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several police captains to call the attention of the members of the
force to the following, part of Section 1, Rule 37 of the Rules &
Regulations of the Police Department, upon the subject of transfers
and details, and have the members understand that the Board will
hold them to a strict accountability for any violation thereof:-
"It will be considered an act of insubordination for any member of the force to cause any person outside the Police Department to importune the Board in his behalf for change of district, division or post."
It was also ordered that the Marshal include the above order in
the Look-out sheets.
GamblingT
The Board called before it the Deputy Marshal, acting as Marshal in the absence of Marshal Parnan, and inquired of him as to the statements contained in the Baltimore Evening News of Saturday, "arch 14, 1903, upon the subject of alleged hold up of two gambling houses in the City. The Deputy Marshal handed the Board a report of the matter which had been made to him by Captain Edward Schleigh of the Central District, which report was read and ordered filed, see Exh.983.
The Deputy Marshal stated in this connection that the places spoken of in the publication herein referred to as gambling houses, viz:- 8 E. German street and 7 N.Liberty street, are incorporated clubs, and although they had been reported to the Grand Jury,with the names of witnesses, no conviction had followed; that he now proposed to send them again before the Grand Jury with the names of the witnesses who had been cited before the Magistrate of the Central District in the hearing of the Flack case, which case was dismissed by the said Magistrate, including the name of John Passitt, to whom the News referred as having been absent from the hearing in the Flack case and George Plack himself, and see what the Grand Jury will do in the premises.
The Board approved the proposed action of the Deputy Marshal
and said to him through the President:-y
"The Board instructs you to do everything in your power within the law of course, to break up these gambling places if they exist, and whatever you do in the matter within the scope of the law will receive the Board's approval. We expect that you will leave no step untaken to prevent these places from carrying on the business of public gambling."
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