Word: culligan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jamie's record as a onetime Federal sleuth who gave criminal Chicago a wash behind the ears, St. Paul's city fathers balked at bringing in an outsider. So Commissioner Warren appointed as St. Paul's Chief of Police a lifelong friend named Michael Joseph Culligan, who stepped out of the lumber business to help run the reform election campaign...
...record of four months of such evidence filled 3,000 typewritten pages, which Commissioner Warren turned over to the Mayor. Immediate upshot was that three detectives and a patrolman were dismissed, five police officers, including Chief Culligan, were suspended "pending further developments," grand jury and bar association inquiries were started and anyone in St. Paul who had recently had any shady dealings with the police found himself sitting on the anxious bench...