on the stand and perjured themselves.” And
their perjury was all in vain. District-attorney
Lindsley had to act. Lindsley is the man who
got his office when Lindsey wanted it, and the
Judge urged him now to do what he, himself, had
thought of doing: use the power of the public
prosecutor to prosecute public criminals and
clean up the city. Lindsley wouldn’t; he was
in the gang, and other gangsters said he didn’t
dare. He proposed that the Judge meet with a
committee of the party leaders and discuss what
should be done. The Judge refused. And the
newspapers made demands. So Lindsley had
to make a show of action. He called on the
Judge and talked about doing his duty. He has
a peculiar whine, Lindsley has, and in that
whining way he protested to the Judge that while
he didn’t believe the commissioners could be
convicted, he would do his duty. Judge Lindsey
happened to go down to the Democratic Club
right after this talk, and he found Lindsley there
drinking with one of the accused commissioners.
And the information that this District-attorney
drew was under a statute which limited the
penalty to $300 fine and removal from office.
The newspapers, principally Senator Patter- son s, forced this case to trial. District-attorney Lindsley refused to appear in it himself; he
