The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-18
DISTRICT ATTORNEY WILL MEET FAMOUS WITNESS AT AL
 6ANY ON MONDAY.
WALDO STARTS POLICE PROBE
Says He Now Realizes That He Has Been the "Goatp of the Depart ment--6ecker Fund in-
 creased to $e3,0oo.

New York, Aug. 17.-Thoroughly aroused by charges of police graft af- ter the disorderly house raids made by the district attorneys office, Po- lice Commissioner Waldo, it was said tonight, plans a public investigation of his own. Together with Corne- lus J. Hayes, the police Inspector. whom he yesterday reduced to cap tain as a sequence of his alleged fail ure to suppress disorderly houses in his district, three other inspectors wui be placed on trial by the commisslnn- CT next week. 1t was said. They will be asked to explain the existence of disorderly places in their districts These trials will be the vehicle of the commissioners proposed investI-
 gation. It is said the commissioners
 plan will not be to confine proceed
 ing to testimony against the lnspec-
 tors but to unearth every thread of
 evidence bearing upon general police
 graft.
 The inspectors said to be slate.l for
 trial are known to include men
 against whom District Attorney Whitman has obtained evidence or
 gambling graft. Until the raids made on disorderly resorts last Thursday night by Assistant District Attorney Smith, Commissioner Waldo, accord ing to one of his close friends, hal
 confidence that his inspectors were doing their duty and that the alleged
 graft did not reach higher than Lieu tenant Becker. The Becker charges,
 he thought, were a case for the dis
 trict attorney. Mn Waldo now be-
 lieves he has had "the wool pulled over his eyes"
 It was reported today that Hayes intended to see District Attorney Whitman Monday and offer to make some sensational disclosures. The in- spector whose name was mentioned in the stories told District Attorney Whitman by 'IBridgie" Webber, sef- confessed accompIice In the Rosen- thai murder, could not be found to- night by those who sought serifica- ton of the report.
 The record of Police Lieutenant Peckers bank deposits has now reached $S3, 900. Becker accounts of 1000 and $5,000 respectively were furnished to the district attorneys of flee today by two more banks, these being the last to report of eight in- sttutions within the city in which ths police lieutenant deposited money during the last eight or nine months. EIiorts to trace accounts in three out of town manks are being continued. Becker. according to evidence gath cred by he prosecutors office. main- tained a surveillance over disorderiy houses which attempted to do busi- , ness without paying for protection. According to this evidence, Becker raided one place which had been sold by one of the smaller protected vice trusts" to an independent who fail- ed to "come across"
 Sam Schepps, the material witness ill the Rosenthal case, may be joinet on his trip to New York by Mir Whit man at Albany tomorrow night. 1t was reported here today. The prose- cutor is now with his family in Man chester, Vermont, and it was fumored that Schepps' trip from Hot Springs. Ark, in custody of Assistant District Attorney Rubin was delayed at Buff falo. that MT. Whitman might see him before he reached New York Assist ant District Attofnel Moss. who left town today, is believed [ ohave gone to Manchester and may be also one of the Schepps party.