Another case showing the brutal methods adopted by the police was} that of Miss Roth, a 26 "year old! Ukrainian. She described how she! had" answered. the doorbell of her apartment and looked through the partly opened door to who wast there, "An unknown man' pushed! his Way inside, When she resisted he seized her by the arm and foisted it 30 hard that she fell to the floor. She heard the bones of} her arm snap and felt intense pain. JJust™ then the other policeman fentered the apartment. prepared to farrest her on the framed "charge. [She was taken to hospital where she remained for 91 days with her farm, in a-east. The hospital records stated that "the patient's arm was twisted by a detective yesterday evening resulting in the injury which was accompanied by intense pain, deformity and temporary loss} the use of the arm.
Both these women were foreign. ers, unlikely to know much" about the' law, and in both eases had Tea-Json to fear it. Mrs. Potocki because she sold liquor, Miss Roth because ho had once been sent to a reformatory.
present only the surface of Now "York corruption has been scratched, Over fifty policeman (whose. bank accounts show them to have been in receipt of sums which they cannot explain have yet to be! examined, The State, in pursuing] its task, is hampered by the terror lof witnesses, and probably "by. the! terrorizing of witnesses. Over forty] witnesses have disappeared. One important witness Vivian Gordon who had charged the police with! framing" her on a prostitution' charge was found murdered In many instances it proved that public prosecutors and magistrates "worked in collusion! with the police. One deputy "prosocutor confessed that in six hun-_ tired cases in which women were! {involved he shared the proceeds with the police, Public official who, have brought! discredit upon the judicial bench' fnelude Albert Vitale "who " was jeaught hiding with 8 notorious, feriminals.. 'The "Bar Association upon looking: into his record found that he had borrowed $20,000 from the notorious Arnold 'Rothstein without security. Shortly after the Toan was made one of Rothstein's one, caught red-handed in robbing'
till, was found not guilty. Juds Edwald's appointment fo the Traffic Hpench showed also some curious features, Shortly before it took place Airs, Ewald raised $10,000] fiollars each and Martin J. "Healy, Tammany District leader, deposited Jan ena sum im his bank at the wonder revue comedians raise laughs with remarks such as "Wel have the best judges money can bay" and "no wonder the Cit the Affairs Committee of New Yor should petition Governor Roosevelt] for the removal of Mayor, Walker jin the strongest terms, "He has! condoned incompetence, encouraged fedrruption, passed over to others {the direction of his office and serv-jed not the public interests of the citizens who elected him, but. the private interests of the selfish and sordid political group which presented him for election." tale—the unpleasant part, where the youngest son has all sorts of difficulties to encounter before he marries the princess and lives happily ever after. Travel in a Honan springless cart and record your impressions. Though the progress is slow horizontally, it seems remarkably swift vertically. 'The sensations of the victim are probably best compared with those of a dice being shaken in a box. And as often as aot, the axles shriek and groan as if they, too, are suffering as much' as the traveller. Yet thousands les are still covered in this There is a correct procedure for travelling by one of these: carts. One experienced foreigner remarked that it was best to walk some way in front of the cart, He found it less tiring. But if you intend to travel by the cart—if you wish to get your money's worth out. of the use of it, the best, beginning is to spread your bed-' ding in thick layers upon the: sloer of the cart and distribute your person upon the softest!
In this way you may be:
to avoid being too badly brused. The interior of the cart must have been designed by seme one informed of the more refined tortures of Tophet, The roof is semi-circular and of just sufficient height in the middle, where it is highest, to enable you to sit upright. Owing to the curve of the sides, it is imposetble to do this anywhere else in the cart. It has often puzzled those whose knowledge includes something of more modern vehicles, why the wheels of these carts have, been made the way they are. The answer of course, to make them as strong as possible. They are carved from blocks of wood, and rimmed with iron, and on their surface they are covered with a kind of rash of iron bolts, as if! they were armour-plated against unknown enemies or perhaps had developed some sort of malignant disease. They are very seldom affixed to the axles in a perfectly upright position, Many carts have a knock-kneed or—bow-legged appearance according as the wheels protrade outwards at the top or incline bashfully inwards. And this is another circumstance which docs not always make for the peace and happiness of the traveller. with Peking is not the only The opening, of the air mail levant of importance which has occurred lately. Another is the promulgation of banking laws. It may be said straight away that it is impossible for any one to comment intelligently upon the banking system of China, not even the experts who have devoted their lives to its study. Like everything else connected with the finances of this country' it is complicated beyond anything a person could conceive. Apart from the institutions known as "native banks," a few years ago there arose all over the country other banks, which, Jwhile also native, were digni-' fied with the name of "foreign: style." Sometimes the only foreign thing about them was printing plant for turning' four bank-notes; and after, all, China invented printing. There is a good story about one of these banks—a provincial one, y—in the far interior.
jer was puzzled by the frequent payments into a certain customer's account of new $5 notes about which he could Jdetect no flaw. He was certain, however, that they were forgeries, and one day left his desk and followed the man who had Rouse and there taxed him with aid them in to his business passing forged notes. In this showed himself a financier of no mean repute, The man admitted that the notes.were forged and added with a shrug of the shoulders: "Why not?" The cashier was filled with indignation, The thought that so much forged money had passed through his fingers without his sharing a copper rash of the profits really hurt. His reproaches on this score were bitter, Some arrangement, for a division of the profits in future was come to, when the cashier had calmed down, and the notes continued to be received into the bank, good ones being paid out by the cashier when the account - was drawn upon. This pleasing plan might have continued indefinitely but that the manager of the—hi office of the bank in the capital of the province began to suspect the circulation of 80 many new $5 notes. The numbers of the Jnotes, also, did not tally with those known to be out. The manager commenced an investigation and the culprits were soon discovered. Imagine' f|the manager's indignation! He was furious. Here were a number of forged notes in cireulation and he had not benefited therefrom to the extent of a single cent. tually, however, he was pacified by the allocation of a certain percentage of the profits and the illicit business went on-as usual, until the original forger began to complain that there were 30 many people in the plot that it hardly paid him to print the notes.
'Things had reached this pass when the local military governor also got to hear about the matter. His fury knew no bounds. How was it, he wanted to know, that he had not, been informed about it earlier? As it was, it could hardly be worth'
to join the circle, def a better plan. He arrested the principals the fraud and confiscated the forgery plant. By alienating the bank officials, however, he had effectively ' queered "his chances of getting the forgeries honoured, so he went about. matters in another way. He issued several righteous mani-festees about the defrauding of the people. He announced in glowing terms how he was about, to visit the vengeance of the people upon the heads of the forgers. In the meantime he suspended those who had made most out of the transaction by their thumbs toa beam and Kept them in this uncomfortable Position until, they agreed to and over all their loot. Suspend by your thumbs from a rafter for several days and you will realise that this is an effective argument to get you to meet! your obligations. Having, therefore, extracted all the' profits from the principals, the military genius cast about "for what he should do next. This was, of course, after he had paid the money' into his own account in another bank in a distant treaty port. Then the bright thought struck him that he would make a public example of these forgers. He executed them for defrauding the people, Such a course would, he reflected, deter future forgers or at any rate let them see the advisability of letting him in on the deal early, if they contemplated any such Violation of the laws, And these things happened, re. member, in a "foreign style" bank,
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