New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-11
COP THREATENED MAYOR?
investigation Follows Charge
Made by Two Young Women.
SUSPENDS PATROLMAN HOOK
Commissioner Baker Refuses to
Tell Why; Other Officials
Equally Reticent.

Detective headquarters were startled yes
terday by a report that patrolman had
threatened Mayor Gaynor's life The
charge was made by two young women
Miss Rebecca Perlman. of No. 225 Henry
street and Miss Kate Eisenberg. OF No alS
Clinton street. Miss Perlman's brother Is
DR. Max Perlman and It was another
brother who went to Inspector Russell yes
terday to tell what his sister and her friend
had heard
Inspector Russell left headquarters &C
companied By Lieutenant William Mahar-
one of the staff of the Detective Bureau.
and they returned later with Patroinan
Joseph Hook. of No. 1850 Westchester ave
nue.. who is attached to the Madison street
station
All three went to the office of ConnrIiis-
sioner William F. Baker II was SAID later
that Patrolman Hook. whose NUMBER on tie
force is 1885, had been suspended oy oroel
of the Commissioner
Commissioner Baker said last night that
he was too busy to discuss the matter anu
Inspector Russell observed that If was up
to the Commissioner to say what had Deeii
the result of their investigation
Miss PerIman and Miss Eisenberg were
seen at their respective homes by Tribune
{
the happenings on Monday night agree
ION Monday evening, between anu
o'clock. my friend, Miss Eisenberg. and l
were standing on the front stoop here al
No 225 Henry street when We saw police
man over there at the corner taking drink
of beer We thought it queer but made no
remark.
"A few minutes later the policeman
walked over to US and started to"talk 10 US
We noticed that his eyes were somewhat
CLASSY and when ne said that ne mad al
ready taken several glasses OF beer, We
asked him whether ne was not afraid OF
getting into trouble through getting intoxl-
Gated on his beat
He said he never got intoxicated re-
marked that he seemed TO be intoxicated
then. and that If Mayor Gaynor heard ol
it, there might be trouble in store
- 'Ciayror" remarked the cop, I wish
he'd go by here while m on post
knock his block off. I'm expecting stripe
some of these days, and L don't care TO-
Gaynor The only ones / care for are the
Arabs They're going to get Gaynor. too
| They'll get him as sure as you're alive be-
fore the steamer sails. They re following
! him now. and if they don't get him before
he sails they will sure get him on the trip
home. He s no good. neither Is f-dheA- Inc
only Commissioner we ever had that was
any good was Bingham. I wish We had
him back. but that guy Gaynor gave him
a rough deal in the Duffy affair.
Then the man staggered rather than
walked down the street We did not think
much of the affair al the moment, but
took the mans number, which was 1916
Next day when l heard that Mayor GaynoT
had been shot. thought OF what tne cop
had said the night before. | told my broth
ers about 1t. and one of them went To
Detective Headquarters and told inspector
Russell"
Captain Herman Schlottman. of the
Madison street station, is absent ON his
vacation and the lieutenant last night
would give out no records, but he admitted
that Hook, whose number Is 1916 had been
SUSPENDED by order OF the Commissioner
Hook has been on the force nearly five
wears and at the expiration OF that term
would have been entitled to stripe He
came on the force during the aGmi uiStra-
ton of General Bingham.