Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-18
INQUIRY BY WALDO
Plans Police Investigation of
His Own.
ROUSED BY RECENT RAIDS
inspectors Will Be Placed on Trial
This Week.
BECKER's DEPOSITS $4,000
Two More Banks Report Accounts.
Whitman May Join Schepps
at Albany.
ROUSED BY RECENT RAIDS
$4,000
BECKER'S D.

NEW YORK. August 17.-Thorouehly
aroused by the charges of police graft
following the disorderly house raids made
by the district attorneys Office. Police
Commissioner Waldo, 1t was said tonight,
plans public investigation of his own.
Together with Cornelius ]. Hayes. the
police inspector whom he yesterday re-
duced to the rank Of captain as a
sequence OF his alleged failure to sup
press ddsorderly houses In his district
three other inspectors will be placed on
trial by the commissioner next week, 1t
was said, and asked to explain the exist
ence of disorderly places in their dis
tricts.
These trials will be the vehicle Of the
commissioners proposed investigation
into the so-called system OF police graft.
II IL said, the commissioners plan being
not to confine the proceedings specifically
to testimony against the inspectors. but
to unearth every thread of evidence bear
ing on general police graft. both from
gambling and disorderly houses.
Has Obtained Evidence.
The inspectors said to be slated for trial
are known to include men against whom
District Attorney Whitman has obtained
evidence of gambling graft.
Until the raids made on disorderly re-
sorts last Thursday night by Assistant
District Attorney Smith. Commissioners
Waldo according to one of his close
friends. had confidence that his inspectors
were doing their duty; and that the al
legged graft did not reach higher than
Lieut. Becker. accused of instigating the
murder of Herman Rosenthal. The Beck
er charges. he thought, were a case for
the district attorney.
Believing now that he has had the
wool pulled over his eyes," Mr.. Waldo is
thoroughly determined to have a house
cleaning in the police department In this
work whatever evidence of crtminality Is
brought to light will be available to the
district attorney for the purposes OF In
dictment
1t was reported today that Hayes in
tended to see District Attorney Whitman
on the latter's return Monday from his
weekend rest and offer to make some
sensational disclosures. The denoted In
spector, whose name was mentioned In
the stories told to District attorney ;s
not be found today by those who sought
verification Of the report
More Banks Report.
The record Of Lieut.. Becker's band de-
posts has now reached $4,000. Becker
accounts Of 5000 and 5000 respectively
were furnished to the district attorneys
Office today by two more banks. these
being the last to report Of eight insti-
tutions in 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 gathered
by the prosecutors Office. maintained
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.
May See Schepps on Train.
Sam Schepps, the material witness in
the Rosenthal case, may be Joined on his
trip to New York by District Attorney
Whitman at Albany tomorrow night, 1t
was reported here today. The prosecutor
Is now with his family in Manchester,
VT. and 1t was rumored that Schepps'
trip from Hot Springs. Ark. in custody
OF Assistant District Attorney Rubin.
was delayed at Buffalo that Mr.. Whit
man might see him before he reaches
New York. Assistant District Attorney
Moss. who left town today. Is believed to
have gone to Manchester. and may be
also one OF the Schepps party.