was a chance to even get a clew of the ob-
ject of the complaint. However, with a piece of
glass found near an accident, a tire tread imprint-
ed in the roadway by another accident, with a
couple of numbers from the license plate of a hit-
runner, or from the bent fender or bumper of a
car found in some garage they have brought forth
sufficient evidence to justify an arrest and sus-
tain a conviction.
The work of McGinn and Iredale is such that
they do not figure so often in the news, but you
can take it from the writer that they deliver the
goods and deliver it plenty, as many an unhappy
motorist, whose names have been put on the big
book "upstairs," can tell.
I REMEMBER WHEN-
Jim Anderson, brother of Captain Marcellus 0.
took care of the books in the old City Prison.
Jim, who wore a beard and mustache, was then a
sergeant, after having broken in at the old South-
ern. He is now retired on lieutenant's pay.
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Jacob Amend was one of the old timers walking
beats in the Central prior to the fire. He is still
there and on the day watch in North Beach Dis-
trict.
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George Bailey became one of the first of our
present force of traffic officers. George is still in
the same job.
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Gus Beisel used to pitch on the baseball teams
that held forth in a sand lot at Seventh and Har-
rison streets. Gus is now piloting a horse over in
the Potrero.
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LETTERS ON SHOOTING OF CHURCH
BOMBER
A resolution has been adopted by this Association, com-
mending the action of the Police Department for the de-
tection of the bomber of the Italian Church.
FRANK FISCHER, Secretary,
North Beach Promotion Association,
1329 Jackson Street.
* * *
Please allow me as a very humble resident of this city
to congratulate you and your men on the excellent work
done in frustrating the bomb outrage at SS. Peter and
Paul Church. It was a scientific piece of work. These
officers used their heads and kept their mouth shut as
to their plans. The officer who cut that fuse desei-\'es a
medal with the others. The whole thing was the most
clever work that could be done. They should all feel
happy to think of the hundreds of lives they have saved.
A. M. O'DWYER, R. N.,
3406 California Street.
* * *
I want to add my word of congratulations for the
splendid work done by your department in connection
with the apprehending of the men involved in the bomb-
ing of the Italian Church.
The San Francisco Police Department has always proved
its efficiency when put to the test and I am sure that all
good citizens are extremely proud of the splendid record
you have made, not only in the instance above referred
to, but also in the detection and apprehension of others
who have recently been engaged in criminal work in our
city.
As a citizen let me express my appreciation, and in
so doing I know that I am voicing the sentiment of a
great many others who have the real interests of the city
at heart.
With kindest personal regards and best wishes, I am,
EDWARD J. DOLLARD,
1815 Laguna Street.
* * *
I wi.sh to extend my heartiest congratulations to you,
Capt. Matheson, and the men of your department, who
recently frustrated the attempt to bomb the church of SS.
Peter and Paul.
I feel sure that the manner in which this case was
handled was a source of considerable satisfaction to you,
and a great relief to the law-abiding citizens of San
Francisco, who should be proud of their Police Depart-
ment. It was a difficult and dangerous situation, and the
officers and men of your department who participated in
the case are deserving of the highest commendation for
the intelligent, patient and courageous manner in which
It was handled.
EDWIN N. ATHERTON, Special Agent
in Charge, Depai-tment of Justice, Bureau
of Inve.stigation, P. 0. Box No. 374.
* * *
In behalf of the Presidio Heights district it is indeed
a pleasure to extend to you and to your department our
most hearty congratulations for the efficient and clever
work that it has been doing for our city.
With kind personal regards, I am,
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Automobile Thieves Not So Successful
Page
5
Praise from One Who Saw Police Do Duty, by Harry C. Jenkins 6
Career of Sir Harry Westwood Cooper, by Officer Peter Fanning 7
I Remember When — By Wm. Mundell
International Chiefs of Police Meet
Kindly Service Rendered -
Courageous Patrick Conroy
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Automobile Thieves Not So Successful
Records Show San Francisco Registers Small Loss Each Tear
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CHICAGO, (May 19.)— Automobile thieves are
just half as successful in getting away with stolen
automobiles now-a-days as they were in 1918, ac-
cording to C. A. Vane, general manager of the
National Automobile Dealers' Association, who to-
day released theft figures covering 28 indexed
cities of the United States on which the associa-
tion had complete nine year figures. In these 28
cities in 1918 there were 27,445 automobiles
stolen and 21,673 recovered. In 1926 in these
same cities there were 95,225 cars stolen and
85,115 recovered. In 1918, 5,772 of the automo-
biles stolen in these cities were not recovered,
which was 21 per cent, in 1926, 10,111 unrecover-
ed cars was but 11 per cent of the total stolen.
New York lost its pre-eminence in cars stolen
in 1926 to Detroit. New York has maintained
this lead for many years, but Detroit stepped
into first place of all the cities of the United
States last year. Detroit in 1926 showed 14,820
cars stolen and 13,009 recovered. New York had
12,099 cars stolen and 9,726 recovered. Chicago
moved into second place, also outstanding New
York with 12,525 cars stolen and 9,616 recovered.
High clafs police work was evidenced in the De-
troit handling of motor thefts. Recoveries in
Detroit averaged around 86 per cent of cars stolen
while in New York and Chicago, less than 75 per
cent of the cars stolen were regained by their
owners.
Disposition of law officers to treat automobile
thieves as minor rebels against social customs
rather than vicious violators of the criminal code
is largely responsible, in Vane's opinion, for the
steadily rising toll of automobile thefts.
"Prosecuting attorneys and trial judges are
putting too much of a handicap upon police offi-
cers by their misguided lenity toward automo-
bile thieves", Vane declares. "The thief no long-
er fears to steal an automobile", says the dealer
association general manager, "because he feels
certain that the majority of prosecutors and
judges regard automobile thievery as just a con-
ventional crime. Laxity of enforcement of auto-
mobile theft penalties, however, is fraught with
the gravest consequences, because it is in stolen
automobiles that the greater majority of bank
burglaries, store and residence hold-ups and in
many cases fatal knock-downs of pedestrians on
the highway are consummated.
"Many a gang of criminals that today is op-
erating as a highly organized and effective robber
band is a collection of young men who started
tlieir criminal careers in a 'temporarily borrowed
automobile.' It was so easy that the borrowed
property was never returned. The thief then
found himself in an environment where money to
support his desires was far beyond his capacity
to obtain honorably and he turned to burglary
and robbery as the easiest way of keeping him-
self in funds.
"Police chiefs and particularly the men on the
detective squads carry on their work today in
the larger cities as a routine, largely ^^'ithout zest,
so far as automobile thieves are concerned, be-
cause of the mild punishment meted out to motor
hieves by courts and prosecutors. There is little
inspiration for a peace officer to put in the ardu-
ous effort required and court the danger present
in breaking up an automobile theft ring, when
previous experience has taught him that within
a month after arrest, the criminals will be at
liberty again after paying a misdemeanor fine or
be on parole obtained through political influence.
"Certificate of title laws and the general ex-
change of information between the 48 state com-
missioners of motor vehicles has made the dis-
posal of stolen cars less lucrative as an occupa-
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May, 1927
^tion than it formerly was, but law enforcement
by the courts is needed to reduce the thefts, par-
ticularly where the stealing is done with the in-
tention of keeping the car for the thief's own per-
sonal use."
The detailed figures covering the 28 cities in
1925 and 1926 and the complete figures showing
all thefts, recoveries and non-recoveries in the 28
cities over the nine year period are as followse:
Stolen Recovered
1925 1926 1925 1926
New York 11,895 12,099 8,659 9,726
Chicago - 7,587 12,525 5,953 9,616
Detroit 11,750 14,820 9,959 13,009
Cleveland 3,748 4,736 3,252 4,214
Los Angeles -.. 8,392 10,505 7,313 10,271
Kansas City 1,638 2,838 1,389 2,493
Portland 1,223 1,445 1,177 1,427
Denver ..- 1,036 1,171 1,003 1,148
San Francisco -.. 3,746 4,740 3,689 4,692
St. Louis 3,436 4,187 3,416 4,264
Seattle - - 2,064 2,433 1,881 2,264
Indianapolis 2,472 3,601 2,074 3,304
Boston -....- 5,490 4,764 4,881 4,304
Salt Lake City 1,053 956 1,023 938
Oakland, Calif 2,019 2,006 1,948 2,038
Omaha 715 904 840 887
Columbus, Ohio 1,137 1,604 1,109 1,546
Cincinnati 2,641 3,440 2,401 3,214
Oklahoma City _ 389 698 311 584
Albany 404 414 205 270
Buffalo -...- 1,904 2,567 1,750 2,369
Newport, R. I 32 34 32 34
York, Pa _ 48 76 50 75
Grand Rapids 792 699 754 667
Richmond, Va. 478 629 419 563
Dayton, Ohio 485 663 464 584
Lowell, Mass 74 81 64 74
Evansville, Ind 526 590 479 539
Stolen Recovered Not Recovered
1918 27,445 21,673 5,772; 21% of no. stolen
1919 33,508 24,740 8,768; 26% of no. stolen
1920 30,046 21,273 8,778; 29% of no. stolen
1921 37,554 26,517 11,037; 29% of no. stolen
1922 25,334 27,240 8,094; 23% of no. stolen
1923 -.... 39,812 32,384 7,228; 18% of no. stolen
1924 57,331 47,484 9,847; 17% of no. stolen
1925 77,174 66,420 10,754; 14% of no. stolen
1926 95,225 85,114 10,111; 11% of no. stolen
1926
Denver — Plus 44 Foreign Recoveries.
Buffalo — Plus 35 recovered stolen prior 1926, plus 56
Foreign Recoveries.
Albany — Plus 41 Foreign Recoveries.
Omaha — Plus 154 Foreign Recoveries.
PRAISE FROM ONE WHO SAW HOW POLICE
DO THEIR DUTY
THANKS FOR RECOVERED TYPEWRITER
I wish to thank your department for the rapidity UTth
which you recovered the typewriter which was stolen
from our home at 484 Oak street, which bespeaks highly
of the efficiency of Sergt. Johnson's department. (Refer-
ence is made to Det. Sergt. James P. Johnson, Star No.
353). I hope you will call upon me if I can serve you
some time.
ARCH. L. MITCHELL,
995 Market Street.
How often it is in this world that we hear un-
complimentary things about us and how seldom
it is that we hear of the complimentary things.
Feeling this way, I cannot help but take this op-
portunity to wTite you a letter, which I should
have done a number of days ago, but absence
from town prevent/ed me, to call your atten-
tion to an episode which transpired in which your
department was very much in evidence.
I was at Grant avenue and Post street about
2:00 in the afternoon when an alarm for a fire
had been turned in and the apparatus was just
about to arrive, and you can very well imagine
the scene which took place when the various
tjTjes of machines arrived. Naturally, I stood
and waited to see what was going on. It seemed
to me that out of the ground appeared a number
of your motorcycle traffic policemen, together
with your other traffic policemen and a number of
blue-coated ones. Lieut. Casey arrived as if from
nowhere and Corp. Levy on horseback and Officer
Hanley — I think this is the latter one's name.
Policemen seemed to be everywhere and yet they
seemed to have come from nowhere. Of course,
you can realize that wliile this was going on and
the fire apparatus arriving, the motor traffic was
forming a very beautiful congestion, and the sur-
rounding streets were blocked with automobiles.
I imagine that it was a false alarm because no
fire could be found and the fire apparatus was
quickly dismissed from the scene.
It was then that the thought struck me how
are they going to clear tliis traffic and I remained
interested in watching how it was done, and here
is where I want to offer my compliments and
congi-atulations on the way that Lieut. Casey,
took charge of the affairs. He seemed to know
exactly how the various streets were tied up and
he had his motor officers traveling in every direc-
tion and it was hardly 10 minutes by my watch
when every one of the streets were free of conges-
tion and traffic back to normalcy and the respec-
tive officers on their way home to their stations.
I have mentioned this fact a number of times to
a number of people since then and it was only this
morning in telling of the episode that it was sug-
gested that I write to you and acquaint you with
the facts, and to again express to you and the
men in your command my heartiest congi-atula-
tions for the splendid and efficient manner in
which they handled the situation.
Harry C. Jenkins,
318 Kearny Street.
Officers William Cullinan and Frank Spooncer "got" Art
Noller for driving while intoxicated.
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Career of Sir Harry Westwood Cooper
By Officlr Peter Fanning
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PETER FANNING
It lias been said of-
ten tliat if criminals of
tlie moi'e intellectual
classes would spend
half the energy in hon-
est industry that they
spend in designing and
perfecting crime, they
might be honored and
well to do instead of
hunted, miserable and
much of the time in
prison.
No better example
of the perversity of
the criminal intellect
is needed than the case
of Harry Westwood
Cooper. He had the
criminal kink in his brain, and an honest life,
however prosperous, was insufferably tedious to
him. Within a month he had spread a story of
the death of an English relative who had left him
sole legatee of a rich fortune; had borrowed
money from numbers of people, and when he had
gotten all he could, he eloped with the innocent
young girl at Crockett. He did not love this girl
any more than he did Bertha Young, for if he did,
he would not have spoiled their lives. As a
pastime while he was fleecing men and to gi-atify
his vanity, he led these women from their homes
and clouded their lives. He must have had in
mind that his infamous conduct towards these
young women who loved him would insure him
the full penalty of the law should he be caught
and convicted of his swindling, but reckless and
foolish daring is a characteristic of the criminal
mentality. After being confined in the County
Jail for some time, Sir Harry was a bridegToom
again, and once more his penchant for matrimony
had been indulged in. He was married in the
Broadway jail to his sixth knowTi wife. He was
married quite unbeknownst to his jailors and the
authorities — married right under their noses,
without arousing their suspicions. In the most
novel and original manner he achieved an elope-
ment, so far as it was possible for a man locked
in a prison cell to achieve an elopement. Locked
fast in jail, it was generally supposed that his
polygamous tendencies were curbed; but with
him the marrying habit was second natui-e, so in
spite of the fact that he was in jail and the dis-
mal prospects of his future, he found one more
woman willing to marry him. She was a mission-
ary and her name was Van ^^elden, a worker in
a gospel mission, and it was in the prosecution
of her work of soul-saving in the jail that she met
Sir Harry and the courtship was carried on in
the jail while the lady in the case was presum-
ably leading Sir Harry into the straight and nai'-
row path leading to salvation. She had a permit
to visit Sir Harry in the name of Mrs. Van Velden
and it was through this permit that the marriage
leaked out, for when she called again to make her
customery visit, she presented a permit with the
name of Van Velden erased and ilrs. Ernest Moore
Chadwick inserted in its stead. The chief jailor
asked about this change. "I am now," said the
lady, with downcast eyes and becoming humility,
not unmingled with satisfaction, "Mr. Chadwick's
wife". The chief jailor gasped and said, "How
did this happen?" "Why," said the missionary
lady with explanatory meekness, "we were mar-
ried in jail on Sundaj' when we were making our
visit to the prisoners."
The missionary lady bride-elect had attended to
all the business part of marrying. She had gone
to the city hall and gotten the license, giving the
groom's name as Ernest j\I. Chadwick, his age as
34 and his residence 1759 ilission street, the same
as hers. The following Sunday when the mission-
aries were admitted to prison to sing their songs
and distribute their tracts to the prisoners, the
marriage ceremony was gone through with.
Cooper was not released from his cell and while
the missionaries were making their rounds a stop
was made in front of the cell and right under the
unsuspecting eyes of the guard the prisoner and
the missionary lady were made one in double
quick time. To the naked eye there appeared
nothing unusual in the stop. Hand shaking is al-
ways customary. Cooper put his hand through
the bars ; his wife grasped it. The Rev. I\Ir. Mont-
gomery asked without any unnecessary delay:
"^Vill you take this man to be j^our wedded hus-
band? Will you take this woman to be your
wedded wife ?" The interested parties quickly as-
sented and the thing was done for better or worse.
Cooper then announced that he was going to de-
vote his life to the saving of souls, to the woi'k
of a missionary beside his wife. He said that he
had been living a new life for seven months pre-
vious to this and he knew that they were going
to be married, but it happened all of a sudden.
Cooper, with his usual disregard of detail in mar-
rying, didn't know whether the minister who mar-
ried them was ordained, and he didn't know if
there was going to be a marriage certificate or not.
The wife, upon being questioned, had nothing
to say about the wedding and she kept well out
of sight, and her mother, when asked of her
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1 Remember When - "
Ktrnmiicences of Wm. (Doc) Mundell, An Old-Time Police Reporter
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Arthur Fowle walked Montgomery and San-
some streets, from California to the Bay. Ar-
thur, who spent 26 of his 29 years police service
in the Central district, is now connected with the
Potrero station.
* * *
Joseph Buttgenbach, wealthy pork packer, was
murdered in his establishment at 386 Fourth St.
His son was at first suspected of having been
implicated but was later absolved from any blame.
The thugs who shot Buttgenbach were never ap-
prehended.
* * *
The two Duanes, John and Maurice, were con-
nected with the old Central station. Both re-
tired and returned to Ireland from whence they
came.
* 4: *
Jack Fitzgerald was an upper office man. He did
special duty in the Mission prior to entering the
detective department and was made a detective
sergeant the same day as was the late John Freel.
* * *
John Freel was for years the only police officer
in the local lodge of Elks.
* * *
William Shaw was commissary in the old city
prison.
* * *
Peter J. Bourdette was with the Park police
and came over to the regular force when the city
department absorbed the Park force. He is now
dead.
* * *
George Kelly preceded George Blum as police
photographer.
* * *
Charles DuUea was stationed at Co. G and per-
haps dreaming of advancement. He is now Lieut.
Dulleau, head of the homicide squad of the de-
tective Bureau, and No. 2 on the captain's list,
and he has not been in the business so long at
that.
"Jimmy-the-Cricket" CuUinane had two tough
s^.reets in the before-the-fire tenderloin — ^Eddy
and Ellis.
Otis Harrell, now dead, handled ti-affic at
Powell and Market streets and played in the Park
band every Sunday afternoon.
Charlie Groat used to make police whistles out
of ivory for the boys.
In 1910, under the McCarthy administration,
Detectives George Mulcahy, Tom Murphy, An-
drew Gaughran, William Proll, Peter McGee,
Charles Goff , Harry Cook, Arthur McQuaide, Dan
Driscoll, Ed. Gibson and Joe Redmond were all
put back on the street for political reasons. Sub- j
sequently, practically all were restored to the bu-
reau when the first Rolph administration came
into power.
There were 9 Murphys on the force ; 7 Caseys ;
6 Maloneys ; 5 Kellys ; 5 Kings ; 8 Smiths ; 8 Sul-
livans, and 55 whose names began with "Mc", to
say nothing of plenty of officers who were "0
apostrophe" in front of their names — all of
which goes to prove that the Irish make good
policemen.
The first police launch was built. It is still in
service.
* * *
Chief of Police Biggy was drowned off the po-
lice boat while returning from a visit to the home
of Hugo Keil, then Police Commissioner. His
body was found in the Bay afterward.
^ ^ ^
Fumes from the Tivoli Cafe kitchen made life
miserable for officers detailed in the old Eddy
street Hall of Justice.
Corporal Cleak was in charge of the Eddy street
prison. This jail had its entrance on Annie St.
* * *
"Rain-in-the-Face" Treadwell, police judge,
sent Jack Johnson, ex-prizefighter, to jail.
George Downey, old-time Chinatown special offi-
cer and watchman, was lured by telephone to
Jackson and Montgomery by Pat McGee (now
sergeant), to engage in a fight with someone
who dared him to come down. McGee and two
other patrolmen hid and watched Downey hunt-
ing for the expected antagonist.
* * *
Dick Breamer, detailed with the Board of Works,
tried to keep the bootblacks from taking up too
much sidewalk space. In those days merchants
paid rent but the bootblacks occupied pax-t of the
sidewalks and gave up nothing. Shines were then
five cents. * * *
Captain Andrew Dunleavy was head of the
Harbor District force. He lived, like all good
Irishmen, south of the slot — on Folsom street be-
tween Fifth and Sixth.
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By Chief of Police Daniel J. O'Brien
INTERNATIONAL CHIEFS OF POLICE
The annual meeting of the International Asso-
ciation of Chiefs of Police will this year be held
in Windsor, Canada. The sessions will open on
June 6th and continue until the 9th, inclusive.
Our northern city is making elaborate prepara-
tions for entertaining the bosses of the police de-
partments of the United States, Canada, Mexico,
and possible other countries.
Especially is the meeting of interest to Cali-
fornians, and especially San Fi'ancisco folks, be-
cause Daniel J. O'Brien, Chief of Police of San
Francisco, is Pi'esident of the Association and
will preside at all the meetings.
Among the most important work to be put over
this year is the passage of a gun law, which will
prohibit the promiscuous sale of small firearms,
as well as the importation of machine guns, pis-
tols, and especially the Spanish make of small
machine guns.
Capt. Matheson heads a committee composed of
Harry French, Chief of Police of Colm-nbus, Ohio,
and George H. Rioux, Provincial Detective of the
Province of Quebec. This committee was charged
with drafting an international law, whereby the
interstate and inter-country shipment of fire-
arms will be prohibited. The gun law question
has been up to the Association for a number of
years and at the last meeting definite plans were
worked out and on these plans the committee has
prepared a law, written by Captain Matheson,
which it is accepted as a matter of course, will
be passed.
The law prepared after exhaustive investiga-
tion and study is believed to fit the bill and will
have a great tendency to discontinue major
crimes, crimes wherein pistols play the important
part.
Also it is assured the Association will be back
of the move to put an embargo on the shipping
into this continent foreign-made machine guns
and rapid firing pistols.
Another feature that will have the attention
of the sessions will be the drawing up of a stand-
ardized law regulating automotive traffic. At the
present time different States and diflferent coun-
tries on the North American continent have dif-
ferent traffic laws. It is the hopes of the Asso-
ciation to work out a general traffic law that will
cover all States and countries in America.
Superintendent Morgan Collins of Chicago
heads the committee, having this featui-e of the
program in cliarge and he is prepared to present
regulations that will meet tlie present-day prob-
lems of police in handling interstate traffic.
A large delegation of police officials have sig-
nified their intention of attending the Windsor
meeting, the following having already engaged
reservations for the trip through Capt. Matheson.
The northern chiefs and the southern chiefs will
meet in Ogden and from there go in a body to
the Canadian city:
Chief and Mrs. Daniel J. O'Brien, Captain
Matheson of this city; Chief and Mrs. August
VoUmer, Berkeley. Chief Vollmer was President
of the Association in 1920.
Chief James T. Drew, Oakland; City Manager
and Mrs. Charles E. Ashburner, Stockton; Chief
and Mrs. C. W. Potter, Stockton; Chief W. T.
Stanford, Vallejo; Chief W. G. Walker, Fi-esno;
Chief John J. Harper, Burlingame; Chief T. F.
Burke, San Mateo; Chief Dan Cox, Richmond;
Chief James Davis, Los Angeles; Chief I. B. Eng-
lish, Pomona; Chief J. S. Yancey, Long Beach:
Chief C. H. Kelley of Pasadena, and Chief T. N.
Koening of Sacramento, intend going if they can
make arrangements for a leave.
KINDLY SERVICE RENDERED
Several days ago, this office had occasion to
call upon you for protection for one of our em-
ployees threatened with physical violence. Offi-
cers James Coleman and Charles E. Human were
detailed in response to that request.
We were particularly pleased with the kindly,
solicitous manner in which these officers handled
that detail. Officer Coleman at one time. Officer
Human at another, accompanied the threatened
employee. At the request of Officer Coleman,
made to the Captain of Detectives of the Oakland
force, an officer escorted the lady from the Oak-
land Mole to her home.
It would seem that these officers went far out
of their way to protect this employee and we
wish to extend our thanks to you and to them,
through you, for the very efficient and kind pro-
tection afforded.
F. G. SHALLENBERGER,
Supply Department of
Hartford Fire Insurance Co.
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Living up to the traditions of the members of
the San Fi-ancisco Police Department, Officer Pat-
rick Conroy on the morning- of May 9, threw all
thoughts of his personal safety and life to the
winds, and fought a pistol duel with a safe opener,
killing his man and capturing a second robber.
This life and death battle took place in the
Excelsior theatre out on Mission street, at 3:00
o'clock in the morning.
Conroy, with Officer Graeme Wildgans, were
patrolling their beats. They went in back of the
theatre and found the rear door opened. Grip-
ping their guns they went in. Wildgans down-
stairs and Conroy upstairs.
No sooner had the two policemen parted on
their search for burglars when Conroy felt the
muzzle of a gun pressed against his back, and a
hissed "thi'ow up your hands, and go back out
of here."
Apparently complying with the orders of the
unknowTi foe, Conroy started out. Suddenly he
pressed an electric button, whirled around, grab-
bed the thief's gun, and began to shoot. Jerking
loose from the policeman, the thug returned the
fire. Each fired five shots. Conroy's five shots
found their mark three times. The safe opener's
shots went wild.
As a bullet pierced the crook's heart, causing
him to topple over, Conroy's attention was direct-
ed by a frightened voice pleading: "Don't shoot
me, I've got my hands up." Conroy assured the
owner of the voice he would not shoot him, and
slipped on the cuffs. Wildgans, attracted by the
shooting, came post-haste to the rescue of his
pal, but found the work all completed.
The dead man proved to be Han-y Tubb, de-
serter, and the other prisoner, Roland Biggio, 15-
year-old boy, and tool of Tubb.
To the two officers and Lieut. Pvichard Foley of
the Detective Bureau, the boy prisoner recited
that he and Tubb had "pulled" some 15 jobs in
this town, San Jose, across the Bay and down
the peninsula.
He took the officers to the apartments of the
duo on Turk street where some loot was recovered
and where the officers found a young arsenal.
Rifles, shotguns, pistols and ammunition enough
to carry on a seige were stored in the rooms.
Biggio was booked for robbery.
Pat Conroy is of a family of policemen ; he has
four brothers in the department: Hugh Conroy,
in the General Office ; John, in the Bush district ;
William, in the Harbor, and Frank, in the Mis-
sion. A fifth brother, a police officer, was killed
some years ago by a reckless autoist on Fast
avenue and still another brother is on the eUgible
list for police service. He has two brothers in
the fire department.
Mayor Rolph publicly commented both Conroy
and Wildgans for their work and bravery.
This slaying of one safe robber and the captur-
ing of another is a demonstration of splendid
police work. These two officers, in the still hours
of the night, followed their orders to see all doors
securely locked. Most people might wonder
what would prompt an officer to try doors at
3:00 a. m., but a policeman doing his duty cares
not for the hour, he tries doors anyhow.
Then going inside, spreading as they did to
close in on a possible intruder, the officers used
good judgment. And then when confronted un-
expectedly by the bandit the officer did not wilt,
did not stop thinking, did not beg for mercy, did
not hesitate. ... He used his head, and though
knowing it might mean his life, he picked a psy-
chological moment to turn the tables on the
crook. How well his plan worked, how quickly
he acted, how sure was his shooting was indi-
cated by the fact that under all these circum-
stances, and under fire himself, he registered 3
hits out of 5 shots.
It is an exhibition of courage and coolness that
would be a credit to a man in any undertaking.
Officer Conroy told intei-viewers that he "had
thought out just what he would do under such
circumstances, and how he would act."
There is something for young policemen to
think over. It is something that they should
cultivate and work out. One might plan for years
and nothing come of it, yet the one big moment
might come when such preparedness would turn
the tide in the planner's favor.
And in closing let this fact sink in: Let no one
waste sympathy on the youthfulness of prisoners.
These "boys of tender years" who engage in crime
are the most murderous, cold blooded and brutal
type of criminal known. They think no more of
snuffing out the life of a human being, especially
a policeman, than the ordinary citizen has of kill-
ing a bird. They shoot to kill, and they gloat
over their deed if they succeed.
Here are two boys, one 20, the other 15, who
started on a career of safe opening, who planned
and pulled many jobs, and who intended to shoot
it out with anyone who interfered with them.
They are good examples of the type of crooks the
police have to deal with these days. They shoot
in the back and they shoot with hatred and
malice.
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Considerable interest was aroused last month
by the publication in the daily press of stories
declaring- that Chief of Police Daniel J. O'Brien
was contemplating resigning-, or at least, taking
a six months' leave of absence.
It seems the foundation for these stories was
supplied by the illness that overtook the Chief
while he was in Los Angeles, he having been a
victim of an attack of influenza.
The Chief denied that he was going to resign,
or take such an extended leave, the Board of
Police Commissioners all were unanimous in de-
claring the stories to be without foundation and
that the closest of harmony existed between the
Board and the Chief, just as it has ever since
Daniel J. O'Brien was appointed head of the;
Police Department in 1920.
However, the Chief is far from being a well
man and at the request of friends and orders
from his physician, who told him he must ease
up a bit on the long hours and strenuous duty
he had been devoting to the department, he is
taking a much needed rest in Redwood City.
His enforced rest has done him a world of good
and he expects to be back on the job again for
a short time prior to his departure on June 1, for
Windsor, Canada, to attend the animal conven-
tion of the International Association of Chiefs of
Police, of which he is the President.
Chief O'Brien appointed his Chief Clerk, Capt.
William J. Quinn, acting chief during his ab-
sence. Captain Quinn has already distinguished
himself in that position by carrying out the poli-
cies of the Chief in handling the affairs of the
department. He has a host of friends, both in and
outside of the department, as was demonstrated
by the results of the recent annual ball of the
Widows' and Orphans' Aid Association of the San
F'l-ancisco Police Department, of which he was
Chairman. Tliis was the most successful ball
ever given by that organization. Close to 50,000
tickets were sold, the gross receipts being ap-
proximately $49,000, the net receipts totaling
$41,000 plus, this latter amount in excess of about
$12,000 over the previous highest receipts of any
ball given by the department, which ball was the
one conducted a number of years ago by the late
Chief D. A. White.
The members of the department feel confident
there will be a continuation of the well known
policies of Chief O'Brien during his absence, es-
pecially in view of the fact that tlie work of the
department has gone on smoothly and with the
same degi-ee of efficiency as when our beloved
Chief is at the helm himself.
EFFICIENT POLICE SERVICE
On April 22, 1927, Arthur Dollard, known to
all the members of the Bush street station as an
ex-officio member of Co. E, and who has enjoyed
25 years of married bliss, started on his second
honeymoon to Del Monte where he and his loving
wife enjoyed their first days of marital bliss. The
fiist honeymoon was made via horse and buggy,
with good old Dobbin pulling the vehicle. The
second was in a high-powered automobile.
Before starting on their journey they went to
St. Mary's Cathedral to receive the blessing on
their 25th anniversary.
Arthur carefully locked his automobile contain-
ing their trousseau and paid his pious visit.
On his leaving the church he found, much to
his dismay, that some artful thief had success-
fully unlocked his automobile and made away with
same.
After a survey of the neighborhood, the bride
and groom made tracks for the Bush street sta-
tion and were gi-eatly overjoyed to find that
through the efficient work of the police of that
station his automobile had been recovered before
he had reported its loss.
The thief made a hasty retreat and did not
have time to remove the contents of the machine
with the possible exception of sewing the legs of
Arthur's pajamas and a few other nice things,
including the abandonment of a beautiful boquet
of orchids which might be used to advantage by
the happy couple.
It was an exciting moment when Arthur enter-
ed the station armed with a couple of golf sticks
looking for the thief, and lucky for the thief that
he was not apprehended.
Arthur is ex-officio chief of the fire department,
and no big fire is complete without his presence.
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LEGISLATURE HELPS POLICE
By Capt. of Detectives Duncan Matheson
Tlie forty-seventh session of the Legislature
adjourned on April 29, 1927. This was the most
important session ever held, from the viewpoint
of the peace officers of the State, because of the
laws that were passed to insure simplicity, swift-
ness and certainty in the administration of jus-
tice. The puiTDOse of any investigation is to ar-
rive at the truth. The processes now in use are
for the sole purpose of not arriving at the truth,
because every issue is clouded by so-called legal
technicalities incorporated in the law, so that the
very purpose of the law is defeated.
Ninety-two bills were introduced in the As-
sembly and 87 in the Senate. However, all of
the bills introduced were not sponsored by the
Commission appointed for the Reform of Crimi-
nal Procedure. Their bills were introduced for
the sole puiiDose of speeding up the wheels of
justice.
Of course, some opposition developed to some
of the bills, particularly those that would curtail
and limit the powers now created by law govern-
ing probation, insanity and parole. The thirst
for power still holds good. There are two things
that bureaus and commissions always ask for;
they are, more power and larger appropriations.
It is the old instinct of domination.
Several constitutional amendments are neces-
sary to complete the job and these will appear
on the ballot at the next State election. The
people of the State will then be given a chance
to voice their approval or disapproval on the
measures.
The law-abiding people of the State are com-
pletely disgusted with the existing situation as
far as court procedure is concerned. The State
of New York passed through the same experience
with the result that the Baumes Law came into
existence by the same procedure as m California.
From newspaper reports, they have and are now
accomplishing a wonderful work in that State.
However, any law or laws will not accomplish
much unless they have the full and unqualified
support of all persons charged with the adminis-
tration thereof. Their minds are receptive to
public opinion and unless these laws create an
enlightened opinion, they will fail in a large meas-
ure to accomplish any good.
The bane of law enforcement is the propaganda
spread by so-called crime experts. These neuras-
thenic philosophers are so impractical and stupid
that they would stai-ve to death if they had to
compete in a commercial life with natural per-
sons. However, they manage to eke out an ex-
istence by unloading a lot of rot on sentimental-
ists who believe that the criminal is an unnatural
man instead of the old Adam.
The Commission on Criminal Procedure was ap-
pointed by the Governor, authorized by an act
passed by the Forty-sixth Legislature. The sum
of $10,000 was appropriated for the expenses of
the Commission, but it was too small. This,
however, did not deter the Commission from go-
ing all the way with the problem. The Com-
mittee consisted of Mr. Walter K. Tuller, chair-
man, Mr. Thomas M. Gannon and Mr. John U.
Calkins. The thanks of every peace officer of the
State is due to the Commission for their con-
structive work. They were the targets for unjust
criticism, which at times hurt, because they were
conscientiously performing a public service.
Too much praise cannot be given the Honorable
Buron Fitts, Lieut.-Governor of the State, for his
unswerving support of all the bills presented. He
stood adamant, even championing their cause
everywhere. He put the issue squarely before
the people of the State and was elected by the
largest majority ever given a lieutenant governor.
It took about 10 years of agitation to prepare
the public mind so that they would be receptive
for the program and their representatives found
that the demand for a simplified system of pro-
cedure was imperative and therefore possible of
accomplishment.
My dear Mayor: Congratulations and thanks
for your earnest effort in bringing about the spirit
of co-operation between the police and the guard-
ians of the peace by declaring this day, February
19, Police Day. May your proclamation lay the
foundation toward making this a national affair.
Sincerely yours. (John J. Harper, Chief of Police.)
Mav. 1927
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Det. Sergts. Henry Kalmbach and George Richards, de-
tailed with the U. S. investigating departments, certainly
rounded out an active month, and gave the Government
a lot of good service, as well as reflecting great credit
upon the department, and enhancing the splendid spirit
of understanding that exists between the government au-
thorities and the police. Here are a few of their most
important arrests during the past month: Dennis Simms,
under indictment at Leavenworth for using mails to de-
fraud; Lawrence Corrish and Warren Johnson, for Gren-
dive mint robbery; Leonard Davenport, apartment house
mail box robbery; Forrest Fite, William Lane, Phillip
Richmond and Otis Flemming, en route to U. S. Marshal,
and James H. Clark, en route to department of justice.
* * *
Shoplifters were given the merry run-in by Det. Sergts.
Andrew Gaughran and James Skelly during the past few
weeks. These members of the Shopping Detail, contribu-
ted, among others, the following to the city prison popu-
lation: Enrico Neverez, Loretta Seguin, Felipe Her-
nandez, Harry Butler, burglary and petty larceny; Robert
Nichols, forgery; Gus Larm, petty larceny, and Roy
Jones, 476a.
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Det. Sergt. William Ai-mstrong, in charge of the Check
Detail, and his active assistants, Det. Sergts. Charles
Maher and James Hansen, brought in 24 violators of
Section 476a of the code, three forgers, and two em-
bezzlers within the past four weeks. That sure is some
swell roundup of the "short story writers."
* * *
The Burglary Detail under command of Det. Sergt. Rich-
mond Tatham had among other an-ests, the following:
By Sergts. Richard Hughes and James Johnson, Walter
Sickles, escape from Yreka, Charles Giron, wanted in
Burlingame, Edwin Floyd and Henry Hill, receiving
.stolen goods; by Sergts. Ii-^-in Finlay and James Mitchell,
George Schoochz, wanted in Auburn, and Arthur Bailey,
wanted for embezzlement; by Sergts. James Gregson and
Joseph Lippi, M'illiam Mitchell, Ralph Sanguenetti and
Salvatore Caramazza, robbery, and Edgar Jacobs, attempt
grand larceny; by Corp. Nels Stohl and Sergt. Jack Palm-
er, Arthur Edelstein, wanted in Pittsburgh, Pa.
* * *
The boys under Lieut. Bernard McDonald did their stuff
on the Auto Detail. Here are some of the arrests: By
Sergts. Jack Cannon, J. McKenna, G. Wafer, P. Keneally
and Robert Smith: Robert Thomas, grand larceny and
gun law violator; by Sergts. Frank Brown, Rasmussen and
Special M. Britt: Fred Fritchen, en route to Los Angeles;
by Smith, Wafer, Cannon and McKenna: Charles Hunter,
larceny; by Smith and Wafer: Frank Brain, 146 M. V.
Act; by Sergts. William Millikin, Harry Husted, Wafer
and McKenna: Wm. Fumaz, George Roach, Reginald
Daily, 146; by Sergts. James Hayes and Harry McCrea:
Sam Greenblat, 146; by Sergts. Nicholas Barron and Milli-
kin: Wm. Jobelman, embezzlement; Clark Tores, em-
bezzlement by bailee, by Baron and Augustus Tompkins:
R. A. Prestin, embezzlement; by Tompkins, Millikin and
Harry Husted: George Smith, \nolating probation, sec.
146 and en route to Redwood City.
* * *
i Det. Sergts. Michael Desmond and Barth Kelleher cer-
tainly keep the idlers on the move along the waterfront.
During the past month they brought in over 25 of these
gents to the prison. Also they booked S. Oyama, wanted
in El Centro, and John Mustak, en route to Vallejo.
* » »
Lieut. Thomas Hoertkom and Sergt. Moms Harris of
the Pickpocket Detail landed the following in prison;
Andrew Carillo and Cel.so Carillo, burglary; Edward Pol-
lard, 266d of the Penal Code, Dan Williams, grand larceny.
* * *
Det. Sergts. Arthur McQuaide and William Proll aiTest-
ed Harry R. Cohen for bad check passing; William Curtis
for Los Angeles.
» * *
The boys on the night watches kept the detective ma-
chine busy the past month. Detectives George Page and
Charles McGreevy tagged Fred Nugent and Isador Kroll,
wanted in San Jose; David Stevens and Sergt. Frank
Jackson arrested George Geruldsen, a fugitive, and Wil-
liam Smith and Harry Martin for larceny; Charles Dor-
man, George Page and John Stunn arrested Keith Watson
for Reno, same detectives with Fred Bohr nabbed Joseph
Rocco for Los Angeles; Sidney Dubosem, James Sunseri
and W. Brown grabbed off Juan Ag:uayo and Carlo Mur-
anda on charges of assault with intent to commit murder.
* * *
Sergt. Jere Dinan and Sergt. Ernest Gable of Lieut.
Henry Powell's Pawnshop Detail rounded up Robert Men-
dez and Arthur Suraez and locked them in the city prison
on burglary- charges; Det. Sergts. A. B. Reihl and De-
tective Leo O'Connor did the same thing to Joe Lawrence;
while Sergts. John Callaghan and George Hippley did
the same thing twice to Stanley Widell. Lieut. Powell
assisted by Det. Sergts. George Wall and William Mc-
Mahon arrested Harry Rosenfeld for Los Angeles.
* * *
Detective Harry Cook made things merry for fugitives.
He nabbed John Saunders for Los Angeles, Cecil Roberts
for Minneapolis.
* * *
Det. Sergts. Fred Bohr and Clarence Herlitz of the
Hotel Detail registered at the city prison, Louis Pimentel
for forgei-y and embezzlement, and Rhea Shoup for grand
larceny.
* « •
George Shank was arrested for manslaughter by Det.
Sergts. Allan McGinn and Charles Iredale.
* * *
Sergt. George Healy and Detective Martin Porter picked
up Albert Acevedo for Los Angeles, and Angelo Rapps
for Oakland.
» * *
Det. Sergts. Edward Wiskotchill and Thomas Conlan
speared Edwin Booth for embezzlement, and Fred Ortero
for assault with deadly weapon.
* « 3^
Sergts. Thomas Curtis and Thomas Reagan showed
Jacob Schuman the way to jail after aiTesting him for
grand larceny by trick and deNice.
* » *
George Collins is the arbitrator of all disputes and he
keeps a watchful eye on Tom Hyland and Michael Des-
ond. He is not satisfied yet as to what Tom did to a
certain coat and he thinks Michael is trying to specialize
in ammunition. George gets the low-down on lots of stufF.
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Officer Frank Small Shines
By Daryl Dinwiddie, Pohce Reporter, The Bulletin
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There was a blonde girl in the car when the
officer first boarded it, but when the fight started
she jumped out and ran away. She was brought
in the following day by Det. Sergts. Wm. Mc-
Mahon and George Wall, but was released when
she convinced them she had nothing to do with
any of the long list of jobs attributed to the
bandit pair.
In the city prison where he was booked by
Frank Small, Israel Berlow, 20, told detectives his
dead pal was Douglas Bedell, 28, confessed to sev-
eral stickups on the Pacific Coast and admitted
that he had served a term in a Massachusetts
reform school. Berlow was charged with murder,
attempt to murder, robbery, 146 motor vehicle
act, and violation of Sec. 5 of the revolver law.
As a result of this "ordinary" incident, com-
mendation was heaped on OflScer Small by the
Police Commission, Chief of Police, Daniel J.
O'Brien, and various civic bodies and individuals.
One letter of congratulation was received from
Detective Sergt. Knapp of Los Angeles who was
held up by Bedell and Berlow in the southern
city last March. Sergt. Knapp's gun was re-
covered among the loot found in Berlow's bag-
gage.
Quiet, modest, "Sammy" went home a trifle
late for supper that night, told Mrs. "Sammy"
and two and one-half-year-old Francis of the ter-
rible monotony of these "ordinary" incidents.
This is the story of an "ordinary" incident in
the life of a San Francisco police officer; one of
those routine affairs that happen now and then
during the hum-drum existence led by our guard-
ians of law and order.
When the reports were brought in from the
Western Addition station on the morning of May
3rd, it was in the same batch with the rest of
them. Why, it wasn't even on top — just buried
down near the bottom of the pile. Nothing to
distinguish it from the other reports of stolen
bicycles and such.
Modesty personified was this report of the kill-
ing of one and capture of another stick-up man.
There was nothing in it to denote the thin line
that separated Policeman Frank J. (Sammy)
Small from death when he boarded a signal-
breaking automobile on the aftenioon of May 2
in the Golden Gate Park panhandle.
"But why should there be?" says Sammy, "It's
just an 'ordinary' incident that's liable to happen
to any police officer. You have to expect those
things when you're in this business."
"Sammy", not a giant in stature, faced death
at least twenty times during a ten-minute strug-
gle with two desperate highwaymen in the ton-
neau of a stolen automobile. He looked into the
business end of a hot "45" at least that many
times, and with quick thrusts and lunges man-
aged to stave off death. It was an uneven battle,
with "Sammy" on the short end of the odds.
Yes, just an "ordinary" incident.
Three of them, "Sammy" and the two bandits,
were fighting for possession of the gun. In a
moment one or the other of them would get it.
And the odds were two to one that it wouldn't be
"Sammy."
The odds were right. The yegg who was driv-
ing the car aimed the pistol. It was the supreme
chance for "Sammy."
Just "ordinary" though, mind you.
With a superhuman effort "Sammy" brought
into play the cunning that is taught in Sergt.
McGee's police training school. He grabbed the
assailant who was next to him in the back seat
of the driverless moving automobile and threw
him into the line of fire just as the other man
pressed the trigger. "Ordinary" police work, of
course.
One of the bandits dead — killed by his own
pal — it was easy for "Sammy" to disarm the
other, handcuff him and halt the automobile
which was careening wildly through the Pan-
handle.
Daniel T. HanloB
Chu. H. O'Brien
Telephone Market 7906
Sanitary Towel Supply Co.
84 NINTH STREET
San Francisco, Cal.
DOUGLAS 6346
EASTMAN KODAK STORES, Inc.
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May, J 927
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Baseball League Properly Organized
Schedules Pre feared By Committee
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For the puipose of forming, maintaining and
perpetuating a baseball league in the San Fran-
cisco Police Depai'tment, we, the undersigned, in
meeting assembled this 18th day of February,
1927, at the store of A. G. Spalding & Bros., 158
Geary street, do hereby establisli such league and
adopt tlie following Constitution and By-Laws for
the guidance thereof:
"The name of this organization shall be 'The
San Francisco Police Baseball League.'
"To establish in the police department a perma-
nent baseball league in which the men of the de-
partment may, under organized conditions, in-
dulge in the great national pastime, thereby im-
proving the physical as well as the social well
being of the men so indulging.
"The League shall be composed of not less than
four nor more than eight Clubs, each Club repre-
senting a certain Company or Bureau in the de-
partment. Clubs shall be named after the Com-
pany or Bureau in which organized.
"There shall be one representative from each
Club in the League and the Managers of the re-
spective Clubs shall be, ex-officio, the Board of
Managers.
"There shall be a Board of Directors appointed
by the Chief.
"There shall be a President, a Vice-President
and a Secretai'y-Ti'easurer.
"The President shall perform all the duties
usually and customarily appertaining to such offi-
ce and in addition he shall decide all questions of
League law, decide all protests in accordance with
the laws of this League and the laws of organized
baseball, rule on the eligilibity of players, appoint
and assign all umpires and scorers and appoint
the time and place, after consulting with the
managers concerned, for the playing of all post-
poned and tie games.
"Tlie Board of Managers shall meet at the call
of the President, except that there shall be two
regular- stated meetings each year as follows:
One meeting within ten (10) days after the com-
pletion of the championship schedule and the sec-
ond on the first Tuesday of Februai-y of each
year at which time the championship schedule for
the ensuing season shall be adopted."
GEORGE B. DUNCAN, JR.,
Mgi-. of the Mission Club.
WALTER HARRINGTON,
Mgi-. of the Bush Club.
ERNEST BORTFELDT,
Mgr. of the Ingleside Club.
JOSEPH FOYE,
Mgr. of the Park Club.
Meeting of March 2.5, 1927 (Friday), at South-
side playgrounds. Present : Duncan of the Mis-
sions, Harrington of the Bush, Quigley of the
Ingleside, as members of the Board, and Capt.
Casey of the Bush representing the Board of
Directors. No representative from the Park.
The draft was then exercised. The Park, not
being represented at the meeting, had choice for
draw for the draft drawn for them by Capt.
Casey. Frank Jackson was appointed by the
Board to draw players for the Park Club. The
Bush, needing a pitcher, and the Ingleside, need-
ing both a pitcher and catcher, were permitted
to draft batterymen before the general draft was
made. Bush selected Sid Desmond of Headquar-
ters Co. as a pitcher and Ingleside selected Way-
man of Potrero as a pitcher, and Jackson, Det.
Bureau, as a catcher. The four Clubs then and
their selections of the remaining players known
to have expressed a desire to play in the League
with the following results:
Bush — Iredale, Det. Bureau; MuiTay, Co. H;
Campbell, Chinatown.
Mission — Dormen, Det. Bureau; Fitzgerald, Co.
A ; Moriai-ty, Co. B.
Ingleside— C. Keck, Co. B ; Olsen, C. Atty. Off. ;
Doherty, Co. M.
Park — Ballhaus, Co. A; Thompson, Co. I; Mc-
Donald, Co. L
Special meeting on Wednesday, Maixh 30, 1927,
at the Park police station. Present: Duncan,
Harrington, Quigley and Joseph Foye, Manager
of the Park Club. The first di-aft of the League
Constitution and By-Laws w^ere read, approved
and signed. (Copy filed with the League Secre-
tary) . The playing schedule for the 1927 season
was adopted (Copy filed). Lieut. Emmett Moore
of the Det. Bureau was chosen for President, and
Coi-p. Geo. B. Duncan, II, of the Mission Club was
appointed Secretary-Treasurer.
It was agreed to permit the Park and Ingleside
Clubs draft more players. Ingleside formerly drop-
ped Weyman, Co. I, and Doherty, Co. M, from
their reserve list and drafted Page of the Det.
Bui-eau, McLaughlin of Co. C, and C. McCreevy
of the Det. Bureau. Park was gi-anted Gleeson
of the Western Addition. The Mission Club was
given permission to draft one more player in the
place of Moriarty of Co. B, who is disabled from
a broken ankle.
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No. 7.
CROOKS GIVEN MERRY TIME HERE
bery in the "showup." Before nightfall there
was one more in jail and another draped over a
slab in the city morgue.
During the five days following, five more were
added to the list and another to Coroner Leland's
refrigerating room downstairs.
And the credit for this general roundup of
gun men, the arrest of whom has cleared up
most every "kick" registered during the past
month is due to the watchfulness of the men on
the outside stations. Men who patrol the beats
during the lonely hours, and who keep their eyes
and ears open. These men give an exhibition of
police work that is indeed remarkable, and their
catclies have always been upheld by the courts.
Catching a stick-up man is one of the most
difficult tasks a police department has to con-
tend with. The holdup shows up at most any
point, makes his man, takes his money and dis-
appears to haunts he has selected. He leaves no
marks like the burglai', he leaves no trail like the
forger or bad check passer, nor does he leave any
clue like the safe opener might leave. His ap-
preliension is accomplished generally upon a close
observance in the outlying districts by the police
of any suspicious or new persons loitering about,
or who appear out of place.
The patrolmen on the beats have followed this
custom, and they stop many a man, some inno-
cent, others just suspects, some develop on being
shown to victims of a holdup. Innocent citizens
who might be stopped readily appreciate the alert-
ness of the officers who stop them for interroga-
tion and usually compliment them for their care.
If the boys keep up the lick they hit for the first
week this month, they will run plumb out of
robbers.
Crooks who specialize in the crime of robbery
have found this city a most undesirable spot to
ply their efforts. They have found that they may
relieve a few' of our citizens of a few dollars, but
the price they pay for their gains is pretty stiff.
They soon find, if they remain here to pull more
than one job, that their liberty is sure to be cur-
tailed.
The roster in the city prison presents mute
evidence of these facts. The books show a
very healthy list of offenders who sought to en-
hance their financial increments at the point of
a pistol.
But this month, especially, has a record been
started that is one calculated to demonstrate to
anyone interested, and all law-abiding folks should
be interested, that the police of San Francisco
are hitting the ball 24 hours of the day.
On the moiTiing of May 2 there were six men
charged with robbery and three for attempt rob-
The First Hotel on
Market Street
AND THE ONLY HOTEL WHERE
ALL CAR LINES PASS ITS DOORS
This hotel is just two minutes' walk
from the Ferry Building.
TERMINAL HOTEL
60 MARKET STREET
KEARNY 5044
HOTEL MELBA
214 JACKSON STREET
Mav, 1927
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Fifth Street Stage Terminal San Jose Union Stage Depot
5th STREET AT MISSION - S. F. 26 SO. MARKET ST. - SAN JOSE
LOS ANGELES— SLxth and Los Angeles Streets
PENINSULA RAPID
TRANSIT CO.
(THE RED CARS)
AND
PACIFIC AUTO
STAGES COMPANY
(THE ORANGE CARS)
Direct connections for Santa
Cruz, Salinas, Hollister, Watson-
ville, Los Gatos, Mt. Hamilton,
Big Basin, Los Angeles and all
points intermediate.
The above companies will
operate a joint 20-ininute
sei'V'ice as follows:
LEAVLNG SAN FRANCISCO AND SAN JOSE 6:00 a. m., 6:30 a. m., 7:00 a. m., then every 20 min-
utes until 7:00 p. m., 7:30 p. m., 8:00 p. m., 8:30 p. m., 9:00 p. m., 10:00 p. m., 11:00 p. m., and last car
leaves at 12:00 midnight. The above schedule will be operated.
SOUTHBOUND from FIFTH STREET STAGE TERMINAL, 75 Fifth Street, Phones Kearny 5437,
Douglas 5540, and NORTHBOUND from SAN JOSE UNION STAGE DEPOT, 26 South Market Street.
Redwood Highway Stages
Operating between
SAN FRANCISCO, EUREKA,
CRESCENT CITY and WAY STATIONS
North Bound:
Leave S. F. 7:10 a. m., 1:10, 6:40 p. m.;
Arrive Eureka 8:45 p. m., 7:35 a. m.
South Bound:
Leave Eureka 7:00 a. ni., 5:40 p. m.;
Arrive S. F. 8:35 p. m., 6:30 a. m.
Leave Eureka 8:30 and 11:00 a. m., for
Crescent City, Grants Pass, Port-
land, Coos Bay and Way Points.
Pen Jose Union Stage Depot, 26 South Market Street
Phones San Jose 4121; San Jose 168.
PICKWICK STAGES
DIRECT TO LOS ANGELES BY WAY OF THE COAST
Leaving San Francisco 6:30, 7:15, 8:00, 11:00 a. m., 2:45, 7:00, 11:45 p. m. Arrive Los Angeles
10:05, 11:05, 12:15 p. m., 4:00, 7:10, 11:35 a. m., 5 p. m. Leave San Francisco 6:30 a. m., an-ive
Bakersfield 7:15 p. m. (Parlor-Buffet schedule is in addition to 6 regular through Pickwick schedules,
leaving at convenient hours. Regular fare — Los Angeles to San Francisco, $12.85 — Round Trip, $20.50.)
Pickwick Stages direct from Los Angeles to San Diego, El Centro, Phoenix and EI Paso.
Local Service Between San Francisco and Los Angeles, Including Monterey,
SAN FRANCISCO — PORTLAND
An all-daylight trip through the timbered beauty of North California and Oregon — ^passing close to
snow-crowned Mt. Shasta and volcanic Lassen, and serving all way points. Dii-ect connection to Seattle
and Vancouver. Departures 8:00, 2:30, 11:45 p. m.
PHONE GARFIELD 4460
COAST SIDE TRANSPORTATION CO.
"THE OCEAN SHORE ROUTE"
Leaving San Francisco Daily — 8:30 a. m., 10:00 a. m.; 3:00 p. m., 5:15 p. m.
Sundays and Holidays — 8:30 a. m., 10:00 a. m.; 4:15 p. m., 5:15 p. m.
Leaving Pescadero Daily — 7:00 a. m.; 2:00 p. m.
Sundays and Holidays — 7:00 a. m.; 5:00 p. m.
Leaving Half Moon Bay — 6:30 a. m., 8:00 a. m.; 2:00 p. m., 3:00 p. m.
Sundays and Holidays— 6:30 a. m., 8:00 a. m.; 2:00 p. m., 5:00 p. m.
Connection for Santa Cruz, via the Coast Route, leaves Pescadero on week days 1:30 p. m.
Leaves Santa Ouz, week days, 9:00 a. m. for connection at Pescadero to San Francisco.
PHONES GARFIELD 4428 and GARFIELD 4429
Comfortable and reliable passenger, freight and express sei'^iee between San Francisco,
Salada Beach, Moss Beach, Princeton, Half Moon Bay, San Gregorio (Connection for La
Honda), Pescadero and Santa Cruz.
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Voters of San Francisco
The intrenched power of the Garbage Trust has defied you. If
3^ou would release yourselves from its clutches, if 3^ou would re-
move its tentacles from the Municipality of San Francisco, Vote
"Yes" on Proposition No. 5 on the ballot.
Your Pocketbook is Supplying the LiSeblood to an
Octopus whose Tentacles Reach into the City Hall !
San Francisco's garbage trust has waxed fat.
This has been possible through an inadequate
ordinance regulating the collection of refuse and
arbitrary abuse of official power.
The passage of No. 5 will correct both evils.
This new ordinance, favored by more than
18,000 citizens of ."^an Francisco who signed the
initiative petition placing it upon the ballot has
four outstanding advantages:
1. — Through a reduced schedule of maximum
legal rates it will work a substantial reduction
in the monthly garbage bill of San Francisco
householders.
2. — It will return government where it belongs
— to the people — through a provision requiring
the Board of Health to grant permits for new
scavenger service where twenty per cent of the
householders want it.
3. — It divides the city into definite districts,
making each scavenger directly responsible for
the district in which he works and, through com-
petition, forces reasonable rates and adequate
service.
4. — Through carefully drawn regulatory pro-
visions, the new ordinance will bring garbage
collection in San Francisco into the status of a
legitimate business, with a reasonable profit de-
pendent upon good service upon the part of the
scavenger himself.
As a citizen and voter of San Francisco you
should know that the scavenger who collects
garbage at your back door has made between
$500 and $600 a month for the past decade —
this in addition to a profit upon the operation of
the city's incinerator officially estimated by the
Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors
at $116,000 a year.
No accounting of the profit of the incinerator
has ever been made to the city. No return has
been made to the municipal government upon the
taxpayers' investment of more than $400,000, and
only those in the "inner circle" of the Scavenger
Trust know where the money has been expended.
Meanwhile, through an arbitrary use of official
power made possible by the existing garbage or-
dinance, the San Francisco Board of Health has
festered a combination in restraint of trade and
assisted in the monthly drain upon San Francis-
co's pocketbook.
It is to correct these intolerable evils that the
proposition designated as Number .5 on the ballot
has been designed.
You, as a voter of San Francisco, can stop these
abuses by casting your ballot for the new ordi-
nance.
Don't fear that you will work an unreasonable
hardship upon your scavenger. The new ordi-
nance will allow him a reasonable profit upon his
investment and his work, but it will compel him
to give good service, stop graft, overcharges and
insolence.
In short, it will make the householder and busi-
ness man of San Francisco independent from the
Garbage Trust.
The principles embodied in this ordinance have
been endorsed by:
MORE THAN 18,00 0 SAN FRANCISCO
VOTERS.
THE APARTMENT HOUSE OWNERS AND
MANAGERS ASSOCIATION, Inc.
THE CALIFORNIA HOTELS ASSOCIATION.
THE PARK-PRESIDIO IMPROVEMENT AS-
SOCIATION.
Vote *^YES'" on Proposition No. S on the Ballot
Reduce garbage rates.
('reate competition in garbage collection.
Better service through competition.
Stop graft.
Stop overcharges.
Stop insolence.
Stop independency.
Compel your scavenger to be your servant instead of your master.
This city is your home; break the garbage monopoly fortified by arbitrary
official power.
Your VOTE of "YES" on PROPOSITION No. 5 on the ballot will con-
vince certain city officials that citizens mean something sometime.
CITY GARBAGE REMOVAL CO., Inc.
By F. J. Demartini, Secretary
Ma\. J 927
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CHIEF JOHN HARPER (Left). AND BURLINGAME POLICE DEPARTMENT.
MRS. ELIZABETH LOBDELL, MATRON (Right)
CHIEF OF POLICE HARPER AND OFFICERS
OF BURLINGAME
By Francis A. Raymond, S. F. Examiner
What suburban city could be more tempting
to the man with "porch chmbing-" tendencies,
more alluring to the stickup man, than Burlin-
game — that place of rich mansions, prosperous
people and tree-lined avenues?
And yet crime has been held to a minimum
there, and the 16,000 residents of that city are
content that it will remain so as long as Chief of
Police John J. Harper and his force of ever alert
policemen are on the job.
Three years ago, January 1, 1924, Harper was
appointed Chief of Police of Bui'lingame by the
board of city trustees of that city. He was no
novice in police work. Thirteen years of his life
had been spent in "San Francisco's finest".
If the tiny closet-hke room with its old fash-
ioned desk which then served as Bm-lingame's
police headquai-ters, discouraged Chief Hai-per
when he took office, he didn't show it. Instead he
determined right then and there that he would
build a depai-tment that might well be the envy
of the departments of other suburban cities.
Harper's determination is reflected in the Bur-
lingame police department of today. From three
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May, 1927
men in 1924, the department's personnel has
grown to 10 well trained officers. They are :
Officer Jack Theuer, night desk man; Officer
John Hartnett, day desk man and identification
bureau man ; Officer Joseph' O'Brien, third shift
desk man ; two motorcycle police, Earl Christensen
and Edward Hallett; a shot-gun squad, Lawrence
Furio and Adolph Waldeck; two day patrolmen,
Edward Oliphant and Joseph Langrell, and a night
patrolman, Charles Jenkins.
The department has grown into an ultra mod-
ern police headquarters, with an excellent com-
munication system through police boxes, whereby
each man keeps in touch with the desk man by
calling in every half hour.
The department is constantly being commended
on the traffic accident reports kept on file. Each
man must make his report clear, intelligent and
thorough. The same rule applies to every sort of
report released.
Harper entered the San Francisco police depart-
ment October 20, 1906. As a member of it he
served in the Bush street. Mission street stations,
and San Francisco's first traffic squad, which was
organized December of 1910. January of 1913
he was transferred to the Chinatown detail and
finally to the detective bureau of identification.
Retired from the San Francisco force on July
1, 1919, Hai-per took up the study of law at the
San Francisco Law School. He passed the bar
examinations and practiced law for four years,
serving at the same time as claim adjuster for the
Market Street Railway. •
Then he was appointed to take charge of the
Burlingame department.
Hai-per's narrowest escape from death came
shortly after he took charge of the peninsula de-
pai-tment. It was while cornering a desperate
criminal — Benny Hassen — on March 22, 1924.
Hiding himself in some shrubbery near a mansion
he had just burglarized, Hassen fired three shots
at HaiiDer, all of them passing dangerously close
to the latter's head.
The gleam of Hassen's fire in the inky darkness
of night proved fatal for him. Hai-per fired where
he had seen the spurt of flame and thus ended the
notorious society burglar's career of crime.
Harry C. Totten is Mayor and Police Commis-
sioner of Burlingame. Mrs. Elizabeth (Peggy)
Lobdell is Police Matron.
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May, 1927
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MARSHAL JOE CAVALLI AND DEPUTY FRED LAGOMASSINO
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CHIEF OF POLICE WILLIAM MAHER
OF SAN BRUNO
By Francis A. Raymond, S. F. Examiner
I
If Ben Hur were alive today and attempted to
stage his now famous chariot race through the
city limits of San Bruno — he'd find himself in
possession of a "speed tag".
There's no such thing as privileged characters
in San Bruno. Follow out the law to the letter,
else suffer the consequences at the hands of Chief
of Police William Maher and the San Bruno force.
Take f'r instance, Peter B. Kyne, that re-
nowned person who writes fiction. Didn't he
hurry through San Bruno several months ago?
And what happened?
Well, there was the shrieking of a police siren
and the first thing the famous writer knew, an
officer was writing out a citation for him to appear
in the San Bruno speeder's court.
San Bruno, a town of 3000 residents, has one
problem. That's avoiding casualties in the steady
maze of traffic that pours through its main street
— San Mateo avenue — into the main highway.
Thousands of automobiles pass through San Bruno
on week-ends. Saturdays and Sundays prove
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motorists from everywhere, going anywhei'e. And
that's why Chief Maher and his four men, Officers
James Bedford, Harry Alford and Frank Ruzio,
don't beUeve in "privileged characters". Chalk
the mark as every one does! That's the slogan
of San Bruno's small, but mighty police force.
As a result — traffic mishaps in San Bruno are
comparatively few. As for crime — there is little
trace of it there. Chief Maher believes the best
method of combating crime is to prevent it when
it's in the bud. A call to the local telephone office
and the operator presses a button that lights a
fiery red light on the top of the city hall tower.
The force keeps its eye on that tower-light. If
it flashes that means trouble, and the force wastes
little time in squelching the disturbance.
Chief Maher became a member of the force on
December 1, 1925. He became chief. May 1, 1926.
John T. O'Connor is Mayor of San Bruno.
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Sergt. Frank Latulipe has taken his picture-taking and
picture-making apparatus up in the new addition on the
roof, where one of the most complete police photograph
galleries to be found anywhere is now in full operation.
Frank says the only trouble he has had with his able as-
sistants, Officers Hugo Dietel, George Blum and Louis
Meyers was during the first week, when these boys
couldn't help but enjoy the wonderful panorama spread
out on all four points of the compass from the new
gallery.
Up-to-date equipment, filing cases and plenty of room
have been installed and the work of preparing finished
photographs of crooks is facilitated a hundred per cent.
A self-commencing elevator nins from the Bureau of
Identification to the gallery, with exits at the city prison,
making the conveying of prisoners a safe and swift piece
of work. Sergt. Hogan of the B. of L has additional room
since the picture-grabbers moved out.
drunken man to drive a car, and it lessens his chance
for freedom as well.
* * *
Lieut. Michael Riordan was made chief clerk by Acting
Chief of Police William J. Quinn, following the announce-
ment by Chief O'Brien of the appointment of his regular
chief clerk as acting head of the department. Lieut.
Riordan is now off sick and Sergt. Patrick Murray, the
Blackstonian sergeant in the general office, is pinch-hit-
ting for the lieutenant.
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Corp. Franklyn K. Lane of the Mission station says
that with the new highway into Yosemite, the traffic
through Gin Flat has been diminished considerable. Also
the fact that they don't have any more gin in Gin Flat
has caused this spot in the high Sienas to become sort of
flat.
* * *
Corp. Harold Levy, mounted traffic officer, went fishing
the first of the month. He took his staggering dough-
nut with him and flivvered to the Northlands. Returning
on the evening of May 1 he almost disrupted the schedule
of the Golden Gate Ferry Company, when he arrived
on this side. Seemed like the pulsating demon refused to
percolate when the gangplank was lowered, and Harold
had to let the stream of other cars by, while he cranked,
pleaded with his pet, and tried to start the critter.
Finally, finding no trout had jumped into the gears or
engine and assisted by a deck hand to lovingly raise the
car on a dolly they shoved it onto dry land.
Corp. Ray O'Connell of the prison staff says that
there is one difference in the old time "licker" and the
present-day grade. Nowadays there is no doubt about
the intoxicated condition of the gent who is ambled up
to the booking desk. It speaks for itself.
Det. Charles McGreevy, one of the best dressed men in
the bureau, though he works the night watches, has a-
close rival in Det. Charles Dorman. Dorman sought to
outshine McGreevy but his tailor couldn't make his clothes
fit so nicely. So Mr. Dorman blossoms out in a brand-
new wristwatch. Hot diggety dog. "Mc" says so long
as he don't wear spats, it's O. K. with him.
* * *
Officer Jack T. Roche, graduate from Room 9, is twist-
ing the screws in the city prison.
* * *
Sergt. William Daugherty of Co. A, maintains that a
gent who gets his hide full of moonshine should stick
to pedestrian navigation and fight shy of trying to guide
an automobile. It is dangerous to the people for a
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Lieutenants:
CENTRAL
STATION
Harry P. Braig and Edward F. Copeland
Capt. Arthur D. Layne
Joe Barnett knows what it is to be locked up for rob-
bery. He was given this illuminating experience by Offi-
cers J. Dyer and James Mulcahy.
* * *
Officer J. Gallag-her led Gee King, a Chinese youth, to
the city bastile where he had him put behind the bars
on a burglary charge.
* * *
John Demetri got into another gent's automobile and
was ha\'ing the time of his life when Officer Charles La
Due spotted the car, and having a number notation of
the license and information that the machine had been
taken, arrested Demetri on a 146 Motor Act violation.
* * *
Sergt. William Flinn headed a posse that surrounded
and arrested and locked up Joaquin Reviera on a larceny
complaint.
* * *
Officer Walter Leonhardt doubled with Det. Sergt. An-
drew Gaughran of the Shopping Detail in arresting Bonnie
Taylor for burglary and petty larceny.
* * *
Theodore Maitinotti got too gay with a deadly weapon
and was jailed for such a charge by Officer J. King.
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Officer J. Amend spotted George Cole using some white
stuff that he was sure was hop. He investigated, and sat-
isfied himself the "stuff" was narcotics so he booked George
accordingly.
» * *
Dere Art Young was disfiguring a fellow citizen when
Officer Dan Pallas hove in sight. Before Dan got through
with the fancy named gent, the latter was languishing
behind prison bars charged with mayhem and assault
with a deadly weapon.
* * *
Pallas teamed up with Officer Thomas Stack in booking
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* * *
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* * «
William Rosse, charged with violating the gun law, and
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* » *
Officers T. White and Charles Lillis locked up James
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* * *
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* * *
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Mav, 1927
SOUTHERN
STATION
Captain Charles Goff
Lieutenants Arthur De Guire and Amo Dietel
If Coi-p. Emmett FljTin and Officer William Desmond,
special duty men of this station, had to pay all the gaso-
line bills used by the covered wagon in transporting the
men they arrest to the station, thence to the city prison,
they wouldn't have enough dough left out of their monthly
stipend to purchase a sandwich for a humming bird. Last
month, beside a score of vags, dope addicts, petty lar-
cenists, they sent in the following: Robert Kennedy,
charged grand larceny; Joe La Form, a loser, assault to
commit murder; Pete Kestone, assault, and Elvy Carey,
burglary.
* * *
Officer Andrew Lennon kept the wagon busy also. Some
of his major arrests included James Heffernan and J. B.
Shopp, violating Sec. 32 Penal Code; Fred Boyd, A. V.
Carboni and Frank Keyton, the latter two charged with
attempt to commit burglary and carrying rods, the former
with vagrancy. In these last three "knockovers" Officer
Oliver Lundborg assisted.
* * *
Leslie O'Leary, arrested by Officer T. Maloney, and John
Smith, arrested by Officer J. Brockman, were a couple
of gents who tried mixing gas with gin according to the
officers who snagged them.
* * *
Officer Charles Keck single handed brought in William
Murray and William Daugherty whom he booked as rob-
bers.
* * *
Sergt. Dowie and some of his able assistants la.ssoed
Harry Yarde and Lester Talmadge for burglary. They
had to shoot Yarde in the heel to make him pause long
enough for the formalities of arrest.
* + *
Antone Silvia is in jail on a charge of attempt to com-
mit robbery, ha\nng been placed there by Officer L. Du
Bo.se, who also arrested John Malini for carrying a dan-
gerous looking dirk.
* :); *
Officers Lennon and A. McDonnell arrested Harry Hud-
son for driving an automobile in N-iolation of the precepts
of Sec. 112 and violating the State poison law. They ar-
rested Hudson's companions for vagrancy and violating
the poison law.
* * *
Mitchell Davis, larcenist, was "jugged" by Officers
Thomas McKeon and 0. Lundborg.
* * ^:
Officer R. Clifford brought in William Zanda for threats
against life; Officers J. Rooney and E. O'Day nabbed
Alejahandro Valdez for assault with deadly weapon.
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HARBOR
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Capt. Patrick Herlihy
Lieutenants Wilbert F. Pengelly and Michael Mitchell
Sergrt. H. H. Lu<loIph and posse apprehended James
Nelson who was charged with burglary and four counts of
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* « «
Corporals Emile Heame and C. Byrne settled on John
Espinosa for larceny. John has played San Quentin for
two jolts.
* * *
Clyde Lewis, accused of violating Sec. 504 of the Penal
Code, had the pleasure of being arrested by Corporals
Heame and Byrne and Officer William Brudigan, the
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* * *
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* * *
The Harbor district is no place for gents who have
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May, 1927
MISSION
STATION
Capt. Frederick Lemon
Lieutenants Peter A. Mclntyre and Daniel J. Collins
Officer Charles Foster garnered in Henry Boehle on a
robbery charge, and duly placed him beliind steel bars.
* * *
Wobbling drivers still find this sector a difficult one to
negotiate without police interference. The follownng
were given the necessary formalities attending a booking
on 112 charges: Hartley Lowe, arrested by Officer C.
Wennerberg; John Williams by Officer L. O'Connor; An-
tonio Femandez by Officers Foster and T. Bittles.
* * *
Officers C. Mudd and A. Wilmot gave Martin Frazier
a ride on a charge of violating Sec. 148 of the Motor Ve-
hicle Act.
* * *
Wilmot also grabbed off Guy Lsaacs for driving while
intoxicated.
* * *
Corporal Brannan and Officer William Ridgeway encased
Charles Elias in a steel lined cell. Charles was charged
with assault.
* * *
Sergeant Charles Sheble, Corp. Patiick Shannon and
Officer Frank Nuttman had the goods on Louie Perkins
so they locked him up for burglary.
* * *
Charles Allen, charged with being a hit-and-runner, got
himself locked in the "jug" by Officer C. L. McDaniell.
* * »
Officers Nuttman and Charles Mangels found Robert
Campbell navigating aroimd the district in a car reported
stolen. He did not own it nor have any valid reason
for possessing same. He drew a 146 M. V. A. charge.
* ?-. »
Sergt. Peter Mitchell and Officer George Hess got Ber-
nard Smith for larceny.
* * *
Officers J. Kenney and Tim Cashin thought Alex Sutter
wasn't doing anything worthwhile so they vagged him.
Officer G. Burkhard sent William Aden to the fifth
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Page 21
BUSH ST.
STATION
Lieutenants Edward L. Cullnan and Joseph Mignola
Capt. John J. Casey
Coip. T. M. McCarthy got a grood one when he nabbed
Hugo Ludwig for burglary. Hugo had a gun and drew an
additional charge.
« * »
John Kiely has two burglary charges again.st him in
the prison. He was apprehended by Corp. Di-ury and
Officer E. Clancy.
* * *
Those who are not moderate in their violation of the
18th amendment, and who insist on driving their auto-
mobiles while in such a state, continue to find plenty of
police activity when they hit the Bush. Ask the follow-
ing who were marked down as \-iolators of Section 112:
Joe E. Russ, arrested by Corp. Al Strei and E. McKenney;
Martin Deleon by John Dolan, Jr., and Joel Thomas, ar-
rested by E. DeGrazia. Joel was also forced to answer to
violations of Sec. 141, 121, 134, 67b and 41, and Sec. 81,
Ordinance 1857.
* * *
Loren Croft and John Edgar, arrested by Officers E.
Clancy and P. Clerldn, have charges of assault by means
and force likely to produce gi'eat bodily injury.
* * *
Beside ninning the wheels of the station "Black Maria"
nearly off, with vags, petty larcenists and other such un-
desirables, Coi-p. William Boyle and Officers William Ward
and Gus Betger gave George Neely a booking for violat-
ing the State gun law, and May Smith, for attempt grand
larceny.
* * *
Sergt. A. Christensen and posse rounded up James
Lewis, Jack Thomas and Lucille Martin who were dally-
ing with narcotics.
* * *
Officers H. Kieman and E. Connell brought in Sherman
Rose and Joe Gonzales for ^'iolating Sec. 245 of the Penal
Code, what ever that is.
» * *
Officer R. McCarte "glommed" Frank Chatfield whom
he obsei-v-ed weaving an uncertain course along the street
in his ear. Chat is in for driving while intoxicated.
McCarte teamed up with J. Rose in arresting Thomas
Callaghan for larceny.
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May. 1927
TRAFFIC BUREAU
Captain Henry Gleeson
Lieutenants J. J. Casey, J. (Cliff) Fields and Grover Coats
Corp. Luthei- Arentz and Traffic Officer Isaac Bittles
ride the iron bikes after speeders, reckless drivers and
other traffic law violators. They show no favoritism, how-
ever, and do not confine their activities to the lesser
violations. The other day they spotted Frank Cooper
wending his way in a car with no particular care for
direction. They halted him and after investigation sent
liim to the nearest station, properly tagged for violation
of Sec. 112 of the Motor Vehicle Act.
* * *
Hilmer Nelson is another gent who was not driving
in accordance with the provisions of the same well known
Sec. 112, when Corp. John McCausland observed him do-
ing the best he could to steer his "heap" in a straight
course. The corporal satisfied himself the man was not
able to continue so he caused him to pause, to be arrested
and locked up.
* * *
Harold Lewis was wanted by United States Marshal
Fred Esola. Traffic Officer A. Wagner saw Harold so he
just gathered him in and booked him en route to the
marshal's office.
* * *
Traffic Officer J. Surgess did the same thing to Richard
Walsh. Richard was wanted in Los Angeles, and beside
being booked en route was also tagged with a vagrancy
charge.
PARK
STATION
Capt. John J. O'Meara
Lieutenants Daniel W. Cronin, Francis J. McGuire
Officers J. Connell and G. Young certainly heaped a
lot of grief upon Thomas Murphy. They arrested him
for robbery, driving while drunk and having a stolen car
in his possession. This will give Mui-phy plenty of work
trying to beat these raps.
* * *
Just a plain 112'er is Candivo Francios who was round-
ed up by Officers H. Hayes and -J. Hunt as he was mean-
dering around in his car in an uncertain manner.
* * *
Officer E. Hippely nabbed another of these sort of of-
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Page 29
RICHMOND
^f^ STATION
Capt. William T. Healy
Lieutenants Daniel W. Cronin, Francis J. McGuire
While Ralph Davis picked out a prosperous place in
this city to ply the uncertain and unlawful business of
holding up folks, he also selected a place that has some-
what of a reputation for discouraging young men who
desire to add to their bank rolls, money gamered in this
uncertain and unlawful manner. Ralph evidently tried
his hand at something like stick-up work, for he found
himself in the city prison duly and properly incarcer-
ated with the accusation of robbery indited against his
name. His predicament was caused by the alertness of
Corp. Frank Rhodes and Officers Charles Cornelius and
A. Dolan. j
Edward Holt has had some personal experience now
about being arrested on a serious charge and he can
tell his folks just how it feels. Seems like Eddie had a
gun and desired to use it on someone he didn't like, and
his acts came under the provisions of the code defining
what constitutes assault with intent to commit murder,
as well as what is needed to come within the scope of
the State revolver act. Officers Walter Francis and M.
DriscoU conducted the necessary lectures and illustrations.
INGLESIDE
STATION
Captain Eugene Wall
Lieutenant Frederick W. Kimble
Officers Dominic Hogan and Jerry Kelleher say the
gents who name new residential tracts must sit up nights
figuring new ones. The new tracts in this district have
some of the highest sounding names one would want to
hear. Some of them sound as pretty as country vista.
* * *
San Jose avenue is now one of our widest thorough-
fares, that is, that part of it from Monterey boulevard to
Ocean avenue. Looks like they might have four tracks
on this stretch unless some arrangements can be made
by doubling with the Market Street Railway Co.
* * *
Burglars don't get by out here so very much. Might
ask Joseph Hughes. He is inside looking out on a burg-
lary "clout", having been pinioned by Officers Gus Wil-
gans, R. McKenna, R. Herman and L Delehanty.
* « *
Phillip Deller knows what it means to get an-ested and
locked up as a hit-and-run driver. He was apprehended
by Officers T. Price and R. McKenna.
* * *
Arthur Heffei-nan and William Brady were lolling around
dodging useful occupation when Officers J. Keegan and D.
Rudy and Deputy Sheriff Poutel locked him up.
* * *
Charles Plotner is one of these drive-yourself-if-you-can-
grab-a-car. He grabbed one, and Officer T. J. Bruce grab-
bed him for violating Section 146 of the Motor Vehicle
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"2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
May. 1927
W/E STERN
WrADDITION
STATION
Capt. Robert A. Coulter
Lieutenants Leo Tackney and John M. Sullivan
June Jones who was bent upon destroying a fellow-
being got herself arrested by Lieut. J. Sullivan, Sergt. J.
