IMPRESSIONS WASHTENAW COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER· NOVEMBER 2003 Your Museum
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IMPRESSIONS WASHTENAW COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER· NOVEMBER 2003 Your Museum Our next exhibit on trunks, barrels, chests "DoHhouses and T~vs and kitchen implements. ofYesteryear" will open They will be sold at auc OFFICERS to the public on Satur tion at a future date and day, November 8 at the proceeds used to PRESIDENT Pauline V. Walters noon. After that we will further our mission. IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT be open every Wednes One reason we ueed Susan Cee Wineberg day, Saturday and Sun to deaccession dupli VICE PRESIDENT day from noon to 4 PM cate items is our need to Ralph P. Beebe We wiII also have our tnove from our space at TREASURER Holiday Open Bouse on Willow Run to a new lo Patricia W. Creal Saturday and Sunday, cation. We need about RECORDING SECRETARY December 6 & 7 and De 1000 square feet for Judith Chrisman cember 13 & 14. We storage and the space CORRESPONDING -will have a Christmas needs to be accessible SECRETARY tree decorated with an evenings and week Richard L Galant. Ph.D. tique ornaments and ends. If you know of DlREOORS modem electric lights as such a place in the area, Patricia Austin well. Our gift shop is please let us know! We Rosemarion Blake stocked with wonderful are unable to store our Ann OeFreytas Tom Freeman items that make great large items in our small Peggy Haines holiday gifts. We are a house and hope we will Susan Kosky free museum with dona find suitable new quar Randy W. LaHote tions appreciated and ters soon. We are also Sherri Getz Peller Roy Reynolds we are also handicap accessible. We have lim looking for an angel to give us $100 to restore Gladys Saborio ited onsite parking at our location at N. Main the wooden works of one of the clocks \ve are Jay Snyder and Beakcs in Ann Arbor but there is street keeping. Anyone out there with time and. $$$ on Cynthia Yao parking nearby. For more information call their hands? DlREOORS-AT-LARGE Pauline Walters at 734-662-9092. Our Museum is looking better and better Harriet Birch Randy LaHote, chairoftbe Director Search tbanks to the WOIK of Bill Oick. He has fin Hon. Julie Creal Goodridge Committee, reported that they have narrowed ished the ramp in the rem- and will be painting it down the 34 applications to seven people to and the front porch too. He will soon tackle the interview The connnittee will begin interview otberprojects that need work. INFORMADOI ing this month. We hope to bire someone by Published Seven Times A Year January 1. It will be exciting to finally have a From September-May. Susan Cee Wineberg. Editor paid staff person who will whip us into shape. [email protected] Tom Freeman reported continued increase in Museum On Main Street value in the Bach Bequest. Collections Chair VIsit our Holiday 500 N. Main Street at Beakes Street Judy Chrisman reported that our grinding and Open Houses Post Office Box 3336 ox cart wheels have been given to the Cobble Ann Arbor. MI 48106-3336 December 6 and 7 stone Farm while the ox yoke is theirs on loan. 734.662.9092 and 13 and 14 Phone: Sbe also reported that more items from Gordon Fax 734.663.0039 and experience Email: [email protected] Hall have been given to the Dexter Area Histori our Dollhouse and Victorian Web Site: cal Society. and that the many boxes of prop Toy Exhibit which will be up www.washtenawhistory.org erty abstracts we have will be going to the Ge from November 8 Annual dues are individual. $15; nealogical Society's Library, currently on Hill to January 10, 2004. couple/family $25; student or Street At its last meeting, the WCHS Board senior (60+) $10; senior couple voted to deaccession 34 itcrns, most of which $19; business/association $50; patron $100. are duplicates. These range from clocks, to WASHTENAW COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY IMPRESSIONS NOVEMBER 2003 SERGEANT MICHAEL LOGGHE True Crimes And The History . Of The Ann Arbor Police Department 19 years with the police department and saloons as well as fines for breaking ordi it's gone by real quick I started the book nances was what paid fo r tile earliest p0- years ago and I only regret that 1 made a lice department. which consisted of Olle lot ofgrammatical mistakes that didn't get marshal and five patrolmen. At the time caught before it was published. I had to there were 38 saloons,. gambling hal Is and pay for and buy all the copies myself, so it other things considered unsavory· for the was a gamble. Edwards Brothers