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TODAY GARMENT WORKERS TAG DAY
VILLA SNIPERS KILLED LATEST WAR NEWS
THE DAY BOOK
An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday
VOL. 5, NO. 52 Chicago, Saturday, November 27, 1915
398
SAYS "DUTY" IS CAUSE
OF TOO MANY ARRESTS
'Judge Trade Aims Blow at Captains of Police Says
Ordinary Officer Is Not Always to Blame Boyfs
Case the Cause of It All.
"The Higher-Ups" that expres
sion has been used in news stories so
much lately that it might be taken
here as sort of a habit Not so,
' however. We are forced again to use
it in connection with a good hard
punch that Judge Samuel H. Trude
put over this morning in the boys'
court. The punch hits directly at
Chicago's police captains. It defends
the plain beat officer. It excuses him
for making fake arrests unwar-
" ranted haulings to jaiL
One cry of dissatisfaction directed
several months has been "too many
false and unwarranted arrests." Ever
since and even before the cloth
ing workers' strike police wagon,
loads of strikers and others have been
jolted to the various stations around
town to b& booked case continued
and case dismissed.
The convictions in such cases of
petty arrests have been mighty few
and far between. The big majority
of the cases have been merely a botn
er to the person arrested.
And now Judge Trude comes
through with the explanation that the
officers .have tto. make, a showing
tie pcikdepartmBiit' for thanastthatthej;.arJed to feel that thefrg
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