Camey and Officer Lloyd Groat on a charge of assault
with intent to commit murder.
* * *
Corporal Zaun and Officer Oliver gave Albert White
something to wonder about when they booked him for
\'iolating Section 266a of the Penal Code and for violating
the State prohibition act.
* * *
Charles Stewart was gathered into the patrol wagon
after Officer Frank Small nabbed him on a 288 charge.
NORTH END
STATION
Capt. Herbert J. Wright
Lieutenants D. M. Reavis and George Duffy
Robbery is not a very safe vocation if one would enjoy
freedom in this district. Corp. C. Mielicke gave Bryan
Butler and Clarence Vaught a literal lesson in this bit of
philosophy when he booked the pair for this major crime.
* * *
Mielicke and Officer J. Dowd specialize in no cei-tain
crime. They handle them all as they come. They step-
ped out and flagged down Frank Towle the other day
whom they charged with driving while intoxicated in an
automobile he had stolen. A nice pair of 'Tcicks" to wiggle
out of. * « »
Dowd got another 112'er when he snagged Jack Sisson
as he ambled uncertainly along the avenue. Jack argued
the matter, however, but it was for naught; he gave the
nod to the booking sergeant.
* » *
Officer W. Pullen hated to arrest Albert Gianfranceseh.
for assault by means and force likely to do great bodily
hai-m, not that he had any s>Tnpathy for the defendant,
nor did he desire to shirk his duty. Pullen says it en-
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transcribe the moniker Albert sports, but nevertheless the
officer "done his duty as he seen it."
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POTRERO
STATION
Capt. Harry J. O'Day
Lieutenants Albert S. Munn, J. C. Malloy
Packing a gun is unlawful. It is a dangerous thing
to do unless for personal defense. Thomas Grastos was
ambling around the Potrero District with a "rod" buldg-
ing out his hip pocket. The Potrero don't think "totin'
a pop" is exactly the right thing, no more than any other
district does, so when Officer P. King, one of Capt. Harry
O'Day's active hired help, spotted Tommy with the artil-
lery, he got busy. The first thing Mr. Grastos knew, he
was cooling his heels in the station cell while the turnkey
told him he was charged with violating the State revolver
law.
* » «
A burglar has as much chance getting away with his
racket out hei'e as a herring at a cat show. Han-y Castro,
22, evidently thought the district a proper place to com-
mit a burglary and beat the "kick." That he figured wrong
is so deducted. For he has to squirm out of a burglary
charge placed against him when Officers Tom O'Connor
and J. Coghlan turned the keys on him.
BAY VIEW
STATION
Capt. Stephen V. Bunner
Lieut. Frank DeGrancourt, Lieut. Wm. Dowie
John Wilkins had a great scheme to eke out a liveli-
hood without doing any physical labor. He advertised for
men to take a job. He promised easy work and big pay.
He collected a retainer and then he "would leak out of
the scenei*y." He stung a lot of sincere men — men who
needed work, and needed more, the few dollars the un-
principled crook took from them. However, he went too
strong and Coi-pora!s Charles Bro\\Ti, William Harrington
and Officer H. Tiernan rounded him up. He was given
so many bookings for larceny by trick and device it took
a fast penman half a day to smear them on the prison
parchment. It also developed, after Sgt. Emmett Hogan
got through comparing finger print records, that Wilkins
has had considerable experience in getting mugged, printed
and measured in half a dozen well known jails.
* * *
Corp. Harrington stepped out and grabbed off Raymond
T. Thompson whom he says was attempting to commit
robbery.
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2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
May, 1927
APRIL 20TH, 1927
Twenty years ago today I was assigned as
stenographer in the General office at 64 Eddy
street, San Francisco, CaL *
iY. ii: H;
Jeremiah F. Dinan was Chief and Sergt, Frank
H. Noi:man was Chief Clerk.
* * *
About the only old-timers left at headquarters
are the following: Officer Gilbert P. Chase, Prop-
erty Clerk's office; Capt. Charles F. Skelly, Secy,
to Police Commissioners; Lieut,„J(^n T. Fitz-
henry, Business office, Det. Bureau.
* * *
Captain of Detectives, Duncan Matheson, was
a corporal on special duty in the Det. Bureau.
* * *
Det. Sergt. William Armstrong was assigned as
such in tlie Det. Bureau.
* * *
Frank McGrayan was on special duty in the
Det. Bureau.
* * *
Officer Geo. W. Blum was police photographer.
Det. Sergt. Thomas F. Reagan was on duty in
the Bureau of Identification.
* * *
Sergt. Arthur T. McQuaide, now in the Det.
Bureau, was on duty in the License Bureau.
* * *
Det. Sergt. James Regan was a Detective Sergt.
* * *
Detective Sergt. Patrick O'Connell was a De-
tective Sergeant.
* * *
Mrs. Condon was a matron in the city prisbn.
* * *
Det. Sergt. Thomas F. Conlon was detailed in
the Bureau.
* * *
Also Sergt. Jeremiah F. Dinan, now with the
Pawnshop Detail, who was Chief of Police 20
years ago.
* * *
Sergt. John W. Caples was a clerk in the
License Bureau.
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FANNING
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boi'dering close upon the infraction of a com-
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comers. In an interview with Chadwick again
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a preparatory course. After his graduation he
drifted out into the world and spent most of his
time on the western hemisphere. He told of his
being reformed in jail and spoke of his matri-
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she was doing missionary work in the jail and I
learned to love her and I feel that I shall not serve
a day in any states prison, and when I am re-
leased my wife and I will continue in the service
of saving souls." iVLi's. Chadwick, upon being
questioned, said that her husband, who was a min-
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vice together, and it often became my duty to
preach in the absence of my husband. I met Mr.
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2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
May, 1927
TRAP SHOOTING POPULAR
By Det. Seigt. George Wall
People, members of botti sexes, are taking a
keen interest this year in clay pigeon shooting.
This was indicated by the attendance at the Elks-
Chronicle Sixth Annual Shoot at the Golden Gate
Club, Alameda, on April 24.
On this occasion 533 men and women entered
in the contests, striving for some of the hundreds
of prizes and trophies offered for good scores.
The San Francisco Police Departent had en-
tries, and nearly every blue coat got a slab of
bacon, and bacon and eggs has made up the menu
in many a policeman's home since last month.
Old time duck shooters were on the job at the
Alameda shoot, including Clarence Kolb, Detec-
tive Sergt. Richard Hughes, Officers Jack Trainor
and William CuUen, Court Reporter Howard Ver-
non and William Sampson.
Another shoot participated in by the police de-
partment gun experts was at Fort Scott, May 5,
and the San Francisco Gun Club at the Presidio
on May 8.
The scores made b>' the members of the depart-
ment at the above contests follows:
Golden Gate Gun Club, Sunday, April 24
George F. Wall 24 out of 25
Harvey Deline 23 out of 25
John Trainor - - 22 out of 25
John Dolan, Jr. 19 out of 25
Richard 0. Hughes 21 out of 25
George Burkhard -— 19 out of 25
William Porter 18 out of 25
Walter Leonhart 18 out of 25
Fort Scott, Presidio, May 5
George F. Wall .....22 out of 25
William Cullen ..._ 22 out of 25
Jim Rooney 20 out of 25
George Lillas 20 out of 25
George Burkhard 19 out of 25
Renick Harris 20 out of 25
John Dolan, Jr _ 19 out of 25
Frank Lane 19 our of 25
Frank Hoeckle 19 out of 25
Austin Foley — _.. 19 out of 25
Walter Leonhardt -- 17 out of 25
Harry Gurtler 16 out of 25
William Porter 16 out of 25
San Francisco Gun Club, Presidio, Sun., May 8
George F. \Ya\\ .....23 out of 25
William Cullen ...20 out of 25
Any member of the department wishing to
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No. 8
Official Praise for Police Heroes
Mayor Ralph and Commissioner Roche Commend Large Group of Department Members for Extraordinary Wor((
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Fifteen members of the San Francisco Police
Department appeared befoi'e the Board of Police
Commissioners on May 23rd, to be commended for
meritorious service by Mayor James Rolph Jr.,
and President Theodore J. Roche, Commissioners
Jesse B. Cook, Dr. Thomas Shumate and Andrew
F. Mahony.
This is the largest number that has ever been
brought before the commission at one time, and
the deeds that won this honor were all performed
within a space of less than three months.
Corporal Lawrence Mclnerny, Detective Ser-
geant Louis DeMatei, Detectives Sidney Du Bose
and James Sunseri, Officers Joseph C. Gremmin-
ger, Joseph Wikstrom, Andrew F. Lennon, ^^^illis
A. Casey, Alfred W. Hutchinson, Dewey Kauff-
man and Frank J. Davis were praised for their
work in connection with the shootingr of the
bomber of SS. Peter and Paul's Church last
March.
Detective Sergeant George Stallard for the
shooting of Louis Carter who endeavored to hold
Stallard up in front of the latter's home. Carter
was shot by the sergeant after he had been cov-
ered by the bandit's gun.
Frank Small for capturing one and sliooting
another bandit whom he arrested for a traffic vio-
lation, and who tried to kill the officer.
Patrick Conroy and Graeme \A'ildgans for tlieir
work in the Excelsior Theatre attempt robber.\-,
when Conroy shot and killed Harry Tubbs, safe
opener, and captured Roland Biggio, youthful yegg
student.
After Captain Charles Skelly, secretary of the
board, read off the names, he announced that the
Meritorious Board comprised of Captains Duncan
Matheson, Herbert Wright and John J. O'Meara,
had awarded Meritorious credits to each man.
President Roche then addressed the men as
follows :
My fellow citizens and members of the San
Francisco Police Department, friends of the San
Francisco Police Department, Mr. Mayor and
members of the Board of Police Commission and
Captains of the department :
I realize that it is quite a privilege, as well as
an honor, for me to be permitted as head of the
San Francisco Police Commission, to preside over
these proceedings which have as their purpose and
object the commendation of some of the officers
of the San Francisco Police Department for acts
of bravery and courage performed by them in the
performance of police duty.
The efficiency of a metropolitan police depart-
ment depends upon, and is best exemplified by the
integrity, the loyalty, the courage, the bravery
and the intelligence of its members. Lacking in
any of these essentials, the department is to such
extent deficient.
Today, maximum police efficiency is developed
by scientific principles, intelligently and effective-
ly applied, in conjunction with the assistance of
men, particularly chosen because of their recog-
nized ability, courage, loyalty, alertness and phys-
ical prowess.
The bravery of a police official is traditional.
It becomes an instinct with him because in his
work there is no place for cowardice. He is ex-
posed to danger at all times. His life is constantly
in jeopardy. The soldier goes forth to meet a
known enemy. The policeman is constantly men-
aced by an unknown and hidden foe. He is un-
accompanied in his service by martial strains to
excite his emotions, to quicken his pulse beats or
to stimulate his courage, but, notwithstanding
the absence of all of these, fear is an unknown
quality in police service. It is this character of
courage which persuades an officer in the per-
formance of his duty, without hesitation, to make
the supreme sacrifice.
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It is not uncommon in a metropolitan police de-
partment to find that upon occasions, when the
opportunity permits, certain of its members have
engaged in acts of heroism and courage, bring-
ing honor and glory not alone to themselves, but
to the department of which they are members.
But it is indeed seldom that any department
has been honored by a series of acts, performed
during a comparatively brief period— acts mani-
festing a high degree of heroism and courage,
fidelity to duty and unswerving loyalty to the
traditions of our department, traditions which re-
quire that each member siiall be willing, if neces-
sary, to make the supreme sacrifice in order to
save human life, prevent crime commission and
conserve and salvage property interests committed
to his care.
The officers who are to be publicly commended
here tonight for acts of heroism, bravery and
courage, typify the highest type of American
citizenship and by their acts have brought honor
and glory to themselves, the department, its per-
sonnel and to the community which they have so
valiantly served.
These acts, thus performed by them, are sym-
bolical of many of the things for which this de-
partment stands and demonstrates that the de-
partment as well as its members, are entitled to
the confidence and respect as well as the gratitude
of this community, whose peoples' lives they are
protecting and whose property they are conserv-
ing.
We have here tonight the Cliief Executive of
San Francisco, Honorable James Rolph, Jr. While
ordinarily, the duty and responsibility to commend
members of the department for tliese acts of
bravery would rest upon the Police Commission,
the Mayor of San Francisco, in recognition of the
brave and courageous acts by you members of the
department, has seen fit to honor us with his
presence, and he has come down here for the pur-
pose of assisting in publicly commending you, and
I take great pleasure at tliis time in calling upon
Mayor Rolph to publicly, and in the name of the
City of San Francisco, commend you for these
acts of bravei y and courage.
Mayor James Rolph, Jr., President Roche of the
San Francisco Police Commissioners ; Commission-
ers Cook, Mahony and Shumate; our Chief of Po-
lice, Daniel J. O'Brien ; our Acting Chief, Captain
Quinn; Captains, Lieutenants, officers, including
the Sergeants, Corporals and the patrolmen of the
department :
I come tonight to pay my resepcts to you, as
well as to my fellow citizens who are gathered here
to see commendation placed upon your breast for
the heroism which you have shown in your public
duty as officers.
There is nothing more that you can do for your
country than to be brave when the occasion arises ;
you have shown your merit on repeated occa-
sions. We have the finest police department in all
the world and we can take our hats off to that.
We have a Chief of Police who is the President of
the International Chiefs of the World, and I am
glad that he is well enough to be back on his job
looking as well as he does tonight.
While Mr. Roche was delivering his wonderful
address, I was just thinking of Captain Charles
Lindbergh who has performed one of the great-
est heroic acts of bravery in flying from New
York to Paris, and he will be recognized for ever-
more as one of the greatest outstanding figures
in the world's history. Today we made him an
honorary citizen of San Francisco for that won-
derful remarkable and heroic trip all alone, and as
I looked at you tonight while Mr. Roche was
speaking, I was saying to myself if the occasion
had arisen where a prisoner was in Paris and
San Francisco wanted to capture that prisoner
by sailing with Captain Charles Lindbergh, every
one of you would liave volunteered to go over
that sea in that plane and take your chances and
capture that prisoner. But you are doing these
things every day: you are up against it all the
time; you never know in the morning when you
are going out whether you will return to your
home at night.
And then there is Duncan Matheson, Captain of
Detectives, who has done more than any man that
ever sat in his place in this city. I commend
him for the wonderful work that he has accom-
plished.
The first crime that I refer to tonight was the
bombing of the Church of Ss. Peter and Paul,
located on Filbert St. between Stockton and Pow-
ell Sts. The church was bombed on four different
occasions: On Saturday, January 30,, 1926, at 11
p.m.; on Sunday, May 9th, 1926, at 3:20 a.m.; on
Friday. October 29th, 1926, at 5:15 in the morn-
ing and on Sunday, January 9th, 1927, at 4:45 in
the morning. About March 9th, 1927, a detail
was formed to apprehend and capture those im-
plicated in the bombing. The following officers
comprised the detail:
Corporal Lawrence Mclnerney, Company H;
Officer Joseph C. Gremminger, Company D; Offi-
cer Josepii Wikstrom, Company K; Officer An-
drew P. Lennon, Company B; Officer Willis A.
Casey, Company M; OflScer Alfred W. Hutchin-
son, Compan.v E; Officer Dewey Kauffman, Com-
pany G; Officer Frank J. Davis, Company E; De-
tective Sergeant Louis P. DeMatei, Detective
James Sunseri, and Detective Sydney B. DuBose.
The detail functioned for twenty-five nights.
The bomber was apprehended in the act of plac-
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Career of Sir Harry Westwood Cooper
Last of an Interesting Series By Officer Pf.ter Fanning
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It developed later,
according- to medical
testimony, that Sir
Harry had a migra-
tory Iieart. No doubt
that meant that each
of his numerous mar-
riages were made in
good faith; that he
honestly intended to
settle down and be a
good h u s b a n d, and
that he failed solely
because his vagrant
lieart insisted on wan-
dering. It wouldn't
sta.\' put. Sometimes
it slipped over to the
right side, but even
then it was on tlie wrong side. No matter
what Sir Harry said he had to follow his heart,
which he said was wrong from birth and he should
not be held responsible. Not only was the rebel-
lious organ migratory, but it was enlarged, which
accounted for his promise to settle large estates
on his brides and consequently he looked confi-
dently to be acquitted.
Then Sir Harry appeared for trial and was called
as a witness against himself, charged with having
sent a forged telegram. Norine Schneider in the
meantime married a man named Kelly, who prior
to her second marriage, was the wife of Cooper
and had made a deposition against Sir Harry so
tliat the prosecution was very eager to introduce
this testimony. Cooper contended that althougii
the marriage liad been annulled, there was an ap-
peal still pending and therefore the witness must
still be regarded legally as the defendant's wife,
although she had since married Mr. Kelly. The
District Attorney opposed this contention and won
his point, so that the deposition was accepted in
evidence and submitted to the jury. The telegram
rlleged to be a forgery was that which Nora Kelly
received, and which, according to tiie charges
made, induced her to marry Sir Harry. Tiien Sir
Harry was asked, "Where do you reside?" "I
live at 618 Broadway," was the reply, he giving
the street address of the county jail, which seemed
clever in him. "Do you expect to make that your
permanent address?" Mr. Byington dryly asked.
"No, sir," cheerfully answered the witness. "\\'ere
you married to Nora Schneider at Crockett?", the
District Attorney inquired. "I wrs." "Has that
marriage ever been annulled?" "Not to my knowl-
edge." "Were you married to Ida Maudp Cam-
paign previous to your marriage to Nora Schnei-
der?" "I decline to answer on the ground that it
might tend to incriminate and degrade me."
"Were you married to Bertha Young, previous to
your marriage to Nora Schneider?" "I decline to
answer on the ground that it might tend to in-
criminate and degrade me." "Were you married
to Therese Van Velden in the San Francisco Coun
ty jail?" "I decline to answer on the ground that
it might tend to incriminate and degrade me.''
Thus, to all such questions concerning his matri-
monial adventures, answered Sir Harry Cooper.
Employees at the county jail testified that the
prisoner was married as alleged to Norine Schnei-
der and her deposition was then read, telling that
by the deception of the bogus telegi'am she was in-
duced to marry the bogus Sir Harry.
After fighting for nearly five years, during all
of which time he remained in the county jail in
the hope of the repeal of a ten year penitentiary
sentence, the District Court of Appeals refused a
new trial and recommended that the District At-
torney withdraw the forgery charge pending
against him and permit the sentence on the per-
jury charge to become operative. So Sir Harry's
career had been a spectacular series of passage
from cell to cell, under various flags. He was then
about 35 years of age and claimed to have been
born in Dublin and passed most of the time as the
son of Sir Ashley Cooper. He migrated to Aus-
tralia in his youth, was imprisoned there for ir-
regular practice of medicine and obtaining of
money under false pretenses, and when his sen-
tence expired in that colony, he came over into
Canada and married a girl named Maude Cam-
paign whom he took to Chicago, where he neglect-
ed her to make love to their landlady. He then
got hold of the landlady's money and brought
Maude to San Francisco, and was preparing to
elope with a chambermaid of the Hotel Langham,
where they were living, when he was arrested for
uttering a fraudulent draft on the bank of New
South Wales, for which he received three years.
Another incident happened during his sojourn in
the county jail here: he committed an offense for
the purpose of getting out of jail. He had forged
the name of a Superior Judge to orders permitting
him to leave the jail in the company of a deputy
shei'iff. These orders were drawn up in an unim-
peachable legal form but the signatures upon them
were not the signature of the judge and they
did not bear the least resemblance to the judge's
handwriting. They were clumsy forgeries bear-
ing unmistakable likeness to the handwriting of
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"Mr* Josiah Everyman Tuttlefish, Juror''
An Interesting and InstriicUve Serial on Present Day Jury System, V/ritten bv Prof. John M. Cartivnght
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In these days of researcH -bureau reform and in-
dividual stimulation much is ado. Great shouts
and little shouts rend the Pacific quietude of insti-
tutional lethargy. The great hub-bub crys loudly
and all the little hub-bubs whimper. The conta-
gion spreads to John Citizen, and he, too, feels
particularly qualified to comment, criticize and re-
form. To him and his restless brothers "The times
are out of joint," and they, good souls, filled with
the invigorating elixir of universal justice, are all
out to "set them right."
But to Josiah Everyman Tuttlefish things were
alright as they were. At least, it had never come
to Mr. Tuttlefish's notice that they were not. I
say it had never come to his notice, but I should
have added, until one day a short time ago; for it
was about that time while glancing through the
principal newspaper of his home town that his eye
suddenly fell upon the following bold-type article
of news:
MURDERER APPREHENDED,
VICTIM KILLED IN COLD
BLOOD!
Body of Prominent Citizen Mu-
tilated by Assassin
Murderer known to Police to Be
Desperate Criminal
Although this man is positively
known to to police of this city to
have a criminal record hard to sur-
pass in the world of crime, having
actually served terms in three
state prisons, and more than twice
this number in various jails,
not to speak of the numerous oc-
casions upon which he has been
acquitted for lack of convicting
evidence, he still, until this morn-
ing at an early hour, walked
among us a free man, enjoying, at
a tremendous expense to the com-
munity, all the rights and privi-
leges which in its plentitude our
Constitution permits the law-abid-
ing citizen.
Just why a man with such a
record as this should be free and
at liberty to continue his depreda-
dations upon society is more than
we can pretend to understand. One
might reasonably ask what right
has a desperate criminal with a
prison record in three penitenti-
aries to be at large. And yet the
Police Department should not be
criticized. They have done all they
can. The fault is elsewhere.
It is to be hoped that the mur-
der of Mr. Stock will be the last
criminal act of this desperate
gangster. It is also to be earn-
estly desired that this startling
homicide will impell the decent
citizens of Rookville to investigate
the system which permits the con-
tinuation of such a deplorable sit-
uation.
Our home, and personal safety
will never be secure until some
means is devised for ridding so-
ciety of this legally constituted
plague.
When Mr. Tuttlefish had finished reading this
article he half-way suspected himself, who he had
no doubt as a "decent" citizen of Rookville, of in
some indefinable manner contributing to the mur-
der of Mr. Stock. In short, he thoroughly under-
stood the article. But, although Mr. Tuttlefish
now felt that he was cognizant, of a grave evil to
be remedied, it is strange to say that this discern-
ing gentleman was at a complete loss to know
just where to put the blame. Of course, he rea-
soned, someone or something is to blame, but still
the vexing question remained who or what? And
tussle with the problem as much as he pleased Mr.
Tuttlefish could not for the life of him point to
the diflficulty.
Persistency, however, is the lever, and thought
the fulcrum with which the most obstinate difl^i-
culties are overcome. A little bit of both brought
our friend to the conclusion that it might be
something wrong with our legal institutions that
permitted criminals to carry on their sorry trade
amongst us. Like all good citizens, he was reluc-
tant to impute any fault to these venerable insti-
tutions, but the thought did off'er a starting point
for investigation, and Mr. Tuttlefish decided to
seize the suggestion and go at once to what might
prove the source of the whole difficulty.
Just where to go was the next question that pre-
sented itself. Well, there was the city jail. But
that would never do. Mr. Tuttlefish despised jails.
He cringed whenever he thought of one. Jails
had an uncanny atmosphere about them. They
were cold affairs to be shunned. Tuttlefish thought
liberty loving men ought to avoid jails, and the
more he thought about these gruesome places the
more convinced he was that he at least, was a
liberty loving man if ever there was one. Con-
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OUR CHIEF AS CHIEF OF CHIEFS
By Acting Chief William J. Quinn
On Thursday, June 9, 1927, the thirty-fourth
annual convention of the International Associa-
tion of Chiefs of Police concluded its labors at
Windsor, Canada. Our Chief, D. J. O'Brien, re-
linquished his office as President, after having-
served the full term as such.
His rise in the International Association of
Chiefs of Police, to the highest office was similar
to his rise in every branch of endeavor he has
ever undertaken. His first introduction to the
organization was six j^ears ago, when he left San
Francisco as a delegate to the Association which
was convening in St. Louis, where he not only
captui'ed the entire delegation by his magnetism
and eloquence, but succeeded in convincing the
organization that they should meet the following-
year in San Francisco. This, in itself was a won-
derful piece of strategy on the part of oui* Chief,
who at that time had been Chief but a few
months and consequently a member of the or-
ganization only a short time, and coming from
California, which was practically unrepresented in
these circles up to that time, the bulk of the dele-
gates coming from the big Eastern and Middle
Western centers to attend these conventions.
One can appreciate the amount of work that
was necessary on the part of our Chief to con-
vince these people that San Francisco would be
the proper place for them to hold their next con-
vention ; nevertheless, he succeeded, and the
next year the International Association of Chiefs
of Police convened in San Francisco, but only
with the promise that they would not come West
again for a period of at least five years which
was regi-etted by all of the delegates at the con-
clusion of the session held here. They not only
fell in love with San Francisco and California,
but voted the convention here the most successful
in the history of the organization. Not only was
the constructive work of the organization of
gi-eat benefit, but the entertainment of the dele-
gates, their ladies and families was of suc!^ pro-
portion that other centers hesitated to bid for
the convention the following year, feeling that
the task set for them by Chief O'Brien, in tlie
way of entertainment of the delegates and their
families would be impossible to duplicate.
At that convention the Chief was elected fourth
vice-president, and each year thereafter he was
elected step by step until 1926, when he was made
president of the International Association of
Chiefs of Police. His work during his office hold-
ing in the Association has been of gi'eat benefit,
not only to the organization, but to the citizens
generally throughout the country. It has brought
the departments closer to the people and much
constructive work of a police nature has been ac-
complished, the outstanding feature being the
taking over by the United States Government of
the Bureau of Identification and Investigation,
located at Washington, D. C, operating under
the Department of Justice, where are kept
photogi'aphs, fingerprints and statistics on all
criminals throughout the country, and to which
any Chief of Police has access.
If, for instance, the Chief of Police were look-
ing for the record, fingei-prints or photogi-aph of
a criminal, who might not be recorded in his gal-
lery, a wire to this bureau would bring immedi-
ately the desired information. The establish-
ment of this bureau was conceived by our Chief,
who worked assiduously on the project, visiting
Washington a number of times, where he con-
ferred with United States Senators, Congress-
men, the Secretary of State, and even with the
President, in his efforts to put into actual opera-
tion this bureau. He finally convinced all of them
that the adoption of the bureau by tlie United
States Govei-nment was something worth while,
and by the use of forceful logic succeeded in hav-
ing an appropriation set aside by the United
States Government to take over this bui-eau, em-
ploy competent help, purchase the necessary fur-
niture, equipment, etc., which was done.
The bureaus which had been operated formerly
by convicts from the Atlanta, Ga., and other Fed-
eral penitentiaries, were removed to Washington,
D. C, and set up in actual operation, all of which
is due, mainly, to the persistency and hard work
of our Chief.
The Chief has laid down the burden of carry-
ing on as President of this Association, although
it is safe to say that he will still function as one
of its most active members.
When one stops to consider the vast amount of
work and the good that has been accomplished
by our Chief, not alone since his entry into tlie
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ing the bomb in the vestibule of the church. He
attempted to flee and to resist arrest by attempt-
ing to draw a pistol when commanded to halt.
The bomber was shot twice and killed. Officer
Joseph C. Gremminger seized the bomb and put
out the burning fuse. A man acting as a look-
out for the bomber was apprehended after being
shot in the Ige.
Plans were carefully laid. Every man was at
his post. Each man carried out his instructions
to the very letter. Close cooperation among the
men detailed and the faithful performance of po-
lice duty resulted in the apprehension of the cul-
prits and the prevention of damage to persons
and property.
While not present when the bomb was lighted
and the culprits apprehended, it was Captain Ma-
theson's intelligence and his mind that assisted
in conceiving, formalizing and crystalizing the
plan which was so successfully effectuated. To
him, at least in part, belongs some of the credit
for this splendid police enterprise.
As the Mayor of your city, I take off San
Francisco's hat. I thank you for the service that
you have rendered your city. It is a lesson to
every man in the department to follow the in-
structions of his superior officer. And see what
you have done. You have made the people of Ss.
Peter and Paul's Church happy. You have saved
that beautiful church over on North Beach and
there is a grateful people over there for what you
have done in capturing the culprits that bombed
that church.
Before I close on this particular occasion, I
want to thank you, Capt. Layne. Every district
has its captain. He has been working on this
case day in and day out, week in and week out,
and to him I give a fulsome credit of praise for
the work he has done in his district and the way
it was carried out.
I want to say here now, I wish I had some
medal to pin on your breast tonight, but it has
not yet been brought to the notice of anyone — but
I have been thinking about it for a long, long-
time. The Fire Department men are given med-
als; they are given medals for heroic bravery in
the Fire Department. I cannot see any reason
why medals cannot be worn by members of the
Police Department. Look at Krueger. He has
three bullets in him — Officer Krueger. Why
should not Krueger wear some medals. I am go-
ing to bring this matter officially to the attention
of the Board of Police Commissioners to see if I
cannot get a number of outstanding men of means
to put up a fund, deposit it in the Treasury the
same as the Fire Department Fund, drawing in-
terest, and from the interest — the funds always
kept intact and a Committee of the Police De-
partment witli the Mayor and the Auditor, same
as in the Fire Department — purchase the medals,
pin them on your breast and wear them, because
it is an inspiration to every man in the depart-
ment to wear a medal. And I am going to bring
that to the attention of this Board and I think
I can get four or five men in San Francisco to
put up a thousand dollars each. If we have four
or five or six thousand dollars in the bank drawing
interest at 4V4 per cent we could get a medal
every year, but as it is now, for this heroic work
you have done we can only shake you by the hand
and thank you instead of pinning a gold medal
on you.
Detective Sergeant George Stallard: I am to
officially commend you tonight. I know there is
not a man with a softer heart or a kindlier feel-
ing for a human being than you, and you would
not intentionally kill anybody if you knew that
he ought not to be killed.
On April 8th, 1927, Detective Sergeant Stallard
was leaving his garage and about to close the
doors, he was held up by a man who gave his
name as Lewis T. Carter. The Detective Sergeant
was directed by the holdup man to throw up his
hands, which he did. He was then directed to
turn on the lights in the garage, but as there
were no lights there, he was directed to turn on
the automobile lights.
While the Detective Sergeant was apparently
complying with the holdup man's directions, and
while covered by the holdup man's weapon, he
drew a revolver from his pocket and directed the
holdup man in turn to throw up his hands. A
struggle ensued with the result that the holdup
man was shot.
If that is not an act of bravery, I do not know
what one is. I commend you in the name of San
Francisco for that act of heroism.
(To be Continued)
Telephone Market 4330
Water and Rail Connections
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Office Number— 1950 THIRD STREET
San Francisco, California
"SUDDEN SERVICE'
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Captain of Detectives Duncan Matheson in Charge
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THE OTHER FELLOW
Paper Presented by Duncan Matheson, Captain of
Detectives, San Fi-ancisco, Calif., to the
Convention of International Associa-
tion of Chiefs of Police at
Windsor, Canada, This Month
My attention has been called many times to the
fact that we are not doing enough for the other
fellow. If this is true, why not make a construc-
tive start?
Now let us be honest and frank with ourselves.
What do we do when the question of increase of
salaries comes up in the smaller communities?
Why nothing, of course, except to say, "Well, I
hope it goes over", then stretch our legs under
our desks and let it go at that. Would it not be
wise to send out speakers, on a request, to appeal
to the citizens to do what is just and fair by our
brother officers? Those of us who have gone
through many campaigns can suggest the right
kind of literature and advertising to put the raise
over. Remember that personnel depends on ade-
quate compensation. Self consolation never fed
the hungry or made a friend.
Now let us be personal about it. What should
each and every one of us do? Why, the right thing,
by getting in touch with the best citizens in the
community where the police are attempting to
obtain a decent salary, and tell them openly and
honestly what the crime problem is, and that
every step taken to help the police, is a forward
movement to curb the situation. How many of
us right here and now, ever stepped into our neigh-
boring towns and breathed a word of encourage-
ment to their struggling police departments and
said something instructive to the citizens for
them? Let us remember that in Union there is
strength and that isolation is slow starvation.
What do we do when a serious crime is com-
mitted in adjoining cities, to help the police or the
sheriff? Why, just render perfunctory service by
giving a little so-called wise counsel and suggest-
ing abstract theories of how the crime happened
to be committed and all about the probable unde-
fined causes of crime, and let it go at that. Do
we, on request, go the limit and detail trained
and experienced officers on the case to assist in
making a complete and thorough investigation of
all the circumstances involved, using as much
diligence as if it was our own case, to apprehend
the criminal? The answer, I am afraid, in most
cases, must be "No". Why wonder, then, why
the suburban police have little use for metropoli-
tan departments. It was once said the evolution
of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.
Do we ever surrender a prisoner to a neighbor-
ing city, when we have joint jurisdiction? I am
afraid in most cases the answer must be "No".
Sometimes the surrender of a prisoner means the
job of the chief. Is this brotherly love or con-
tempt? The question answers itself.
What do we do when laws are proposed to bene-
fit police departments in the smaller cities and
towns. Do we urge their passage? It rarely hap-
pens that they are properly presented and sup-
ported. This is one of the vital things that we,
individually and collectively should do, because
without substantial support, their efforts will fail.
Petty jealousies among peace officers have pre-
vented the capture of more criminals than all the
other causes put together. Public welfare must
be considered before personal ambition, and we
must remember that if we fail to co-operate with
our fellow officers, or omit some act necessary in
the capture of a criminal, that we are traitors to
our profession and also to our employers.
What happens when processes are sent from
other jurisdictions for service? Is it not said,
"We have worries of our own, why spend too much
time on tlie other fellow ?" Do we fight writs of
Habeas Corpus as strenuously for others as we
do in our own cases, or are we ready to let the
writ slide along the path of least resistance, par-
ticularly when the attorney urging the writ is a
political power in the community? Let us remem-
ber that the sacrifice of principle for political ex-
pedience has torn the monument of justice from
its pedestal.
Do we let public opinion sway us in the dis-
charge of our duties, when we know in our hearts
that a wrong or injustice will be done to some
person? Do we, if we are satisfied beyond any
doubt, stand up for a square deal, regardless of
public opinion? For without that, American jus-
tice is a farce.
Do we support and encoui-age legally consti-
tuted crime commissions in their organization and
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The Burglary Dotail, under the direction of Detective
Sergeant Richmond Tatham, deprived a lot of prowlers of
their liberty the past month. Among some of them tag-
ged were: Edward Schubert and Albert Dayrit, arrested
by Sergts. James Gregson and Joseph Lippi; Frank Gir-
onells, by Sergts. James Johnson, Richard Hughes, as-
sisted by Sergt. Martin Porter; Carlo Ricci, wanted by
Burlingame, arrested by Sergts. James Mitchell and Ir\'in
Findlay; Joseph Casparini, en route to Burlingame, taken
in by Tatham and posse; John Jenkins and Henry Ong,
grand larceny, by Hughes and Johnson.
* * *
Detective Sergt. Martin Porter and Sergt. George Healy
removed a couple of hazards off the streets when they
vagged Ivan Parker and Martin Reine.
* * *
Sergt. Alex. McDaniell, Det. Sergts. Thomas Hyland,
Marvin Dowell, Jess Ayers, put William Hoag and Frank
Dolan in the jug, charged with violating the gun law, at-
tempted robbery and en route to Los Angeles.
* * *
Sergts. Arthur McQuaide and William Proll picked up
Howard Oliver for San Jose.
* * ^:
Ernest Nowlin, parole violator, was brought in by
Lieut. Heni-y Powell of the Pawnshop Detail and Detective
Charles Dorman. Other arrests by this detail were: Carl
Hauser, robbery, by Powell, assisted by Sergts. Edward
McSheehy and Vernon Van Matre of the Robbery Detail;
Lewis Davis, by Sergts. Stallard and George Hippely;
Wade Maywood, burglary, by Sergts. John J. Callaghan
and James Regan, assisted by Gregson and Lippi of the
Burglary Detail.
* * *
Sergt. George McLoughlin's Robbery Detail contributed
among others the following to the prison population of
the past month: Al Mays, wanted in Vallejo, arrested by
McLoughlin and Sergt. Frederick Bohr; Robert Lancaster,
Eugene Addinton, by Sergt. Leo Bunner and William Mc-
Mahon; August Martin, by Bunner and Sergt. Robert
Rauer; Frank Burns, en route to Oakland, by Sei'gts.
Edward McSheey and Vernon Van Matre; Jack Lyons and
Carlo Singola, robbery, by McMahon and Sergt. George
Wall.
* * *
Lieut. Thomas Hoertkorn and Sergt. Morris Harris
placed a dozen easy winners back of the bars, among
them being Dan Williams, known as "Baby Doll."
* * *
Charles Schrieber, James McGovern, M. M. Hoveland,
and Floyd Stevens were among the prisoners taken in
by Sergts. George Richards and Henry Kalmbach for the
federal officers.
* * *
Det. Sergts. Michael Desmond and Bartholomew Kelle-
her had a good month, some of their arrests being: Wil-
liam McDowell, robberj'; Mac Moody and Howard Sims,
burglary; Don Hughes, vagrancy Raymond Long, who
has escaped from officers and prisons three times, en route
to Los Angeles; Robert Burns, fugitive, with a record;
Dorothy Dutra, bigamy; Orville Bilyen, en route to Mis-
souri; William Switzer, en route to Los Angeles.
* « ♦
Det. Sergts. William Armstrong. Charles Maher and
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James Hansen of the Bad Check Detail continue to yank
the nifty penmen to the city calaboose. Their batting
average this month was 21 476a's, 4 forgers, and 2 en
routes.
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The Auto Detail, in charge of Lieut. Bernard McDon-
ald batted strong. A few of their "knockovers" being:
George Matchell, 146 M. V. A., by Sergts. Augustus
Tompkins and Harry Husted; Husted and Det. Robert
Smith brought in Vincent Stanich and Fred Porro on the
same kick; Sergt. Nicholas Barron and James Hansen
booked Phil LaCara for bad check passing, and violating
State Gun Law; Barron and Sergt. William Millikin
brought in Martin Stock for 504a of the Penal Code;
Sergts. Frank Brown and Rasmus Rasmussen booked
John Davis as a 146'er.
* » »
Peter Gagliardo, Carl Poison and Edward Schuman,
accused of assault to murder, were arrested by Lieuts.
Charles Dullea, Bernard McDonald and Sergts. Milli-
kin and Allan McGinn.
* * *
Among the scores of arrests made by Det. Sergts.
James Skelly and Andrew Gaughran of the Shopping De-
tail were Jennette Phillips and Rose Rasconi for burglary.
* * *
Corporal David Stevens and Detective Sergt. Frank
Jackson arrested Antone Leone for burglary, and Americo
Servente, en route to Sonora.
* * *
Sergt. George McCullough and Det. Sergt. Daniel Dris-
coU locked up W. F. Walters for bigamy.
* * *
William Jones, charged with bigamy, and Frank Kaber,
wanted in Willows, were turned into the city prison by
Det. Sergt. Harry Cook and Det. Thomas Marlowe.
* * *
James Eiland, a hit-and-runner, was put in the cooler
by Detective Sergeants Allan McGinn and Charles Iredale.
* * *
Detectives George Page and Charles Dormann turned
up Edward Miller, wanted in Seattle.
"The Wagon" of the old days. Louis HoUz. now- at the Bush,
* and Austin Sullivan, now of Ingleside. at the old Mission
station on the patrol wagon drawn by King (white) and Run.
Taken in 1909. This team saved Holtz's life one day when
a string of cars were shunted along the tracks at Seventeenth
and Harrison Sts. The horses saw them coming and stopped
quickly and without guidance backed out of danger.
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June, 1927
New Traffic Laws Written by Captain Henry Gleeson
During the last session of the State Legislature
a number of important changes were made in the
Motor Vehicle Act of 1925. These changes were
introduced by Senator Arthur H. Breed and this
Senate Bill No. 638 has been signed by Gov. C. C.
Young and will become effective July 29, 1927.
This new law is the product of the Motor Ve-
hicle Conference, which embraced leading state-
wide organizations and officials interested in the
operation of the California Vehicle Act, which it
amends. The conference, headed by Percy E.
Towne, a director of the State Automobile Asso-
ciation, and Senator Breed are responsible for the
present California Vehicle Act, which was the
model for the uniform vehicle act recommended
by the Hoover conference. Its main features,
which clarify and strengthen the safety, enforce-
ment and administrative provisions of the present
act, are summarized as follows :
Examination of new operators of motor ve-
hicles, heretofore optional witli the Division of
Motor Vehicles, is made mandatory This provi-
sion will prevent the granting of licenses to op-
erate automobiles to persons physically or men-
tally unfit.
The division is granted authority at any time
to cancel all operators' licenses that have been
outstanding three years or more and to require
renewal subject to examination, in its discretion.
Under this provision incompetent and habitual
violators of the motor vehicle laws may be
"weeded out" in the interest of public safety.
Provision is made for the compilation of a com-
plete record of accidents, involving death or in-
jury, their causes and locations. Under penalty
of being guilty of a misdemeanor, operators of
motor vehicles are required to report accidents
of this character to the Division of Motor Vehicles
or local police departments within 24 hours.
Police departments are required, under this sec-
tion, to forward reports or copies thereof to the
division.
Juries are authorized to recommend punish-
ment for driving while intoxicated. This amend-
ment will result in many more convictions fer
this offense. Under the present law the court
must send all convicted persons to the peniten-
tiary. This has resulted in juries being reluctant
to convict.
Peace officers are requested to report stolen
cars to the Motor Vehicle Division after one week
and also the fact of recovery. The division is re-
quired to check stolen car records before register-
ing or transferring registration of any motor ve-
hicle. This amendment will afford a complete rec-
ord of stolen cars in the Division of Motor Ve-
hicles, and facilitates recoveries.
Proprietors of all garages are required to notify
the police department of any vehicle stored more
than 30 days when the proprietor does not know
the name or address of the owner.
Provision is made for an additional registration
slip to be carried in a motor vehicle when the
regular registration cai'd is out of the vehicle for
the purpose of making a transfer or applying for
annual renewal of registration. Under the
amendment a vehicle will never be without a reg-
istration certificate, as it now is during periods
of transfer or renewal.
To facilitate the recovery of stolen cars, used-
car dealers are required to give notice of sale to
the devision. Notice of new car sales only have
been required heretofore.
Persons found injuring or tampering with mo-
tor vehicles may be taken into custody immedi-
ately upon discovery by police officers instead of
receiving a five days' notice to appear.
Elimination of the use of muffler cut-outs after
January 1, 1929, and making it a misdemeanor to
withhold a certificate of ownership when the pur-
chaser is legally entitled to same are other provi-
sions.
Amendments of interest to police officers are:
Sec. 19. Definition of chauffeurs.
A chauffeur's badge is now demanded only from
such persons who are principally employed to
drive a private motor vehicle or every person
who drives a motor vehicle for the transportation
of persons or property such as, jitneys, stage
coaches and freight vehicles.
Sec. 28. Public garage is now declared to be
every building or other place where motor vehicles
are kept and stored by the public, and where a
charge is made.
This amendment brings in all open spaces or
other places where a charge is made for storage
or parking of autos.
Sec. 42. Number plates.
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More on Rules and Regulations — Standing of Clubs
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"For the year 1927 the following Clubs shall
compose the League; Mission, Bush, Park, and
Ingleside.
"Player Limit — Clubs shall be limited to 21
players, including the Manager, at any one time,
and managers shall file with the League Secretary-
Treasurer a list of their players not later than 7
days before the opening game of the champion-
ship schedule.
"Eligibility — All players in the League must
be regular policemen in the depai-tment. To be
eligible to play with a Club a player must be a
regularly assigned member of the Company in
which the Club is organized, or qualified under
the draft rule.
"Draft Rule — Clubs may draft players from the
department at large as follows : A list of players
who are members of Companies and Bureaus not
represented by Clubs in the League shall be com-
piled and they shall be declared eligible for the
draft.
"Clubs not having a regular pitcher or catcher
shall have first choice in the draft, providing that
if twd or more Clubs need either a pitcher or
catcher they sliall draw for choice. The remain-
ing eligibles on the list shall be drawn by lot.
No player shall be declared eligible for the draft
who objects to playing with any particular Club.
Should any Club withdraw or be dropped from
the League the players of such Club shall be-
come eligible for the di'aft. Names of new play-
ers drafted or acquired by assignment by Clubs
shall be immediately filed with the League Secre-
tary-Treasui*er.
"In consideration of A. G. Spalding & Bros,
presenting the w-inner of the championship sched-
ule with a valuable trophy the League agrees to
use the Spalding No. 1 ball in all championship
games.
"The season shall commence not later than the
first week of April each year and shall continue
until the schedule is finished. Clubs shall play
one game each week, weather and the exigencies
of the service permitting.
"All protests must be filed in writing with the
League Secretary-Ti-easurer within twenty-four
(24) hours after the conclusion of the game pro-
tested. Such protest shall be decided by the Presi-
dent of the League whose decision shall be final.
Protests shall be decided in accordance with the
laws of organized baseball and the laws of this
League. Both parties to the protest shall have
the right to submit all facts pertinent to the
case and to present witnesses.
"Scorers shall make a complete box score of the
games to which assigned and foi-ward two copies
to the League Secretary and one copy each to the
Clubs concerned, within twenty-foui- (24) hours
after the conclusion of the game.
"Upon the completion of the championship
schedule the Board of Managers shall appoint
from the League a manager who shall be em-
powered to select players and organize an All-Star
team from the League for the pui-pose of playing
a series of games with any Club selected by the
Board. The Board shall also appoint a business
manager, or committee, from the League, who
shall make all arrangements for the series.
"All moneys paid into or deposited with the
League shall be deposited by the Secretary-Treas-
urer in a bank in the name of the League, includ-
ing the proceeds of the post-season series. The
Secretary shall require and file with his accounts
proper vouchers for all receipts and disburse-
ments and shall not disburse any League funds
except on order of the President who shall coun-
tersign all checks.
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Corporal Hamilton Dobbins Retires
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Corporal Hamilton Dobbins, after 37 years of
honorable police service was given his pension by
the Police Commission on June 1.
With the passing from active police duty of
Coi-poral Dobbins, San Francisco's Police Depart-
ment loses a colorful officer, one whose experiences
through life have been varied and exciting.
Bom in Belfast, Ireland, in 1856. On the death
of his father, and at the age of 13 young Dob-
bins shipped before the mast. He came to this
port in the 70's among other ports of the world.
He sailed between this city and Liverpool on nu-
merous ships. Being smitten with San Francisco,
he returned here finally and enlisted on the U. S.
Revenue Cutter Wayanda, and while on this boat
acted as escort for Albert Bierstadt, noted artist,
who visited here in 1873, to make a painting of
the Farallone Islands.
In 1874, after many interesting experiences, he
settled down in San Francisco for good. Went
into the shoe business, became identified with the
labor movement, being secretary of the Federated
Trades, and was a member of the legislature in
1888.
Was appointed a member of the Park Police
force in 1889, and when the charter was adopted
became a member of the S. F. department. He
was appointed a corporal in 1907 and a detective
sergeant under Captain John Mooney in 1913,
when Mooney was Captain of Detectives.
In 1910 the then Chief of Police, now Commis-
sioner, Jesse B. Cook, detailed Dobbins to head-
quarters where he installed the first card index
system for identification and restoring of lost and
stolen property.
Coi-poral Dobbins is a Shakespearian student
and was well known and liked by actors and
actresses of long ago. One of his closest friends
is Robert Mantell, a boyhood friend, who never
forgets Dobbins when he hits this coast.
During the fire the coi-poral was especially ac-
tive in seeing that the women and children driven
to Golden Gate Park were properly fed and
clothed.
During the many campaigns for better pay and
conditions Corporal Dobbins has always taken a
leading part, acting on nearly all occasions as sec-
retary of the campaign committees. The first
campaign in 1907 being handled exclusively by
Dobbins, Captain John Lachman and retired Offi-
cer Lucine Fulwilder.
To Chief Daniel J. O'Brien, Coiporal Dobbins
said on the occasion of his retirement :
"While my years in the department were not
marked by any roads of glory, I tried to do the
best I could:
To which the Chief replied:
"You never kept me awake, I had no worries
when I knew you were on the job."
A fitting tribute after 37 years service for a
man at 72.
JUDGE GRAHAM RULES ON PENSION CASE
Officer Austin J. Mogan, who had been a mem-
ber of the Police Department for over twenty
years, died on October 14, 1924. His widow, Mary
E. Mogan, petitioned the Board of Police Com-
missioners as the trustees of the Police Relief and
Pension Fund for a pension, claiming that her
husband died as the result of injuries received
while in the discharge of his duties as police offi-
cer. This petition the Board of Police Commis-
sioners denied. Thereupon Mary E. Mogan com-
menced mandamus proceedings against the Board
of Police Commissioners to compel the issuance
of a pension to her.
The case was tried before Judge Thomas F.
Graham. The evidence disclosed, on the trial of
the case, that on September 23, 1924, Officer
Austin J. Mogan was ordered by his superior offi-
cer to proceed to the Central Emergeny Hospital
to investigate the case of a patient there who had
attempted to commit suicide. Wliile Officer Mogan
was at the Central Emergency Hospital, it became
necessary for the steward who had charge of the
patient who had become violently insane, to strap
the patient down, and he called upon Officer Mogan
to assist him. The steward went into an adjoin-
ing room to secure straps. Officer Mogan holding
the man down in bed. The patient struggled to
get up and kicked Officer Mogan very violently in
the chest and caused injuries from which the
off-cer subsequently died.
Judge Graham decided the case in favor of the
widow, Mary E. Mogan, holding that the evidence
clearly established that the deceased officer met
his death as the result of the injuries he had re-
ceived in his struggle with the insane patient at
the Central Emergency Hospital on September 23,
1924
WM. H. HAMBLETON
NOW IN OUR NEW STORE
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June. 1927
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Coroner Juries Praise Police
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The following- communications have been received at the
office of the Chief of Police:
Hon. William J. Quinn,
Acting Chief of Police.
Dear Sir:
Enclosed please find copy of verdict in case of Louis
Carter, deceased, who was shot and killed by Det. Sergt.
George Stal'ard whi'e attempting to hold up and rob
Oflicer Stallard in his garage, April 8, 1927. The jury
requested that copies of this recommendation be sent to
Mayor Rolph, the Board of Supervisors, Police Commis-
sion, Chief of Police, Captain of Detectives and that it
be read to the various watches. Am forwarding you
copy as per their request to be read if you see fit to
the various watches. Thanking you in advance for any
courtesy extended in the matter, I remain.
Very sincerely yours,
THOS. B. LELAND, M. D.,
Coroner of the City and County, S. F.
Coroner's Verdict
INQUISITION, taken at the Coroner's court on the 22nd
day of April, 1927, before Dr. T. B. W. Leiand, Coroner,
upon -^new of the body of Louis Carter, then and there
lying dead, upon the oath of nine jurors who being duly
summoned and sworn to inquire into all the circum-
stances attending the death of the said Louis Carter and
by whom the same was produced, and in what manner
and when and where the said Louis Carter came to his
death, do say upon their oath aforesaid,
That the said Louis Carter, male, white, single, 26
years old, born in Hawaii, occupation laborer, residence
not known, came to his death on April 8, 1927, at the
Park Emergency Hospital from shock and hemorrhage
follo\\^ng giinshot wound of abdomen. And we further
find: That said deceased was killed by Officer Stallard
while he was attempting to rob the officer in his garage.
We find the killing was justified and we therefore exon-
erate the officer from all blame in the matter. We, the
Coroner's Jury, wish to commend the bravery, coolness,
self-restraint and humanity displayed by Det. Sergt. Geo.
Stallard who, after haNang been covered with a revolver
and held up in his garage, grappled with the bandit, an
ex-convict, and at the risk of his own life attempted to
disarm the bandit without killing him. We, the jury,
wish to congratulate Sergt. Stallard and his family on
the fact that his life was saved and the San Francisco
Police Department in that it is to continue to have the
serA-ices of a brave, cool, humane officer.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, as well as the said Coroner,
the jurors aforesaid have to this Inquisition set their
hands and seals on the date thereof.
PAUL HOHMAN, Forman,
L. LANDECKER,
C. J. DENEHY,
F. A. HIGBY,
JOHN R. UNSINN,
BERT J. LYNCH,
D. J. LYNCH,
J. F. SATMARY,
K. J. LAWSON,
Approved: THOS. B. W. LELAND. Coroner.
Inquisition taken on May 10th before Dr. T. B.
W. Leiand, Coroner, summoned and sworn to in-
quire into all the circumstances attending the
death of Douglas Bedell, and by whom the same
was produced, and in what manner and when and
where the said Douglas Bedell came to his death,
do say upon their oath aforesaid:
That the said Douglas Bedell, male, white, about
29 years old, nativity, occupation and residence
not known, came to his death on May 2, 1927, in
Panhandle of Golden Gate Park near Cole street
from shock and hemorrhage following gunshot
wound of head.
And we further find : That said deceased came
to his death by gunshot wound inflicted by Israel
Berlow while said Berlow was attempting to shoot
Officer Frank J. Small.
We, the Coroner's jury holding the inquisition
into this death, wish to commend the coui'teous
insistence upon the performance of a duty which
led to the apprehension of one and the death of
another desperate character. In the emergency
following, we wish to commend the officer for a
cool, courageous and intelligent handling of a
most desperate situation.
In Witness Whereof, as well as the said Coroner,
the Jurors aforesaid have set their hands and
seals.
L. A. TAYLOR, Foreman,
L. SPEIGELMAN,
E. NUHN,
J. A. MAHONEY,
ROGER F. HAMILTON,
VAL. BELGAN,
JOHN PRIEST,
W. A. HONEYMAN,
THOS. B. W. LELAND,- Coroner.
SALES STAFF OF LA GRANDE & WHITE'S
LAUNDRY COMPANY HOLDS
SNAPPY BANQUET
One evening last month, the executives and
sales staff of the La Grande & White's Laun-
dry Company gathered for a brief business meet-
ing and a pleasant social evening that lasted until
midnight.
That the La Grande & \Miite's Laundry Com-
pany is one of the oldest in the country and al-
most as old as San Fi-ancisco itself, was strikingly
shown by the presence of "Jim Baldwin", who has
been driving a laundry wagon for them for almost
half a century, and is now on the pension list of
the company.
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Police Broadcasting Stations
By Detective Sergeant Ferdinand F. Bohr
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In broadcasting police information, it often oc-
curs that such information necessarily is of such
a nature, that if generally understood it would
hamper the apprehension of the criminal sought.
Therefore it has been found necessary to work
out some code whereby, though the broadcasting
is general, the public would not be able to under-
stand its significance.
Hence Acting Chief of Police William Quinn and
Captain of Detectives Duncan Matheson deemed
it expedient to have a code provided that could be
flashed over the radio and picked up by police of-
ficers. One that could be readily understood by
all peace oflScers, yet unintelligible to the general
public.
Necessarily this code must be simple in its
making, easily recognized and understood by the
policeman, and without any great amount of prac-
tice or special training on the officers' part.
Letters and numerals are of course the founda-
tion of all codes and the placing of such in a sim-
ple way is oft times a difficult thing. However,
having been detailed to work out a system for this
broadcasting of police messages, desired to be kept
more or less confidential, I made a thorough study
of codes now in use, keeping in mind the necessity
of getting one that would be easily deciphered
and furnish needed knowledge to the police offi-
cer receiving it.
I found most all of the codes so intricate that
it would require special training to have them un-
derstood, and to translate them. Loss of time
would be experienced in some cases because it
would be found necessary to relay the messages
to some point where the receiver would have to
get it deciphered.
After studying all the codes available I deter-
mined to work out one of my own, and have per-
fected it to such an extent that it has been
adopted. It is quite simple and easily translated.
Any member of the department will be able to
read it whether in his home or in some police
machine equipped with a receiving set. It has
to be translated with a key that is furnished each
officer, and can be changed from time to time as
found necessary.
Broadcasting by the police will be found of
great value. Information can almost simultane-
ously with its reception be sent out to every police
district and to every officer using a machine hav-
ing radio equipment. It will be found invaluable
when some serious crime has been committed.
For instance, a detail is cruising in an automo-
bile through some outside district. They are on ■
the lookout for some auto reported stolen. They
ring in now and then and get word that there has
been a holdup in another part of the city. They
keep going hoping to accidentally run into the
machine used in the holdup. Ringing in again they
are advised of another holdup in still another dis-
trict by the same man. Now if they had receiv-
ing sets in their car all this would have been re-
ceived by them as fast as headquarters or the sta- d
tions received the word and they would have been "
in a better position to make contact with the ban-
dits. A lot of valuable time would have been
saved. The messages would have been in cipher,
but the key would be before the men in the car
and they could follow all instructions as they re-
ceived them.
In broadcasting police messages there is no in-
terference with the telephone system. The sta-
tion may be placed on an exclusive wave length.
Every station can be communicated with at the
same time. The men can be schooled or instructed
at roll call of each watch. Neighboring cities can
receive word of the approach of a fleeing criminal ;
the public warned of certain crimes, and lectures 1
on crime prevention given at stated intervals by *
men qualified to talk on the subject.
Radio in police work is one of the main subjects
to be discussed at the meeting this month of the
International Association of Chiefs of Police at
Windsor, and where this modern agency will at-
tain full fruition.
It is expected that soon after the convention
plans will be launched to "hook up" all the coast
cities by radio with the code I have worked out
being adopted to transmit the necessary messages.
CHIEF BELLONI TAKES BRIDE
Chief of Police Louis Belloni, of South San
Francisco, who has sent many a man to jail, now
faces a life sentence himself. He pleaded guilty
this month to first degree love and affection for
Miss Pia Pardini, also of South City, who accom-
panied him to the bar of justice. A mamage
license was issued by the county clerk as a pen-
alty.
The romance between the police chief and Miss
Pardini has been known among their friends for
several months and there was no surprise that
June had been selected as a wedding month.
Belloni confessed to 32 years as his age and
Miss Pardini blushingly admitted 23.
June. 1927
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Maloneys vs» Bennetts
Ball Game at Burlingame, By Corporal Peter Maloney
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Corporal "Sil- Sid Waugh Shortstop
ver Top" McGow- George O'Leary 2nd base
an, Detective Ser- Arthur Morrison Left Field
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CORPORAL PETER MALONEY posed of members and balls, and Bill Burns on bases. The members of
of Headquarters both teams want to express through this medium
Company and the Detective Bureau. The acting their sincere thanks and appreciation to Sergeant
Chief like Chief Daniel J. O'Brien, is a booster McGee and Bill Burns who left their homes to
for clean sport. So, with Acting Chief Quinn's ^travel away down to Burlingame and umpire the
Picture to left — Standing, left to right: H. Wobcke.
G. Dyer, Wm. Bennett, G. Higgins, Frank Mascarelli,
John O'Keefe, J. Sullivan. Kneeling: H. Jackson,
Chief Harper of Burlingame. F. Bennett, mascot.
Lower picture, left to right: H. McGowan, S. Waugh,
R. Dohertj-, P. Maloney, George O'Leary, T. Mclner-
ney, John Coghlan. A. Morrison. Kneeling — Thomas
Marlowe, W. Burns, Jr.. mascot.
— Pictures taken by Dr. J. G. Lehner.
permission, the boys started to get busy.
Through the courtesy of our depart-
ment's good friend and past member.
Chief of Police John Harper of Bur-
lingame, the Burlingame grounds were
secured for May 30th. On that day 18
real dyed-in-the-wool baseball players
went to Burlingame accompanied by
two of the greatest umpires of the day. ^,_
Arriving, they were met by Chief Harp- ai™^
er and escorted to the battlefield. Here is the
lineup :
Maloneys
Tom Mclnerney .Srd base
Tom Marlowe 1st base
Horace McGowan .Catcher
Pete Maloney Pitcher
game. Tlieii umpiring was excellent and every-
body more than satisfield with the team work.
It was due to their excellent umpiring that there
were no arguments during the game.
The game was a pleasure to w^atch. It was
a pitchers' battle up until the 7th inning when
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OFFICERS COMMENDED
The following- is a copy of a report submitted
to me by Lieutenant Bernard J. McDonald who is
in charge of the "automobile detail" of the detec-
tive bureau:
"On March 22, 1927, a new Studebaker
sedan was stolen from tlie Chester N. Weaver
Company's warehouse at 915 North Point
street. Officers James F. Coghlan and Thomas
O'Connor of the Potrero Station located this
car in the basement of the premises at 1145
Pennsylvania avenue, May 18th, 1927. A
wall had been built around this machine and
it could not be seen from the street or from
the basement itself. These officers looked
through a crack in the wall and saw a ma-
chine without license numbers in the walled
enclosure. As a result they investigated and
recovered the automobile and learned the car
was stolen by William Fields. William Fields
was arrested in Oakland May 18th by officers
from the 'automobile detail.'
"I consider the investigation made by these
officers to be police work of the highest order
and has called for much favorable comment
from the Chester N. Weaver Company.
"I believe the officers' work in this case
merits the commendation of the Chief of
Police."
Officers James F. Coghlan and Thomas O'Con-
nor have been commended by me for the efficient
services performed by them as indicated above.
WM. J. QUINN,
Acting Chief of Police.
OFFICER WILLIAM CULLNAN KILLED
Officer WiUiam Cullnan, one of the best known
and best liked police officers of the central com-
mand was brutally killed on May 30 on Ellis street.
Officer Cullnan, who was off duty, came upon
three men and two women as the party came out
of a cafe. One of the men started a row and
without any warning one of the others, a man
named Billingsly, slugged the officer. The assail-
ants then placed the unconscious policeman
against the running board of an automobile and
disappeared.
Some time later the body was discovered and
taken to the hospital where death was found to
have occurred before arrival.
The skull was fractured by the force of the
blow which was as if from some instrument
of such power that the concussion caused death.
Members of the party with the exception of
Billingsly were rounded up by Lieutenant Charles
Dullea of the Homicide Squad and they told of
the cold blooded actions of them all. How the
body was left without being taken to a hospital,
while the scared men and women took a place in
the window of a nearby hotel and watched pro-
ceedings.
Billingsly, after being sought a week, gave him-
self up to police in Globe, Arizona.
Captain Arthur D. Layne of the Central district
characterized the assault as wanton and brutal
and said of the dead officer:
"He was one of the best policemen in my com-
pany. He was feared by evil doers in the Central
and had many enemies who feared him, because
he performed his duties without fear or favor."
Officer Cullnan was a brother of Lieutenant Ed-
ward Cullnan of the Bush district and was un-
married. He .ioined the department July 29, 1918.
The funeral was held from St. Paul's Church
on June 1. Officers Joseph Kiernan, William Por-
ter, Harry Gurtler, William Norton, John Lawless
and Frank Kennedy, members of the night
watches with Cullnan, acted as pall bearers.
Full police honors were given the dead officer.
Captain Layne having charge of the funeral es-
cort.
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PENINSULA PEACE OFFICERS FORM
ASSOCIATION
On the 16th day of February, 1927, Jack Theuer
of the Burlingame Police Department, E. L Mc-
Auliffe of the Redwood City Pohce Department,
and Sergeant R. E. Lawrance of the Palo Alto
Police Department, held a short meeting in the
city of Palo Alto for the pui'pose of organizing a
Police Officers' Association. It was decided at
that time to hold the first meeting in Burlingame
and that meeting was held March 3, 1927, at
8:00 P. M.
At the first meeting, the name was decided upon
and the organization is known as the "Peninsula
Peace Officers' Association". At the bottom of
this page a short portion of the Constitution gives
very plainly the purpose of the organization, and
it is to that end that we are striving.
The officers of the Association are as follows:
President, Jack Theuer, Burlingame.
Vice-President, E. L McAuliffe, Redwood City.
2nd Vice-President, S. A. Wood, Atherton.
Secretary and Treasurer, Sergt. R. E. Lawrance,
Palo Alto,
On the first meeting night, 17 members were
enrolled, and within the first month, the member-
ship had grown to 34. This included men from
the entire peninsula. I might state here that the
original boundary decided upon as an ai'ea from
which to work and accept members is from the
southern boundary of the city and county of San
Francisco, to the northern boundary of the city
of San Jose. At the present time our membership
has grown to 53, which includes seven chiefs of
police.
Our dues are $6.00 per year, payable semi-an-
nually in advance.
Our meetings are held twice a month at differ-
ent cities along the peninsula, and the business
procedure is carried on by parliamentarj^ law or-
der, although the general meetings are similar
to the usual sei-vice club plan.
We endeavor to have a speaker at each meeting
to enlighten us on some particular and pertinent
subject and local police subjects are discussed
thoroughly. We also have a banquet at each meet-
ing.
Our resti-ictions as to membership are that any
paid peace officer of the area we cover is eligible
if in good standing in his department, while an-
other clause in our constitution prevents any chief
of police or marshal from holding office.
Sincerely yours,
R. C. THEUER, President,
R. E. LAWRANCE, Secretary.
Sergeant Harry Barneit, now connected witli
the Richmond used to be foreman for Siminoff's
Cloak and Suit House on Market street near
Taylor.
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CHIEF O'BRIEN
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department, but especially since he became Chief,
which will be seven years on December 20 of this
year, it is necessary to marvel and ask how it
could be possible for one individual to accomplish
so much. Everything he has done has been of
a constructive nature. He has given his all to
his work and it is httle wonder that his healtli
has been impaired thereby. No Chief of Police
anywl^ere has worked any harder or accomplished
any more than he has. He has crowded into a
few short years the lifetime work of an ordinary
individual.
Members of the International Association of
Chiefs of Police, no doubt, regret the passing of
Dan O'Brien as their president, but they must
also consider that he is only human and can ac-
complish just so much. Having done what he has
for the police throughout the country they are
satisfied, I believe, to let him step out of the chair
of the presidency back into the ranks of the or-
ganization, where they can rest assured that he
will engender into it that same fire, sympathy
and enthusiasm for which he is noted.
CAPTAIN MATHESON
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program ? Are we not prone to criticize and ques-
tion the honesty of pm-pose and aims of these
organizations ? They are open to criticism because
they lean to the psychological, rather than to the
practical side of the problem. This is where we
can do real effective work. The form of laws most
suitable to the crook is no law at all.
The International Association of Chiefs of Po-
lice has accomplished more during the last few
years to curb the criminal situation than all the
other agencies combined, by encouraging similar
organizations in every state and country, and
doing the big things in criminal investigation and
identification. Let us continue onward and for-
ward by extending not only the right hand of fel-
lowship to all brother officers, but by helping
them whenever and wherever possible.
We shall be, and there is nothing to prevent us
from being, the most militant organization. on the
continent, and all organizations interested in po-
lice problems should know that this is the proper
place to obtain the information they desire, in-
stead of having psychologists, buncologists and
pin-headed penologists, wlio would mortgage their
souls for a newspaper headline, camp on tlieir
door step, telling them about crimes and crim-
inals.
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CAPT. HENRY GLEESON
(Continued from Page 14)
A number plate may now use the word "Cali-
fornia" or "Cal.", either one is now legal.
Sec. 57. Public garages.
Hereafter the owner of a public gia:rage m
which an auto has been stored by a person for
longer than 12 hours a record must be kept of the
same which shall include the name and address
of the person that stored the vehicle and a brief
description of such vehicle, including the name or
make, the motor number, and the license number
as shown by the number plates, and the registra-
tion certificate. Every such record shall be open
to inspection to any peace officer.
Whenever any motor vehicle has been stored in
a public garage for 30 days and the owner or his
address is unknown to the garage proprietor, the
latter shall immediately report the presence of
such motor vehicle in the garage to the police or
sheriff's office in the city or county wherein such
garage is located.
Sec. 63. Examination of applicants for license
to drive.
This section has been amended so that it is now
mandatory for every person who desires to drive
a motor vehicle to undergo an examination.
Heretofore the Motor Vehicle Department could
use their discretion on these examinations. There
is an additional provision provided in the new
act to the effect that any physical defects that
the applicant may have shall not prevent the is-
suance of a license when the defect does not affect
the applicant's ability to safely operate a motor
vehicle.
Sec. 69. Expiration of licenses.
The Motor Vehicle Di\dsion is authorized to at
any time require the renewal of Hcenses which
have been outstanding for three years or more.
This amendment would pei'mit the Motor Vehicle
Division to require a person to submit to a new
examination as to competency to drive.
Sec. 73. Revocations of licenses.
Sub-division 3 of this section has been changed
so that the license of any person cannot be re-
voked upon charge of speeding alone. A judge
may suspend an opei-ator's license in the same
manner as is now carried on.
Heretofore to revoke a license of a person for
reckless driving the three convictions for reck-
less driving were required to be within the cer-
tain calender year. This is now changed so that
any person convicted three time of reckless driv-
ing, whether in the same year or not, his license
may be revoked.
Sec. 96. Prevention of noise, etc.
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will be prohibited.
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Every motor vehicle must have two, no more
or no less, head lamps. A motor vehicle may have
not more than two lights, commonly known as
road lights or fog lights that should be installed
below the headlights. Clearance lights are re-
quired on vehicles exceeding 80 inches in width.
The colors of these lights shall be white, except
that passenger-caiTying vehicles may show a
green light. The rear clearance light on all such
vehicles over 80 inches in width may be either
gi-een or red. This does not do away with the
red tail light. The purpose is that any vehicle
over 80 incites in width or having a load that
causes a width of more than 80 inches must have
either a white or gi'een light in the front and
either a green or red light in the rear that will
clearly show to an approaching motor vehicle
either fi'om the front or rear the exact point at
which the more than 80 inch vehicle can be pass-
ed safely.
Sec. 108. Not more than two and not more than
32 candle power bulbs are permissible. Such
spotlights shall not be used in substitution of
headlights. The minimum height of these spot
lights has been lowered from 42 to 30 inches to
accommodate low built motor vehicles.
Sec. 112. Intoxicated drivers.
In the trial of an intoxicated driver before a
jury in tlie superior court the jury may now
recommend the punishment and in such case the
court shall have no authority to impose a sen-
tence greater than that [recommended by the
jury.
Sec. 113. Speeding.
Sub Par. 7 of this section has been changed
from 35 miles to 40 miles per hour, subject to
the provisions as set forth in paragraphs 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6. In other words this change to 40 miles
per hour is only applicable on wide-open high-
ways outside of residential and business sections
and where no element of reckless driving is pres-
ent. All persons must at all times drive a vehicle
on public highways at a careful and prudent speed
not gi'eater than is reasonable and proper, having
due regard to the traffic, surface and width of
the highway, and at such speed as will not en-
danger the life, limb or property of any person.
This new amendment brings forward the ap-
plication of the charge of reckless driving more
prominent than before. The amendment does
not intend that a speed of 40 miles an hour may
be indulged in by drivers except in the wide open
spaces of highways outside of cities.
Sec. 118. Speed according to weight and tire
equipment.
The amendments provide as follows:
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lbs. or more are limited to 20 miles per hour.
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clothes and he didn't walk upstairs to save dough buying
them. He says a wrist watch is O K but it don't add any
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will stand anything from his "side-kicks" but wearing
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:;^ :!: *
Detective Syd DeBose of Lieut. Sullivan's watch says
that Lieut. Dick Foley nearly got him to join the police
band while he was doing his hitch in the bureau.
;!: ^ *
Corporal Williams and Detective Sergt. James Hansen
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Code against Thomas Leonard, and two fugitive "kicks",
which ought to be enough grief for any one man.
* • •
Officer C. Zipperle gave an object lesson to Jose Virgin
about how he ought to keep sober when he goes out in
his automobile. Jose got a booking for driving while
drunk.
^ 4 *
It's Sergeant Pootel now, he having been elevated from
the rank of corporal by the Police Commissioners last
month.
* :!: *
Corpoi'al Thomas Mclnerney and his squad have been
busy during the month clearing the streets and parks of
idlers who engage in acts of degeneracy. They put a
score in jail and Mclnerney, with Corporal Al Christ and
Detective Patrick Walsh, made a big round-up of a gang
who has been preying off degenerates, having a nice mob
locked up for extortion.
* * *
Detective Sergeant William Bennett arrested Phillip
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:1L :!; ^
Members of Sergeant John J. Manion's Chinatown De-
tail brought in James Montgomery, charged with attempt
to commit robbery.
* * *
Corporal William J. Kelly has been sient over from the
Park to assist Corporals Harvey Deline and Fied Jewett,
of the Xovth End station.
* * *
Isaac Harvey and Dolphas Elgin were lolling around tlie
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Their attitude and apparent aversion to work attracted
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years with the Southern and Potrero Stations.
As a member of the Campaign Committee to
secure tlie passage of Amendment No. 41, increas-
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CENTRAL
STATION
Lieutenants: Harry P. Braig and Edward F. Copeland
Capt. Arthur D. Layne
The boys still persist in trying to drive an automobile
while fu'l of gin. Here is an imposing list which shows
that the bluecoats of the Central district get 'em as fast
as they hit this territory:
James Bussing, arrested by Officers Harry Gurtler and
George Burkhardt; Dan Eaton, by Officers James Miles and
Joseph Nolan; John Rae, by Officer James McEachern;
Joseph La Form, by Corporal Frank Hoeckle and posse;
Officers Griffith Kennedy and J. Mulcahy teamed up with
Officer H. Peshon of the Southern in arresting John Fitz-
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against their names. All arrested for assault with deadly
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Hoeckle and posse; Livio Biagini by Vincent Lewis; Joseph
Fernandez by Officer Dan Pallas; Arthur Bowman and
George Pickett by Sergeant William Daugherty and posse;
Jesse Thompkins by Officers Wm. Porter and Geo. Lawless.
* * *
Officer John McGreavy arrested John Webber for assault
with intent to commit murder, and Corporal Hoeckle did
the same thing to Joe Lopez.
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Officer Frank Hoepner nailed Robert Morrison for two
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Hoepner also arrested Albert Leone for grand larceny,
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like service on Sophie Douglas.
* ■;; *
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^ ^jt *
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June. 1927
^SOUTHERN
STATION
Captain Charles Goff
Lieutenants Richard Foley and Arno Dietel
Pat Burke is charged with burglary, having been ar-
rested by Officer C. L. Russell.
Sergeant James Reede and Corporal Jagger booked
the following at the station: Jas. Lake and Frank Downs,
robbery; Marie Lang, assault to commit murder; and Har-
old Friedman, vagrancy.
* * *
Corporal Jagger brought in Deaka Gutaris for burglary.
* * *
Officer C. Tregonning locked up Earl Drennan for em-
bezzlement.
* • *
A couple of gin and gas mixers got nabbed in this dis-
trict. Basil Hunt by Officers Andrew Lennon and O.
Lundborg; and O.scar Shoup by Officer J. Conroy.
* * *
Lunborg arrested Jessie Gray for grand larceny and
Officers P. Curry and Tom Stack of the Central did the
same thing to John Mitchell.
S! « *
William Corrigan was charged with assault with a
deadly weapon when arrested by Officers Conroy and J.
Burke; and the same charge graced the name of G. Sali-
ano, brought in by Corporal R. J. Mohaupt and Officer P.
McAuliffe.
* * *
Corporal Emmett Flynn shunted Louis Lora to the .sta-
tion on a charge of attempt extortion.
* » »
Officers Richard Curtin and T. Hurley booked Charles
Browm on one of those charges of assault by means and
force likely to do great bodily injury.
* » *
Officer Patrick O'Connell No. 2 turned Charles Buezer
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HARBOR
STATION
Capt. Patrick Herlihy
Lieutenants VVilbert F. Pengelly and Michael Mitchell
Lieutenant Michael Mitchell's trained seagull has been
laid up for a few days. Seemed like he tried to swallow
a young star fish that was stuck to a pile off pier 9. The
star fish got stuck in the gull's gullet, and the lieutenant
had to take a fishhook to get it out. The bird is now con-
valescing.
William Shea, Joseph Castro and Attillio Ghiglieri tried
a little plain robbery down on the front, and the first thing
they knew Officer William Wilcox, special, had the trio
locked up, properly charged.
Corporal Martin Gallagher, well known Celtic Orator,
has been assigned to duty at the Ferry Building. If
there's anything anyone wants to know about any thing in
this city Martin is the boy that can tell 'em. And that's
no iridescent dream.
Officer Tobias Bluitt with Officer Hoepner of the Central
station made short work of James McChesney on a charge
of \aolating Sec. 112 of the Motor Act.
* ^ *
Alex Jamieson, wanted by the U. S. Commissioner, was
rounded up by Officer James Mahoney.
* * *
Sergeant John Farrell and his posse believe in getting
crooks before they pull a job, so they grabbed off L. L.
Gehrig for attempt burglary.
"TUTTLEFISH, JUROR"
(Continued from Page 8)
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He would visit the criminal courts. These ought
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for him if he didn't. He chuckled to himself as he
fancied the admiring glances of Mrs. Tuttlefish
when he could some day lean back in his chair and
outline in nice detail to her just exactly what legal
steps he proposed to take if Mr. Bark didn't keep
his infernal bulldog tied up when Mr. Tuttlefish
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MISSION
STATION
Capt. Frederick Lemon
Lieutenants Peter A. Mclntyre and Daniel J. Collins
This district has a slight epidemic of 112'ers. James E.
Hicks was pulled in by Officer James Carpenti charged
with driving while diunk and his companions, Harry Un-
derbill, charged with violating the gun law, and Harry
Sigler, with violating the prohibition law. Officer L Bit-
ties got Irvin Olson for driving while intoxicated and as a
hit and i-un driver; James Conboy was picked up by Cor-
poral Art Schmitt for 112, while Leo McAllister tagged
Pat Reynolds for a similar offense.
Daniel Farrell was brought in charged the same by Carl
Wannerberg and Officer James Gremminger had to bring
in Mike Moos.
Captain Fred Lemon stepped out and arrested Edward
Cassidy for violating Sec. 141 of the MVA and the prohi-
bition act.
Leo Cherry was arrested by OfHcers Charles Foster and
F. J. Nuttman and booked on a charge of murder.
* * *
Officers James J. Kenny and Tim Cashin put the finger
on John Y. Clune who had spread a bum check.
Emmett Cahill and William Bray were having a nice
time peering at the scenery from a car they had surrep-
titiously taken while the owner was away. Officer John
McCullough spotted them and the wagon was sent for.
The lads were charged with violating Sec. 146 of the
Motor Act.
Officers Clifford McDaniell, (Jeorge Whitney and Alfred
Smith brought to the station Frank Herzler charged with
burglary and the violation of the state gun law.
Corporal Patrick Shannon and posse gathered in Jo-
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Edward Cassidy was put in the station cells for petty
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BUSH ST.
STATION
Lieutenants Edward L. Cullnan and Joseph Mignola
Capt. John J. Casey
Corporal James Ray and some of the boys who work
with him certainly gave the city prison added population
of street hazards when they locked up John Kissel, James
McCoy, Robert Gilbert, Robert Vantelon and Marion Ward
for robbery. This same combination also arrested Owen
Wells for burglaiy.
Another burglar arrested was Alton Lee Davis by Cor-
poral Theobald McCarty. Davis' partner, Alvin Mars, was
arrested for violating Sec. 148 of the Motor act and of
the state gun law.
The g-rist of 112'ers were viz.: Clifford Hurlburt, ar-
rested by Officer Walter Harrington; Mary Bull by Officer
Lisle Atkinson, Joseph Knowles, by Officers Frank Mc-
Cann and John Dolan, Jr.; Frank Page by Officers R.
