New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-30
WALDO WILL OUTLINE
POLICY TO CITIZENS
Committee Will Ask General
Explanation, Later Taking
Up Specific Cases.

Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo
will appear voluntarily before the cii-
zens' committee appointed at the Cooper
Union mass meeting, at a meeting to-
morrow night at the Bar Association.
II is the intention of the committee, as
outlined TO the Police Commissioner by
Joseph p. Cotton It's counsel. and Robert
s. Binkerd, its secretary, to ask him TO
give them full exposition of his general
policy on all Police Department func-
tons.
Mr.. Waldo has consented 10 explain his
policies, and has further agreed TO a sec
ond meeting between himself and the
committee. at which they Will go over
specific cases Of his police administration
and examine him as TO his decisions on
those cases.
The Curran aldermanic committee will
complete its inquiry into the Stanton case
on Thursday afternoon with the eXami-
nation OF Winfield s Sheehan, Commits
sloner Waldos secretary, and Patrolman
Carrigan, Of tho motorcycle squad, whose
tip, It has been testified started the po-
lice trial which ended In the dismissal or
Lieutenant Stanton on charge of at
tempted eXtortion alleged to have oc-
CURED three years ago.
That this case will be among the NEST
important which Commissioner Waldo
will be asked TO explain Is practically
certain now, and though neither the
citizens committee. the aldermanic COM
mittee nor independent investigators VIII
vet admit IT, 1t is believed that the St8n-
ton case will be among the official acts on
the basis of which charges may be pre-
ferred.
William Jay Scheffelin, chairman Of the
Citizens Union, filed a taxpayers suit
Yesterday seeking 10 enjoln Controller
Prendergast and City Chamberlain Moore
from paying the salaries Of captain,
lieutenant and eight patrolmcn alleged 10
have been Improperly reinstatcd by Com
missioner Waldo, and 1t is believed that
these eight cases will also be among
those taken up dt the committees second
session with the Commissioner.
According to Albert De Roode, attorney
for Mr.. Schieffelin in the action, the re-
instatement Of the men was contrary TO
provisions Of the charter, and hence IL
illegal Section 1913 a Of the charter
passed in 1907, provides that rehearinS
NJ q dismissed officers or members case
NAV he held on demand Of the Mayor
ond that following such a rehearing the
| Police Commissioner may reinstate the
dismissed man unless such dismissal was
for characterization, conduct unbecoming
an officer or member, cowardice or intoXi-
cation"
rbe men whose reinstatement violates
this provision. according to Mr.. De Roode'
are the following
patrolman Matthew J. McGrath, dis,
missed by Commissioner Cropsey' Aprll
% 1911: relnstated by Commissioner
Waldo, June Q, 1911.
"Santain John f. Tappin, dismissed by
Conmissioner Cropsey, January IL, 1911
reinstated by Commissioners waldo July
q, 1911. q, III. sf,,,t.sd
nv commissioner Cropsey February 2s'
iSI1. reinstated by Commissioners WALDO
August 8, 1871. -, 49,, ,u,gh
ord Joseph r. Brady, dismissed by Com
nissioner Cropsey, February 2, lSl; rem
stated nv Commissioner Waldo, Deem
oJ patroIman William J. Hyland, dismissed
nv Sommissioner Waldo, February 2, 1917;
pSs,nstated by Commissioner Waldo,
s Msrch 20. 1917 n, ,,ur,,..o,
nv Commissioner NdluO' JuiS %, 4'tT' ,S'
stated by Commissioners WALDO July o.
1912.
These men were all dismissed, according
n the contention in the complaint, for
conduct unbecoming an officer and
member" AMI for other special charges.
The complaint declares that, such being
the case. the men are not lawfully MEM
hers of the force and are not entitled to
salaries.
"If an officer or patrolman had been
d,smissed unfairly" Mr.. DE Roode de-
cIared. "he could take his case into the
courts. and on testimony of his innocence
compeI his reinstatement. When he has
been found guilty and is not entitled TO
membership on the force, but Is REIN
stated. then such reinstatement looks Ike
on effort to return to jobs men dis
r,issed on the testimony of former Com
missioner Cropsey.
Controller Prendergast and Chamber
lain Moore have twenty days In which to
nrenare an answer to the complaint in
question.
The sessions OF the committee before
- bich Commissioner Waldo VIII appear
will be behind closed doors, but there has
been no understanding that his explsna-
tions are TO be kept secret, and II Is UNI
derstood that the committee VIII issue n
statement embodying what he has 10 say