The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-29
'RAIDED TO SHOW UP GRAFT
KEENAN, SAHS HIGH OFFI-
CIALS' WE'RE GETTING ar.

tNGE '
sure About Omctals - Darirn'lr' .
say the Crusaders Borrowed IIU d
Heard at Trial ParkhursI rhcr,
when Policeman Thomas Keenan, WAS
asked yesterday at the H"ldlulrtera
trial % himself and his coraider. Police
man Charles Cunningham. what ms
real motive was in going up tn lnspertor
Floods district IN The Bronx ON his day
81 and arresting bsrtenders ne said
20 Deputy Commissioner Walsh:
MY motives were that I have reason
20 believe that saloon keepers are paying
high police officials for protection. Whsr'-
ever ! have worked I have found that
the plain clothes men worked on very
friendly terms with the saloonkeepsrs,
have frequently seen them go IN IN
sunday where liquor was being SOLD
and fail to make any arrest Keenan,
and thought that We could bring this
state 10 Affairs before the public 10y orr
efforts.
We told Grove lone oI the arrested
hartendersl that we were trying To put
an end TO the graft and he told us that
u would certainly be fine Il they didn't
have 10 give up. | didn't report my
I thought that there were others m the
department who had been longer in the
service and who were better qualified
60 tell him about il.
mo. SIR; this had nothing az all TO do
with the order issued compelling ms 10
call up on a box every hour when we wer
on patrol | had absolutely no grudge
against Inspector flood. and ~ had moth
ing Co do with the dismissal Of Policemen
Linskey and ponn"lly - The Bronx
either. Why. Mr.. Commissioner. ! have
been making excis" arrests over IN IN"
Eldridge street precinct and We don't
have tn call up on the box there and In
spector Flood isn't IN charge either.
Keenan, seemed indi gnant az Commls-
sioner walsh's suspicious that he was
trying TO get even with Inspector Flood.
He shook his finger in the Commissioner's
face a. he said
They say that when brought thsr
bartender into the station house I told
the lieutenant that we had TO do sixty
minutes To the hour now and that ! was
putting in full time. Why. | have been
putting in sixty minutes 60 the hour every
hour that have been IN the department
and my record shows II. Not a days
fine in nearly three years
lie denied having borrowed monev %
saloon keepers and VA cross-exanlina ton
aaid tina, he had been afraid ~ try 10
expose the graft system before. hut IN
January be- Lost the fear of ms superio m
which had prevented him from making
trouble before
Keenan, aid no had been on the force
for two years and eight months He said
that after he had made his first "Scise
arrests on January -. when ha was at
ta~hed 20 the Mesfchester station. In
spector lOod had SAID to him Now you
are a man with family and Won have a
good 700 here on come TO nv Oitice
Tomorrow and tell me the true reason
for these arrests. lie Sald that ne went
10 the inspectors Office. hut did not $50
him. and two days later he was transferred
20 the lower Fast side.
Policeman CunninGhanis defence was
along the same lines although h" was not
80 sure that liquor dealers were paying
for protection Just thought there
must be something wrong when they
Ner~ vide open all day SUNDAY. he sald.
keenan, said that the only time he had
borroWe cd money from saloon keeper
was whom his child was chris'"n.d and he
wanted some wine for tn" christening
He went 20 IHaar " Willard and told
him that h. would nav him th" 81 for
the wine Ghe trrt ~ th~ month. Mllard,
he said. asked for a note and he gave ~
10 him.
In-p~c,or Flood was called Com
missioner Walsh asi'ad him Il rhere was
no, a rule which prohibited policemen
assigned 10 = precinct from performing
duty in citizens clo'hes except 10y N@r-
mission. He answered 'hat there Was such
a rule.
ON cross ANIMATION he aid that he
knew Ernest Olpp. T.rss'ident Of the
Liquor Tiealsr- Association IN IN" IRONY.
but didn't know anything 81 his connection
With that organization. lie SAID that ne
had never becn IN n saloon with nun talk
ing for three hours AZ a stretch. ON
missioner Walsh siopJssd IN" questions
AZ This point IN spite 81 the explanation
by the defences lawyer. Mr.. NSntora.
that no was trying ~ SHOW thar rho in
euector knew something about Contribu-
tiona paid bv the liOJior dealers
InanacSor Hood also Al - thar Il he saw
n violation Of rho Law b. would make an
arrest even II ne "a on duty. I asked for
the transfer ~ cunningham and Keenan,,
he aaid. -beCnuss u was for IN" interest
oI di-ciplne
Joseph SChmeiser saloon keeper.
testified that he lent Keenan, SIS last
September Andrew Gach. Vh" has q
hotel IN Pelham Raw Parkway. testified
that h. lent CunnIn CHAM SIS about tho
same time He sad he had had a memo
raDdurn admitting the Policeman = debt
a. him hut u had been redeemed recently.
Isaac " MilIard. another hotel keep~r.
show eu n nsftr TOT 90 NIAi'u W. ussA t~hA
Cunnin CHAM in Cctobsr rank Scorna"-
chi a saloon keeper. said that he had lent
Kesnan So and had got back SIS
Martin J kane. also IN the liquor bust
neas. had a check for $40 which hs had
mad. payable "a Keenan, and which h"
sAid the policeman hat asked him for
Julius Hartrr. a harkeeper. ssid that n"
had served Cunningham and hesnan
with drinks IN the back room " hen they
were Oh duty. but IN save his lie he
couldn't remember what the drinks we're
He thought they wer" soft stun ~
Any rate he asn't arrested.
Five polio. captains ia vhoa~ precincts
th, two policemen had made excise ar
rests testified that IL was the duty IL
policeman q make an arrest when they
saw any violation 81 the Law whether he
was on duty or not. They added that
they themselves would make an arrest
IN they saw cause even n they were not
on duty.
ThoEnAs r Grove. a bartender. for
whose arrest the two policemen vent up
20 The Bronx on March ~. said that on the
wAy to the station house Cunningham
...A Ka@uan aatH a. him We don't give