Mayor Cassingham Earns Popularity Points With Police Department

May 1912--Mayor Cassingham openly criticized, while in court, Police Chief Mapel and threatened to replace him. The incident arose after a woman used foul language after being insulted by a male...ummm...visitor. Neighbors complained of her shrill, harsh language and charged that she sat in a window, leg dangling, while smoking a cigarette. Cassingham claimed that Mapel was sympathetic to the female offender. Cassingham launched into a tirade telling Mapel that he would be replaced if Third Street didn't get cleaned up immediately.