Omaha daily bee., 1912-09-07
GAYNOR'S RELATION
To POLICE ACTIVITY
is FEATURE OF TRIAL
Commissioner Waldo Testifies that
Mayor Never Gave Him Instruc-
tions Regarding Resorts.
BASIS OF CROSS-EXAMINATI0N
Attorney for Accused Inspector Asks
Many Questions.
WALDO CONTRADICTS HAYES
Says He Did Not Instruct Officer Not
to Make Raids.
KNEW HOUSES FL0URISHED
He Says He Presumed that Inspector
BASIS OF CRosS-EXAMINAT10N
Attorney for Accused Inspector Asks
Many Questions.
WALDO CONTRADICTs HAYES
Says He Did Not Instruct Officer Not
to Make Raids.
KNEW HOUSES FL0URIsHED
Hayes Was Doing the Best
He Could to Close
Them Up.

NEW YORK. Sept, 6-The relationship
between Mayor Gaynor and the New
York police department, the mayors at
titude on the citys so-called vice and
excise problems, and the extent to which
the department followed his public
declarations of his attitude, formed the
basis of a relentless cross-examination
undergone by Police Commissioner
Waldo today in the trial Of Cornelius G.
Hayes, an inspector suspended on charges
OF making false statements during an
interview on the Rosenthal murder, re-
flecting on the commissioner.
Thomas Thacher, HAYES counsel,
thwarted In his efforts to read into the
record the mayors utterances on the
vice problem, finally gained recognition
from the trial commissioner, Douglas /.
Mckay, by this declaration:
II am merely trying to prove that
Mayor Gaynor's policy was one under
which the social evil was recognized as
an uncomfortable problem, which had to
be endured, but that the evil had to
present a front of outward decency; that
in the failure Of Inspector Hayes to raid
disorderly houses he was merely reflect
ing this policy and any orders issued
to him by Police Commissioner Waldo
were directly in violation of that policy.
No Orders from Gaynor.
MIR. Thatcher was then permitted to
proceed with his cross-examination along
the lines he desired.
Does not Mayor Gaynor direct your
policy toward vice?"
He does not" snapped the commits
sioner.
Has Mayor Gaynor ever instructed you
how to deal with dsorderly houses?"
HE has never given me any instruc-
tions on that subject
''As a matter of fact, you didn't ex-
pect Hayes to raid disorderly houses
within his district, now did your
II expected him to raid every dfsor-
Derby house as to whose operations he
could obtain evidence"
You knew, didn't you, that disorderly
houses had fiourished for six months in
Inspector Hayes district; that these
houses were operating every day and that
they were not being raided?''
'.Yes. / knew it. 1 knew that disorderly
houses had been flourishing in that dis
trict for year But presumed that
Inspector Hayes was making every ef-
fort he could to close them up"
Waldo Questions Inspector.
Commissioner Wa;6o testified that ne
had called before him on August l6 the
various inspectors to ascertain which one
Of them If any had given an anonymous
interview published that day to the ef-
feet that orders had been given by Waldo
that no disorderly houses should be raided
without his instruction.
Inspector Hayes then told me that he
understood his orders were not to raid
iisorderly houses without specific instruc-
tons from me-" Commissioner Waldo
continued.
Had you ever given him such orders y
asked Terrence Farley, assistant corpora
ton counsel, representing the depart
ment.
HE was never given any instructors
of that character in any form whatso-
ever" Commissioner Waldo replied.
The district attorneys office expressed
satisfaction TO-DAY In the discovery of a
Salvation Army girl who had rooms near
the Hotel Metropole and who was an eye
witness to the murder Of Rosenthal. 1t Is
said she can identify several. II not all
Of the men involved in the shooting.
Another witness, member of the Elks
club here, has been traced to Troy, n T.,
ard an assistant district attorney was
dispatched thither last night.