Caldwell and L. Conlan; and Glenn Rose by H. Kiernan.
Page and Hurlburt also were charged with Nnolating Sec-
tion 146.
Must be some attraction for gents to take other folks
cars without asking for them, for the following were ar-
rested as 146 violators: Peter Compagno by Officers Dolan
and George Tobin; Andrew Marquis and Eugene Smith,
Dolan and L. Rosa; Thomas Davis by Officer Leslie At-
kinson; and C. V. Cochran by Officer Arthur Lahey.
Sergeant Frank Norman brought in Claude Wright on
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Edward Talbot arrested Tom Norton on a similar charge.
Corporal James Ray locked up Bessie Bu.sh for grand
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Officer William McRae took in custody Rocco Johnson
for violating the Juvenile Court law.
* ::: ;;:
Officers Robert McCarte and Fiank Davis hauled Frank
Noble to the station jail for giand larceny.
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June. 1927
TRAFFIC BUREAU
Captain Henry Gleeson
Lieutenants J. J. Casey, J. (Cliff) Fields and Grover Coats
So successful has been the training of school children
to observe and assist in enforcing automobile traffic near
schools, under the direction of the police department, that
Chief of Police Daniel J. O'Brien and Capt. Henry Gleeson
deemed it advisable to keep a man on the job all the
time engaged in the work of keeping the youngsters com-
prising the school traffiq details fully informed of all
traffic laws, and to give lectures to all the children as to
how they must learn to observe certain rules for safety,
such as crossing the streets only at intersections or spe-
cially marked pedestrian lanes.
To carry on this work Traffic Officer Byron Getchell
was selected and he has been engaged in this work now
for some weeks. Having had a world of experience in
directing traffic on Market street at the heaviest con-
gested corners and having become recognized as an au-
thority on such matter pertaining to traffic matters his
.selection was a good one. He instantly made a hit witli
the school children, especially the 1000 boys who are de-
tailed to direct traffic in the vicinity of 65 schools in this
city, as the children come and go to school each day.
Each school has about 20 boys, particularly trained to
look out for the pas.sing automobiles and see they do
not violate the law, as well as see that their fellow stu-
dents conform to the rules of safety. Byron says that
you won't find any school children engaged in jaywalking,
and these kiddies are training their parents to follow the
safest route in crossing streets.
* * -r-
Seems like Lieut. Ginver Coats has gotten himself some
reputation as a golfer. He piles out of the hay and hits
for the links before sun-up most every day. He can
shoot the little white ball as far as any of them, whicli
leads us to remark that Traffic Officer Fred Bowerman,
who supervises the signal system on Mission street, opines
he is some golf bug himself and he is coming out with
a challenge to Lieut. Coats for a game on any course
and any number of holes. May the best man win.
* * *
Cecil Turner and Cecil Wright were sore because one
of them had been fined $50 for speeding after being ar-
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machinist's hammer between them on the front seat.
Corporal Archie Schmidt paused long enough in his
chasing of speeders to arrest Francis Walton for driving
while intoxicated and reckless driving.
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Page 33
PARK
STATION
Capt. John J. O'Meara
Lieutrnants Daniel W. Cronin, Francis J. McGuire
OfRcei- John Carlon .^ays the traffic experts ought to
come out to 19th avenue and Lincoln way and make a
survey of traffic conditions out there some Sunday evening
as the crowds are hitting for the family "feed box." John
says the hazards to pedestrians and autoists are nothing
to the hazards a policeman on the crossing has with cars
scooting out of two drives in the Park, up and down
Lincoln way and in and out of 19th avenue. Then there
are a few streetcars running over the tracks, converging
from two lines, which don't add anything to simplify the
situation.
* * *
William G. Gill, charged with manslaughter, had the
distinction of being arrested by Lieut. Frederic Norman.
* * *
Officers Tom Stanton and James J. McCarthy doubled
up to put Oscar Johnson in the station's jail, charged ^^^th
manslaughter.
Thomas Coryn knows what happens to a man who is
charged with driving while intoxicated and with being
a hit-and-i'un driver. An opportunity of ascertaining this
enlightening information was afforded Thomas when he
was nabbed by Officers A. J. Nicolini and Coulter Murphy
and taken to the station where Sergt. Glen L. Hughes
pronounced the fatal words and clanked the baned door
on the hapless prisoner, as the book writer would say.
:^ :i: -fi
Glen Hughes, who was elevated from corporal to ser-
geant, was assigned to remain with the Park station, and
keep the same watch.
* * :!=
Clarence A. Sibsey tried to na^^gate through the Park
wth a woozy head. He was arrested by Officer S. Cas-
illas and booked for violating Section 112 of the Motor
Act.
CAPTAIN GLEESON
(Continued from Page 2.5)
For vehicles weighing over 22,000 lbs. a per-
missible speed is raised to 12 miles per hour.
Any truck or trailer equipped with other than
pneumatic tires which h?s a manufacturer's rated
carrying capacity of four tons or more shall not
at any time be driven or moved on any public
highway at a speed in excess of 15 miles per hour.
Sec. 147 and 148. Relative to the injury or
tampering with a vehicle has been amended so
that any person arrested for injuring or tamper-
ing with a vehicle is not entitled to a five-day
citation but may be immediately placed under ar-
rest.
The Traffic Bureau recommends to the mem-
bers of the department a close study of theso
amendments and proper correction of the copies
of the Motor Vehicle Act of 1925 in their pos-
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June, 1927
RICHMOND
STATION
Capt. William T. Healy
Lieutenants Daniel W. Cronin, Francis J. McGuire
The boys miss Corporal Ham Dobbins, who has for so
many years been clerk to three captains at this station.
They all wished him a lot of joy as he takes things easy
during the remaining days of his life, which all hope will
be many.
Joseph Du Pons felt safe in this disti-ict. He was sure
the Oakland folks of the police department across the
Bay wouldn't get wise to his whereabouts, but Officers
John Breen and C. J. Radford disabused his mind of any
such notion when they gathered him in and boosted him
into the patrol wagon, lugging- him to the station where
Corporal Oliver Hassing informed him with proper sol-
emnity that he was booked en route to Oakland.
Officer Ed McKevitt said he read in the papers where
some 200,000 automobiles left the city for the Decoration
Day holidays. Said there must have been something-
wrong with the figures for the Sunday of the three days'
outing there were more automobiles out on the ocean drives
than Carter has pills.
Corporal O. A. Knottner says it is surprising how few
prowlers drift out this way these days. The reception
committee's work toward these gents have discouraged
the night workers from out into the Richmond. The com-
mittee still is readv to function on all watches.
\Y/E STERN
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STATION
Capt. Robert A. Coulter
Lieutenants I.eo Tac-kney and Emmett Moore
Officer Amandus Hansen, who has been off on sick
leave, is doing a liifch at headquarters during his con-
va'esenc\ .
Fred Merchens may have been ignorant of w^hat activity
can be stirred up when a driver of a car skips out from
the scene of an automobile accident without leaving nec-
essary data specified in Section 141 of the Motor Vehicle
Act. He is no longer in ignorance, for he had such a
mishap recently and Officer John P. O'Connor No. 2 took
charge of things and he promptly overtook Freddie and
escorted him to the station in the covered wagon. Cor-
poral Thomas Buckley completed the instructions by
insti-ucting Corporal John Crofton to turn the keys on
Fred and smeared on the books in bo'd letters "Charge,
violating Section 141, M. V. Act."
Oorporal John O'Leary has been switched from a nig\
detail to a day watch, co-ordinating with Corporals Robei
Lindsey, Lewis Clark, and Henry Zaun.
I wish to thank the Police Department for their co-
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Corp. James Casey of the North End Police station for
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INGLESIDE
STATION
Captain Eugene Wall
Lieutenant Frederick W. Kimble
Burglars who expect to enjoy liberty should fight shy
of the boys of this district. The other night Officers, Jere-
miah Kelleher, Dominic Hogan, George Hussey and Joseph
McVeigh, touring the Ingleside and Westwood districts
were advifed that a burglar was in a house in the Terrace.
The four officers in two machines closed in on the house
indicated but the burglar was gone. Then they began a
search of surrounding territory and Hogan and Kelleher
came upon a man who didn't look like he belonged in the
district. They took him to the station and after some con-
versation he admitted he had burglarized in San Francisco
some 15 or 20 homes and in Burlingame a dozen moi-e.
He gave the name of Osman D. White. Osman did not use
a flashlight. He found his way about the homes of his
victims by burning matches, and the fact that there had
been a match burglar in the district, caused the clinching
link in his case for when searched by the officers they
found a large quantity of matches in the pockets of the
accused. Anyhow, Mr. White is where the dogs won't
bother him for some time to come.
William Gallagher, arrested by Graeme Wildgans and
J. McDougal; and Robert Howard, arrested by Officer W.
Cotter, booked at the station as hit-and-i-un drivers.
* * *
Officer Edward Quast loaded Thomas Hannon in the
prison cell as a 146 violator.
* * *
The 112 charges were as follows this month: Michael
Harnett, arrested by Officer Thomas Price; Simon Sans,
arrested by Sergeant Augustus Skelly and Officer John F.
O'Brien, and George Pierce, arrested by Officer Ralph Mc-
Kenna.
NORTH END
STATION
Capt. Herbert J. Wright
Lieutenants D. M. Reavis and George DufTy
Herman 0. Gerard failed to pause and inquire what
damage he had done when his machine hit another car,
nor did he make any effort to ascertain the name of his
^•ictim, nor offer any information that is demanded by the
tenets of Sections 141 of the Motor Vehicle Act. How-
ever, he was unsuccessful in dodging the ever-watchful
police and Officers Edward J. Plume and J. McCarthy
surrounded him and escorted him to the station. There
Corporal James Ward informed him he was charged with
violating the above law.
Section 285 has to do with a statutory offense, as Am-
brosio Jose found out after he was led to the station by
Officers Peter \eilsen and Edward Keneally, being duly
informed of the necessary facts by Corporal Carl H.
Meilicke.
Once in awhile this district gets a parade, especially
on Decoration Day. The one this year was quite a large
one and Capt. H. J. Wright had his men properly em-
ployed to take care of the many who went out to the Pre-
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2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
June, 1927
POTRERO
STATION
Capt. Harry J. O'Day
Lieutenants Albert S. Munn, J. C. Malloy
Once in awhile a wandering visitor to this section, fil'ed
with a desire to see how the Potrero looks after a few
rounds of "Oh, be joyful", leads to complications, espe-
cially if the observations are made from the seat of a
gasoline wagon. Such complications usually leads to the
well-known Potrero police station where the gentleman so
observing gets himself tangled up with a lot of law.
Such a fate befell Bill De Carlo the other day. He
bumped into Officer William Lindecker and the next thing
he knew he was saying "good evening" to the desk ser-
geant, and the last thing- he knew was a 112 charge placed
against his name.
Taking another man's automobile is a pretty safe way
of landing in jail, at least it was for William Fields who
was nabbed on a grand larceny "kick" by Officers J. F.
Coglan and Thomas O'Connor who assisted Det. Sergt.
William Millikin in the arrest.
The law is very specitic about "totin' " shooting irons
in this State, but there is always someone cropping up
who feels it necessary to go armed, some times for sin-
ister reasons, some times for imagined protection. Nello
Mateucci and Salvator Triolo were packing healthy
buldges in their hip pockets when Corporal J. J. Horgan
halted them for investigation and found they were "gats."
The pair were booked for violating the State gun law.
BAY VIEW
STATION
Capt. Stephen V. Bunner
Lieut. Frank DeGrancourt, Lieut. Wm. Dowie
George Sullivan, alias Selhorn, and Marvin Thirlwcll
got twin bookings of orand larceny and violating Section
146 of the Motor Vehicle Act. They were browsing
around in an automobile they had no business to have
when Corporals Thomas Ritter, J. Murphy and Special
Officer H. Hughes got a gander at them. They recognized
the numbers as ones broadcasted belonging to a car re-
ported stolen, and they just naturally wrapped the boys
up and laid them down at the station with the double
bookings.
Jeft'erino Ghiozzi was touring the district in another
automobile he had driven away with, all in violation of
Section 146 of the Motor Act. He didn't get through the
district for Officers T. M. May and Walter Mathes grabbed
him off and to the hoosgow he went.
"A little gas,
A little red paint,
Makes thinks look
Just what they ain't."
So sang Officer D. J. Twomey when he got a peek at
Leonard Young as he was steering an uncertain course
along the highways. "Lenjiie" was pulled do^\'n and
pulled in and Corporal C. L. Jones wrote the charge
violating Section 112 after his name.
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Page 37
FANNING
(Continued from Page 7)
Sir Harry liimself. On one occasion Cooper pre-
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purporting- to come from Judge Troutt permitting
him temporary freedom. The superintendent for-
warded the order to the Sheriff, who seeing- tlie
putative signature of Judge Troutt, returned it
with his 0. K., and Chadwick enjoyed the privi-
lege of leaving- the jail. Then the police became
aware of this, and an investigation established the
fact that the court order was a forgery. Judge
Troutt then declared he had never signed any
order and Detective Bunner was detailed to as-
certain how Cooper had secured these orders,
which upon investigation, would result in more
charges of forgery. His fatal facility with a pen
had again entangled him into the meshes of the
law and for a time it looked as though he never
would get out of jail ; however, his cleverness
ended him up over in the big house, and the last
that was heard of him after serving these terms,
he made his way through the countrj% arriving
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June, 1927
MALONEYS VS. BENNETTS
(Continued from Page 19)
the Maloneys finally got onto Bennetts slants.
Ray Doherty lifted one of Bennett's twisters out
on the highway for a home run. He was followed
by McGowan who cracked a 'double over the short-
stop's head. Mac stole third on Bennett which
was a difficult thing to do, considering the brand
of ball he was pitcliing, but a spectacular slide by
McGowan brought the fans to their feet and he
was safe by a few inches.
(More descriptive writing will appear in next issue
of "2-0."
We must say a few words for the rooting sec-
tion. They were very congenial rooters, first root-
ing for one side, then another, and the whole game
went through without an argument. The boys all
felt in perfect condition the day following the
game and were raring to play another. Acting
Chief of Police Quinn was surprised at the amount
of speed the boys displayed in the game, and con-
gratulated them on the perfect game played. \^'e
surely appreciate the kindness of Chief of Police
Harper of Burlingame who was at the game and
seen that the boys were taken care of.
Following are the summaries:
Maloneys 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 4—6
Bennetts 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3—5
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meeting of International Association of Chiefs of
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June 6th.
Chief O'Brien, who is president of the associa-
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physician, to be present and open the meeting.
Both the Chief and Captain Matheson were pre-
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A goodly delegation of California Chiefs of Po-
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and making the trip on to Canada in special cars.
After the meeting, Chief O'Brien with Mrs.
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SECRETARY
G. L. PICKRELL
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CHAS. E. Rogers— Manager Northern Division
WEST AMERICAN BUILDING
1431 VAN NESS AVENUE
Phone Graystone 7700
LUCKENBACH
Largest and Fastest Freighters in the INTERCOASTAL TRADE
UUCKEINBAOH STEAMSHIP CO., Inc
COLLONAN Electrical & Manufacturing Co
Electrical Work In All Its Branches
3201-11 MISSION STREET Telephone Mission 7282
Members of the Police Dept.-
Yonr Credit is so good at The Redlick- Newman Co. that we require
INOTHIINQ DOWIN
on Pnrchagea up to $50.00 PAY AS LITTLE AS $1.00 A WEEK
Furniture — C*rpetg — Stoves — Crockery — Linoleum — Draperies — Phonographs
REDLICK NEWMANf^
. COMPLETE HOME FURNISHERS V"
Southeast Corner- 17th am Mission Sis.
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INTEREST!
The following table shows how interest at
FOUR PER CENT
is calculated at The Hibernia Bank.
Mr. Thrift deposits $100 each month for twelve months. He
finds it necessary, occasionally, to withdraw. During the year he
deposits $1200 and withdraws $240. At the end of the year
his account consists of $960 deposited plus $21.30 earned
in interest. Note the operation of interest credited monthly
and compounded semi-annually:
Date
Jan. 10
Feb. 3
Mch. 3
Mch. 15
Apr. 10
May 3
May 28
Item
Cash
Cash
Cash
Cash
Cash
Cash
Cash
Cash
Interest
Cash
Cash
Cash
Cash.
Cash
Cash
Cash
Cash
Interest
June 3 Cash 100.00
June 30 Interest 5.80
July 10 Cash 100.00
Aug. 3 Cash 100.00
Sept. 3 Cash 100.00
Sept. 15
Oct. 10
Nov. 3
Nov. 28
Dec. 3
Dec. 31
Jan. 2 Due Depositor
Deposits Withdrawals Balance
$100.00 $100.00
100.00 200.00
100.00 300.00
$60.00 240.00
100.00 340.00
100.00 440.00
60.00 380.00
480.00
485.80
585.80
685.80
785.80
60.00 725.80
825.80
925.80
60.00 865.80
965.80
981.30
$981.30
Debit
Interest
$0.80
.40
100.00
100.00
100.00
15.50
.80
.40
Credit
Interest
$2.00
1.67
1.33
1.00
.67
.33
2.00
1.67
1.33
1.00
.67
.33
Balance
Interest
$2.00
3.67
5.00
4.20
5.20
5.87
5.47
5.80
9.70
11.70
13.37
14.70
13.90
14.90
15.57
15.17
15.50
THE HIBERNIA BANK
No. 9
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International Strangler Captured
Man Who Cho\ed Over Half-dozen California Women to Death Caught in Canada. Interesting Account of Crimes
and Capture Written by Captain of Detectives Dtmcan Matheson
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The women of the United States and Canada
now can breathe freely because the most fiendish
and diabohcal murderer of the century was cap-
tured by the Provincial Police at Killarney, Mani-
toba. His reign of terror reached clear across the
continent, even into central Canada.
He found his victims in houses where "To Let",
"For Rent", or "For Sale" signs were displayed,
expecting to find a lone woman of middle age on
the premises, a logical conclusion on his part. He
visited these places in the afternoon, expecting to
find the person in charge alone, so that when he
attacked them, no person could respond to a call
for assistance.
He was rarely, if ever, seen entering or leaving
the premises where he found a victim. He Im'ed
his victims, either by suggestion or direction, to
show him a room, either in the attic or basement
and there committed murder. He strangled his
victims by compression, just over and above the
larynx, thus shutting off the air and voice. The
outer bi'uises on the throat were usually slight,
but on close examination by the autopsy, conges-
tion was found, due to compression.
After death, criminal assaults were committed
on his victims. The only similar case found is that
of Vincenz Verzeni, born in Italy in 1849 and sent
to prison January 11th, 1872 at his own request,
because with freedom, he could not control his
impulses.
He was constantly on the move to avoid arrest,
traveling on the roads and highways, expecting
help from passing automobilists. He changed his
clothes frequently to prevent identification. He
evidently lived by begging and petty thievery, ex-
cept when he robbed his victims or stole money
found on the premises. He disposed of the stolen
jewelry either by gifts or by sales on the streets.
His trail began in San Francisco, thi'ough San
Jose, Santa Barbara, Burlingame, Portland, Seat-
tle, Philadelphia, Buffalo and ended in Manitoba.
He probably was responsible for similar crimes in
Council Bluffs, Kansas City and Detroit. He made
a fatal mistake when he went to Canada.
He did not understand the Canadian temper
or how the Canadian people abhor crimes of that
character. Little did he realize that every man,
woman and child of understanding would be on
his trail until he was apprehended. He evidently
forgot that the border was patrolled by Immigra-
tion and Custom Guards as well as by the Px"o-
vincial Police, that all the railroads were policed
by officers in uniform, and that every man and
woman were potential police officers, constantly
on the alert to cause his arrest. The public co-
operated with the police just 100%. There is a
lesson here for the American public.
Fortunately, I happened to be in Winnipeg
shortly after the murder of Mrs. Harrison, and I
was able to point to the unmistakable details that
showed the stranglers handiwork and also that
unless he was apprehended, he would shortly re-
peat. At about 4:00 P. M., Sunday, June 12th,
the nude body of Lola Cowan, a 14 year old girl,
was found in the sti-angler's room at 133 Smith
street, where she was enticed and then strangled
and outraged. I was sent for to view the body and
the scene of the crime and found all the earmarks
of his work. On this discovery, a wave of indig-
nation spread over the city like wildfire and the
chase was on.
He practised all his cunning in endeavoring to
escape. He changed his clothing three times be-
fore his capture, leaving witnesses at each change,
by every person answering his description was a
marked niian until othei*wise determined. Hotels,
restaurants, rooming houses and all business
places carried his description and I overheard a
waitress in a restaurant say "I hope he comes here
so I can hold him for the police." Thei-e is no
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escape when that spirit is abroad.
He was finally captured by the Provincial Po-
lice on information furnished by a citizen that a
suspect had a meal at a farm house. The arresting
officers proceeded to telephone to the Winnipeg
Police and while so doing, he picked two locks on
the jail door and escaped, leaving behind him a
pair of shoes that he purchased in Winnipeg after
the murders. However, he was re-captured within
an hour.
There is a perfect case against him on two
charges of murder. The cases are set for trial
July 26th, 1927, and justice will be swift, sure and
certain. The old insanity bunk will surely fail.
He has been a liability on society since his birth,
as his record shows.
Record
Earl Farrell, alias Earl L. Ferrell, alias Earl L.
Nelson, alias Evans Fuller, alias Luther Clark,
alias Virgil Nelson.
July 28th, 1915, sentenced to San Quentin 2
Earl Farrell. Alias Earl Nelson, in Prison in Manitoba. Canada
years on charge of robbery, from Plumas County,
Calif.
Sept. 28th, 1916. Paroled.
March 28th, 1917. Discharged.
October 9th, 1917. 6 months for petit larceny.
Stole a bike at Stockton.
October 28th, 1918. Arrested at Los Angeles,
California, on a charge of burglary and desertion.
Released to Mare Island on desertion charge.
May 21st, 1918. Committed to Napa State Hos-
pital from Mare Island Naval Hospital.
June 13th, 1918, escaped.
July 18th, 1918, returned.
August 25th, 1918, escaped.
December 3rd, 1918, returned.
December 4th, 1918, escaped.
May 17th, 1919, discharged as improved on
escape.
May 19th, 1921. Charged assault to do bodily
harm, and deserter U. S. Navy. Assaulted woman
in San Francisco, striking her with closed fist and
throwing her to the floor and choking her.
May 25th, 1921. Held to answer to Superior
Court on charge of assault to do bodily harm.
May 31st, 1921. Received at Detention Hospital
for observation order of Superior Court.
June 13th, 1921. Committed to Napa State Hos-
pital.
June 14th, 1921. Delivered to Napa State Hos-
pital.
July 14th, 1921. Escaped and returned.
November 2nd, 1923. Escaped.
March 10th, 1925. Discharged from Hospital as
improved.
June 13th, 1925. Action dismissed on assault
charge on account of length of time that had
elapsed.
June 17th, 1927. Arrested at Winnipeg, Canada,
on 2 charges of murder.
The following report of Lieutenant Charles W.
Dullea and Detective Sergeant Otto Frederickson
shows his criminal activities in San Francisco and
the identification connected therewith.
Captain Duncan Matheson.
Sir:
I respectfully report the following:
Relative to communication from Philip Stark,
Acting Chief Constable, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Can-
ada, pertaining to Earl Nelson and enclosing a pho-
tograph of him taken on June 23, 1927.
This photograph was shown to Miss Jule Pot-
tenger, who conducts a rooming house at 2701 Sac-
ramento street (two doors from where Miss Clara
M. Newman was murdered on Februay 20th, 1926)
and she identifies him as being the man who called
there about an hour before Miss Newman is sup- _' i
posed to have been murdered. This man endeav- '
ored to rent a room from her, but Miss Pottenger
only showed him one room on the first floor and
stood outside near the stairway and the man said
something about the room not being suitable and
left the place.
The photograph was also shown to Mei'ton
Newman, who saw the suspect in kitchen of his
aunt's home at 2037 Pierce street, as suspect was
leaving the house shortly before the body of Miss
Clara M. Newman was found in an attic apart-
ment, and he identifies him as closely resembling
the man whom he saw at that time and place.
Mrs. G. H. Patch, 3526 Fulton street, states that
the photograph is that of the man she saw in the
living room of Mrs. W. A. Edmonds' home at 3524
Fulton street at about 1 :30 P. M. on November
18th, 1926, when she came into Mrs. Edmonds'
house to ask Mrs. Edmonds if she wanted to take
an automobile ride. Mrs. Edmonds was frail and
in ill health and at that time had a broken collar
bone and her right arm and shoulder was band-
aged and strapped. The dead body of Mrs. Ed-
monds was found in the radio room on second
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Training of New Policemen
Captain William /. ^uinn Gives Interesting Account o/ How J^ew Ojficers Are Drilled
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In last month's issue of "2-0",
I wrote about our Chief, Daniel
J. O'Brien, retiring- from the
presidency of the International
Association of Chiefs of Police.
In that article I touched on what
I believe to be his outstanding
achievement for the people of
America, the establishment of
r«pi. Win. J. Quinn .j Criminal Bureau of Investiga-
tion at Washington, D. C. Of his many achieve-
ments in his own department, I think one of the
greatest lias been tlie establishing and tlie suc-
cessful operaton of the Department School of In-
struction wliich has been functioning for a period
of approximately four years and through which
all the members of the department who have be-
come members since that time have passed.
The education they receive in the school has
been of untold value to them and no doubt has pre-
served many of them to the department. ]\Iany
lieroic acts have been performed by graduates of
the school of instruction and some of the seeming-
ly impossible feats that are daily gone through
by the members of the school have been put into
actual operation with great credit to the officers
who have perfected themselves in the lessons
taught.
The Department School of Instruction was con-
ceived and inaugurated in j\Iay, 1923, by Chief
Daniel J. O'Brien, who felt that no police officer
should be forced to leafc police methods through
actual experience, as he had done. He came into
the department just prior to a New Year's day,
and on New Year's eve, without any instructions,
he wrs given a uniform raincoat and detailed to do
duty in the Mission District during the New Year's
Eve celebration. From his own experience at that
particular time he learned that it was necessary
for a police officer to have practical instructions
and demonstrations in police work before he was
fit to be sent on the streets of the city to protect
the lives and property of our citizens.
Sergeant P. H. McGee was selected as instructor
of the School of Instruction by Chief O'Brien, and
he has continued in that assignment with great
credit to himself. In this school is taught every
conceivable problem with which a police officer
might be confronted. Many severe tests are forced
upon the students, the most severe being the test
for poise. This test is simple in explanation. AH
of the members of the school are grouped in a
circle and one by one they are called to the center
of the circle, where under the orders of the in-
structor they are forced to sing a song. One can
readily realize how difficult this is if they have
never performed as a singer in public.
Of all the vast number of people of the world,
very few of us are public singers. Many can sing
in private, but it takes a brave man who is not a
public singer to sing in public, even though that
public be a number of his brother police officers.
After three or four attempts, the student becomes
liardened as it were, to the ordeal, and performs
his task without embarrassment to himself, which
is tlie end sought, the idea being to cultivate in the
off.cer.the same composure that the actor on the
stage possesses. This means that the police officer
will be able to perform his duties without embar-
rassment or stage fright. Like the actor on the
stage, he will be able to go through his part, des-
pite the fact that he is in the spotlight and the
center of attraction; that he will be able to step
into any crowd and through his self-possession,
become master of the situation.
The test is a severe one, and is not done to test
the voice or singing ability of the student. It is
done with the sole view of testing his bravery and
stimulating his self possession. If you feel that
it is not all that is claimed for it, in the way of
severity, gather about you a number of strangers,
group them about you, get into the center of the
group and sing to them. If you are a singer it
will be easy — if you are not, you can readily realize
the difficulty of it.
i\lany singers have been discovered through the
tests above mentioned and you, no doubt, have
heard them sing in public or over the radio. Many
of these singers have been organized into quar-
tets and a number of these quartets have appeared
before the public in San Francisco and \icinity.
^lany other tests of similar character are given
to the members of the school. In addition to this
they are taught a series of locks and holds that
have been perfected for subduing desperate char-
acters.
During the course of instruction, members of
the school are given practical and actual work to
do with older and experienced members of the
department in the various branches of police
work. Time is set aside for each member of the
school for this insti'uction with these experienced
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"Mn Josiah Everyman Tuttlefish, Juror''
An Interesting and Instructive Serial on Present Day Jury System, Written b_v John M. Cartwright
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It SO happened, therefore, that late one after-
noon, the status of his office affairs permitting,
Josiah Everman Tuttlefish, impelled by the urge of
curiosity, stepped on his way toward the criminal
courts of the city to acquaint himself with the
spirit of the law. He was aware that the courts
would not be in session at this hour, which was
nearing the half of four, but this was of no con-
sequence to him. What this gentleman would have
perceived himself to have been primarily inter-
ested in on this particular occasion, had he stopped
to question himself about it, was not the law, nor
yet the actors on the legal stage, but merely and
solely the trappings of the law. But he didn't
stop to think.
Mr. Tuttlefish began walking down Courtward
Boulevard. Ten, twenty, thirty mmutes passed.
The Hall of Justice was certainly in a most unde-
sirable part of the city. He found himself getting
deeper and deeper into the oldest section of Rook-
ville. The people he encountered were not exactly
the tj-pe he had been accustomed to meet on Top-
Not Hill. Indeed, from the dark scowls he re-
ceived on every hand as he marched along with
his little gold-knobbed cane and spick-and-span
spats, he became a trifle alarmed about his safety
in this quarter of the city. Rough, unshaven men,
with broad shoulders and thick necks brushed
against him. Half-starved vagabonds scoured the
gutters for cigarette butts, and occasionally
peered into city refuse cans placed at intervals
along the curb. Old men, bent with years, dirty
and shameless, begged or offered wares to passers-
by. Pawn-shops and loan offices lined both sides
of the streets, and occasionally a son of Aaron
would come out of one of these and stand patron-
izingly before his shop windows, admiring liis
goods, rubbing his hands, and scrutinizing every
one that passed. Every now and then one could
hear the shriek of the patrol siren whirling into
the police station, which was under the courts of
justice, some unhappy victim. Mr. Tuttlefish
quickened his pace. He wished to be witliin the
protecting majesty of the law.
. The Hall of Justice loomed into view. It was a
stately building much superior to the dingy shacks
surrounding it. Two great marble columns
crowned with impressive capitols, stood at the en-
trance. An expansive sweep of steps spread from
these columns to the sidewalk. Up these steps
and one found himself in a long corridor on the
first floor. From this floor Mr. Tuttlefish went
up another impressive flight of stairs to a second
long coiridor.
On each side high doors hung ponderously upon
great brass hinges. These doors led to the sev-
eral departments of the criminal court. Mr. Tut-
tlefish crossed to the first door. Through a small
aperature he was able to see into the court room.
The room was empty. He entered.
A mighty solemness filled the chamber. The
stillness was broken only by the measured strokes
of a large clock, counting off in rythmic harmony
the stately march of time. Clock-clock-clock!
Ceaslessly the seconds flew, and yet time stretch-
ed out infinitely in tlie past and infinitely in
the future! Eternity was present! Its heart-
beats fell from the gi-eat time-piece on the wall.
Here in this temple of justice w?s the symbol of
Progress — Time, the Law and Man. Each in it-
self impotent, but combined a tremendous force,
calculated to control the destiny of nations, to cast
the die of future ages!
Mr. Tuttlefish looked about him. The room was
spacious. The ceiling was very high, supported
by four massive pillars set in the four corners of
tlie room. Dii'ectly opposite the door at the far
end of the room was the magistrate's bench slight-
ly elevated above the surrounding articles of fur-
niture. On each front corner of this bench was
erected the representation of a torch shedding
tlie light of knowledge. The top of the bench was
cleared, save for a solitary volume of "Bishop, on
Criminal Law", which lay opened where the mag-
istrate had left it. To the left of the bench and
somewhat behind it was the witness chair, and
still further left and over against the side wall
were the twelve chairs for the twelve triers of
facts. In front of the bench was the clerk's desk,
and those of the court reporters ; and still further
away on each side of the center of the room was
a massive table with heavy armed chairs about it.
These tables were for opposing counsel. Enclos-
ing all this and stretching across the entire court-
room about one-third back from the wall opposite
the door was the cancelli which separated the offi-
cers of the court from the spectators. The re-
mainder of the room was filled witli rows of chairs
divided by an isle dowTi the center.
Although not a soul stirred in the court room
and i\Ir. Tuttlefish could, in fact, hear distinctly
the beating of his own heart, he shortly felt the
intangible presence of men stepping out of the
past ages. At random they came, John Marshall,
Storey, Webster and Choate. Blackstone, Holt,
Ulpian and Scaevola; men whose lives had been
full of goodness, whose thoughts and handiwork
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COMMENDATORY LETTERS TO CHIEF
DANIEL J. O'BRIEN
Your vision in organizing: a traffic resene composed of
school boy? was a master stroke. My school has up to
fifth grade only. With the assistance of Officer Byron
Getchell, twenty boys were chosen for the traffic squad.
Two of these were chronic truants and one was a disci-
plinary case. These boys have given no trouble since they
weie given these positions of responsibility. In addition
to .safeguarding the lives of our children, and the help in
school discipline, the dignified and manly manner of these
boys in school and on the playground while off duty as well
as on is marked.
It is most gratifying to us who are trying to help the
boys to grow up good manly citizens. In this we are, in
a limited way, trying to supply the home training that
most of these boys do not receive, which was so splendidly
given to your fine sons, George and Dan. I wish to take
this opportunity to say Officer Getchell has proven your
good judgment in approving his appointment as officer of
the traffic reserve. The boys like him and try to do just
as he advises.
Thanking you again for this excellent work and trusting
it may continue, I am,
ALICE R. NORTON, Principal,
Harrison School,
378 Golden Gate Avenue.
We feel very deeply indebted to you for the marvelous
co-operation given us duiing what has been one of the
busiest periods of the year in the woi'k that this depart-
ment of the Chamber of Commerce has to handle.
The co-operation of your department through Corp. John
L. McCausland, Officer John B. Surges, Motorcycle Officers
Char'.es Neary, Joseph Wikstrom, and other motorcycle
officers on these details; the Chinatown details on the
Soroptimist Convention and the Midshipmen's Party, con-
tributed in no small degree in making our participation in
these events a success.
Will you please convey to them our appreciation, and
to you we send our compliments and thanks.
MABEL T. JOHNSON, Manager,
Hospitality Bureau.
* * ;s
Please accept my sincere thanks and deep gratitude for
the efficient aid rendered by Detective Sergeants B. Kel-
leher and Michael Desmond in the recovery of a valise con-
taining very valuable paintings and other precious sou-
venirs, the property of Mother Clave, a niece of Cardinal
Gasparri, Papal Secretary of State. Mother Clave, who
liad spent twenty-three years in China, was on her way
back to Rome. When the Steamer Siberia Maru on which
she was traveling docked at San FVancisco, the valise
mysteriously disappeared. After two weeks' search it was
found.
FATHER M. J. iMURPHY,
Home for The Aged,
300 Lake Street.
I wish to take this occasion to express our appreciation,
as well as the appreciation of the members of other hotels
that operate bu.-^es, of the very satisfactory arrangements
that have been made for bus space at Third and TowTisend
streets, through the very excellent co-operation of your-
self and Captain Charles Goff. We are all very happy and
satisfied.
We wish particularly to commend the very active and
close co-operation that we are getting through Captain
GofT.
ERNEST DRURY, Manager,
Hotel Whitcomb.
* * ^^
Permit me to thank you for granting Captain Gleeson
permi.ision to visit our city, Friday, to speak on "Courtesy
of Policemen".
We had at the Rotarians' luncheon, all of our Police
force and motor "cops", together with citizens, members
of our Board of City "Dads" Supervisors and representa-
tives of adjoining cities.
All expressed themselves as a very instmctive meeting.
Again thanking you, I am,
F. W. SWANTON, Mayor,
City of Santa Cruz, California.
* * *
As attorney for the California Northern Hotel Asso-
ciation, I wish to thank the San Francisco Police Depart-
ment, and especially its Detective Bureau, through you,
for the co-operation given me in the apprehension and
' conviction of R. E. Ogden, alias "thousand dollar man".
Through the splendid co-operation and alertness and effi-
ciency of Detective Officer Clarence Herlitz and Detective
Sergeant Fred F. Bohr, we accomplished the apprehension
and conviction of the defendant. I wish through you to
commend Detective Officer Clarence Herlitz and Detective
Sergeant Fred F. Bohr, and your Bureau, for their splen-
did work.
ALBERT J. LOEB,
Attorney and Secretary,
California Northern Hotel Ass'n,
564 Market Street.
ROLPH
By
Acclamation
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California
By Harry L Mulcrevy, County Cler\ of San Francisco
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Of all the States in the American Union there
is none whose history is so romantic and inspir-
ing as that of California; and the most interest-
ing portion of that history is the Spanish period.
With the arrival at
San Diego in 1769 of
Father Junipero Serra,
0. F. M., and his zealous
Missionaries, together
with Don Caspar de Por-
tola and his gallant sol-
diers and settlers, began
the Spanish period of
California.
The chief events of
this period were the es-
tablishment of the Mis-
HARRv I. MULCREVY sions, the Christianizing
of the Indians, and the exploration and coloniza-
tion of California.
It is from the Spanish period that the history
of California dates, and the record left by the
Spanish settlers is one of which any country
might be proud.
It was dui-ing this period that many of the
present cities of California were founded.
The Mission of San Diego was the first of the
twenty-one built along the El Camino Real (the
Royal Road, called the Kings Highway), of Cali-
fornia; then followed in succession San Carlos of
Carmelo, Monterey; San Antonia de Padua; San
Gabriel ; San Luis Obispo ; Saint Francis de Assis,
San Fi-ancisco ; San Juan Capistrano ; Santa Clara ;
San Buenaventura; Santa Barbai-a; La Purisima,
Concepcion; de Nuestra de la Soledad; Santa
Cruz; San Jose; San Juan Bautista; San Miguel; ■
San Fernando, Rez de Espana; San Luis, Rez de
Francia; Santa Ynes; San Rafael; the last mis-
sion was San Francisco Solano, founded in the
year 1823.
The plan of the Missions was most wonderful,
situated in the most beautiful spots, the journey
of one day from one another, and the seats of
learning and well earned prosperity in California;
their architecture was the best imitation of the
Spanish Gothic style which the Spanish laborers
could build with the tools and materials which
were then possible in the New World.
Besides the Church proper, the Missions con-
sisted of groups of buildings set aside for con-
verted Indians and their families, a monastery,
and spacious quarters for guests.
Among the light-hearted and easy-tempered
Californians the virtue of hospitality knew no
bounds. "They literally vied with each other in
devoting their time, their homes, and their means
to the entertainment of strangers."
On arriving at a rancho the traveler was re-
ceived with joy and the best of things were pre-
pared for him. He was pressed to remain as
long as he would and when he went on his way,
horses and servants were furnished to take him
to his next stopping place. It was the same with
tlie Missions. The Padres gladly received and en-
tertained all travelers, setting before them the
best of meats, fruits, and native wines, providing
them with good beds, and on their departure fur-
nishing them with fresh horses and guides, caring
for the tired animals of the travelers until the
owners came or sent, for them. No pay was ex-
pected and none was given.
Such was the hospitality and such were the men
and women of the Spanisli Epoch of California.
In the year 1820, Mexico revolted against Span-
ish rule and set up an independent Empire of her
own.
In 1822, the Mexican authorities sent several
vessels to the poi't of Monterey, and by military
and naval force formally took possession of Cali-
fornia.
In 1823, Mexico overthrew her Empire and es- i
tablished a Republic. ■'
In 1826, 1829 and 1835 the acts of seculariza-
tion of the Missions were passed; the Missions
were dispossessed of their lands and all their
wealth confiscated.
Mexican rule in California was noted for the
making of large land gi-ants and an easy, care-
less existence of the people; feasting and making
merry was the order of the day; it was the peri-
od of the sweet "Manana" everyone seemed to
have time to enjoy, and exercised an open-handed
generosity.
By reason of tlie inexperience, inefl^iciency,
envy and jealousy predominating among the gov-
erning authorities, Mexican rule in California
came to an abrupt end.
The year 1846 saw the Mexican Goverament in
California struggling with a poor Exchequer, and
some of its leaders in an unfriendly mood towards
one another, while France, England and the
United States waited eagerly for an opportunity
to seize California.
Wlien circumstances shaped themselves for the
worst, a party of Americans at Sonoma, headed
by Captain Merritt, resolved to establish an inde-
pendent government, and raised the "Bear Flag"
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July. J 927
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^^The Man from Arizona ''
By Jack Lawlor, Police Reporttir, Daily T^ews
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Wlien a police officer gets in a jam, no matter
iiow small it is, he is subjected to no end of criti-
cism. The papers play it up and sometimes write
editorials on it; his wife is condoled by her neigh-
bors, the kids at school
taunt his children and
a good time is had by
all except the "copper"
and his family.
But when he does a
kindly act, hke giving
some "bum" on his
beat the price of a
meal and a lodging,
or the price of a ticket
to some commuter at
JACK LAWLOR the Ferry who lost his
book, or carfare to some "Jane" who claims to
liave lost her purse, or hunts up a job for a down-
and-outer on the "Skidway", or maybe gives him
a suit of clothes and a hat as well so he will look
presentable for the job — or digs down into his
jeans to buy Liberty bonds, or to help the Red
Cross and the Community Chest, or buy photos
of "Old Ironsides", and a lot of other things that
even I — down here among them for nearly three
years — never heard of. Does he get any credit?
He does not.
Not that he wants any, either, but let us be fair
and admit that he is almost human after all and
not the ogre that some would have you believe.
A great many people whose acquaintance with
a policeman' is limited to seeing him push back
the crowds at a parade have an idea that he is a
big tyrant with no heart and a hard fist ready
at all times to land on some soft head.
But this is a mistake. I have found in working
with him that he not only possesses all the vir-
tues of the rest of us but that in some ways he
excels.
He is not perfect, it's true, and makes mistakes,
but this also applies to every walk of life and to
every profession. And there are some exceptions
to the rule here laid down. But taken all in all
he will average up to the standard set down for
every good citizen and maj^be a little better.
I have learned of a lot of things down here on
the police beat that prove his merit and have
written of them lieretofore in this magazine but
one of the outstanding features of his generosity
came to my attention the other day quite by ac-
cident.
It seems tiiat a traveler from Arizona gave a
tramp a lift and the tramp stole his car and
camping outfit somewhere in the Mission. The
Auto Detail, under Lieut. "Barney" McDonald,
located it at King City but the traveler had no
money to get there and reclaim his property.
Wiiat do you suppose the Auto Detail did with
'.he traveler? Did they send him to the Associ-
ated Charities or the Communitj^ Chest?
They did not!
Did they try to get him a pauper's ticket over
the S. P. ?
They did not!
Did they try to get him his fare from tiie
Chief's contingent fund?
They did not!
Did they hem and haw and suggest this and
suggest that?
They did not!
Did they tell the traveler to WTite home and
get the money or borrow it from a friend?
They did not!
Well, what did Lieutenant McDonald and his
valient crew of auto thief snatchers do to help
this poor traveler regain his car?
They dug down into their respective pockets
without a murnier and not only gave him the
price of his ticket but enough to eat on and sleep
on after he got there.
And remember what a tough fight the "cops"
had to get that measly raise of one dollar a day
a few years ago? Well, the next time they come
up for a raise, remember the "Man from Arizona."
OFFICERS CONROY AND WILDGANS
At the last regular meeting of this organization
many matters of vital interest to the people of
this district were discussed, and one of the most
interesting features was the report made by the
Excelsior Merchants committee, in their refer-
ence to the gallantry exercised by Officers Patrick
Conroy and Graeme Wildgans, in their capture of
the two desperadoes, caught redhanded in the act
of robbing the safe in the Excelsior Theatre. A
motion was forthwith made and unanimously car-
ried, commending the said officers for the bravery
shown at the risk of their own lives, in effecting
this capture, and I was directed to communicate
this message through your good office, and to
assure you that the people are gratified at the
good work that is being done by your department
through Captain Wall of the Ingleside Station.
A. B. FRANK, Secretary,
Greater Excelsior District, Mission Street.
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Detective bureau
Captain of Detectives Duncan Matheson m Charge
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TAKING OF STATEMENTS
By Robert Fitzgerald, Former Assistant District Atty.
No such preliminary evidence of proof is neces-
sary for the reception of admissions as disting-
uished from confessions. Proof that the defend-
ant either orally or in written statements admit-
ted the truth of implicating- facts and circum-
stances short of full confessions may be made
either as part of the people's main case or by way
of the impeachment of the defendant should he
take the stand or in rebuttal of his defense. Such
proof may be made even though it involves por-
tions of a confession, provided the confession
itself as such is not used and the testimony be
received from one of the auditors who relates only
the portion having to do with the establishment
of such independent facts.
In a recent case in which a defendant was on trial
for a number of robberies it developed that a very
full detailed confession which he had made was so
made after a confession of his complicity in a
murder growing out of one of these robberies
which he had made after a promise made by one
of the arresting officere that he would be put upon
the street if he would tell all he knew. The court
in the prosecution upon the robberies charges held
that the robbery confession was so connected in
fact and circumstances with the murder confes-
sion that it was subject to the same taint, and
could not be received in evidence. Following the
close of the People's case the defendant took the
stand and told a story in his own behalf directly
contradictory of the relation in the confession.
While the law does not permit the use of the con-
fession as a confession even for purposes of im-
peachment, it did permit one of the witnesses to
the confession to testify by way of impeachment
to a number of the statements made by the defen-
dant in a confession which fell shoi't of direct ad-
mission of the robberies but involved admissions
of numerous circumstances from which the jury
could infer in their consideration of them with
other proven facts that the defendant was indeed
guilty of the offenses charged and illustrating one
of the rules already stated, these admissions were
received despite the fact that one of them admit-
ted to a confession of the defendant's guilt upon
a charge of knowingly receiving and disposing of
stolen property.
Many of the principles I have referred to are of
more peculiar interest to the prosecutor than to
the investigator. Thorough appreciation and un-
derstanding of these rules will, however, enable
the investigator to make a more full and thorough
investigation and preparation of the case and pre-
vent the escape of guilty defendants through the
absence of failure of important evidence. The
practical result of all of them is to make it appar-
ent that a careful officer will reduce to writing the
statements of all witnesses and whenever in doubt
will include therein even matters which seem to
him to be hearsay declarations. If they do in fact
fall within the objectional class of hearsay state-
ments, the court will exclude them in the trial and
will permit only the legal portions of the state-
ments to be received. Not only is it important to
liave the statements of the accused himself in
writing, but as well the statements of the com-
plainant and of all witnesses who have knowledge
of material facts or of statements which they
have heard made by tiie complainant or the ac-
cused. Such statements, of course, can not be
directly used in the trial, but they are oftentimes
invaluable for the refreshment of the recollection
of a witntss wiio may be examined in court long
subsequent to the time when being fresh in his
mind, the facts were first related by him, and they
may be used for the purpose of impeaching a wit-
ness wiio, for reasons best known to himself or
sometimes to tiie defense, has since the time of his
interview bj- the authorities and before the time
ot the trial of the case, experienced a change of
heart. And they are of great assistance to the
prcs.^cutor in the preparation of his case. So that,
if you should forget everything that I have said to
you but this one last admonition: it is my belief
after some five years of experience in the prosecu-
tion of criminal actions that if you will keep in
mind and be guided by a working rule to obtain
written signed statements from the defendant,
when possible, the complainant, and material wit-
nesses always, you will have earned the apprecia-
tive gratitude of the prosecuting attorney and
have had no small share in preventing miscarriage
of justice.
July, 1927
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Sergt. George McLoughlin and the members of his
Robbery Detail handed plenty of work to the clerical
force in the city prison. McLoughlin and his gang ar-
rested Harry West on two charges of robbery and Wil-
liam Mott and Edward Larson, en route to Los Angeles;
Sergts. Vernon Van Matre. William McMahon and George
Wall arrested Sam KaufFman for grand larceny; also
Joseph Cal'aghan, Dix Leonard, and John Flynn for vag-
rancy; Sergts. Leo Bunner and Robert Rauer teamed up
with Sergts. Jack Cannon and James McKenna of the
Auto Detail to snag Dona'd Mclver for 146 of the Motor
Vehicle Act; Wall, McMahon, and Rauer booked Jack
Shore for felony embezzlement.
Lieut. Bernard McDona'd's auto thief catchers got their
names on the big book through the large number of
prisoners brought in during the month. Sergts. Frank
Brown and Rasmus Rasmussen arrested Willis Stone for
p-rand larrenv: j-Mf'ed Mavnfud for the V. S. Marshal;
Sergts. Augustus Tompkins and Harry Husted locl<pd ut)
Reginald Riley and Hubert Sharp as 146 violators: James
T -tt'o. T>.-x Fp'i is pnd Jack Reuck were brought in by
Sergts. Percy Keneally, William Johnson: Scrirts. William
MiMikin and Nicho'as Barron erpbhed Robert Stevens for
embezzlement: Detectives Everett Hansen and Jack O'Con-
nell nabbed Edward Hent'en for vio'atinf Section 146;
Sergts. Louis DeMatei and Rasmussen did the same to
David Bailey; Sergt. Edward Jones stonned chasing auto
thieves long enough to arrest Edward Dill for driving
while intoxicated: Mi'likin and Sergt. James Hayes took
in tow Edward Wagner and John Nove'lo for larceny;
Sergts. Harry McCrea and Patrick Wafer picked up Henry
Bradley, wanted in Anaheim.
* * *
Detective Sergt. Richmond and his bunch of burq-lar
aoprehenders were pretty busv bringn'ng in the nrow'^rs.
Here are some of them: William Brown, burglary; Neil
Roberts and Ben Kreuger, larcenv: Carlisle Wii'iams. en
route to Chico, by Det. Sergts. James Gregson and Jo.seph
Lippi; Harry Lewis, Howard Graham, He'mer Bratha'l,
burglary; Robert Reece, larceny; Raphael Galindo. en route
to Redwood City, arrested by Det. Sergts. Richard Hu"-hes
and James Johnson and Fred Bohr and Clarence Hei-litz
of the Hotel Detail,
* * *
Here are a number of other arrests by Bohr and Herlitz:
Matt Harper, fugitive; Ahnn Mulvaney, two charges of
forgery, two of 475; Edward O'Connor, 476a; Norman
Reiman, en route to Fresno.
Following are some of the men turned over to various
Federal officers during the month by Detective Sergts. Geo.
Richards and Henry Kalmbach: Harry Henry Higgins,
George Shaw, Edward Kelly, Harry MarinoflT, Hyman
Block, Sam Harris, Ferdinando Schiariti.
* * *
Sergts. Michael Desmond and Barth Kelleher nabbed
among numerous others the following: Jose Abi-uzzo,
burglary; Or\'ille Blair and Charles Evans, grand larceny;
riii'-ia /K-prn?. rn route to Santa Cnaz: John Harris, to
Modesto; John Scales, Jr., to Los Angeles.
* * *
Mani H. Vakil, two charges forgery, and Ransom Rogers,
three charges forgery, were arrested by Det. Sergts. Wil-
liam Proll and Arthur McQuaide.
*. ^ *
The following are the arrests made by Det. Sergts.
William Ai-mstrong, Charles Maher and James Hansen of
the Bad Check Detail: For violating Sec. 476a, Everett
H. Loucke, Arthur Pierce, John Vamum, Louis Hersch-
field, William M. Garrison, Walter Mason, John J. Martin,
Peter Jordan, George Skinner, Herbert W. Scott and Carl
J. Cobum, two charges each; forgery, Jean Deslys;
George Learned, Burton Bishop, Karlyle Walton, Alvin
Amberg, John Pezzi, Willard Brown, one charge
each 476a; Edward Tebbets, 2 charges, Mark Barnett.
two charp^es and one of 476, and Frank Graham, two
4T6's; Lloyd Nybye, passing fictitious check, Frank
Stark, Forgery; Anatiago Cervicio, burglary and forgery.
* * *
Lieut. Thomas Hoertkora and his partner, Det. Sfi-gt.
Morris Harris, nabbed a dozen potential pickpockets whom
they booked as vags.
* * *
Det. Sergts. Thomas Conlan and Edward Wiskotchill
slammed the doors on Paul Standard, grand larceny;
Albert Med'ey, embezzlement; George Wilkinson, obtain-
ing goods by false pretenses, and Lester Saunders, wanted
for vagrancy in Glendale.
* * *
George Bailey, wanted in Los Angeles, and Henry
Merino, in San Jose, were led to a prison cell by Det.
Sergt. Harry Cook.
* * *
Detectives William Rakestraw and James Sunseri lock-
ed Roy Johnson in a cell. He was wanted in Fresno.
Rakestraw, with James Hansen and Sidney DuBose, ar-
rested Robert Moore as a "paper hanging" gent.
Among the shoplifters arrested by Det. Sergts. Andi-ew
Gaughran and James Skelly of the Shopping Detail, were
Elsie Harris; Sarah Hatton, Carmen Romers, Adelo Flores
and Junas Sandoval.
* * *
Lieut. Henry Powell of the Pawnshop Detail, and Sergts.
Irvin Findlay and James Mitchell of the Burglary Detail,
arrested Geoige McCarthy for burglary, as well as Mc-
Carthy's wife, Beatrice: Sergt. John Callaghan, and James
Reagan, with Sergt. Jack Palmer and Corp. Nels Stohl of
the Burglary Detail got Joe Padillo for burglary.
William Wilson, wanted in Long Beach and Richmond,
was placed in jail by Det. Sergts. Thomas Reagan and
Thomas Curtis who booked him here for attempted grand
larceny.
» * *
Det. Edward Mills, attached to the office of District
Attorney Matthew Brady, brought to headquarters Manuel
Gomez who broke the Juvenile Court Law.
« * *
Another such \nolator was Herbert Chan, arrested by
Policewoman Katheryne Sullivan and Det. Chas. Dorman.
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Safety Zone
July, 1927
OUR SAFETY ZONE BUTTONS
In tlie installation of the corrugated iron but-
tons that now mark safety zones throughout the
city, a forward step has been taken to make safety
zones a sacred place in which women and children
may stand with reasonable security against being
killed or permanently maimed or injured through
the recklessness of automobile drivers.
For several years the police department experi-
mented with painted white lines to mark safety
zones and carried on the attempt through
education and arrests to gain the co-operation of
automobile drivers that in driving they would
avoid driving through these safety zones or driv-
ing on the lines that marked the same. It seemed
as if many drivers used the broad white line for
the pui-pose of testing their ability to drive
straight or to ascertain if their wheels ran true.
Many drivers would deliberately drive through
any part of the zone — at times when no person
was standing within the lines.
These acts of motorists resulted in the almost
entire elimination of the painted lines soon after
their installation and such zones became almrst
eradicated and remained so for some time, owing
to the inability of the painting department to keep
up with the damage. This also had the effect of
increasing the cost of the maintenance of these
zones by labor and paint and many zones that
need only have been repainted once or twice a
year required repainting four and five times each
year.
The greatest evidence of the inefficiency of the
painted white line safety zones was the great
number of persons killed or injured while stand-
ing within the confines of the lines by drunken
and reckless drivers of automobiles who, being
familiar with the conditions at these zones, had
no thought or fear of injury to themselves and
consequently refused to consider the respect due
to these so-called places of safety, and as a con-
sequence it was pitiable to note the number of
people whose death was officially recorded "Killed
while standing in a safety zone."
The police department hammered for appro-
priation to permit the eradication of white lines
and provide proper devices that would tend to
change the alarming conditions of death and in-
jury at safety zones.
Through the co-operation of Supervisors Todd,
Bath and Schmidt, of the Traffic Committee of
the Board of Supervisors and of Supervisors Mc-
Sheehy and Kent of the Finance Committee, prop-
er appropriations became available, resulting in
the purchase and installation of 2500 safety zone
buttons which permitted the police department
to advance in its plans for the protection of safety
zones and the present button-marked safety zone
which, without doubt, has saved many lives and
instilled a feeling of security of thousands of
women and children is the answer.
Before the installation of these buttons con-
sideration w-as given to the problem of the visa-
bility of the buttons to motorists. To provide an
increased visability these buttons were galvanized
at some considerable cost to the original cost of
the button and installation.
It soon become apparent that there was no
merit from the standpoint of visability of the
galvanizing. Fogs and dust seemed to destroy the
purpose of the galvanizing and the button became
quite inefficient from the standpoint of visability
but not withstanding this it was apparent that
all safe drivers found no difficulty in seeing these
metal buttons at night with the assistance of
automobile lights.
To correct the lack of visability all buttons
now installed are being painted white. All but-
tons in the future will be painted the same.
From the time of the first installation of these
buttons only one case of persons being injured
while standing within the button zones has been
recorded and that case, two persons, a man and
a woman, standing in the zone at Jordan avenue
and Geary street, were struck and injured by an
automobile which was driven within the lines of
the zone.
It is now fairly well established that the danger
of injury now rests upon the shoulders of motor-
ists and that in their own interest and to prevent
their own injury they must avoid striking these
safety zone buttons and as it has been proven
that only in the cases of high speeding and reck-
less driving has any person been killed or injured
by driving an automobile against or over these
safety buttons. Three instances in which deaths
resulted occurred at safety zones at 33rd avenue
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Fate Overtakes the De Autremonts
Ray, Roy and Hugh Dc Autre menu Face Life ni Prison
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Nearly four years after the smoking ruins of
the Southern Pacific's crack "Gold Special" gave
up the bodies of four murdered men, Hugh De Au-
tremont rose stiffly from liis chair in the court-
house at Jacksonville, Oregon, and twisted his lips
in a peculiar smile. He had just heard himself pro-
nounced "guilty as charged" by a jury. First de-
gree murder — but the jurors recommended life
imprisonment instead of death.
Back in tiie jail, Hugh was under the same roof
with his twin brothers Ray and Roy, but of this
fact he was not cognizant at the time. It had been
four years, so the State of Oregon contends, since
the trio had met— ever since the "Gold Special"
had been dynamited in the Siskiyou mountain
tunnel on October 11, 1923. Now, Hugh had re-
ceived his trial and conviction. Ray and Roy still
had the ordeal to go through.
Since the terrible crime, the United States postal
department had never relaxed for a moment its
efforts to bring the three men to justice. Secret
service agents had gone over the nation with a
fine comb, in search of them. Police everywhere
had hunted them. Foreign nations had aided in
the man-hunt. The De Autremonts proved as elu-
sive as ti-iple will-o'-the-wisps, and finally the
trail was lost entirely.
The United States Postoffice department never
gives up until it reaches its objective — and this
time was no exception. Rewards totaling $15,900
were offered for the capture of Hugh, Ray and
Roy, to spur on the pursuit. And finally came
victory. Hugh was taken first — in Manila, where
he was quietly serving as a soldier in the United
States army.
Ray and Roy had gravitated to Steubenville,
Ohio, where they settled down as laborers in the
mills. Ray had married, and a child was born to
him about a year ago.
With the shadow of the gallows ever hanging
over him, Ray had not hesitated to drag a woman
into his ill-staiTed career, nor to bring an innocent
life into the world to share the stigma that at-
tached to him.
jMail from home brought the inspectors down
upon Ray and Roy. They had changed greatly —
so much so that they had thought themselves free
of detection forever. Their disguises and assumed
names however, could not hide them, and back
they went to Jacksonville to answer to the law.
Tlie capture of the De Autremonts brought to
an end one of the most thorough, systematic, and
large scale man-hunts ever carried on in the United
States or any otlier country. The search for them,
while rivalled by the international hunt for the
"dark strangler" was much longer than the latter.
The evidence against Hugh seemed conclusive, and
the State of Oregon and Federal Goveniment hope
to make the evidenc against Ray and Roy even
stronger with the gallows as their goal.
A Colt's automatic pistol, of .4.5 calibre, which
was found in the tunnel of the dynamited mail
car, bore much of the prosecution's case. The se-
cret numbers of the gun showed that it had been
shipped from the factory at Hartford, Conn., to
the Schwabacher Brothers Co., at Seattle, and it
w£s then sent to Albany, Oregon, and finally sold
to Roy De Autremont.
Ray, Roy and Hugh have been taken to the
Multnomah County Jail at Portland, for safekeep-
ing. The two twins are awaiting trial, and Hugh
had still to hear the decision on his appeal for a
new trial. Apparently they do not worry, main-
taining an outward calm at all times, which coin-
cides with the belief of the state and government
that they are the cold-blooded and heartless killers
who shot down three defenseless men and burned
another, merely to prevent the quartet from iden-
tifying them in case of capture.
BEGGING RIDES DANGEROUS
The dangerous practice of "begging rides" is
one of the lessons being given school childi-en un-
der the system of visual education in traffic safety
arranged by the Public Safety Department of the
California State Automobile Association.
"The boys who beg rides, do so with the mis-
taken idea that they will save time. If they would
use a little common sense, they would know that
the time they save in riding to school is lost in
standing on a comer waiting for some motorist
to give them a ride.
"Begging rides is a dangerous practice; it sets
a bad example, and it saves no time."
We take this opportunity to thank you and your
department for the very kind assistance rendered
in the search for our son. We wish to especially
thank Detective Bui'ns for his untiring effoi'ts and
consideration for us at this trying time. Our son
came home safely Tuesday evening and ended our
suspense which was becoming almost unbearable.
With heartiest thanks to you and your very
able department.
MR. AND MRS. DANIEL J. LANCASTER,
4029 24th Street.
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I By Wilfred Tuska
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Traffic is one of the problems of the police de-
partment that seems to be what one might call
"everybody's business." Every individual be-
lieves that he knows something of the difficulties
and should his suggestion
be adopted by the depart-
ment, a great deal of pres-
ent day trouble would be
eliminated.
San Francisco, like all
cities, lias its problems,
but due to the alertness of
Chief O'Brien, Captain
Quinn, his assistant, and
WILFRED TUSKA Captain Gleeson, many a
knot is successfully untangled.
To the man on the outside looking in, how-
ever, it would appear that we have a very glaring-
traffic fault, that is, different laws on Sunday
than on other days of the week. The left turn
barrier on Market street is let down on Sundays,
and drivers are allowed to turn at any intersec-
tion, much to the chagrin of other drivers and
pedestrians. The "stop" and "go" signals on
lower Market street are not working, while those
on upper Market street are. This gives tlie mo-
torist an opportunity to disregard signals with an
easy excuse — "I didn't know they were in opera-
tion."
Different traffic laws on Sunday allows the mo-
torist to disregard laws that are operative
throughout the week, the Arterial stops. He
feels that if one law is pliable on Sundav, whv not
all.
San Francisco, however, is doing a great deal
for the protection of its citizens. Safety lanes
are being established in the greater congested
residential districts as well as downtown.
Police officers, whose duties require them to
pace the streets, are placed at busy intersections
to direct tri'ffic during the rush hours of the
mornings and evenings.
The lives of the youngsters are also look(.d
after by the vigilance of the police department.
You will find a police officer stationed in tlie morn-
ing and afternoon in front of all schools where
the youngsters go, and in fact, you will find them
at most all schools, casting a protective eye over
the school child and a stern one at the over-zeal-
ous speeder.
San Francisco has adopted traffic control sig-
nal boxes and are placing them as rapidly as they
can be manufactured, at all congested intersec-
tions, the latest one being installed at Howard
and Third streets. The new signal boxes are the
invention of Ralph Wiley, head of the Electrical
Department of the city of San Francisco.
Pedestrians moving with the traffic would no
doubt speed up downtown traffic which experts
tell us is now moving at a "dobbin's pace."
Pedestrians utter lack of system in walking also
throws an added strain of responsibility upon the
driver of an auto who has the signal in his favor
and the pedestrian against him.
Other cities iiave their traffic troubles. Add to
these troubles, the grief of narrow streets and
sidewalks and you have the problem which stared
Lcs Angeles in the face. They have partly over-
come this by a pedestrian movement with the
traffic. Non-adherence to the law does not bring
a court case dismissal by some police judge, but
a reprimand and then a fine.
El Paso, thriving little metropolis on tlie Mexi-
can border, with Juarez beckoning its inhabitants
to partake of the flowing bowl, has a police force
that ranks high amongst the forces of the United
States. Not only have they their traffic prob-
lems to contend with, but also the liquor and dope
question, and the smuggling of Chinese across the
border. Their Chief is a man who has risen from
tlie ranks, T. C. Armstrong. He has gained the
confidence of the people and of his men, and since
his term of office, about two years, the people have
twice voted advances to men on the force.
A great many of the larger department stores
in tiie large Eastern cities are greatly aiding
traffic by establishing garages in out-lying streets,
wiiere prospective customers garage their cars,
and await regular bus line service between stores
and garages operated by the department store.
Tills system was brought about owing to the
abolishing of parking within easy radius of these
stores. St. Louis, being a city of rather narrow
streets, had to do something to speed up traffic,
hence the elimination of long parking periods.
A large area in the retail shopping district, park-
ing is entirely prohibited. The Famous Barr De-
partment Store is one of the large department
stores that has estalished free garage for patrons
and a bus service from their store to their garage.
St. Louis is well policed, the Chief of which is a
namesake of your own Chief O'Brien.
Dallas, Texas, has established the central con-
trol stop and go light signals. This system allows
the autoist a vision of the signal for several
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Police Officer John Driscoll Killed
Murderous Thugs Slay Brave Policeman
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Police Officer Joiiu Driscoll, who, in a few years
service as a member of the San Francisco Police
Department, became recognized as one of the de-
partment's most efficient, capable and courageous
members, was slain by a thug's bullet while in the
performance of his duty late last montli.
A member of the Southern Police District, John-
n\- Driscoll was admired by the people along his
beat, respected by all, and loved among- his fel-
low officers. His was a personality that brought
gladness to many a poor man, to many an unfor-
tunate. Among his friends his was a disposition
that exuded joy and enjoyed doing for others.
He w?,s standing at the corner down on Folsom
street talking to his pal, who entered the depart-
ment at the same time he did, Richard Manning.
Manning was getting ready to go home, having
completed his watch at the Richmond Station,
and had dropped down for a chat with his friend.
As Manning left, Driscoll heard a cry for lielp.
He started for the point whence the cry came.
As he did so two men came running by him. One
had a gun. He levelled it at the officer, and be-
fore that man knew what was happening, the trig-
ger was pulled and John Driscoll fell to the street
mortally wounded.
The shots attracted the attention of JManning.
He jumped to the side of his fallen pal. Driscoll
said, "They got me; go get them."
Remembering the call for duty. Churning gave
chase, and firing as he ran, caught one of the men
who turned out to be Eugene Gentile. Taking
his man back to the scene of the shooting. Manning-
summoned assistance and had Ofhcer Driscoll
rushed to the Central Emergency Hospital, where
it was found the assassin's bullet had done its
fatal work and the brave policeman died, leaving
a widow and two children.
The quick work of the police and detective bu-
reau rounded up the second man, Mark Odalivich,
and between the statements of Gentile and Odali-
vich, it was soon established that tlie shooting was
done by the latter. Both were booked for murder.
They had attempted to rob a soft drink parlor
owner and had slugged him in a little street off
Folsom. His cries were what attracted the atten-
tion of Officer Driscoll.
Captain Charles Goff, Driscoll's commanding of-
ficer raid this tribute to the dead policeman:
"He was one of the best men in m\- command,
fearless and courageous."
The funeral was held Wednesday, June 29. full
police honors being accorded the dead officer.
Captain Fred Lemon acted as battalion commander
and Captain Charles Goff led his company as the
mourning company. The police band led by Lieu-
tenant Richard Foley pai'ticipated in the sei-vices,
which were held in the City Llall and then at the
Star of the Sea Church.
The following fellow officers acted as pall bear-
ers: Edward T. i\lorarity, Richard T. Manning,
Charles Russell, Allan T. Pope, Patrick McAuliffe
and Lawrence W. Hagan.
Thus has another brave officer made the su-
preme sacrifice on the altar of duty. Unafraid,
alone he went to meet his hidden foes, who sprang
upon him with murder in their hearts, that their
worthless skins might be saved.
Two miserable creatures lie in jail awaiting the
trial to come. Their fate is certain, and should be
extreme. One is cold-blooded, the other a cring-
ing coward, and they both deserve the fullest pen-
alty of the law.
The following report, signed by Captain of Detectives
Duncan Matheson, and attached to report submitted to him
by Lieutenant Charles W. Dullea of the Detective Bureau
also, have been received by Acting Chief William J. Quinn.
The Officers referred to appeared at the Office of the Chief
of Police and were personally commended by him for the
splendid police service.
"I respectfully suggest that Lieutenant Charles W. Dul-
lea, Detective Sergeant Otto Frederickson, Sergeant Ed-
ward Pootel and Corporal Enimett Fljim be commended in
orders for the prompt arrest of Mark Dowell on a charge
of murder in the case of Police Officer John J. Driscoll who
was shot and killed on June 26th, 1927. The members of
the department exercised rare judgment and premonition
in effecting- the arrest.
DUNCAN MATHESON,
Captain of Detectives."
The following members of the Police Department par-
ticipated in the arrests of Eugene Gentile and Mark Dowell,
charged with the killing of Police Officer John J. Driscoll
on the night of June 26th, 1927. Officer Richard Manning
of the Richmond Police Station arrested Gentile while
fleeing from the scene of the murder, and Mark Dowell
was arrested at 1:30 p. m., June 26th, in a room at
1107 Franklin street, by Lieutenant Charles W. Dullea,
Detective Sergeant Otto Frederickson, Sergeant Edward
Pootel and Corporal . Emmctt Flj-nn, the latter two men
are attached to the Southei-n Police Station.
CHARLES W. DULLEA,
Lieutenant of Police.
The Officers, Directors and Employees of Blindci-aft
hai^ten to express their sympathy to you and your men for
the loss of Officer John J. Driscoll.
Officer Driscoll was often spoken of as being the soul of
good cheer. It was his custom to go up through this
building to chat for a few moments with the blind. His
care of them in traffic and his ready smile and jokes en-
deared him to us all. As one of your detail at this post.
Officer Driscoll will be missed. We are glad that our re-
lations with him have included the kindly touch during
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(Continued from last month)
Patrolman Frank J. Small was regulating traf-
fic at Stanyan Street and the panhandle of Golden
Gate Park. An automobile was operated contrary
to the traffic signals by one Israel Berlow. Ber-
low was accompanied by Douglas Bidell, who was
sitting in tlie rear seat with a woman named
Lutz. Officer Small discovered that the automo-
bile was stolen. He got in the automobile and
directed the operator to drive to the Western
Addition Police Station. While proceeding through
the panhandle, the officer searched Bidell and find-
ing no firearms, he commenced to search Berlow.
As he was doing this Bidell reached alongside the
rear cushion and pulled an automatic pistol, point-
ing the same at the officer and simultaneously
commanding him to throw up his hands. The
officer grabbed hold of Bidell's hand and turned
the gun. Berlow grabbed hold of the revolver,
and pointed the same at the officer, who had pres-
ence of mind to shove Bidell forward to protect
himself, with the result that Bidell was shot and
killed by the bullet from Berlow's gun.
Officer Frank J. Small is attached to Company
L, Western Addition District, and was appointed
a member of the department October 2nd, 1922.
In the name of the people of San Francisco I
heartily commend you and I thank you.
Will Patrolman Patrick J. Conroy and Patrol-
man Graeme E. Wildgans step forward?
Officers Conroy and Wildgans found the front
door of the Excelsior Theater, 4633 Mission St.,
open. They entered the premises to make an in-
vestigation. Officer Conroy found two men in the
premises, one of whom pointed a pistol at him and
ordered him to back out the door. As the officer
was complying with the request, he pulled his
own gun, turned and shot the criminal, Harry F.
Tubbs, four times, killing him almost instantly.
He then covered Tubbs' companion, R. Biggio,
with his revolver, and ordered Biggio to put his
hands up, which he did. Investigation disclosed
that Tubbs had two loaded guns on his person
and Biggio had one.
Officer Patrick J. Conroy is attached to Co.
H, Ingleside Police District and was appointed to
the department on August 7th, 1922.
Officer Graeme E. Wildgans is assigned to Com-
pany H, Ingleside Police Station and was appoint-
ed to the department October 1st, 1924.
In the name of the City of San Francisco I
commend you highly, and I thank you for what
you have done.
I ain glad you are all alive. I am glad that not
one of you got killed.
You have had the finest Police Commissioners
any administration has ever had. No man ever
went out of here feeling that he was not well
treated. Out of the hearts of those men the officer
always gets the best of it. Think of what you do,
the risks you take in the bringing home of crimi-
nals. Look at the chances these officers took in
capturing Tanko. All over the United States
everybody was scared that he was loose and all
such cases day after day, but the general public
don't know about the cases ; they don't know what
goes on in these rooms every Monday night, and I
am going to see that a medal is going to be pro-
vided for the policemen. It will encourage all the
other officers.
I desire to express my appreciation for the
prompt and efficient co-operation extended Agent
J. C. Newman of this office by Police Officer New-
ton V. Pointer, No. 339, Traffic Bureau, in connec-
tion with the apprehension and arrest of Bob
Burns, fugitive.
EDWIN N. ATHERTON,
Special Agent in Charge, Department of Jus-
tice, Bureau of Investigation.
July. 1927
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Forty New Policemen Being Sworn Into Department By Acting Chief of Police William J. Quinn
— Courtesy S F. Bui
•
THE SAN FRANCISCO BANK
SAVINGS COMMERCIAL
INCORPORATED FEBRUARY 10TH. 1868
One of the Oldest Banks in California,
the Assets of which have never been increased
by mergers or consolidations with other Banks
MEMBER ASSOCIATED SAVINGS BANKS OF SAN FRANCISCO
526 California Street, San Francisco, CaL
JUNE 30th, 1927
AgseU $113,925,831.54
Capital, Reserve and Contingent Funds 4,700,000.00
Employees' Pension Fund over $575,000.00,
standing on Books at 1.00
MISSION BRANCH Mission and 21st Streets
PARK-PRESlDlO BRANCH Clement St. and 7th Ave.
HAIGHT STREET BRANCH Haight and Belvedere Streets
WEST PORTAL BRANCH West Portal Ave. and UUoa St.
Interest paid on Deposits at the rate of
FOUR AND ONE-QUARTER (4li) per cent per annum,
COMPUTED MONTHLY and COMPOUNDED QUARTERLY,
AND MAY BE WITHDRAWN QUARTERLY
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INVENTORY MUST BE MADE OUT
be forwarded to this office not later than 9 a. m., Tuesday,
July 5, 1927.
The follo-«ing is a copy of Resolution No. 23760 (new
Series) adopted by the Board of Supervisors on March 16,
1925:
"Resolved, That, pursuant to Ordinance No. 5880 (new
Series), approved May 17, 1923, it is hereby ordered that
every officer and employee having in his charge or control
any personal property belonging to the City and County of
San Francisco shall, on or before August 1 of each year,
file in the office of the Purchaser of Supplies, verified
by his affidavit, an inventory as of June 30, of all the
personal property belonging to the City and County of San
Francisco under his charge or control.
Pursuant to this resolution, an inventory of the personal
property belonging to the City and County of San Fran-
cisco under the control or in the custody of any Officer or
Officers must be furnished annually to the Board of Super-
visors.
For the purpose of properly li.sting and itemizing the
inventories in question. Company Commanders and Heads
of Bureaus will refer to copies retained by them for the
previous years. These reports are to be IN QUADRUPLI-
CATE by each Company Commander and by each Officer
in charge of the respective Bureaus. One copy shall be
retained at the station or bureau headquarters for the in-
formation of the officer in charge and the other three shall
The price of each article will be set by Company Com-
manders and the Officers in charge of bureaus and the total
shall be shown at the foot of the column. The name of
the member of the Department by whom the inventory is
taken and priced will be properly shown at the foot of
the blanks forwarded herewith. The name of the member
w'ho checks the extensions and footings will also be shown
on the line provided therefor. Care must be taken, how-
ever, that no signature appears on the line on which "Cei'-
tified Correct" appears, as this space is intended for the
signature of the Chief of Police.
OFFICERS RECOVER DIAMOND
Mrs. O'Connor and the undersigned thank the Police
Department mcst sincerely for the prompt, efficient and
courteous service rendered by Officer John Edward O'Keefe
of the Complaint Department, and Det. Sergt. James D.
Gregson, in enabling Mrs. O'Connor to recover a diamond
ring lost or taken from our home last Monday night. The
incident was reported Tuesday afternoon late, and within
24 hours the ring was restored.
JOSEPH O'CONNOR,
Publicity Director, The Hobart Bldg.
One Hundred and Nineteenth Half Yearly Report
THE SAN FRANCISCO BANK
SAVI NGS
INCORPORATED FEBRUARY 10th. 1868
COMMERCIAL
One of the Oldest Banks in California,
the Assets of which have never been increased
by mergers or consolida tions with other Banks
MEMBER ASSOCIATED SAVINGS BANKS OF SAN FRANCISCO
526 CALIFORNIA STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
. , JUNE 30th, 1927
Assets —
United States Bonds, State, Municipal and Other Bonds and Securities
(total value $34,565,768.52), standing on books at $31,034,977.14
Loans on Real Estate, secured by first mortgages 70,366,635.05
Loans on Bonds and Stocks and other Securities 2,003,066.35
Bank Buildings and Lots, main and branch offices (value over $1,885,000.00),
standing on books at 1.00
Other Real Estate (value over $65,000.00). standing on books at 1.00
Employees' Pension Fund (value over $575,000.00), standing on books at 1.00
Cash on hand and checks on Federal Reserve and other Banks 10,521,150.00
Total $113,925,831.54
Liahililies—
Due Depositors $109,225,831.54
Capital Stock actually paid up 1,000,000.00
Reserve and Contingent Funds 3,700,000.00
GEO.
Total $113,925,831.54
TOURNY, President A. H. MULLER, Vice-President and Manager.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 30th day of June, 1927.
(SEAL) O. A. EGGERS, Notary Public.
A Dividend to Depositors of FOUR AND ONE- QUARTER (4M) per cent per %
annum was declared, Interest COMPUTED MONTHLY and COMPOUNDED m
QUARTERLY, ^
AND WHICH MAY BE WITHDRAWN QUARTERLY ^
Deposits made on or before July 11th, 1927, will earn interest from July 1st, 1927,
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blocks, as they are hung from wires above the
street at intersections. Since they are operated
from a central control and not individually, an
autoist has an opportunity to make several blocks
before a change, thereby speeding up traffic.
Pedestrians are allowed to walk only in the direc-
tion traffic is moving and when one thoughtlessly
attempts to cross the street in tlie wrong direc-
tion, his error is brought to his attention by a
TOOT from a police whistle. A few lusty lungs
were worn out during my stay in Dallas.
Memphis, Tennessee, has recently adopted the
stop and go signal. They are using the three color
system. Green, traffic moves; Red, traffic stops;
Yellow, pedestrians move. Between the change
of Red to Green, and Green to Red, a yellow light
is shown. This system ties up traffic too long,
since the green light is on for forty seconds,
thence there is a change to yellow which is lighted
for 20 seconds; thence the red for 30 seconds;
then again a 20 second yellow change and thence
back to green. Therefore, on main thorough-
fares traffic is tied up for about 70 seconds and at
cross streets 80 seconds, therefore it is very diffi-
cult to make any time. The present system was
merely experimental and no doubt will be changed
to conform to the pedestrian movement with
traffic, as one of the officers in charge advised.
