Accordingly the mayor decided to look into the matter for
himself, and after a lengthy investigation came to the alleged
conclusion that the "mugging" of Duffy was a most
reprehensible thing and that all those who were guilty of
having any part therein should be instantly removed from
office. He, therefore, issued a pronunciamento to the
commissioner demanding the official heads of several of his
subordinates, which order the commissioner politely declined
to obey. The mayor thereupon removed him and appointed a
successor, ostensibly for the purpose of having in the office
a man who should conduct the police business of the city with
more regard for the liberties of the inhabitants thereof. The
judge who had started the rumpus expressed himself as very
much pleased and declared that now at last a new era had
dawned wherein the government was to be administered with a
due regard for law.
Now, curiously enough, although the judge had demanded the
removal of the commissioner on the ground that he had violated
the law and been guilty of tyrannous and despotic conduct, the
mayor had ousted him not for pursuing an illegal course in
arresting and "mugging" a presumptively innocent man (for
illegal it most undoubtedly was), but for inefficiency and
maladministration in his department.
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