The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-09-03

police officials at the time Of his troubles
during Commissioner Greene's police
administrations he does not admit any
enmity against any individual police
official now az Headquarters.
Detective Schwartz was forced out OF
the Police Department on charges OF
calling a police surgeon "a liar and a
scoundrel' and for paradIng without
permission with a militia organization
Of which Schwartz was then regimental
surgeon. Schwartz's defence on this
last charge was that as he was not sup
posed to he on duty at the time he pa
raded he had right to march.
Since he was dismissed from the Po-
lice Department he has been a lecturer
ypr the Board of Health. he says. in sd-
ditlon TO his detective work for the ice
trust Investigators and others. He Is a
medico-legal expert, he says. speaking
eight languages. and his card lists as
further distinctions that he is past com
mander OF William Sulzer Garrison No.
12, member OF the Army and Navy
Union L. s. A.. a member of the United
Spanish War Veterans and past Junior
vice commander of Sergt. Hamilton
Fish Camp No. 46
John Doe Inquiry First Maybe.
When Mr.. whitman goes before the
extraordinary session OF the Supreme
Court that begins to-day to consider
the trials on the indictments for muir
der OF Lieut.. Becker, Jack Sullivan
Jacob Reich). Whitley Lewis. Dago
Frank Cirohci and william Shapiro 1t is
believed that Justice Goff and the
t-ss t,s Ii
seriously the advisablity of filing i'm
medlstely the information upon which
the John Doe investigation Will be
based
II IL said that the information out
OF which the John Doe graft inquiry
will develop does not touch on the
Rosenthal murder The elghty-two
pages Of information prepared by Mr..
De Ford under Mr.. whltman's direction
studiously avoids the murder. primarily
because while Mr. Whitman was having
the information collected and prepared
he kept constantly in mind that Justice
GoN also Is to preside at the murder
trial OF Becker.
In all probability the filing Of the In
forma tion Will be delayed pending the
completion OF n mass Of preliminary
work which the District Attorney hopes
to see Strengthened out before he begins
10 call his witnesses. Mr.. De Ford has
supplied Mr.. Whitman with his com
pleted statement of information show
Ing an alliance between the gamblers
and disorderly house promoters and
proprietors on one side and the police
! on the other. MIR. Whitman wants his
preparations perfected before he begins
| To call his Witnesses
As soon as the informa ton Is filed by
the District Attorney the contents Of
me cighty-two pages u.on which the
long John Doe proceedings are based
Will become public property.
Inc District Attorney IL anxious to
try Becker before Justice Con- at once.
Nhon Becker is arraiCned to-day the
District Attorney will move for the
transfer or the case from General Ses-
sions to the Supreme Court on Septem-
oer II. NJ. Mcintyre. Beckcr's chief
counsel, thcreupon is expected to begin
MS night against the setting of the trial
for September II.
No public official called as a witness
in the John Doe inquiry will receive
| immunity. Certain men in city iobs
against whom Mr. Whitman Is conf
dent OF obtaining indictments will no,
be permitted 10 testify at all.
The proceedings that begin to-day
, are expected to last al least six or eight
| months and perhaps a year. And the
vehement statement was made yestcr-
day that the investigation will go
| through with the work even II tho
| trail leads up to the very highest
places"