New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-10
WALDO TELLS ABOUT
TENURE OF POLICE
Retained Man Marked for Dis
missaI as a Matter OF JUS
tice, He Asserts.
NO REFERENCE TO BECKER
Resignation Blanks Handed TO
Men Facing Charges, Capt.
Henry TestiAes-Half Pay
Preferred to Trial.

The Curran aldermanlc committee,
which is investigating the Police Depart
ment resumed its work yesterday after
noon after an interval Of four days. En-
DRY r. Buckner. counsel for the commit
tee, probed little deeper Into cases from
which he will try TO show that Commits
sioner Waldo permitted men TO resign
under charges and to draw pension TOO
No attempt was made to inquire into
the gambling situation or OF graft In the
department, according TO Mr.. Buckner
previously defined attitude, which was 70
avoid giving any suspicion " interior
ence with the trial of Lieutenant Becker.
now going on before Justice Con IN the
Criminal Branch OF the Supreme court
Commissioner Waldo was called to tho
witness stand at the close OF the session
to give his reasons for keeping Michael
Imbraeli. OF Brooklyn. on the force after
he had marked him for dismissal. I'M
braeli, who came from Brooklyn. had been
a barber and had been tried and acquit-
ted on charges OF murder and felonious
assault. Besides that, he was said to have
utNfItFu MS WIG lot dlOAnti "OAhoH'
Did any one see you about Imbraeli
before you changed your mind about dis
missing him." Mr.. Buckner asked.
No. SIR" replied the Commissioner.
Then why did you reverse your order?"
"Imbraeli appealed to me personally,
and looked into his case thoroughly.
could have dropped him. but ] believed
that II would have been an injustice. In
this country we have laws and courts.
and they had acquitted him. II was not
my place to condemn him after he had
served an honorable probationary period"
Are you called upon to condemn a man
In case like this or are you called upon
to put a gun and club In his hand :"
asked Mr.. Buckner.
Commissioner Waldo In reply reiterated
HIS conviction that Imbraeli could not
have been justihably dismissed by him at
that time. Mr.. Buckner pointed out that
former Commissioner Cropsey had
dropped Imbraeii. and that Police leu
tenant stanton. OF the investigation Du-
reau; Deputy Commissioner Dillon and
Deputy Commissioner De Kay had recon-
mended his dismissal
Brings in Commissioner Cropssy.
Wasn't II because you wanted to keep
every man on the force who had been
dropped by Commissioner Cropsey?" Mr.
Buckncr demanded
1T was not" replied Commissioner
Waldo. Let me remind you that you
have Il In your own record that In his
letter 20 Mayor Gaynor dealing with the
men who were TUNED down by Mr. Crop
sey the Commissioner added that he Nigh,
appoint some OF them later"
Deputy Commissioner Mckay was called
and testified that he listened TO a COM
plsii against Imbraell from Salvatore
AltorIsi0. an art student at the Adslphi
Academy. who worked for Imbraeli. the
barber. from 1909 20 1906. He showed the
| committee a scar on the left side OF his
neck and jaw almost six inches long. He
said that Imbraeli slashed him with @
razor there seven years ago because he
insisted on leaving him 10 work for highsr
wages. Altonxjo was a witness also. and
told the committee everything he told
Commissioner DeKay about Imbraei be-
fore Commissioner Waldo appointed him
TO the force on June Is. 1911. Imbraeli is
now doing duty In the 18th Precinct.
The first witness was Lieutenant Fran
els Finn. OF the Mercer street station.
who testified about the charges preferred
against Patrolman Rocco Benedetto by
Patrick Boyd. bartender. OF No. 32s
East Hist street. last January. BOYD
came to the station house almost help
lessly intoxicated. he SAID. and declared