New-York tribune., 1903-02-05

GREENE "WEEDING OUT CROOKS"
INSPECTOR GRANT CAPTAIN STEPHENSON IND SER
GEANT SHELLS DISMISSED FROM THE FORCE
This Chaament Failure Suppress Dis
oyde1u Resorts Reilly Breaks Raid
BLOW At BL4CKM4IL.
The Latest Dismissais SO Regarded
by Some Officials.

I'm making these dismissais follow
ing my regular course of Purging the force
of unworthy men. or, in other words, OF
weedinE out the crooks Police Commissioner
Greene
General C7reene's policy of taking summary
action against policemen found guilty Of neg
Iecting 10 suppress dens of vice was shown in
forcibIe way yesterday. when he dismissed from
the police force an inspector, captain, a
sergeant and patrolman. His action was re-
garded by some of the officials at Police Head
quarters as a heavy blow at the system of police
hlackmaiI. as was his order remanding to patrol
duty all the wardmen in the precincts The
men dismissed yesterday were;e 80 +,
Inspector Donald Grant. of the second In-
spection District
Captain John T. Stepheuson, of the hui-
herTv-st- station.
Sergeant John Shells. of the Charies-st
station. formerly acting captain in the
Tender1oin-
Patroln,nn John D@yye-, formerly n ward
in the Tenderloin
Grant and Stephenson were tried recently be
fore Deputy Commissioner Ebstein. at Police
Headquarters. on charges of neglect of duty IN
failing to suppress several houses Of i'll fame in
the district between the Bowery and Broadway
The charges were prepared by the District At
torney The houses were in Stephenson's pre-
cinct and in Grants inspection district Both
men had been warned to close up the places.
complaints having been sent to them by Chief
Inspector Cortright. They paid so little heed to
the warnings that Inspector Cortright sent out
side men 10 get the evidence which raids
made.
RECORDS OF THE VICTIMS.
Grant and Stephenson are brothers law.
They bought neighboring farms near Bethel
Sullivan County. N. Y. several years ago
erected fine summer homes on them. Improving
the roads near them and spending money III
yvays that impressed the surrounding farmers
with the Importance of New York police cap
tains Stephenson was dismissed from the 1orce
as a captain several years ago on the charse ol
bribery. but was reirstated by the courts He
was one of the captains badly smlrched by tes-
tinony before the Lexow Committee He was
convicted i'm the criminal courts the charge
of bribery but he obtained a new trial and was
acquitted The particular charge that he ac-
cepted few baskets of peaches as brioe IN
one case caused him to be known in the de-
partment after his return to IT as Peaches
Staphenson. Grant and Stephenson are Repub-
Icans and their promotion in the police force
was urged by Republican politicians.
Commissioner Greene issued The following
statement in regard to Inspector Grant:
Inspector Grant is fifty -four years old. has
served twentv-six wears in the department. is
tho ninth officer in seniority in the uniformed
eoroa of moro than a. Ip men, and he is a
veteran of the Civil War HIS case requires ana
has received the most earnest CohSIueI dtlon- re
is charged with neglect OF duty as inspector vi
roIice in allowing disorderly houses to be MAIN
tained and Iiuuor TO be sold without Incense III
ono of tho precincts under his command, and In
Falling TO make the required reports concerning
the places where these violations OF the law
occrrrad. and IL is charged that he thus
neglected his duty after his attention had been
sn.aci6caIIv called 10 these violations by MS
sunerior officers and when. by the proper exer-
cise OF vigilance his part, they could nave
haap stonped He mas had deliberate and i'm
partial trial in which ne was represented oy
able counsel. and has peen Iouhd guhN. lns
charges are fully sustained by the evidence. ana
az, ipcnactor Of police found guilty of such
charges is unit 10 hold his responsible office.
s,ai,s and pvyer were tried before Deputy
f-on,n,issioner Piper early this week for neglect
ing to suppress vice in the house In West Thirty
third-St which was ramed i'm the trial of Ed
,,-or5 q C,Iennon Deverys former Wardman
.,hsr9As against them followed CiIennons con
,,ictfon Shells acting captain In the Ten
derloin when the raid ON the house made
bv agents of the Society for the Prevention of
crime and at the time Dwyer was asso-
ctated with Glennon as wardman. Grant was /
administration He vas recalled from a dis |
tret in Brooklyn some months ago and placed I
in the Manhattan district.
M'EAUGHLIN RECALLED. /
Commissioner Greene yesterday recalled from 1
his exile in a Brooklyn district Inspector VIII
Continued fourth pnEc-