The old charge of corruption against the New York police
—only too well justified in the past—has been revived in an extremely grave form. On Tuesday the proprietor of a gambling saloon, named Rosenthal, was shot dead by five men in a motor-car, and it is openly asserted, says the Daily Mail correspondent, that he was murdered with the connivance of the police. He had laid information against the police with the District Attorney, saying that they had regularly levied blackmail on him. The District Attorney himself declares that there were several policemen near by when the murder was committed, but that they made no serious attempt to arrest the murderers, and did not even take the number of the motor-ear. Granted that these suspicions are well founded, New York is face to face with the greatest ills from which a community can suffer—the corruption of the guardians of the law. To have no police force is infinitely better than to have one which can be bribed.
Previous page