Kansas City as yet has not adopted the signal
box system of traffic control. Officers stand in the
middle of the street with a semiphore and a
whistle. Very often they either fail to blow the
whistle or change the semiphore and traffic gets
into a jam. They have a bit to learn regarding
handling of traffic.
Congestion in the Chicago loop districts and
wholesale sections is so heavy that one wonders
how traffic ever moves in those districts. Yet,
nevertheless, the whistles of the directing traffic
officers blow day in and day out, regardless of
hour or season of the year. The automatic signal
in the loop district has not been such a success,
owing to the difficulty of seeing same on account
of the elevated railroad.
However, Michigan avenue is the city's "speed-
way" in the downtown district. The street is pos-
sibly half again as wide as Van Ness avenue.
Most of the streets enter into it on one side only
and since the stop and go signals are regulated by
central control, you are able to make four or five
blocks before a change of signal.
The larger department stores, to encourage in-
terurban trade, have a regular line of busses run-
ning from their stores to the various railroad de-
pots.
(To be Continued)
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JOSIAH TUTTLEFISH
(Continuod from Page 8)
were one with trutli, who carried the flaming
torch of knowledge into the darkest haunts of ig-
norance, whose mere living enriched the quotient
of human happiness, and lessened the sum of
earthly wretchedness, great judges and lawyers,
and fine men. Mr. Tuttlefish, as he stood in the
quiet solitude of this restful place recalled what
he had read of the masterful arguments of Daniel
Webster, the sharp and penetrating sallies of
Rufus Choate, the eloquent pleas of Robert Inger-
soll and the simple talks of Abraham Lincoln.
For the first time these speeches seemed real to
him, vital with consequential import. Before,
they had been but beautiful forensics. Now they
were a part of life itself, of progress, of being.
They were part of the sum of all things. Their
authors, those famous advocates who were now no
longer among the I'anks of living men, had lived
their day, and long since gone the way of all flesh.
These men had perished but their works lived on,
and here in this court room and among the books
that lay on the tables, their spirits, strange form-
less things, still shaped the progress of the law.
In the excited brain of Tuttlefish the men them-
selves returned and stood again before the bar
of justice, pleading their causes another time.
Josiah Everman Tuttlefish was impressed, as
well he might have been. He was, in fact, trans-
ported as it were, out of reality into an ideal ex-
istence. His contact with the world had snapped.
He saw nothing, felt nothing, heard nothing, and
knew nothing but the fictions his mind conjured.
But these he saw and heard distinctly. Daniel
Webster rising to the full height of his stature,
his muscles tense, his eye flashing anger, advanced
to ^he rear of the court. Turning with light-
nirp-like rai^idity he ^'aced the bewildered looking
gentleman in the audience.
"In the name of Almighty God, gentlemen of
the jury", he was saying, raising his clenched fist
above his head, "my client is innocent. A graci-
ous providence has this day uncovered the dupli-
city of crime and marked the victim. Behold the
guilty man!" Down came the powerful arm, the
clenched fist. The blow was terrific. Tuttlefish
sprang four feet into the air. What in Heaven's
name had he done? His shoulder was surely
broken.
"What 'ave ye done?" he heard a voice ask.
"Ye've been to sleep this eer two hour, and we'll
have no loafin aboot here, mind ye."
"Why, really" — stammered the confounded
Tuttlefish.
"Never ye mind aboot no excuses" continued
the voice. "Be up and movin' along or I'll turn ye
over to the Cap'n."
DAVE MURPHY KNOWS THE BANKING
BUSINESS
No need to introduce Dave Murphy
to the readers of Davenport 20. Dave
has retired from the Police Depart-
ment, but he has by no means retired
from the memory and the affection of
his many police pals, both higher-ups
and lowei-downs. Dave was one of
the most popular policemen that ever belonged to
the force.
Most of our readers, no doubt, are aware that
Dave is holding down a very responsible position
at the Hibernia Bank. But do they know definite-
ly just what this position is? Perhaps not.
Dave Murphy is at the head of that department
of the Hibernia Bank which collects the salary
warrants of police officers and deposits them in
the bank. It is sui-prising to find how many people
there are who do not know that the Hibernia Bank
renders this service not only to policemen but to
employees in every department of the city gov-
ernment. The process is a simple one, but it
saves a great deal of time and trouble for those
whom Dave is serving. Armed with a proper
authorization for the policemen or other city em-
ployee, Dave or one of his assistants goes to the
auditor's office for the monthly salary warrant. He
takes it to the city treasurer's office, collects the
salary, carries it to the Hibernia Bank and deposits
it to the account of the policeman or other city
employee for whom he is acting. In this way Dave
rs agent saves his principal the trouble of standing
in line at the auditor's and the treasorer's wicket,
and the added time of making a visit to the Hiber-
nia Bank. It is all very simple, and there is a very
large number of city employees who avail them-
selves of the service. They find it a very eflfective
way of depositing the monthly salary with i-egu-
larity and without that loss of interest which a
less systematic pi'ocedure leads to.
Dave Murphy knows the banking business. Of
the twenty-eight honorable years that he spent in
the Police Department, fifteen were passed on the
banking detail. There was not a banker in the
whole of San Francisco who did not know and res-
pect Dave Murphy and his associate, Frank Lord.
For eleven years before his I'etirement, Detective
Sergeant Murphy was treasurer of the Police
Widows' and Orphans' Aid Association, one of the
most responsible positions in the gift of the De-
partment.
If you want to save yourself time and trouble,
look up Dave Murphy and let him arrange to col-
lect your warrants and deposit them for you in
the Hibernia Bank.
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It slowly dawned upon Mr. Tuttlefish that he
was being- addressed by an officer of the law, who
undoubtedly had made it a part of his duty to
eject him from the temple of justice.
There was, it seemed, nothing to do but go
home; therefore this he did with all haste. He
arrived at that haven of rest in due time, a trifle
thoughtful. Mrs. Tuttlefish couldn't understand
what in the world had happened to him during"
the day. After much probing, the signs of active
life returned and he finally entered into a most
animated discussion of his visit to the court.
Much to his chagrin, friend wife appeared not
to take a bit of interest in what he had to say.
Of course delicacy did not permit him to divulge
the last incident he had experienced in the court
room. This was, of course, a matter between
Daniel Webster, the watchman, and himself. Mrs.
Tuttlefish's indifference irritated her rebuffed
spouse, but after a few moments the total effect
of her dampening attitude was but to reduce his
burning enthusiasm to a temperature more con-
ducive to healthful and normal conduct. At
length he became quite composed. He dropped
down into his armchair and began reading the
Rookville daily.
It was about this time that friend wife suddenly
recollected a mysterious letter for him, something
important she was sure, official-looking, legal. In
a second, Mr. Tuttlefish reviewed his past back
through the longest statute of limitations.
"No!" he announced triumphantly, "Not a bill
owing and unpaid."
Finally Mrs. Tuttlefish appeared bearing a
large envelope.
"It was registered," she informed him, "but I
signed for it."
He took the letter.
"What!"
He read:
"From the Sheriff of the County of Jerryman-
der to Josiah Everman Tuttlefish, Greetings."
(To be Continued)
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CALIFORNIA
(Continued from Page 10)
of the "California Republic."
On July 7, 1846, Commodore Sloat at Monterey
unfurled the American flag and in tlie name of
the United States took possession of Califoinia.
A few days later, Captain Montgomery of the
United States Sloop of War "Portsmouth" again
raised that resplendent banner in the Plaza at
San Francisco.
And then followed in quick succession interest-
ing events of our State's history.
On June 3, 1849, General Bennet Riley, Military
Governor of California, issued a proclamation call-
ing for an election of delegates to a convention
for the purpose of forming a State Constitution.
The election was held on August 1, 1849, and
the convention met in Colton Hall, Monterey, on
the first of September, 1849. The convention was
one of the keenest and most intelligent that ever
assembled for the fulfillment of a legislative re-
sponsibility.
On November 13, 1849, an election was held at
which the Constitution previously adopted by the
convention was ratified, and at the same election
an entire State and legislative ticket, with two
representatives to Congress was chosen.
On December 15, 1849, the Senators and As-
semblymen-elect met at San Jose.
On December 20, 1849, the State Government
of California was established, and Governor Peter
H. Burnett was inaugurated as the first Governor
of the State of California, and soon thereafter
William M. Gwin and John C. Fremont were elect-
ed the first United States Senators of the State
of California.
Notwithstanding the fact tliat there had never
been any territorial form of government, and that
California had not yet been admitted into the
Union, these men were all elected as members of
the State Government, and the United States
Senators, and members of Congress started for
Washington to help get the State admitted.
On September 9, 1850, "California" was born
in the family of the nation, and the Congress of
the United States placed the 31st star in the con-
stellation that adorns our country's flag, "The
Star Spangled Banner."
Under American occupation San Francisco took
on all the aspects of an American city. On Sep-
tember 15, 1846, the first election was held, and
Washington Bartlett was elected Alcade (our first
Mayor) .
In the years that followed, the pioneers with
characteristic genius and courage builded a great
city; they encouraged religion and education; im-
proved society, and developed commerce and
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July. 1927
had attained the height of civic greatness.
The grace and beauty of her women; the gal-
lantry of her men; and the unstinted hospitality
of all, was heralded around the world and she was
affectionately referred to as "The Queen City by
the Golden Gate."
Her progi'ess continued and her prestige in-
creased until that fateful hour on the morning of
the 18th of April, 1906.
When the leviathan of destruction truant
from the realms of chaos, darkness, and deatli,
stooped from the night, and kissed the sleeping
San Francisco ; the beautiful San Francisco awoke,
paled and blushed to ashes.
Before the cooling of the ashes of the burned
city, her sons and daughters standing upon her
seven hills, inspired by the spirit of the pioneers,
pledged themselves and prophesied, that out of
the ashes would rise a city — bigger — better — and
busier than the old.
In 1915, ten years after, San Francisco's Resur-
rection was celebrated with an International Ex-
position.
The people building a jewel city within the por-
tals of the Presidio, and within view of the spot
where San Francisco was born one hundred and
thirty-nine years before.
San Francisco was hostess to the peoples of the
nations of the earth.
What a contrast — in 1776, one road, known only
to the Spanish explorers, led to the Golden Gate;
in 1915, all roads lead to the Golden Gate.
Had Anza been gifted with prophetic vision as
he stood on the summit of the Presidio Hills, what
a strange sight would meet his eyes.
He would see spread before him to the East
and South a great city, and under the shelter of
the hills he would see a great military camp, float-
ing above it a strange flag, the flag of a nation
he knew not of.
Beyond he would see on the waters of the Bay
the traffic of a great seaport, while on the shores
of the Contra Costa he would see other cities lin-
ing the shore for many miles.
A mighty change has taken place since he look-
ed upon the solitude of San Francisco Bay.
Plumed Cavalier and barefooted friar are alike
gone; the power of Spain has departed, and the
youngest of the great nations possess the land.
In conclusion permit me to remind you that San
Francisco of today is the City of Opportunity,
and all who observe the law and respect con-
stituted authority are welcome within its gates.
Hugo Ferry has his name on the big book in the city
prison charged with burglary. He was escorted to the top
floor by Officer George Burkhard.
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CAPTAIN GLEESON
(Continued from Page 14)
and Geary, Mission and Sickles avenue, and 24tli
avenue and Geary street. In each of these cases
tlie evidence was conclusive of Iiigli speed or reck-
less driving on the part of the operators of the
automobiles.
It is to be sincerely hoped that the driving-
public, and particularly those who are inclined to
high speed or reckless driving, will quickly become
educated to the danger to themselves if contact
witii tiiese buttons by automobiles.
All safety zones are under the charge and care
of the police department in accordance with or-
dinance, whicli states that the police department
has conclusive control over all safety zones.
From this it will be seen that special attention
sliould be given by all officers of the department
to safety zones and every attempt made to advise
thoughtless or careless auto drivers to keep well
to the riglit of these safety zones. Much good
work can be done by officers in this respect and
eacli of us is bound to use his best endeavors to
educate the public to the understanding of the
dangers of thoughtless di'iving in the vicinity of
zones.
The Chicago traffic court completed its first
year of work on March 17, 1927.
In this court persons charged witli a violation
of traffic ordinances, if they so choose, may waive
the formality of a coui't hearing and pay a fine
over the counter.
Of the $141,000 paid in fines at this court dur-
ing the year, $126,946 was contributed by 64,792
drivers who admitted violation of the traffic or-
dinances and waived hearings.
The above is interesting- in view of the efforts
being made for the adoption of a schedule of
fines in this city for traffic violations, which fines
may be paid by the violator without being re-
quired to appear in court on a waiver being filed
admitting guilt. It is to be hoped that this or-
dinance and system will soon be in effect in San
Francisco which will prove an encouragement to
officers of the department in being relieved from
appearing in court on their traffic cases.
I wish to express my appreciation of your courtesy in
detai'ing Officers John H. Nyland and George W. Thulan-
dcr to escort West of Twin Peaks Post 233, American Le-
gion, with a group of entertainers to the Base Hospital,
Palo Alto. It certainly aided us materially in getting to
our destination together and on time. The officers arc to
be commended for their courtesy and efficient method of
handling the situation.
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CAPTAIN MATHESON
(Continued from Page 6)
floor of her home by her son at about 6:00 P. j\L
on same date. As in the case of Miss Clara M.
Newman, the victim liad been strangled to death
and sexually outraged after death.
Mrs. Annie Maly, 1578 Great Highway, iden-
tifies the photograph as that of the man who
called at her iiome, 2445 Ocean avenue on Novem-
ber 4th, 1926 (which place she had for sale with
a "For Sale" sign in the front of premises) and,
when he got her into the basement of the house,
the man grabbed her, but she put up a game battle,
but was finally struck on the head with a hatchet
which was lying nearby and rendered unconscious.
j\Irs. Maly had a severe fracture of the skull and
was at St. Luke's Hospital for a long time before
she was able to tell anything about the assault.
The crime was committed at about 4:00 P. M.,
and Mrs. Maly was found in basement by her iuis-
band when he returned home at about 6:15 P. M.
Mrs. Annie Eaton, 1357 Plymouth avenue, states
that photogTapli is of the man who came to her
home at 1357 Plymouth avenue at about 5:45 P. M.
on November 6th, 1926, and inquired about house
being for sale as there was a "For Sale" sign in
front of premises. jMrs. Eaton admitted this man
to the house and he asked her if he could look
through the house. Mrs. Eaton then called for her
daughter, who came in from an adjoining room,
and they went through tlie house, but the man
only took a casual glance at the rooms and said
that he would bring his wife over from Berkeley-
on tlie following day. j\Iiss Allison Eaton, em-
ployed by Mercantile Trust Company, positively
identifies the photograph as that of the man who
was at her mother's liome at tlie time above stated.
]\Irs. Irving L. Kaufman, 1 164 Francisco street,
was siiown the photograph and she states that he
is the man who called at lier bungalow at 449 39*:]i
avenue on the afternoon of November 17t]i, 1926
(the day before Mrs. Fdmonds was killed at 3524
Fulton street). Tlie place was advertised "To Let,
Furnislied House." While the man was being
shown through tlie house anotlier prospective
client called and i\hs ]\aufman asked the man to
go and get his wife and come back, but when she
got through showing tiie latest applicant around
tlie house, she looked in the front room r.nd this
man was sitting there. He wanted iier to show
liim the cellar, but she was much alarmed, and.
after lie v,ent to the cellar by himself, he returned
and made another inspection of the closets and
commented on their depth. She finally got him out
and shut the door.
Mrs. Lillian St. Mary was strangled to death
and sexually outraged in her home, 1073 Dolores
street, during the afternoon of June 10th, 1926,
and her body was found in a spare room at about
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5:00 P. M., b.\- a roomer on liis return from work.
We learned from Mrs. Lillian Fabian, 3573 20th
street, this city, that, at or about this time of the
year, the said Earl Nelson (her nephew) was
assisting in painting the interior of her house.
They did not know where he roomed, but he would
usually show up at about 5:00 A. M. and often
would stop working at uncertain hours during the
day and go out, and they would not see him again
until the next day. This place is near Valencia
street, and only about five blocks from 1073 Do-
lores street, where j\Irs. St. Mary was murdered.
No witnesses have been found who saw the mur-
der of Mrs. St. Mary.
CHAS. W. DULLEA,
Lieut, of Police, Star No. 669.
OTTO FREDERICKSON,
Detective Sergeant, Star No. 146.
COMMENDATORY LETTERS
I want to take this opportunity to tell you
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Saturday night, two of your officers, namely,
Thomas Price and Dominic Hogan, happened to
come onto the scene of an automobile accident in
which my son was involved, and in which he was
pretty badly cut up, although, fortunately not
serious. The boy was for arguing it out as to
who was at fault, but the officers insisted that
they would secure all the data and evidence and
also insisted that he go with them to the hospital.
The off.cers waited for him and later brought him
home.
It gives me great pleasure to tell you how much
the Brunnier family appreciates what Officers
Price and Hogan did for us.
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I would like to bring to your attention the very
commendable service rendered by Police Officer
No. 1053 (Cornelius Donahue) on traffic duty on
a recent afternoon at Geary and Stockton streets.
An elderly gentleman, while crossing Geary
street south of Stockton street, was knocked
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Detective John Sturm, who, with his family, spent their
vacation last month at Richardson Springs, is back on
the job with the night gang in the Detective Bureau, on
Lieutenant Arthur DeGuire's watch. John says he is
ready to hit the ball for another twelve months.
wood nymph say he is very graceful, though the coldness
seems to hamper his work some.
* * *
Captain John J. O'Meara of the Park District and his
family, are vacationing at Dovington near Toulunine.
Detective Sergeant Jack Cannon recently went down to
Los Angeles to get an automobile thief and his pal. The
former is a three time loser. As the Los Angeles officers
presented the San Francisco detective to the prisoners, the
hard boiled gent said to Cannon: "Say, youse '11 never
get me to Frisco," and as he said it he made a grab for
the gun of the Los Angeles detective. After he had let off
a lot of steam about his not coming up here. Cannon gave
him a couple of earsful of the following:
"Bo, you may be tough, you may think you are not going
to San Francisco, and you may have some nice plans
worked out, but I'm giving you a tip. I'll get your head,
maybe a leg and an arm to the city by the sea, and up
there that's all that's needed for a holding."
Though the hard guy tried many subterfuges to make
a getaway. Cannon landed him, with all his hulk intact, and
it looks like the Board at Folsom would "throw the book
at him."
« » *
Chief of Police T. N. Koening of Sacramento, accom-
panied by C. E. Frazier, well known tractor manufacturer
of the Capitol City, dropped into headquarters, Sunday,
July 17, for a chat with the second watch boys. The Chief,
who used to be Captain of Detectives of Sacramento, is
boosting the next meeting of the State Peace Officers
Association which will be held in November at Sacra-
mento. The Chief .says the program, which will cover
a three-day period, will be something well worth while
for every peace officer to hear.
Officer Edward McKevitt of the Richmond station, says
a policeman who can get by handling traffic out at the
Beach on a warm Sunday, could direct traffic in any city
at any street intersection in the world. If you doubt
him, go out some sunny Sunday and see what a flock of
automobiles look like.
An automobile caught fire on a meeting night of the
Police Commission last month, opposite the Hall of Jus-
tice. Commissioners Theodore Roche and Andrew Ma-
hony had their machines parked in front of the burning
car. The commission meeting was adjourned while the
commissioners, assisted by Detective Sergeant James
Neeley, dashed out and drove the officials' autos out of
danger.
* * *
It is said about the Traffic Bureau that Traffic Officer
Andy Miller is engaged in preparing a spring dance to put
on at the next Police Widows' and Orphans' Concert and
Ball. Andy is rehearsing his numbers out in the woods,
close to nature. Those who have seen him cavort as a
Captain John J. Casey and Mrs. Casey with their child-
len, are spending their outing at Donner Lake and Rich-
ardson Springs.
* * *
Captain Patrick Herlihy of the Harbor is up at Richard-
son Springs with Mrs. Herlihy.
* * *
Sergeant Alex McDaniell and Detective Jess Ayers were
in Los Angeles last week to bring back a bail jumper.
* * *
Officer Syd Desmond, who was hit by a baseball last
month is on the mend and will be as good as ever in a
short time. He had a narrow escape this time, however.
Some newspaper made a fuss about Mayor James Rolph,
Jr.'s visit to the City Prison recently when he ordered the
release of four men in the "drunk tank."
The Mayor wants to know how his city's affairs are con-
ducted and he frequently drops in at the police stations or
emergency hospitals at night. Just a short time ago he
aided detectives in pinching a dangerous criminal. He
happened to be in Central Emergency Hospital when the
"bulls" were tipped off about a badly wanted man. The
Mayor hopped into a police car with the "cleancuts" and
assisted in the capture.
ECONOMY
does not mean a miserly
denial of life's pleasures
and comforts. Economy-
means saving where ever
possible. This market
affords the best at the
lowest prices.
Palace
July. 1927
2-0 •■ POLICE JOURNAL
Page i I
Lieutenants:
CENTRAL
STATION
Capt. Arthur D. Layne
Harry P. Braig and Edward F. Copeland
Officer Timothy Leane nabbed a lad named George
Clemson, whom he had enough on to charge with robbery.
Corp. Frank Hoeckle and Officer Daniel Cahill brought
in Joseph Duckworth and Clarence Wilcox. The officer.*;
had the good.'; on this pair .sufficiently to book them for
attempt robbery.
* * *
Attillio Ghighieri and Sam Rivera were brought in by
Officers Michael McDonald, Frank Hoephner and Joseph
J. Mulcahy and slammed in the cooler duly charged with
burglaiy.
Here are the gin and gas mixers of the past month:
Emile Desmois, charged \\-ith violating Section 112 of the
Motor Act, arrested by Officer Ray Harris and Patrick
Hegarty; Charles Wallace, arrested by Officer Charles Gal-
latin; Wi'liam Rogers, arrested by Officer Wi'liam Porter;
Bel'a Furt, arretted by Officer Wa'ter Savage, who also
booked her as a hit-and-run driver.
Officers Martin Fogarty and Charles White tagged
Dolores Lorenzo and Manuel Gomez with vagrancy.
Anna Gillon, who has some extra monikers to use when
occasion demands, and who has given the nod to Sergt.
Emmett Hogan in the B. of L, was locked up for grand
larceny by Officer Leo Morch.
Harry Canton believed he was out in the wild and
woolly West, and felt he ought to go armed. Officers
Joseph Nolan, Thomas Larkin and James Miles gave him
an intensive lesson on the evil of such things by arresting
him and charging him with violating the State Gun Law.
* * *
Goldie Sterner, accused of assault and disturbing the
peace, was hauled to the city jug by Officer George Lillis.
* * *
Sam Dangelo was armed and was threatening to get
someone when Officer Thomas Stack came along and put
his hands on Sam's shoulder, booking him for violating
the gun law and for threats against life.
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2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
July, 1927
SOUTHERN
STATION
Captain Charles GoflF
Lieutenants Richard Foley and Arno Dietel
Joe Farrar, Jeremiah Gray and C. Wilson were three
young men engaged in helping a friend, they said, but
the friend accused them of taking some of his chattels,
and under circumstances that caused Corp. H. C. Jagger
and Officers Andrew Lennon and A. McDonnell to book
the trio for robbery.
McDonnell also brought in John Arellano who was ac-
cused of robbery and assault with intent to commit mur-
der. * * *
Burglars find the going sort of tough in this district.
Ask Frank Skain who was arrested by Officers Charles B.
Kessing and J. F. Bongard, and charged with burglary,
or Hattie Pearson and Charles Pearson who were sent to
the station by Officer Andrew Lennon.
* * *
A couple of 112'ers were snagged during the month.
One was John Williams, arrested by Special Officer Ford
and the other was Roy Craig, arrested by Officer Thomas
McKeon. * * *
Corp. Denni.s Devine and Officer .Andrew Lennon caught
Ole Laupsa in an automobile he had borrowed without
asking the owner for its use. He got a 146 booking, as
did Joe Menacho who was brought in by Officers McDon-
nell and J. J. Erasmy.
* * *
Charles Godfrey was meandering around with a "rod"
on his hip when he was halted by Officers R. A. Clifford
and C. L. Russell. He was locked up and charged with
violating the State Gun Law.
* * *
Lieut. Arno Dietel and some of his watch arre.sted Mary
Rocas on a charge of assault with intent to commit mur-
der, and Corp. Emmett Flynn and Officer William Hyland
arrested William Fisher, charged with assault with a
deadly weapon.
George Athanasion, accused of four statutory charges
of 288's. was eased into a cell by Officers Lennon and J. J.
Foye.
The family of the late William J. Cavanaugh acknowl-
edges with deep appreciation your kind expression of
sympathy.
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HARBOR
STATION
Capt. Patrick Herlihy
Lieutenants Wilbert F. Pengelly and Michael Mitchell
Officer John Doran, who used to be a traveling salesman,
says the easiest sale he ever made was selling a strip of
linoleum to an Italian fruit vendor.
* * *
TKe boys of the station, after receiving many reports
to the effect that Officer Denny Lordan has been seen
around Mission and Excelsior avenue quite frequently of
recent months, are about to have a special duty man sent
out from the Ingleside station to see just what Denny is
doing out that way so much.
^ t- t-
Officer E. E. Grimm, the well known bicycle racer, who
has copped many prizes on the foot-power motorcycle, is
back from his vacation. Officer James McLaughlin has
also reported back and is ready to hit the ball until the
1928 outing season opens.
* * *
Frank Meeks and Charles Farmer equipped themselves
with another man's automobile and then fared forth to
do a little plain robbery. They got snagged by Lieut.
Michael Mitchell and posse and were duly incarcerated —
robbery and violating Section 146 being the charges op-
posite their names.
:!: * :Y.
Officer James Phelan got Joseph Gregg before he got
away with his intended robbery, so he only gave him an
attempted charge.
* * *
Aubrey John.son was going around armed for any emer-
gency but Sergt. Louis Becker and Officer Maurice O'Dowd
felt he might shoot someone so they locked him up for
violating the gun law.
* * *
Fred C. Matthews, arrested by Officer James Mahoney,
and James Allen, arrested by Ralph Sturgeon, got book-
ings of petty larceny.
WORTH WHILE APPRECIATION
To the captain. Mission station: Today I am resigning
from the Principalship of the Agassiz school where I
have been many, many years. Before closing my official
career, I wish to express to you, as representing officeis
past and present, my sincere obligation to them for their
never-failing help in the hour of need. I recall numer-
ous occasions when they have done more than an officer's
duty in helping little children to do better. It is the
kindly spirit of fatherhood that I recall more than any-
thing else. They have at times been more than police
officers.
SARAH J. JONES, Principal.
* * *
CARD OF THANKS
I am grateful to you for the kind expression of sympathy
and for the escort of police officers provided at the funeral
of my late husband. It has been an hour of great trial
to me, but I have been sustained in it all by the grace
of God, and kind hearted friends.
MRS. MARGARET J. FLYNN (Family)
555 Thirty-fifth avenue, City.
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POLICE JOURNAL
July. 1927
MISSION
STATION
Capt. Frederick Lemon
Lieutenants Peter A. Mclntyre and Daniel J. Collins
James H. Sheehy and John J. Flynn, responsible for a
number of burglaries in this district, according to the
police, were apprehended through the watchfulness of
Officer John Crawhall who got them properly and who
charged them with burglary.
* * *
The district got by with only two arrests for driving
while drunk. The victims were Arthur Jones, arrested by
Officers Charles Foster and William Moltke, and Harry
Place, arrested by Officers Clifford McDaniell and Carl
Wennerberg.
Frank Pochi had a gun as he was ambling along the
streets and was pulled down for investigation. The in-
vestigation ended when he was locked up for breaking the
grun law. The arresting officers being Edward Murphy
and Special M. Cowhig.
* * *
William V. Scott was placed in durance vile on a charge
of manslaughter after having been arrested by Officer
William Minahan.
« * *
Officer F. J. Nuttman assisted Policewoman Katherine
Sullivan in arresting Fred Villasante for vagrancy.
* » •
Francis Kennington was arrested for violating Section
288 of the code. He was brought in by Officer A.
Wagner.
« * *
Irving Bell, accused of disturbing the peace and assault
with a deadly weapon, was arrested by Officer Russell
Smith.
* * *
Officer Joseph Pinnick locked up Max Kron for dis-
turbing the peace, and John Lawler for assault with in-
tent to commit murder.
* * *
James Crowley was brought in for disturbing the peace
and resisting an officer. The pinch was made by Officer
Patrick Griffin.
TRAFFIC OFFICER BOOSTED
One morning, while walking down Market street, I was
attracted by a crowd at the corner of Fremont street,
caused by a collision between a Yellow Cab and Ford
delivery wagon. Traffic Officer No. 234 (Lawrence P.
O'Connell), was in charge, and I desire to take this op-
portunity to commend his actions and general efficiency
in handling the situation.
S. J. OPPENHEIM,
3990 Washington Street.
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r..;v. 1927
2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page is
BUSH ST.
STATION
Capt. John J. Casey
Lieutenants Edward L. Cullnan and Joseph Mignola
If there are any drivers not living up to the require-
ments of Section 112 of Motor Vehicle Act, Virandering'
around the city, a goodly portion of them are bound to
hit this district. And we might add they generally get
themselves locked up. Such fate befell Jerald Robert-
son, arrested by Officer Eugene Keane; Fred Grubbs, ar-
rested by Sergt. Arthur Christiansen; John J. Ryan, ar-
rested by Sergt. Louis Nye and Officer Thomas Gorman;
Ray Johnson, arrested by Officer John Dolan, Jr., and Geo.
McClintock, arrested by Officers Gus Wuth, Gorman and
Joseph J. Barker.
* * *
Henry Polanshek, accused of burglary and carrying a
gun, was brought to the station by Officers George Engler
and Gus Betger.
:)£ * *
Officers Robert Garrick and Frank J. Davis booked John
D. Driscoll for attempted burglary.
* * »
Jack Canter was charged \\nth assault with intent to
commit murder when arrested by Corp. Horace Drury and
Officer Robert Vogt.
Three ladies were given a ride on grand larceny
"clouts." Theye were: Mac Burch, arrested by Corp.
Drury and posse; Ethel Williams, arrested by Leslie Rosa
and Patrick J. Considine; and Stella Irwin, arrested by
George Engler.
Esther Johns and Charles Sangster, accused of violating
Section 269 of the code, were arrested by Sergt. Christian-
sen.
Corp. Wm. Boyle and posse locked up Bert Ross for
violating the Juvenile Court law and for vagrancy.
Officer Ernest Lindeneau gathered three vags whom he
properly locked up and had designated as $1000 vagrants.
They were Pat Charles, Charles McGuire and William
Hakuole.
Earl Baily was perambulating along the streets, prop-
erly armed when Officer Garrick hove in sight and spotted
the "gat." Earl was charged with disturbing the peace,
vagrancy and violating the State Gun I,aw.
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We believe that the everyday practice of this
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The entire establishment is designed and fur-
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2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Jnl\. 1927
TRAFFIC BUREAU
Captain Henry Gleeson
Lieutenants J. J. Casey, J. (Cliff) Fields and Grover Coats
With the co-operation the police judges are giving the
motorcycle riders, as well as the foot men of the traffic
bureau and the mounted members, the ways of the evil
doers, pertaining to traffic law violators, is becoming one
beset with grief.
* ^ =!«
Lieut. Cliflf Fields offers this as Famous Last Words:
"I have just ate a pan of mussels."
:; * *
Traffic Officer William Ludwig paused and gave a glance
at an automobile driven by Eugene McGorvin. The driver
was very uncertain in his course, and his antics led Lud-
wig to observe closer. This observation convinced the
officer that McGorvin was violating Section 112 of the
Motor Act, and he was locked up for doing the same.
Robert Castetter and Harry Bennett were ambling along
the street. They seemed to be bent on mischief so Traffic
Officer Anthony Kane halted them. He did a little ques-
tion and answer work and when he gave them a frisk he
found Robert had a "rod" in his hip pocket. Robert got
a booking of vagrancy and violating the gun law and his
"side-kick" drew a vagrancy "kick."
PS * »
Traffic Officer E. Franke had a similar experience with
Nick Tancredi. He saw something buldging out of Nick's
hip pocket and he gave Nick a "fan." The operation
brought forth a gun. Mr. Tancredi was taken to the
hoozegow and locked up for breaking the State Revolver
Act.
Thomas Gorman, who has played lone, San Quentin and
Folsom for passing bad checks, burglary and parole viola-
tion, dropped a lot when he was arrested by Traffic Officer
F. Buckenmeyer for defrauding an inn keeper.
DRISCOLL
(Continued from Tage 17)
his life and we are only repeating to you what we have
often to'd Mr. DriscoU personally.
As a mark of respect, the Blindcraft employees attended
the funeral and followed Officer Driscoll to the church, thus
escorting him through his last traffic.
With kindlv wishes to all,
SAN FRANCISCO ASS'N FOR THE BLIND,
RUTH A. QUINAN, General Manager.
The fol'owing telegram has been received at this office
from T. N. Koening, Chief of Police, Sacramento, Cali-
fornia, and it shall be read to the members of your re-
spective commands:
"Please extend our sympathy to the family of Officer
J. Driscoll and congratu'ate officers for the splendid cap-
ture."
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Page 37
PARK
STATION
Capt. John J. O'Meara
I.ieiit<>nant.8 Daniel W. CronH, Francis J. McGuire
Serpt. George W. Desmond and Officer Thomas Lavell
took Grant Kelker into custody and locked him up on a
charge of burglarj-.
:5 -S :!:
Lavell also arrested Roy C. BrowTi who was trying to
navigate an automobile while he was violating the pro\n-
sions of Section 112 of the Motor Vehicle Act.
* * *
Officer Fred Kraacke and Julius Hiett gave Pearl May-
bury a lot to think about when they shut the station jail
door on her after charging the lady with assault and vio-
lating the State Prohibition Act.
« * «
Frank Parr was enjoying the varied scenic wonders of
Golden Gate Park from an automobile. The fact that he
had taken this car when the owner wasn't looking bothered
him not, until Officer John R. Hunt saw the plates tallied
with the numbers he had in his stolen car book. The
officer slowed Parr down and had him drive to the station
where the keys were turned on him after he was pegged
as a violator of Section 146 of the Motor Act.
* * *
Robert Masterson was walking away with some chattels
of small value when he was tagged by Officer Myron A.
Hookse and booked for petty larceny.
* * *
A few guys wandered out here whose conduct came
under the vagrancy act. They are: Fred Cowens, arrested
by Officers Alvin Nicolini and Coulter Murphy; Rajinond
Presser, arrested by Officers Hunt, Wm. J. Hansen and
Peter H. Schroeder; Daniel Neil, arrested by Corporal
Charles C. Farr and Officer William Fogarty.
WORLD FLYER LAUDS POLICE FOR COURTESIES
Before departing from San Francisco allow me to ex-
press to you my sincere appreciation and heartfelt thanks
for the many kindnesses and courtesies with which you
were pleased to favor me. May I also take the liberty
of commending and thanking through you the motorcycle
policemen and the detectives who were assigned to me
for their most attentive and considerate service.
With sincere assurances of my highest regard and con-
sideration, as well as of my enduring fond remembrance
of San Francisco, I have the honor to remain,
COLONEL F. DE PINEDO,
c-o Consulate General of Italy.
Bank of Italy building.
While I ha\e the pleasure of handing you the letter
of Colonel De Pinedo, permit me to add thereto my own
personal thanks and the thanks of my Government for
all which you have dene for the Colonel while he was a
guests in this city.
I am sure that all the people of Italian birth or origin
in this city are deeply appreciative for the great regard
and respect which you and your men have shown to this
valiant son of Italy.
HON. LUIGI SILLITTI,
Italian Consul, San Francisco.
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2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
July, 1927
RICHMOND
STATION
Capt. William T. Healy
Lieutenants Daniel W. Cronin, Francis J. McGuire
Officers R. L. Smith and George O'Brien nabbed a man
charged with annoying women. He was Charles Johnson,
and such as those charged like he was, makes one wish
for the old time whipping post.
He * *
Officer Richard Manning is receiving the congratula-
tions of his company pals for his splendid work in the
arrest of Eugene Gentle for the murder of a brother offi-
cer, an account of which will be found in full detail on
another page of this issue of "2-0."
Arthur Moyer must have been on his way to the beach
and thought he was nut on the Mojave desert by the way
he was steering his car, for his uncertain driving caused
Officers W. J. Francis and Albert McCarthy to wonder
what was the matter with him. They investigated and
were convinced that he was "liekered up" too much. A
booking of violating Section 112 of the Motor Vehicle Act
followed.
Officer Roy Blanton, who is detailed to Lincoln Park,
says it's funny how guys learn the names and the use
of all the funny sticks they carry around in their gold
bags.
■■■t =^ *
Mounted Officer Arthur Dolan says folks seem to have
lost the habit of trying to wade out to the Farrallones on
his watch. He hasn't had a chance to swim his horse for
some time.
\Y/E STERN
iWrADDITION
STATION
Capt. Robert A. Coulter
Lieutenants Leo Tackney and Emmett Moore
Tolice Officer Oliver Josephs arrested Mrs. Louise Mik-
lich, accused of muider, who tried to commit suicide with
gas, at the same time keeping her children in the death
chamber. One of the children was rescued in time to save
his life. The mother was some days getting over the
effects of the gas and after observation in the Detention
Hospital was committed to an insane hospital.
Officers John Clasby and Louis Linss caused Walter
McGrath to pause while they examined him as to his
ability to drive an automobile. They found upon their
examination many things wrong with Walter, mainly that
he was under the influence of liquor. They forthwith ar-
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INGLESIDE
STATION
Captain Eugene Wall
Lieutenant Frederick W. Kimble
Irving Bell lived out in the Excelsior District which is
;■ rorti' n of the Ing'eiiiie police section, and he ought to
have known that those who engage in unlawful acts have
to make an accounting to the hired men working under
Capt. Eugene Wall. The accounting is generally quick
to come as Irving can attest, for he got himself grabbed
off by Officers George Hussey and Edward F. Keck, and
slammed into the calaboose on a robbery charge.
* « 4:
If a gent wants to have his liberty abbreviated he just
has to percolate out through this district and fail to
comply with the provisions of Section 112 of the Motor
Vehicle Act. James W. Wing came out here and failed in
said compliance and the first thing he knew he was sur-
rounded by a lot of round iron bars and duly charged
with driving an automobile while intoxicated. His deten-
tion was occasioned by the watchfulness of Ofl!icers Jere-
miah Kelleher and James Qvdgley.
* * *
Anothei- gentleman who had a similar misfortune visited
upon him was Milton Ostello. He was from downtown and
he was meandering along uncertainly when spotted by
Oflicer Thomas F. Whalen.
* * *
Still another, a lady, Mrs. Minnie Craigg, experienced a
like misfortune when she was arrested by Officers Patrick
Conroy and Ralph McKenna after she crashed into an-
other machine.
« :P *
Hit and runners also find they are lawfully detaineil
when apprehended by the argus-eyed boys of this sector.
Hugh O'Neill and Edward Sherer each got a 141 Motor
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George Roach also failed to give the necessary aid
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Thomas Whelan captured him.
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July. 1927
POTRERO
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Capt. Harry J. O'Day
Lieutenants Albert S. Munn, J. C. Malloy
Now and then some courageous soul takes a notion that
this section is a good place to engage in a little plain or
fancy burglaring. They put this notion into effect. This
action usually leads to a curtailment of their enjoyment
of the free air, and they find themselves in the city
bastile properly tagged.
* * *
Ralph Miller and Reggie Purtello had such a notion and
they found out that it led to the fifth floor of the Hall
of Justice with burglary written against their names.
They were hauled into the station by Corp. J. J. Horgan
and Officer D. G. Henderson.
Manuel Bloyes, 62, old enough to know better, got him-
self surrounded by a lot of half-inch bars when he was
picked up by Officers C. L. Weyman and P. J. King who
accused him of grand larceny and threats against life.
* * *
Special Duty Officers T. F. O'Connor and J. F. Coglan
locked up Louis 0. Bassett whom they accused of assault
by means and force likely to produce great bodily injury.
BAY VIEW
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Capt. Stephen V. Banner
Lieut. Frank DeGrancourt, Lieut. Wm. Dowie
Stealing automobiles and going out into the Bayview
District is a mighty good way to get your freedom cur-
tailed. That's what happened to Theodore Capurro, Mor-
ris Arluck and Albert Hicks who were apprehended by
Officers P. J. Finegan and F. H. Goessel. The three pris-
oners were charged with violating Section 146 of the
Motor Vehicle Act.
* * *
Corp. Thomas Hitter and Officer W. A. Casey saved
Steve Gazero from a more serious chai'ge when they slam-
med him in the station cell charged with assault wth a
deadly weapon.
* * *
Elwood Bazzini got a booking on a manslaughter charge
when he was locked up by Corp. J. Mui-phy and Special
Harry Hughes.
* * *
Corporals Charles W. Brown and William Harrington
impressed upon Joseph Appendenandi that it was "agin
the law" to threaten the life of a fellow being. The im-
pression was made more poignant by a trip to the city
prison where Mr. Joseph was locked up.
* * S!
Harry Harmon seems to have a habit of "totin' a gun."
He was arrested once before for such a charge. He was
again brought in by Officer W. J. Lindecker who booked
him for violating the State Gun Law, vagrancy and en
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CHIEF O'BRIEN ON DUTY AGAIN — i—^i
Page 41
Restored to health after some three months lay off from
a serious illness, Chief of Police Daniel J. O'Brien retumecl
to duty as head of the San Francisco Police Department
on July 18th. Looking hale and hearty, his face ruddy
from the outdoor treatment he has taken down by Emerald
Lake in San Mateo County, the chief assumed his duties
full of his old-time pep and fire.
All day long the first day he was on the job, hundreds
of his friends called to express their happiness that he
was able again to take up active work, and wish for him
that he may be able to keep going for many years to come.
The Chief said everything had gone along so satisfac-
torily during his absence, when the department was under
the temporary charge of Captain William J. Quinn, that his
coming back was an easy thing, and the work to be done
was light, owing to the efficient manner in which the
acting chief had handled things. Captain Quinn returned
to his duties as chief clerk, and Lieutenant Michael Roar-
dan, acting chief clerk during Chief O'Brien's absence, re-
sumes his duties as chieftain of correspondence.
NEW POLICE OFFICERS APPOINTED
At a meeting of the Honorable Board of Police Commis-
sioners, held on July 5th, the following were appointed
regular policemen in the San Francisco Police Department,
said appointment to take effect immediately and to be sub-
ject to the probationary period of six months as is pro-
vided for in the Charter:
Edward P. Murphy, Star No. 1209.
Wallace Young, Star No. 1210.
Martin T. Foley, Star No. 1211.
John Cahill, Star No. 1212.
Carl A. Bruhn, Star No. 1213.
Frank Tainter, Star No. 1214.
James F. O'Neill, Star No. 1215.
Herbert H. Smith, Star No. 1216.
Nathan Del Monte, Star No. 1217.
John T. Cooney, Star No. 1218.
Robert B. West, Star No. 1219.
James J. McGovern, Star No. 1220.
Frank B. Fitzpatrick, Star No. 1221.
John M. Pa>Tie, Star No. 1222.
John P. Keohane, Star No. 1223.
Harold F. Winkler, Star No. 1224.
Emmett Reid, Star No. 1226.
Joel B. .Marston, Star No. 1227.
James McColgan, Star No. 1228.
William J. Hamilton, Star No. 1229.
Michael Reilly, Star No. 1230.
John J. Harrison, Star No. 1231.
James L. Shepherd, Star No. 1232.
Philip J. Fraher, Star No. 1234.
Walter W. Nelson, Star No. 1235.
Edward H. Maker, Star No. 1236.
Alexander E. McDonald, Star No. 1237.
Edward J. O'Brien, Star No. 1238.
Leo A. Keenan, Star No. 1239.
Anthony Navarra, Star No. 1225.
Fred Delucchi, Star No. 1233.
The newly appointed officers shown just above are here-
by temporarily assigned for duty in the Department School
of Instructions where they shall receive instructions from
Sergeant Patrick H. McGee. Instructor. The said officers
as members of the Headquarters Company shall report to
Captain J. Henry Lackmann, commanding the Headquai--
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CAPTAIN QUINN
(Continued from Page 7)
officers in the busy downtown police districts and
in the various sub-units of the Detective Bureau
and other bureaus throughout Headquarters Com-
pany wliicii is located in the Hall of Justice.
AH of the student's time is not devoted to his
work in the school of instruction. Many hours are
put in by him undergoing the rigors of training
in between school hours, so that all in all, when
he graduates he has had a world of experience and
instruction with the most stalwart members of
the police department who have been the back-
bone and sinew of the force.
The instructions in the school comprise athletic
instructions under Sergeant Patrick H. JIcGee,
which consists of instructing tlie members in the
art of proper breathing, talking, singing, walking,
running, jumping, swimming, boxing, wrestling,
sliooting with pistol, rifle and shotgun.
Lieutenant Michael Riordan, who is at present
Acting Chief Clerk of the department, and who,
by the way, is also an attorney-at-law, gives the
students lectures on the penal statutes, local or-
dinances and the police manual, which contains the
rules and regulations of the police department.
The lieutenant has spent a gTeat deal of time cull-
ing from the reports of tlie department every con-
ceivable incident which might be of benefit to
the recruit, so that when he is through with
his lectures the student who has paid attention
has been carried over a vast field of actual happen-
ings in the police department in which Lieutenant
Riordan has pointed out the procedure as it should
have been from a legal standpoint.
The School of Instruction has done mucli for all
of tlie members of the department who liave been
fortunate enougli to gi-aduate from it. It has in-
culcated in them a spirit of self reliance, which
is brought about by the graduate knowing that he
knows his business from a theoretical standpoint
and what he lacks is the practical experience which
can only come to him through the actual contact
with those whom he is forced to handle during
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It has been definitely and positively shown that
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More of Mr. Josiah Everyman Tuttlef ish
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Character Building and Crime Prevention
The Basis for Assessments
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Traffic Survey Report
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Importance of Proper Auto Insurance
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International Chiefs Meet
Address Made By Retiring President, Chief Daniel J. O'Brien
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To the Officers and Members of
the International Association
of Chiefs of Police :
As I stand here to gi-eet you, it seems almost
incredible that a whole year has passed over all
our heads, and yet, insofar as I am concerned, it
has been one of the most strenuous and turbulent
years of my life. Through it all, however, I have
been conscious of a feeling of gratitude, together
with the responsibility that I assumed when you
honored me by electing me to the office of Presi-
dent of our association, all of which sustained and
comforted me in a measure, during some of our
most trying periods of the past year.
There should be a keen interest taken in our
association by each and every member, and I think
it is developing. We have a splendid organization
composed of representative men from various mu-
nicipalities througliout the world; its aims are
worthy ones and its principles should be upheld
and supported by the concerted efforts of all its
members at all times.
The field of operation is large, and the territory
taken in by our association is great, not so great
yet as it should be, though I am convinced we can
inci'ease it materially, if we will all put our shoul-
ders to the wheel, forget our geographical loca-
tions and work together for the common and ul-
timate good of the association.
With our excellent, up-to-the-minute facilities
for eliminating distances when it is necessary to
communicate with each other, there is no reason
why we should not actually be, and function, as
one large family. If any of the members feel
they are not receiving the proper consideration
from the organization as a whole, they should pre-
sent their ideas to the presiding officers, so the
differences can be straightened out and remedial
measures carried out.
Crime Prevention Bureau Questionnaire
Early this year a questionnaire was sent out to
our members relative to Crime Prevention Bu-
reaus and their activities. Judging from the an-
swers received, I am under the impi-ession the
matter was not thoroughly understood. The ques-
tionnaire referred to crime PREVENTION, and
not to crime COMMISSION.
Many police departments throughout the world
have in operation a Crime Prevention Bureau.
One of the functions of such bureaus is the making
of recommendations, at the request of persons,
firms or corporations, after an offense has been
committed for the safeguarding of property and
premises, investigation of suspected individuals,
places of public gatherings, both adults and juve-
niles, so the undesirables may be kept on the move,
if not taken into custody for minor offenses, before
more serious ones can be committed; to effect a
closer co-operation between right-thinking mem-
bers of organizations and juvenile agencies, with
the idea of safeguarding the juveniles from temp-
tation and eventually becoming hardened crim-
inals.
During the past few years such a bureau has
been operating under the jurisdiction of the San
Francisco Police Department, where, with the pop-
ulation constantly increasing, as it is in every
large city, crime has been kept down to normal
level, and in some cases decreased, while juvenile
delinquency*' court days have been reduced 50
per cent within the past two years.
Your attention is called to tliis particular phase
of police work. It is the consensus of opinion that
within the next few years botli state and national
governments will be seeking information from
police executives in relation to the causes of crime
and its prevention, and we must not be unpre-
pared to meet the issue when it does come up.
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August, J 927
Youthfulness of Criminals of Today
The police records of all countries show the pit-
iful, but nevertheless alarming fact that the
heartless, unemotional criminal of the present
day is the youth between 1'6 and 25 years of age,
each individual having his own unique history.
The remedy is not yet apparent for this condition
of affairs, but I am certain much can be accom-
plished by proper application to the problems of
juvenile delinquents, before they graduate into
hardened criminals.
JuvenUe Ti-affic Resei-ves
In connection witii this work each and every
police department finds its resources taxed to the
utmost to safely care for school children at street
intersections.
In many cities junior traffic reserves have been
established. Boys 13 years of age and older have
charge of the younger children at street intersec-
tions. These boys are first started out under the
supervision of a trained police officer, and after-
wards allowed to handle the crossings by them-
selves, so the officers' attention may be utilized in
other police service.
Of course, unless properly trained, the enthusi-
asm of the youth, given a little authority, might
disrupt the orderly progress of traffic, but with the
right training, supplemented with interesting lec-
tures, efficiency is maintained, and, as I have
heretofore stated, the regular police officer is
released for other police duty.
Ti-affic Probrems
Traffic situations differ and are peculiar to each
community, which necessitates handling them
strictly as local problems. However, it is my be-
lief that much good can be accomplished by a
standardization of traffic laws and regulations, and
I earnestly recommend that proper representation
be maintained with the American Automobile
Association of \\'ashington, D. C, which was spon-
sored by Hon. Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Com-
merce.
Traffic Regulations in Case of Fire
Right now in many localities there is a great
deal of discussion on the part of fire and police
department officials, concerning traffic regulations
at fires. The function of the fire department and
its officials is, as we all know, the prevention and
extinguishing of fires.
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through which fire apparatus may be rushed to
the scene of the fire and brought close enough to
get the conflagi-ation under control as quickly as
possible.
We shall all have an opportunity to hear the fire
department's side of the story, as we have been
so fortunate as to have the Chief Engineer of
the New York Fire Department, Mr. John Kenlon,
and Mr. Calvin G. Lauber, a member of the Inter-
national Board of Fire Underwriters with us at
this convention, and they have promised to give
us some of their views on this subject.
The Narcotic Evil
The narcotic question has been brought to our
attention as the outstanding evil of the times, and
I think rightly so. In some localities the traffic
has been held in check, in others the use of nar-
cotics has been reduced to some extent, and the
number of peddlers decreased, but in other places,
such as the more cosmopolitan cities, railroad
centers and steamship ports, it may be on the in-
crease. Federal and state agencies are at work
throughout the length and breadth of the land,
and a concentration of effort and co-operation of
police energy will certainly aid materially in
stamping out this evil in time.
As Major Brewster of New York City is here
and prepared to give us more details concerning
this work, it will not be necessary for me to say
anything further, except that because of the soul-
destroying effects of the drug habit, every law
enforcement officer in the country should join
forces with those who are endeavoring to remove
this blot from civilization.
Bureau of Investigation Division of Identification
At the last convention a resolution was passed
by the association, authorizing and instructing the
President and Secretary to communicate with
United States Senators and Congressmen, in sup-
port of the Division of Identification, under the
jurisdiction of the Bureau of Investigation of the
Department of Justice.
In view of the fact that the President and Sec-
retary were advised that a Bill would be presented
in the House of Representatives for the purpose
of establishing a Division of Identification under
the Bureau of Investigation of the Department
of Justice (which Bill was presented February
22, 1927, and we have been advised is favored by
the Director of the present Bureau), it was deemed
inadvisable to communicate with the Senators
and Congressmen prior to this convention. It
was thought too, that any correspondence might
tend to confuse representatives who are in favor of
Bill H. R. 17296 presented by Mr. Graham, read-
ing as follows:
A BILL
"Establishing a Division of Identification Under
the Jurisdiction of the Bureau of Inves-
tigation of the Department of Justice
BE IT ENACTED BY THE SENATE AND
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS
ASSEMBLED, That there be, and there is hereby
established under the jurisdiction of the Bureau
of Investigation of the Department of Justice, a
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Police and Fire Departments' Co-operation
Paper Given By Captain of Detectives, Duncan Matheson,
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City government departments can be likened
to the luiman body, in that it takes all depart-
ments to co-ordinate and function smoothly as
a wliole to accomplish the best results.
First, tlie brain telegraplis the message to the
b'^nd or foot, and the nerves, s'new and muscles
whose work it is to move the particular member
marshal themselves together to carry out the
order from tlie brain. This is all done silently
without ostentation and uncomplainingly and the
resultant motion is accomplished in so short a
time that the telegraphing of the order is not even
apparent to the person himself.
So in the same ratio should city departments
function, without protest or cavil. Usually when
a member of either the fire or police department
is needed there is a serious emergency and no
time can be wasted to find out how urgent the
need may be. The response must be instant with-
out any attempt being made to question the need,
or the right or the wrong of it. After the emer-
gency, or seeming emergency has been taken
care of, there is often plenty of time in which to
argue the matter pro and con.
Th<^ rn'^c^" pnd fire departments of a munici-
pality are considered the two basic and greatest
factors of safety of both persons and property,
and a close harmony, with full measure of co-
operation should exist between the rank and file
of both lines of defense.
\Mien a conflagration occurs it is imperative
that the fire apparatus, with the fire-fighters, get
to the scene at the earliest possible moment, so
they may function properly as fire fighters and
in the prevention of additional loss.
It is not necessary for the members of the
police department, except in rare cases, to assist
in the actual extinguishing of the fire, but it is
essential, and it is police duty to handle traffic in
such a manner, with due consideration of the
rules and regulations that the progress of the
fire department personnel and apparatus will not
be impeded in any way, as a slight delay even
may mean the loss of many thousands of dollars'
worth of property.
At the scene of the fire when the apparatus is
assembled for action, also it is the duty of the
police officer to see that access to the fire hydrants
is easy and not obstructed, nor the efforts of the
fire fighters interfered with by the people getting
into too close proximity to the fire itself.
Surveys should be made from time to time and
recommendations made relative to the parking
of vehicles in narrow streets that might prevent
fire apparatus from going through. Police de-
partments should by all means co-operate with
fire departments in all matters of fire preven-
tion and public safety, and all laws and ordinances
of this nature firmly enforced by the members of
the police departments so that fewer hazards will
be presented to the firemen whose duties are suffi-
ciently hazardous in any event.
There is a provision in the charter of the City
and County of San Francisco whereby all pohce
officers are declared to be health officers by vir-
tue of their office. Each time I read this state-
ment it has always occurred to me that it is in-
complete, inasmuch as I think the makers of the
charter should have made that clause read that
members of the police department should be
liealth officers and members of the fire depart-
ment as well, by virtue of their office.
Firemen of necessity are confined to their fire
stations and immediate vicinity and consequently
have not the opportunity of observing the causes
of fires, and incipient fires, that policemen have.
In the matter of prevention and detection of fires
a police officer is virtually a skirmishing fireman.
In our police manual an entire chapter is de-
voted to a detailed method of procedure in the
matter of police officers co-operating with mem-
bers of the fire department at fires. Likewise, a
knowledge of fire ordinances bears equal weight
with a knowledge of police ordinances in cases of
promotion in the police department. Even the
civil service tests given our entrants to the police
department are practically the same as for en-
trants to the fire department.
The width of streets and the flow of traffic in
a general direction, also traffic signals, have for
'^ome time been considered an engineering prob-
lem, but it is a m.atter worthy of consideration on
the part of the executives of a police department,
and historj' has shown that while the flow is
measured by rule or formula, the handling of
traffic is purely a police problem and one of ever-
changing conditions.
It is also worthy of attention of the executives
of a fire department who find it necessary to di-
rect apparatus and men. in the many small alleys
and streets that the width and speed of fire ap-
paratus must be considered, consequently the rec-
ommendations of the chief engineer of a fire de-
partment are not to be lightly taken by either the
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^^Mr» Josiah Everyman Tuttlefish, Juror"
An Interesting and Instructive Serial on Present Day Jury System, Written by John M. Cartwright
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(Continued from Last Issue)
Immediately he sensed the importance of the
document. But the fineness of the thought was
spoiled slightly by a flashing recollection of his
officer friend at the criminal court. In some way
just such letters as this seemed to be connected
with just such officers as that.
"You are hereby commanded without fail, etc.,
to appear for jury service in Department P D Q
of the Superior Court of the County of Jerry-
mander on the blank day of blank, blankety-blank,
blank, blank."
The weighty responsibility of citizenship with
all its onerous duties settled heavily upon the
shoulders of Mr. Tuttlefish.
"And I object upon the further ground, y'r
Honor, that the juror's right arm is gone, and he
cannot properly take the oath."
"Objection sustained. Mr. Ostrasizze, you will
be excused until further notice. Mr. Clerk, draw
another name from the jury box."
The Clerk: "Mrs. Lilly White", and in a louder
voice, "Mrs. Lilly White, Mrs. Lilly White, come
forward, please."
From the rear of the court room, struggling
over arched knees and oversized feet bedecked
with bunions protruding through worn-out and
slashed shoes, a middle-aged dame tipping the
scales (of commerce) at about one hundred and
eighty pounds, made her way to the cancelli.
"Here I am," ventured Lilly, not altogether sure
of the formality required on such an occasion.
"Very well," says his Honor. "Swear the lady
in."
And the clerk, much in the manner of a buzz-
saw approaching a petrified log, overdoes himself
and overcomes the more serious minded in the
court room by administering the oath.
"Youdosolemlyswer — tutel — truth ,wulltruth
— buttruth — swelpyubob — Yournum — hodyyu-
spehtplees — s'all."
"I do", meekly replied Lilly, falling ungi-ace-
fully up into the jury box, and never for a moment
having thought of the possibility of having said
"I do not".
1st Attorney: "Your name, I believe, is Mrs.
Lilly White, and you live in this city, Mrs. White."
Answer: "Yes sir."
1st Attorney: "You are married, and a good
citizen now?"
Answer: "Ye — e — ss."
1st Attorney: "Have you ever served a jury
in a criminal case before, Mrs. White ?"
Answer: "With what, sir?"
1st Attorney: "No, no, to be sure Mrs. White.
I mean have you ever acted as a juror in a crim-
inal case before?"
Answer: "Oh! No sir."
1st Attorney : "Have you ever served, or rath-
er, acted on any j ury before ?"
Answer: "No — uh, not that I am aware of."
1st Attorney: "Do you know anything about
the case you are about to try?"
Answer: "Well, I have read the newspapers."
1st Attorney: "Well — uh, have you formed any
opinion either one way or the other respecting the
guilt or innocence of this defendant?"
Answer: "Oh, my, no! I had almost forgotten
he killed the man."
1st Attorney : "Have you any prejudice against
the infliction of the death penalty in proper cases,
Mrs. White?"
Answer: "Oh, certainly not!"
2nd Attorney makes a note here.
1st Attorney : "And you believe if you were se-
lected as a juror in this case, you could render an
unbiased verdict upon the evidence ?"
Answer: "Yes indeed."
1st Attorney: "Do you know anything about
this defendant?"
Answer: "No sir."
1st Attorney : "We pass the juror."
2nd Attorney: "Mrs. White, you have been
married some time?"
Answer, stiff"ening: "Age creeps upon us all,
sir."
2nd Attorney: "No, no! Dear Mrs. Lilly
\A'hite, you will pardon the question; what I was
about to say is, have you any children, Mrs.
White?"
Answer: "Yes, but I can't see . . ."
2nd Attorney : "Boys or girls, Mrs. . . ."
1st Attorney: "I object, if the court please, on
the ground that the question is irrelevant, imma-
terial and incompetent, and upon the further
ground that it is having a bad effect upon the
other jurors."
2nd Attorney : "I was about to add, when I was
interrupted by counsel . . ."
His Honor: "The question may be material. . ."
1st Attorney: "Now if it please the court, I
object to the form of the question."
2nd Attorney: "I will reframe the question,"
and turning to juror, "Now Mrs. White, I was
about to say when I was so rudely interrupted by,
by counsel on the other side, are they girls or
boys?"
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By Daniel J. O'Brien, Chief of Police
HOLDUP MAN CAPTURED
The following is a report submitted to Chief
O'Brien by Detective Sergeant William F. Bennett,
Chief's Office, and it is self-explanatory. The re-
port, which deals with a holdup man, one John
Carlson, is one which makes mention of splendid
police service as is evidenced in the capture of
this holdup man. The officers named in the report
have already been summoned to this office, ap-
peared before the Chief of Police and were per-
sonally commended by him for their services.
SAN FRANCISCO POLICE DEPARTMENT
Detective Bureau
Charles Conrad, gi'ocer, 201 Octavia street.
The above-named was held up in his store at
8:30 p. m., July 23. Lost $46.45. Holdup man
used a revolver. Conrad notified Police Headquar-
ters and Officers G. Betger, E. Clancy and O'Brien,
of the Bush Street Station, responded. Det. Offi-
cer Chas. McGreevy and I responded from this of-
fice. After receiving description and license num-
ber of auto, Detective McGreevy and I went to the
Bush Street Station and notified Detective Ser-
geant J. Palmer to call Sacramento, Cal., and ob-
tain name and address of auto owner. In the
meantime, Officer Betger phoned and stated that a
citizen informed him that the bandit auto was
parked on Noe street near Market street. We
immediately responded and found Betger, Clancy
and O'Brien hiding and watching the bandit auto.
McGreevy and I also took a hiding position, and
soon the bandit, who proved to be John Carlson,
came out of a restaurant and started the auto. All
officers mentioned then started to surround the
auto, and Officer G. Betger jumped from his hid-
ing place and placing his revolver against Carlson,
told him not to move. Officer Clancy then took a
loaded revolver from Carlson's pocket. Consider-
ing the fact that a I'obbery was cominitted at 8:30
p. m., and an arrest made and all property recov-
ered, I hereby request that the following Officers
be commended by the Chief of Police. All officers
performed their task in a very calm and careful
manner.
Officer G. BETGER, Company E,
Officer E. CLANCY, Company E,
Officer A. O'Brien, Company E,
Detective CHAS. McGREEVY, Det. Bureau.
(Signed) WILLIAM F. BENNETT,
Detective Sergeant, 913.
Carlson, after questioning by Sergeant George
McLoughlin and the Robbery Detail, confessed to
eight other holdups and was accordingly charged
with them.
NEW POLICE APPOINTMENTS
At a meeting of the Board of Police Commis-
sioners held on July 25, the following proceedings
were recorded:
Police Officer Albert F. Kern resigned as a mem-
ber of the San Fi-ancisco Police Department, said
resignation taking effect July 27, 1927.
Russell Bevans was appointed a regular police
officer, said appointment to take effect immediate-
ly. Star No. 1240 has been assigned this new
officer.
Officer Russell Bevans, during the course of in-
structions in the Department School, shall be tem-
porarily assigned with the Headquarters Company
and shall report to the Commanding Officer there-
of. Captain Peter H. McGee. Officer Bevans shall
receive instructions from Sergeant Patrick H.
McGee, School Instructor.
Please accept our thanks for the co-operation of
your Traffic Department through Corporal John
L. McCausland and Motorcycle Officers Walter J.
Martin and Walter T. Mathes on the automobile
tour given delegates to the California Osteopathic
Physicians' Convention on July 20th.
MABEL T. JOHNSON,
Manager, Hospitality Bui'eau,
S. F. Chamber of Commerce.
ROLPH
By
Acclamation
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San Francisco Respects Its Police
By James Rolph, Jr., Mayor
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Shoddily We should also be proud of his assistant, Captain
Cities are judged by their policemen,
attired, poorly trained, misfit policemen indicate
lack of civic pride, poor city government and often
political corruption and careless citizenry.
One of the first impressions which a visitor re-
ceives upon coming to San Francisco is the fine,
neatly uniformed and perfectly trained guardians
of the law who patrol our streets. Visitors with-
out number have offered congratulations upon the
appearance and the efficiency of the San Francisco
Police Department. I never return to San Fran-
c-sco from a visit to the eastern cities that my
heart does not swell in pride wiien I behold the
stalwart, intelligent-faced San Francisco police-
men in their striking uniforms of blue. These
MAYOR JAMES ROLPH, JR.
splendid men personify strength, purity and clean-
liness of government.
For, after all, it is the policeman on the beat
who is nearest to the citizen. It is upon the police-
man that the citizen depends for personal and
property protection and it is to the policemen that
he first appeals when in trouble. For this reason,
it is vital that a city have an irreproachable Police
Department.
There are many problems of city government
which have been handled during my administra-
tion in a manner which have resulted in tremen-
dous public good, but there is nothing in which
we should take more pride than our good, efficient
San Francisco Police Department.
Every citizen of San Francisco should be proud
of Chief of Police Daniel J. O'Brien, Past President
of the International Association of Police Chiefs.
William Quinn, and of Captain of Detectives Dun-
can Matheson, known throughout the country for
his ability to bring desperate criminals to justice.
Our citizens should be proud of every captain
and every patrolman in the San Francisco Police
Department, and they shall always have my co-
operation in upholding the high standard set for
them and in making San Francisco's Police De-
partment even greater than it now is. There have
been many assaults directed at the San Fran-
cisco Police Department by agents of the under-
world and many times influential forces have
brought pressure upon me to curb the great work
which the Police Commission and the Police De-
partment are doing. Just as long as I remain at
the helm of the city of San Francisco, I shall balk
every effort of the predatory politician to hinder
the \\ork which our police are doing in keeping
San Francisco clean and safe.
Crime waves sweep over the country but miss
San Francisco entirely. Eastern criminals find
this city unhealthy for continued operation.
San Francisco people, in appreciation of the
work our police are doing, must co-operate in
preventing them from being removed from their
good work of keeping San Francisco clean.
GOLDEN GATE SWIM
The San Francisco Police Department will be
well represented in the Chronicle's third annual
Golden Gate swim, September 18. Most of the
boys who swam in previous years will be on the
mark again this year and there will be quite a few
new faces. There is a charm about swimming the
Golden Gate that appeals to a great many of San
Francisco's finest. The prizes that are awarded
the winners are, of course, very nice to get. The
best of it all is that training for this race puts
the boys right in the pink of condition.
Detective Sergeant Mike Desmond, hero of the
first race, has denied the allegation that he could
not make the swim across the gate again. Who,
that witnessed the first race, will ever forget the
gallant struggle this officer put up to complete
the course. Almost an hour after the judges
thought they had checked in the last man, a
figure was seen swimming through the piles at
the torpedo wharf a quarter of a mile from the
finish. "Get out Mike, the race is all over," some-
one advised this sturdy paddler. "I will not get
out," was the reply. "Well, it won't do you a bit
of good to finish even if you could, as the judges
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"Fleet-footed" Harry Webb
By Jack Lawlor, Police Reporter. Daily l^ews
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Harry Webb, of whom it may be said, that
"San Francisco's Finest" never had an abler or
more popular member nor a fleeter footed one, has
a fine job now witli the Harbor Commission as ex-
ecutive secretary to
the president. Major
Tilden.
After getting his
pension last year
Harry took a much
needed rest but after
the new Governor
went in, Major Tilden
insisted on Harry ac-
cepting a position in
his office and there he
JACK LAWLOR jg. You Can't see the
Major unless you pass the eagle eye of Harry
Webb.
And speaking of Harry I am reminded of his
great work down on the "waterfront." His rec-
ord there was an enviable one and no one in the
Harbor station excelled him. His arrests were
many but he tempered justice with mercy and
many a boy owes his start in life to the kindly
advice of Officer Harry Webb, who instead of put-
ting him in a felon's cell for his first offense, put
in a kindly word with the judge and either got
him a light sentence or his freedom and perhaps
a job "to boot."
Well, that's tlie kind of a "cop" Harry was and
when he went out of the department, because of
an old injury received in the line of duty, every-
body regretted it. But we are all happy to know
that he is doing well and has a swell job.
There are many anecdotes told of Harry during
his many years in the department but one that
stands out in my mind happened since I came on
this beat about two years ago.
It seems that Harry had warned a "lookout"
for a blind pig on Spear street to get himself a
regular job or he would run him in for vag.
This fellow was a well-known athlete and profes-
sional wrestler known as "Young Santell" who
was about 25 years old and built like Jack Demp-
sey. He was also known as the "Sheik" of the
Embarcadero.
The gent didn't take the hint so the next time
Harry passed by the "joint", there was the
"Sheik", as big as life, gi-inning at Harry.
"Say, you; didn't I tell you to get the 'ell out
of here pronto?" yelled Harry.
"Aw, you can't pinch me; I'm no vag", scowled
the "Sheik" as he jingled some silver in his jeans.
He was dressed like a million dollars, besides.
"I can't pinch you, can't I — you big umpty
ump?" cried Harry as he grabbed the six-foot
cigar store Indian by the collar and started for
the "box" with him.
En route the "Sheik" slipped out of his coat
and flew down the street toward Howard — with
Harry after him, game leg and his fifty odd years
and all. After running a block Harry command-
ered a Ford driven by a boy. Jumping on the
running board the officer now directed the chase,
in and out of traffic, until the "Sheik" dodged
into a lumber yard on Folsom street.
Jumping from the moving auto, Han*y pursued
his quarry through the yard, never missing a
lumber pile or a knot hole. Out into Spear street
again flew the flying "Sheik" with Harry close at
his heels. Both men were beating Charley Pad-
dock's best time in his palmiest days and hun-
dreds of people were cheering the runners.
It was an exciting day on the "waterfront",
I'll tell the municipality.
Finally, the "Sheik" was pressed so closely by
the fleet-footed officer that he lost his head and
ran into a radio shop on Folsom street and out
into the back yard and plumb up against a stone
wall.
"Well, rabbit, why didn't you keep on running,
I was just getting warmed up", puffed Harry as
he slipped the cuffs on the "Sheik."
POLICE OFFICERS AT THE TRAPS
By Detective Sergeant George Wall
Recently a number of the police officers from all over
the State participated in the Elks' Chronicle Trapshoot at
the Golden Gate Gun Club's trapshooting grounds at Ala-
meda and some of our members made favorable scores
and since then an active part has been taken by the officers
that could conveniently find time to shoot on Thursday
mornings, between 9 and 11 a. m. All are invited to come
out to the San Francisco Club's traps at Fort Scott, Pre-
sidio, where ammunition and blue rocks will be furnished
at cost. These traps are in good condition and we have
been granted the use of them by the S. F. Gun Club on
Thursdays only. Up to date, there have been a number
of our members taking advantage of this opportunity.
Recently, Capt. Harvey of U. S. Army, who throws five
blue rocks in the air and breaks them before they hit the
ground at close range, gave us a demonstration of his
ability at rapid shooting with a pump gim. He succeeded
in breaking the five targets, a remarkable feat. He also
shot at the traps with some of our police officers at
straight-away birds at 20 yards and broke 23 targets out
of 25, which was tied by our men, which goes to show
that practice makes perfect.
RECENT SCORES— TARGETS BROKEN OUT OF 30:
FRANK HOECKLE
JOHN TRAINOR
HARVEY DELINE
48
JAMRS ROONKY
47
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47
GEORGF, WAT.T,
47
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46
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FRANKLYN K. LANE.
44
FRANK HOBSON _ _
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REN HARRIS
42
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-38
GEORGE BURKHART 43
WALTER LEONHARDT 39
wn^LLVM PORTER 39
CARL JUSTUS 39
JOHN DOLAN. JR.
RICHARD HUGHES
GEORGE LILUS
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CHARACTER BUILDING AND CRIME
PREVENTION
The country is pestered and overrun with a host
of so-called crime experts who creep into the lime-
light from every walk of life with cure-alls for the
criminal situation. Magician-like, they organize
themselves into bureaus, societies and crime com-
missions to find the causes of crime — in most cases
their purposes are publicity and self-exploitation.
When their pictures are pubhshed in the news-
paper they exclaim: "Hei-e we are; wait until we
get in action and see what will happen" — why
nothing happens, of course. In the meantime,
they keep the public excited by abusing the police,
charging them with inefficiency and condemning
every person charged with the administration of
.justice.
After this hullabaloo the public is then ready for
the usual bunk by announcing that a survey will
be made to find the causes of crime. Then comes
the questionnaire with a lot of fool questions to
be answered b.v police officials — more rot to fool
the public. The questionnaire should be consigned
to the ash can. If any persons think or are fool-
ish enough to believe that criminals can be caught
with stationery or clerical help, they are sadly
mistaken.
If these theorists had their way, police officials
would spend all of their time writing reports and
answering foolish questions, instead of arresting
scoundrels and sending them to the penitentiary.
Murderers, robbers and burglars do not report at
clerical bureaus to surrender; neither will they
respond to engraved invitations to visit police
headquarters. They are apprehended in the same
old way and by the same old methods, using force
when and where necessar.v. Arresting crooks long
since ceased to be a pink-tea affair.
They are then reinforced by a host of social
workers, alienists and psychologists, or plainly
speaking, bunkologists, professional publicity
hounds, who talk about morons, anti-social charac-
teristics, extraordinary behavior, abnormality, and
a lot of rot that is simply disgusting.
His Honor, Charles E. Nott, Jr., Judge of the
Court of General Sessions of New York, is quoted
as saying: "The criminal is more human than
the sentimentalists who claim that he is abnormal.
To anyone who lias observed the criminal over
many yeais he seems intensely human, much more
human and normal than the neurasthenic philoso-
phers who proclaim his abnormality. This is not
strange, since the criminal is a natural man ani-
mated by the same old Adam, taking what he
wants when he wants it and doing up those whom
he dislikes, while the philosophers are an intensely
artificial lot who see everything as abnormal which
is natural enough to be beyond their unnatural way
of regarding things."
One darkey was accused by another darkey of
breaking open his trunk and stealing $30. His
defense was insanity. The complainant was asked
by the court if he thought the defendant was in-
sane. "Well Judge," he said, "if I caught this
here nigger trying to put $30 in my trunk, I would
think he was crazy, but Judge, he took $30 out."
This story contains more sound philosophy and
common sense than all the opinions of our bunk-
ologists combined.
Every person having anything to do with the
administration of justice knows that it is in the
realm of politics and they are too profoundly
stupid or lacking in moral courage to know any-
thing about it or state the facts. All they have
to do is to ask a newsboy on the street what lie
does when he gets into trouble — the boy knows
how to get results.
Did you ever hear of these organizations enter-
ing the political arena to solve the problem ? You
never did and never will. The only efforts made
were these made by police departments, prose-
cuting officials or by state authorities and peace
officers' associations. Just stop for a moment and
consider what the commissions appointed by the
constituted authorities, with delegated power, did
in New York and California. Usually these self-
serving organizations have political aspirations.
It is not always pleasant to be frank and it may
be a little severe, but it is necessar.y where the
welfare of the public is concerned. There is an-
other side to the story and probably the most
important, that is left out of the picture by these
organizations and that is character building. We
may ask ourselves where do police departments
figure in that problem and how do they function,
if at all? Police departments fully realize that
there have been many radical changes in the social
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"Knockovers'' of Bureau
Lieutenant Bernard McDonald's Auto Detail certainly
made life miserable for the automobile thieves during the
past month. Following is a list of the "takers" incar-
cerated:
George Otto, violating Sec. 504, by Lieut. McDonald.
Nick Thompson, Julia Caranpotz, Marie Polak, and An-
nie Frank, larceny; William Hosse, 146 M. V. A., arrested
by Detectives John O'Connell and Everett Hansen.
Dan Fernandez, larceny; Ray Williams, en route to Los
.Angeles; Fred Omar, grand larceny, arrested by Detec-
tive Sergeants James Hayes and Harry McCrea. Special
Britt of the Motor Vehicle Department assisted in the last
named. Sergeant DeMatei assisted in the first.
Sidney Smilo, Roger O'Callaghan and Robert MarshaU,
146; Frank Thrasher, grand larceny, arrested by Detec-
tive Sergeants Jack Cannon, G. Wafer and J. J. McKenna.
Robert K. Lane, embezzlement; Jim Bravin, fugitive
from Seattle, by Detective Sergeant Frank Jackson and
Detective David Stevens.
Claude, Floyd and Harry Oak'ey, en route to Ft. Worth,
Texas; Joseph Dons and Homer Miller, 146, arrested by
Detective Sergeant Louis De Matei and Corporal Frank
Drown, Sergeant Cannon assisting in la.st two named.
Fred Propp, Jr., Edward Cushley, William Lencoioni,
146; Charles Bastian, burglary; Catherine Propach, grand
larceny, by Detective Sergeants Augustus Tompkin, Harry
Husted and Nicholas Barron.
* * *
Detective Sergeants William Proll and Arthur McQuaide
of the Banking Detail, arrested among others, Fred Miller
for forgery, and Floyd Glotsbach, a fugitive.
* * *
Here are some of the arrests of Detective Sergeants
Andrew Gaughran and James D. Skelley of the Shopping
Detail: Pat Raymond, petty larceny; Ada Stafford, same;
Henrietta Lyons, Jose Morgan and Louis Boggenbusch,
the last for forgery, obtaining goods by trick and device,
the others for burglary.
* * *
The Burglary Detail under Detective Sergeant Richmond
Tatham had an active month. Here are the important
arrests made by the detail: By Detective Sergeants James
Johnson and Richard Hughes, Antone King, burglary;
Leter Hunter, en route to San Bernardino; Bert Frazer,
felony embezzlement; Julian Gerber, embezzlement.
Detective Sergeants James Mitchell and Irvin Findlay
arrested Joseph Wooly and Frank Welch for burglary,
and Walter Thompson for receiving stolen goods, being
assisted by Detective Sergeant Frank Jackson and Detec-
tive Dave Stephens.
Paul G. Harris was brought in by Detective Sergeant
Frank Palmer and Corporal Nels Stohl.
Detective Sergeants James Gregson and Joseph Lippi
booked Louis Righetti and Charles Tambini for burglary,
and Arthur Smith for arson.
Sergeants Tatham, Lippi, Mitchell and Findley took in
custody George Graham, WajTie Dakis and Elmer Sowers
for vagrancy.
* * -^;
Detective Sergeant Fred Bohr and Detective Charles
Dornian nabbed Laura Nesbitt, wanted in Los Angeles.
The follo^^^ng are some of the bad check "slingers"
arrested by Detective Sergeants William Armstrong,
Charles Maher and James Hansen of the Bad Check De-
tail: Phillip Thomas, Jack Lumley, Henry Bauman, Nor-
bert Francis (2 charges) Michael McLaughlin, 476a Penal
Code; William Hamlett, forgery and Willard Reed, ob-
taining money by false pretenses.
* * ♦
Detective Sergeant Harry Cook rounded up the foUow'-
ing fugitives: Joseph Murphy, wanted in Los Angeles;
Frank Todesco, wanted in San Jose; Thomas Thurgood,
wanted in the East.
