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CRAFT POLICEMEN
ARE SUSPENDED
-Four High Officials IN New
York Accused.
SYSTEMS" SECRETS Barred
CAPTAIN Walsh Confesses and Says
He Divided Vice Tribute With
Higher Official.

He Divided Vice Tribute With a
Higher Official.
New York, Feb. Z. - Rhinelander
Waldo, New York's commissioner OF
police, suspended from duty Thomas
Walsh, police captain.
Walsh confessed, while i'll and in
shared graft with an inspector OF po-
| lice and another man higher up"
The commissioner took action as
soon as he had confirmed from the
district attorneys Office the authen-
ticity of Walsh's confession.
Dennis Sweeney, inspector OF po-
lice, and Police Captains Hussey and
Thompson were also suspended from
the force by Mr. Waldo. Sweeney
was the man mentioned in the graft
confession made by Walsh.
On Monday, if well enough, Walsh
will tell his narrative to the grand
jury. Soon thereafter numerous In
dictments are expected.
Mr.. Waldo conferred with Mayor
Gaynor concerning the latest revela-
tions in his much-investiga,e depart
ment, steadily under fire since last
July, when Herman Rosenthal, the
"squealing" gambler, was murdered at
the instigation of Charles Becker,
iormer police lieutenant, now in Sing
Tor the crime.
The trail of police graft, upon which
Mr.. Whitman set out last summer, Is
declared by him to have emerged
from the thicket of minor exposures
to an open road leading to the men
higher up" Through the remarkable
confession which Walsh made to the
district attorney and to be repeated
to the grand jury, indictments will be
sought against the police inspector
and others as alleged graft takers on
large scale.
If obtained, these indictments will
be the most important developments
in the exposure of the System" since
the city was aroused to the alliance
Of it's police with gambling and vice.
by the murder of Rosen.hal.
The statement of Walsh to Mr..
Whitman embraced these points:
That Fox was his collector and that
the statements made by Fox as to the
extent of his graft collections were
true in every detail.
That he (Walsh) paid so cents on.
every dollar received from Fox to tn
inspector Whnm1he name Adj
That he and the inspector together
raised the $1,000 which was given to
Fox to give to George A. Sipp that
his former hotelkeeper and graft
payer might be kept from testifying
as a witness against Fox.
That he and the inspector together
put up the $4,000 cash bail which was
used to get Fox out of jail following
his arrest.
That the inspectors share of the
collections were divided with man
higher up in the police department.
Mr.. Whitman heard Walsh's state
ment first and then called in as wit
nesses Assistant District Attorney
Groehl, DR.. Upton, Walsh's physician,
and Mrs. Walsh.
Walsh expressed willingness to sign
an affidavit Immediately, but upon Mr..
Whitman's advice this proceeding was
postponed until later, when the dis
trict attorney will visit Walsh's home
again and take the complete state
ment.
Walsh's confession was forced in
part by charges made by Eugene Fox,
a policeman, who pleaded guilty to
graft collection last Monday and turn
ed upon Walsh as the man next above
him. Fearing that heart weakness,
with which he has long been trou-
bled, might foreshadow his death, and
wishing to purge his conscience, Cap
tain Walsh admitted taking vice graft
to the extent of perhaps 100000 in
a single police precinct. Half of this
amount he turned over to the men
higher up"
Walsh said he had no knowledge OF
the amount collected in the four other
police precincts of his inspection dis
trict, but he believed it to be quite as
large