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“Our active police” (Publication, 1865)

Year

1865

Text

Twain, Mark. Our active police. In : San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle ; Dec. 12 (1865).
http://www.twainquotes.com/Chronicle/18651212.html. (Twa32)

Type

Publication

Contributors (1)

Twain, Mark  (Florida, Missouri 1835-1910 Redding, Conn.) : Schriftsteller

Subjects

Literature : Occident : United States of America : Prose

Chronology Entries (1)

# Year Text Linked Data
1 1865 Twain, Mark. Our active police [ID D29367].
The Call gives an account of an unoffending Chinese rag-picker being set upon by a gang of boys and nearly stoned to death. It concludes the paragraph thus: "He was carried to the City and County Hospital in an insensible condition; his head haying been split open and his body badly bruised. The young ruffians scattered, and it is doubtful if any of them will be recognized and punished." If that unoffending man dies, and a murder has consequently been committed, it is doubtful whether his murderers will be recognized and punished, is it? And yet if a Chinaman steals a chicken he is sure to be recognized and punished, through the efforts of one of our active police force. If our active police force are not too busily engaged in putting a stop to petty thieving by Chinamen, and fraternizing with newspaper reporters, who hold up their wonderful deeds to the admiration of the community, let it be looked to that the boys who were guilty of this murderous assault on an industrious and unoffending man are recognized and punished. The Call says "some philanthropic gentlemen dispersed the miscreants;" these philanthropic gentlemen, if the police do their duty and arrest the culprits, can probably recognize them.