Globe and Mail, Canada
May 30 2009
From the Archives
100 YEARS AGO:
The Globe reported that at sessions of the royal commission of police
corruption in Montreal three more officers swore to having paid for
their positions and promotions on the detective force. Detective Dan
McLaughlin gave an extremely direct and straightforward story of being
asked by one Quartermaster Holland for $100 for his promotion, and
flatly refused to pay it. He was promoted all the same. Holland denied
all the charges of asking for money, declaring that in each case he
had simply been telling the candidate that his promotion would be
worth $100 more in yearly salary. He admitted having made the
statement that his own position cost him $2,000, but claimed this was
in a purely joking conversation. The Turkish land-owner who had led
the slaughter of the Armenians in Adana was placed in charge of the
government relief fund in that district.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
