Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-08-20
BECKER HAD FORTUNE
HIDDEN IN BANKS
Police Lieutenant'S Profits
Ran Up to $4,000 and
Maybe More
CBy Associated Press.l

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NEW YORK, Aug. 17.-Thoroughly
aroused by charges of police graft after
the disorderly house raids made by the
district attorneys force, Police Com
missioner Waldo. it was said tonight
plans a public investigation Of his own.
Together with Cornelius J. Hayes, the
police inspector whom he yesterday re-
duced to captain as sequence Of his
alleged failure to suppress disorderly
houses in his district, three other in
! spectors will be placed on trial by the
commissioner next week, it was said.
/ They will be asked to explain the ex-
istence Of disorderly places in their
districts These trials will be the
vehicle Of the commissioners proposed
investigation. It is said the commits
sioner's plan will not be to confine pro-
ceedings TO testimony against the in
spectors. but to unearth every thread
Of evidence bearing upon general police
graft.
The inspectors said to be slated for
whom District Attorney Whitman has
obtained evidence of gambling graft.
WALDO SURPRISED.
Until the raids made on disorderly
resorts last Thursday night by Assist
ant District Attorney Smith, Commits
sioner Waldo. according TO one of his
close friends, had confidence that his
inspectors were doing their duty and
that the alleged graft did not reach
higher than Lieutenant Becker.
The Becker charges, he thought, were
case for the district attorney. He be-
lieves now that he has had "the wool
pulled over his eyes"
1t was reported today that Hayes in
tended to see District Attorney Whit
man Monday and offer to make some
sensational disclosures. The inspector
whose name was mentioned in the
stories told TO District Attorney Whit
man by Bridge" Weber, seIf-con-
fessed accomplish in the Rosenthal
murder, could not be found tonight by
those who sought verihcation of the re-
port.
BECKER HAD $4,000.
The record Of Police Lieutenant
Becker's bank deposits has now reached
$4,000. Becker accounts of $4,000 and
$4,000. respectively, were furnished to
the district attorneys Office today by
two more banks. these being the last
to report of eight institutions within
the city in which the police lieutenant
placed money during the last eight or
nine months. Efforts to trace accounts
In three out-of-town banks are being
continued.
Becker. according to evidence gath
cred by the prosecutors office, main
tanned a surveillance over disorderly
houses which attempted to do business
without paying 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 failed to come
across"
Sam Schepps, the material witness in
the Rosenthal case, may be joined 'on
his trip to New York by Mr.. Whitman
at Albany tomorrow night, it was re-
ported here today. The prosecutor is
now with HIS family in Manchester, VT,
and IL was rumored that Schepps' trip
from Hot Springs, Ark, in custody of
Assistant District Attorney Rubin, was
delayed at Buffalo that Mr.. Whitman
might see him before he reaches New
York. Assistant District Attorney Moss
who lert town today, is believed to have
gone to Manchester and may be also
one Of the Schepps party.