Tuesday, May 09, 2006

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.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Could all this have happened at the building on the corner of Third and Main, long rumored to be a bordello upstairs?

Randy M. Combs said...

The article doesn't give a specific address, but if it had, I suspect business might have boomed.

 
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