* * *
Nina Green, violator of Section 504 of the Penal Code,
w-as landed in the City Prison by Detective Sergeants
Thomas Conlan and Edward Wiskotchill. Edward Tracey,
burglar, was another of their captures.
* * *
Robert Walker, accused of attempt burglary, was
brought to the Hall of Justice by Detectives Walter Bro\\'n,
William Rakestraw and James Sunseri of Lieutenant Jack
Sullivan's night watch.
» * »
Detective Sergeants Fred Bohr and Clarence Herlitz
kept the clerical force busy in the City Prison with the
following arrests: Robert Miller, en route to Los An-
geles; Peter Curtis, Jr., larceny by trick and de\-ice,
caught in Madera; Mary Augello, mis. embezzlement;
Vincent Bautista, felony embezzlement; Ted McCrorey,
en route to Santa Rosa; Ford Barcus, fugitive; Bruce Wag-
ner, embezzlement, Detective Sergeant Thomas Mui-phy
assisting.
Detective Sergeants Allan McGinn and Charles Iredale
and Officer W. Taylor arrested Harold Prouty for man-
slaughter.
* * *
Leon P. Rink, wanted for a felony in San Diego, was
arrested by Detective Sergeants George Richards and
Henry Kalmbach.
* * *
Detective Sergeants Vernon Van Matre. Edward Mc-
Sheehy, George Wall and William McMahon, of Sergeant
George McLoughlin's Robbery Detail, arrested Arthur
Britt, suspected of robbery and en route to Los Angeles.
McSheehy and Van Matre arrested, with assistance of Ser-
geant Manion, Young Fong for robbery, and Harry Adans
for violating Sec. 112 of the Motor Act. Detective Ser-
geant Leo Bunner, Robert Rauer and McMahon locked up
Amos Burk on two robbery charges, being assisted by
Corporal Emmett FhTin of the Southern Station.
* * *
Antonio V. Cortez, pickpocket, was nailed by Lieutenant
Thomas Hoertkom and Detective Sergeant Morris Harris
for grand larceny. They also brought in George Davey
with a long record, for violating poison law.
* * *
Detective Sergeants Michael Desmond and Barth Kelle-
her landed the following on the fifth floor of the Hall:
Louis Hilmer and Joseph Mahoney. lard thieves, grand
larceny; Arthur Francis and Tony Fazzio, receiving stolen
goods; Phillip Lucia, Jos. Tal'arico, Del Wesenberg, Ray
Lecture, petty larceny; Virginia Schwartz, fugitive: Joe
Hibo, embezzlement, for Susanville.
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August, 1927
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TRAFFIC SURVEY REPORT
By Capt. Henry Gleeson
At this time, all traffic arguments are subser-
vient to the final consideration and adoption by the
Board of Supervisors of the report just published
by the San Francisco Traffic Survey Committee
of the conclusions and recommendations made to
the Board of Supervisors by Dr. Miller McClin-
tock, Director of the Albert Russell Erskine Bu-
reau of Harvard University.
The Traffic Survey Committee was appointed by
Mayor James Rolph, Jr., and empowered to cause
a survey to be made of the traffic problems of San
F^-ancisco to provide such corrections and inno-
vations as would provide a workable plan for the
control of moving- pedestrian and vehicular traffic.
The Traffic Survey Committee employed Mr.
Miller McClintock, who has completed a survey of
the cities of Chicago and Boston and is well qual-
ified as a traffic engineer to carry on this impor-
tant work.
After a careful consideration of the report of
Dr. McClintock, it is gratifying to note his sup-
port of the traffic measures and work that have
been installed and carried on by the Police De-
partment. With the exception of some few minor
changes, he has included the traffic measures
and regulations of the Police Department.
Among the outstanding recommendations made
by Dr. McClintock for traffic improvement are
those that relate:
1st. To the plan for the movement of vehicles
on Market street, under what is known as the
ProgTessive System. This system provides for
the complete installation of new traffic signals,
which will be so timed at each intersection as to
permit vehicles moving at an estimated rate of
speed so as to proceed nearly the full length of
Market street without interruption.
2nd. The control of pedestrians.
This report provides for the use of a separate
"Stop and Go" device to be installed at all safety
zones on Market street. These signals will be co-
ordinated with the vehicle signals and when the
vehicle signals registers at stop, the pedestrian
signal will show "Go" and an approximate time
of 2.5 seconds will be allowed for pedestrians to
move back and forth.
Dr. McClintock openly and fully stated that
he does not know of any city in the United States
that has presented to it the same traffic prob-
lems as presented to San Francisco on Market
street. He fully supported the contention here-
tofore advanced by the Police Department that
it was useless to attempt the control of pedestrian
traffic at any street intersection until the pedes-
trian problem of Market street had not only been
fully mastered but until the pedestrian signals
have been provided and installed.
3rd. The appointment of a Traffic Engineer
to be a part of the Board of Public Works, is pro-
vided. It will be the duty of this traffic engineer
to study all present and future traffic problems
and make recommendations for their correction.
4th. Recommendations are made for an exten-
sion of a no left hand turn regulation on Market
street to the Embarcadero, with a further pro-
vision that left hand turns will be permitted onto
Market street from Sansome, Grant avenue. Ma-
son, McAllister and Fulton; but no left hand turub
on Market street will be permitted into the street
above mentioned. These regulations are depen-
dent upon the installation of "Stop and Go" sig-
nals at these street intersections. Left hand turns
are prohibited at Geary and Kearny ; Stockton and
Ellis ; Taylor and Golden Gate avenue.
5th. Recommendations are made for increase
of traffic officers and reassignment of motorcycle
and mounted officers. The report further advises
the organization of a Traffic Fines Bureau to be
installed at the Traffic Bureau to provide for the
receipt of foi-feiture fines for minor traffic viola-
tions.
6th. A general plan for the painting of curb
lines to provide reserve spaces for loading and
unloading of merchandise and to mark entrance
ways to theatres, hotels, safety zones and other
places as required, to eliminate the present use of
no parking signs.
"The report declares that jitneys on Market
street are absolutely unwarranted as being haz-
ardous and a duplication of street car service dur-
ing rush hours.
The report presents many maps and statistics
relating to the flow of vehicular and pedestrian
traffic at many street intersections all of which is
extremely interesting.
Tlie report has the approval of the Police De-
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The Basis for Assessments
An Elementary Lesson on How Personal and Property Taxes Are Determined, By Assessor Russell L. Wolden
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RUSSELL L. WOLDEN
Members of
llie San Fran-
cisco Police De-
partment have
an enviable
reputation not
only for faith-
fulness in the
performance of
their duty, but
also for their
courtesy and
the wealth of
their informa-
tion on all
things of pub-
lic interest.
W hen I say
this, I am P'^t
telling the department anything new, for this
statement is an established fact, not only with
our own citizens but with thousands of strangers
who have been recipients of this courtesy and help-
fulness of the department.
Many times I have been approached by indi-
vidual officers on questions pertaining to the op-
eration of the assessment laws. It is said that
when you touch a man's pocketbook, you touch
his heart. Since the Assessor each year has to
touch the pocketbooks of the people, it is not
strange that they frequently turn to the repre-
sentatives of law and order for information cov-
ering a subject which, at the best, is rather tech-
nical and involved, and yet susceptible of being
reduced to relatively simple terms. This state-
ment has been prepared with a view to making
the members of the department an authority on
this subject.
Before going further I wish to inform you that
a great deal of thought should be given before
changing revenue or taxation laws. Assessment
laws are created by a direct vote of the people.
The Assessor is an administrative official and
must follow these laws. He must also use his
own judgment upon certain points.
There are four important branches of asse«s-
ment work:
1 — Real Estate.
2— Improvements.
3 Personal Property.
4 — Exemptions.
Eacli of which liave laws, rules and conditions
governing them. I will tell you a little of some
of them. Many people are of the opinion that one
class of property is paying more than its propor-
tion of local taxation. Such, however, is not our
aim and from the assessment standpoint is not
altogether true when you consider the conditions
of the law.
Tlie law states that all taxable property must
be assessed at its full cash value. The question
of full cash value is one that is very confusing.
That is, the cash value to one is not the cash
value to another. The great confusion of value
in assessment of land is caused by the average
person trying to conform assessed value to selling
value.
They are two entirely separate matters. A
piece of land has a selling value for different rea-
sons. A person or firm may require a piece of
property for a special purpose, therefore, it has
a certain value to him ; again, a clever salesman
makes him appreciate its full value, or over-
values it; or, a good buyer may get it below its
actual selling value; or one may be forced to
sell or speculation may create a false value.
Income sometimes confuses one. If this was
the chief factor, all vacant lots would be exempt.
But for assessment purposes any of these fac-
tors must not have the entire influence as many
believe. The city must be considered in its en-
tirety, viz.: What influence one part of the com-
munity has to the other, the general topogi'aphy,
the class of people who dwell there, the uses it
has and can be put to, or the nature of the busi-
ness in a certain vicinity, schools, public pai'ks,
factories, police and fire protection, and many
other factors must receive consideration as they
are all reflected in the assessment value. We
arrive at a valuation by numerous methods and
after that is done we use a safety factor. A
safety factor is applied to all assessments.
This safety factor is applied to keep the value
within the definition of the law. The law states
(Sec. 3617) that the "value" and "full cash value"
mean the amount at which the property would be
taken in payment of a just debt from a solvent
debtor. For illustration: Mr. "A" is solvent, but
he is temporarily embarrassed for funds. He
owns a piece of property which he values at $6000,
or the price he paid for it.
Mr. "A" owes Mr. "B" $2500 for a just debt
and Mr. "A" offers to give IMr. "B" his property
in payment. Though Mr. "B" has no particular
use for tiie property, yet he would feel justified
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Importance of Proper Auto Insurance
By Charles E. Rogers
Manager, Jiorthern Division, West American Insurance Company fe? West American Casualty Company
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Every State in the Union, and particularly
California, has made provisions to regulate its
traffic so that its highways and city streets will
not become congested and unsafe to the lives of
its visitors and inhabitants. Laws liave been en-
acted which govern the type and condition of
motor vehicles to be operated and the speed at
which they must travel in certain districts; spe-
cial squads of officers have been appointed to di-
rect the actions of operators of motor vehicles
and, when necessary to the safety of the public,
to divest them of their right to operate a motor
vehicle.
But what provision is there to make restitution
for injury inflicted by automobile drivers upon
the person or property of unoffending citizens?
Up to the present time little has been done to-
wards compelling the owner and operator of a
motor vehicle to prove his willingness and ability
to make reparation for any harm he might do
to the person or property* of another, yet every
day courts are rendering judgments in large
amounts in favor of injured persons or owners
of damaged property against owners of cars caus-
ing the damage. A bill proposing compulsory
property damage and liability coverage was
brought before the last session of the California
State Legislature, but was defeated. Unless the
motoring public soon realizes the importance of
protecting others, as well as itself, a similar bill
will undoubtedly come before the Legislature
soon.
Therefore, the importance of adequate cover-
age for the owner of an automobile cannot be
stressed too strongly. The average purchaser of
a car uses much deliberation in the selection of
his automobile and convinces himself that what
lie purchases is the best car for his purpose.
Very often much time and money is spent in
equipping the car to suit his own peculiar taste.
But how much tliought does tlie average owner
of an automobile devote to the selection of his
insurance coverage and to the choice of a repu-
table company to carry it? We venture to say,
very little. In fact, many motorists have a very
vague idea of tlie existing forms of coverage and
their purpose.
From time immemorial fire and theft insur-
ance has been considered a necessity on all per-
sonal property of any value, and it is very likely
that this accounts for the popularity of this form
of coverage on automobiles. The public appar-
ently needed no education on this form of auto-
mobile insurance. Then came collision insurance
in its various forms, and, possibly because of the
benefits which the assured derives from this form
of coverage, it, too, has come to be considered as
a necessity. By paying a stipulated premium, the
automobile owner assures himself that no matter
what collision misfortune befalls him he will not
suffer the total loss of his car.
But beyond protecting himself against fire,
theft and collision losses, which, as a matter of
lact, in many cfsss could be prevented by the
automobile owner, the average motorist does
nothing to protect himself against the losses he,
either directly or indirectly, might cause others
to suffer. He does nothing to relieve himself of
tiie burden of defending a damage suit which
migiit be brought against him by some avaricious
person or persons. Fire, theft and collision losses
can only result in the loss of the car, but a suit
which results in a large judgment being rendered
can easily wipe out the life's savings of an aver-
age family.
An automobile driver has no means of know-
ing that the car in front of him or to his left is
under the control of a competent person, still he
will be held liable for damage inflicted upon the
car ahead of him or to his right, in many cases,
because the evdence is against him. By includ-
ing Property Damage coverage in his insurance
policy, the automobile owner does away with all
such annoyances as usually follow collisions in
whicii he could be held liable, and assures himself
of legal defense if suit is brought against him,
even though groundless.
Public Liability is that form of coverage which
relieves an automobile owner of liability for per-
sonal injury to passengers in his car, pedestrians,
and occupants of other cars whom he might in-
jure tiirough the operation of his car. The im-
portance of this coverage does not occur to the
average automobile owner until he becomes the
defendant in a damage suit which, in many cases,
results in worry, inconvenience, and the loss of
thousands of dollars. The fact that a person was
seriously injured as a result of the operation of
a certain automobile, bears far more weight with
a jury than does tlie defendant's statement that
the injured person was intoxicated and deliber-
ately stepped in front of his moving automobile in
the middle of a block. Public Liability coverage
in a reputable stock company is the motorist's
only relief and, in reality, affords more protection
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Executions and Lynchings in Early Days
Events Written By Peter Fanning
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PETER FANNING
The first execution
that took pUice in this
city was that of Joseph
Forni, a Spaniard, who
on the 13lh of Septem-
ber, 1852, killed a Mex-
ican named Joseph
Atira. The murder oc-
curred in Pleasant Val-
ley, in the southeast-
ern part of the city.
The origin of the quar-
rel was not known, but
Forni was seen pursu-
ing the deceased down
the side of the hill,
knife in hand, and was
disarmed after he had
plunged the knife for
the eleventh time into the body of his victim.
The prisoner was tried and convicted, and the
execution took place on the tenth of December,
1852. The scaffold was erected on the summit of
Telegraph Hill, and was witnessed by three thous-
and people.
A year and a half later, William B. Sheppard
suffered the extreme penalty for the murder of
Henry Day. The latter kept a saloon at the corner
of Davis and Clark streets, and also had a ranch
in Contra Costa County, on which Sheppard
worked for him. Day's daughter and Sheppard
were betrothed, and the old folks objecting to the
marriage, Sheppard enticed Day down to a wharf
and stabbed him for his opposition to the mar-
riage. The execution of the murderer took place
in a little valley near the Presidio, and was wit-
nessed by ten thousand people.
About the middle of January, 1856, Nicholas
Graham and Joseph Brooks, firemen on a bay
steamer, had a quarrel at the steamer's wharf.
The next day Graham made threats against the
life of his antagonist, and at night carried them
into effect by going to Brook's bunk and stabbing
him a number of times. Graham acknowledged
the justice of his sentence, attributed his fate to
drunkenness, and throughout his confinement ap-
peared to be resigned and penitent. His execution
was the first that took place in the County Jail
yard. He left a written statement, that if his
death should cause one person to reform from
whiskey, he would not have lived or died in vain.
In the month of June, 1858, the dead body of
Peter Becker, the proprietor of a dance hall on
Jackson and Dupont streets, was found in the cel-
lar of his establishment, where it had been thrown
by his murderer, who had almost hacked it to
pieces with a hatchet. Simultaneously with tlie
murder, Henry Meuse, a friend and companion of
the murdered man, disappeared from the city. He
was arrested in October of the same year, brought
to trial and was convicted on circumstantial evi-
dence. Meuse acknowledged his guilt before
his execution, but persisted that he quarreled
with his victim and killed him because he was ac-
cused of stealing a coat from Becker's room.
William Morris, alias "Tipperary Bill", one of
the most reckless roughs that ever infested the
state, on a night in November, 1858, shot and
killed Richard Doak, mate of a bark anchored in
the bay, in a deadfall on the Barbary Coast. The
shooting arose out of a remark made by Morris
about one of the dancing girls in the place, which
Doak resented. Morris was tried and convicted,
and up to within a couple of weeks of his execu-
tion, displayed an almost incredible indifference to
his fate. He was a tall, muscular, fine looking
man, and died sincerely penitent.
Edward Sheridan, a well known street contrac-
tor, who kept a saloon on Chambers street between
Front and Battery, was shot in the back by James
Whitford, who about three weeks previously had
been discharged from Sheridan's employ. He offi-
ciated as barkeeper. Whitford claimed that Sheri-
dan owed him a balance, but the murder appeared
to have been instigated by a spirit of revenge.
He paid the penalty in September, 1860. That
same year, Frank Bonney murdered a man in
Alameda and drove the body, tied upright in the
buggy around Oakland with him so as to evade
suspicion, but with facts obtained later, Bonney
was found guilty and was executed in the County
Jail of this city.
Albert Lee, a mulatto servant in the service of
General Fremont, married a remarkably handsome
girl, in whose veins there was a strange mixture
of white, Indian and negro blood. After nineteen
months of married life, they separated, their tem-
pers being incompatible. They had two children,
one being born after the separation. Lee remained
in the service of General Fremont, then residing
at Mariposa, and frequently urged his wife to a
reunion, but his propositions were invariably re-
jected. He determined to kill his wife, and on the
night of July 3, 1859, shot her and himself at her
father's house in Virginia Place in this city. Con-
trary to expectations, she died and he recovered.
On the 6th of January, 1860, his mortal careei'
ended with the hangman's noose.
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NEW LAWS EFFECTIVE
This month, one hundred and eighteen loop-
holes for criminals in the penal code of California
will be closed. For that is the number of changes
in criminal law and procedure made by tlie last
legislature. The efforts of the law-making body
were directed toward speeding up criminal trials
and simplifying legal phraseology that formerly
offered technicalities whereby lawyers were able,
in many cases, to subvert justice.
A resume of the new laws was announced yes-
terday by District Attorney Matthew Brady of
San Francisco. Classification of the acts and their
incorporation in the working rules of his office
was delegated to Assistant District Attorney Har-
mon D. Skillin. This official outlined the changes,
in order of importance, as follows.
Under a general classification of speeding up
criminal procedure, all criminal cases, after the
preliminary hearing, must have the information
filed with the Supei-ior Court within 15 days
instead of 30 days, as was formerly provided.
Another step to minimize criminal delays was
the passage of a law which makes it the duty of
the trial judge to examine jurors. An example
of this need was shown in the recent trial of car-
penters charged with murder in the labor war,
Skillin pointed out. Ten days were required to
select a jury under the old law.
Under the new legislation, criminal cases must
be set for trial not later than 30 days after the
plea by the defendant. There shall be no con-
tinuations, except any tliat might be necessary for
the ends of justice.
Appeals in criminal cases have been speeded up
from 60 days to 30 days. The district attorneys
are to assist the attorney-general in preparing
cases on appeal.
Appeals may be taken from a writ of habeas
corpus in criminal cases either by the people or
the petitioner. These cases are heard by the Dis-
trict Court of Appeals, except in cases where the
judgment of death has been given. Then it goes
to the Supreme Court.
Court judgment must now be pronounced imme-
diately after a plea or verdict of guilty. Ten days
are allowed for a motion for a new trial, and not
more than 20 days for consideration of probation,
with the provision that, upon the request of the
defendant, not more than 90 days be allowed.
GOOD POLICE SERVICE APPRECIATED
At the regular monthly meeting of this Associa-
tion held Tuesday evening, July 12, a recommen-
dation prevailed that this Association officially
recognize the veiy valuable work of the Police
Department in this Eureka District. Accordingly,
this letter is sent you at the suggestion of over
two hundred businessmen in this District who
wish to convey to the Police Department their sin-
cere gratitude for the very able and efficient man-
ner in which the Police Department is caring for
their needs.
Particular reference is made concerning Officer
Dewey Anderegg, who steadily patrols a "beat" in
the heart of our business section. Officer Ander-
egg's ever-courteous and efficient manner has ex-
cited considerable comment from the various busi-
ness concerns of this locality.
Once more assuring you of the whole-hearted
co-operation and gratitude of this Association, we
remain,
JACK GOODMAN, Pres.,
FRANK M. GOODBAN, Sec'y,
Upper Market and Castro
Merchants' Association.
I desire to express my appreciation for the many kind
acts and beautiful floral offerings extended to us in our
late bereavement.
CATHERINE DRISCOLL.
August. 1927
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OFFICE OF CHIEF OF POLICE,
San FraJicisco, California.
B\ireau of Identification.
WANTED FOR MURDER- $200.00 Reward, Print
RALPH E. CAREY (Negro)
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V3-1925-arrested-Viol. National Prohibition
Act & Keep. Dis. House as 163m- Eddy St.
1. /I. , Capt. R.Coulter & Fed. Agent G.Lee.
4A-1925-Keep. Dis. House Dismissed. P.C#2.
9/lif-1925- Nat/Prohi.Act Dismissed Fed. Court.
Julv 2nd. 1927-Murdered-Reynold Olton(Negro)
1150 Turk Street, this City by cutting.
The above rewaxd is offered bv the West
Indian Friendly Protective Society of this
City, for his airrest and return to this
City!
If located, arrest, and I will send Officer
with proper papers for his return to this
City.
San Franciscd, Calif.
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The Story of Long Distance Telephone Service
By T. F. Delury The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
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San Francisco has from its earliest days been
the metropoh's of a vast inland empire reaching far
up the great river valleys converging at the bay.
Before the railroads came, and for many years
after their introduction, river craft carried raw
products down the streams and manufactured
goods on return trips. Country roads were in
poor condition, and although stage coaches made
good time there had always been an urgent need
for some means of transmitting news and busi-
ness dispatches quickly. The telegraph solved
the problem to some extent and many lines were
built thi-oughout Central California. Although
the first telephone exchange in the State was
established in San F^'ancisco, on February 18,
1878, it was not more than a month or so before
exchanges were founded in Oakland, Sacramento,
San Jose and other cities. Witli a large number
of telephone exchanges in existence, the next
problem was to join them in one large system.
Inter-exchange or toll service came to be of
fundamental importance, in aiding the telephone
to accomplish its puiTDose of making all people
in the State neighbors. When an organization to
carry out this work had been formed, the task
of building Long Distance lines to connect scat-
tered towns together was immediately started.
The first Long Distance telephone line to be com-
pleted was that connecting San Francisco with
San Jose and way points. This was in 1883. Be-
fore the end of that year San Fi-ancisco, Oakland,
San Jose, Hayward and Benicia were brought into
telephonic communication with one another. Soon
afterward, other lines were placed in operation
along the coast north of San Francisco; in the
Sacramento Valley; in the East Bay Region; up
Niles Canyon, and down the coast to Santa Cruz
and Salinas.
With an increasing popularity of the telephone
as a means of inter-city communication, new
equipment features were adopted to aid in hand-
ling the business. Telephone instruments espe-
cially designed for Long Distance use were placed
in operation, and new transmission methods were
constantly adopted in perfecting the service. In
pioneer days of Long Distance development there
were no instruments such as are used today, for
gauging the location of trouble on a telephone line.
All tests were made by ringing on a line with a
magneto bell. If it rang hard, the trouble was
nearby, but if it rang easily, the line was either
open, or the trouble was at some distance. When-
ever a defect developed on a toll line, a man was
started by horse and buggy from San Francisco,
with orders to keep going until he found it. Later
a regular system of patrols was inaugurated to
maintain these rambling pathways of wire. A
patrol consisted of a lineman and his helper. They
made their rounds in a wagon, can-ying all neces-
sary materials, and reported their location daily
to San Francisco by vdre. Three main routes
were traversed by patrols. One ran north from
San Francisco, one toward San Jose, and one in-
land toward Stockton. The latter assignment
was the longest, four months being required to
make the round. The long lines patrols were dis-
continued in 1906.
Long Distance telephone lines were gradually
extended until practically every section of Cali-
fornia was connected with the system. The
States of the Pacific Northwest were next joined
to California by telephone, and through continued
construction and improvement Pacific Coast cities
and towns were made neighbors, one to the
other. On January 25, 1915, the first transconti-
nental line was opened. The President of the
United States talked from Washington, D. C. In
New York, Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
of the telephone, repeated the memorable sen-
tence, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you!" to
that same Thomas Watson in San Fi-ancisco.
Theodore N. Vail, then president of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company, called from
Florida.
As time passed, other transcontinental circuits
were opened, and Long Distance telephone service
was extended to Cuba. A few months ago, on
February 26, 1927, the first telephone conversa-
tion between a Pacific Coast point and London
took place from San Francisco, when President
H. D. Pillsbury of the Pacific Telephone & Tele-
gi'aph Company talked wdth Colonel H. E.
Shreeve, London representative of the American
Telephone & Telegraph Company on the Trans-
atlantic Radio Telephone Circuit. The new fa-
cilities were then thrown open to public use in
California, Nevada, Washington, Oregon and
Arizona, on the same day.
Today a person may call any one of over 17,-
000,000 telephones in the Bell System from his
home or office and talk to his party as easily and
comfortably as if the conversation were taking
place in the. same room. From the crude begin-
nings of nearly a half-century ago. Long Distance
has grown to be a truly universal service, which
has broken down the once forbidding barriers of
time and space.
August. 1927
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Qive thanks to the
Officer
0^^
for his great services in time of fire.
We depend on the pohceman to
keep the streets clear so that fire
apparatus will have a straight path
and hydrants will be free of obstruc
tion.
It is the officer on duty who does
most to clear burning and threat-
ened buildings of their inhabitants,
saving many lives. Fire lines, keep-
ing people out of the firemen's way
and out of danger, are maintained
by the police.
By night, the watchful officer is
alert to turn in the alarm at the first
sign of fire. By day he is ever ready
to support the fire department in
dealing with needless fire ha2;ards
that threaten the safety of an entire
neighborhood.
Our thanks to the police! They
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in property by their help in fire
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TUTTLEFISH
(Continued from Page 8)
His Honor: "I shall allow the question as re-
framed," to witness, "answer the question."
Answer: "Neither, that is . . ."
2nd Attorney, 1st Attorney : "What !"
Answer: Continuing, "I have only one boy."
His Honor: "Oh!"
2nd Attorney : "And do you love your boy, dear
Mrs. Lilly White?"
1st Attorney: "I object to that, as tending to
bias the juror in favor of the defense."
2nd Attorney: "The question is in point, y'r
Honor. We ask it to ascertain whether this juror's
maternal instincts are normal as bearing upon the
other natural qualifications of the juror."
His Honor: "Seems to me the question ought
to be allowed."
2nd Attorney: "And, Mrs. White, the greatest
calamity you could face would be to lose your boy,
would it . . ."
1st Attorney, springing to his feet: "Now, if
the court please, this is going too far. We object
on the ground that counsel on the other side is
attempting deliberately to influence this panel,
and we further assign as misconduct this proce-
dure . . ."
2nd Attorney, also rising: "Your Honor, I ob-
ject to being so unnecessai'ily interrupted by coun-
sel for the people. It is my privilege to appear and
defend accused pei'sons in this great court of hu-
man justice, and I claim, aye, demand the right
to proceed . . ."
His Honor: "Gentlemen, gentlemen, this court
must remind you that it cannot entertain the air-
ing of personal differences within these walls. The
court will sustain the objection. Proceed with the
hearing."
2nd Attorney: "Do you believe in the death
penalty, Mrs. White?"
Answer: "Well, not exactly — I . . ."
2nd Attorney: "Mrs. White, do you honestly
believe that life. Heaven given, was meant to be
taken away by man ?"
1st Attorney: "Now, if your Honor please, I
assign this as gross misconduct on the part of the
attorney for the defense. The question can have
no other object than to influence this jury in pre-
judice of the people's cause. I object to the ques-
tion."
His Honor, turning to 2nd Attorney: "You will
kindly confine youi- questions within their proper
sphere. Objection sustained."
(To be Continued)
Lieutenant Charles Dullea and Sergeant Otto Frederick-
.son put Joe Biagini in the city prison for burglary; Do-
nato Coscia, a fugitive and assisted by Sergeants George
Healy and Martin Porter and Tom Lynch of Central Sta-
tion, Cecilio Figueroa for San Jose, and Harry Garcia for
murder, Healy and Porter taking part in this arrest.
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August, 1927
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OFFICER CLIFF JONES GETS BURGLAR
Hidden in a clump of buslies in the rear of the
house at 739 Uiioa street, dying- from three bullet
wounds in his back, police the other day found
the unconscious form of Carl Ewert, 31, of 279B
Clara" street, who recently engaged in a running
pistol duel with Police Corporal Clifford Jones,
after Jones had discovered Ewert in the act of
burglarizing- a house.
Ewert, believed to have been a one time sailor
in the German navy, fired the first shot in the
duel, according to Jones. Later the police officer,
who was on sick leave and off duty when he went
after the burglar, opened fire with his own pistol,
firing six times. Three of the bullets took effect.
The entire neighborhood was aroused by the
shots, and a volunteer posse, with Jones at the
head, made a thorough search for the bandit, but
without avail.
"I live at 745 Ulloa, right next to 739 Ulloa,
the home of the Charles Ellis family," Corporal
Jones reported. "At about 9:45 last night I saw
a light in the house. Knowing that the Ellis
family was away on a vacation I stai-ted to inves-
tigate.
"As I was leaving my front door I saw Ewert
attempting to climb out of a front window of the
Ellis house. I ordered him to halt. Instead, he
slammed the window and withdrew into the house.
"I forced an entrance through the front door.
Ewert fired one shot at me and escaped through
the back.
"When I reached the back porch, I saw Ewert's
fleeing form in tlie distance. Without waiting to
think it over, I fired six shots at him, in one, two,
three order.
"I heard a gTunt of pain, but the bandit seemed
to keep on going. I chased him until he darted
into an alley and disappeared."
The bandit undoubtedly made a circle, because
the yard where he was found dying several hours
later, is right in back of the Ellis house.
Corporal Jones was on sick leave and not on
duty when he went after the burglar. After the
chase he was so weak he had to be helped into
his home by his wife.
It was Mrs. Jones who noticed a blood trail lead-
ing to the yard where Ewert was found. She
notified the Park police station, who dispatched
Policemen Fred Ki-acke and John McGrew to the
scene.
The two policemen followed the trail of blood
to the clump of bushes, where Ewert was found
dying. In his possession was a quantity of jewel-
ry, some of which, police said, came from the
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August, 1927
Ellis house. The dying bandit was rushed to Park
Emergency Hospital.
Five other homes were burglarized that night
in the same neighborhood, and police today were
investigating the possibility that all were com-
mitted by Ewert.
A strange assortment of stolen jewelry, arms
and ammunition, barber and carpenter tools, per-
fumes and ladies handbags was found in Ewart's
room at 279B Clara street, according to Police Ser-
geant George Stallard. Among the loot was a
$400 ruby hidden in a chandelier in the room.
FIREMEN
(Continued from Page 7)
police department or the engineering department
of a municipality in laying out traffic lanes or
considering the flow of traffic.
Constant application to duty and hearty co-
operation, within and without the lines of duty
develop strong friendships, and away from duty
such activities as athletics and social gatherings
do much to engender a closer feeling of co-opera-
tinn and harmony in stress of duty.
The police officer is at times considered as an
individual who has nothing to do except walk
along the sunny side of the street, or the lighted
side during the night hours, but little thought is
given to the many hours put in, both day and
night looking to the protection of persons and
property, by the police officer.
The fireman is at times thought of also as one
who lounges around a fire station all the time, but
tlie public does realize that when the fire warning
sounds, they are ready to jump. Both the police
officer and the fireman are the guardians of the
peoples' lives and property all during the twenty-
four hours of the day. They are ever-ready and
willing, and history proves that they have done so
countless times, to give up their lives for the sake
of their employers, the taxpayers.
Engaged in a hazai'dous occupation, with never
a thought for the loved ones at home when duty
calls, they are not at times looked upon or thought
of with the proper amount of respect and appre-
ciation, but both departments tlirough their
membership can, by their conduct, bring credit to
themselves that will reflect the glory and effici-
ency of each and of both, througli the proper
spirit of co-operation and harmony.
We cannot look for and we do not expect ap-
plause and praise for each act, but we of the police
and fire departments can, and do derive consola-
tion, even gratification and pleasure, from our
ability to point with pride to the splendid acliieve-
ments of our respective departments.
This arrival at and departure from the scene
of a conflagration with the maximum amount of
speed and safety cannot be accomplished without
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August, 1927
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the detailed assistance of the police department.
This detailed assistance will result from confer-
ences between police and fire department heads.
At these conferences such traffic problems as con-
gested traffic lanes, improper direction of heavy
flow traffic, location of fire alarm stop signals, and
such measures as aid in the rapid progress of fire
apparatus combined with safety — alike to the
firemen so responding and the persons, vehicles
and property of citizens on the streets througli
which the fire apparatus has to pass.
One-way street provisions and a compliance
with the local regulations and laws as to the route
for heavy traffic should be strictly enforced by
the police department. Fire department officials
should see that proper budget appropriations are
set aside in their respective municipalities to in-
stall a signal system so connected that all inter-
section movement which would impede the pro-
gi'ess of fire apparatus may be stopped at the ap-
proach of said apparatus. Gong signals should
be installed in the various heavy traveled dis-
tricts, the ringing for a certain period of time to
indicate the approach or possible approach of fire
apparatus.
Taxicab men, garage owners, teamsters and
streetcar motormen, as well as members of the
local police and fire departments, should be sup-
plied with pamphlets containing diagrams show-
ing one-way streets, heavy freight traffic lanes,
heavy traffic sections, also locations of fire gong
signals in these locations with instructions as to
their periods of ringing and the possible location
of the incipient fire calling forth such ringing.
Prospective motormen, teamsters and taxi drivers
should show they possess a general knowledge of
the matters just indicated before being given a
local driver's license.
Both firemen and policemen should be thorough-
ly familiar with their city's traffic laws and should
have no hesitancy in the matter of arterial streets,
one-way streets, no-parking streets, fire gong sig-
nals, etc. Once at the fire, the firemen know what
to do. It is in getting there and while the ap-
paratus is in action that the work of the police
department plays a big factor and this is why I
consider it so important to have the utmost co-
operation between the departments and why I
maintain that the traffic problem is the link that
binds our departments together.
In conclusion I wish to again bring to mind that
although the general aim of both police and fire
departments is the same — viz: the protection of
life and property, the link that essentially binds
the two departments together is the traffic prob-
lem. The firemen have to get to and from the
scene of the fire at one hundred per cent speed
and safety limit.
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POLICE SERGEANT LEARNS HIS HONEST
FACE BRINGS TvIANY RESPONSIBILITIES
Appointed Guardian of Insane Man Whose
Money He Holds
To have an honest face sometimes entails grave
responsibilities, as witness the case of Police Ser-
geant Jack Stelzner of the Southern Station.
Nearly everybody remembers Jack as the form-
er amateur heavyweight champion in the days of
Fitzsimmons, Corbett and Jeffries and for the last
twenty-six years a familiar figure in his police
uniform.
Tlie business of the honest face came about
May 2, when an elderly man, John Ault, either
leaped or fell from a third-story window of a hotel
at 672 Howard street. Sergeant Stelzner went
on the case, and at the Emergency Hospital the
injured man whispered in his ear: "You have an
honest face. Go to my room and under the cai-pet
you'll find all my money. Keep it for me."
Stelzner went back to the room, and after a
search found $1822. Stelzner took the money to
Ault, but the latter insisted upon him keeping it,
declaring he had not a relative in the world. Stelz-
ner consulted Superior Judge Graham, who ad-
vised him to place the money in the bank and hold
it as trustee. This Stelzner did, paying for medi-
cal attention to the amount of $581.
Then there was a new development. On July 6,
Ault was declared insane and committed to Napa.
Stelzner still had $1245 on his hands. He con-
sulted Judge Gi'aham again and the latter advised
him to engage an attorney and apply for guardian-
ship papers. Stelzner engaged Attorney Wallace
A. Hyman, and recently Judge Graham appoint-
ed the veteran sergeant with the honest face guar-
dian ad litem of the insane man.
SCHOOL DAYS
Now that schools have again opened, many
dangers will be presented to school children on the
streets from automobile trucks moving fast or
otherwise.
Police officers can help in the preservation of
the lives of children by being watchful of children
playing on sidewalks and streets, or when going
to and from schools by advising school children
to be careful at all times. To stop and look
when crossing the streets in the proper manner,
first to the left, and when arriving in the center
of streets, then to the right, to protect themselves
from harm. Not to climb on tlie rear of street
cars or motor vehicles, whether moving or stand-
ing. Children will listen to their Big Brother
Policemen, and you may save a life.
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530 FRONT STREET
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INTERNATIONAL CHIEFS
(Continued from Page 6)
division to be known as the Division of Identifica-
tion; that said division shall be vested with the
duty of acquiring, collecting, classifying and pre-
serving criminal identification records with the
duly authorized officials of governmental agencies,
of States, cities, and penal institutions; and that
the cost of maintenance of said division shall be
paid from the appropriation "Detection and pros-
ecution of crimes" for the respective fiscal years
concerned, as otherwise provided."
Your President requests that this question be
discussed on the floor of this convention, and also
that the action of himself and the secretary in
not complying with the resolution of the 1926
convention be approved.
Just a fw w^ords in recognition of the truly mar-
velous achievements of our Bureau operating un-
der the supervision of that very able director,
J. Edgar Hoover, at Washington, D. C.
I have had close contact and experience, as a
member of the Advisory Board of the Bureau, and
as chief executive of the San Francisco Police De-
partment, with the Bureau, and can attest to its
efficiency and accuracy in the matter of criminal
records.
Try to i-ealize the fact that there are on file
with the Bureau approximately 1,205,664 finger
prints, all of which means there has been an enor-
mous amount of work done in the compilation of
such a staggering amount of records, and Mr.
Hoover is certainly entitled to all the praise we
can give him, as well as our continued support in
his work.
ilr. Hoover, himself, will explain more about the
bill, and how the activities of the Bureau can be
further expanded, pointing out what we can do in-
dividually to assist in this expansion. By our
united efforts, we can, I am certain, make this
Bureau one of the greatest crime reducing agen-
cies of our time — need I urge you further?
Ridicule of Police Officers by the Theatrical
Profession
Your attention is called to numerous shows,
both of the spoken and motion picture variety, in
which the police officer is held up to ridicule for
the edification of the audience.
The police business of today is a far different
proposition than it was years ago. People of all
nationalities realize that the law enforcement of-
ficer is the protector of pei-sons and property, and
as such, he is entitled to the respect of the people
of any community he may be serving. It is not
just or fair to hold him up to ridicule.
The records of every city contain a roll of honor
of the heroes who died in the discharge of their
duty, the soldiers of peace who are called upon all
the time to wage the unceasing war of law and
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order against the organized law breakers of the
criminal world.
The police officer craves only the friendly sup-
port of the citizens of his community in his bat-
tles with the lawless element; for he realizes that
without their co-operation, he fights a losing bat-
tle. It is recommended that each member of our
association pay attention to this tendency to pro-
voke laughter at the expense of the police officer,
so reports may be submitted to the chief execu-
tive of the department with full particulars as to
time and place where such entertainment is being
given.
Your President, having had personal experience
in this respect, is satisfied that a word to the man-
ager, a proper presentation of the facts in the case,
or a letter to the parties responsible for the pro-
duction, will bring about a deletion of the objec-
tionable lines or scene. Several times I have had
occasion to write to various theatrical agencies
and succeeded in getting what I was after each
time. This subject, however, is one that should
be checked up on and our disapproval shown when-
ever it happens, to the end that members of the
theatrical profession will discontinue the practice
entirely.
Police Day Proclamation
The Mayor of San Francisco, Hon. James Rolph,
Jr., declared February 19, 1927, Police Day, and
requested all citizens of San Francisco to observe
it by paying respect to the police officer perform-
ing his duty, remembering those brave officers who
passed on while performing their duties, and re-
questing a record attendance at the Widows' &
Orphans' Ball wjiich was held on that night. The
result was that more than 49,000 tickets were sold
for the ball at one dollar each.
Your President urges tiiat the setting aside of
one day a year, to be known as Police Day through-
out the world, be considered at this convention,
so that a concerted movement may be made in
each community, to bring this about.
Peace Officers' State Organizations
I am very much in favor of such organizations,
primarily for the opportunities created for officers
of various municipalities to become acquainted
with each other and exchange ideas and exper-
iences, and further because they are capable of
achieving better results through the concerted
action of all the members, in legislative matters,
the numerical strength of such organizations car-
rying much greater weight than individual efforts,
however well founded and supported. In the states
where there are no state organizations I would
strongly recommend that they be established.
Conclusion
In conclusion, I want to again assure you that
I deeply appreciate the honor that was conferred
upon me, when you elected me to the Presidency
of our Association. I have faithfully and cheer-
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fully tried to dischars:e the duties of my oflice,
and would like now, if I may, to speak a word
or two in behalf of my successor, I might say
successors, for it is a large undertaking, this being
President of such a fine organization, one not to
be taken lightly by any means, and your Presi-
dent, whoever he may be, or wherever he may
be, needs the whole-hearted co-operation and sup-
port of all the members thereof.
At this time, I should also like to recommend
that a committee be appointed to revise and bring
up-to-date the constitution and by-laws of the In-
ternational Association of Chiefs of Police, as
quickly as possible.
In my humble opinion, meeting and mingling
with brother peace officers, exchanging ideas and
experiences, and discussing the problems confront-
ing police departments all over the world, is a
stepping stone to greater efficiency in our chosen
work, and it certainly behooves each and every
member of the association to attend our conven-
tions and invite others who are or may be inter-
ested in police work.
GLEESON
(Continued from Page 14)
partment; at a meeting of the Traffic Enforcement
Board a few days ago a motion to approve of the
same was made and seconded by Daniel J. O'Brien,
Chief of Police.
As a final summary of this report, it proves:
that traff.c problems can only be corrected by the
appropriation by the Board of Supervisors of
moneys to provide the purchase and installation of
"Stop and Go" signals, an increase of officers for
traffi.c duties, to co-ordination of various city bu-
reaus and principally to provide for the gi'eat ex-
pense of costly signals, signs, painting and other
requirements for traffic needs; that a system
whereby the violators of traffic ordinances and
regulations shall be fined small sums for minor
violations is required and necessary. Speeding,
reckless driving, hit and run drivers and driving
while intoxicated will be required to report direcriy
to Police Courts.
Later on, following articles with further ex-
planatory discussions will be made of various
recommendations contained in the report of Dr.
Miller McClintock in order that all members of
the Police Department will know the purposes and
effect of the recommendations upon the control of
the pedestrian and vehicular traffic of our citj'.
The policewomen had an active time during the past few
weeks. Following are some of the most important arrests
by Policewoman Kathryn Sullivan: Ir\nn Foster, William
Rosendale, Tony Lugo, Sam Paul, Sam Samers, and An-
drew Block, juvenile court law violators, and Joe Chap-
peloni, vagrancy. By Policeman Katherine O'Connor:
William Simpson, H. E. Mort and Ermon Gellenbeck, viola-
tor of Juvenile Court Law.
KEEP THE ASSESSOR'S
OFFICE OUT OF
POLITICS
RETAIN
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WOLDEN
(INCUMBENT)
ASSESSOR
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Over 10 Years Chief Assistant
to the late Assessor John Ginty
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August, 1927
The following report was submitted to Chief
O'Brien by Captain of Detectives Duncan Mathe-
son. The officers in question have received the
commendation of the Chief of Police for the
police service rendered on this occasion:
I respectfully suggest that Police Officers Ar-
thur J. Lahey and John J. Benn of Company E,
and Police Officers Andrew Scully and Raymond
Harris of Company A, be commended in orders
for excellent judgment and prompt service ren-
dered in arresting Peter Compagno, Daniel Caster,
Anglo Basuino, Joe Tallarico, and Amando Guer-
rero on a charge of robbery, which was committed
about 1 a. m., July 31, 1927. These men robbed
a citizen on the street, using an automobile, and
were arrested some considerable distance from
the scene of the crime, due to the activity and
energy of the Police Officers in question.
See Police Report No. 144649.
DUNCAN MATHESON,
Captain of Detectives.
Police Report 144649
At 1:10 a. m. the within-named man, Ray
man Ti-iadad, reported to me that he was robbed
by five men in an automobile while he was walking
down Ellis street near Larkin street, and after
robbing him the automobile went west on Ellis
street. I searched the neighborhood with Triadad,
and while we were standing on Polk street, be-
tween Eddy and Ellis street, Daniel Castro came
walking down Polk street, and Triadad identified
him as one of the men who robbed him. I searched
Castro and was unable to find any of the des-
cribed property on him. I took Castro to this sta-
tion and questioned him, and he stated tliat he
lived at 310 Columbus avenue. Room 41, and that
Amando Guerrero lived there with him and also
did hang around the poolroom at 621 Broadway.
Officer John Benn and I went to Guerrero's room
and he was not in. We then went to the poolroom
at 621 Broadway with Triadad, and when we ap-
proaclied, there were three men standing in front
of the place, and when they saw us, they started
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to run up Broadway to Stockton street, and we
gave cliase.
Officers Andrew Scully and Raymond Harris,
who were touring- the Central District in the Buick
automobile, saw the three men run and we chas-
ing- them. With the assistance of the above offi-
cers, we caught Peter Compagno at Vallejo and
Stockton streets, and caught Angelo Basuino hid-
ing under an automobile in the Vallejo Sti-eet Gar-
age, Vallejo street between Powell and Stockton
streets. We searched these two men and found
seventy-five cents on Compagno, which was booked
as evidence against him, and on Basunio we found
sixteen dollars and thirty-five cents, which was
booked as evidence against him. Triadad posi-
tively identified these three men as the ones that
robbed him.
We also arrested Joseph Tallarico and Amando
Guerrero ; we searched these men and were unable
to find any of the described property on them.
Triadad also identified these men as the ones that
held him up.
Triadad stated that Basuino was driving the
automobile and had a pair of gloves on. We found
the gloves under the automobile where he was
hiding at in the Vallejo Street Garage, and they
were booked as evidence against Basuino. The
gloves are yellow leather and a H. L. Block make.
These men refused to make a statement and also
denied that they committed the robbery. I sub-
poenaed Triadad as complaining witness and in-
structed him to appear in court Monday morning.
Police Officer ARTHUR H. LEAHY.
AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE
(Continued from Page 16)
than any other form of coverage, even going so
far as to furnish legal defense in the event suit
is brought against the assured, even though
groundless. To say the least, it is much more
pleasant to be able to report the accident to an
insurance carrier than attempt to tell it to a jury.
Compelling automobile owners to carry certain
forms of coverage might be considered by some
as an infiingement upon their constitutional
rights, but tlie continued disregard by the motor-
ing public of its duty towards the general public
is very likely to make it necessary for the various
States to provide some means of redress for those
upon whom injury is inflicted by automobiles. It
is sincerely hoped that the motorists of California
will, in the very near future, see the necessity of
Property Damage and Public Liability insurance,
thus making California's traffic lanes safer for its
visitors and inhabitants, and obviating the nec-
essity for the introduction of another bill which
proposes to dictate to automobile owners the
forms of insurance they must carry.
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Auguat, 1927
OFFICER ALBERT BIRDSALL BOOSTED
The following is a letter received by Chief
O'Brien from Chief of Police August Vollmer of
Berkeley, which is self-explanatory, and which
is commendable of members of the Department:
The enclosed letter from my family physician
was so good, that I thought I would pass it on to
you for your files, and also with the hope that the
officer referred to in the letter may be compli-
mented for his courteous method of dealing with
the public.
Such courteous and gentlemanly conduct cannot
help but change the attitude of the public toward
the police officer, and we may confidently hope that
the time will not be distant when no other type of
behavior on the part of an officer will be tolerated
in any police department.
AUGUST VOLLMER,
Chief of Police,
Berkeley, California.
August Vollmer,
Chief of Police,
Berkeley, California.
As I heard you speak very kindly of Chief
O'Brien of San Francisco, perhaps you will be
interested in hearing of the splendid spirit whicli
he is infusing into the men of his command as
instanced yesterday morning.
With my son and his family I was driving down
the beach about three blocks south of the Cliff'
House, when we were signalled to stop by a young
traffic officer on foot.
We had thoughtlessly driven past a crossing
where motorists are supposed to come to a stop.
Being unfamiliar with the crossings, the act w^s
entirely careless on our part, although we were
fully at fault.
The reprimand given us was handed out in
such a firm but entirely gentlemanly manner that
it made me proud that in my old home city of San
Francisco, the old-time "rough-neck" tactics of
old-day police had given way to one which would
impress the stranger with the fine spirit incul-
cated by those in charge of the department at
present.
This all happened about eleven in the morning
of Sunday, July 17th, 1927, and when you see Chief
O'Brien, I really wish you would convey to him
my appreciation as well as my congratulation that
he has such discriminating men on his force.
With kind personal regards, I am,
HUBERT N. ROWELL, M.D.,
Berkeley, California.
Note: The Officer referred to in the letter writ-
ten by Dr. Rowell to Chief Vollmer of Berkeley is
— Albert Birdsall, Star 244, assigned to the Rich-
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FINAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
Between the Mission Giants and the Bush Street
Station, Friday, July 15, 1927, at
Southside Playgrounds
MISSION AB R H PO A E
Feeney, RF A 0 12 10
Desmond, 2B 2 0 0 1 0 1
Hakans, 2B 2 12 0 10
Meyer, P 4 110 3 0
Dorman, C 3 0 1 14 2 0
Reulein, SS 3 0 0 3 2 0
Smith, R., LF 1 0 0 0 0 0
Laine, LF 3 0 0 0 0 0
Anderegg-, 3B 4 0 0 0 12
Smith, J., CF 4 0 0 3 0 0
Delehanty, IB 3 12 4 0 1
Totals 33 3 7 27 10 4
BUSH AB R H PO A E
Murray, SS 5 0 3 2 4 0
Barrett, IB .4 1 0 13 1 0
Clancy, P 4 0 0 13 0
Riordan, 3B ..3 11110
McCarte, C --4 0 0 6 0 0
Kavanaugh, 2B.. 4 1115 0
Engler, LF 4 112 0 0
Hanlon, CF ..3 0 110 0
Davalos, RF 3 10 0 0 0
Totals 34 5 7 27 14 0
Score by Innings
Club 1234 5 6789
Mission.... 0 0 0 0 0 10 2 0—3
Bush 1 0 110 0 2 0 0—5
Stolen bases: Reulein, Bai-rett, Murray.
Sacrifice hits: Hanlon.
2-base hits: Dorman.
3-base hits : Delehanty.
Runs batted in: Keeney, Dorman; 2, Riordan,
Murray.
Double plays: Barrett to Muri-ay to Barrett;
Clancy to Murray to Barrett.
Struck out by : Meyer, 14 ; by Clancy, 6.
Base on balls : Meyer, 1 ; Clancy, 2.
Hit batsman: Riordan.
Runs responsible for: Meyer, 3; Clancy, 3.
Left on base : Mission, 3 ; Bush, 5.
Time of game : 1 hr. and 52 min.
Umpire: "Ham" Mohr; Scorer: Duncan.
Final Standing of Clubs
Club Games Won Lost %
Bush 15 13 2 .867
Mission 15 11 4 .733
Park 15 5 10 .333
Ingleside 15 1 14 .066
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August. 1927
DEATH TAKES VET S. F. POLICE OFFICER
Another link with old San Francisco was broken
this month with the death in the Veteran's Home
at Yountville of former Sergeant Detective Harry
C. Reynolds, for more than forty years a member
of the San Francisco police force. Reynolds, who
acted as President McKinley's bodyguard when
the Chief Executive visited San Francisco, was
84 years old.
He was an officer in the Civil War, and for a
time was acting police chief. He was a companion
of Chief Jerry Dinan and Ed Wrenn, veterans of
the force in the old days.
Burial was in the National Cemetery in the
Presidio, with full military honors.
FANNING
(Continued from Page 17)
John Clarkson, also a mulatto, and a cook on a
bay steamer, killed a woman of his own race. It
was on the evening of December 1st, 1860, at the
residence of Frederick Woodworth, on Hawthorn
street, where the victim, Caroline Park, a bright
mulatto girl of several summers, was employed as
a servant. Clarkson, it seemed, was jealous of a
colored male servant who was employed in the
house, and on the evening in question, while the
two were seated at a table in the kitchen, Clarkson
suddenly drew a razor, seized the girl's head, and
cut her throat from ear to ear. For this he ex-
piated his crime on the scaffold on June 12th, 1861.
John Irwin owned, and lived on a hog ranch on
Serpentine avenue, off the San Bruno road, and in
the latter part of 1864, engaged Barney Olwell to
dig a well for him, for which the latter charged the
sum of $40. He couldn't get his money, and
threatened to make pork of Invin the next time he
refused to pay him. He carried the threat into
effect with the assistance of a pistol, and on the
22nd of January, 1866, he was hung for the crime.
On the scaffold he seemed not to comprehend the
awful position he was placed in.
On the night of June 3rd, 1865, Antonio Sasso-
vich was drunk on Pacific street, and stumbled.
Edward Walter was talking with his partner on
the sidewalk, and laughed at the accident, for
which Sassovich stabbed him to the heart. Sasso-
vich was tried and convicted, and his countrymen,
among whom he was very popular, exhausted
every means to secure his release from death. On
the 22nd day of April, 1866, the sheriff vindicated
the majesty of the law by hanging him.
One stormy night in February, 1865, Thomas
Byrnes, a petty thief, engaged a team at a stable
on Kearny street, and went out riding with Chas.
Hill, a young man of fast proclivities, who had a
short time before arrived in this state. The host-
ler said that Byrnes slipped a heavy monkey-
wrench into the buggy. Towards morning, Byrnes
returned to the stable, riding one of the horses
and leading the other. He said he had broken
the buggy and wanted another team, which was
given him, together with a rope, leather strap and
shovel, which latter implement he said he required
to dig the buggy out of the sand. Hill was never
seen alive afterward, but a month later his body,
with his skull fractured, was found partially buried
in the sand near Hayes park. Around the body
was a piece of rope and a leather strap, with
which it had been dragged several yards. These
articles were identified as having been given to
Byrnes in tiie stable. Byrnes was executed for
the crime on September 6th, 1866. A diamond pin
of large size, which was afterward shown to be
paste, which Hill wore, was the motive for the
murder.
The next execution that took place was that of
Chun Wong, who killed his mistress, Sun Choy.
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Tlie murdered woman eloped from Sacramento
with one Ah Sin and took up her residence in this
city. Chun Wong followed them to this city, and
failing- to get adequate compensation from Ah Sin
for the injury inflicted upon him, stabbed the wo-
man, one day in March, 1865, and he was hanged
for the crime in November, 1865.
Then came a long interval, and for seven years
after tins last execution, the sound of the car-
penter's hammer, erecting the dread instrument
of death was never heard in the County Jail. On
Wednesday, May 14th, 1873, John Devine, known
as "The Chicken", suffered the death penalty. He
enticed a young German named August Kemp to
go with him, and when they reached the hill where
the big rocks lay off Wilde street, as one would be
going to South San Francisco, he killed him for a
paltry sum. The proof of the crime was ovei'-
whelming. Devine for years was a terror on the
city front. At one time previous to this, he fought
a number of sailors in a sailor's boarding house,
and in the mix-up, Devine got his hand caught in
the jam of a door, when a fellow named Maitland
in the other room gi'abbed a big knife and cut the
hand off, Devine immediately picked up the sev-
ered member and ran to a drug store and asked
the di'uggist to put this together. Devine left a
record behind him the parallel of which had no
equal among the many depraved wretches who had
figured in the brief but terrible criminal history
of that time, and he died as coolly as if he was
going to breakfast and not to eternity.
Charles A. Russell, on July 25, 1873, suffered
death by hanging. Russell was a good looking
young man, but possessed a bad reputation. He
had a personal altercation on Montgomery street
with a man named Crotty, who was knowTi as
"Short Haired Jimmy", a well known rough, and
determined to kill him. He made several ineffec-
tual efforts during the afternoon to borrow a re-
volver, but finally procuring one, started out on a
hunt for Crotty, whom he found on the corner
of California and Montgomery street, where the
Safe Deposit building afterward stood. Russell
crept up to Crotty, whose head was averted from
him, and placing a pistol to his temple, partly
turned his face around, and shot him. Crotty sur-
vived several hours. Russell made his escape, but
was captured the next night in the Brooklvn hotel.
Corporal Thoma.<; Mclnemey and his posse working out
of the office of Chief of Police Daniel J. O'Brien, brought
in, among others, the following: Ralph Short, Thomas
Getty and Frank Martini, booked for gambling, and en
route to Oakland; Henry Benson, Sam Sanders, Harry
Burdy, Louis Welter, Bernard Tanib, Harold May and
Joe Langford, vagrants.
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The gleanings of Corporal Al Christ and Detective Pat-
rick Walsh, of the Chief's Detail, included in his bookings,
Antonio Apodaca, John Dennia, Jos. Johnson, Wm. At-
tridge, Edward McLean, Joe Sullivan, Marshall Sikes, Joe
Valdez, John Monroe, most with records, all for vagrancy;
Morris Long, James Dalton, impersonating an officer and
disturbing the peace; Pete Levson, state poison law.
» * *
Detective Sergeant Thomas Hyland, who has been asso-
ciated with most all the details of the bureau, and now en-
gaged with the Crime Prevention detail, which he origin-
ally started, is back from his vacation, spent in the beauty
spots of Northern California. Refreshed, and reinvigor-
ated. Sergeant Hyland says he is ready to cope with any
eventuality that may transpire, and will be ready as in
the past to land all the evil doers he can grab, in
the city prison.
* * *
Detective George Page of Lieutenant De Guire's watch
in the bureau has gone to Richardson Springs with his
family for his annua! outing. George, who is one of the
department's good ball players, expects to make the deer
hard to catch.
* * *
Thomas Harvey, booked en route to Los Angeles, was
locked up by Corporal Thomas Mclnerney, Officers James
Coleman and M. Del Monte.
* * *
Detective Sergeant William Bennett brought in Arthur
Coryell and Frennie Soria, ex cons, whom he found doing
nothing of any particular benefit to the upbuilding of the
city. They were vagged.
* * *
Officer A. E. Morrison and Special Jack McCarthy of
the State Board of Pharmacy brought in a dozen addicts
and peddlers during the past three weeks.
* * *
Lieut. Tackney, Western Addition Station, spending his
vacation with his family at Hoberg's, Lake County, showed
some of the boys that he still retains his eagle eye. Leo
umpired a baseball game between Adams and Hoberg's,
and he sure did call them correctly. We are sure that if
the Coast League knew of Leo's ability behind the catcher,
the department would be missing a regular lieutenant.
* * *
Lieut. Thos. Hoertkom and his family are spending
their vacation at Hoberg's, Lake County, among the pines.
* * »
Lieutenant Bernard McDonald and Detective Sergeant
Phillip Lindecker of the Automobile Detail spent their
vacation up near Point Arena. They telegraphed the boys
of the detail remaining home that they got a 200 pound
buck the first day the deer season opened. The Lieutenant
wired Phil knocked the venison over. A day later there
began to arrive packages of meat for the vacationists' co-
workers.
* * *
Police Officer Sam Blake of the Tacoma Police Depart-
ment was in the city during the month. While he was
here, he was royally entertained by Corporal John Fitz-
gerald, Bailiff Joe McCarte, Officer William Kelly, Wm.
O'Farrell, Deputy United States Marshal, and Frank
Esola. These latter named expended every effort to repay
Officer Blake for his round of entertainment when the
party was up at Tacoma earlier this summer. Beside
.seeing the visitors fiom San Francisco enjoyed them-
selves, Blake and his wife took it upon themselves to care
for Corporal Fitzgerald who suffered from an attack
of the flu.
* * *
Lieutenant Charles Dullea and his family, who spent
their vacation at Seigler's Springs are back from their
outing. Lieutenant Dullea returned in time to be with
the other members of the bureau, Sergeants Alex Mc-
Daniell, Marvin O. Dowell, Jesse Ayer and Thomas Hy-
land, of the bureau handling the third trial of Gus Madsen
and George Pesce, charged with murdering C. W. Camp-
bell last October during the Carpenters' strike. The case
is before Judge James G. Conlan.
* * *
Lieutenant Cliff Field of the Traffic Bureau says that
Traffic Officer Andy Biller has many flattering offers from
vaudeville show houses to put on his celebrated Spring
Dance.
* * *
Officer Gilbert Chase, who, during his vacation, is mayor
of Camp Meeker, where he has a summer home, is back
from his annual outing and is back on the job in the pro-
perty clerk office, under Captain Bernard Judge.
* * *
Robert Travers, charge 288 penal code, was taken to the
city prison by Officers Edward Chri.stal and George
Ohnimus.
* * *
Charles Bi-own, with narcotics in his possession, was
arrested by Officer M. J. McDonald.
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Capt. Arthur D. Layne
Harry P. Braig and Edward F. Copeland
Officer Harry Gurtler brought in a trio of burglars when
he unloaded Emil Topini, Helen Topini and Martha Radhes
out of the patrol wagon. He also, the same date, the 13th,
slammed Frank Mahoney into a prison cell for having
another man's automobile when the other man knew noth-
ing about it.
* » *
Officer William Jurgens removed a hazard from the
streets when he booked Robert La Vemey for robbery.
* * *
Corporal Anthony Kane escorted Joe Harris to the book-
ing desk in the city prison and charged him with attempt
grand larceny.
* * *
John J. Hughes was having a nice time in the car he was
riding along the street. The numbers attracted the atten-
tion of Officers John Twomey and Martin Fogarty, who
observed it was a reported stolen car. They "glommed"
Hughes and gave him a 146 M. V. A. booking.
* * *
Sergeant J. J. Rooney and Officer P. Murphy gathered
in Alexander Spears, wanted by the V. S. Marshal. Rooney
also captured Troy Barr, a man with a number of aliases,
for larceny and battery.
* * *
George Bernard may have been a robber, but he won't
be for a while if he is convicted on the charge of robbery
Officer Frank Hoepner tagged him with. Hoepner also
arrested Gail Ford for having another person's automobile
wthout proper pei-mission.
* * *
Officer Dan Cahill arrested Faustino Aguirre for assault
with a deadly weapon, and \'iolating the revolver law; and
Jame.s Jefferson for having a gun, threatening the life of
an inn-keeper, which made three charges, for James re-
fused to pay the hotel man.
« * *
Officers James Morley and C. Ki'onquist brought in Ris-
sarde Lombardi for assault with a deadly weapon.
* * *
Only one 112 violator appeared in this district during
the month, and he was Albert Larkin, and he got speared
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SOUTHERN
STATION
Captain Charles Goff
Lieutenants Richard Foley and Amo Dietel
Lieutenant Richard Foley with a posse of the late watch
boys, went forth on the 13th to ferret out the evil doers.
When they came back they had the following trio, charged
with murder: Alex Rabago, Ramiro Felix and Thomas
Gallegos.
* * ^
During the month, Corporal Emmett Flynn and Officer
John Bongard made life miserable for the lads who essay
holding up folks. Here is a quartette charged with rob-
bery, nabbed by Flynn and his posse: Amos Burk, Frank
DowTis, John Kazarin, Wesley Montoya.
* * *
Another charged with robbery was John Dekoning, ar-
rested by Officer Thomas McKeon. McKeon with Officer
C. W. Tregoning also arrested Frank Murray and Stephen
Dolce, for violating the motor act.
* * *
Corporal Frank Gaddy got a couple of gun "toters" in
the persons of Edward Sullivan, who threatened to use his
gun, and Michael Mowozko. The pair got charged with
violating the state gun law.
-+ * *
There was quite an epidemic of stolen car boys arrested
during the month. The following drew 146 Motor Act
charges: Charles Russell, Tony Evelshin and William
Moriarity, arrested by Officers Andrew Lennon and A. Mc-
Donnell; L Gonzalez, Quiles Fernando and Manuel Perez,
arrested by Officer McDonnell ; James Bryant and Joseph
Vermouth, arrested by F. Thiede; and George Murray,
arrested by R. A. Clifford.
* * *
Officers L. T. Dubose and John S. Duryea sent in Manuel
Ochoa for assault with deadly weapon; and Dubose, with
Officers J. H. Conroy and James Hart, arrested John Wolf
for assault to commit murder and violating the gun law.
* ^ *
Joe Burns and Makla Matcay, accused of grand larceny,
were put behind the prison bars by Officers Timothy Ma-
honey and J. Burke.
* * *
Officer Mahoney grabbed off two violators of Section 112
of the Motor Act: John Elms and Miguel Campero.
* * *
Seymour Babcock, taken in custody by Officer W. Frye,
was another 112er, also for breaking Sec. 141 and 121.
-■? * ^
Forrest MulHns, charged with robbery and violating
Section 288 of the Penal Code, was arrested by Officers
P. Zgraggen and R. A. Clifford. Sergeant Emmett Hogan
of the Bureau of Identification also added a charge of
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HARBOR
STATION
Capt. Patrick Herlihy
Lieutenants Wilbert F. Pengelly and Michael Mitchell
Lieutenant Wilbert F. Pengelly ami a number of the
boys on his watch went out seeking the law breakers, and
when they came back they brought the following gents,
whom they duly charged with robbery: Pat Kelly, Thomas
Burke, John Mclver, Hugh McCauley, James J. O'Donnell.
S: * *
Sergeant John Farrell and his posse brought in Thomas
Fick, also charged with being a stickup man.
Corporal Martin Brennan and Ofticer Harry Peshon fin-
ished the record by bringing in Jack Terebaugh for rob-
bery and "toting a pop".
;? * *
N. Brennan and his posse also arrested Peter Blair and
Starkey Porter for arson and malicious mischief.
* * *
Louis Miller, who has been in jail before, was "knocked
over" by Officer William Taylor for burglary.
* * *
Sergeant Charles Groat led Charles Wilson to the sta-
tion, charging him with burglary. Wilson has played San
Quentin once and Folsom twice, and it looks like he will be
the victim of the new habitual criminal law that went into
effect last month, and do the book at Folsom, if he's stuck
on the charge.
* * *
Officer James Mahoney and Claude Avedano turned the
"rcrews" on Frank Shannon whom they picked up for
grand larceny.
* * *
Phillip Mansky was the only 112'er to mar the record
of the station for the month. He was arrested by Officers
Denis Lucey and Bart Lally.
;J: * *
George Bradly was not doing the right thing by his
family, according to the "kick" handed to Corporals Emile
Heam and Clarence Byrne.
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August, 1927
1
MISSION
STATION
Capt. Frederick Lemon
Lieutenants Peter A. Mclntyre and Daniel J. Collins
There was quite a lot of arrests for driving automobiles
while the drivers were under the influence of intoxicating
liquors, during the past month in this district. The gas
and gin mixers will get Jerry to the fact that the police of
Captain Fred Lemon's district have their eyes out for just
such violators. The roll for the month includes the fol-
lowing: John A. Lund, arrested by Officer William Quin-
lan; Michael Lombardi and Roy Curke, arrested by Officer
L Delehanty; Mary Roberson, arrested by Officers George
Hess and William Molke; Carl Roberts, arrested by Officer
E. J. McDevill; and George Winteler, arrested by Officer
Charles Wennerberg.
* * *
Officer Delehanty also brought in Marion Toich for hit
and lun.
* * *
Joseph Russell is in durance vile, accused of being a
burglar. He was arrested by Officer James Kenny.
* * *
Officeis Stephen Desmond and N. Kavanaugh escorted
Harry Trevor to the station, where they had the booking
officer charge him with manslaughter.
* * *
Elsie McKinley, accused of murder, was locked up by
Officers Joseph. Pinnick and Patrick Griffin.
* * *
Officers Charles Hennessey and James Kenny put the
288 charge against Rudolph Wolf when they took him
to the station.
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(Continued from Page 41)
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he could not see more — and to him it looked like
a truckload of movie sheiks bent for Hollywood.
Another reporter countered with the statement,
he too, had seen a few faces of the occupants. To
him it looked like a truckload of movie villains
headed for Hollywood.
A third reporter, who is ear-minded, said he
thought the crowd in the bus was abducting some-
one. He could not tell whether it was an astrono-
mer or a tenor. But he heard a very musical
voice giving directions to the moonbeams as to
how they're to spend their evening hours.
We learn, from later reports, that the invaders,
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BUSH ST.
STATION
Capt, John J. Casey
Lieutenants Edward L. Cullnan and Joseph Mignola
John Carlson, tailor, pu'letl a grocery store robbery out
in this district. Officer Gus Betger got busy, anil with the
assistance of Detective Sergeant William Bennett, Officer
Jack Floyd, Detective Sergeant Edward McSheehy, Carlson
was trailed to a soft drink place, where he was captured.
He confessed the job. Later he admitted eight other
robberies.
* -y- *
Sergeant Arthur Christiansen and posse grabbed off a
couple of other robbers when they marched Peter Lise and
Gordon Kocker to the station.
* * *
Here is the monthly list of 112 Motor Act violators:
Clarence A. Dave, also 141, arrested by Officer Nicholas
Kavanaugh; Fred Callaghan, arrested by Officer Arthur
Lahey; Donald Bell, arrested by Officer Eugene Keane;
Robert Kelly, arrested by Corporal Horace Drury and_
Officer Eugene Clancy.
* * ^-.
Allen Schultz was picked up- by Officer Eugene Hottinger
for walking off with other folks things. He got a booking
of petty larceny. Hottinger and Officer Arthur W. O'Brien
also nabbed George Sullivan for the same offense.
* * *
Officers Edward Talbot and Leo Beggs, during the
month, landed the following in the city prison: Ray Welch,
Ira Baas, Earl Armstrong, and George Patterson, vagran-
cy; Talbot, with Officers Clancy and Randolph Cuicci:
Murray Shaw, Andrew Block and Art Lang, juvenile
court law violators.
* * *
Corporal Drury and Ofiicer Clancy got Louis Speroni
for the same charge, and Officei- Phillip Clerkin brought
in Harry Flynn, like "kick".
» * *
John Lehners was arrested by Officer Leslie Rosa for
smearing a piece of bad paper among our merchants. He
got a 476a Penal Code booking.
* * *
Officers John H. Colen and Jol.n L. Wal.she got Manuel
Boston to the station lock up for vagrancy. He is a loser
and specializes in narcotics.
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CHARACTER BUILDING
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life of the nation. Speed is everywhere. We are
hurrying along at a breakneck pace striving- for
social recognition, wealthy pleasure and thrills.
In this mad chase the young and rising genera-
tion is almost completely forgotten. No thought
is given to the fact that ti^ey hold the future of
the nation in their hands. These future citizens
need help, encouragement and leadership. The
avenues of approach to these young people are
through their organizations, such as boys' clubs
and kindred organizations. Show the boys the
way under competent leadership and they will not
only follow, but will pride themselves on their
achievements.
Police departments are now in the fore, not only
showing the way, but advising with leadership.
Every person with a lick of sense as big as a grain
of mustard seed knows that much has been accom-
plished in recent years by so doing, more, in fact,
than by all our bunkologists combined. Parent-
teacher associations are constantly urging full and
complete co-operation with police departments and
when given, marvelous results are obtained. They
need our help and we certainly need theirs. Sun-
day schools are asking for help and assistance, and
the contacts made tend not only to develop the
moral but the spiritual life, so essential to good
citizenship.
The fields are wide and the avenues open for
constructive work, why not step in and help? That
is real crime prevention. Show me a city or a com-
munity where this program is followed and I will
show you a community without crime waves or
any perceptible increase.
A nation never rises above the standard of its
citizenship. A state never rises beyond the sta-
bility and character of its institutions. Citizen-
ship can truly be measured by its moral and reli-
gious life. There is more promise in the youth of
the nation today than ever before.
Police departments must stand ever looking and
moving forward to assist in accomplishing every-
thing that stands for the welfare of every citizen,
regardless of wealth or social standing, so that
freedom in its truest sense shall exist and forever
continue.
Let us cultivate among ourselves loyalty and
good will, thus demonstrating to the world that
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Here are some of the more serious "knockovers" made by
Sergeant John J. Manion and the members of his China-
town squad: Henry Stewart, violating Sec. 146, Motor
Vehicle Act; Dan Quon, violating Section 476a Penal Code;
Wong Leong, en route to Stockton; Wong Sing, obtaining
goods by false pretenses; Wong Fong, Henry Wong and
Au Shing, violating state poison law.
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PARK
STATION
Capt. John J. O'Meara
LieutenanU Daniel W. Cronin, Francis J. McGuire
Loyd Kellett, who has had a similar experience with the
law enforcement officers, was locked in a station cell by
Officers Alvin Nicolini and Coulter J. Murphy on a charge
of driving an automobile while intoxicated.
* * *
Officer Fred Kracke and J. Keeley put the same charge
against Chester William Judson when they got him to the
station.
* * *
Gordon Campbell was another violator of the well-known
Section 112 Motor Vehicle Act. He didn't want to be
arrested, so when he was landed at the station by Officers
Peter H. Schroeder, George Young and F. Kerby, he was,
in addition to being charged with driving while drunk,
booked for resisting an officer and violating the state
prohibition law.
* 4: *
Officer George Vevoda brought James McDonald to the
station on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon.
* * *
Carl Barron, who uses extra names when occasion re-
quires, was vagged by Officers Thomas Stanton and Her-
bert V. Hayes.
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for Kendall's Dell, to put on a dog show and other
hilarities.
The latter included also an interesting- "Refresh-
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and San Mateo County orchards.
Market Reports
San Fi-ancisco was almost threatened by a food
famine. A mysterious committee appeared in the
produce district and bought up all the w^ater-
melons, all the berries suitable for baking pies,
all the malt preparations available, and other pro-
visions.
Police Reports
The pound keeper of San Francisco frantically
called up Police Headquarters on Saturday morn-
ing and reported that during the preceding night
his entire crop of dogs had been absconded. One
of the robbers was heard muttering something
about Kendall's, or perhaps he said kennel. In the
excitement he could not be clearly understood.
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Of all the baseball events "pulled off" in the
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RICHMOND
STATION
Capt. William T. Healy
Lieutenants Daniel W. Cronin, Francis J. McGuire
Charles Warden is now well acquainted with what hap-
pens to a man who engages in the uncertain vocation of
"prowling homes". He got "knocked over" by Officers
C. H. Cornelius and Robert Caldwell and tagged at the sta-
tion on a burglary charge.
* * :};
Alphonso Quintana, who has some extra monikers for
necessary occasions, had his pretty name spread upon the
records of the city prison with the words, Grand Larceny,
written after it. Sergeant H. Barnett and Officer Joseph
O'Brien attended to the formalities of putting the name
on the books.
* * *
Marian Darinton, who has been in trouble before, was
arrested on a vagrancy charge by Corporal Frank Rhodes
and posse.
* * *
Robert Phillips, who is accused of assault by means and
force likely to do great bodily harm, was escorted to the
station by Officers Michael Driscoll and Albert J. Mc-
Carthy.
* * #
Officer John Nash saw Jos. Kirkmeyer hanging around,
and found he was a larcenist from Oakland. He vagged
the gent.
* * *
George Ritchie, accused of assault by means and force
likely to do great bodily harm, was led to the station
barred room by Offieers Michael Driscoll and A. McCarthv.
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Capt. Robert A. Coulter
Lieutenants Leo Tackney and Emmett Moore
Lieut. Leo Tackney and Officer Nicholas Ernser locked
up Carl Hapsberger for driving while intoxicated and reck-
less driving.
^- * *
Officer Ernser locked up another gent who was only
charged with reckless driving. E. Massagli is the accused.
Seems like Massagli was driving along Oak street without
any headlights and he ran into Officer Gejald Bell. The
officer suffered a fractured arm and badly injured knee.
* * *
Fred Landers, accused of grand larceny, was taken in
cuctody by Officer Louis 01i\'ier and duly charged as
accused.
* * *
Olivier, with Corporal Henry Zaun, picked up a couple
of narcotic laws violators, Wilma Bee and Herman Michell.
* -K *
Ernest Ledesma, who has had some experience with jails
and a state prison, and who uses too many names for an
honest man, was arrested by Officers Edgar H. Paul and
John P. O'Connor No. 2.
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INGLESIDE
STATION
Captain Eugene Wall
Lieutenant Frederick W. Kimble
Officers Charles Cooke and Lestern J. Conlan grabbed
off a burglar and his pal. Alvin Biondi was the burglar
and his side-kick was John Mass, who was charged with
vagrancy.
* * *
Jesse Irby Smith and Lawrence Anderson Harper were
vagrants, according to the ideas of Officers Jeremiah Kel-
leher and Dominic Hogan, and these two auto patrol boys
don't make many mistakes in their men. Jesse and Larry
were locked up with $1000 the bail to spring them.
* * *
Officer Kelleher and Edward Keck took Dorothy Phillips
to the station on a threat against life charge.
* * *
James Knight was driving recklessly, and he did not
stop when he had an accident and conform to the law as
set forth in Section 141 of the Motor Vehicle Act. Officers
Herman Mohr and Thomas F. Whelan gave him some im-
pressive lessons about such things. They booked James
for reckless driving and hit and running.
;:-; * *
Officer Floyd Harris arrested Frank Dalton for driving
while intoxicated.
* * *
Officer Jack O'Hara brought Clarke Tores back from
Guerneville. He is wanted here for embezzlement.
* * *
Officers Jerry Kelleher and Dominic Hogan picked up
Jack Russell and Harvey Taylor, who had an automobile
they had borrowed from a man who didn't know anything
about it. The pair were lodged in the city prison, charged
with violating Section 146 of the Motor Vehicle Act.
NORTH END
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Capt. Herbert J. Wright
Lieutenants D. M. Reavis and George Duffy
When a robber breezes out this way, he can depend upon
being captured and landed in jail. To verify this state-
ment, one has but to interview Stan Marczyk. He was
captured and locked up. Officers Edward Plume, William
H. King, Peter Neilson and Edward Keneally performed
the necessary police duties to properly incarcerate the
gentleman.
* * *
James Miller was a violator of Ordinance 811, which, as
all well informed police officers know, has to do with liquor
drinking. He also got sour at things, and made some
statements that led Officer Joseph V. Miller to arrest him
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August, 1927
POTRERO
STATION
Capt. Harry J. O'Day
Lieutenants Albert S. Munn, J. C. Malloy
Hans Kusserow tried to get through this district with-
out attracting attention. But he cou'dn't make it. Officer
Stanley Doyle spotted him steering an uncertain course
in his automobile. Doyle investigated, then wound up by
booking Hans at the station for driving while intoxicated
and for reckless driving.
* * *
Captain Harry O'Day was at the big Krause Day in
Oakland. Captain O'Day, who was a big league ball
player, is one of the most active fans in the bay section,
and he was over to give Harry Krause, the veteran Oak-
land pitcher, the glad hand, and wish him many more suc-
cessful seasons.
* !K *
Officer W. G. Thompson, who has been switched over to
the day watch, says it seems nice to be able to get a look
at the district in all daylight.
* * *
Walter Redick and Fred Lester, charged with burglary,
were arrested by Officers George Engle and Talbot.
BAY VIEW
STATION
Capt. Stephen V. Banner
Lieut. Frank DeGrancourt, Lieut. Wm. Dowie
Jeremiah McCarthy and Edward Prouty, who have had
some experience with policemen before, undertook to Iffy
out this fast growing district and see what the prospects
for a little fancy "prowling" would be. They never found
out all they wanted to know, but they did find out that the
police are veiy active out this way. They landed in jail
with burglary charges placed against their names. Cor-
poral Thomas Ritter and posse did the honors.