printed student population in tins very small to\m it and I bad 200 cases of books, which I I didn't realize how much gambling there hauled in my truck to my house in was in Ann Arbor until I started research Brighton. I barely made it home and then ing this book It was quite connnon until when I looked at one book I discovered Ule 1950s_ and literally millions ofdollars the photos were upside down! Luckily, in gambling went through the city every however, it was only in one book that they year. The longest investigation ever made made that mistake. I kept that one as a in AmI Atbor involved gambling. One souvenir. police chief was furced out due to the I've always had an interest in history scandal associated with the United Cigar and 1 especially loved American history. I Store at Huron and Chapin which was a even won a ~a1 Studies Award in high center of the gambling in town. I ha"e all Sgt Michael Logghe talks about his school! When I was grmvingup I wanted Ule memoxabilia that I collected in SOllle book on the history of the police de to be either a police officer or a history cases in the History· Room in the police partment in Ann A rbor. Photo : S teacher. For whatever reason, I chose the station and that includes some neat Wineberg. path to the police. I love being associ things. Ifwe ever obtain a new building I ated with the AIUl Atbor Police Depart hope to get a bigger facility for all these On .~day, October 19 in the sun-filled Reatal Hall ojUniversityCommons, more ment which has a quite rich history. artifacts on the police. than 50 people heard Michael Logghe s It was established in 1871 after a legis The book came about because of jascinaJing tale ofthe crimes committed lative cOlmnittee from the Michigan State Truman TIbbals, the owner of Drake's in our small Midwestern town. Vice Legislature made a visit and reported they Sandwich Shop on North University from President Ralph Beebe introduced the ",ere "quite surprised at Ule moral tone, or speaker a<; someone he encountered when lack Ulerefore, in the city and relayed ti.lf:ir he heard him lecture on his book (with feelings to city council. Council obviously the above title) published in 2002 at his wanted to protect the university, keep it own expense and on his own time. The in Ule city and Ule money it brought into book can be purchased at the Liberty town. n Although fearful of reperctJ&9ons,. Street Border s Book<;tore and is several the council did pass a resolution in Octo hundredpages. organized by decade. and ber ofl871 with an ordinance stating Uw filled with pictures and copies of Ule "police force is required for protec newspaper articles. Logghe has been tion against burglars, situated as we are with the Ann Arbor Police Department on one of Ule great thoroughfures of the for 19 years and he started working on State and with a large floating population, his book six years ago. In researching conceming the character of which at the the history of the police department, best we can know but little, our City seems Logghe encountered many interesting to furnish a safe retreat for desperate char people. old timers. strange Jacts and a acters against whose depredations we surprising number of crimesl He I have little or no protection." They also recounted some of them Jor us this stated the need for "protection" against afternoon. incendiaries as well as accidental fires" and to ··suppress disorder and secure tbe "1 want to thank the historical society The First Ann Arbor Police Force. fur inviting me to speak I have now served enforcing of the ordinances of the city Photo: Courtesy M.logghe and state." A tax on billiard tables and • Page 2 • WASHTENAW COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY IMPRESSIONS NOVEMBER 2003 1935-1994, and the fact that be murderofOfficerStang. Hestill had been photographing every claimed his innocence, and policeman who came into his asked for a polygraph test For shop since 1939. A roster of reasons still not clear, he was names begi:rmingin July of1939 released from prison in 1949 extends over 10 pages in the with the help ofAnn Arbor Po book the last entty being in lice Chief Casper Enkemaon, 1993. Tibbals only allowed p0- who believed he could be umo licemen into his shop at night cent based on the results ofllis and he kept the back door open lie detector and truth serum forlilem. He'd fix them food and tests. He was however paroled, sometimes he would be cook not pardoned. Padgett had a sad ing for 20 officers. He ran the background, growing up in an store after midnigbt and his wife orphanage with Babe Ruth and Mildred ran it during the day.