Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Abijah Jenkins” in article pos=69 of The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1861., [Electronic resource]:
...ing as to the Boston police, before the legislative committee on the subject of a bill for the same.
Bribery, politics, stuffing of all sorts, including turkeys from that well-known departed saint, Abijah Jenkins , and the general use of the department as an aid to the rogues and an offence to honest men, have been sworn to.
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