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1-KtSNU HASA SCANDALluiviRAISIN CITY’S POLICE FORCE IS .THE CENTER OF ATTACK AND INVESTIGATION.Officers Said to Be Grafting on Chinese ' Gamblers and In the Tender* loin District.ITALIANSCLOUCFresno has a full-fledged police scan-• dal.now. A,press dispatch i'rom the kaisin City gays:Disclosures made by lighting tactions in the police department have brought to light conditions of wholesale graft and many Instances *of blackmail. 'Sfiyor Stephens has called for a ’public investigation before the police commissioners. . - , ^ % .Charges have be?n brought by a fac-ion headed by Patrolman Harriman and Bradley against Sergeant of Police Simpson and Patrolmen Welsh, Robinson-and Nielson. These men are accused of taking money from Chinese gamblers and women dftitae tenderloin for police protection. Sergeant Simp-Von and Nelspn are accused of accepting $20 from. R. S. Faulkner, a well-known citizen, for release from arrest rwhen drunk. Both men are said to 'have made systematic blackmail on erring Japanese.Sergeant Simpson accuses Bradley and Harriman of being too free with women of the red-light district, allowing them liberties prohibited by ordinance. Mayor Stephens says that the charges will be thoroughly investigated and that several dismissals are certain to follow.Largest PI Day flt;REDDIN tire plant Company a the largest is tied- up men are a have been hours worl be cut to i $2.25. Das This sprin plant the pordance v of nearly e ern-Califo:content ar ever since On Sund mill, nearl refused to were as stir be Granted perintende that officia tl\e mill, day night morning,, similar to at the nev loggers an came in n said to all As yet the lence.DIED AT COALINGADYWNE'
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Daily Californian
Bakersfield, California, US
Wed, Jul 20, 1904
Page 3
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