NATION’S “CRIME SPOT”

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 283, 27 August 1935, Page 16

NATION’S “CRIME SPOT”

Worst United States City

Secret investigations have established that the police of St. Paul, the capital of Minnesota. United States, a city with nearly 250,000 inhabitants, have been linked with most of the crime flourishing in the city, states the British United Press.

The inquiry was conducted by Mr. Wallace Jamie, a noted criminologist, after officials at Washington had branded St. Paul as the “crime spot of the nation” —a reputation that was popularly believed to attach to Chicago. Now Mr. H. E. Warren, Public Safety Commissioner, lias suspended Mr. Mike Culligan. the police chief of St. Paul, and four other officers, and dismissed four more. This action was taken after a dramatic presentation of evidence collected by such means as tapping wires and using dictaphones in the police offices. Mr. Warren wrote to Mr. Mark Gehan, the Mayor of St. Paul, reporting that an investigation which has continued fpr a year has revealed police collusion in almost every sort of crime, particularly gambling and the operation of a racehorse syndicate working throughout the United States. “The investigation revealed,” added the letter, “surprising evidence of the police ownership of slot machines, police political activities, police efforts to block effective management, of the policß department, and a sensational connection between the police and criminal lawyers.”