Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-15
SUSPENDS THE
 GUILTY COPS
Policemen "Cannedn Because of Disappearance of Let terS in Stokes Case
 Charges Made
MAY FACE GRAND JURY

 evidence that the letters which W. E. D. Stokes wrote to Lillian Graham were taken from the latter's apart ments in the Yaruna on the night of June '. when Stokes was shot. Com missioner Waldo has suspended the four policemen who were on duty in the woman's apartment when the search was made. Assistant District Attorney also took action yesterday. issuing a summons for James Cum Ansonia Stokes's hotel, and a subpoena for John Bloom, the janitor of the Varuna apartment building.
 Deputy Police Commissioner Dillon. who has been in charge of the police end Of the investigation, is certain that the letters were taken from the apartment on the night of the shoot ing.
 This case may be one for the dis trict attorney" he said. Tt may be necessary to institute criminal ae- ton against these four policemen"
 Asks investigation.
 As a matter of fact, Commissioner Waldo, upon hearing the report, at once wrote a letter 10 the district at- torney and asked him to look into the matter. The four policemen whose heads have fallen are Lieut. Sullivan and Patrolmen Walsh. Flynn and Dev- erey of the West Sixty-eight street station. Sullivan and Walsh are charged with conduct prejudicial to the good order of the department in that on June 9 they permitted Attor. ney A. H. Gleason and James Cum mings. a special detective of the An sonia. to enter Miss Graham's apart ment in the Varuna.
 There are three charges made against all four men. The first re- lates to the fact that they have been ordered 10 make a thorough search of the premises and to report any thing which might aid fin the deten- ton of the women, and they failed 10 do SO.
 In the second section each one is eharged--because Deputy Commis- sioner Dillon is unable to tell which of the three is responsible--with making away with a package of let ters tied with a pink ribbon, or let il to their knowledge.
  falsely stating that they found no such package.
 PatTolman Walsh has a separate charge of having sworn on July s to Denuty Commissioner Dillon that he had seen no letters at all before June 8.
 Looks Bad For Them.
 Its one of the worst cases l have ever had anything to do with" said Deputy Dillon. I've been a policeman myself and hate to make trouble for the men, but this case seems to be clear.
 T can't figure the thing out in any other way at all. but that those let ters were taken oa the first night. According to the testimony of John Bloom, the superintendent of the and of MacMahon, the ele- vator boy, who were in the room at the time, the officers who were there examined the trunk. took out a great of letters tied ID with pink ribbon, selected several from these letters and papers they had found in he room and took them away. Other letters they took out of the packaae and threw back in the trunk.
 "The next day. June S, Robert M. Moore came to look for the letters and he went through the trunk. He looked through the remaining letters and said, There is nothing here that I want, and after thoroughly search ing the apartment he left.
 "On June (, the next day. James Cummings has testified that he came into the apartment with two police officers and found the letters which have been introduced in testimony, on the floor. Now that is too absurd to consider. If the policemen who took the other letters away did not find those. which Cummings says were lying on the floor, they certainly neglected their duty, and, if they did find them. Cummings didn't find them on the floor unless they were pu; there by some one for him to find.
 Walsh told me when I examined him that he met Cummings by ap rointment and took him there on June 9 with A. IT. Gleason, Mir. Stokes's at torney Of course he and Sullivan had no right whatever to do this. He says that he thought they were work ing in the interest of the district at torney.
 Walsh told me when he was being examined that he had not seen any letters before June S-no letters at all--in spite of the fact that a trayfui had been taken to the West Sixty eighth street station. asked him if he hadn't seen one little torn letter, and he admitted that he hed. That is why a special charge has been pre-