* * *
Captain Stephen Bunner has a force in this district that
leaves mighty few cases unsolved. The folks who live in
the Bayview are law-abiding working people for the most
part, but the heavy traffic in automobiles that pass through
this district attract some evil doers who stop over to ply
their illegal line of endeavor. But the boys are always on
the job and the "kicks" are quickly concluded with the
guilty parties behind the bars.
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WOLDEN
(Continued from Page 15)
in taking: it as he is sui*e to realize the amount
that is owing- him. When the assessor places a
value he keeps this in mind as well as the taxa-
tion burden each property should pay. This is
the method unless otherwise provided by law.
Don't be misled that there is a definite accepted
percentage factor applied to sales values for as-
sessment purposes. A very interesting- statement
has been recently issued by Hon. Ray Riley, the
State Comptroller, informing the public that
from his information, assessed value of property
in California ranges from 70% to 30'X , the aver-
age being 41%.
In the evidence of a recent suit of the S. P. Co.
before the Railroad Commission, it placed San
Francisco slightly above 49%. This percentage
is so near 50o; that many believe it is the law
or that we are compelled and claim that all prop-
erty is at 50'^; of selling value while, in reality,
there are many factors in appraising values for
assessment.
One that is most important is that assessments
should be at a figure that the progress of our
wonderful city should not be retarded. We can-
not go ahead unless we make it possible for the
salaried man and wage earner to make his home
here. Therefore, when we consider taxation,
homes must be put in a position that they will
continue to be built and occupied. Therefore, the
taxation of homes must not be prohibitive and
homes will not be built unless we allow all busi-
ness and industries (wholesale, retail, light or
heavy industrial) that give employment, to have
a fair opportunity to make a success here so they
will not be tempted away from San Fi'ancisco
into communities where they are sometimes led
to believe that better taxation conditions exist.
It would amaze the general public to know how
carefully this point is considered by many. Busi-
ness that is chiefly interested, are those that are
forced by competition to keep in mind taxation.
I wish to call your attention to the two classes of
taxpayers, viz. : direct and indirect taxpayers.
The direct taxpayer locally is the home owner,
and many personal property owners who cannot
pass the tax. \Mth the exception of the taxpayer
who has his property in such shape that he can-
not pass it to the consumer — most all of our
population pay an indirect tax.
Indirect taxes are those where it is recognized
fi-om the beginning that the individual who pays
in the first instance usually passes on the charge
to someone else who may again pass it on until
it finally reaches the subject who bears the bur-
den.
If all taxes would reach the consumer (which,
in reality is largely the case) each individual, that
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is, every man, woman and child would be paying'
practically $45 a year for the local government.
A family of five pays to the Treasury of San
Francisco $225 a year. This, of course, is in-
directly and does not include Federal or State tax
which adds considerable to each inhabitant.
Assessments cannot be fixed at the figure a
piece of property would bring in a temporary
market, or what a willing seller would sell to a
willing buyer.
. The general opinion of all assessors is not to
follow too closely "boom values" or the speculative
values that depend upon future conditions, as it
would be manifestly unjust to assess, for the pres-
ent year's taxation the values that some expect to
obtain in future years through new elements or
increased population, which expectations may or
may not be realized.
GATE SWIM
(Continued from Page 10)
have gone home", he was told. "I don't give a
, I am going to finish anything I start," said
Alike, and he again faced the tide that was ebbing,
and for another half hour he continued to battle
the elements until he swam across the lines des-
cribed as the finish.
Do you think that Mike Desmond needed hos-
pital assistance? Well, if you do, you have an-
other think coming. This husky son of Erin
jumped, get that, he jumped into the boat, and
asked his pilot to row him to the Police boat so
that he could don his street clothes.
There were many of the other law enforcers in
these Golden Gate swims whose courageous efforts
have been recorded, but Mike Desmond's deed
stands out in the writer's mind as probably one
of the gamest exhibitions ever witnessed in the
water. "I am going to finish anything I start,"
said Mike, and he did.
This year there have been several new names
added to the list of Police swimmers. Charlie
Iredale and Leslie Rosa, who finished first and
second on the S. F. P. D. list in last year's race
will be hard put this year to retain their laure's.
Frank McCann, James McGovern, George Engler
and John Mullen are all newcomers in the gate
swimming test; they are capable swimmers at
that. The Howard Automobile Company has of-
fered a trophy for the first police officer to finish.
Every swimmer that completes the swim will be
awarded a silver bar, emblematic of the race.
Here is the list of the members of the S. F. P. D.
who are training for this year's Golden Gate swim :
Michael Deniond Charles Andrews
Charles Iredale George Parker
Dominic Hogan Leslie Rosa
Gus Betger Frank McCann
James McGovern George Engler
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Vol. V. SEPTEMBER, 1927
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No. 11
Police Progress Under Mayor Rolph
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During the sixteen years Mayor James Rolph,
Jr., has been the chief executive of San Francisco,
the police department of this city has undergone
many changes — changes for the betterment of the
depai'tment; changes for the betterment of the
individual members ; changes for the betterment
of the people.
When he came into the Mayor's office back in
1912 the strength of the force was 890.
Patrolmen were getting $120 per month.
The traffic bureau was in reality only a squad.
The detective bureau had some 50 men, less than
30 detective sergeants.
There were no specialized details in the bureau.
The automotive equipment consisted of two ma-
chines. One for the chief of police and the other
for the detective bureau.
Today the department is composed of 1227 men.
Patrolmen get $200 per month, less $2.00 for
pension fund.
The traffic bureau consists of 95 men.
There are 137 men in the detective bureau.
There are 66 detective sergeants.
The bureau is subdivided into details, handling
respective phases of work turned over to the bu-
reau for consideration.
There ai'e 55 automobiles now. Every sort of
vehicular equipment has been made automotive.
Horses no longer draw the patrol wagons. Seven
have been motonzed. A fleet of fast cars, some
armored, are assigned for duty in the bureau.
Every station has two or more automobiles.
Mayor Rolph has been sympathetic to every
movement to better the conditions of the indivi-
dual police officer. He has sponsored each propo-
sition for raises, submitted to the people.
Under Mayor Rolph the City of San Francisco
lias become known as tlie best policed city
America.
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We have no crime waves, no outbursts of law-
lessness. Preventative measures adopted by Chief
O'Brien and the Police Commission, and endorsed
by Mayor Rolph, have made San Francisco a most
desirable place to live.
In the matter of promotions, has the policies of
the present administration been marked. In years
gone by, place on the civil service list of eligibles
counted for but little. But under Mayor Rolph,
men who have studied and have passed for pro-
motions from one rank to the other, rested secure
in the knowledge that they would be appointed
when the vacancies came; that pull nor politics
would not hold them back. It might be said in
passing that lists for promotions have been ex-
hausted in every rank, with but few exceptions,
before the time limit of the lists expired.
It can readily be seen that such a policy is an
incentive for the men to study and take the tests
for higher positions. Naturally this study in-
creases the efficiency of the department, as it for-
tifies the members with a thorough knowledge of
police law and tactics.
One of the features of Mayor Rolph's adminis-
tration that has been commented upon, and which
has stood out in a most favorable light, is the
Police Commission. It is indeed a rare occasion
when a municipality is able to procure the ser-
vices of such high class and capable men, business
and professional, as has composed the board dur-
ing the sixteen years Mayor Rolph has handled
the affairs of this city.
Theodore Roche, attorney, and president of the
Boai-d; Jesse Cook, former chief of police, and
banker; Dr. Thomas Shumate, phj^sician and sur-
geon, and guiding hand in one of the largest num-
ber of drug stores in the state; and Andrew F.
Mahony, shipping magnate, brings to the board a
business knowledge, an honety of pui-pose, and a
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kindliness and understanding of the problems of
police officers, that is indeed an outstanding-
feature.
No policeman, charged with any breach of police
law or rules, has ever faced this Board of Com-
missioners, but who got the fairest and squarest
deal. Their cases have been heard by the board,
every side thoroughly gone into and every break
given the offending officer.
Yet this board has never tolerated dishonesty,
nor crookedness.
In the administration of police work the board,
and Chief O'Brien, as well as the late Chief, D. A.
White, have been given a free hand by Mayor
Rolph.
He has encouraged every movement for the
betterment of the department, and the department
has kept well abreast of the progress of tiie times,
and often ahead of it. In every contingency the
police department of San Francisco has arisen to
the occasion and acquitted itself with credit to
the members, and to the citizens.
New stations have been added, new companies
formed to spread over the city the most thorough
protection. Another station is right now in the
process of establishment, and ere long the Sunset
District will have a company to guard over the
people of that fast gi'owing section.
In the matter of traffic, everything has been
done to meet this problem, which has become
one of the most vital in the United States. Cities,
not laid out like San Francisco, have long ago con-
ceded that the problem has gotten beyond control.
Yet San Francisco has, under Mayor Rolph, gone
along and handled the situation in a satisfactory
manner and has called upon traffic experts to as-
sist in providing plans to meet further increase of
automobile traffic.
The able manner this question is being met un-
der present conditions dissipates traffic as an issue
at this time.
Never in the history of San Francisco has the
detective bureau, the most important unit of a
police organization, been so free from politics and
pull. Today, only one thing counts, to gain a chance
in the bureau and advancement to a Detective Ser-
geancy. That one thing is merit. Opportunities
are many when once in the bureau to gain promo-
tion and a willing worker is given every chance to
gain that promotion.
The captains of the respective districts have,
under them, men who have patrolled the streets
in a manner that has kept those streets free from
being overrun by thugs, burglars and such crooks.
Bunco men and pickpockets are so scarce in this
town that when one of either does succeed in pull-
ing one of their tricks it is such rare occurrence
that the newspapers consider it quite a story.
The development of the San Francisco Police
Department, during the past sixteen years, has
been indeed a wonderful thing.
STATE BUREAU OF IDENTIFICATION
"By their fingers we shall know them" is the
effective motto of modern detectives.
For if the state sleuths once have a man's fin-
gei-prints they can always recognize him again,
C. S. Morrill, chief of the state bureau of criminal
identifications says.
From birth to death a man carries the same
telltale little lines on his finger tips.
He may stage a regular Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
transformation in the course of years. A fat man
may grow thin or a thin man may gi-ow fat. He
may change his nose like Jack Dempsey or have
his face "hfted" like a vain dowager. Age may
whiten his hair and line his face. Or he may
stimulate youth with hair dyes and rejuvenating
massages.
But if the police have ever obtained his finger
print the state has his unchangeable record and
all this camouflage is of no avail, the state crim-
inologist stated.
The identification bureau has the finger print
records of 210,362 individulas on file. During the
past year 46,940 were received, the expert on
crime said, and of these 9884 were identified as
having previous criminal records.
No two persons have ever been found with fin-
ger prints exactly alike, Morrill explained.
While to the novice "all finger prints look alike,"
upon examination they are really very different. '
They differed, even in the case of twins, who
looked so much alike in the face their own mother
could hardly tell them apart. In this case the of-
ficial found that although the twins' hands made
a similar impression upon an exacting scrutiny
there were a different number of lines in the
wliorls on the thumbs and fingers.
POLICE CHANGES
The quarterly cliange of Lieutenants on the
mght watches of the Detective Bureau was made
on September 5th. Lieutenant Arthur Dequire
was assigned to the Central Station. Lieutenant
Jack Sullivan was sent to Ingleside.
Lieutenant Albert Munn was brought in from
the Potrero and Lieutenant Fred Kimble from
Ingleside.
Lloyd Beebles, Walter R. Larsen and George
Matthews were appointed new members of the
Department by the Police Commission on August
29th. These appointees will undergo the usual
trammg under Sergeant Patrick McGee.
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A Few Lines About Scotland Yard
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Scotland Yard of Fiction and of fact are two
vastly different tilings, says the London Stand-
ard.
The success of London's detective headquarters
is not due to individual men of genius with mirac-
ulous powers of deduction, as portrayed by fic-
tion writers, but to a rigid rule-of-thumb system,
which makes it impossible for an oflicer to take
any action upon his own initiative without its
being first reviewed by more than a dozen brains
in that building of stone and red brick overlooking
the Thames.
As an indication of the working of tlie system
there is the case of a chief inspector investigating
a murder in a provincial town or village. Nightly
his duty is to send by train to Scotland Yard a
detailed report of every movement he has made,
and — when it concerns suspected persons — of
evei-y word uttered.
The following morning, at the stroke of eleven,
the Chief Constable, with his four area superin-
tendents and the chief inspectors, sit in a con-
ference. The report is considered and a few min-
utes later the Yard representative in the country
is receiving fresh orders by telephone.
The arrest of Thorn and other murderers has
been decided upon not at the scene of the crime,
but in the Whitehall headquarters.
Criminals are caught in this country because
not one, but a dozen or more brains apply a rigid
system to every investigation. It is, therefore,
all the more interesting to students of criminology
to examine the first attempt made by an author
to compile a history of Scotland Yard, and Lon-
don's successful system of crime investigation.
Mr. George Dilnot, in a book entitled "Scotland
Yard", published by Geoffrey Bles, 16s., gives the
history and progress of crime investigation since
the days of the historic Bow street runners. The
application of science to detective work, however,
was not heard of until 1877.
"A departmental committee recommended that
the detective department should be overhauled
and placed under the charge of an Assistant Com-
missioner— for choice a criminal lawyer
"It chanced that a young and ambitious man,
not without some influence, saw opportunity in
the Scotland Yard upheaval. This was Howard
Vincent, who had been by turn soldier, war cor-
respondent and barrister
"He tlierefore went to Paris and made a survey
of the Fi-ench detective system. His observa-
tions he embodied in a precis, which he re-wrote
eighteen times, and presented to the Committee.
When it was decided to create a new detective de-
partment he applied for the appointment of its
chief. He got it."
"Cold Commonsense"
"Then the first real attempt was made to put
detection on a scientific footing. But Vincent
was fortunate in having a man such as Superin-
tendant Williamson at his side.
"The cold commonsense of that experienced of-
ficer tempered the enthusiasms of the reformer,
and in all likelihood prevented many awkward
incidents, into which the unchecked zeal of the
other might have led him. A day or two after
he had taken control there was a big case of for-
gery, which demanded investigation. 'Have every
station carefully watched,' he ordered William-
son, 'and keep a close eye on the outgoing boats.'
" 'What will be the good of that, sir?' dryly
demanded the veteran detective, and Vincent re-
ceived the lesson that the first point in British
detective work was the gathering of evidence to
justify an arrest."
Vincent, however, carried out numerous ex-
periments towards the perfecting of a rough sys-
tem. He was followed in office by Mr. James
Munroe, a practical police officer, who consolidat-
ed the department and induced the public to be-
lieve in it.
Sir E. Henry's Work
Then came Sir Edward Henry, who in the
phrase of the force proved himself "a good po-
liceman". Of him the author writes: "No man
ever lived who could handle such an instrument
as the Metropolitan police without making mis-
takes in greater or lesser degree. His reforms
were far-reaching.
"But if he had done nothing more — and he did
much more — than initiate a practical finger-print
system, and establish a police training school, his
name merits record as that of one who, in modern
times, struck the greatest blow at the growth of
crime, and improved the status of the police officer
beyond measure."
What of the present-day detective? A well-
known officer, discussing the present facilities of
education in the force, said. "You may dress a
man in spats and give him a '\'arsity education,
but it is very long odds against him ever catching
thieves." Sir Basil Thomson has declared that
they may be divided into two classes — tl;e detec-
tive and the thief catcher. Mr. Dilnot contends
there is half-truth in this.
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^^Mr* Josiah Everyman Tuttlefish, Juror''
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(Continued from last issue)
2nd Attorney : "Have you any quarrel with in-
sanity as a defense, Mrs. White ?"
Answer: "Quarrel with insanity? I don't un-
derstand you sir. I am not of a quarrelsome na-
ture."
2nd Attorney: "No! no! NO! Madam, NO!
What I mean is, do you believe in insanity?"
Answer, aghast: "Do I believe in insanity?
Well of all things ! Do I look foolish, Mr. Attor-
ney?"
2nd Attorney, embarrassed : "You will par . . .
You misunderstand me, madam; what I want to
know is if you are acquainted with the fact that
the law says if one commits a crime while he is
insane, he cannot be punished?"
Answer: "Oh, yes! You attorneys are so
abstr — use."
2nd Attorney : "I beg your pardon, Mrs. .White.
I quite forgot you were unacquainted with our
technical language. But if it is proved to your
satisfaction that this defendant was guilty at the
time of the shooting, will you return a verdict of
not guilty ?"
1st Attorney : "Just a moment, just a moment !
This is indeed an improper question. I object."
2nd Attorney: "Your Honor, please, we have
a right to ask the question. You Honor well knows
insanity . . ."
1st Attorney: "Your question was 'guilty', not
insane . . ."
2nd Attorney : "My question was plain 'insan-
ity' . . ."
His Honor, yawning: "What was the ques-
tion?"
2nd Attorney: "I asked the witness if she
would convict the defendant if he was guilty, or
rather insane, y'r Honor . . ."
1st Attorney: "I beg to differ with my very
learned friend. ... He asked no such question.
His question was highly improper. . . In my long
years of practice before the bar, y'r Honor, I be-
lieve I can truthfully say that I never in all these
years . . ."
His Honor: "What is your objection?"
1st Attorney: "Wliy_uh— eh— the question is
incompetent."
His Honor: "Very well, I will sustain the ob-
jection."
2nd Attorney: "Now you honor, please, your
honor has misunderstood the question . . ."
His Honor: "Misunderstood the question?
What do you mean, Mr. Attorney? I eh— have
^a— misunder — stoo — ood the question. Mr "
2nd Attorney, hastening to make amends:
"Permit me to make myself clear, y'r Honor. I —
I — with due deference to y'r Honor's . . . never-
theless . . . but y'r Honor surely has been misled,
wilfully misled by counsel on the other side. . . .
Will your Honor reconsider your Honor's ruling.
The question is in point, y'r Honor please."
1st Attorney : "May I cite y'r Honor an author-
ity on the question . . ."
His Honor : "What is the question."
2nd Attorney: "If the court . . ."
1st Attorney: "Your Honor please . . ."
His Honor: "Mr. Reporter, read the question."
The Reporter: "What question, sir?"
His Honor: "The question."
The Reporter: "I'm afraid . . ."
2nd Attorney: "The question began with . , .
with . . ."
His Honor: "Read all the questions."
The Reporter, reading backward in the record,
finally comes to the question : "But if it is proved
to your satisfaction that this defendant was . . ."
2nd Attorney: "That's the question."
1st Attorney: "Yes, continue, Mr. Clerk."
His Honor: "Gentlemen, will you stipulate
that is the question?"
2nd Attorney: "It is so stipulated."
1st Attorney: "It is so stipulated."
The Reporter, continuing: "guilty at the time
of the shooting . . ."
2nd Attorney: "Eh— what's that . . . ?"
The Reporter, rereading : "proved to your satis-
faction that this defendant was guilty . . ."
2nd Attorney: "Guilty? . . ."
The Reporter: "Guilty ... at the time of the
shooting, will you return a verdict of not guilty?"
1st Attorney: "Yes, guilty. And now, y'r
Honor, I will renew my objection."
His Honor: "What was your objection, Mr. At-
torney?"
1st Attorney: "On the ground that the question
is suggestive."
His Honor: "Very well, the objection is sus-
tained ; proceed with the hearing."
2nd Attorney : "If it is proved to your satisfac-
tion, Mrs. White, that this defendant was insane
at the time of the shooting, will you return a ver-
dict of not guilty?" -1
Answer : "Yes."
2nd Attorney: "As you sit there now, are you
in any way prejudiced against the defendant
merely because he is accused of this crime?"
Answer: "Well, can he justify . . ."
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By Daniel J. O'Brien, Chiej of Police
ATHLETICS IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT
1. "A Sound Mind in a Sound Body." This trite
Roman saying gives us an insight into the fact
til at ages ago health and sanity were looked upon
as being virtually synonymous, and that crime,
which the Ancients looked upon as the act of a
mentally-unbalanced person, was really the effect
of disease. Today we find that what is known as
Big Business insists on a definite standard of
health and strength among its employees. To en-
ter most lines of business, especially where the ap-
plicant is liable to have the handling of machinery
or materials capable of injuring persons or prop-
erty, the passing of a thorough physical health
test is absolutely necessary. In the case of possi-
ble candidates for the Police Department, our local
Civil Service examining body has, for many years,
made the physical qualifications of said entrants of
paramount importance, thus a slight deformity
or a slight weakness is made cause for turning-
down would-be-candidates for the position of police
officer. When we consider a police officer we do not
picture even a medium specimen of manhood. The
medium and the under-medium specimens form
the field from which the criminally inclined come.
Generally, we do not associate crime with able-
bodied, well-nourislied, mentally alert manhood.
But, our mental picture of a police officer is just
such an able-bodied, well-nourished, mentally alert
man.
2. Due to our civil service tests for entrants, in
the matter of mental tests, candidates are secured
who are well up to normal, mentally as well as
physically. A candidate, even though an almost
perfect physical specimen, will be rejected if shown
by examination, to be below par mentally. Thus,
our police officer of today is a man among men
mentally and physically. To the man in the street
a police officer must, of necessity, be able to take
care of himself, when called upon to do so, — as a
police offi.cer often is, without a moment's notice.
To the taxpayer the police officer is all t]\is and
more. He is the representative of the law at all
times. He is a protector of the lives and property
of the people in the district in which he patrols.
He is supposed to take care of these lives and
property in addition to taking care of himself. He
is supposed to be able to ovei-power and capture
single-handed, a raving maniac or a murderous
thug. Thus, we see what a high standard of physi-
cal greatness and alertnes is expected of a police
officer as a matter of course. He .has sold his phy-
sical greatness to the municipality, and the citizens
of said municipality expect him to be what his
profession calls for — a man among men.
3. How can physical fitness be maintained among
police officers? Tlie civil sei-vice examiners de-
manded this fitness as a necessary requisite before
allowing the would-lje police officer's name to be
placed on the eligible list, and the taxpayers expect
this fitness in the police officer many years after
he takes the oath of office. This fitness can only
be continued by athletic exercises. In the School
of Instruction in the Police Department, candi-
dates are put through a rigid routine set of exer-
cises designed to keep the muscles in good condi-
tion. They are also thoroughly instructed in the
matter of proper rest and dieting. Athletics have
been encouraged in the Police Department for
many years and the Department has always been
able to produce men who could give a good account
of themselves in athletic contests with outside
clubs.
4. Sviimming is universally known as one of the
brst known conditioning branches of athletics, and
has been very much encouraged amongst the mem-
bers of the Department. In the Department School
of Instructions, swimming is one of the branches
of athletics taught, and no man is allowed to grad-
uate from the school until he has learned to swim,
ilembers, while in the School of Instructions,
with aptitude as swimmers, are usually assigiied
to posts wherein they may use their swimming
abilities to advantage in the matter of rescuing
people who are in danger of drowning.
ROLPH
By
Acclamation
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BANK PROTECTION
By Parker S. Maddux, Jesse B. Cook and Joseph A. Murphy
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In an era of swift development in the technique
of business operations, we are not surprised to
find subject titles antiquated and but partly ex-
pressive of the scope they cover. And so, in light
of present methods, bank protection work tran-
scends beyond its early day field and today finds
itself more attuned to the preventive methods of
progressive police departments.
The modem corollary of police efficiency is that
it is more essential that crime be prevented than
that the perpetrators be detected and arrested.
The reflection of this in bank protection work is
that bank officials, through expert committees,
specialize to provide the maximum security in
banking premises and to insure protection, in the
COMMISSIONER JESSE B. COOK
sense of that security which corporations, as well
as individuals, should enjoy in their right to prop-
erty and their right to life.
Bank protection work, in the preventive sense,
is not accomplished through the sole supervision
of bank officers, but there is a well defined and co-
ordinated relation between the police of large met-
ropolitan departments and the policies — cari'ied
on within financial organizations — by banking
groups. A public policy underlies this.
Banks, both state and national, are created and
governed under the provision of a state banking
act or national banking act. Although the char-
acter of private enterprise attaches to banking, it
is recognized that banks are instruments designed
to aid the government in an important branch of
public service. Police officials, therefore, recognize
the hazard that banking institutions as deposi-
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tories of large sums of money invite. For this
latter reason, police departments work along lines
calculated to prevent bank hold-ups or bank de-
predations.
The above premises are important to assert for
one to have a proper understanding of the co-ordi-
nate policies of police and banking officials in the
State of Cahfomia. This is particularly true in
the leading cities of the metropolitan area of San
Francisco and especially within the city limits of
San Francisco. In order to prevent bank holdups,
we have set up a system of supervision that in it-
self provides the factors of hindrance and obstruc-
tion which are prerequisites to prevent a crime
situation.
Through the co-operation of Chief of Police,
Daniel J. O'Brien, and Captain of Detectives, Dun-
can Matheson, we have worked out the following
general practices:
Primarily, banking premises should afford defi-
nite visibility for both day and night inspection
thereof by banking officials, police officers and the
citizenry at large. An important factor for night
visibility is well lighted premises, with particular
attention to the placement of light directly in
front of, and affording a clear view of all vault
doors.
Secondly, all vaults are constructed of concrete
with inlaid cable or steel lined vault and are con-
nected to standard burglar alarm system.
Separate trips, in banking rooms and offices, con-
nected with loud alarm gongs or with remote bells
providing for relay of alarm to Police Headquar-
ters.
Chief O'Brien and Captain Matheson are work-
ing on a special system whereby all banks in San
Francisco will be connected through special con-
duits direct to the Captain of Detectives office, and
information of day holdups will be flashed auto-
matically to Headquarters.
Thirdly, the patrol system in vogue follows :
(a) Passing calls by uniformed members of de-
partment.
(b) Detectives in vicinity of bank make special
calls.
(c) Police automobile and motorcycle details
may visit banks.
(d) Two automobiles with two detectives, each
on supervisory inspection of city, visit all banking
institutions on a recorded schedule. They vary
routes constantly, but may be located over bank
wires within an average of three minutes.
(e) Nightly inspection of banks by uniformed
Special Police Officers with time clock record of
visits.
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The Strangler and the Radio
By Jack Lawlor, Polic
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Leslie Morgan, who owns a little store near the
International border soutii of Killarney, Manitoba,
is a confirmed radio fan. Listening to a Canadian
broadcast a few nights ago, he heard the provin-
cial police describe tlie "dark strangler", and being
an observing man, noted carefully what the an-
nouncer said.
It wasn't long until a neatly dressed stranger
knocked at the door. Morgan arose, asked him
what he wanted, and then unconsciously compared
him with the radio description of the terrorist
slayer. He was startled to find that the newcomer
checked in every way.
When the man had gone, Morgan ran to the
telephone. And that is why Morgan, today, is
asking for the $1500 reward for the capture of
Earl Nelson, the "dark strangler" whose name has
struck terror into literally millions of hearts
throughout the United States and Canada.
What every other method had failed to achieve
— the radio did. To Morgan's little radio set be-
longs the credit for bringing Earl Nelson, accused
killer of twenty- two women, to Canadian justice.
Not all the credit perhaps, for it was the provincial
police who left no stone unturned and no method
untried in their whole-hearted, desperate hunt,
who put the radio broadcast upon the air and sent
it into Morgan's loud speaker.
Earl Nelson is at Winnipeg. He has been
charged with killing a Winnipeg woman and a lit-
tle girl. Witnesses in plenty have identified him
and there seems little room to doubt that he will
hang, and soon.
The cai'eer of this man, who caused two of the
world's greatest nations to shudder with sheer
horror as he slipped like an invisible demon from
city to city, killing women with his bare hands
for the insane love of killing, is rather vague.
Away back in 1917, the Stockton police had ar-
rested him as a Navy deserter. Los Angeles
placed his photo and prints on file a year or so
later, and the San Francisco police convicted him
on a charge of assaulting a woman there in 1923
and had him committed to the criminal insane
ward of the hospital for the insane at Napa, Cali-
fornia.
From an aunt living in San Francisco it is
learned that the man is really Earl Ferrell. He
was born in San Fi-ancisco, and at an early age
his father and mother died. His maternal grand-
parents, Lars and Jennie Nelson, took the home-
less infant and raised him. Earl took their name
— Nelson — although his real name was Ferrell.
Earl was given to "queer streaks" — unaccount-
able moods and flashes of unreasoning passion,
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which undoubtedly were the indications of his un-
balanced mind. He frequently disappeared from
home, returning after a considerable peiiod with-
out explaining himself in any way. He seemed
mentally bright, and rather shrewd.
He joined the navy about the time the war
broke out and then promptly deserted while in
one of his peculiar moods. For this he was ar-
rested and punished. Upon his discharge, he got
into trouble again over a stolen bicycle.
Ferrell — or Nelson, married. His wife, a house
mother at a private school in Palo Alto, did not
live with him long, leaving him in 1921. Earl
was then arrested two years later for attacking
a woman, was adjudged criminally insane and
committed to the Napa hospital.
From this dark backgi'ound came the brutal,
blood-mad killer of women, who was to thrill mil-
lions of women over the surface of the United
States and Canada with horror. Nothing is known
of the man from the time he escaped from the
asylum until the California police were made
aware of the activities of the "strangler" about
two years ago.
With devlish cunning, the homicidal maniac
made his way through the largest cities, gaiToting
women and attacking them, often stealing from
them. In vain the police hunted him. Tlie
"strangler" beggarded the criminals of fiction
with his tactics. In action, he was a suave, affa-
ble gentleman, who appeared at rooming houses
asking for lodgings. Women whom he found alone
and unprotected were his prey. He was a master
at quick change disguises and subterfuge. From
California he went to Portland, killing three.
Jumping to Seattle, the maniac hunted through
the exclusive Capitol Hill district until he found
a "for lease" sign on a large home. He found
at home, alone, Mrs. Florence Monks, a wealthy
widow. She showed him the house. In the dai'k-
ened basement they fomid her tortm-ed body,
minus the $10,000 jewels she always wore. Tlie
strangler went back to Portland and slew Mrs.
Blanche Myers.
Literature, with its Jekyll and Hyde, its Dr.
Moriarity and Fu Manchu, never produced such a
terroi'-inspiring figure as that of the strangler,
slowly wending his way through the middle west,
accepting rides from motorists, playing the part
of a gentleman of wealth day by day and the role
of a terrorist at night — a black shadow of the
nether regions tm-ned loose upon the earth. Mil-
lions shuddered as they reahzed they had him in
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ETECTIVE BUREAU
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FIRE AND POLICE CO-OPERATION
By Captain Duncan Matheson
Society recognizes tl:at it is necessary, in order
to exist, tliat life and property must be protected.
When the full measure of protection is obtained,
society enjoys security and comfort.
To accomplish this it is necessary to organize
units in cities for specific purposes. The most im-
portant are the fire and police departments. They
are the first line of defense, the first at the scene
of trouble, the last to leave, remaining until no
longer required or until normal conditions prevail.
On the Pacific Coast the physical property of the
cities is different from the Eastern and Middle
Western sections because lumber is plentiful and
cheap, making it possible to build quickly and
cheaply to meet climatic conditions, whereas in
other sections building construction is of a more
non-combustible material and also to withstand
a rigorous climate.
In early days tlie ctities on the Pacific Coast
suffered severely from fires due to wooden con-
struction, lack of water, poor equipment and volun-
teer departments. There has been a steady nor-
mal improvement along all lines in our cities re-
sulting in what is now known as scientific preven-
tion.
Prevention is the watchword of the day and
covers every phase of fire and police duty. The
latest modern equipment, fast moving apparatus,
inspection and equipment of buildings, storage of
combustibles and explosives, spontaneous combus-
tion, sanitation and prevention bureaus are all part
of the program. The program is the direct result
of scientific study by the Chief Engineers of the
departments. These studies are not complete and
must continue to meet future conditions. Building-
construction has advanced from wooden one-story
buildings to the modern fire proof structure with
automatic sprinklers.
These studies have demonstrated to a mathe-
matical certainty the location of fire hazards. Are
fire houses located by chance? The answer is "No"
because they are located where they can render
adequate service.
The losses by incendiary fires are enormous and
is one of the difficult problems that the depart-
ments have to handle. The evidence is nearly al-
ways circumstantial, and, if destroyed or lost, the
case is hopeless. It is not possible at all times to
save it, particularly when the destruction of the
property is complete. There is always something
about a case of arson that arouses suspicion. It
might be called instinctive. The origin and cir-
cumstances of the fire must be traced link by link
even to the whereabouts of the owner or occupant
of the premises at the time of the fire. Sometimes
insurance is the motive.
Then again we have fires started by boys who
will turn in an alarm for the sole purpose of seeing
the apparatus respond. The crave for excitement
is the cause for this conduct and is not difficult of
con-ection.
The destruction of hay stacks, grain fields, ware-
houses, lumber yards, saw mills, and forests by
sabotage gave peace officers on the Pacific Coast
one of their most difficult problems to solve during
the late war. These fires were started by a
phosphorous compound and the perpetrators were
far away when the fires started. In most of these
cases the property was completely destroyed.
The Fire Marshal and his assistants, from their
technical training, are the most valuable adjuncts
the police department has in solving these difficult
problems. He supplies the technical knowledge
that the detective on the case lacks, thus making
team work that usually spells success.
The. traffic problem at fires has received a great
deal of study, having in mind the complete re-
moval of all vehicles that may hamper the depart-
ment while extinguishing a fire. Sometimes we ask
ourselves the question, "What would happen if a
fire broke out in one of the large department stores
during business hours?" A moment's reflection
would determine that the hazard is almost nil. If
it did occur the answer is that the firemen and
police have never failed and will not fail. Confi-
dence and determination to win will always suc-
ceed.
The parked automobile is one of the difficult
problems involved, because cars are found locked
that cannot be moved by hand. A car should never
be so locked that it cannot be freely moved. There
are locks that prevent thieves from driving the
car away but do not prevent the free movement by
hand. Then we have the careless driver who parks
his car in front of a fire hydrant. A stiff fine will
effect a sure cure.
A disaster of some kind is liable at any time to
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" Knockovers '' of Bureau
Detective Sergeants William Armstrong, Charles Maher
and James Hansen, among many arrests, booked the fol-
lowing: Robert Leonard, 476a, Corporal John Carrig as-
sisting in this one; Fred Gregory, forgery; Spencer Pratt,
grand theft; Ray Robinson, Charles Thomas, Harold Smith,
John Enriijue, Paul Marchelli, Mike Lowry (2) 476a;
Thomas Knipe, Byron Everts, Eva Anderson, all forgery;
Jacob Naddler, 3 charges and Charles Meyer, two charges
forgery.
* * *
The important arrests made by Sergeant George Mc-
Loughlin's Robbery Detail includes the following: Joseph
Silva, Louis Marenda, George Melendez and Jesus Ruvera,
by McLoughlin, Detective Sergeants George McMahon,
Vernon Van Matre, Robert Rauer and George Wall; Vin-
cent Marovich by Rauer and Sergeant Leo Bunner.
* * *
The boys of Lieutenant Bernard McDonald's Automobile
Detail batted plenty the past month. We give a few of
their arrests: By Detective Sergeants Harry McCrea and
James Hayes, Frank Riley, 146; by Sergeants Jack Can-
non, J. J. McKenna and Detective Charles Doi-man, James
Evans, 146, and James McChesney, carrj'ing concealed
weapons; by Detective Everett Hansen and Jack O'Con-
nell, Albert Evans, grand theft; by Sergeants George
W^afer and Harry Husted and Special James Britt, Ivor
Snyder, em-oute to U. S. Marshal; by Sergeants Rasmus
Rasmusen and Corpci-al Frank Bro^^•n, Edward McKay, en-
route to Los Angeles; by Sergeants Augustus Tompkins
and Harry Husted, Henry Collier and Anthony Smith, 146;
by Sergeants Nicholas Barron and William Millikin, Wil-
liam Smith, grand theft and John Mercer, en route to
Huntington Beach; by Sergeants Peter Hughes, Philip Lin-
decker and James Johnson Norman Moore, grand theft;
by Detective Sergeants William Johnson and Percy Keneal-
ly, Eni-ico Gonzales, grand larceny, revolver law and nar-
cotic law; by Husted and Sergeant Louis DeMatei, Maklom
Conover, 146.
* * *
Here are a few arrests out of the list of Detective Ser-
geants Edward Wiskotchill and Thomas Conlan: George
Woolf, obtaining money by false pretenses. Sergeants Ed-
ward McSheehy and Van Matre assisted in this one; Loren-
zo Hayes, theft; Saint Millard, 504 of the Penal Code.
* * »
Detective Sergeants Andrew Gaughran and James Skelly
of the Shopping Detail, among others, locked up James
Hawley, Pedro Moore, Angelina Mendes and Bert Cubitt,
all for burglarj'.
* * »
Detective Sergeants Arthur McQuaide and William Proll
of the Banking Detail brought, among others, the follow-
ing to the city prison: Frank Martin and Gertrude Manss,
forgery.
* * «
The Burglary Detail under Sergeant Richmond Tatham
was a bust aggregation during the month. The knockovers
in part were: By Tatham and posse, Jesse Watkins, Harry
Edwards and Anthony Brown, wanted in connection with
a murder at Presidio. The trio were tumed over to Ai-my;
by Sergeants Ir\-in Findlay, James Mitchell and Jackson,
Ernest Lang, Dewey Hansen and Bryan Hansen, burglary;
Sergeant Jack Palmer and Nels Stohl, Paul Cassaday, fu-
gitive; by Sergeants Richard Hughes and James Johnson,
Norman Moore, grand theft; Sergeants Joseph Lippi and
James Gregson, Vincent Graham, burglary.
* * *
Following are some of the "knockover.s" of the Pawn-
.-ihop Detail, under Lieutenant Henry Powell; By Detective
Sergeants George Hippely and George Stallard, Lloyd
Treseder and James Kelly, burglary; by Sergeants Jere
Dinan and Ernest Gable, Henry Williams, fugitive; by
Sergeants John Callaghan and James Regan, D. DeMario.
* * *
ETetective Sergeants Fred Bohr and Clarence Herlitz
nabbed the following: Donald Wilson, vagrancy; Richard
Stephens, en route to San Jose; Paul Hink, embezzlement;
Edward Schusster, same; Paul Baron, poison law and en
route to Los Angeles.
* * *
Detective Sergeants Thomas Reagan and Thomas Curtis
handed over to the city prison. Bob Murphy, a loser, for
theft.
* * *
Sergeants George Healy and Martin Porter found the
following in their district: Dora Compos, wanted for mur-
der in Nevada City; Vincent Torres, theft; William Ack-
ride, same.
* * *
Lieutenant Charles Dullea of the Homicide Squad, with
Allan SIcGinn and Charles Iredale, who handle the auto-
mobile fatalities under Dullea, apprehended and locked up
Angelo Brisulla, a hit and run driver and also charged
with manslaughter.
* * *
Sergeants Henry Kalmbach and George Richards ar-
rested Robert Bell, for the Postal authorities; John Mc-
Whinnie, a fugitive; and Or^-ille Orr, for U. S. Secret Ser-
vice.
* * *
Detective Sergeants Jlichael Desmond and Barth Kelle-
her turned in the following: Harold Pettus, larceny; and
Earl Hesthal, en route to Santa Rosa.
* « *
Paul Agugaroflf, wanted for bigamy, was arrested by
Detective Sergeant Harry Cook.
* * *
Cook, with Detective R. L. Smith, brought in Angus
McMillan for San Mateo authorities.
HOERTKORN AND HARRIS GET "EASY
WINNER"
Dave Smith, wlio hails from Alabama and has
made an easy living, according- to his standard of
living, bj' prowling, crooked dice and other such
means, was ambling about the city for no good
purpose, according to the opinion of Lieutenant
Thomas Hoertkorn and Sei-geant Morris HaiTis,
who vagged him after observing his movements
for some time.
Seattle Police and Oakland Police have had him
among their guests and he has had experiences
before here. He will leai-n that this city is a poor
place to try and get by without doing some honest
work.
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Safety Zone
September, 1927
EMPLOYER WARNS HIS DRIVERS TO
OBEY LAW
Sends an Interesting Letter to Indiuna Chief of Police
As\ing Arrest of Violators
Despite the fact that Governor Jackson of In-
diana has recently signed a bill authorizing a speed
limit of 40 miles per hour on the state highways,
the following letter appears in an Indiana paper.
It is from the president of a large trucking con-
cern which operates a fleet of trucks in and out of
the state, to his men, many of whom it is claimed
have been arrested for violating speed limits and
other traffic regulations.
If these drivers drive in excess of the 40 miles
per hour as allowed by the law of that state, it
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Supervisors and Police Department
By Supervisor Jesse C. Coleman
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The relation of the Board of Supervisors to the
Police Department of San Francisco is indeed im-
portant— in fact, more impoi'tant than realized by
the general public.
To the average citizen and taxpayer the func-
tion of the supervisorial body in providing proper
policing of the city is somewhat of a mystery, but
to the Supervisors themselves the matter is en-
tirely clear.
The impoi'tant fact is tliat the Supervisors must
supply funds every year for the conduct of the
department, provide for additions to the police
personnel, and make up deficits in the Police Re-
lief Pension Fund Deficit. This latter item alone
means real money. In this year's budget, the
Supervisors included $140,000 for the pension fund
deficit that could not be met by department funds.
Each year sees an increasing' financial demand
upon the Supervisors for the Police Department —
and rightly so. San Francisco is expanding by
leaps and bounds. New residential districts are
springing up over night and the residents therein
must have police protection. To meet this need,
Chief of Police O'Brien and the Board of Police
Commissioners frequently call upon the Board of
Supei^visors for the necessary" finances.
The Finance Committee, in making its annual
budget, sits down with the members of the de-
partment, and goes over the estimated annual bill
of expenditures of the police executives. Each
item is carefully scrutinized before the entire
Board is called upon to sanction the municipal
budget. In no case however, has the Board turned
down the actual needs of the department, when
the matter came to a real test.
In the budget under which we are now operat-
ing, that for the 1927-28 fiscal year, the Board
of Supervisors included $3,314,892 for the con-
duct of the police department. This sum repre-
sents more than one-tenth of the entire municipal
budget for the year, and was gladly granted.
The Supervisors have never been found wanting
when special appropriations are needed during the
year to meet some emergency requiring additional
police power — and consequently needing- more
money than that allocated in the budget. Minor
requests come before the Board from time to time,
and they are granted without question if funds
are available. When the people of San Francisco
voted to increase the daily wage of our brave
policemen, the Supervisors supported the move-
ment whole-lieartedly and later supplied the
money.
In other words, the Board of Supervisors has a
very close relationship to the Police Department,
and is proud that such is the case. With every
«/ther citizen of San Francisco, we believe that
110 finer department exists in America.
McCONNELL AND GALLIVAN BRING IN
EASTERN BUNCO MAN
George Seeds, known throughout the East as
tlie Yellow Kid, heard there was a big campaign
on out hei-e for Mayor. George also heard that
the bars would be let down for the puiiDOse of pro-
moting friendliness among those able to let bars
down. In short he had heard that the pickings
would be good.
It might be well to set forth that George has
made a living through his ability as a bunco man.
He has mixed with the police on the Atlantic and
Middle West quite frequently since 1918. He is
classed, among his type of gentry, as a very flossy
worker and able to coax a roll from the unwary,
and the gent who wants to get rich quick, but
doesn't.
So George hopped a rattler and landed in the
City that Ivnows How. He soon found that that
motto was no idle boast. For he had hardly cooled
his heels in this city, had scarcely got to Powell
and Market streets, when he was tapped on the
shoulder by a couple of well dresed and capable
looking gentlemen. Pulling the usual stall alx)ut
mistaken identity and so on, he found his line fall-
ing as dead as last Tuesday.
He was marched to headquarters where he got
another pair of earsful of infomiation having to
do with the ability of this metropolis to know its
onions.
George had not been here for years and figured
no one would "make" him. He has changed some
and argued that he would land, look things over
and pick out a soft spot to operate. He was in-
formed that the pair of gents who nabbed him
were Sergeants Frank ]McConnell and Charles Gal-
livan and that they recognized him on his "mug"
which they once saw.
He was further advised that this city was not
a very good place for one of his kind to remain
in, especially if one of his kind desired to enjoy
freedom and fresh air, election or no election. He
took the hint and was ready to leak out of the
scenery, when McConnell and Gallivan sprang on
him that he was wanted in Chicago for a 825,000
bunco trick, so he got a fugitive booking and held
until the Illinois authorities wire what they want
done with George.
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Policemen Commended
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The following- communication, a report made by
Captain Frederick Lemon, commanding the Mis-
sion Police District, has been received by Chief
O'Brien. The officers referred to have been per-
sonally commended by the Chief of Police for the
splendid police service given.
I desire to invite your attention to the high
character of police service rendered by Patrolman
John C. McCulloch, Dewey F. Anderegg and
George F. Laine, August 3rd, 1927, in the taking
into custody of one Everett Root, at Church and
Market streets, at 2:50 a. m.
Root at the time was armed with a 32 cal.
Savage automatic, and had some two hours pre-
viously threatened to kill Mrs. H. J. Enck in front
of 109 Noe street, by placing the automatic against
her side and attempting- to hold her up, following
which he entered the premises at 3438 16th street,
threatened to kill Miss Elizabeth Hurley, Mrs.
Morris and a Mrs. Leknus who resided at that
location, terrorizing these people and then escap-
ing from the premises.
The character of police service rendered by
these officers in combing the District for some
three hours and taking- into custody this man.
Root, who may have killed several persons had he
been permitted to remain at large, is in my opin-
ion, worthy of commendation by you, and is
brought to your attention for such action as you
may deem fit.
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The following report was submtited to tlie
Chief's office by Detective Sergeant William Ben-
nett of this department. The officers mentioned
have appeared before the Chief of Police and were
personally commended by Chief O'Brien for the
splendid police service in this instance.
"I hereby request that the following officers be
commended by the Chief of Police for their cool
and efficient manner in which they captured
Ernest Nowlin, while Nowlin, at the point of a
revolver, was holding up the Public Food Store
at 1064 Divisadero street at 3:5.5 p. m., August
6th, 1927. In capturing Nowlin, they also recov-
ered a stolen automobile and information was ob-
tained from Nowlin which later brought about the
capture of Emilio Quiroz who was a partner of
Nowlin in other robberies. Detectives of the Rob-
bery Detail informed me that Nowlin and Quiroz
confessed to about 11 recent grocery store hold-
ups. I am making this report, subject to your
approval. The officers have been in the above
store for about two weeks and only had a 6 foot
space to hide in, and their action of August 6th,
1927, shows that they were very diligent during
the long period."
OFFICER A. HUTCHINSON PRAISED
On May 5, 1927, near the corner of Turk and
Hyde streets, at San Francisco, California, your
officer, A. Hutchinson, attached to the Bush Street
Station, arrested one Earl A. Minnich of Pismo
Beach, California, on a charge of violating the
city traffic ordinance. A search of the automobile
by Officer Hutchinson, which Minnich was driving,
disclosed 20 tin cans, each containing approxi-
mately one ounce of morphine.
The case was turned over to this office for pros-
ecution under the national narcotic laws. Minnich
was indicted May 9, 1927, on a charge of violatmg J
the Harrison Narcotic Law as amended and the "
Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act. On July
27, 1927, in the United States District Court liere.
Judge F. Kerrigan presiding, Minnich entered a
plea of guilty to the charges alleged in the indict-
ment. The court imposed a sentence of three
years' imprisonment in a United States Peniten-
tiary to be designated by the Attorney General
of the United States* and pay a fine of $1.00.
I desire to commend to your attention the vigi-
lance of Officer Hutchinson in placing this indi-
vidual under arrest and promptly searching his
car. ]\Iinnicl: has been known to this office as a
vendor of illicit narcotic drugs for the past two
years, and lias given this office no little worry by
his narcotic illicit activities.
We congratulate you on having this efficient
officer, Hutchinson, under your direction, and de-
sire to express our appreciation for the hearty co-
operation received from your Department.
If we may at any time serve you, command us,
and I assure you it will be a pleasure. m
C. D. WRITESMAN, "
Acting Narcotic Agent in Charge,
Postoffice Building.
Officer Charles White put Pedro Ortiz behind the prison
bars on two counts of larceny.
MATTOCK & FEASEY
GENERAL CONTRACTORS
San Francisco, Calif.
September, J 927
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I Remember When " '
By Peter Fanning
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PETEK FANNING
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I trapped birds on
slopes of Russian and
Telegraph Hills.
* * *
When Mollie Wilson,
who was the first wo-
man to turn a somer-
sault on a bareback
horse, performed at
Charini's Circus on
Montgomery Avenue
and Jackson Street.
I saw the bricks fall-
ing off the old County
Hospital which was lo-
cated on Francisco
and Stockton Sts. in
the big quake of 1868.
I remember the first white child born on North
Beach.
* * *
When the opposition steamers ran to Sacra-
mento from the foot of Broadway street. They
used big flitches of fat pork with the coal in the
fireboxes to speed them up.
When the Steamer Princess ran to Sausalito
from the foot of Meiggs wharf, which was the
anchorage grounds for the cod fishing fleet.
When Charlie Duane and Red Mike fenced in
several sand lots near Washerwoman's Bay which
they called squatters soverenty.
:;; ^: *
When Shanghai Brown's sailor boarding house
flourished.
* * *
I delivered opera glasses to patrons of Ma-
guire's Opera House, which stood on the corner of
Montgomery and Washington.
* * *
The old English Ale House on Washington and
Dupont. What they called in English money the
patrons could get a splash for a bob and for two
and six pence would fill them up on Guinnesses
Stout.
* * *
I walked by the side of Emperor Norton on the
shore of North Beach listening to him singing
the days of '49.
* * *
When they delivered water to the inhabitants
from water carts.
The shore on North Beach came up to Fran-
cisco street under Abe Warner's Cob Web Hotel.
* * *
The bulkhead at the foot of Market street was
used for storing hay, and the Oakland ferry ran
from the corner of Pacific and Davis street. Cap-
tain Kentzell was in charge of the ferry detail.
* * *
I carried a torch in the torchlight procession
when Horace Greeley ran for President.
* * *
The old windmill at Pfeiffers Flour Mill was
used to propel the machinery for grinding the
flour.
4 ^ ^
I played ball in the yards of the old San Jose
Depot, which was located at 12th and Market
streets and saw the trains run out Valencia to
29th street.
^ ^ $
The big ships — Three Brothers, The Falls of
Afton, The Glory of the Seas, and the County of
Clare — which w^ere often in the harbor.
IVLVTHESON
(Continued from Page 12)
strike a city and, when it does, it calls for the
supreme test of the departments. A city can be
destroyed over night by earthquake or tornado,
followed by a conflagration, and that possibility
should not be eliminated from the scientific study
of the problem. Experience is often a bitter
teacher.
Scientific study should deal with local problems
individually because of conditions. General prob-
lems sometimes fail to reach the weak spots in
local organizations. Mutual sympathy, co-opera-
tion and study should be the watchwoi'd of both
departments to the end that the maximum of ser-
vice be rendered to our respective communities.
DOUGLAS 7896
No Elevators
Stevenson Garage
CAPACITY 400 CARS
A. V. HASSETT. Mer.
Parking 2.5c and 3.5c. Night Storage 50c
Storage Rates S8 Up.
Special Rates on Application. Cars Called for and Delivered.
Washing and Grease Racks. Quick Ser\-ice.
71 STEVENSON STREET
Between 1st and 2nd, and Market and Mission
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MAYOR ROLPH ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT
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MAYOR'S OFFICE
San Francisco
Daniel J. O'Brien, Chief of Police,
San Francisco.
Dear Chief O'Brien:—
I have examined with interest your report for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, which has
.lust been delivered to me. In congratulating you
upon your comprehensive report, I wish likewise
to congratulate you upon the splendid manner in
which the Police Commission and yourself, to-
gether with your command, have conducted the
Department during the past year.
I appreciate your very friendly reference to me
and to the co-operation which it has always been
my pleasure to extend to the Board of Police
Commissioners and to yourself. This co-operation
you may expect in the future as in the past, and
I hope that it may result in the continuation of
the present high state of efficiency in the Depart-
ment.
I am sure I need not tell you how pleased I am
that you have recovered your health and that you
are once more active in the honored position
which you have filled with such great credit to
yourself and to my administration.
With my warmest personal regards and every
good wish, I am,
Very sincerely yours,
JAMES ROLPH, JR.,
Mayor.
TWO POLICE OFFICERS DO WORK WELL
I want to call your attention to the efficiency of
the Police Department and particularly the prompt
action of two officers connected with the San Fran- i
Cisco Police Force whose names I cannot furnish, "
so will have to designate them by their badge
numbers, namely 247 and 776. (Officers G. J.
Mui-phy of Company "F" and A. Nicolini of Com-
pany "D".)
I recently had occasion to telephone Davenport
20 asking tliat an officer be sent to my home at
2627 Ulloa street, and within ten minutes after
tlie call was made these two officers came to the
house and the matter was explained to them,
which at this time would be of no particular in-
terest to embody in my letter. The details were
furnished to the officers on their arrival and imme-
diately the party in question was traced, who was
not at home at the time. They then left my 4
home and within a few hours returned, having ■
laid a trap to catch the party, which was success-
ful that same evening.
I feel that you will be interested from a depart-
ment standpoint, and hope that you will compli-
ment these officers for the zeal they have displayed,
for I know that it was not done particularly for
me as I am a perfect stranger to both and any
notice to them from you would surely be appre-
ciated by them though I know that it would not
make them better police officers, having in mind
the way they handled my little situation. Further-
more, I want you to know that the matter is not
written expressly for the purpose of soliciting
from you commendatory letters to members of
your force, but to express my feelings towards the
San Francisco Police Department as a whole and
the efficiency of all concerned with it.
EDWARD STERN, 2627 Ulloa Street.
ALL COULD RIDE
San Francisco's entire population could go rid-
ing at once if an average of a little less than six
persons were carried in each of the City's regis-
tered motor vehicles, according to the California
State Automobile Association. San Fi-ancisco has
a motor vehicle registration of one car to every
5.7 persons.
Septtnibt'/-, 1927
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Page 19
COMMENDATORY LETTERS
I would, indeed, be recreant if I did not express my word
of praise and cominendation for Chinato\\Tn Squad Police
Officers Tliomas Kelly and Charles Rogerson who so gra-
ciously and courteously guided a delegation of visiting
Knights of Columbus and their ladies en route from the
Supreme Convention through Chinatown last Saturday
evening.
The courtly manner of Kelly and Rogerson was very
much commented upon by the visitors upon their return
to the St. Francis Hotel, and this comment, I may say, re-
flected upon the entire police department.
Appreciating all the kindly favors and courtesies of the
past and assuring of my personal esteem and good will,
I am,
DAVID F. SUPPLE,
100 Montgomery Street.
* * *
We wish to take this opportunity to express to you our
appreciation for the wonderful co-operation that your De-
partment gave us in apprehending the two holdup men that
were continually holding up our stores.
We also wish to express our appreciation directly to
Detective Sergeants William Bennett and Vemon Van
Matre for the efficient manner in which they handled this
case. It was through their tireless efforts and the efficient
methods that they employed that really did the trick.
We hope that we may have the pleasure of reciprocating
with some courtesy, but which we hope to be of a different
nature than pursuing holdup men.
E. G. ANDERSON,
The Public Food Stores, Inc.
21st and Harrison Streets.
* * *
I wish to thank you personally for helping us out at the
Redwood Shrine with six of your officers, Alonzo Hicks,
Morris Harris, Julius Hiatt, Oliver Cox, William Ludwig
and Rudolph Maier.
They all worked like Trojans and were on the job every
minute. Alonzo Hicks took charge and I don't believe
anyone could have handled the situation better than he
did.
Yours sincerely,
W. L. HUGHSON.
* * *
It is with a great deal of pleasure that I write to com-
mend the work of one of your officers in connection with
a case recently reported by me to you.
Officer Ed. Wiskotchill, ^\-ithout disturbance, and by the
exercise of excellent tact and diplomacy, brought the mat-
ter to a satisfactory conclusion, with justice to everyone
and \%'ithout undue harshness to the guilty party. His
efforts and the results were in every way worthy of the
department under your regime.
Many thanks to you for your prompt and effective atten-
tion.
JOE BERENDSEN, President,
c/o Hinz and Landt, Inc.,
Market Street at Fifth.
* * *
I desire to thank you and the fine Detective Department
of the City of San Francisco for the service and co-opera-
tion they gave to the San Francisco Women's Club Build-
ing during- the opening week.
The courtesy and attention given by the men who were
detailed to care for our comfort is beyond praise.
Through you we wish to thank them.
MRS. EFFIE EASTON, Treasurer,
San Francisco Women's Bldg. Assn.,
609 Sutter Street.
Bank Auto Works
Automobile Rebuilding Plant
BODIES FENDERS UPHOLSTERY PAINTING
CHASSIS RADIATORS TOWING ENAMELING
All Under Ont Roof
735 Montgomery Street, San Francisco
Phones Davenport 5333 - 5334
HATS and
CUSTOMISED O'COATS
Juts Come Along
"NOW"
BERTILLION
Leading Hatter
940 MARKET STREET
IN OAKLAND— 1315 BROADWAY
No. 1
35 SIXTH ST.
Cor. Stevenson
No. 2
1730 FILLMORE ST.
Near Sutter
No. 3
40 EDDY ST.
Next to
Bank Italy
The Leader Dairy Lunch
INCORPOEATED
Main Office: 44 EDDY STREET
PHONE SUTTER 237
No. 4
70 FOURTH ST.
Corner Jessie
No. 5
631 BROADWAY'
Near Grant Ave.
No. 6
63 FIFTH ST.
Nr. Market St.
Qood Food
Fountain Treats
%ll)ilsori6
Thg^andy with q College Education
PALO ALTO
8AN FRANCISCO (333 GEART--708 CLEMENT)
>- FRESNO"SAN JOSE-STOCKTON -^
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Page 20
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Septeviber. 1927
CITY EMPLOYEES GET BOOST FROM
SANTA BARBARA OFFICIALS
MAYOR'S OFFICE
San Francisco
Honorable Daniel J. O'Brien,
Chief of Police,
San Francisco, California.
Dear Chief O'Brien:—
I am enclosing herewith copy of a letter ad-
dressed to the Mayor's Executive Secretary, Ed-
ward Rainey, by Francis Price, expressing thanks
for the co-operation given by members of the San
Francisco Fire and Police Departments to the
people of Santa Barbara in overcoming a disas-
trous fire on the water front there on August 3.
The Mayor is deeply gratified at this splendid
co-operation rendered the members of your de-
partment, and suggests that you convey the proper
thanks to those who took part.
Very sincerely yours,
WM. F. BENEDICT,
Assistant Secretary to Mayor.
* * *
CITY OF SANTA BARBARA
Santa Barbara, Cal.
August 4th, 1927.
Mr. Edward J. Rainey,
City Hall,
San Francisco, California.
Dear Mr. Rainey:
The Board of Police and Fire Commissioners of
this city desires through you to express to the
officials of the city and county of San Francisco,
and to the people of San Francisco generally, their
deep appreciation of the splendid services rendered
this city by the members of the San Francisco
Police and Fire Departments who were guests in
this city in connection with the American Legion
Convention.
At 1 :00 a. m. on Wednesday, a disastrous fire
occurred in the lumber yards and wharf on the
water front of this city. The fire was of such mag-
nitude that it taxed the capacity of our small fire
department to the limit. The San Francisco men
were attending a social affair and, though dressed
in a uniform unsuited for the work, voluntarily
responded immediately, organized themselves and
placed their services at the disposal of the officials
of our fire department in charge of the fire. They
assumed responsibility for a very difficult part of
the work and performed most commendably. The
men remained on duty until 4:30 in the morning
and only left when there was no further need for
their services.
Unfortunately, I have not been able to get tiie
names of all those who participated, but the fol-
lowing men are deserving of special mention:
Thomas D. Thomson Fireboat 2
James Ray Gavin Engine 10
Greetings from
Henry Rosenthal
Service
Quality
Maison Paul
Special Accommodations for
Banquets and Dinner Parties
1214 Market Sheet (At the Civic Center)
SAN FRANCISCO
Phone Park 6798
or Market 234.3
OPEN DAY and NIGHT
JOHN TRAYNOR. Res. Telephone Pacific 4755
CHARLES HARCOURT. Res. Telephone Giaystone 9050
Telephones: MARKET 462— MARKET 463
Ocean Shore Iron Works
550-558 EIGHTH STREET
Between Bryant and Brannan Streeta
San Francisco
Manufacturers of
Tanks, Breechings, Smoke Stacks
Boilers, General Plate Steel Work
Dealers in
Boilers, Engines, Pumps, Tanks, Etc.
Oxy-Acetylene Cutting and Welding
Special Attention given to Repair Vi^or\
HOTEL SUTTER
FIREPROOF
EUROPEAN PLAN
Kearny and Sutter Sts. Phone Sutter 3060
San Francisco, California
Hotel Sutter is a modern, strictly first-class
hotel, noted far and wide for its fine furnishings,
splendid service and popular prices.
No hotel in the city has a better location; in
fact, the Sutter is in the heait of the city, with
banking, business and shopping districts suriound-
ing it on all sides.
Nothing better could be said of the Sutter than
that it is heartily endorsed by Californians them-
selves, from one end of the State to the other.
Management of
GEORGE WARREN HOOPER.
Scl-'tembcr, 1921
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Page 21
Herman C. Abels Chemical 11
Joiin Bencich .•. Truck 7
Charles S. Graham Engine 8
Joseph L Adams Engine 23
Robert C. Neergaard Chemical 13
Vincent C. Reiley Engine 3
Edward J. Sweeney Engine 3
Julius S. Podtski Engine 9
Frank F. Bustin Engine 9
Joseph H. Blakeley Chemical 5
Thomas P. Barnacle Truck 12
Carl F. Valentine Truck 1
George B. Duncan.. ...Corporal of Police
Chfford L. Innes Special Police Officer
The attitude of these men is characteristic of
the spirit of San Francisco, which has been demon-
strated to the members of this community many
times, particularly on the occasion of our disas-
trous earthquake in 1925.
On the morning following the fire, I endeavored
to present to these men our appreciation for their
servicts. Their reply indicated to me the high
standard and splendid spirit of your Police and
Fire Departments. They said that they had been
taught that their duty was to serve whenever and
wherever their services would be of assistance.
I wish as a personal favor that you W'Ould convey
to Mayor Rolph, the President of the Board of
Police Commissioners, the President of the Board
of Fire Commissioners, the Chiefs of Police and
Fire Departments, the gratitude of the people of
this city for the services rendered by these men
and the commendation of the high standard of
your administration, as exemplified to us by their
conduct.
With kindest personal regards, I am,
Yours very sincerely,
FRANCIC PRICE, President,
Board of Police and Fire Commissioners.
POPULAR CORPORAL MARRIED
Coi-poral James Carrig is back on the job over
at the Central Station, having returned from his
honeymoon. The corporal was married to Miss
j\Iae Sullivan, whose brother, James Sullivan, is a
member of the department, on duty in the city
prison. The wedding was a splendid afiiair and a
reception followed the ceremony, when hundreds
of their friends came to wish them happiness. Mr.
and Mrs. Carrig's trip took them through the
East.
ESTABLISHED 1S90
The San Francisco Barher Supply House
DECKELMAN BROS.
INCORrORATED
rUTLERY AN'D BEAUTY PARLOR EQUIPMENT
48 TURK STREET
PHONE FRANKLIN 2S70 San Francisco. Calif.
1
We GRANEY
Billiard Parlor
Finest in the World
924 MARKET STREET
DddebErdthers
MOTOR CARS
J. E. FRENCH CO.
O'Farrell at Polk
Graystone 9000
Daniel T. Hanlon Chu. M. O'Brien
Telephone Market 7906
Sanitary Towel Supply Co.
84 NINTH STREET
San FVancisco, Cal.
DOUGLAS 6346
EASTMAN KODAK STORES, Inc.
Formerly Rowland & Dewey Co,
EVERYTHING PHOTOGRAPHIC
545 MARKET ST. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
NEW POODLE DOG
HOTEL and RESTAURANT
POLK AND POST STREETS
SAN FRANCISCO - ■ CALIFORNIA
FORMERLY AT 344 SUTTER STREET
NEW CASTILLIAN CAFE
Genuine Spanish Dinners
242 O'FARRELL STREET
Between Powell and Mason Streets SAN FRANCISCO
Phone Kearny 7032 for Reservations
Page 22
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September, 1927
TUTTLEFISH
(Continued from Page 8)
2nd Attorney: "No! no! no! . . ."
Answer, continuing: "Well then I can't . . ."
2nd Attorney: "Madam! madam! Pray let me
explain. My client has committed no crime; he
stands here . . ."
1st Attorney, vaulting out of his chair: "Now
y'r Honor, we object to this line of argument. Tliis
is grossly improper! This, I submit, y'r Honor,
is a dastardly, bold, outrageous attempt by coun-
sel for the defense to poison the minds of these
jurors already sworn, a conspiracy with — with the
devil, to outrage justice in her sacred palace. I
protest . . ."
2nd Attorney : "Stop ! I warn my very learned
friend to beware of his accusations. To outrage
justice is not my business. I am here to uphold
the wisdom of the law, and sir," turning to fhe
last Attorney, "not to outrage justice, but to
champion the cause of outraged justice, to protect
my client from the onslaught of an overzealous
prosecution. Must I stand here as the lamb before
the wolf . . ."
His Honor: "Gentlemen, gentlemen, I must
again admonish you to respect the dignity of this
legal forum. I shall not warn you again, but shall
be bound to hold you in contempt of this court."
(To Be Continued)
Telephone Davenport 460
A. Ramazzotti
Commission Cafe
(ITALIAN RESTAURANT)
530 FRONT STREET
Cor. Oregon San Francisco, California
Phone Mission 1
GEORGE L. SUHR
SUHR & WIEBOLDT
Funeral Directors and Embalmers
1465 to 1473 VALENCIA ST.
Between 25th and 26th Sts., San Francisco, Calif.
I
feu^
Mead's Estublishments
SAN FRANCISCO:
l.-)9 THIRD STREET
241 KEARNY STREET
14 EAST STREET
24 SIXTH STREET
64 FOURTH STREET
3 MARKET STREET
68 FOURTH STREET
117 THIRD STREET
1999 HYDE STREET
Offices, (lowniissary and Bakery:
517 STEVENSON" STREET
Harding Restaurant
ITALIAN DINNERS
309 WASHINGTON ST.
KEARNY 398 E. BIANCHINI, Prop.
Elect " "
JACK SPAULDING
SUPERVISOR
A Vrogxessive ^usim^s Man
St'/ilt-mbc-)-, IV 27
"2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 21
McCONNELL AND GALLIVAN
(Continued from PaRp IS)
Mr. Seed will probably advise his friends that
til is is no town to flock to or to follow out the ad-
vice of the late Mr. Greeley about migrating- west,
young man, unless one is bent upon some honest
pursuit.
Hjuls
COFFEE AND LUNCH HOUSE
SINCE 1876
Trv Our Special P\ale Lunch
448 MONTGOMERY STREET
"Yours for Amusement"
EXHIBITING THE CREAM OF
THE WORLD'S PHOTOPLAYS
The Alhambra
POLK AT GREEN
Graystone 321
The Royal
POLK at California
Graystone 98
AUBURN
MOTOR CARS
^ ^ **
Distributed by
F. S. Frederick, Inc.
1230 Van Ness Ave.
''America's Fastest Stock Car*'
15,000 miles at 611/3 miles per hour
Official A. A. A. Record
KEEP THE ASSESSOR'S
OFFICE OUT OF
POLITICS
— RETAIN —
RUSSELL L.
WOLDEN
(INCUMBENT)
ASSESSOR
Over 10 Years Chief Assistant
to the late Assessor John Ginty
Page2-i "2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
DEATH CALLS TWO POLICE OFFICERS
The past month lias marked the passing- of two
well known and highly respected members of the
department.
On August 25th, Officer Joseph Maloney, of the
Mission Station, passed away. He had been an
honored and brave member of the department for
many years, and was universally liked by his com-
rades and the people among whom he worked. He
was a large man, and fearless in the performance
of his duties, it having been but a short time ago
when he fought a duel with bank robbers out in
the Mission.
His funeral was held with police honors from
St. James Church. The pallbearers were Sergeant
George McLoughlin, Detective Sergeants Edward
McSheehy and James Mitchell, Officers James J.
Kenny, John Connolly and John J. Crowley.
Sergeant Lawrence J. Boland, of the Harbor
Station, died August 31. Sergeant Boland has
been a member of the department for over 20
years. He rose to his rank by hard work and
study, and received his training in the Central
District when it took a regular man to report off
each watch without a set of black eyes. He was
courageous and brave, and an efficient officer in
every respect. He was liked by all who met him,
and was held in high esteem by his fellow police
officers.
The funeral services were held from St. Anne's
Church with police honors. The pallbearers from
the department were: Lieutenant Michael Mit-
chell, his platoon commander; Lieutenant Michael
Riordan, Detective Sergeant Paul Badaracco, Ser-
geant John J. Farrell and Corporal John Coghlan.
September. J 927
Introducing the
New Governor Hotel
Rooms with Private Bath — Single and en Suite
Garage in Connection
Management — P. D. Metaxas. P. G. Denson
TURK .'^T JONES San Francisco
Phone PROSPECT 10000
S.C.HOWARD
Prop.
Star
Dairy Leech
We Aim to Please
710 KEARNY
ST.
Now you can have a Wurlitzer Player Piano
that will fit into any niche in your home.
And in spite of its diminutive size it is a
beautifully designed, substantially built instru-
ment of faultless taste and unquestioned su-
periority.
It has the full 88-note scale, with clear, true,
mellow tones and fine full volume. It uses any
standard size roll.
You can own this exquisite little player on the
easiest of terms.
WURUIZER $AA C
Studio Player • ~ -'
$10 Down. Balance over 2M years.
WURUIZEK
W OBQ u SPAT OFF, W
250 STOCKTON STREET
234,5 MISSION STREET
Traveling CRANES For All Purposes
Electric or Hand Operated
Ice and Refrigerating Machinery
with Automatic or Manual Control
Cyclops Iron Works
Represented by J. W. HORSMAN
General Offices and Factory
837-847 FOLSOM STREET
San Francisco, Cal. Phone Sutter 3030
Nierman & Lefkovitz
Dealers in
BOTTLES
1266-1268 HOWARD STREET
Phone Market 92.5 San Francisco, Cal.
September, J 927
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Page 2$
VETERANS ENTERTAINED BY POLICE
On Friday, September 2nd, the veterans of tlie
Palo Alto hospital were entertained by the San
Francisco Police Department troupe, under the di-
rection of Sergeant Patrick McGee.
The show was sponsored by West of Twin Peaks
Post 233, American Legion, who, having seen the
policemen in the role of entertainers, took them to
the college city to give the soldier boys a treat.
The troupe did themselves proud and tiie sick and
wounded fighters of Uncle Sam thoroughly enjoyed
the show put on by the officers.
Each number was roundly applauded and the
members were given a great hand by all who at-
tended. Each policeman was warmly thanked for
giving their evening to bring happiness to those
who are forced to stay indoors.
The quartette composed of Officers Jack jMc-
Greevy, Claude Ireland, Carlyle Field and C. Evans
furnished musical numbers.
Officers R. Martin and \\m. Merrick put on a
boxing bout.
Others taking part were Officers H. E. Jackson,
Frank Mascarelli, Jack O'Keefe and S. Waugh.
Officer Joe W'ickstrom, comedian of the troupe,
handed the audience manv a laugh.
S. F. POLICEMAN WINS FAME
More than four years ago a Chinese gunman for
the Bing Kong long killed another Chinese in
Denver, Colo.
Last year, during another tong war, he killed
a man in Seattle.
Known throughout the country as a tong leader
and one of the most deadly of tong gunmen, he is
said by authorities to have more than half a dozen
killings to his credit in various parts of the coun-
try.
His name is Yee Wing Nun, alias Jim Yee.
For four years the Denver police hunted him
the country over, and he always slipped through
their fingers. Recently it became imperative that
they lay hands on him, and having exhausted all
other resources, the Denver authorities turned to
the one man who, above all others, could locate the
missing killer if he could be located by the white
police anywhere in the United States.
That man is Sergeant Jack Manion, head of San
Francisco's Chinatown police detail.
Manion said nothing about it at the time, but
last night word praising him and thanking hini
came from Denver. The police of that city iiad
located and arrested the man just where Jack told
them they would find him, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
All of which adds to jManion's reputation
throughout the country in connection with work
among the Chinese. But it is just a part of the
day's work to him.
HKMLOCK UDO
rtesidence Phone RANDOLPH 78
PHIL BENEDETTI
The Florist
2980 16th STREET, below Mission San Francisco
They AdTertlB« — Lat' ■ PvtrouUe
453 GRANT AVE
OHHTESE AMEBICAN DISHES — ^MEECHANTS' LtTNCH. 60«
Jaxz Dance Music Every Evening 8 p. m. to 1 a. m.
REAL CHOP SUSY
WM. H. HAMBLETON
NOW IN OUR NEW STORE
50 CALIFORNIA ST. San Francisco, Calif.
All That Is Good for the Smoker
KEARNY 5044
HOTEL MELBA
214 JACKSON STREET
LEST TOU FORGET
PAGE'S MODERN GARAGE
740 VALENCIA STREET
Phone Valencia 1036
21 Hour Service TOWING
Automotive Eneineering We Know How
Frieda
Schmidt-Brauna. Prop.
F. W. Kracht,
Manager
GOOD
PALM GARDEN GRILL
FOODS BE.ST COOKING LIGHTNING SERVICE
TEL.
931 MARKET
KEARNY 4633
STREET
SAN FRANCISCO
. CALIF.
632 QRAKT AVS.
Under Simc Mafugenciil
ORIGINAL
Piay Ball
Third Season
RELLABLE
BUY THE ORIGINAL
Beware of Imitations
Page 26 "2-0"POLICEJOURNAL
DETECTIVE MUDD COMMENDED
September, J 927
I wish to express my appreciation in behalf of Det.
W. E. Mudd for his prompt and courteous service ren-
dered recently, when my little girl was struck by an
automobile and was injured to the extent that she had to
be taken to the Emergency Hospital. Mr. Mudd happened
to be passing just as the accident occurred and so kindly
took care of all the details, such as getting the driver's
number, and also escorted Mrs. Tarter and my little girl
to the Emergency Hospital and back home again.
Several of the witnesses remarked that they had never
seen a more courteous, wide-awake, and gentlemanly offi-
cer than Det. Mudd.
E. D. TARTER,
2750 Polk Street.
19 2 7
Deering's
Penal
Code
specially Priced
to
Police and Peacc
Officers
READY SOON
IT PAYS TO BUY AND RELY ON
DEERING'S
Bancroft-Whitney Co.
200 McAllister Street San Francisco
Telephone Market 4330
Water and Rail Connections
Sudden Lumber Co.
Office Number 1950 THIRD STREET
San Francisco, California
"SUDDEN SERVICE"
Hanni Auto Repair Co.
1765 California St.
San Francisco
A Hto wrecks care-
fully attended to
MARVEL CARBURETORS
Sales and Service
Telephone: GRAYSTONE 12
LA CASA BIGIN
(Formerly of Bigin's Balojjna Rest. 240 Columbus Ave.)
Home of real Bohemians has moved downtown to
441 STOCKTON STREET (near Bush)
Biprin. himself, will be waiting to greet you.
Luncheons 50c — 75c Dinners $1.00 — §1.50 Also A la carte
Dancing -Bohemian atmosphere Phones Sutter 274 — Sutter 8252
Personal management Original Bigin
Irvine & Jachens
Badges
Manufacturers
: Police Belt Buckles
1068 MISSION STREET
San Francisco
^ 0
Vote for
NORMAN D.
COOK
for
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Born at HoUister, Calif., Nov. 22,
1 880; came to San Francisco 1898;
entirely self-made; a man of
strength and legal ability; grad-
uate from Kent Law School
and Hastings College of the Law
(U.C.);beenan instructor in law
pastl5years;had20years'general
practice of the law; became a can-
didate at request of many
public-spirited citizens; free
from political entanglements.
He Is Qualified
September, 1927
2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 21
EMPLOYER WARNS HIS DRIVERS
(Continued from Page 14)
is the opinion of the writer that they should be
on a race track and not driving a cumbersorrie
truck. The letter which appears below, would
make wonderful advertising- copy for some firm
tiiat wants to convince the public that their trucks
will beat the Broadway Limited, or perhaps, stim-
ulate truck buying among bootleggers.
The letter as addressed to an Indiana chief of
police, reads:
"Beg to advise that I have had some complaints
recently about my trucks being driven over the
streets and county roads at a rate of speed that
was greater than the law allows. Now, please
bear in mind and be governed accordingly, that at
no time are we in such a hurry to make deliveries
or return from any deliveries, that it is necessary
for you to drive or operate my trucks faster than
the rate of speed designated by law. In fact, what
we want to do, is drive within the law and obey
same.
"Now, it will be absolutely necessary for you to
put your mind on what you are doing while you
are driving and at no time drive at a rate of
speed that is greater than the law allows, if you
want to retain your job. I must insist on these
orders being carried out, and I have asked the
Police Department to report to me anything they
find out or hear to the contrary; and I am also
going to assure you of another thing, and that is,
if you are caught speeding and are locked up, you
will either have to stay locked up or pay your own
fine. I am sorry to have to write any of you such
a letter, but I cannot afford to disobey the law or
take any chances of running into or injuring the
public in any way."
At this time when many complaints are received
from householders of the effect upon their houses
by the speeding of heavily loaded trucks over
many residential streets, a warning by our truck
owners to their employees would be timely.
Lion Supreme and Lion De Luxe Hats
TRIEST & CO.
Manufacturers o^
Hats and. Caps
732-738 Mission St. San Francisco, Gal.
FIREMAN'S
FUND
INSURANCE COMPANY
401 CALIFORNIA STREET
F/re • Automobile • Marine
D. J. O'Hara
Manager
Phones: Market 154
Pacific 161
McAvoy, O'Hara & Co.
Funeral Directors
2051 Market Street 4450 Geary Street
San Francisco
Cherry's Courteous Credit
Stylish Apparel for Men and Women
CASH PRICES on CREDIT
£ig/ueen Years in San Francisco
Eight Stores on the Coast
CHERRY'S
2400 MISSION ST.
Cor. 20th St.
St. Germain Restaurant
60 and 68 ELLIS STREET
300 Seats
Main Dining Room
300 Second Floor
We are prepared
to serve
Sumptuous or
Modest Dinner
Parties
Banquet Halls with
Dancing Floors
Lunch 65c and $1
Dinner $1.25
De Luxe $2.50
A la carte at all houra
Page 28
2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
September, 1927
STRANGLER AND THE RADIO
(Continued from Page 11)
their midst and that they and their loved ones
might be next in his path.
Middle West cities reported murder after mur-
der, until twenty had accumulated, unsolved. And
then the strangler found a motorist going- to Can-
ada. He "bummed a ride" and landed in Winnipeg.
Two women were done to death. Then science,
which had turned a deaf ear to the entreaties of
the police of two nations in their fi'antic search,
decided to put an end to the slaughter of women,
and sent a radio program booming into Store-
keeper Morgan's set just as Fate sent the strangler
to Morgan's door for food.
