Police Rascality in New York.
By Editor
The astounding disclosures of witnesses in the Jersey bank robbery case, go to confirm the suspicions which we have often had of the rottenness of the police and detective system of American cities. Here are a chief of police and a “crack” detective, alleged to have been betting on professional burglars to rob a bank. They originated the scheme; they incited the burglars to attempt it, with the understanding that they (the guilty officials) were to receive a large share of the plunder; and, when the minor rascals were caught and put in jail, the police chief and his right hand man connived at their escape by false keys, and but for the discovery of the plot, ten villains would have been let loose again to rob and kill. Such is the explicit sworn statement of one of the gang, who turns State's evidence. If Chief of Police McWilliams, and Detective Doyle, are guilty of these monstrous offenses, they must dread the unadulterated article of Jersey justice which will be dosed out to them. When police chiefs and detectives give up efforts to track out and arrest notorious bank robbers, people are divided in opinion, whether the officials are incompetent, or in collusion with the thieves. The former hypothesis is the charitable one, and we prefer to adopt it, in the absence of proof that policemen do really share with the plunderers of banks and other rich and successful criminals, and hence can never find those persons when they are wanted. After the revelations in the Jersey City affair, district attorneys and grand juries might properly take a careful look at the police detective systems in other cities. Turin, Oct. 28.—The damage caused by the inundations of the River Po, especially in the provinces of Mantua and Ferrara, are immense. Several hundred kilometres of the most fertile land in Italy are covered with water, and whole towns and villages are submerged. Many houses have been undermined and have fallen. In some places the water reaches the roof of the highest buildings. Thousands of people are homeless and others are flying from their dwellings, which are threatened with destruction. The towns of Cassal, Maggiore and Ostiglia, on the River Po, are in great danger, and the inhabitants are panic stricken. The suffering is wide spread and intense, but relief is going from all parts of Italy. Turin, Nov. 1.—The River Po continues to rise, and the inundation is spreading. Families are flying, and those who cannot escape are starving on housetops and in trees, where they have taken refuge. The streams are filled with carcasses of cattle, and wrecks of houses and barns. The town of Reggio, fourteen miles from Maderia, has almost entirely disappeared beneath the flood.