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St. Johnsbury Caledonian
Saint Johnsbury, Caledonia County, Vermont
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New York grand jury endorses Rev. Dr. Parkhurst's claims of corruption in the city, issuing a presentment that gambling houses, brothels, and liquor saloons violate laws, with police either incompetent or colluding. This validates his criticism of the Tammany administration. A brief closure of disreputable places occurred on Sunday, but deeper reform is needed.
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The grand jury at New York, which has been in session some time, deliberating on the startling evidence of corruption in the Metropolis as submitted to it by Rev. Dr. Parkhurst, has finally concluded that the reverend gentleman told the truth and has sustained him by bringing in a general presentment which avers that gambling houses, institutions of ill fame and liquor saloons are open in violation of the law, and that the city police are either incompetent to cope with the evil or else in direct collusion with it. The jury say that, as the police have a reputation for general efficiency, it has no other alternative than to conclude that their inactivity in the matters mentioned is due to corruption among them.
Thus Dr. Parkhurst's severe arraignment of the Tammany administration of city affairs is officially endorsed—a cause for congratulation on the part of every good citizen.
New York had a spasm of virtue on Sunday, and the liquor saloons and other disreputable places were, it is said, difficult to get into on that day.
It will take a pretty deep-seated revival among the police, however, to work any extended reform there and remove the stigma which now rests upon the city.
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grand jury issues presentment sustaining parkhurst's claims, concluding police corruption enables illegal gambling houses, brothels, and saloons; official endorsement of criticism against tammany administration.
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Grand jury in New York, after deliberating on evidence from Rev. Dr. Parkhurst, concludes he told the truth and issues a presentment stating that gambling houses, institutions of ill fame, and liquor saloons operate in violation of law, with city police either incompetent or in collusion due to corruption. New York experiences temporary closure of such places on Sunday.