The battle wasn't won yet, however. The pro-
vincial police and the Constabulary of Killarney
had hardly placed Nelson behind the bars of the
little jail there, until the prisoner stooped and
picked up a nail file from the cell-floor. With this,
he easily picked the lock and walked out as quietly
and serenely as he had entered. Hiding under the
station platform at Killarney, Nelson was pre-
pared to hop on the brake rods of the special train
from Winnipeg which was to take him back.
The train roared into the station, and guards
flocked over the platform, learning for the first
time that their man had escaped. Luck again
seemed with Nelson, hiding there just beneath
their feet. He chuckled as he prepared to board
the train that had been destined to bear him back
to the gallows. And once more Fate stepped in,
and allowed a woman to avenge her sex.
"There he is," she screamed. Nelson ran for
the bushes. Half a hundred men surrounded him,
handcuff'ed him and placed him aboard the train.
That night thousands of Winnipeg citizens gath-
ered at the jail to view the feared and hated "beast
man" as he was brought in, manacled and guarded
to await the decision of a Canadian court. He
has consistently refused to discuss the crimes
charged to him, and contents himself reading
crime stories and smoking cigarettes.
oooooo
SCOTLAND YARD
(Qontinued from I'ag-e 7 )
"The business of a detective, after all," he
claims, "is thief catching, and from the point of
view of the public, so long as he does it, it does not
matter very much whether he is familiar with
quadratic equations, or whether, like that old
officer who reported a Royal personage as arriving
safely 'escorted by a troop of dragoons', he has
no use for the subtleties of education. The thief-
taker type is still not unknown, even in the higher
grades of the service, and there have been men of
this sort whose rugged common sense has carried
them to success where more subtle men would
have failed."
We gladly
will arrange
CHARGE
ACCOUNTS
with men of
the Police
Force
--these acconnts as freely to be
used in the purchasing of civil-
ian clothes as in the selection
of uniforms.
Kelleher & Browne
' The Irish Tailors •
716 Market St. near Kearny
ESTABLISHED
27 YEARS
THE PACIFIC COAST
AUTO ASSOCIATION
1182 MARKET ST.
Phone Park 4581
The members of the San Francisco
Police Department will be welcomed
into membership.
Special Features for members of the Department.
Contracts
Refinanced
Loans to
Individuals
Pacific States Finance Corp.
ROBERT A. HOLT, Manager
1241 VAN NESS AVE. San Francisco
Phone Grajstone 7280
September. 1927
2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Paee 29
BANK PROTECTION
(Continued from Page 10)
The following general practices for protection of
bank premises should be observed :
Unexposed or partly concealed windows or rear
doors sliould be barred with bolts screwed through
wall and nut locked.
A system for employees to enter banking rooms
in morning and to vacate banking rooms in even-
ing should be worked out to avoid possibility of
early morning or late afternoon holdups when
banks are not open for business. This is best ac-
complished when fortified by a system of co-opera-
tion wherein public vigilance is practiced at both
these hours by the regular officers assigned to
banks' vicinity.
Bank employees should be educated to an in-
telligent observation of conditions in and sur-
rounding bank premises. Loiterers who awaken
suspicion should be reported to Police Headquar-
ters for proper surveillance.
^'ault doors should be locked open during bank-
ing hours. Several practical expedients have been
devised that are effective. Vault doors should
have separate locks for dual control. Time locks
should be provided.
The entire plan of bank protection should be
replete with diligence, skill and care of a character
that will enable the bank to discharge its responsi-
bility under the law to its depositors, stockholders
and employees with the utmost security of life and
of property. This logically follows from the pur-
pose of civil society, whose chief duty and end are
to secure and maintain the peace and prosperity
of the individuals composing the commonwealth.
Financial stability is the very essence of a peace-
ful, prosperous body politic. During recent years
this consideration has reached grave and im-
portant proportions. The tremendous increase in
prosperity since the World War, the expansion
of banking facilities since the adoption of the
Federal Reserve, and the generation of branch
banks — all have enormously increased the deposits
of banking institutions. The I'esult has been that
instead, as formerly, of a few powerful financiers
concentrating their wealth in centralized citadels,
the banking business has become an integral part
of the lives of the majority of Americans.
Increased deposits and depositors means greater
dependence upon the banking security afforded by
financial institutions and hence every householder
is as vitally interested in the protection of his de-
posited savings as he is concerned with the safe-
guarding of the personal possession of his home.
The importance of bank protection to the com-
munity has not been overstressed. It is vital to
the community. A completed program to provide
adequate protection can be carried out effectively
only through co-ordinated efforts of Police and
Bank Officials.
HOTEL
MARK
HOPKINS
San Francisco's
Newest and Finest
Hotel
Atop Nob Hill
California at Mason
Davenport 6300
Geo. D. Smith, Pres. and Managing Director
Will P. Taylor. Jr.. Resident Manager
"CAMP FIRE"
HAMS
LARD
SAUSAGE
BACON
SHORTENING
SALAD OIL
VIRDEN PACKING CO.
SAN FRANCISCO
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Detective Charles Dorman of Lieutenant Munn's watch,
made the trip to Chicago to witness the fight between Jack
Dempsey and Gene Tunney. Charles had a pair of ducats
in the eighth row from the ring. He was the envy of many
a member of the force for his lucky stroke.
* * *
After many years of active and honorable service in the
San Francisco Police Department, Officer Edmond J. Casey
was granted a pension by the Board of Police Commis-
sioners.
:i= * .*
The following were appointed members of the depart-
ment at the meeting of the Police Commission of August
29th: Lloyd Peebles, Walter R. Larsen and George Mat-
thews. These three new officers will be given a course of
training under Sergeant Patrick McGee in charge of the
school of insti-uction.
* « *
One of the beautiful prizes offered in the Golden Gate
Third Annual Swim sponsored by The Chronicle is a
trophy donated by the Howard Automobile Company, dis-
tributors of Buicks, which car is a favorite with San
Francisco policemen. The Trophy, a splendid cup, was
sent to each station for exhibition and stimulated much
interest in the swim scheduled for September 18. The
closing time of this issue of the Police Journal is such that
the account of the swim and the account of the actions of
the members of the police department will have to be
chronicled in the October issue.
* * *
Lieutenant Richard Foley of the Southern Station, wlio
has been on a trip through the East, is back on the job
again and says he is glad to be home once more. Says the
umbrella makers mu.st do a land office business out on the
Atlantic Coast, for all it did while he was there was rain.
* * *
Corporal Thomas Mclncrney and his squad, working out
of the Chief's office, pulled one of the largest gambling
raids in many years this month when they "knocked over"
a Post street club and gathered in six keepers and 85
visitors.
* * *
Here are the members of the San Francisco Police De-
partment who are on their way to the ten-years-after con-
vention of the veterans of the World's war in France. The
members were granted plenty of time off to make the trip,
their pay going on while away: Corporal Franklin K.
Lane of the Mission, Officer William Pilster of the City
Prison Staff Bureau, Officers John Lawless and Thomas
Stack of the Central station. Officer John Surges of the
Traffic Bureau, Officers John Stoddard, Jr., and James H.
Dougherty of the Park Station.
Stack was appointed sergeant-at-arms for the depart-
ment of California, being selected for that position at the
suggestion of Sergeant William Flinn, who is an official
in the American Legion.
^ ^ *
Detective Sergeant Michael Desmond was walking down
the Embarcadero near Howard street. He saw two men.
They acted suspiciously. Desmond caught up with them
and asked them if they wanted a job. They looked at each
other and replied affirmatively. He said, "follow me".
They did. They were led into the Harbor Police Station
before they knew what they were up against. Then they
said plenty, also said their names were George Hurley,
alias John Luckenbach, parole violator from Monroe peni-
tentiary, Washington, and Louis Thomas. The pair were
vagged.
ITALIAN-AMERICAN BANK
S. E. Corner Montgomery and Sacramento Sts.
San Francisco, Calif.
NORTH BEACH BRANCH: Columbus Ave. and Broadway
COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE
Accounts of firms, individuals and corporations are respect-
fully solicited. We offer every facility and accommodation con-
sistent with [irudent and conservative banking.
ESTABLISHED 1S99
The GOLDEN STATE THEATRE
AND REALTY CORPORATION
Extends to the boys in the Department
the best wishes and gratitude for the
efficient service rendered in behalf of
the public and our Theatre.
E. H. EMMICK
R. A. McNEIL
C. R. MOSER
By Theo. M. Newman
ECONOMY
does not mean a miserly
denial of life's pleasures
and comforts. Economy
means saving where ever
possible. This market
affords the best at the
lowest prices.
CrustalAPalace
San fnmasnis/x>odBasiel^'lll^/''n6el^UlssioitfeigXasts.
St-pumhtr, 1927
"2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Pa^e 3 ?
CENTRAL
STATION
Capt. Arthur I). Layne
Lieutenants: Arthur UeGuire and Edward F. Copeland
Officers Joe Murray and Ray Harris arrested Agnes Tal-
bot for grand theft. The lady has a record for larceny
and once was accused of murder.
» » »
Carl Anderson, wanted for spreading a piece of N. G.
paper, was locked up by Corporal Horace Drury and Officer
Harry Gurtler.
* * *
Officer George Lillis assisted Detective Sergeant James
Hayes in landing Clarence Werts in the city prison for
stealing an automobile in violation of the provisions of
Section 146 of the Motor Act.
:^ * *
Officer Ray Harris also brought in George Apostle for
grand theft.
* * :!;
Anthony Apodaca, who has had experiences with gen-
darmes before, was hustled to the city bastile by Officers
John Dooling and John Morley.
* * *
Officer James Miles hustled Fred Jones up to the fifth
floor where he slapped a burglary "kick" against the
prisoner.
* * *
Robert Henderson had a car that belonged to another
gent and in violation of the law as set forth in Section 146
of the Motor Vehicle Act. Officers George Lillis and
Charles Zipperle surrounded him with a lot of perpendicu-
lar three-quarter inch bars, duly and properly charged.
* » *
Edward Moore, wanted in Salinas, was rounded up by
Officers Maurice Carmody and Frank J. Corby.
* * *
Officer Thomas White, on the night watch, remarks that
it seems like most all the automobiles that get hit by other
automobiles, pick out this district for the collisions.
CLEMENT CHAPPAZ, Proprietor
RICHFIELD
KARNY 4025
RICHLUBE
VALLEJO GARAGE No. 2
For Service
166 FOURTH STREET San Francisco, Calif.
In San Francisco, at the Faliice,
■*■ interesting and well-ordered sur-
roundings unite, lor your enjoy-
mint, with a service, unobtrusive,
alert.
lie
PALACE
HOTEL
HA1.SEY E.MANWARJNC
San Francisco
^^arl^t afj\lew Montgomery St.
FEDERATED
METALS
CORPORATION
Great Western Smelting & Refining Branch
75-99 FOLSOM STREET
San Francisco
Phone Davenport 2540
METALS
BABITT, SOLDER, TYPE METAL,
L\GOT COPPER. INGOT BRASS, LEAD,
and All WTiite Metal AUovs
Page 32
2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
September. 1927
SOUTHERN
STATION
Captain Charles Goff
Lieutenants Richard Foley and Arno Dietel
Corporal Emmett FljTin and Officer William Desmond
have a way of showing their dislike for robbers by locking
them up in jail. If any in the audience doubts this asser-
tion, let them ask Edward Plerque, who was thus treated.
He has a charge of robbery to wiggle out of.
* * *
When OflRcer Edward Schuldt sees a guy hitting it along
in an automobile reported stolen, he gets up and chases the
said guy and when he overtakes him, he arrests him and
slams him in the cooler. This is just what he did to James
Sisk, a sailor.
* * *
Officer Charles Keck don't like stickup boys either, and
he escorts them to the station detentionary barracks.
Frank Jordan got a dose of this treatment the other day.
* * *
Coi-porals James J. Ruane and R. S. Sheehan nabbed
Peter Foley as he was easing himself along the streets
in a car that he had surreptitiously borrowed from another
party. A 146 charge fixed him up.
* * *
Thomas O'Neill had an automobile and it is said he had
a few drinks; anyhow his actions attracted the attention
of Officers Andrew Lennon and James Hart, who satisfied
themselves that O'Neill was not driving according to the
precepts of Sec. 112, M. V. Act.
* * *
Officers Allen Pope and A. C. Clifford apprehended Ed
Bushman, whom they shoved into a tank at the station,
accused of assault with a deadly weapon.
* * *
Juan Gongrenechea, charged with grand larceny, was
tapped on the shoulder by Officer Oliver Lundborg, who
booked him accordingly.
Moise-Klinkner Co.
RED RUBBER
STAMPS
369 MARKET ST.
Davenport 1750
LOEWS WARFIELD
Only the Best of The Great
Motion Picture Plays —
Fanchon & Marco's Drer-new
"IDEAS"
Wear a Hat Like the Chief's!
Leave it to an O'Brien to know a "kelly." Chief
Dan calls on Lundstrom every season for the
smartest thing in hats. This year he's wearing
the "Califomian", the new snap brim, priced $5.
jGmd^Km
3242 MISSION 1t20 MARKET
2640 MISSION 1457 FILLMORE
!43S BROADWAY, 1205 BROADWAY. OAKLAND. 226 W. 5TH . LOS ANGELES
72 MARKET
26 THIRD
I 67 POWELL
720 MARKET
7v-^
^ genu me cluCyio
Ih^ zvorkOfJinest ^
HOME LAUNDRY CO.
A PARTICULAR LAUNDRY FOR PARTICULAR PEOPLE
We Handle All Classes of Laundry Work
PHONE MARKET 130
Phonea: MARKET Jj} JJ
Little Auto Parts Company
NEW and USED
WHEELS, RIMS, PARTS and ACCESSORIES
701 GOLDEN GATE AVENUE
Cor. Franklin St. San Franciico, C«I.
ScMcvibcr, 1927
2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 33
HARBOR
STATION
Capt. Patrick Herlihy
Lieutenants Wilbert F. Pengelly and Michael Mitchell
Isaac Lale pretty nearly made a getaway but Oflicer John
Long was on the job ami when Ike breezed by in a car
reported stolen, the officer grabbed him and smeared a
146 charge against his name.
* * *
The following is a list of the charges that confronted
Charles Kline when he said "good morning, Judge", on
August 27th: violating Sections 146, 112, 121, 141 of the
Motor Act, and 606 of the Penal Code. Officer Harry
Prustuck performed the ceremonies attendant on this mul-
titudinous booking. ^p » *
John Malton was pesticating around with no fixed ob-
jective and this condition led to his being booked for
vagrancy after his arre.st by Corporal Edward J. Glover.
* * *
Officers Tobias Bluitt and Harry A. Peshon paused in
their other numerous duties to pick off Orvolee Williams,
wanted for forgery.
* * • *
Corporal Emile Hearn and Officer Peshon also rounded
up Abundio Colio for petty theft.
* * *
Molly Flory, with a passel of extra names to be used
as occasion demands, was skipping along the front with
a "rod" when Officer Walter Olsen took a peek at her.
* * *
Lieutenant Mitchell's pet sea gull took a trip up to
Stockton the other day and nearly got run over by a mal-
lard duck. ^ ^ ^
* * *
Officer Bill Brudigan is making arrangements to have all
migratory water fowls stop over on the bay at Belmont,
thus he can, during the proper seasons, have plenty of
fresh game for the family table and for entertaining his
numerous friends who visit his country estate.
CompUineuts of
WORKMEN'S EDUCATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, Inc.
Phone MARKET 142
Sullivan's Pet Shop
Dealers in
Canaries, Dogs, Cats, Cages and Supplies
1240 MARKET STREET
Opp. Hotel Whitcomb
Formerly 15 years with
Ansel W. Robison
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
The Largest Plant of its Kind in the
United States
— plus 60 years of cleaniniBr and dyeing
experience, is at your service when you
phone F. Thomas. We are equipped to
produce the highest quality of work — to
handle everything from the most delicate
crepe de Chine garment to the heaviest
carpet or rug.
F. XHOIVIAS
PARISIAN DYEING AND
CLEANING WORKS
27 TENTH STKEEET
SAN FRANCISCO
Phone MARKET 230
San Francisco Dairy Co.
HIGH-GRADE MILK and CREAM
Isleton Butter Clover Leaf Butter
"The Fat of the Land"
Turk and Steiner Sts.
Tel. West 6110
--- HOTEL —
WHITCOMB
D.M.Linnard
Lessee
San Francisco's
Newest Large
Hotel
Located in the heart
of the new Civic
r— , «o* r««, . ™. . Center Business Di»-
^'\?;*°r"0' trict. Garage in con.
Manager
nection.
BLANCO'S
CAFE AND RESTAURANT
859 O'FARRELL ST., between Polk and Larkin StB.
RegTilar Dinner Week Days and Sundays
$1.50
Also a la carte.
Banquet Halls PHONE GRAYSTONE 8100
EVERY
Auto Accessory
at a
LOWER Price
LEVIN'S AUTO SUPPLY CO.
Van Ness at Market, San Francisco
Page 34
2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
September, 1927
MISSION
STATION
Capt. Frederick Lemon
Lieutenants Peter A. Mclntyre and Daniel J. Collins
Peter Egan was put where the dogs would'nt bother
him much. Oflficers James Keeley and James Kenney per-
formed the necessary ceremonies to charge him with va-
grancy.
* * *
Officers B. A. Smith, Stephen Desmond and William P.
Curran made a pip of a "knockover" when they captured
and landed in the city prison Edward Harrington, Robert
McCarthy and John Lynch, who were charged with fol-
lowing a vocation of robbery.
* * *
Harold Rich lived on Ellis street, so he came out here
to do a little plain burglaring. He smashed his way into
a store, according to Officer James Carpenti, who arrested
and booked him for burglary and malicious mischief.
* :): *
Pete Arola was wanted up in Sonoma county and the
broadcast for his arrest reached the ears of Officer Frank
Nuttman who went forth and apprehended Mr. Arola.
* * *
Everett Root felt the need of side arms when he fared
forth in this city. He now knows it is a serious offense
against the peace and dignity of the people of the State
of California. Officers George Laine and John McCuUoch
imparted this fitful intelligence to Evey.
Officer Raymond Smith assisted Sergeant Harry Cook
of the Detective Bureau in rounding up Angus McMillan,
desired in San Mateo County.
* * *
Alex Brown tried to trundle his way in an automobile
through the Mission. It's a big district and when one is
unsteady of hand, he attracts some attention. Alex did,
anyhow. He drew the observatory optics of Officer James
Griffin, who determined Alex was not living up to the pro-
visions of Sec. 112 M. V. A., and Alex was duly incar-
cerated.
Banks Wrecking Co*
1610 HARRISON STREET
"Cheerful Credit"
is a modern way of paying
for the Clothing needs of
the entire Family !
Small Payments Weekly or Monthly
Columbia Outfitting Co.
Mission at 22nd
Doughnut and Sandwich Shops
6.58 Market Street 24 Geary Street
1014 Market Street, Opposite 6th
Mission at 22nd Fillmore at Geary
VISIT OUR RESTAURANT at 658 MARKET ST.
Gray Line Motor Tours
The World's Largest and Best Equipped
SIGHTSEEING SERVICE
Operating in fifteen cities of United States
and Canada
San Francisco Office
920 MARKET STREET
Phone Sutter 5186
Seven Distinctive Tours of San Francisco and Vicinity
Expert Watch and Phone Park 7020
Jewelry Repairing
CAESAR ATTELL
Diamonds - Watches • Jewelry
MONEY LOANED
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September, J 927
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Page 35
BUSH ST.
STATION
Capt John J. Casey
Lieutenants Edward L. Cullnan and Joseph Mignola
Walter Carlson will know better than to try and get
through this district in an automobile he cannot steer a
straight course. He tried it the other day and Officer
Clerkin grabbed him and shot him to the hoozgow vnth
a 122 charge fcrninst him.
* * *
Frank Andrikin, accused of vagrancy, was put in the
"jug" by Officer David Dobleman.
* * *
William Taylor, who has had some difficulties with peace
officers before he got snarled up in the meshes of the law
when Corporal William Boyle, Officers Gus Betger and
William W^ard picked him up for packing a "i-od".
Corporal Hoiace Drury and Officer Eugene Clancy
brought in Swan Paulson who was wanted for spreading
some bad paper.
* * *
Harold Harriman has some grief to shed before he is a
free man again. He was placed in this predicament when
Corporal Alfred Williams and Officer David Dobleman
turned the keys on him after booking Harold for robbery
and grand theft.
* * *
Officers Nicholas Kavanaugh and Robert Garrick fixed
James Willey up nicely with a Section 112 and Section 121
charges.
* -i-' *
Don Marshall was gazing at the scenery and the ladies
in the scenery along the avenues of this sectoi'. He had
an automobile that Officers Arthur Lahey and Rudolph
Bergerson recognized as having been reported stolen.
They slapped a 146 charge against the young man.
Lahey, with John Benn, made a nice haul when they
brought in Peter Compagno, Daniel Castor, A. Basuino,
Joe Tallarico and Amando Guerrero, charged \\'ith robbery.
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'2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
September, 1927
TRAFFIC BUREAU
Captain Henry Gleeson
Lieutenants J. J. Casey, J. (Cliff) Fields and Grover Coats
Mounted Officer George Sullivan was meandering around
his terrain down around Jessie and Stevenson streets, when
he observed a gent who was doing nothing very useful.
George watched him for some time and finally he nabbed
the said gent, who gave the name of Thomas Donahue.
Thomas has a nice reading record with the peace officers
of this city and Los Angeles, and he was given a nice
$1,000 vag booking.
* * *
Officer C. H. Grutsmacher has been transferred to the
Traffic Bureau and put on a motorcycle. He takes the
place vacated by Officer J. H. Nyland.
* * *
Motorcycle Officer Joe Perry, who does escort duty, that
is, escorting speeding motorists and reckless drivers to
the nearest station, contends that a lot of motorists seem
bent upon holding their right of way. Joe says the ceme-
teries are being filled with auto drivers who insisted on
keeping the right of way.
* * *
Motorcycle Officer Claud C. Ireland, who subdues auto-
i.sts insisting on making a speedway of Nineteenth avenue,
says its funny how many people think that speeding out
that thoroughfare is perfectly Okeh.
George Thulander endeavors to keen the wide Lincoln
Way free from speed maniacs. He leads a lot of the boys
into the police courts and has them say "guilty."
* * *
Traffic Officer C. D. Donohue has been moved up to
Powell and Geary streets. The installation of signals at
Geary and Stockton caused the change. Donohue has been
on Traffic on Geary street so long that it would be like
moving Union Square to move him from that district. And
take it from us he is some popular guy with the folks who
travel that busy street.
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PARK
STATION
Capt. John J. O'Meara
Lieutenants Daniel W. Cronin, Francis J. McGuire
Sergeant Glenn Hughes doesn't blame any one for going
to most any end to get a glimpse of Golden Gate Park, but
he feels that doing so in an automobile stolen from some
respected citizen is going a little too far, so when he saw
Chester Wilson gliding by, he spotted the tell-tale license
numbers and forthwith he caused Chet to pause while he
ascertained the thus of the thusness, and everything wound
up by Wilson being tagged with a 146 Motor Act charge.
* * *
Hughes also locked up Edward McMenomy for vagrancy,
that being a condition that isn't tolerated very much out
this way.
* * *
Jos. O'Connor couldn't possibly enjoy the beautiful scen-
ery of the Park if he was in the condition that justified
Officer Samuel Cohen in booking him for driving an auto-
mobile while intoxicated.
:J: * *
Kenneth Knutsen and Wm. Mulvihill walked away with
some property belonging to strangers of the pair, and of a
value less than $200. They were apprehended by Officers
Peter Schroeder and Fred M. Fitzsimmons and "petty
larceny" was written against their names.
* * *
Alfred Peterson will know better'n to hang around this
district without some active and visible means of support.
He got vagged by Officers Coulter Murphy and Alvin J.
Nicolini.
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September, 1927
RICHMOND
STATION
Capt. William T. Healy
Lieutenants Daniel W. Cronin, Francis J. McGuire
There are many streets out in this district, but no gent
who might be g-inned up can navigate through same in
an automobile without getting smeared. The gendarmes
are ever alert as the story makers shout. So the other
day Officers Edward McKevitt and Patrick McNamara
observed a party hustling along in a car, unsteady as to
direction, and wobbly in general. They called a halt of
proceedings while they applied the proper interrogations
and observations. Their activities ended when they booked
the said party, who gave the name of Elmer Williams
and whose record would cause him to be talked out in
some towns, on a 112 "clout".
* * *
Officers John W. Breen and C. J. Radford made a lot of
misery for three youths. First was Jos. McQueen, charged
with driving while intoxicated, hit and i-unner, assault
with a deadly weapon, malicious mischief and violating
Section 404 of the Penal Code; then came Vincent Palma
and Frank Wright, who got booked on the last two above
named charges.
+ * *
Corporal Frank Rhodes and Charles Cornelius brought
in Marie Nosoff for bigamy, and after Marie was released,
.she went out and moved out with a lot of chattels belong-
ing to the folks she worked for, and now they want her
for a burglary "kick".
\Y/E STERN
iWrADDITION
STATION
Capt. Robert A. Coulter
Lieutenants Leo Tackney and Emmett Moore
A murder was committed out in this district on Augu.st
28th and after due investigation, Lieutenant Emmett Moore
and some of his ab'e assistants led the following to the
station where they were put behind prison bars: Peter
Pederson, charged with murder and violating the prohi-
bition Act; L. Bauer and Cornelius Manning, vagrancy,
and Vincent Hayes, violating prohibition Act.
* * *
Eniile Quirez, who is not ignorant as to what formalities
attend a "pinch", got an advanced lesson the other day
when he was locked up by Officers Frank Small and John
A. Johnson and Corporal Michael Callanan on eleven
charges of robbery and en route to Los Angeles. Charles
Camarema was also arrested by the same officers and
booked en route to the southern city.
» * *
Chester Poplees will have greater respect for the watch-
fulness of the members of our Police Department, hence-
forth. He got "knocked over". on a 146 M. V. A. charge
when Officer Lloyd Groat saw him in a car reported stolen.
* * *
Groat, with Officer Louis Linns also arrested Pauline
Stark on a vagrancy charge.
?- * *
Emil Rossi was tabbed for violating the Juvenile Court
Law. Officers Edgar Paul and John P. O'Connor, No. 2,
attended the details.
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September, J 927
2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 39
INGLESIDE
STATION
Captain Euseiie Wall
Lieutenant John Sullivan
Oflicers Graeme Wiklgan.s and Detective David Stevens
ariested and booked at the station, Michael I'eriy and
Geoi-ge Lewis, each charged with vagrancy.
* * *
Nathan Sowle got himself into a mess of trouble when
he failed to pause and comply with the requirements of
Section 141 of the Motor Vehicle Act. He was garnered
into the arms of the well known law and taken to the
station by Officers Dominic Hogan and Eugene McDonnell,
charged with being a hit and run driver and also with vio-
lating Section 134 of the Vehicle Act.
* * *
Charles Camp is in the city prison, being charged as a
violator of Section 368 of the Penal Code. He was brought
to the station by Officers George Hussey and Edward Keck.
* * *
Officers Jerry Kelleher and Isidor Gehres have been ap-
pointed special duty men in this district. Both are good
men and some of the work Jerry has done has given him
a pretty good reputation down on Kearny street.
* * *
James De Carlor hails from New York, but he won't go
back there for some time if the charge of burglary placed
against him by Officers Henry Honnef and Joseph D. Fitz-
patrick sticks, as it seems it will. Prowlers don't get very
far out in Captain Wall's sector.
NORTH END
STATION
Capt. Herbert J. Wright
Lieutenants D. M. Reavis and George Duffy
Officer Willis Norman made a ten strike when he, single-
handed, brought in Vincent Morvich and Henry Palmeri.
The first lad was charged with attempted robbery and vio-
lating his parole; the latter just attempted robbery.
* * *
Paul Gelardi and G. Auteri, wanted by the Federal auth-
orities, were taken in custody by Special Duty men, Peter
Neilson and Edward Keneally.
* * *
Officers Walter PuUen and Joseph Miller gave Jack
Haviland and Roy Peterson a splendid object lesson on the
evils of burglary. The officers nabbed the pair of prowlers
and afforded the latter an opportunity of studying the
process of law as applied to their respective cases.
* * *
Sergeant Michael FljTin says, despite the rapid growth
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2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
September, 1927
POTRERO
STATION
Capt. Harry J. O'Day
Lieutenants Albert S. Munn, J. C. Malloy
Mike Lucas afforded an opportunity to the boys for
figuring out what Section 245 of the Penal Code is. He
was arrested and booked on that charge by Officers F. J.
Dolly and P. King.
* * *
Corporal 0. H. Roediger, handling the desk job on the
5ay watch says outside of missing kids, a few traffic vio-
lations and an auto accident now and then, the Potrero
district don't furnish a lot of extra work for the hired
hands down at the Hall of Justice.
Captain Harry O'Day had his picture "took" with a lot
of veterans and notables of baseball last month, when Oak-
land and San Francisco were honoring Pitcher Krause of
the across the bay team and Ping Bodie of the Seals, of
the Coast League. The Captain used to be some ball player
himself, going up to the majors when he was in his prime.
BAY VIEW
STATION
Capt. Stephen V. Bunner
Lieut. Frank DeGrancourt, Lieut. Wm. Dowie
John Dove pulled one job, but he got nabbed before he
could put to a successful fruition the second one. Corporal
Charles Brown and Officers H. Ross, mounted, and W. A.
Casey, combined their experience in police matters, and
when the smoke of battle cleared, the man with name of
a bird that attends to its own business, was looking out
through some steel slats, charged with burglary and at-
tempt burglary.
* * *
Corporal J. J. Muldoon and Officer F. H. Goessel teamed
up to give George Stewart a merry time. They grabbed
him for violating Section 112 and Section 141 of the Motor
Vehicle Act, either of which charge is apt to cause con-
siderable misery for one attached to same.
* * *
Officer Charles Brown and his able assistant, Corporal
William Harrington, removed for a temporary period from
public gaze, Robt. Miller, James Anderson and Charles
Schultz, whom they dignified by putting $1000 vag charges
opposite their names.
» * *
Henry Palmeri was gathered into the arms of the law
by Officer F. A. Norman, who accu.sed him of attempt to
commit robbery.
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GIVE 'EM CREDIT
Bv Berton Braley
In Detroit Athlete Club 7'iews
The Cops are not Cliesterfields all of the time,
They're often too surly and gruff,
But most of the people engaging in crime
Are rather inclined to be tough ;
And a thug witli a gun isn't very polite.
He shoots till he kills or he flops;
It takes nerve to deal with that species, all right,
And for that you can count on the Cops!
The Cops!
They don't pose as Brummels or fops.
But they'll tackle a hard-boiled and murderous
"mob"
Without any fuss, as a part of their job.
And they never get out of a row till it stops —
The Cops !
You'll find a few grafters among every force.
Though the mass is as straight as a die.
But grafter or straight, it's a matter-of-course
For a Cop to look death in the eye.
To run into danger and never run out
Till he captures his man or he drops;
For courage beyond any shadow of doubt
Is a thing you will find in the Cops.
The Cops !
Be they Harps, Yanks, or Jewish or Wops,
They'll tackle one crook or they'll tackle a bunch.
With no more heroics than going to lunch.
As they look after highways and wharves and the
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To help some spent swimmer survive,
They pour forth their money, they give of their
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To keep some poor devil alive ;
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A kindness that often outcrops
In some of the sternest duties they do,
They're husky but luiman — the Cops!
The Cops !
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They're mighty dependable lads, the police,
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And never dodge danger or hell when it pops —
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MORE COMMENDATORY LETTERS
September, 1927
State of California
STATE REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT
Stephen Barnson,. Commissioner
Detectives John H. Sturm and Charles McGreevy,
Hall of Justice, San Francisco.
Permit me at this time to thank you both very sincerely
for the kindly assistance which you gave me at the time
I slipped in my bath tub on the night of July 16th, at my
home 795 Sutter street. My wife and I both appreciated
very much your promptness in responding to our call for
help, and the manner in which you assisted me. I shall
always remember your kindness.
Upon examination it was discovered that I had a frac-
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and while I am at time not so comfortable, I am getting
along very nicely, and am again able to be at the office
attending to my daily duties. After my arm is out of the
brace, which will be in about a couple of weeks, I will
feel quite myself again.
Again thanking you gentlemen for your kindness,
R. J. JOSE.
* ■ * *
The co-operation given us by Officers John B. Surges
and Lawrence P. Delmas and Motorcycle Officers Edward
D. O'Day and Waltei- J. Martin made a perfect afternoon
for the delegates to the Upsalon Alpha, International Den-
tal Sorority Convention, on the ride around the city yester-
day. We made several stops and in every case the load-
ing, unloading and parking was perfectly handled. We arc
as always grateful foi- your splendid co-opei-ation.
MABEL T. JOHNSON,
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Chamber of Commerce.
* * *
On July 26th, 1927, W. O. Miller filed a claim with this
company for the loss of seven (7) barrels of lard, in the
amount of $286.43. After checking our records, we arrived
at the conclusion that the lard had been stolen from our
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I saw Detective Sergeant Michael Desmond; gave him
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parties who had stolen the lard had obtained a signed
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We assure you that Detective Sergeant Desmond did us
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We take this means of expressing our appreciation for
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No. 12
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The purposes for which this association is or-
ganized are to secure a closer official and personal
relationship among- peace officers of the State of
California; to secure co-operation and co-ordina-
tion in all police matters; to elevate the standard
of police institutions; to provide full tenure of
office for those employed in the service; to co-
operate with all persons chargeable with the en-
forcement of law so as to secure full protection
to all law-abiding' citizens of the State and for
the prevention and detection of crime and the
identification and treatment of prisoners.
District attorneys are now elegible to member-
ship. They, in their official capacity, are the
prosecuting officers of the State, as well as the
legal advisers of tlie peace officers. For that
reason there should be a close and complete co-
operation between tliem. Several district attor-
neys are now members and are taking a very
important part in the program.
The law-abiding people of the State are entitled
to a full measure of protection and the lawless
element are entitled to a full measure of punish-
ment to the end, that they shall no longer prey
on society, causing not only loss of property, but
of life. The association is not destructive, but
rather constructive in promoting principles and
laws that will simplify the administration of jus-
tice and law enforcement.
The forthcoming meeting to be held in Sacra-
mento, November 14, l.i and 16, promises to be
one of the most important and interesting ever
held. President William T. Stanford, Chief of
Police of Vallejo, with Capt. of Detectives Duncan
Matheson, secretary, has arranged a program that
should be most enlightening to the members who
attend, and from responses already in, the ses-
sions will be well attended.
The program for the Seventh Annual Conven-
tion follows:
Convention Headquarters, Civic Auditorium, 16th
and J streets, Sacramento, California
ORDER OF BUSINESS
Monday, November 14, 1926
9:30 A. M. — Convention called to order by Chief
of Police William T. Stanford of Vallejo,
President.
Invocation.
Address and welcome by His Honor, A.
E. Goddard, Mayor of Sacramento.
Introductory remarks by Chief of Police
T. N. Koening of Sacramento.
President's address. Chief of Police W.
T. Stanford of Vallejo.
Address by His Excellency, C. C. Young,
Governor of the State of California.
Secretary and Treasurer's Report, Capt.
Duncan IVIatheson, San Francisco.
11:00 A. M. — Key-note address. Honorable Buron
Fitts, Lieut.-Governor of the State of
California, "Government in Its Relation
to Our Citizenship."
12:00 Noon — Adjournment.
The entire time of the Convention will
be devoted to intensive study. Discus-
sion from the floor to be limited to five
minutes.
2:00 P. M. — Convention re-convenes.
Introduction of distinguished guests.
Address by the Honorable H. C. Boto-
roff, City Manager, Sacramento.
2:20 P. M.— Address by the Honorable Charles
Neumiller, President of the Board of
Prison Directors, "Prisons of California."
2:.i0 P. M. — Address by the Honorable Charles
Ashburner, City Manager of Stockton.
"City Managei' Form of Government."
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3:20 P. M.— Paper by Chief of Police J. S. Yancey
of Long Beach, own selection.
;5:iO P. M. — Address by the Honorable Peter
Shields, Judge of the Superior Court,
Sacramento, California.
4:0.1 P. M.— Paper by Chief of Police J. D. Fraser,
Glendale, own selection.
4:30 P. M. — Address by the Honorable S. Luke
Howe, Attorney of Sacramento, own se-
lection.
5:00 P. M.— Paper by Mr. Fred S. Phillips, Chief
Special Agent, Santa Fe Railroad Com-
pany, "Train Protection."
5:20 P. M. — Discussion from the floor under the
five-minute i-ule.
6:00 P. M. — Adjournment.
Tuesday, November 15, 1927
9:30 A. M. — Convention Re-convenes. All day to
be devoted to a study of the "Hold-up
Man'", including Bank Robbery, Pay-
rolls, Store, Gas Station, etc.
Introduction of distinguished guests.
Address by Elija C. Hart, Associate
Justice of the District Court of Appeals,
"The Judiciary and the Bandit."
10:00 A. M.— Chief of Police James E. Davis, Los
Angeles, "What the Police Can Do to
Prevent Hold-ups."
10:20 A. M.— Capt. E. R. Cato, Chief of Detec-
tives, Los Angeles, "How the Hold-up
Man Operates in Large cities."
10:40 A. M.— Chief of Police C. H. Kelley, Pasa-
dena, "Treatment of the Hold-up Man."
11:00 A. M.— Honorable William H. Waste, Chief-
Justice of the State of California, "The
Courts of the State."
11:30 A. M.— Mr. Earl Warren, District Attorney,
Alameda County, "Probation and Parole
of Bandits, As Viewed by the District
Attorneys."
12:00 Noon — Adjournment.
2:00 P. M. — Convention re-convenes.
Introduction of distinguished guests.
Sheriff William I. Traeger, Los Angeles
County, "How Hold-up Men Operate in
the Small Communities."
2:20 P. M.— C. S. Morrill, Supt. State Bureau,
"Co-operation of the Bureau with Peace
Officers in Preventing Hold-ups."
2:40 P. M.— Chief of Police August Vollmer,
Berkeley, "The Hold-up Man."
3:00 P. M.— Mr. James P. Arnold of the Standard
Oil Company, "The Gas Station Bandit."
3:20 P. M. — Paper by the Honorable Jesse B.
Cook, Commissioner of Police, San Fran-
cisco, Mr. Parker S. Maddux and Joseph
A. Murphy, Bank Protection Committee
of the American Trust Company, "The
Bank Bandit."
3:40 P. M.— Paper by John Manion, Detective
Sergeant, San Francisco Police Depart-
ment, "Chinese Tong Men and Bandits."
4:00 P. M.— Paper by Chief of Police D. J. O'Brien,
San Francisco Police Department, and
the Responsibilities of Commanding
Officers.
4:20 P, M. — Paper and Illustrations by Edward
Oscar Heinrich, Consulting Criminolo-
gist, Berkeley, "Clues and Useful Evi-
dence in Robbery Investigations."
Wednesday, November 16. 1927
9:30 A. M. — Convention re-convenes. Devoted to
the consideration of the new laws by the
Commission for the Reform of Criminal
Procedure as presented at the last ses-
sion of the Legislature.
Introduction of Distinguished guests.
Address by Mr. Thomas Gannon, mem-
ber of the Commission.
10:00 A. M.— Address by the Honorable C. C.
Baker, State Senator.
10:30 .\. M. — Address by the Honorable Geo. J.
Lowell, District Attorney, Placer County,
"What These Laws Will Accomplish."
11:00 A. M.— Address by the Honorable H. Ray
Bailey, District Attorney, Kern County,
"Should Initiative Be Invoked for the
Laws That Were Defeated."
11:30 A. M. — Mr. Alexander Ashen, Assistant
District Attorney of Sacramento County,
"The Causes of Crime from the District
Attorney's Viewpoint."
12:00 Noon — Adjournment.
1 :30 P. M. — Convention re-convenes.
Introduction of Distinguished guests.
2:00 P. M.— Mr. George H. Johnson. District At-
torney, San Bernardino County, "How
Court Procedure Can Be Improved."
2:10 P. M.— Mr. Robert Fitzgerald, Attorney, San
Francisco, paper of his own selection.
2:20 P. M. — J. L. Broad, Captain of Detectives,
Fresno Police Department, "Relationship
Between Police Organizations and News-
papers."
2:40 P. M.— Honorable Walter K. Tuller, Los An-
geles, "Recommendations for the Asso-
ciation to Follow."
3:10 P. M.— Address by J. F. Smith, 1st Lieut.,
Chemical Warfare Service, U. S. Army,
"The Use of Tear Gas and Other Chemi-
cals."
3:40 P. M. — Discussion from the floor under the
five-minute rule.
4:00 P. M. — Reports of Committees.
Selection of place for next Convention.
Election of Officers.
October, 1927
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Chief Wm. T. Stanford of Vallejo
By Eddie Longan, Police Reporter, S. F. Chronicle
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Twenty-seven years in command of the Police
Department of the City of \'allejo, William T.
Stanford, president of the California State Peace
Officers' Association, stands out as the oldest
police chief in California, and perhaps one of the
oldest in the country in point of service.
Until 1900, law and order was maintained at
Vallejo by a town marshal and a constable regu-
larly elected by the people. The rapid growth of
the city made an organized police force a neces-
sity, and on April 4 of that year the city trustees
authorized the organization of a department of
police to consist of a chief and two patrolmen.
From a list of numerous candidates, Stanford
was named chief, and when he selected John P.
Scully and Richard Shay as his patrolmen, Val-
lejo's Police Department began to function.
Stanford's task was a big one, but he was equal
to it. For years Vallejo had been accustomed to
the town marshal-constable rule and the sudden
shift to uniformed organized police didn't sit well
with the general ne'er-do-well. Every sort of an
obstacle was thrown in the path of Chief of Police
Stanford and his men. In short, he had a "hard
row to hoe".
Primarily a seaport town with a mixed popu-
lation, Vallejo in these days was also the center
of naval and marine corps activities on the Pacific
Coast. There was a constant influx of transients
— men of the world ready for anything. Gamb-
ling places flourished and there was also the under-
world. In the face of such conditions, law enforce-
ment became a man-sized job.
When Stanford took the oath of office and was
sworn to do his duty, that is just what he set
out to do, and what he has been doing for twenty-
seven years. He adopted the slogan "a square
deal for everyone", and went to work. Big heart-
ed and sympathetic, he lent a helping hand to the
unfortunate. Where the hardened criminal was
concerned, he ruled with an "iron hand", few of
that class crossing his path escaped.
Within a short time after assuming command
at Vallejo, Stanford won the respect and admira-
tion of the law abiding citizenry and soon had the
situation well in hand. So-called gambling kings
who had threatened to "get" him were soon on
their way, and notorious criminals who at times
picked out Vallejo to ply their trades, gave the
city a wide berth.
As the years rolled along. Chief Stanford was
given more men. Modern methods of criminal
hunting were adopted and a modern identification
bureau established. Later emergency hospital
equipment was provided. Early this month tiie
police department moved into new quarters, a
branch county jail and city prison, built at a cost
of $80,000.
Stanford's police career in the navy yard city
has seen him in numerous battles in which he
was fortunate to come out alive. A struggle with
a gunman, perhaps, was his closest call. It was
with Pete King, Ontaiio, Canada, wanted for
killing an officer.
One day fifteen years ago. King jumped off a
freight at Vallejo and went looking for "pros-
pects". He was found begging from door to door.
A patrolman who had been sent out to pick him
up failed to search him for weapons, and in a
CHIEF WILLIAM T. STANFORD
shoi-t time King was taking the officer "for a
walk" at the point of an automatic.
A former sheriff at Vallejo scented trouble
when he saw the stranger pacing the police officer
through the streets in an isolated section of the
city and notified Stanford. The chief started in
pursuit and accosted King and the helpless police
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"Mr* Josiah Everyman Tuttlefish, Juror"
An Interesting and Instructive Serial on Present Day Jury System, Written by John M. Cartwright
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2nd Attorney: "Your Honor has my apology."
1st Attorney: "Your Honor has my apology."
After an hour or so of this procedural banter
the 2nd Attorney pointedly asked:
2nd Attorney: "Mrs. White, have you ever
thought extensively?"
Answer: "Oh, my, yes! What a silly ques-
tion."
2nd Attorney: "And, if I may so rudely ask,
about what, for instance, Mrs. White ?"
Answer: "Oh — well — Oh — nothing in particu-
lar."
2nd Attorney: "We pass the juror."
Having been an interested auditor of the fore-
going interrogation, Mr. Tuttlefish was presently
relieved to liear his own name called and the ques-
tioning begun which would presently put him be-
yond any uncertainty as to his fitness to serve in
the impressive capacity of juror. After what
seemed an infinitely long examination, he heard
the voice of the attorney in sonorous tones put
the question:
"And you believe, Mr. Tuttlefish, that if we ac-
cept you for a juror, you will be able to fairly try
the issues between this defendant and the people?"
"I do," replied the exhausted Tuttlefish, and the
meekness of his voice surprised him beyond meas-
ure, considering the dignity which had just been
conferred upon him.
He was now a juror, full-fledged, and among the
initiate. Tiie thought gripped him. To sit in
.judgment upon his fellow men was something
Josiah Everman Tuttlefish had never dared to
dream. It seemed a privilege reserved for — well,
certainly not for him. To condemn a man to
death! He shuddered at the thought. Had he,
after all, truthfully answered the prosecuting at-
torney? The words of this official echoed in his
ears. "Have you any such conscientious scruples
as would preclude you finding the defendant guilty
if the offense charged be punishable with death ?"
And he heard his own voice, which echoed faintly
of bravado answer, "I have not." The thought
bothered Mr. Tuttlefish, and it was with no little
efi'ort that he attempted to reason himself into a
more placid state of mind. If the prisoner did
kill another man, then for the good of society he
should be put beyond the power of repeating the
offense, and he, Mr. Josiah Everman Tuttlefish,
was here to do just that thing if the facts war-
ranted it. He wondered, though, how Mrs. Lilly
White was going to feel about it. having before
her the image of her own son. Tlie counsel for the
defense would sui-ely see that she did not lose
sight of this image, nor that of the accused young
man, nor of the gallows.
There was something about the atmosphei'e of
the court room — the high walls, the massive pil-
lars, the formal furnishings, the tables of counsel
spread over with weighty documents, and sur-
rounded by heavy, armed chairs, the cancelli hold-
ing back the inquisitive public, and last but not
least the elevated and dignified position of the
magistrate's bench — which impressed the roman-
tic soul of Mr. Tuttlefish with a sense of exquisite
loftiness. He no longer felt himself to be a mere
jui'or, much less an ordinary person, but up, up
into the dizzy heights of fancy he felt himself
ascending. Down below he saw back of the can-
celli a greasy mass of sweltering flesh I'olling
restlessly under the stifling heat of the packed
court room. But in spite of the rising tempera-
ture, Mr. Tuttlefish felt supremely cool, as though
he were seated on Olympus surrounded by his
brother gods — the other of the twelve elect. Mr.
Tuttlefish was in the best spirit for doing justice
to anyone and everyone. He felt mighty and con-
descending. Justice would be done !
During the three long weeks which followed, he
clung tenaciously to this high resolve. Closely did
he listen to the questions of counsel ; carefully did
he sift the mass of evidence adduced, struggling,
in the face of every trick and imposture on the
part of counsel to befog the issue, to marshal to-
gether those relevant, material and competent
facts which should determine the guilt or inno-
cense of the accused. Searchingly did he gaze in-
to the face of witness after witness to learn if
perjury played between the spoken words, atten-
tively did lie listen to testimony of expert wit-
nesses when the question of insanity was raised,
and temporarily did he hear the sometimes over-
done efforts of counsel on both sides to discredit
those called to testify. If anyone ever did try to
get the facts as evidenced both by word and action,
Mr. Tuttlefish did.
He soon found, however, that the novelty of
the situation quickly wore oft", and that in a sur-
prisingly short time the business of getting the
facts became an exceedingly difficult and tiresome
one; in fact there seemed times when his mind
failed to register at all. He noticed that one old
juror who seemed to be a veteran in the v/ar of
crime, had a comfortable way of telescoping him-
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By Daniel J. O'Brien, Chief of Police
CAPTURE OF DRUG STORE BANDIT
BRINGS PRAISE
At the last regular meeting- of the Retail Drug-
gists' Association of S. F., I was instructed to
write you and send to your office tlie following
resolution:
WHEREAS, certain members of the San
Francisco Police Department were successful in
the arrest of one John Karlsen, who has confessed
to the robbing of four drug stores, and
WHEREAS, the work of obtaining the informa-
tion and working out the manner of obtaining the
arrest and confession required skill and bravery,
therefore, be it
RESOLVED, that the Retail Druggists' Asso-
ciation of S. F., at its quarterly meeting held
August 4, 1927, instruct its Secretary to write a
letter to the Chief of Police of San Francisco,
commending the following named officers of the
San Francisco Police Department for tlieir effici-
ent work:
Detective Sergt. William Bennett
Detective Chas. W. jMcGreevy
Detective Sergt. Robert L. Rauer
Detective Sergi. Vernon Van Matre
Detective Sergt. ^^'illiam McMahon
Detective Sergt. George F. ^^'all
Sergeant of Police George McLaughlin
Police Officer Gustave H. Betger
Police Officer Tiugene Clancy
Police Officer Arthur O'Brien.
W. BRUCE PHILIP, Secy.
SUPERVISORS COMMEND POLICE
The following Resolution, introduced by Super-
visor Jesse C. Colman, was unanimously adopted
by the Board of Supervisors at its meeting
of September 19, 1927:
WHEREAS, San Francisco, on Lindbeigh Day,
Fi'iday, September 16, 1927, witnessed one of the
gi'eatest public demonstrations in our history,
with practically every man, woman and child In
the city participating, and
WHEREAS, Immense throngs assembled in
Market street and in the Civic Center to see and
hear Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, and their as-
semblage was conducted in an orderly, courteous
and efficient manner without one serious accident
due to improper policing,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That this
Board of Supervisors, speaking for the community
at large, extends its gratitude to, and expresses
its sincere commendation to the officers and men
of the San Francisco Police Department who
handled the Lindbergh Day crowds so ably and in
keeping witli their nation-wide reputation for effi-
ciency.
Sincerely yours,
J. S. DUNNIGAN, Clerk.
WIDOW OF SLAIN POLICEMAN THANKS
COMRADES
Please accept the thanks of my two little boys
and I, for the courageous way in which the vari-
ous officers of your command, and assigned by you
to the trial of the murderers of my late dear hus-
band, performed their duties.
Mere words of mine. Chief O'Brien, cannot ex-
press the feeling and love we feel in our hearts
for these men of fearlessness and courage. Es-
pecially do we wish you to thank Captains \^'m.
Quinn, Duncan Matheson and Chas. Goff, Lieuts.
Chas. Dullea, Michael Riordan, Detectives Otto
Frederickson, James Sunseri, and Officer Richard
E. Manning, and any other I may have omitted
for their never-failing efforts, notwithstanding
the unbearable insults they had to endure.
Again, let me say that we shall always think
kindly of you and your men and truly liope and
earnestly pray that you may have every success.
Yours sincerely,
MRS. JOHN J. DRTSCOLT..
A change is needed in the Sheriff*s Office
Elect FITZGERALD
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The most important and outstanding feature
that the modern fireman of this day and age of
commercial and industrial development have to
contend v^^ith in the fighting- of fire is the auto-
mobile traffic problem. While all lines of endeav-
or in the business and manufacturing fields have
progressed and expanded to a highly appreciable
extent, the evolution of the automobile and the
acquisition of the same by the general public in
great numbers has kept pace and even emphati-
cally exceeded the progressive accomplishments of
many other very successful lines of industry. So
much so, that the storing, placing and parking of
automobiles in the public highways, streets and
alleys of the business district and congested area
of our city and the moving of the vehicular traffic
on the same, that this question has not only be-
come, but continues to be, a highly intangible
problem, not only to our legislators who enact the
laws governing the regulation of traffic and also
to our expert traffic engineers, but most import-
ant of all it has become a regular and a dangerous
menace and a detriment to the prompt and effi-
cient response of the Fire Department in its ef-
forts to reach and extinguish fires.
The congestion of vehicular ti'affic on our public
streets and highways, the parking of autos in
front of buildings in wliich there may be a fire
and the delay by the firemen in removing same,
the placing of automobiles in close proximity to
fire hydrants, barely permitting the drivers of
apparatus to get close enough to make the proper
connections to the hydrant and pumper, the auto
driver who will not draw close to the curb until
the fire machine is directly upon him, and the
driver who absolutely will not stop or park until
he positively sees with his own eyes the exact lo-
cation of the fire apparatus when approaching a
fire, are some of the many contributing causes
which tend to impede and hinder in an amazing
degree the efficient work of your fire-fighter and
adds in a greater degree to the fire loss of the
community.
As in most cases of law regulation and enforce-
ment, a large majority of the drivers co-operate
willingly and intelligently in allowing the appa-
ratus the right-of-way and in aiding and assisting
in the prompt response to alarms, but the evils
of automobiles— in charge of reckless and irre-
sponsible drivers whose one idea on hearing the
fire siren or on seeing a "light" is to get to the
fire before the apparatus and obtain a place of
vantage from which to see the fire— in crowding
to fires, interfering, and even racing with the fire
apparatus and hampering the fireman by block-
ing and congesting the streets and thoroughfares,
still constitutes a very serious problem requiring
drastic measures to curb and control. And these
drastic measures will have to be taken and forci-
bly executed until such time as all drivers of
motor vehicles can fully understand and appre-
ciate the absolute necessity with which the fire-
men must be given the right of way in repairing
to the fire scene. The supreme duty of the fire-
fighter demand this for the reason that there is
never a time that a company is called from its
quarters, whether to extinguish a fire, to extricate
a person from under a street car who has been
run over, or to remove a crushed body from an
elevator, or rescue or revive one who has been
overcome by ammonia, acid or other fumes, that
it is not responding on a mission of imperative
need and speed is absolutely necessary. And
when buildings are on fire and lives are endanger-
ed the diff'erence of a few moments may mean
the difference between a small and large fire, and
a probable loss of life, it is highly essential 'that
fire apparatus respond promptly and readily and
nothing be placed in their way to impede or hinder
their quick arrival at the scene of action.
The wonderful and effective co-operation of the
Police Department in clearing the traffic lanes,
upon hearing the bells or the approach of appa-
ratus, has materially assisted the fire apparatus
in ploughing through the heavily congested
streets safely and enabled them to reach their
destinations as speedily as circumstances would
permit and f)-ee from accident.
And when the motor-driving public fully takes
into consideration the highly important work of
their Fire Department and aids and assists them,
instead of delaying and impeding them, they will
have gone a long way in contributing their sup-
port in the very necessary work of saving life
and property.
CARD OF THANKS
The following is a copy of a communication receivpcl by
Chief of Police Daniel J. O'Brien from Mrs. Margaret L.
Flynn, wiilow of the late Patrol Driver John J. Flj-nn:
"Through your kind office I wish to express my grati-
tude for the acts of kindness and asistance given me by
the members of the San Francisco Police Department.
"It is impossible for me to thank each member of the
Police Department in person for their manv kind acts,
but through you I wish to convey my deep appreciation."
October, 1927
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At the meeting^ of the Board of Police Com-
missioners, September 19, sittinjr as a pension
board, the followino: members of the department
were retired under the provisions of Chaptei- 10,
Article VTII of the City Charter:
Lieut. Harr.\- T.raig-, for years in charge of one
of the nigiit platoons of the Central station, was
pensioned on account of failing- eyesight. He had
passed the limit for retirement.
Police Officer William G. Brown, a veteran of
the department, incapacitated on account of in-
juries received in two automobile accidents, ac-
quired while directing traffic on lower Market
street.
Police Officer Jolin F. Bongard, who had been
in the department for some three years. Bongard
was injured in a smash-up of a police car when it
was dashing out on a hurry-up call. He was
badly hurt.
A week later. Detective Sergeant Earl Roone\'.
who was shot by Joe Tanko, the notorious and
brutal bandit, whom he killed in the pistol duel,
was retired by tlie board. Rooney has never re-
covered from the effects of the gunshot wound,
and it is doubtful if he ever will.
Officer James Quigley resigned from the force,
having been transferred from tlie Ingleside sta-
tion to the Traffic Bureau.
Sergt. Arthur Christiansen was promoted to
the rank of Lieutenant, to take the place of Lieut.
Braig. Corporal Joe Powers was elevated to the
rank of Sergeant to replace Christiansen.
Corporal Patrick Shannon has been promoted to
a sergeancy.
Ii-vin Findlay was raised to the rank of a de-
tective sergeant on recommendation of Captain
Matheson, stepping into the vacancy created by
the retirement of Rooney.
During the past month the following liave been
appointed members of the San Francisco Police
Department :
James J. Co.x, Alfred J. Akerson, Frank Peter-
son, William T. Costello, Parish F. demons, Geo.
Matthews, Lloyd Peebles, Walter Larsen, Albert
L. Machado, Clarence J. Nilan.
Louis T. Lammers. rank 9. chauffeur's list, was
appointed a patrol driver.
Assignment of Stars
Star No. 600 has been assigned to Police Offi-
cer Albert L. ]\Iachado, and Star No. 29 has been
assigned to Police Officer Clarence J. Nilan.
These newly-appointed officers were temporarily
assigned to the Headquarters Compan\', reporting
to Capt. J. Henry Lachmann. While doing duty
in the Department School of Instructions, they
received insti-uctions from Sergt. Patrick iMcGee,
Instructor in said school.
The following transfers are hereby made, effec-
tive at 8:00 a. m., Monday, September 26, 1927:
Capt. Eugene VA'all, from Co. H to Co. M.
Capt. Stephen Bunner, from Co. I\I to Co. H.
CoiT3. Charles W. Brown, from Co. U to Co. H.
Corp. Wm. J. Harrington, from Co. M to Co. H.
The following Patrolmen were transferred:
Edwin T. McMahon, from Co. H to Co. K.
Walter J. Danahy, from Co. K to Co. A.
Jeremiaii Kelleher, from Co. A to Co. H.
Joseph :M. Klobucar, from Co. J to Headquarters
Company (C. P.).
Edward K Jloran, from Co. I to Co. D.
Jolin R. Stoddard, from Co. F to Co. A.
Thomas J. Lynch, from Co. A to Co. B.
John V. Cobb, from Co. F to Co. C.
Raymond L. Smith, from Co. D to Co. B.
Clarence H. Thompson, from Co. D to Co. C.
Ernil J. Reulein, from Co. D to Co. C.
Henry V. Burns, from Co. F to Co. A.
Peter H. Schroeder, from Co. F to Co. A.
The following Patrolmen who were in the De-
partment School of Instructions, are hereby per-
manently assigned to the companies liereinafter
designated:
Russell Bevans, to Co. D.
Arthur P. Markgraf, to Co. D.
Michael F. Conroy, to Co. D.
Anthony Navarra, to Co. D.
Leo Keenan, to Co. E.
Frank Fitzpatrick, to Co. E.
John Fitzgerald, to Co. F.
George V. Curtis, to Co. F.
Jack E. Atwood, to Co. F.
Edward P. Mui-phy, to Co. F.
Roy J. Loran, to Co. F.
JMartin T. Foley, to Co. F.
John Cahill, to Co. F.
Carl A. Bruhn, to Co. F.
Fred Delucchi, to Co. G.
James F. O'Neill, to Co. G.
John T. Cooney, to Co. G.
Herbert H. Smith, to Co. G.
Nathan Del Monte, to Co. G.
Robert B. West, to Co. H.
James J. McGovern, to Co. H.
John M. Payne, to Co. I.
Harold Winkler, to Co. I.
Emmett Reid, to Co. I.
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ANNUAL POLICE REPORT
The annual report of the San Francisco Pohce
Department, submitted to Mayor James Rolph, Jr.,
by Chief of Pohce Daniel J. O'Brien, displays a
greater activity on the part of the members of
the department in the matter of making arrests
than in any year since tlie records of arrests have
been made. For 1926 to 1927 there were 60,772
arrests for all crimes, as against the preceding-
year's total of 59,450.
The above increase is due largely to arrests
growing out of drinking. The increase this year
over tlie year before was nearly 1000, or 11,803
for year ending this fiscal year and 10,995 for
the year preceding.
Following are arrests for major crimes for the
fiscal year just closed:
Burglary 487, attempt burglary 27.
Robbery 300, attempt robbery 23, assault to
rob 12.
Mui'der 26, manslaughter 129.
Assault to murder, deadly weapon and to com-
mit great bodily injury, 235.
Embezzlement, felony 95 ; misdemeanor 67.
Fictitious checks 227, fictitious instruments 109,
forgery 96.
Gambling, keepers 166; visitors 2010, with dice
298, pool selling 1832.
Lottery arrests for all kinds totaled 2813.
Harrison narcotic law, 129.
Opium, keeping 100; visiting 107.
Grand larceny 188; petty larceny 731.
National prohibition, 691 ; State prohibition,
1929.
State Motor Vehicle Act, 7004.
The Detective Bureau report shows :
Murders committeed, 35; arrests, 37.
Deaths by automobiles, 134 ; arrests, 97 ; 26 ac-
cidents, 11 not arrested.
Automobiles stolen, 5068 ; recovered, 5021.
Automobiles stolen in tliis city and recovered
outside of city, 374.
Automobiles stolen outside of city and recover-
ed in this city, 318.
Missing people reported, 1011, located, 906.
Property lost by crime, $527,530.06; checks,
$51,188.94; property recovered, by pawnshop de-
tail, $50,859; property clerk, $175,308.25; other
sources, $116,695.
The reports of the Traffic Bureau shows :
There were 79,000 people summoned for violat-
ing all sorts of traffic laws. There were 12,076
arrests; 5557 fined; 905 suspended sentences; 43
jail terms; 71 licenses suspended. Fines collected
were $25,525.
The Bureau of Identification report is as follows:
Prisoners measured and photographed, 1623;
finger prints taken, 97,960.
Identifications made, local, 1623; from outside
prints, 2129.
Photos received from outside departments,
7277; sent out, 24,947; finger prints sent other
departments, 24,934.
Circulars mailed, 42,250; received, 2808.
Total photographs on hand, 220,967.
Total finger prints on file, 107,438.
Notes
Tliere were 20 more officers on tiie force at the
end of the last fiscal year than there was the
year previous.
The patrol wagons of the department answered
28,506 calls, traveling a total distance of 106,848
miles; carrying 26,904 prisoners to the city jail,
3657 sick and injured to hospitals and 348 insane
^eople.
The members of the department served a total
of 8600 subpoenas.
Fines collected during the year were $74,236.50.
Eight members of the department died during
the year; 13 were pensioned; 49 were appointed
and 6 resigned.
There were 6166 letters received locally, and
5840 answered; there were 1037 anonymous let-
ters received in the department.
From outside there were 20,880 letters receiv-
ed; 16,395 answered.
Local and foreign warrants acted upon amount-
ed to 6648.
The annual sale of unclaimed property by the
Property Clerk brought in $2,800, and money
taken from packages totaled $1,410.06.
Throughout the year the increase in crime is
negligible over any recent years, and the mem-
bers of the department have made a splendid ac-
counting in arrests for those crimes reported.
October, 1927
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William CbernoiT was piven a ticket to tlio fifth floor
by Detective SerKeant Allan McCJinn who placed a charge
of attempt to commit Kiand theft apainst the prisoner.
Ira Lipscomb, an employee of the Ferry Postofficc, got
some of the letters coming through his hands mixed up
with hJF and kept them. Detective Sergeants Heniy
Kalmbach and George Richards rounded him up and turn-
ed him over to the postal authorities. This pair of de-
tectives, working with the Federal forces, also got Orson
Thayer for the U. S. Secret Service.
Detectives (leoi-ge Page and Charles McGreevy, who
have been told by men they took in custody it was a
pleasure to be arrested by them, picked off Charles \an
C. Varala, vagrancy, and George Foster for forgery.
Page, with Detective Joch Sturm and Policewoman Eis-
enhart, locked up James Parrish on three statutory
charges.
Detectives William Ralcestraw, Sidney DuBose and
Walter Brown removed a couple of hazards off the streets
when they jailed William Taylor and Beatrice Di.xon.
Oscar Bryant, en route to Los Angeles, aiul Cecil Dodd,
grand theft, were a pair of men taken in custody by De-
tective Sergeants Thomas Conlan and Edward Wiskotchill.
Detective Sergeant Harry
wanted in San Diego.
Cook glomed Louis Bergez,
Gonza'o Provencio, accused of grand theft, was brought
to the hall by Detective Sergeants Thomas Murphy,
Thomas Cuitis and Thomas Reagan.
John Reuck, Perry Croker, Shelly Kelly and Alfred
Clark, all potential pickpockets, were vagged by Lieut.
Thomas Hoertkorn and Sergt. Morris Harris of the Pick-
pocket Detail. This detail a'so arrested James Burton
on two charges of grand theft, pickpocket work; and
Vernon De Grassi for the V. S. Secret Service.
Sergt. George McLoughlin's Robbery Detail turned in,
among other arrests, the following: By Sergts. George
Wall, William McMahon, Garcia Caldwell, probation vio-
lator; Joe CosteDo and Charlotte Remillard, grand theft.
These two Sergts., with Sergts. Robert Rauer and Edward
McSheehy, brought to headquarters, Gabriel Arrelano,
Domingo Soto, and Ng Vee, poison law violators. Sergts.
Vernon Van Matre, with Officers J. McGrew and Fred
Kracke of the Park station, arrested Edward Prouty,
for assault with a deadly weapon and disturbing the
peace.
Here are some of the results of the Burglary Detail,
under the direction of Detective Sergt. Richmond Tatham:
By Sergts. Richard Hughes and James Johnson, assisted
by Sergt. George Healy and Detective Sergt. Martin Por-
ter, Pearl Edwards, receiving stolen goods; Wong Sing,
en route to Stockton; Max Simons, Howard Sims and
Frank Hooper, the first poison law ^^olators and the
other, en route to Oakland; Hughes and Johnson also ar-
rested John Joyn for grand theft. Detective Sergts.
James Mitchell, Irving Findlay and Frank Jackson brought
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Detective Sergts. Fred Bohr an.l Clarence Herlitz of
the Hotel Detail handled, among others, the following
cases: Anglo Caso and James McGarrity, en route to
Los Angeles; S. P. Laloi-, en route to Sacramento, and
Albert Ingram for theft.
Lieut. Bernard McDonald's Auto Detail turned in,
among other "knockovers", the following: By Sergts.
Phillip Lindecker and Peter Hughes, William Glasier, en
route to U. S. Marshal. By Sergts. Frank Jackson and
David Stevens, Joseph Lubey and Frank Walker, burglary.
By Seigts. William Millikin, Nicholas Barron, and Cor-
poral Gillmore. Lyle K. Smith, grand theft; Lloyd Hach-
tivey, same. Millikin, with Detective Harry McCrea. and
Special "Jimmy" Britt, Pasqual Lopez and Irvin Jasmin,
grand theft. By Sergts. James Hayes, Augu.stus Thomp-
kins and Detectives Richard Smith and JlcCrea. Thomas
E. Holstein, Herbert Ford, Peter Ford and Charles Tre-
maki. grand theft. By Sergeants George Wafer and Jas.
McKenna, John Hogan and Earl Pittman, grand theft.
By Sergts. Harry Husted, Thompkins and McKenna, Karl
Stromness, grand theft. By Sergts. Percy Kenneally and
Allan McGinn, James McCord, violating Section 146, Mo-
tor Vehicle Act,
Detective Sergts. Andrew Gaughran and James Skelly
of the Shopping Detail landed the following in the city
prison with burglary and petty theft charges against
them: Elbert Moore, Ruth Umbright, Joseph Martinez
and Phillip Arias; they also arretted Aithur Kent for
obtaining money by false pretenses, and forgery.
Among the numerous arrests made by Detective Sergts.
Michael Desmond and Barth Kelleher were the foPowing:
Harold Dabney, grand theft; Fred Stratton, wanted in
Colorado Springs; Willis Reynolds, wanted in Los An-
geles for auto theft, and Sabtiago Enemides, en route
to the U. S. Marshal.
Sergts. William Armstrong, Charles Maher and James
Hansen of the Check Detail handled, with others, the
following: Louis Hallow, Juan Villa, Dwight Gibson,
James Tingsted, Jack Lund, Robert Hayward. Herbert
Hanlon, Julius Samoul, and Roy Owens, all accused of
passing worthless checks.
Edward Cave, a poison law violator, was arrested by
Lieut. Powell and Sergt. George Hippely of the Pawn-
shop Detail. Hippely also arrested Howard Boling for
theft, and with Sergt. George Stallard, brought in George
Anthony, same charge. Sergts. Jere Dinan and Ernest
Gable, with Seigts. Leo Bunner and Robert Rauer locked
up Manuel Ramos for robbery.
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ABOUT OUR NEW TRAFFIC LAWS
Bv Captain of Traffic Henry Gleeson
Since the last issue of our Police Journal "2-0",
the traffic ordinance submitted by the traffic sur-
vey committee, provided by Mr. Miller McClin-
tock, the representative of the survey committee,
has been submitted to the Board of Supervisors
and finally passed by the Board, and is now in the
hands of His Honor, James Rolph, Jr., mayor,
for his approving signature.
It is felt that His Honor, James Rolph, Jr.,
mayor, will approve of this new ordinance, and
when that has been done, the ordinance will take
the place of our long standing Traffic Ordinance
1857.
The new ordinance will require time and money
before its provisions can be properly complied with
and it is the judgment of His Honor, the mayor,
and of Chief of Police O'Brien, that great care
must be taken to avoid enforcement of many of
the provisions of the new ordinance before the
people have had the opportunity to know of the
many new sections of this new ordinance that will
require a proper understanding on the part of
both vehicle operators and pedestrians in order
that when the police department is called upon
to enforce the same, the public will be ready to
co-operate with tlie ordinance and the police de-
partment.
It is well at this time that we know of and un-
derstand a section of this new ordinance embraced
as Section 3 of Article 2 of the oi'dinance that
determines the authority of the enforcement of
many of the provisions of the ordinance.
This paragraph of Section 3 reads as follows :
"No provision of this ordinance for whicli signs
are required shall be enforcable against the al-
leged violator if at the time and place of the
alleged violation the sign herein required is not in
proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen
by an ordinarily observant person."
This paragraph is the keynote of this entire
ordinance. In the face of this paragraph, the
police department cannot proceed with an imme-
diate enforcement of the new ordinance until
propel' signals, signs and curb inarkings have been
provided.
It will be necessary that a large appropriation
be made by the Board of Supervisors for the man-
ufacture and installation of hundreds of new park-
ing signs, directing signs and other devices to
establish and carry forward the enforcement of
the various provisions of this new ordinance. It
would be regrettable to attempt to enforce the
provisions of this new ordinance against the lack
of understanding of its provisions by the public,
and it is the desire of His Honor, the mayor, and
the Chief of Police, that the public must be edu-
cated on this new ordinance by the exercise of
patience, good judgment and instruction by all
officers of the department in their dealings with
the public on the various provisions of this new
ordinance.
In the consideration by members of the depart-
ment of this new ordinance and while awaiting the
publication in book form of the new ordinance,
it would be well for us to understand fully the
definitions described by the ordinance in Article 1
which reads as follows:
Article I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1. ^^'l^enever in this ordinance the fol-
lowing terms are used, they shall have the mean-
ings respectively ascribed to them in this section:
Street — Every way set apart for public travel
except alleyways, bridle paths and foot paths.
Roadway — That portion of a street between the
regularly established curb lines.
Alley — A public highway with a roadway of
less than 20 feet.
Sidewalk — That portion of a street between the
curb lines and the adjacent property lines.
Intersection — The area embraced within the
prolongation of the property lines of two or more
streets which join at an angle, wliether or not one
such street crosses the other.
Crosswalk — That portion of the roadway includ-
ed within the prolongation of curb and propeity
lines at street intersections, and other places
marked in accordance with the provisions of this
ordinance.
Safety Zone — That marked portion of a road-
way reserved for the exclusive use of pedestrians.
Loading Zone — That space adjacent to a curb
reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during
the loading or unloading of passengers or mater-
ials.
Vehicle — Every device or animal by which any
person or property is or may be transported or
drawn upon a street, excepting devices moved by
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Supervisors and Police Department
By Supervisor James B. McSheehy
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One of the most important factors in the health
and sane progress of any community is the main-
tenance of its protective forces at the higliest of
standards.
As a member of tlie Board of Supervisors for
ten years and Chairman of tiie Finance Commit-
tee of that body for two years, I have been in
close touch with many of tlie problems of the de-
partment which required financial assistance
through the Board.
Realizing- that a community witliout ample
police protection immediately becomes a haven for
tlie criminal element, every effort has been made
on my part to aid in granting requests for finan-
cial assistance to the department. Other than
direct requests to the Board, I have aided in every
type of legislation which was put forth for the
betterment of the police work.
While the co-operation of officials outside of
the department is necessary to the welfare of
the organization, the rank and file of police cannot
be given too much credit for building one oi the
outstanding organizations of protective officers in
the country. It is known throughout the land
for its enviable reputation which is further borne
out by records in comparison with other cities.
Efficient and adequate protection of the citizen
is the reward of harmony within a department;
between the civilian and the police and officials
of other departments. Realization that because a
man dons a uniform he does not enter into a
•cloistered sphere, and that he merits general as-
sistance in carrying out duties, is more general
today than ever before.
Too long has the patrolman been classed by
some civilians, unfamiliar with the rigors of
service and regulations of the department, as a
mere automaton. This lack of consideration for
the man in whose hands the lives and property
of the citizen is held, was i'esponsible for the fail-
ure of the man on the beat to enjoy that small
relaxation from strenuous duty— the day off. It
was my good fortune to be the author of the
measure to right this unjust and inhuman treat-
ment. I was able to awaken other city officials to
this inconsideration and we subsequently placed
the statute granting twenty-four hours off a week.
In addition to having the natural interest in
the department as a Supervisor, I have that added
interest occasioned in the knowledge that my
brother, Edward J. McSheehy has been a member
for more than twenty years.
As a member of the Supervisors' Bay Bridge
Committee to Washington for the purpose of lay-
ing our plans before the Federal authorities, it
was my pleasant duty to observe the police of the
many cities visited. I can truthfully say that the
protective body of San Francisco ranks favorably
with the best in the country and far surpasses
many others. In musing over the comparison I
could not but think that the phrase "the city's
finest" was originally coined for the local depart-
ment.
(Continued on Page 37)
CO. E. BUSH DISTRICT BANNER CO. IN 1913
Top row, left to right — Daniel O'Neil, now Corpl. at Bureau of Identifieation ; Emmett J. Hoffan, now Sorgt. at Bureau of Identification; John J.
Lyons, now Bailiff, Police Court No. 3: Gerald Ball, now Patrolman. Harbor District: Charles Crush, now resigned; Emmet Moore, now Lieut..
Western Addition; James Collins, now Patrolman, Bush St. Station; Patrick Haggerty, now Patrolman. Central Station; James Miles, now
Patrolman, Central Station. Middle row, left to right — Gusfavc Nick Wuth, now Patrolman, Bush St. Station; Theobald McCarthy, now Corpl.,
Bush St. Station; August Borghero ; Thomas Feeney, now Corpl., Inglcside District; Edmond Casey, now Patrolman, retired: Matthew Coffey,
now Patrolman, 'Mission Station; Edward Plume, now Patrolman, North End Station: John McCausland, now Corpl., in charge of Hack Delaii ;
George McKenna, now Corpl.. Complaint Office. Lower row, left to right — Cornelius O'Leary, now Patrolman. Western .\ddition; Thomas Kerri-
gan, now Patrolman, Bush St. Station; Sergt. Lionel Shaw-, now Sergt., retired; Lieut. Fred Green, now deceased; Sergt. Frank Fontana, now
deceased; John Lynch, now Patrolman, Traffic Bureau; Marvin Dowell. now Det. Sergt., Detective Bureau. Capt. Henry Gleeion, Commanding,
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October, 1927
They said it would be a test for he-men and
what I mean brothers, is, that they did not ex-
aggerate even a little bit. In fact the Chronicle's
third annual Golden Gate swim held Sunday, Sep-
tember 18, might have been called a test for
super he-men. Less than one-third of the men
and boys who had trained for this race were able
to complete the course. To the credit of the San
Francisco Police Department let it be recorded
here, they finished six out of ten starters for the
best percentage of any organization participating.
A record we may well be proud of.
It was a tough old battle, boys, one of the
toughest of the tough. Dame Nature at the start
of the race seemed to smile and invite all the
world to conquer the Golden Gate. Dame Nature
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Police Officers in Gate Swim
By George Lineer, of San Francisco Chronicle
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we have ever seen, given by the Howard Auto
Co. was his prize.
Close on McGovern's heels came Leslie Rosa ;
then came Cliarlie Iredale, George Engler, Chaiies
Andruss and Frank "Bullets" Parker, in the or-
der named. Walter Spence of New York was the
winner of the race and to Walter goes all the
glory that is accorded the champion. There is
plenty of honor for all ; many times, however, the
man who finishes last or even the fellow who fails
to finish, is just as great a hero as the winner
of the race.
Have you ever been in water that chilled you
to the marrow, where the choppy waves slapped
you constantly on the side of the head until you
became seasick, and then the fog rolled in and
the sight of the objective point was totally ob-
scured? If you have, then you will know what
the swimmers were up against in this race. To
battle on and on, long after the winner has cross-
ed the line, bucking flood tides and adverse con-
ditions, takes plenty of intestinal fortitude or
just plain "guts." Charles Andrus and "Bullets"
Parker staged a ding-dong battle for last place
more than a half hour after the winner had fin-
ished. They battled stroke for stroke the last
quarter mile, there was no let-up or thought of
quitting. The boys who finished early in the race
had long ago been tliawed out and were waiting
for tliem at the finish. The cheer that greeted
them rivaled that of the winner's.
Four membei's of this department were forced
to bow to Father Neptune this day: George
Dyer, Jack Dyer, Gus Betger and Frank Davis
lost their compass, or what have you, and after
battling about in tlie wind-swept fog-covered
waters of tlie Golden Gate for more than an hour,
found they were nearly as far from the finish as
when they started. The Dyer brothers might
have landed on the Farallon Islands had they
continued on their way. Gus Betger landed on
the rocks, opposite Fort Point, and knew he had
crossed but could not locate the finish and for
that reason was not officially checked in. Frank
Davis headed straight for Alcatraz Island when
lie discovered tliat he was headed for the wrong
piece of land. It was too late to turn back, as the
flood tide had started in the gate.
Yes, brothers, it was a he-man's race, and any
time you don't think it is, you can try it yourself.
There were many of the best speed swimmers in
the United States who were turned back that day.
Lester Smith, a member of the American Olympic
(Continued on Page 28)
IN GATE SWIM
Left to Ri^ht — Sergt. Charles Iredale, Officers Jas. McGovern. Frank
Parker. Leslie Rosa, George Engler, Charles Andruss. Corpl. Thos.
Mclnerney, seated.
was leading them astray, however, the sunny
smile on the placid waters of the Golden Gate
turned to clouded frowns as soon as the boys
rounded Lime Point to actually start the race.
For some unknown reason the water was much
colder than usual, the wind blew in a low fog that
completely obscured the face of the San Fran-
cisco shore, the waves became choppy; in fact,
every tiick that old Father Neptune had up his
sleeve was put into effect to turn back the daring
swimmers who would try to cross this famous
waterway under their own power.
