New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-11
BAKER TO GO WAY
NAY NOT RETURN As
POLICE HEAD.
Mayor, 4fter Suspending T7ro
Policemen, Says Commits
siOner Goes on VdcdtiOn.

! upon an intoxicated woman in the back
room of a barber shop by two policemen
reported to Mayor GaynOr by Raymond
| & Fosdick, Commissioner of Accounts
yesterday. resulted in the suspension OF
two men and the formulation of charges
upon which they will be tried next week
After Commissioner Baker had had
talk with the Mayor about the case ana
other police matters it was said that he
would go on a vacation to-day which
will last week or ten days. There are
those who believe that he will never
again take up the active management
of the department. Deputy Commls-
sioner Bugher will be temporarily in
charge.
Commissioner Baker went to the City
Hall in the afternoon after receiving the
following letter from the Mayor:
learned several days ago of an al
the rear room of barber shop at 4Q4 East
34th street on January p last. | nave
caused careful nvestIgatlQn% % OF d me mas l.
true in respect OF officer Harry 6 Wet
eel. of the Traffic Squad. and also OF a
Weitzel openly took the woman from the
street. piled her with whiskey and assault
ed her The other officer came in and as
sauIted her after Weitzel went out
am informed that two other policemen
in the neghborhood were informed by po,
ucemen what was occurring, but hndlng OIL
their arrival that the Culprlts were TWO
policemen. they did nothing Let Neltzel
and Grove be suspended and tried forth
with.
MUST GET RID OF RUFFIANs,
We must get rid of all ruffians on, the
police force. Also please ascertain ana re-
Dort to me who the other two policemen
We're. Let the captain of that precinct
and also the inspector Of that district come
before me tomorrow. The Wnole dlSsldce
full affair occurred so openly ana IS so
notorious in the neighborhOod that 1t is
incredible that the captain and inspector
should not have learned of it in the eXer-
else of ordinary attention. It was certalhIy
easier for them than for You ana me 10
learn of it inclose nth the reR0r6 OF aen MT
is also at your disposal, but is too vulgar
and shocking to be made public.
Inspector Smiling Dick" Walsh and
Captain Patrick J. Cray, who have juris-
diction over the 25th Precinct. in which
the alleged assault occurred. have been
ordered before the Mayor at $50 o'clock
this morning Cray is a brother-in- law
of Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tam
many Hall.
WeitzeI acknowledged, it was said,
that he took the woman into the barber |
shop and bought whiskey for her Pa |
troIman Grove. on the other hand denied |
that he had been in the barber shop on |
the day in question. and said he knew |
nothing about the alleged assault.
According to the report of Commits
sioner Fosdick, WeitzeI met the woman |
ono Railroad fPrrV
where he was on duty as a mounted |
man. about 2 o'clock on the afternoon !
of January o. She was slightly intoxi- |
Gated, and. Weitzel said. asked him to !
direct her to a barber shop where she |
could get a massage Weitzel and the |
woman went into little furnished room |
back of the barber shop, according to the |
report and, in a few minutes, he sent |
out for a bottle of whiskey-
WOMAN WAS WELL DRESSED.
The testimony agrees that the woman |
was we'll dressed but had been drinking. |
WeitzeI admitted that he bought Whiskey !
at the womans request, but said she |
had only one drink while he was there, !
according to Commissioner Fosdick. |
q
went away. Asked if he thought it right |
to leave an intoxicated woman in such |
a place, Weitzel replied that she wished |
to wait for her massage.
Soon after Weitzel had gone another |
policeman came and tried to attack the !
woman, according TO the testimony Of !
John Moretto, the barber, and his as
sistant The BARRIERS did not know the |
name of the second policeman, but when |
they saw the men of the East 35th street |
station lined up they picked out Grove |
as the man to whom they referred.
The report goes on to say:
After the departure OF PatroIman Grove |
II appears from the testimony of both bar
hers that the woman was most brutaIIv |
Apparently the woman was |
Rent in the shop until late that night Her |
identity we have been unable to discover
she seemed to have been stranger in the
uSiet, bornood, but considerable testimony
was taken as TO her well dressed appear
ance.
There has been much gossip about the
occurrence in the neighborhood for a
week or more, but last night the BARRIERS
and others Who knew the facts refused
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