Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-23
PROBE NAMING OF
CROOKS AS cops
Graft investigators to Hear
How Convicts Got on
Force.

| NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-Secrets
back of the appointment to the police
force of thirty-seven alleged per-
%jurers, some Of them with dark Grim
inal records, viii be laid bare, 1t is
expected at today's meeting Of the
aldermanic police graft investigating
committee.
Two of the witnesses to be ques-
toned are James Creelman, Mayor
Gaynor's president of the Municipal
Civil Service Commission. which
placed the thi~rty-seven alleged
perjurers upon the eligible lists,
and Distriet-Attorney James c.
Cropsey, of Kings county. who re-
signed the post of police commits
sioner, his friends declare, rather
than make policemen of some Of the
men whose names were sent to him
for appointment.
Richard yelling and Alexander
Keogb, two members of the Civil
Service Commission, will also be ex-
amined today by the aldermanic
probers.
They will be questioned to ascer-
tain the method of examination of
candidates who seek appointment to
the police force. The zee testi-
mony about the large number of per-
sons with unsatisfactory records who
have been certified by the commission
and appointed to the force will be a
principal subject of inquiry. Z
Mr.. Cropsey will be asked to tell
why he quit the police department.
He will also be asked whether he
did not fatty decline. when police
ice lists in regular order for appoint
ments when Investigations made by
the police department of all candi-
dates for appointment disclosed per-
sonal records that We're not clear.
Commissioner Waldo appointed to
the force practically all of those can
didates that Commissioner Cropsey
had rassed over because of reports Of
previous unlawful conduct or other
personal history of a deroeatory
character : made by Lieutenant
Stanton chief of the police invest
eating bureau. Commissioner Waldo
abolished the investigating bureau,
declined to investigate the character
OF candidates and took the position
this was wholly a function for
the Civil Service Commission.
Want an Explanation.
The main urpose in questioning
MIR. creelman, who will tie the first
witness today, will be to find out
what sor of an Investigation was
made by the Civil Service Commits
sion of the records of men appointed
by the present commissioners.
When Commissioner Waldo is again
a witness 1t is expected that Mr..
Buckner will Try to find out whether
or not politics had anything to do
with the appointment to the force of
men with criminal records.
1t was reported today that the
aldermsnic probers expect to reveal
that Commissioner Waldo's system of
making appointments and promotions
were in maintenance of the commits
%sioner's ambition to become mayor.
General Bingham will be recalled
and is expected to go more fully into
the case of Captain Eeith. who made
an affidavit that $40. 900 was the price
of captaincies. IT was said that Cen
eral Bingham has further information
10 offer TO the committee concerning
Reith's police record.
Friends cf Commissioner Waldo say
that hints and limitations proceeding
from the district attorneys Office that
the commissioner has done nothing
toward investigating for graft in the
department are u~ndeserved, because
the commissioner for many weeks
has been carrying on a secret in
Quiry aimed directly at inspectors
and captains in WHOM the commits
sicner has lost confidence.