James McGovern, a new officer, still in the de-
partment school of instruction, was the first of
the police swimmers to finish. McGovei-n finished
in splendid shape, a testimonial to his swimming
ability as well as his splendid physical condition.
It was quite an achievement and his efforts were
well rewarded — one of the handsomest trophies
October, 1027
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The San Francisco Police Departmen now has a
salary scale second only to one city police depart-
ment in the United States, due to the efforts and
co-operation of Mayor James Rolph, Jr., the
greatest friend the police department of tliis city
ever had.
Shortly before 1911 when Jimmie Rolpli, then
president of the Mission Promotion Association,
ran for Mayor, a patrolman in San Francisco re-
ceived the handsome salary of $100 a month.
When Mayor Rolpli took office, this salary was
raised 20' ; .so that the San Francisco patrolman
received $120 a month to keep his family fed and
clothed while he walked his perilous beat.
Graft conditions in San Francisco were still in
the memory of each citizen and it was with diffi-
culty that Mayor Rolph brougrht about respect
for the police department.
Bossism and machine politics made the citizens
believe that a policeman's income lay outside of
his salary.
For this reason it was necessary that Mayor
Rolph purge his police department from all bad
wood and build up in the minds of the public a
new civic pride in the San Francisco Police De-
partment.
This was hard to do, but clean government and
a clean police department won the respect of the
public at a time when all propaganda would have
failed. As a result, a few years later the public
believed in Mayor Rolph's police depai'tment and
permitted an increase in the patrolman's salary so
that it totaled $1 10 a month, almost 50% greater
than that which he received when Mayor Rolph
took office.
A few years later, by the Mayor's efforts, the
San Francisco patrolman was receiving $170 a
month and finally a few years ago, the salary
was brought up to $200 a month, which is the
second largest salary received by any patrolman
in the United States.
Mayor Rolph has expressed the opinion that
this is not a large enough salary for the men who
defend San Francisco's clean government against
the inroads of crooks and gun-men who have
been promised immunity by pool-hall politicians.
San Francisco's greatest triumph was recorded
when Daniel J. O'Brien, Chief of Police, in a city
which had previously known the notorious graft
era, was selected as president of the National
Association of Chiefs of Police.
It was a fitting tribute to the Chief who, with
Mayor Rolph, was responsible for cleaning up a
city notorious over the world for wickedness.
"DRESS SUIT POLICE" BUSY
Commissioner Warren has appointed 10 "kid
glove coppers" to deal with the kid glove thieves
of mid-Manhattan. The new squad will be ar-
rayed in dinner clothes and their duties will con-
sist of checking up on the activities of diamond
thieves, gigolos and other undesirables who fre-
quent the night resorts in and around Broadway.
In the afternoon the detectives assigned to the
new branch of the service will be appropriately
garbed to mingle with the hotel lobby crowds and
the tea room habitues. This is not the first time
that a dress suit squad has patroled Broadway.
Back in Commissioner Wood's days there was a
similar white front squadron on duty after dark
in the Broadway resorts. The detectives selected
for this special duty must be able to carry their
clothes well and to feature a dress suit as though
they were accustomed to such attire.
It is said in police circles that a new class of
thieves are operating in Mazda Lane. They are
sleek individuals with patent leather hair and
nimble feet. Their specialty is women — women
with money. They dance and dine with dowagers
who are willing to pay an escort and subsequently
they pillage or blackmail their victims.
Crookdom has learned the value of a good ap-
pearance and confidence men and jewel thieves
are today among the best dressed men encoun-
tered on the Rialto. Violence is not their specialty
and they rely on glib tongues and polished man-
ners to accomplish their purposes. It is to cope
with this new 400 of the underworld that Commis-
sioner Warren has revived the "kid glove squad."
Your letter of September 6, 1927, with reference to
the safety zone at the intersection of Bay and Van Nes.*:
avenue, has just been received. This is a great improve-
ment and is very much appreciated by all those having
occasion to board cars at that particular corner. Permit
me to thank you personally for the splendid co-operation
you have always extended to the Fort Mason Depot, and
I also want to congratulate your department upon the
promptness with which they acted upon this reque.^t.
L. H. BASH, Colonel, Q. M. Corps,
General Superintendent, A. T. S.
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The delegates of the National Association of Police and
Fire Surgeons and Medical Directors of Civil Service
Commissions of the United States were very happy over
the Reception and Kntertainment extended by the Police
Department, Fire Department and Emergency Hospital
Department of San Francisco.
Many, many thanks for your activity.
EDMUND BUTLER, Chief Surgeon,
Emergency Hospital Service.
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"2-0" POLICE JOURNAL October. 1927
THE TRAFFIC COP AFFECTING PLAYGROUNDS
He said to me, "Fair Maiden,
And what is it you do?"
I said, "I'm a living--out girl
On Fifth Avenue."
He said, "I've rarely seen a maid
With so much sweetness in her."
I said, "I'd like to cross the road
And hurry home for dinner!"
He looked at me and raised his hand —
Ah, Lord, and who am I
That millionaires in motor cars
Should stop and let me by?
One gesture from his noble hand.
One swift look at the throng
And the roadway clears like magic
And the people move along.
I dreamt of him, and in my dreams
He stood in worlds afar ;
He kept the planets in their course
And star from striking star !
And little hoped a timid maid
As plain as I to win him ;
He's so beautiful and mighty —
There is something archangel in him.
But one night when Fifth Avenue
And all its roar was still,
I heard his shiny whistle blow
Beneath my window-sill.
I ran from the lonely kitchen
And let the curtain drop —
And put my hand into the hand
That makes tlie whole world STOP.
A song of love he sang to me ;
His words were sweet and low ;
I did not dare resist the voice
That makes the whole world GO.
I ran away to be his bride,
My heart was all a-quiver —
Now I'm climbing seven flights of stairs
Beside the Harlem River.
If you see a big policeman.
You people passing by,
With a wistful look upon him —
You will know the reason why.
He is tired of the cross-streets
And lonely in the noise;
And he's longing for the traffic
Of his little girls and boys. '
— Fr. Feeney, in S. F. Monitor.
Company commanders within whose districts
playgrounds are located shall instruct the mem-
bers of their respective commands to give every
assistance in the matter of making our play-
gi'ounds safe for the legitimate recreation of
children. Persons found loitering in or about said
playgrounds should be questioned and in proper
cases arrests should be made. By our united
efforts in the past we have kept our parks and
playgrounds clear from the unlawful activities of
degenerates and others of similar ilk. The vag-
rancy laws should be rigidly enforced against
idle, lewd and dissolute persons who may be found
inhabiting or loitering around said playgrounds.
Officers on duty in the vicinity of playgrounds
shall get in touch with the party in charge of the
said playgrounds and shall give every co-opera-
tion. Proper action shall also be taken to see that
after 5:30 p. m. daily, when the playgrounds are
closed, the grounds are kept clear of children.
The Chief of Police desires to impress Company
Commanders and the members of their respective
commands the necessity of close co-opei'ation in
dealing with the foregoing. Our police experi-
ence has shown us that criminals, particularly of
the degenerate type, use our parks and play-
grounds for the purpose of engaging in their un-
lawful activities. Furthermore, this department
has always deeply interested itself in protecting
our children against any environment which may
lead to juvenile delinquency. Legitimate recrea-
tion for children at playgrounds is one of the es-
sential factors in the making of good citizenship
and in conformity with the well-established pre-
cedent the members of this department should
do tlieir very utmost to see that our playgrounds
are just wiiat they are intended for — healthful
and legitimate recreation centers for the youth of
our city.
HOERTKORN AND HARRIS PRAISED
"I note with much pleasure tliat the colored
pickpockets operating on the Third St. line dur-
ing the past month have been apprehended and
that one of them is awaiting sentence and the
other awaiting trial. I feel that the activities of
your officers in this case in the protection of our
passengers is deserving of special mention to you.
Will you kindly convey to Lieut. Hoertkorn, De-
tective Sergts. Regan, Harris and Curtis, the ap-
preciation of our company for the good work they
have done in this case. With kindest personal
regards, I am,
M. McCANTS, Vice-Pres.,
In Charge of Transportation,
Market Street Railway Co."
October. 1927
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Unless San Francisco Wants Boss Rule Rolph
Must Be Elected Mayor
Mayoralty Fight Presents Giuvest Issue City Has Faced in Twenty Years
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Editorial Be printed From
Vital to San Francisco is the outcome of this
Mayoralty struggle. The issue involved is the
biggest San Fi-ancisco has faced for twenty years.
The issue is whether San Francisco shall go
back to BOSS CONTROL with all that implies.
The issue goes deeper. Far below the surface
of this effort to put the city in the political pocket
of a boss are sinister plotters clutching once more
at a stranglehold on the throat of San Fi-ancisco's
prosperity.
In this campaign TOM FINN is making the bid
of his life for complete control of San Fi-ancisco.
James Power is not his own candidate. James
Power is not running for Mayor: TOM FINN IS
RUNNING HOI FOR MAYOR.
James Power is but the figurehead selected by
Sheriff Tom Finn to get all of San Francisco's
city government into his own gi*asp. Finn cares
little for Power; it is power he wants.
Mr. Power has friends any man can be proud
of. They are for him for Mayor because they
like him personally.
We believe they have not looked beneath the
surface of this struggle. On the surface they see
nothing but a choice of two personalities, and they
follow the beckoning of their familiar friend.
They have not thouglit out the deadly menace
of BOSS RULE behind their friend's candidacy.
Tom Finn, too, has friends of standing, and
good ones, who are impressed by his ability. We
think they, too, are not awake to the danger of
the course he is now taking and the ultimate haz-
ards in which it may involve them and the city
of San Fi'ancisco.
And even Finn, clever as he is, may not realize
the perils in his expanding ambition. Very an-
cient is the observation, "Whom the gods would
destroy they first make mad." Blinding ambition
is the commonest form of that madness.
Finn's friends say he is an honest man, that all
he wants is power. We say that whatever Finn's
San Francisco Chronicle
personal honesty may be, it is a DANGEROUS
power he is seeking.
Finn may sincerely mean to keep straight, but
if he ever gets San Francisco completely at his
mercy he will never be able to hold back the
liungry gang always following a boss. They will
either EAT THE CITY or EAT HBL
Worse than that, some deadly undercover ene-
mies of San Francisco's prosperity are lining up
with Boss Finn, expecting to make themselves
indispensable to him and so force him and the
city to their pm-poses. Whatever Tom Plnn
thinks about it now, if he is in power he will have
to BEND TO THEIM or they will BREAK HIM.
If SHERIFF FINN should succeed in the
mighty effort he is making now to seize the city's
government, San Francisco will be back to the
days of BOSS BUCKLEY and ABE RUEF!
San Francisco was done with boss lule when
Abe Ruef went to prison twenty years ago. San
Francisco wants no more bosses!
The Chronicle has many times disagreed with
Mayor Rolph, and it may disagree with him in the
future. But in the present crisis, with imminent
peril of BOSS TRY\\NNY" hanging over the city,
there can be no doubt where The Chronicle stands.
The Chronicle will support James Rolph to the
limit.
MEN AND ^^•OMEN of San Francisco, this
election is not a question simply which of two
men shall be Mayor! He deludes himself who
rests easily in a thought that there is no other
issue than the personalities of the candidates!
The issue is the DEEPEST AND GRAVEST
that has confronted the city since the days of
Schmitz and Ruef.
\\]\en San Francisco lay in ashes the people of
this city ended the Ruefs with that solemn ver-
dict and sentence delivered in the courts of justice.
Shall San Francisco go back to the BOSS RULE
that made her once the SHA:ME OF THE NA-
TION?
STATE HIGHWAY PATROLMEN MEET
The annual meeting of the California Associa-
tion of Highway Patrolmen is in session in Los
Angeles. This is the Eighth Annual Convention
and the problems these men who guard and patrol
the highways of the State of California are in-
creasing yearly and calling for closer co-operation
and exchange of ideas. This Association is fur-
nishing just these things and the members are
getting encouragement for their work.
Lieut. C. L. Hemphill, President of the Asso-
ciation, and who hails from Oakland, has a splen-
did program which will be published in the No-
vember issue of "2-0".
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October, J 927
"MR, JOSIAH EVERYMAN TUTTLEFISH,
JUROR"
(Continued from Page 8 )
self into an easy position and completely ignoring-
the proceedings altogether., Mr. Tuttlefish was
never quite sure of this until one day when the
jury were passing out for lunch, this old juror
failed to rise from his seat. Feeling that some-
thing was wrong, Mr. Tuttlefish, who was the last
juror to leave the box, laid his hand on number
7's shoulder, shook him a bit and finally suc-
ceeded in bringing the old man to with a start.
"Ach!" expostulated this old gentleman, "Das
law business, mien Gott!", and without further
comment sallied out with the rest to partake of
the mid-day meal.
Mr. Tuttlefish never could bi'ing himself to this
degree of indifference. He was, from the par-
ticular angle viewed, either a very good juror or
a very poor one. But as careful as he was to
mentally record the facts of the case, as the trial
proceeded, these seemed only to expand in volume
without any very apparent shaping of themselves
into some correlated sequence of events leading up
to the alleged murder. . In short, to Mr. Tuttlefish
there were plenty of facts to be sure, but they
were in nice little piles by themselves, each par-
ticular little pile with its particular little label,
tied up in a particular little bundle, and put in a
particular little place in the transcript. And
struggle as he might, in vain did Mr. Tuttlefish
endeavor to fit these little bundles together into
some sort of intelligible picture. The fact of the
matter was the bundles became too numerous, and
only the last few were at all distinct in his mind.
The moi\2 remote bundles were forgotten en-
tirely.
"Oh well," remarked Mr. Tuttlefish to his neigh-
bor juror, "counsel will certainly connect these
little bundles together in the summing up, and
our worries will all be over."
As he had surmised indeed counsel did, and
in a most ingenious manner reaching conclusions
that were disconcerting, not to say utterly con-
founding to the unsuspecting Mr. Tuttlefish !
In spite of the diflJiculty of keeping the facts
before him, he did, as the trial advanced, succeed
in getting some general idea of the material fact
or facts upon which the guilt or innocence of the
defendant seemed to depend. As Mr. Tuttlefish
understood the case it was something as follows :
It appeared that the accused on the night of
the murder was in desperate need of money (al-
though it likewise appeared that he had just told
no less than forty persons on that same evening
that he was never better financially fixed in his
life) ; that desirous of obtaining this at once, and
being without credit or reputation in the city
(although it also appeared that his business repu-
tation was of an unusually high character) he and
a pal met in a pool room in the early part of the
evening (and this too in view of the fact that he
was in China about this time) and decided to rob
a house about which the defendant knew consid-
erable from having been lately employed about
the premises. It was clearly demonstrated that
bullets were made of lead, or steel or some other
kind of metal — never of celluloid; that the tra-
jectory of a rifle is not the same thing fs the fall
of an auctioneer's mallet, and finally it was not
denied that when a gun is discharged there is
nothing to be said to the contrary ; that no gun
was used in the present case, neither was a re-
volver, nor a sledge-hammer. Fui''ther, it ap-
peared that the moon was, and was not, out on
that particular night. At any rate it seemed
that there was no intent on the part of either
the accused or his pal to injure even the fuzz
on a jack-rabbit that evening; far from it they
were both, it appeared, preparing at the very hour
the fatal crime was committed, a series of beau-
tiful lectures entitled "The Consolations of a Life
Well Spent" ; that as a matter of fact the house
was in the suburbs of the city and a considerable
distance from any other dwelling, and in this
connection it was conclusively demonstrated that
"a considerable distance" might mean anywhere
from the fraction of an inch to anything short
of infinity; but it also appeared that the family
were at a summer resort and defendant knew this ;
that this was particularly interesting in view of
the fact that defendant was in China; that it so
happened, however, that after the two had made
an entry (although it was ably shown by counsel
for the defense that no entry was made) they had
to make their way to the second floor to reach
the room where the family plate was secured, and
this in spite of the fact that the family plate was
always on such occasions, kept on the back porch,
which was demonstrated beyond preadventure by
one witness who testified that about twelve years
ago at a time when the family was likew-ise away,
she recollected having seen a pet kitten of the
family on the back porch lapping up some milk
(it might have been water) from a plate which
she swore belonged to the family. But it appeared
that the room on the second floor was at the head
of a winding stairway ; that while endeavoring to
force open the door of this room, which was ajar
at the time, accused was accosted by what turned
out to be a watchman employed to watch the
house during the absence of its occupants. It fur-
ther appeared that the owner of the premises
had a great antipathy for dogs. In the struggle
which followed, accused endeavoring to free him-
self, pushed the watchman over the balustrade
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Capt. Andrew Dun- Donald Ross conducted sword contests in tliis
Icavy was a patrolman city.
on Pacific street. He * * *
encountered many a Tiie old man selling matrimonial papers on
hard character. Kearnv street.
PETER FANNING
The Globe Hotel,
which was located on
tlie northwest corner
of Jackson and Dupont
streets was famous in
i*:s time.
Tiiere was a school
for boys in old St.
Mary's Cathedral.
The principal dry-
goods stores were on
Stockton street, from Broadway to Washington
street, and down \^'ashington to Montgomery.
Tlie Fourth of July celebrations were held in
Washington Square.
Little Butcliertown was located on Polk and
Broadway streets.
Kate Kennedy was principal of the North Cos-
mopolitan Grammar Scliool.
The big fire in the Harpending block on Market
street.
Tiie Calliope on t!ie steamer S. M. Whipple
played "The Girl I Left Behind Me" when she
would be leaving the dock.
Bush street was the only road leading out to
the Western Addition for vehicles to pass
through.
The oil painting by Toby Rosenthal (The dead
steered by the dumb) on exhibition in the art
gallery on Geary and Kearny streets. Thieves
entered the place one night and cut it out of the
frame, which caused a great sensation in town.
The Jeannette (the ship that never returned)
sailed out of this harbor in search of the Nortli
Pole.
I stood on the difierent hills overlooking this
town when the most of it was a barren heap of
rock and sand. From the same elevation I see it
today rising wonderfully with the mighty march
of civilization.
SERGEANT J. J. McKENNA NABS TRIO
Detective Sergt. J. J. McKenna of the Auto-
mobile Detail was going home in the early hours
of the morning, the first part of this month,
after cruising the city in search of auto thieves
and bandits. He was afoot and as he drew near
Powell and Market he saw an automobile that
had been reported stolen. McKenna did some
fast off-hand calculation. He figured he had not
a chance to "knockover" the three men he saw
in the car, alone and on foot. Just about this
time a taxicab came along and McKenna hailed
the driver.
Jumping aboard he told the taxi lad to take
after the car that was going up Market street.
His order was quickly complied with and the
race was on. The three men in the pursued car,
not sensing the danger from a taxicab, kept go-
ing at a stiff speed. At Market and Hyde the
taxicab passed the stolen car. The driver turned
the car into the curb, and out jumped the ser-
geant witli his gun ready for action.
Three young men piled out and elevated the food
conveyors. One of them had a gun, but McKen-
na's actions had been too quick for him to use
it if he had desired.
The trio was placed under arrest for grand
larceny. They gave the names of Theodore Kur-
rell, William Harris and William Kidder. Harris
was the lad who was "rodded."
The automobile detail took over the case with
McKenna and before they completed their inves-
tigations the three prisoners owned up to the
theft of over 40 automobiles in this city.
It was a swell piece of work and McKenna de-
serves great credit for his activity. It is one more
incident that shows the members of the depart-
ment are ever alert, whether on actual duty o)-
on their time off.
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A GOOD ASSET
Mayor James Rolph was characteiized tlie other
day by a man who has returned from a trip
abroad as well as a trip througrh the United
States as "the greatest advertising asset this city
has."
In most every place he visited he heard praise
lieaped upon Mayor Rolph, praise from some per-
son who had officially visited this city, or who
had someone near to them who did. All were
loud in their laudation over the wonderful manner
they were received, the wholehearted welcome ex-
tended, and the able and dignified manner in
which the Mayor acquitted himself on each and
every occasion.
JUSTICE TRIUMPHS
Another man has been sentenced to hanging for
killing a police officer in this city. Mark Dowell
has been given the extreme penalty of the law
for his part in the murdering of Officer J. J. Fitz-
gerald. His side-partner, Eugene Gentile, was
sentenced to life. In an effort to thwart justice
and save Dowell, one of the most transparent and
flagrant frames was resorted to by the defense.
This plan was to the putting on the witness stand
of Dowell's 18-year-old sister who testified she
was with Gentile and not her brother, on the
night of the murder. She went through with her
little "piece", but it was so apparent to the .jury
that they lost no time in disregarding her testi-
mony or her bold and brazen attempt to out-
smart the law.
The police quickly rounded up substantial evi-
dence to nullify the attempt which would have
been ridiculous had it not been so grossly an ef-
fort to subvert justice. Had this thing gone
through, it would have been a sad commentary
upon our modern system of law. Happily there
are men and women wlio serve on juries that re-
fuse to be misled by fakes and fakers and who
render verdicts based upon law and reason.
POLICE ALWAYS IN MIND
One of the things that has made Mayor Rolph
popular with members of the police department
is the fact that in every instance where a police
officer has been injured, in line of duty or not,
he has taken a personal interest in seeing that
the officer was given the best treatment that
mone\' and science could provide. In many in-
stances he has made personal visits to the injured
and extended every assistance necessary for the
improvement of the officer.
POLICEMEN OFF WATCH, CATCH THIEF
As President of the South End Rowing Club,
and President of the Pacific Association of Ama-
teur Oarsmen, I wish to call to your attention,
some very credible work which has been recently
performed by two of your men which, not being
strictly in line with duty, was, nevertheless, very
effective. Recently we have had many complaints
by some of the Club members ol one of the row-
ing clubs, because of money and valuables which
were continually missing from the lockers. By
some quick work, on the part of two of your boys
while off duty, we were able to apprehend at least
one of the parties who has been engaged in this
mal-practise among his own clubmates.
The two boys from your staff who have figured
in this are Corporal Thomas Mclnerney, and Offi-
cer Arthur Morrison.
In this day and age when criticism is so easy
of lack or alleged lack, of attention to duty, it is
a genuine pleasure to mention cases of this na-
ture where individuals have done more than which
they are actually expected to do.
Very truly yours,
CLYDE W. KING,
President, Pacific Association of
Amateur Oarsmen.
October, 1927
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October, 1927
TRAFFIC
The California State Automobile Association
announced today the receipt of notification from
Frank G. Snook, Chief of the Division of Motor
Vehicles, that, in co-operation with the California
Public Safety Conference, he will conduct a vigor-
ous drive against illegal motor vehicle lights be-
ginning immediately.
In order that motorists may understand their
duty, George E. Sandford, General Attorney of
the California State Automobile Association, calls
attention to the provisions of the headlight law.
Every automobile and motor truck, when oper-
ated upon the public highway, must have two
lighted headlights during the period from a half
hour after sunset to a half hour before sunrise.
These lights must also be lighted at any other
time, such as during a heavy fog, or passing
through thick smoke, if there is not sufficient light
ahead of the motor vehicle to render clearly dis-
cernible a person, vehicle of other substantial ob-
ject upon the highway two hundred feet ahead.
Types of Lights
Six types of lights are defined in the law —
headlights, sidelights, spotlights, taillights, auxil-
iary lights and clearance lights. Courtesy lights
are widely used, but are not specifically mentioned.
Position and Number of Lights
The headlights must be on the front of and on
opposite sides of the vehicle and not more than
fifty-four inches above the level ground surface
upon which the vehicle stands.
If sidelights are desired, two must be used, but
no more. Not more than four candle power bulbs
may be used in any sidelight.
Not more than two spotlights may be used and
they may not be used in substitution of headlights.
The centers of spotlights shall not be less than
thirty nor moi'e than seventy-two inches above the
level surface upon which the vehicle stands. They
must be so arranged or adjusted that when meas-
ured one hundred feet or more ahead, the main
parallel beam of ligiit shall not rise more than
thirty inches above the level surface of the ground
For Supervisor
Dr.J.M.
TONER
*A Civic Leader and a Business Man"
Htauiijul Recipe Booijiet Free on Application
North America
Mercantile Company
330-342 FRONT STREET
San Fianci.'jco, California
RE-ELECT
Supervisor
JESSE C. COLMAN
** For a Business Administration "
October. 1927
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iipuii wliicli the vehicle stands. Spotlights must
be so set that the main parallel beam of light
cannot be raised above the lawful limit by anyone
occupying the front seat of the vehicle. Not more
than a thirty-two standard candle power bulb may
be used in a spotlight.
No restriction is placed on the number of tail-
lights, but at least one must be used and it must
be strong enough to exhibit a red light, plainly
visible under normal atmospheric conditions, for
a distance of five hundred feet to the rear of the
vehicle and so placed that the number plate car-
ried on the rear of the vehicle shall be illuminated
by a white light to such an extent that it can be
plainly distinguished under normal atmospheric
conditions at a distance of not less than fifty feet
back.
As many as two auxiliary lights may be used
in conjunction with the use of approval head-
lamps. They must be mounted below the level
of the centers of the headlamps and between or
attached to the spring horns.
Fundamental Rule
The primary rule governing lights is that no
device shall project a glaring or dazzling light to
persons in front of the vehicle.
Other provisions of the law governing lights
upon motor vehicles will be covered in an article
to appear \\'ednesday morning.
RE-ELECT
OUR FRIEND
Warren Shannon
Supervisor
le GRANEY
Billiard Parlor
Finest in the World
924 MARKET STREET
Dd
deeBrothers
MOTOR CARS
J.
E. FRENCH CO.
O'Farrell at Polk
Graystone 9000
Daniel T. Hanlon Chu. M. O'Brien
Telephone Market 7906
Sanitary Towel Supply Co.
84 NINTH STREET
San Francisco, Cal.
404 Kearny St.
460 Foisom St.
115 Si.xth St.
216 Third St.
1123 Fillmore St.
95 Fourth St.
NEW POODLE DOG
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October. 1927
REBATE CHECKS AWAIT CLAIMANTS
Pacific Gas and Electric Company Now Making
Refunds to San Francisco Consumers
Affected by Compromise Agreement
Carrying- out the compromise agreement made
with tlie San Francisco Board of Supervisors and
approved by the United States District Court and
the State Railroad Commission, the Pacific Gas
and Electric Company is now mailing out rebate
checks to gas consumers affected by that agree-
ment.
All San Francisco gas consumers during tlie
two-year period beginning July 1, 1914, and end-
ing June 30, 1916, are entitled to a return of what-
ever amounts they paid for gas in excess of 75
cents per thousand cubic feet, together with 7
per cent interest on the excess sums from the first
day of the calendar month succeeding the day of
payment to July 6, 1921.
The Pacific Gas and Electric Company is doing
all in its power to expedite the payment of the
rebates agreed upon. A staff of expert accoun-
tants have spent months figuring out amounts due
and will be kept at this task until the work is
finished. Rebate checks are now being mailed to
all gas consumers of the specified period who are
still living at their old address. There still re-
main, however, many consumers of tiiat period
Telephone Davenport 460
A. Ramazzotti
Comtnission Cafe
(ITALIAN RESTAURANT)
.5.30 FRONT STREET
Cor. Oregon San Francisco, California
Phone Mission 1
GEORGE L. SUHR
SUHR & WIEBOLDT
Funeral Directors and Embalmers
1465 to 1473 VALENCIA ST.
Between 2.5th and 26th Sts., San Francisco, Calif.
MEAD'S
Mead's Establishments
SAN FRANCISCO:
159 THIRD STREET
241 KEARNY STREET
14 EAST STREET
24 SIXTH STREET
64 FOURTH STREET
3 MARKET STREET
68 FOURTH STREET
117 THIRD STREET
1999 HYDE STREET
Offices, Commissary and Bakery:
517 STEVENSON STREET
A delightful combination of the finest fish
of the sea . . . seasoned with luscious clams
. . . savory Lobstery etc., and prepared by
expert chefs. The result ... a delicacy
with that mysterious tang of the briny deep.
Served at
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F(SH GROTTO
123 POWELL ST.
6 SACRAMENTO ST.
SAN FRANCISCO
tLiCCt our friend
who will help us
JACK SPAULDING
SUPERVISOR
A Progressive Business Man
October, 1927
"2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
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whose wliereabouts are unknown, and they have
been asked through advertisements in the press
to send in their present address, the location at
which they received g-as and the lengtii of time
they received it. As fast as this information
comes in, the books are checked, computations are
made and checks sent out.
In cases where the consumer entitled to a re-
bate has died, the amount due is paid to his heirs
or estate, after proper proof of deatli has been
presented and verified.
Of the many tliousands of rebates already paid
the average per consumer has been $7, which
means that not a few checks were for larger
amounts. Most of the checks for amounts smaller
than the average go to consumers who received
gas for only a portion of the time for which re-
bates were allowed under the agreement.
Consumers entitled to rebates who no longer
live at the addresses at which they received their
gas bills between July 1, 1914, and June 30, 1916,
are requested, if they have not already made their
present address known to the company, to notify
the Pacific Gas & Electric Company, 44.5 Sutter
street, San Francisco.
Harry Friedman, in before, wa.s vagged by Officers J.
Burke and T. Mahoney, while Officers R. Curtin and Wil-
liam Hyland put a vagrancy charge against James Mui-
phy, a loser.
AUBURN
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Distributed by
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POLICE CHANGES
(Continued from Page 11)
James McColgan, to Co. L
Wm. J. Hamilton, to Co. J.
John J. Harrison, to Co. J.
Timotliy J. Dolly, to Co. J.
James Shepherd, to Co. L.
Philip J. Fraher, to Co. L.
Edward J. Maker, to Co. L.
Alex. E. McDonald, to Co. L.
Edw. J. O'Brien, to Co; M.
Victor Olsen, to Co. M.
Ernest C. Wood, to Co. M.
Frank Tainter, to Co. M.
John P. Keohane, to Co. L
GOLDEN GATE SWIM
(Continued fiom Page 16)
team, was taken from the water so badly cramp-
ed that he could not walk for days. Art Har-
grave, another noted aquatic star, found the going
too tough. It took plenty of real courage to even
start in this race. All of tlie men who tackled
this race are well endowed with "guts." Many a
man would rather face a loaded gun than tackle
this physical test.
SCHOOL TRAFFIC ASSISTANCE
It i.s unnecessary to call to the attention of the mem-
bers of this department the ovsanization known as the
Public School Traffic Reserves, and the splendid work done
by the boys of the above mentioned organization.
Recently, it has come to the attention of this office that
a certain percentage of motorists are careless in observ-
ing the signals of members of the Reserves at school
cross-walks and intersections, and are also disregarding
the rights of pedestrians.
The California Public Safety Conference, with which
this department is co-operating, has been conducting an
educational campaign, urging the motorists of the neces-
sity for greater care in the observance of the rights of
pedestrians at cross-walks and intersections. This edu-
cational program is now at an end, and all members of
this department will enforce the ru'.es and regulations
prescribed for the motoii.sts at such cross-walks and in-
tersections.
The officers and members of the St. Helena Rotary
Club desire to express their sincere thanks and apprecia-
tion for the very intellectual talk on "Social Evil" as given
by your very able Captam Duncan Matheson at our
weekly luncheon on Tuesday, the 30th instant.
His coming to our town of St. Helena and the infor-
mation imparted to us was a revelation and sank deep
under the skin of all present.
Very sincerely,
ADOLPH MEESE,
Secretary, St. Helena Rotary Club.
Calvin Wells, said to be a violator of Section 442 V2 of
the Penal Code, well worth looking up, was escorted to
the rear-end of the patrol wagon and urged to enter. His
captors were Officer James H. Casey and Special Officer
Arthur Tilton.
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August. 1927
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MA'^ OR ROLPH A FRIP:NI) OF THK DEPART-
MENT FOR YEARS
Mayor James Rolpli has always maintained a
friendly interest in the San Francisco Police De-
partment. Not only while Mayor, but many years
before he was elevated to the chief executive
office of the city.
It was recalled the other day, an incident that
shows just how deep has been the interest in our
members' welfare. Just how far he would go to
help the boys out when tliey needed it.
After the fire, the finances of the Widows' and
Orphans' Association were somewhat depleted.
The big' ball and concert opened the only avenue,
during those distressing- times, for revenue. The
date was set, all arrangements made to make it a
success. The officers on the beats were told to
sell their tickets, and g'et rid of as many more as
was allotted them.
There was a new policeman, a young fellow, who
had just been assigned to the Mission district.
He is now dead, an honored member of our de-
partment. This officer got his block of paste-
boards and went forth. He had but scant idea of
just how to go about .selling the tickets, but the
necessity for action had been impressed upon him.
He had not been out on his beat long, when he
met his corporal, now a captain. The coi-poral
asked him questions relative to police duty, and
then turned lo the all-absorbing topic of ball
tickets.
"How have you made out, so far?" asked the
corporal.
"Say, this getting- rid of those tickets is a
cinch. Met a guy down on the corner. Went up
to his front door and when he came out I asked
him to buy some tickets. He asked me how many
I had, and I told him fifty. He says, give 'em to
me, and get me a hundred more."
"What house was it ?" excitedly inquired the
corporal.
"Way down there at San Jose and 25th street."
"Let's go down and see if I know who lives
there."
The pair went down and found it was the home
of James Rolph, Jr., and he was given his extra
tickets. And ever since then, he has been a copi-
ous buyer of tickets to the annual ball and always
out to help make it a big success.
I wish to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the
7th instant, addressed to my home, 5720 California street,
and in reply, I desire to express my appreciation of the
prompt and courteous treatment my complaint received,
both by yourself and the Commanding Officer of the Rich-
mond Police District.
GKORGE HULL, Secretary,
Caribou Oil Mining Company.
ELECT
JULIUS S.
GODEAU
SUPERVISOR
RE-ELECT
JUDGE
Joseph M. Golden
Police Judge
ENDORSED BY ;
Republican County Committee, L'nion Labor Party,
Civic League of Improvement Clubs, Lafayette Club,
Liberty League, Federated Italian Societies
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October, 1927
THP HFDH OFTHF n\Y
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CM^ CLAR^ rf CREERY i
A member of the Mounted Force
Was staying traffic in its course,
And under him his big bay horse
Knew bells were clanging "Fire
That horse was keeping back the crowd ,
He had the trucks and street cars cowed,
And oh, my goodness, he was proud !
No honor could be higher.
A bell kept ringing and he danced, ~
The engines screamed and off he pranced
To round up people who had chanced
To get in danger's way. ^
Grandly bearing his brave knight.
On the job with all his might, IJ*-/'"-^ '-^
He looked out for all in sight, ^^j^, fi^^i.
This hero of the day!
W^
Coxaiesy S. f . Biillehn
October. 1927
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POLICE EFFICIENCY PRAISED
I desire to thank you and the police depart-
ment for the active service rendered on the nifrlit
of September 22, 1927. My mother and I have
an apartment at 1271 Cahfornia street, adjoining-
which there is a garage, on the top of that build-
ing we discovered two men at about 11 :30 P. M.
I immediately telephoned to the Bush street sta-
tion and they transferred my call to the Central
station. I reported the circumstance and in an
incredibly short space of time two of your plain-
clothes men arrived and made a thorougli search
of the premises and no sooner had they gone,
than two patrolmen from the Bush street station
arrived and made another search. All four of
these men were very courteous and reassured
both my mother and myself as you can imagine,
greatly to our relief. I further noticed from my
window that your men seemed to circle the neigh-
borhood after leaving the building, apparently in-
tent on overtaking the prowlers that we had seen
on the roof.
The object of tliis letter is to commend our
police department and to express appreciation of
the promptness with wliich you responded to my
urgent telephone call.
V. MARJORIE HALSING.
Parrott & Co.
EXCHANGE CLUBS THANK US
At the National Convention of Exchange Clubs
held in San Francisco, September 11 to 16, tlie
enclosed Resolution was adopted with respect to
your kindness and courtesy during this Conven-
tion. May I add my personal appreciation and
thanks to this Resolution for the interest sliown
by you in this National organization. With my
deep regard and sincere thanks, I am
Very cordially yours,
HAROLD M. HARTER,
The National Exchange Club.
(RESOLUTION 21)
WHEREAS, the success of the National Con-
vention of Exchange Clubs has greatly been add-
ed to by the co-operation and assistance of Daniel
O'Brien, Chief of Police, Sergt. P. McGee and
members of the San Francisco Police Department,
and
WHEREAS, they have contributed to the suc-
cess of the Convention in no small measure, there-
by gaining the lasting regard of the Exchange
Clubs of the United States,
THEREFORE, be it resolved that due appre-
ciation be expressed, and the honor acknowledged
for the courteous attendance upon and participa-
tion in this Convention.
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to
Board of Supervisors
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"2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
October, 1927
"MR. JOSIAH EVERYMAN TUTTLEFISH.
JUROR"
(Continued from Page 20)
from which lie fell, striking his head on the hard-
wood floor below. About this whole matter, how-
ever there was infinite dispute. It further appeared
that the defendant had had the German measles
when about six years of age; that he had never
spoken a word of Arabian in his life, and that he
was in no way responsible for the killing of the
watchman; that there was no malice afore-
thought; that the killing was accidental, if in
fact there was a killing; that the man died of
heart-failure; that his heart was in excellent con-
dition (much emphasis was placed on this point,
for it appeared that .iust before his death he had
come directly from the offices of no less than three
different physicians who testified he had the heart
of an ox) ; that the defendant had probably re-
turned from China; that the brain of an elephant
is not as large as that of a man ; that tiie brain of
an elephant has nothing to do with this case; that
the jury should by all means foi'get this elephant
item; that the defendant was an invitee of the
watchman and had later quarrelled with him, and
was therefore rightfully in the house; that the
accused was momentarily crazed at being caught
in such a predicament, unaccustomed as he was
to a life of crime, and tliat this produced a phobia
bordering on insanity and therefore defendant
was not responsible for his acts ; that he acted
upon a sudden and violent impulse of passion born
of terror and irresistible, and therefore could not
be held guilty of murder; that he was in fact not
guilty of anything at all. In short, arguments of
every sort and description were presented by coun-
sel, and volumes of evidence introduced tending
to prove and disprove these arguments. And thus
the battle raged.
(To Be Continued)
CHIEF WM. T. STANFORD
(Continued from Page 7)
oflficer at the city limits. He attacked tiie gunman,
and a terrific struggle ensued during whicii a bul-
let fired from the thug's revolver grazed Stan-
ford's head. It skimmed so close that the chief's
right temple was powder burned, but he over-
powered his man and locked him up.
King was sentenced to life in San Quentin, and
six months after his incarceration he killed him-
self in the prison barbership by slashing his throat
with a razor.
A real test of Stanford's standing in the com-
munity in which he has been chief twenty-seven
years came three years ago when so-called politi-
cal bosses attempted to remove him from oflfice.
Citizens of Vallejo, froin bootblacks to bankers,
aroused over the injustice of the attempt, circu-
lated petitions condemning tlie action and there
Re-elect
J. EMMET
HAYDEN
Supervisor
For the Police Department
100 Per Cent
^JMnSm
?
l-fr'l ^l^ALITY SHOES f,
2526 MISSION STREET
the matter ended.
And that's just a part of the story of William
T. Stanford's twenty-seven-year career as Chief
of Police at Vallejo. In the city where he has
served faithfully, honestly and capably for more
than a quarter of a century, he is looked upon as
a real he-man, a police chief who knows his
business.
Stanford is unmarried. In fraternal circles he
is a projiiinent Mason and Elk. He was elected
president of the California State Peace Officers'
Association at the Bakersfield meeting of 1926,
and will preside over the meeting of the organi-
zation at Stockton, in November.
O.tnbcr. 1927
"2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 33
DR. J. M. TONER
Living in the Richmond dis-
trict, practising his medical
profession in tlie Mission, and
owning considerable pi'operty
in the Sunset District wliere he '
is president of tlie Sunset-
Parkside District Inc., Dr. J. M.
Toner, candidate for supervisor,
is truly a representative citizen.
Thousands of his friends, whom
he has made through many
years of untiring service as a physician and
through his consistent efforts toward the upbuild-
ing and civic improvement of San Francisco, per-
suaded him, with considerable difficulty, to submit
himself as a supervisorial candidate, convinced
thus he could most effectively work for his city.
Dr. Toner has been a great factor in the de-
velopment of the Sunset District as well as other
parts of the city. Prominent in his platform,
which he announced at a crowded meeting at
Judge Thos. F. Graham's chambers last week, is
his emphasis on the development of outlying dis-
tricts and the "making of home districts attrac-
tive and easy of access by modern transportation,
lighting, good sewerage, cheap water, up-to-date
educational facilities and wide streets and boule-
vards."
Coming to San Francisco when a boy, Dr. Toner
first lived on Potrero street. He later moved to
Ninth street where he was practising medicine at
the time of the fire and where, after the fire, he
made from an old election booth and a tent a
temporary hospital where thousands were cared
for. Meanwhile he had studied at Santa Clara
University, then at Notre Dame (Indiana) and the
University of California Medical School. He was
famous in the IMission for his fine horses, and it
was an event to see the doctor pass by on his way
to visit the sick. He was physician and surgpon
for the ]\Ioulders' Union, the Longshoremen's
Union, the San Francisco Fire Department, and
the Order of Eagles. In 1911 he was coroner.**
HEMLOCK 7400
Residence Phone RANDOLPH 78
PHIL BENEDETTI
The Florist
2980 IBth .'STREET, below Mission San P'rancisco
Frieda Schmidt-Brauns, Pi-(i|>,
F. W. Kracht. Manaccr
PALM GARDEN GRILL
GOOD FOOnS BEST COOKING LIGHTNING SERVICE
931 M.VRKET .STREET
TEL. KEARNY 4633 SAN FB.\NCISCO. CALIF.
The7 AdTertU« — L«t'i Fadonii*
632 ORANT AVB.
•453 GRANT AVE ^ \ Und.r S.». M.r.g,i»>M
OHnreSB AMEBICAS DISHES — ^MERCHANTS' LTTNOH. 60«
Jax* Dajice Music Every Evening 8 p. m. to 1 a- m.
REAL CHOP SUEY
WM. H. HAMBLETON
NOW IN OUR NEW STORE
50 CALIFORNIA ST. San Francisco, Calif.
All That Is Good for the Smoker
KEARNY 5044
HOTEL MELBA
2 1 4 JACKSON STREET
LEST YOU FORGET
PAGE'S MODERN GARAGE
740 VALENCIA STREET
Phone Valencia 1036
21 Hour Service TOWING
Automotive Engineering We Know How
Elect - -
Maurice T. Dooling
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Dooling promises 100 per cent co-operation with the
poUce department
1
Page 34
2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
October. 1927
DISTRICT ATTORNEY MATTHEW BRADY
During the past four years the co-operation of
the members of District Attorney Matthew
Brady's staff, the San Frajicisco Police Depart-
ment has chalked up a splendid record in the
way of convictions of crooks.
The department has rounded up every band
that has tried to find a soft ^.ot in this city,
and District Attorney Brady has assigned the
best talent he has in convicting these men.
The members of the "Big Bill" O'Connor's gang
can substantiate this; Hawthorne can also attest
the fact that he got a red hot prosecution. Felix
Sloper, who murdered Officer George Campbell,
was executed through tlie efforts of the Assist-
ant District Attorney, Robert Fitzgerald ; "Buck"
Kelly awaits the extreme penalty for the murder-
ous rampage he went on a year ago ; Judge Isidore
Golden, putting up a case that is seldom seen in
any court; Mark Dowell, slayer of Officer J. J
Driscoll, is another who was prosecuted by Gold-
en, and who got the extreme penalty.
The list of burglars, stick-up men, auto thieves
and such kindred criminals have found sliort shift
when their cases came into coui't, and the activity
of the prosecuting staff of the District Attorney's
office has given much encouragement to the police
officers. There is nothing more disconcerting
than to make a good ar)'est and then find a medi-
ocre prosecution, or the case fixed up in advance.
The certainty of punisliment is one of the great-
est crime deterrents possible, and with the high
percentage of convictions for the major crimes,
with the high number of inmates of San Quen-
tin sent from this city, there is furnished a splen-
did example of efficient co-ordination between the
police department and the prosecution depart-
ment. These conditions account in a great meas-
ure for the lack of any great outburst of crime
in San Francisco, and it will continue to be a fac-
tor in discouraging the young man who seeks a
living by dark and nefarious means from trying
his best in San Fi'ancisco.**
Telephone Market 4330
Water and Rail Connections
Sudden Lumber Co.
Office Number— 1950 THIRD STREET
San Francisco, California
"SUDDEN SERVICE"
Hanni Auto Repair Co*
1765 California St.
San Francisco
A tito wrecks care-
fully attended to
MARVEL CARBURETORS
Sales and Service
Telephone: GRAYSTONE 12
LA CASA BIGIN
(Formerly of Hik'iti's Balouna Kest. 2-10 Columbus Ave.)
Home of real Bohemians has moved downtown to
441 STOCKTON STREET (near Bush)
Biuin. himself, will he waiting- to creet you.
Luncheons 50c — 75c Dinners $1.00 — $1.50 Also A la carte
Dancing Bohemian atmosphere Phones Sutter 274 — Sutter 8252
Pfrsonnl manatjeineiit Ori.'rinal Bi^'in
r Irvine & Jachens
Manufactuieis
Badges : Police Belt Buckles
1068 MISSION STREET
San Francisco
Vote for--
NORMAN D.
COOK
for
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Born at HolUstcr, Calif., Nov. 22,
1 880; came to San Francisco 1898;
entirely self-made; a man of
strength and legal ability; grad-
uate from Kent Law School
and Hastings College of the Law
(U.C.);beenan instructor in law
pastl5years;had20years'gencral
practice of the law; became a can-
didate at request of m^ n y
public-spirited citizens; free
from political entanglements.
He Is Qualified
October, J 927
"2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 35
Judge Brady has also been mcst persistent in
liis prosecution of bucket siiop operators, phoney
stock selling gents, and bunco artists. He has
an array of convictions that any prrsecutor might
take pride in. For there is no line of endeavor
more detestable than those of preying upon tlie
gullible unsophisticated, and the ones who think
they see a short cut to fortune, and who are easy
victims to oily tongued salesmen who have bum
stock to peddle.
The District Attorney's office has convicted
several men who liad plenty of money, hired the
best of legal talent and who took advantage of
every technicality to keep from serving their
terms in prison.
DUCK SHOOTING FOR POLICE OFFICERS
Bv Detective Sergt. George Wall
The trap shooting season is over and members
of the San Francisco Police Department, who
have been active at this interesting pastime, are
out on their days off, duck and quail shooting.
The experience received breaking the blue rocks,
giving them a quickness of aim, has proven ex-
tremely beneficial.
Police Commissioner Andi'ew jMahony, Capt.
Charles Skelly, secretary of the Police Commis-
sion, Detective Sergts. Fi'ank Latulipe, George
Wall and Ofiicer Peter Hinrichs are some of the
members who have been out since the duck and
quail season opened. They went out for a shoot
on October 5. All got limits of fine fat birds.
Wall had some luck on the Elks Duck Club, at
the Mound Ranch near Dixon. In company with
"Duck-a-]\Iinute" Bill Banta, limits were brought
down before 8 a. m.
This Old Elk Club has a preserve of some 4,000
acres, and thousands of ducks have flocked to this
spot this year. There is a lot of fresh water, and
the season promises to be excellent. Bait is
plentiful, as there is plenty of natural food as
well as that which the club furnishes.
Since the Carquinez Bridge has been completed,
and with the Berkeley boats running all night, it
is very convenient to reach the preserves, situated
in the vicinity of Suisun and Sacramento. We
left here by auto and made the trip to the Mound
Ranch in less than three hours. A hunter can
leave here at 2:30 a. m. and be on the preserves
for the morning shoot. This is something we
could not do in former years.
For the benefit of the members of the police
department who do not belong to any duck or
gun club, and who desire to slioot on \\'ednesdays
or Sundays, I will state that by calling Sutter
5050, Bill Banta will assist them in getting to the
club and arranging for a shoot and a good outing.
FIREMAN'S
FUND
INSURANCE COMPANY
401 CALIFORNIA STREET
Fire • Automobile • Marine
D. J. O'Hara
Manager
Phones: Market 154
Pacific 161
McAvoy, O'Hara <&. Co.
Funeral Directors
•g
2051 Market Street 4450 Geary Street
San Francisco
Cherry's Courteous Credit
Stylish Apparel for Men and Women
CASH PRICES on CREDIT
Eighteen Tears in San Francisco
Eight Stores on the Coast
CHERRY'S
2400 MISSION ST. Cor. 20th St.
St. Germain Restaurant
60 and 68 ELLIS STREET
300 Seats
Main Dining Room
300 Second Floor
We are prepared
to serve
Sumptuous or
Modest Dinner
Parties
Banquet Halls with
Dancing Floors
Lunch 65c and SI
Dinner S1.25
De Luxe S2.50
A la carte at all houra
Page 36 " 2 - 0 " P O L I C E J O U R N A L
DRUG USING BANDIT BACK
October. 1927
"Twilight sleep", the drug- that dazes without
rendering the victim unconscious, was used in the
robbery of Mrs. Jessie Marlin last July. That
was the confession of Ralph Boston, 26, the "hypo
bandit" who was brought here from St. Louis by
Detective Sergeant Wm. McMahon of the Rob-
bery Detail to face a charge of robbery.
Mrs. Marlin was robbed of $931 belonging to her
employers, a Market street coffee company, whffe
taking it to the bank. Boston, known to her as
a special policeman, offered her a ride in his car
and suddenly pressed a needle into her arm, she
said.
She awoke, bound and gagged, in a hotel on
Twentieth street. The money was gone and there
was a note from Boston declaring that he was
"sorry." The hotel clerk declared that Boston
had practically carried her, dazed and fainting, to
the room, explaining that she was his wife.
Boston, who said his real name was Abijab
Clauss, was arrested in St. Louis on September 22.
He declared that he had once been a nurse, had
served a prison term at Leavenworth for a nar-
cotic offense, and had considerable knowledge of
anesthetics.
His taste for dressing well betrayed him. A
St. Louis detective, seeing him well-clad amid a
non-descript crowd in a pool iiall, took him into
custody and obtained his confession. He readily
confessed that he had employed the drug that
was once widely used in maternity cases, police
say.
His story agreed in every particular with the
one told by Mrs. Marlin, who is now living in
Portland.
EXPECTS HOOSGOW; GETS KIND WORD
This one is told about the San Francisco police
by R. Billard, who has returned from a motor trip
through California.
While crossing from a point east of the ferry
building to take the Sausalito boat, he crossed
the ferry entrances as he had done before autos
iiad caused semi-annual changes in ordinances.
The officer's whistle and signal were sufficient
cause for a right about with all traffic stopped.
Billard says he expected at least a tag and 10
days in the hoosgow. Upon returning to the
officer, he was greeted with "Go back and go
through the subway, brother."
Billard says the El Paso license tag on his car
must have turned the trick, but does not remember
being called brother by El Paso's finest. — El Paso
Evening Post.
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We gladly
will arrange
CHARGE
ACCOUNTS
with men of
the Police
Force
— these accounts as freely to be
used in the purchasing of civil-
tan clothes as in the selection
of uniforms.
Kelleher & Browne
' The Irish Tailors -
716 Market St. near Kearny
ESTABLISHED
27 YEARS
THE PACIFIC COAST
AUTO ASSOCIATION
1182 M.4RKET ST.
Phone Park 4581
The members of the San Francisco
PoUce Department will he welcomed
into membership.
Special Features for members of the Department.
Contracts
Refinanced
Loans to
Indii^idiials
Pacific States Finance Corp.
ROBERT A. HOLT. Manager
1241 VAN NESS AVE. San Francisco
Phone Graystone 7280
October, 1927
2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
Page 37
McSHEEHY
(Continued from Page 15)
In my many years of public service it lias been
my pleasure to sponsoi' or assist in many other
important movements for the benefit and better-
ment of the department. As a member of the
IJoard of Supervisois I voted on every type of
leaislation favorable to police work and publicly
advocated such measures as the recent inciease
of pay for the police.
This was done on my part in full I'ealization of
the fact that a police body should be strengthened
in keeping with the progress and gi'owth of the
city. To feel that a department complement es-
tablished ten or fifteen years can effectively cope
with conditions, consequent of such growth, is
absurd. A year ago as Chairman of the Finance
Committee, the need for more men was stressed
and the matter laid before the Supervisors. Real-
izing that the request was based upon absolute
necessity I worked hard for its sanction by my
colleagues on the Board, and as a result, forty-
one men were inducted into the department.
This was the largest addition made to the de-
partment in fifteen years. Salaries in the de-
partment have been raised and now offer an incen-
tive to duty which is usually lacking when men
are underpaid.
Courage and courtesy, together with unflagging-
service, are the traits of the San Francisco Police
which have not only won the respect of the Board
of Supervisors but have cast an indelible impress
sion on the minds of the residents.
POLICE OX JOB WHEN ALARM RINGS
On Wednesday evening, August 31, 1927, while we were
engaged in closing our vault, we accidently set off our
burglary alarm. Acting in compliance with instruction.-:
issued by former Chief Cook, we phoned police head-
quarters, explaining that it was a false alarm. We were
quite surprised, some two or three minutes later, to have
two of your plain clothes men walk in our door just as
we were to depart.
The rapidity with which they responded to our call,
rather than being satisfied with our phone explanation,
was very gratifying. Such action on the part of the
police department certainly gives us a much greater feel-
ing of protection than we had ever thought was present.
This is just a brief word of appreciation of the efforts
of the men under your command.
H. H. CHRISTENSEN, Asst. Cashier,
American Trust Company.
I take this means of thanking you and your depart-
ment for the quick and efficient manner in which the
Bu.sh street station, the Detective Bureau, and the Bank
Detail answered our burglar alarm which was accidentalh
stepped on this morning.
I fully believe this bank was covered in three to five
minutes from the time they received the call, which
would have made it impossible for any bandits to make
their getaway.
HOTEL
HOPKINS
Easy to reach. ■ ■ Five
minutes from shops,
terminals and theatres.
RATES
FROM $4.00 A DAY
EVERY
Auto Accessory
at a
LOWER Price
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Van Ness at Market, San Francisco
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Detective Sergeant Tom Curtis made one official trip to
Jersey City. Since that time, Tom can see only two
police departments, and the Jersey City Police Department
is one of the two.
Tom has just learned that his official host while in
Jersey City, Mr. Walter Ciecuich, has been promoted to
the rank of captain, and he has been telling his pals here
what a wonderful man Captain Ciecuich is. He also says
he is going to make a trip to Jersey City soon and that
his first act on arrival there will be a visit to the Patro!
Bureau, Seventh street, to congratulate the genial captain.
With the captain he will then call on Sergt. Roy Bryon
and all the vest of his friends among Jei'sey City's finest.
* * *
Officer Charles White of the Central station says he
hopes Jack Condon, the eminent pushbroom manipulator,
gets as many turkeys this coming Thanksgiving as he
got last year.
* * *
Detective Charles McGreevy of the night watch of the
Detective Bureau has been trying to get Detective John
Sturm to grab off one of those trick copper-colored suits
for Fall. John says he guesses he will stay with the old
reliable business man's grey.
* * *
Corporal Hobson of the Citj- Prison force wonders how
so many guys can get ginned up with the pi'ice of "hard
licker", as high as it is quoted to be.
^ ^ H'
Officer John Pyle, who has turned the keys on more
men and women than any man in this city, can make a
prisoner feel that he is not without friends, as well as he
can usher in and out the "evil-doers." Henry has a way
of greeting, or speeding an unfortunate, that it is a
pleasure to see, and many of these unfortunates have been
given a little better idea of humanity by his kindliness.
* » *
Corporal Ray O'Connell, who u-sed to be the terror of
the law-breakers out in the Bush district, can peg the
boys who used to keep him ringing for the patrol wagon
along the avenue, as they make their occasional visits
up on the fifth floor of the Hall.
:tf i^ Sf
Officer James Sullivan, the tall titian-haired guardian
of the inmates of Captain Peter McGee's hostelry, ob-
serves that he notices the customers he nudges into the
"rooms" don't do much advertising when they get out,
and most of them resolve never to patronize the place
again.
Corporal Tim Herring, who always maintains that
Ninth avenue will be a second Pacific avenue, tells folks
that he notices there is not so many females wandering
into the women's side of the city prison, and that the
weaker sex are now on the increase with their stronger
brothers.
* * *
Here is a list of men arrested for violating Section 112
of the Motor Vehicle Act. Theo. Deitweiler, by Officers
P. Finnegan and J. Ryan; Joaquin Cardonan, arrested by
Officer I. Bittles; Howard McLean, by Officer William
Byrne; James Faulkner, by Officers E. Wood and L. Con-
Ian, and Matilda Winn, by Officers J. Hunt and W. Hansen.
* » *
Louis Lora got four bookings for assault to commit mur-
der when arrested by Officers J. Donovan.
* * *
Detective Sergt. Patrick O'Connell, who has had some
years of experience in police matters, says the preacher
who suggested a woman admit she was wrong, even if
she was right, sure don't know much about women. Pat
says women he has had to bring in for various minor
infractions of the law wouldn't admit they were wrong
when they knew they were wrong.
* * *
Corporal Franklyn Lane, who has been over to France
at the big Legion ten-year-after meet, has sent the boys
a lot of post cards. Frank must have burnt up the
boulevards as he paraded down the shady main stems of
the capital of Europe.
* * *
Officer Edward Miles, for years in the Central District,
is now a member of the Bureau of Fire Prevention and
Public Safety police assignment. Ed says the matter of
fire prevention is one that is second to none in public
affairs, and the work of the bureau is such that it is
going to reduce the fire hazards of this city.
* * *
Officer Fred Bauman, for years a rider of the iron
horse on the traffic detail, is now assigned to duty at the
Mills Airport. Bob declares that folks have but little
idea of just how important is this airport and how many
planes land and depart from there in a month. If you want
to get an idea of Mills port, just meet Bob and he'll give
you several large earsful of interesting information.
ECONOMY
does not mean a miserly
denial of life's pleasures
and comforts. Economy
means saving where ever
possible. This market
affords the best at the
lowest prices.
CrustalAPalace
San franascos fbodBas^t
^tfar^t.MssiOft^£ii^ S/s.
October, 1927
POLICE JOURNAL
Page 39
CENTRAL
STATION
Capt. Arthur D. Layne
Lieutenants: Arthur DeGuire and Edward F. Copeland
Sergt. William Dougherty made a good pickup when he
brought in Alvah D. McMillan, whom he booked for
burglary and malicious mischief. Alvah has a speaking
acquaintance with San Quentin attaches as well as those
of the New Jersey "pen."
* * *
Officers Joe Murray and James Morley skidded Tony
Silva into a prison cell. Tony was accused of assault
with a deadly weapon, a charge common among his kind.
* * *
Con Bayon was navigating around the district with a
"gat" protruding from his gun pocket when Officer Walter
Leonhardt spotted him. Con got a ride and was charged
with violating the gun law.
* » *
Officer Charles White brought in one violator of Sec-
tion 112 of the Motor Vehicle Act, Emanuel Semonini,
while Officer Frank Kennedy contributed another in the
person of Herman Han-ell.
* * »
Joe Wilson was too handy with a deadly weapon and"
Officer Frank Hoepner brought him to the box and rang
for the wagon. Joe was charged with assault with a
deadly weapon.
* » *
Officer Harry Gurtler gave Manuel Martinez a boost
into the covered wagon and when he got him to the station,
charged him with giand theft.
* * *
Sergt. J. J. Rooney observed Bruno Giannini percolat-
ing along the street in an automobile that he recollected
had been reported stolen. He halted Bruno and when he
had finished with him he had him sealed in a tank cell
charged with violating Section 146 of the Motor Act.
* -:< *
John Williams and Otis Davis had too much to do with
dope so Officer Vincent Lewis nailed them and booked the
pair at the prison for violating the State Poison Law.
* * *
Officer J. Amend got a pair of petty larcenists when he
arrested James Stephens and Howard Buckley. Their
ai-rest was no new experience to the duo as they have
been nabbed before. They are said to be shoplifters.
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October, 1927
HARBOR
STATION
Capt. Patrick Herlihy
Lieutenants Wilbert F. Pengelly and Michael Mitchell
Capt. Patrick Hurlihy's active platoons had an ordinary
month outside of the duties incumbent upon patrolling
the waterfront, looking after the hundreds of thousands
of folks who use the Ferryboats and some complicated
traffic conditions they nabbed all the crooks who tried to
pull off their dark deeds.
Corporal Michael Coleman grabbed off a couple of bad
birds: Ralph Shorb, for grand theft and en route to
Alcatraz Island, and George Adams, a $1000 vag who
has tried his hand in raising U. S. Bills.
Ernest Parrell will know better next time to try and fool
anyone down this way. He got tangled up in the net-
woVk of the well-known law with a charge of violating
Section 476, and of Section 476a, of the Penal Code. He
was apprehended, detained and incarcerated by Corporals
Clarence A. Byme and Emilc Hearn and Officer Gerald
Ball.
Eugene Mover evidently figured it out if he could make
the waterfront he would be safe from arrest, but Lieut.
Michael Mitchell and Officer C. Tregonning fooled him.
They picked Gene up and booked him en route to Los An-
geles.
* * *
Officer N. Pointer made a lot of misery for Antonio
Colon, whom he locked up, accused of assault with intent
to commit murder. Antonio has had the cuffs on before.
Charles Nelson had a gun on his person and told some
folks he was going to use it. This attracteil some at-
tention, beside throwing a scare into the objects of his
threats. Officers James Pengelly and Dennis Lordan
were summoned and they soon had Nelson surrounded by
a lot of half-inch steel net work, charged with threats
against life and violating the State Gun Law.
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SOUTHERN
STATION
Capfiiin Charles Go(T
Lieutenants Richard Foley and Arno Dietel
Lieut. Richard Foley headed a posse that surrounded
and captured Harry Lee Ford, charged with burglary.
* » «
Officer Tim Mahoney brought in Jimmy Car! King, also
a burg'ar who. in addition to being booked as such, was
tagged en I'oute to Oakland.
S-- * *
Gus Baunistarte, said to be a 112'er, arrested by Officers
Andrew Lennon and Oliver Lundborg, and Carl Hilde-
brand. likewise charged, scooped in by Officer Patrick
McAulifFe, were a pair of gents charged with mixing
gin and gas.
* * S:
Peter Xilos, charged with slinging some bum paper,
was arrested by Officers Roy Clifford and Patrick O'Con-
nell, while Clifford lifted Theodore Parkins into the wagon
for a similar offense.
Luis Lora was given p'enty of misery to think over
when he was led up to the city prii^on desk by Officer
J. Donovan. He was booked on four charges of assault
with intent to commit murder.
Era Dear, despite the fancy moniker, was arrested on
a charge of grand theft by Corporals Emmett Flynn and
William Fry.
Joe Burns, who has been arrested before for murdei'
and grand larceny, got a booking of threats-against-life
when ea.sed into the station cell by Officer T. Mahoney.
Frank Maltasar has petty larceny written again.-;t his
name on the prison records. He was brought in by Officer
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October, 1927
MISSION
STATION
Capt. Frederick Lemon
Lieutenants Peter A. Mclntyre and Daniel J. Collins
Capt. Fred Lemon's aggregation of law-breaker appre-
henders kept the old patrol wagon buzzing the past month.
Officers F. J. Nuttman and Stephen J. Desmond brought in
William Monahan who was duly wrapped up on a rob-
bery charge.
Manslaughter seemed to have been a common pas-
time with some of our citizens. Three of them were
carted to the station: Carl Schmidt, arrested by Officer
Dewey F. Anderegg; Jos. DeBenedetti, nabbed by Offi-
cers Joseph M. Donohue an<l Michael O'Malley, and Geo.
Banga, grabbed by Officer Michael J. Mantell.
* * *
Then there was the usual number of 112 vio'ators. The
following were booked as such at the station: Sam Moy-
er, arrested by Officers George F. Laine and Carl Wenner-
berg; Mangus Duggan, arrested by Officer Edward J. Mur-
phy, and Ray Tortensen, arrested by Officer Bartholomew
O'Shea.
* * *
And there were several boys charged with grand theft.
They are: Jack Lopez and Emil Alvarez, taken by Officer
T. Mahoney; Louis Gottwald and Jo.seph Shields, arre.=ted
by Officer Edward J. Murph.v; Craddie Landrum, arre.sted
by Officer Phillip J. Keating, for attempt to commit grand
theft.
* * *
Petty theft arrests were: C'arenco Viers, by Sergt.
Peter Mitchell and posse; John Flaherty, by Officer Mur-
phy; Harry Skelley, by Officer M. Driscoll.
Albert Keeler had the dignified charge of burglary writ-
ten opposite his name when he was landed in the sta-
tion by Officer James T. Keeley, brother of John Keelcy
of Room 9.
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football games. Their work was performed with much
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In appreciation of their service, we ask that you kindl>-
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BUSH ST.
STATION
Phone Kearny 1701
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Capt John J. Casey
Lieutenants Edward L. Cullnan and Joseph Mignola
There was quite an epidemic of arrests for robbery in
this sector during the past month, the street boys making
it pretty tough for the thugs. If you don't believe it, ask
the following, all charged with robbery: Joe Reid and
Jack Davis, arrested by Ofiicers Alfred Hutchinson and
Randolph Ciucci: Alex Stokes, tagged by Officers Arthur
Barrett, Frank Pierce, John Ross and Robert McCarte;
Jennie Flint, by McCarte and Ross, and William H. Stev-
ens, two charges, by Officer Ed. Connell.
* * *
Next in numbers, is for grand theft. The following
is a resume of those so accused: Russell Henon, Romie
Osten, Lee Leaverton and Emma Luten, snagged by Offi-
cers Frederick Kirchner and David Dobleman; Frank Hart
and Owen Wells, by Officer Lisle Atkinson.
* * *
Of course there had to be a couple of 112 violators
and they were as follows: Paul Cheechoff, arrested by
Corporals Horace S. Drury and Eugene Clancy, and Clar-
ence Kjer, brought in by Officers Arthur Lahey and Frank
Bauman. * .* *
Officers John Dolan, Jr., and Lisle Atkinson gave Dave
Tenee an object lesson on carrying a loaded gun when
they locked him up on a "kick" of violating the State
gun law. * * *
John Oddou, charge vag, was hauled to the station by
Officers John J. Benn and Arthur Lahey.
Earl W. Warner, a statutory charge gent, was brought
in by Officer Clark T. Thompson.
Officers Walter Harrington and Alfred Hutchinson had
enough on Charles Dankard to lock him up for burglary.
* * *
Vagrancy arrests of any importance were by Corporal
Boyle and posse: John F. Davis; Herbert Thomas, by
Officers Robert Vogt and Henry J. Kiernan; Rudolph
Clause, by Officer Ross and Frank McCann; Antonio Ca-
mache was arrested and charged with assault with deadly
weapon by Officers Gus Wuth and Mark King.
* * *
Herbert Pearson, a violator of Section 112, was ar-
rested and put before the booking sergeant by Officer
Stephen Heinrieks.
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2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
October, )927
TRAFFIC BUREAU
Captain Henry Gleeson
Lieutenants J. J. Casey, J. (Cliff) Fields and Grover Coats
Traffic Officer G. Mildahn, one of the office assistants
of Captain Henry Gleeson, Captain of Traffic, stepped out
of the usual routine of his assignment on the 17th of
last month and single-handed rounded up Herman Eiben
who was not navigating his "heap" as a man should and
who Mildahn was sure was not in conformity with the
provisions of Section 112 of the Motor Act. Closer in-
vestigation convinced Mildahn that Eiben should be re-
strained of his libeity. He arrested him and booked him
for driving while intoxicated and for reckless driving.
* * *
Motorcycle Officer Joseph Wickstrom had a similar ex-
perience. He took a gander at Carl Borgeson and he
wound up his keen observation by bringing Mr. Borgeson
to the city prison duely charged. Once for driving while
drunk and for being a hit-and-runner.
* * »
Traffic Officer McCarthy, who was almost as much of a
fixture on Geary and Stockton streets as the monument
in the Union Square, has now been moved down on Kearny
street and does a trick at Market and Kearny.
If -t- »
Corporal John McCausland, who has charge of what
was once called the hack detail, opines that it won't be
long now until they have duties looking after theatre
crowds that will take the men under him much farther
from Third and Market than now.
* * *
Lieut. Grover Coats of the Traffic Bureau doesn't think
much of a gimp-legged seagull that goes around steal-
ing other people's gold fish. But then Lieut. Cliff Field
says Grover never knew the happiness of possessinE a
pet seagull.
Traffic Officer John Lynch denied an assertion made the
day they stopped running street cars on Montgomery
street, that Officer Andy Miller was the first driver of
the old horse car that used to convey the bon xnvants of
the community hither and yon.
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Page 4S
PARK
STATION
Capt. John J. O'Meara
Lieutenants Daniel W. Cronin, Francis J. McGuire
Capt. John J. O'Meara's hired help have not had so
much of what the criminologists call the major crimes,
but they were busy with bringing in a few evi'-doers who,
like them all, can't evade the consequence of their errors.
* * *
We have Peter Chernosky who tried a little plain burg-
larizing. He got .snagged by Officers J. Hart and Joseph
Foye. ^ If ^_
We present Jack Roberts, who tried to steer an auto-
mobile through the scenery without clearing his system
of some potent liquids which made his efforts almost
ludicrous. He was told to pause by Officers Thomas
Stanton and Herbert Hayes and booked for violating Sec-
tion 112. ,f ,f f
Paul Drady neglected to comply with the requirements
of Section 141 of the Motor Vehicle Act, and it was in-
cumbent upon Officers Alvin Xicolini and Coulter Murphy
to impress upon him the necessity of complying with said
requirements. Paul got a booking on hit-and-run and one
for reckless driving.
* * *
Glen C. Cahoon, booked en route to the U. S. Marshal's
office, was honored by the services of Officer J. Argenti.
:.-- * =;=
Benjamin Carter, too handy with a deadly weapon, was
accused of assault with such when eased up to the book-
ing sergeant. Officers Chester Pruitt and Antone De
Paoli attended to such details as were necessary under
the circumstances.
* * *
Walter Love'ess cou'd not get any more dignified book-
ing than for petty theft. He was haltered by Officer B. A.
Smith.
!•■ * *
Earl Allen thought he would commit a burglary, but all
he did was to get arrested for attempt to commit burglary.
Officers Xicolini and Murphy whose ever-watchful eyes
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Officer Joseph Klobucar has been sent down to head-
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October, ]927
RICHMOND
!?l^ STATION
Capt. William T. Healy
Lieutenants Daniel W. Cronin, Francis J. McGuire
Gents who insist that they can navigate an automobile
while unable to comply v,-ith the rules as prescribed by
Section 112 of the Motor Vehicle Act, will invade this
district. There is quite an array of such who have gone
before, and who can tell the world in general that this
is no district to do such a thing, for the gendannes will
sure grab such a gent off the street, muy pronto, which
means quite sudden. We present three who were ignor-
ant of this efficiency of the boys who work under Capt.
William Healy:
Gene Spence, arrested by Officer M. O'Rourke; Mary
Mocker, arrested by Officer W. J. Francis; Thomas Daly,
arrested by Officers Louis Lang and Chester Nelson.
All were charged with violating Section 112, in addi-
tion to this, Daly was tabbed for violating the State Pro-
hibition Law.
George Ellis was led to the booking desk by Officer E.
Schuldt. Assault with a deadly weapon followed his name.
;;-- * *
Helmar Noiin, charged with having a gun on his per-
son and with disturbing the peace, got "hoisted" into the
Black Maria by Officers John Wiggington and Jos. Greene.
\Y/E STERN
jWrADDlTION
STATION
Capt. Robert A. Coulter
Lieutenants Leo Tackney and Emmett Moore
Lieut. Leo Tackney and Officers Frank Bauman and
Edgar Paul combined to land Elmer Morarity in the "jug."
Elmer was charged with robbery, demonstrating that ho
picked out a hard district when he came into Capt. Rob-
ert Coulter's sector.
* * ^;
Lieut. Emmett Moore stepped out with his posse and
gathered into the arms of the law, Lloyd B. Elliott who
was burning up the streets in a car that he ought not to
have been in. Lloyd got a set of charges put against his
name, including violation of the gun law, of Section 146
of the Motor Act, and as a deserter from the U. S. Army.
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INGLESIDE
STATION
Captain EuRenc Wall
Lieutenant John Sullivan
Capt. Stephen Bunner has been assigned to this sta-
tion and has brought with him two of his special duty
men, Corporals Charles Brown and William Harrington.
While the Bayview district will lose their services, thei'e
will be plenty of territory for the new office sleuths to
cover.
* * *
Peter Schlineck got himself all tangled up with the law
the other day and wound up by being bounced into jail by
Officer Ralph McKenna, charged with assault with a deadly
weapon, and visiting a disorderly house.
* * *
John F. Cleary, accused of being a violator of Section
288 of the Penal Code, was locked up by Officers George
Hussey and Edward Keck.
* * *
Keck, with Officer Rudolph Hermann, arrested Tony
Nunez on a Juvenile Court charge.
Michael Sarandiz was preambulating along the high-
ways of this extensive domain when he was pegged by
Officers Elston J. Carroll and J. O'Brien. The policemen
.stopped him and after due interrogation, substantiated
the belief they had that the car Mike was preambulating
in was a "hot heap." Mike was charged with grand theft
and violating of Section 146 of the Motor Vehicle Act.
:}: * *
Z. R. Pritchard, accused of violating Section 21 of the
Juvenile Court Law, was led in by Officers Dominic Hogan
and John Nyland.
NORTH END
STATION
Capt. Herbert J. Wright
Lieutenants D. M. Reayis and George Duffy
Crimes of a serious nature are veiy infrequent in the
domain presided over by Capt. Herbert Wright. Yet,
there are many smaller "kicks" that have to be attended
too, and in addition, the traffic problems in this section is
one that calls .for considerable activity.
* * -,-
Marshall Maxwell, gradiiate from FoLsom, and who has
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wanted again in that city and he sought to evade detec-
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Miller snared him and booked him en route across the bay.
Officeis Harry Gayloid and Keneally teamed up to drag
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October, 1927
BAY VIEW
STATION
Capt. Stephen V. Bunner
Lieut. Frank DeGrancourt, Lieut. Wm. Dowie
Capt. Eugene Wall, for years in charge of the Ingle-
side station, is now in charge of Bayview.
* * *
Boys who drive away other folks' cars and desire to
make a fade-away out of the city will take warning that
using the Bayshore exit isn't the most conducive to free-
dom. This fact can be vouched for by Frank Sanders.
William Davis and Elmer O'Neill, who had an automobi'e
they had no legal I'ight to have. They were hitting it up
for down the Peninsula when Corporal J. J. Muldoon and
Officer F. H. Goessell got a squint at them. After prop-
erly terminating their mad rush they checked on the lads
and all ended by each being marched to the station lockup
where they were charged with violating Section 146 of
the Motor Vehicle Act.
* * *
Corporal Muldoon and Officers Goessel and D. J. Twomey
gave Joseph Alfachia an example of police efficiency.
Joseph was charged with driving while intoxicated and
with being a hit-runner.
Detective Sergt. Thomas Hyland, whose oratorical
propensities are well known to all his friends, says if he
just had time to do about six months in some accredited
brain factory he would take the bar exam.ination. Thomas
holds that with the courtroom experience he has received
in the strike murder cases, and other important court
action his activities has led him into, he wou'd be a push-
over to pass the bar "ex." But the law now demands
some college training, and Tom says he can't spare the
time from his onerous duties as a guardian of the citizenry
of our community.
J. M. Utfhfield, M«nai,'er
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October. 1927 "2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
OFFICER BARTELL DOES KINDLY DEED M^"^^^—
Page 49
Monday, Scpteinbei' 5, 1927, on tlie State hiftli-
way, between Ignacio and San Rafael, our macliine
unavoidably crashed into the machine ahead,
throwing- my wife through tlie windshield, sever-
ing an artery, a small vein and slashing her face
wide open. I can-ied her up and down the high-
way, trying to get someone to take us to the hos-
pital. A deputy sheriff of Marin county, who
happened to be on the scene, rushed around, not
seeming to know what to do and getting nowhere,
when Officer Bartell of the Chief's office in San
Francisco, off duty and in ci\ilian clothes, arrived
upon the scene. Bartell, seeing the situation, im-
mediately took charge, deserting liis wife and
friends, stopped a passing machine, ordered the
occupants out and had the driver take us to the
hospital. After going about a mile, the machine's
brakes locked, Bartell commandered another ma-
chine and continued on the way to the hospital.
After seeing- us safely to the hospital, he returned
to the scene of the accident, recovered our valu-
ables and sent our car to a garage. He then re-
turned to the hospital, waited until my wife had
been treated and took us home.
Had it not been for Officer Bartell's cool-head-
edness and quick action, my wife probably would
have been in a very serious condition today.
Officer Bartell deserves the highest honor and
praise who, probably through his quick action,
saved my wife's life and straightened up the
whole situation.
CHRISTIAN A. WILDER,
1406 York street.
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2-0" POLICE JOURNAL
October. 1927
GLEESON
(Continued from Page 14)
Iniman power or used exclusively upon rails. For
the purpose of this ordinance a bicycle shall be
deemed a vehicle.
Street Car — Every device traveling exclusively
upon rails when upon or crossing a street, other
than devices propelled by steam.
Pedestrian — Any person afoot.
Operator — Any person who is in actual physical
control of a vehicle or street car.
Traffic — Vehicles and street cars, either singly
or together, while using any street for purposes
of travel.
Central Traffic District — Tliat portion of this
city bounded by and including the following parts
of streets.
Mission street from Fifth to First; First street
from Mission to Market; Battery street from
Market to Pine ; Pine street from Battery to San-
some; Sansome street from Pine to California;
California street from Sansome to Kearny ; Kearny
street from California to Sutter; Sutter street
from Kearny to Stockton; Stockton street from
Sutter to Post; Post street from Stockton to
Powell ; Powell street from Post to Market ; Fifth
street from Market to Mission.
Business District — The territory contiguous to
a street when fifty per cent (50'/; ) or more of the
frontage thereon for a distance of three hundred
(300) feet or more is occupied by buildings in use
for retail or wholesale business; also any territory
contiguous to a street which is immediately adja-
cent to or a continuation of a street within a
business district when such territory is so desig-
nated by the Police Department.
Right of Way — The privilege of the immediate
use of the street.
Park — To stand a vehicle for a period of time
greater than is ret sonably necessary for the actual
loading or unloading of persons or materials.
Official Warning and Direction Signs. All warn-
ing and direction signs and signals not inconsis-
tent with this ordinance heretofore and hereafter
placed or erected under this ordinance or by au-
thority of the Board of Supervisors.
All officers will readily understand the neces-
sity of knowing fully the above definitions, par-
ticularly those relating to the boundaries of the
Central Traffic District and to the definition and
meaning of a business district.
I recommend the careful study by all officers
of the provisions of this Article 1.
In next month's issue we will discuss the fur-
ther provisions of this new ordinance.
Louis Bainett, who started out by graduating from
lone, was vagged by Officers .John Dyer and Frank Akers;
Edward Alvarado, by Otiicers J. O'Brien, Jeremiah Kelle-
her and J. Gehre.-;; while Officer Patrick Murphy did the
same to Joe Casta and Edward Flores.
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