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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
Highland Park Police Head is Accused of
Brutal Conduct Towards Jewish
Residents of Village
Lazarus Shapiro, Sixty-Year-Old Jewish Citizen, Beaten and In-
sulted by Police Officers—Attorney Who Intercedes
for Him Accorded Similar Treatment.
A flagrant case of police cruelty, landed his list on my right ear
barbarism and anti-Semitism is with consequences to my hearing
revealed in a charge of miscon- which I cannot now foretell.
This was the hearing which
duct proffered against Charles \\'.
Seymour, Chief of Police of the citizen Lazarus Shapiro, a man
who has lived in this country 34
village of 1 lig - hland Park, and his
subordinates, to the President and years, and 1, citizen and taxpayer,
Council of the village, by James who had purely a social interest
in the man, obtained from the
1. Ellman, \veil-known local at-
chief of the police department.
torney.
The charge is that when Laza- Who will pay Lazarus Shapiro
rus Shapiro, an aged Jewish resi- for the pain and humiliation to
I
dent of the village, came to the which he w'as subjected? May
police station one day 4ast week also ask, what better example of
to complain against the conduct police barbarity need he shown
of an officer, who had attempted than the act of the chief in com-
mitting an unprovoked assault
upon me? The stupdiest layman
Las some respect for a fellow not
1:is size aid ■ vearing glasses, but
met the chief of the greatest vil-
1:!ge in the county."
The mattyr is now pending be-
fore the President and Council of
tlte Village of 1 lighland Park. A
1 - caring was to have been held
last Saturday, but was postponed
until some day next week.
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Why the Jew Is Not a
Prohibitionist
JAMES I. ELLMAN
to illegally arrest 111111 without
any excuse Or justification, he was
not given any hearing by the ser-
geant in charge of the desk, but
was locked up in a cell, where he
had to spend the night. Shapiro
claims that while in the police sta-
tion cell lie \V as beaten with a
club by some of the policemen,
ca ll ed a "d d" Jew," a "dirty
Jew," a "wild beast," and com-
pelled to endure similar insults.
The complaint further charges
that when Mr. ElIman called upon
Chief of Police Seymour to inter-
cede in behalf of Shapiro, he was
assaulted by the former and
thrown out of the station.
"1 went to Chief of Police Sey-
mour," said Mr. ElIman in telling
the story of the Shapiro case. "to
call his attention to the inhumane
conduct of his subordinates. I le
refused to listen to me. 1 told
him 'Shapiro is a citizen of I ligh-
land Park, and so am 1, and we
ask for a hearing.' The chief
got up. 1 le forcefully grabbed
me by the shoulder and pushed
me out of the door of the station.
made a futile effort to insist that
I had a right in the station be-
cause it is -a public place. He
The Jew has learned to love the
vine because with it is connected
the highest form of Jewish poetry.
":\I V mother's children were
angry with me; they appointed
me the keeper of the vineyard ;
but my vineyard which is my
own, have I not kept." "Let us
get up early to the vineyard ; let
us see if the vine have blossomed,
whether the pomegranates have
budded ; there will I give my
caresses unto thee." "Oh that he
might kiss me with the kisses of
his mouth! For thy caresses are
more pleasant than wine." "I
have eaten my sugar-cane with
my honey ; i have drunk my wine
with my milk; cat ye, compan-
ions ; drink, yet, drink abundantly
ve, friends."
Jehovah likens the Jews to a
vineyard: "I will sing now of my
beloved, the song of my dear one
touching his vineyard. A vine-
yard had my beloved on a rich
hilltop. And he fenced it in, and
cleared it of stones, and planted
it with choicest vines, and built a
tower in its midst, and also a
winepress he hewed out therein."
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