New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-27
WALSH TO REPEAT STORY
Predecessors of Ex. x.Inspector in
the Harlem District May Be
Called Upon to Face
True Bills for Sell
ing Protection.
MANY WITNESSES VANISH
Five Of Those Who Paid Shea to
Violate Law Are Called Out of
Town on Business Gambler
To Be Heard by Regular
County Panel


To Be Heard by Regular
County Panel.
Eight additional indictments for bri
berry and estertion-the penal law torn,
for sraftins--wiII be asked for asains,
Inspector Dennis Sweeney to day. Cap.
tain Thomas w. Walsh will bs ono OF
the chief witnesses before the extraor-
dinsry grand jury which will be asked
to return the true bills ON evidence OF
eight specific instances Of grating.
The testimony Of Ashley Shea
Sweensy's collector. which will involve
other police inspectors who are now
captains. will be put before the regular
Supreme Court grand jury. which con-
venes on Monday. From that testi
r,ony further indictments Of Sweeney
are probable, and indictments Of in.
spectors who commanded tho Harlem
district before Sweeney are practically
Certain.
District Attorney Whitman found
yesterday that five Of the graft pay
ers who had handed money 10 Shea for
Duffy and Sweeney had hurriedIy left
town within the last twenty -four hours.
indictments will be demanded against
those who do not return. and they will
be put in the position Of being fusitives
from justice, under Indictment. and
liable to extraditier.
Mayor Gsyror. in a long discourse
with the Wagner legislative committee
yesterday. retreated from his plan Of .
separate force" TO handle vice. excise
and gambling, which met with such
severe criticism when he advocated it
two weeks ago. and ssid he could meet
the situstion with the appointment OF
ten young and active Deputy Com
r,issionsrs" to take the places Of the
inspectors in the department
The Mayor also reduced his previous
estimate Of the number Of grafters on
the force from ono hundred to fifty
and reiterated his familiar accusation
that tho present "hue and ory" was due
TO the headlines in "eorrupt and ssnss-
tionsl newspapers" Hs declared that
District Attorney Whitman had the
backing and assistance Of tho police
and Of himself in everything he had
done since the Rosenthal murder IN
s,;te Of "a notion abroad to the cen.
trary." His Honor gave the police all
credit for their work in tho Becker
case, saying they "hsd entered heartily
into tho prosecution
Former Mayor Mcclellan, before the
Curran aldernanie committee, advo-
Gated new excise laws permitting sa-
looms 70 open on Sundays after morn.
ino church hours. . school for police
officers and the appointment OF . chief
Of police by civil service, from the feree.
Seth Low, also Q former Mayor, be-
fore tho same committee, put forth the
s.ns suggestion as to a chief Of police
adding that hs should bs removable
only by the Governor after a trial. Mr..
Low suggested q morals commission
"a handle vice independent Of the po-
lice.
John D. Rockefeller, jr, announced
vesterday that Raymond B. Fosdick,
former Commissioners Of Accounts, was
now abroad in the service OF the 6u'
rsau Of Social Hygiene, gathering in
formation 40 to foreign police methods
of DEALING with vice. which would later
b. ou, At tho disposal Of Now York.
district Attorney Whitman's answer
n the moral support that was levished
on Inspector Dennis Sweeney at the
,ieutenants' dinner last Saturday night
wiI, come in the form Of demands for
eight separate indictments for grating
AGAINST the former commander Of the
Har,em district. which will be asked
for to-day before the extraordinary
grand fury.
The evidence to be presented OF these
eight instances Of grating by Sweeney,
II ia expected, will render superfuous
any further consideration of the plea
first hinted at by Commissioner Waldo
that the present graft indictment is
faulty as to date.
These eight cases will be based on
evidence furnished by Captain Thomas )
w. Walsh, on which corroboration mas
been obtained. Walsh's health was re-
ported as steadily improving. and he
sent word to Mr.. Whitman that he
would be ready TO go before the grand
jury to-day.
Ashley Shea, the inspectors graft
ferret, furnished names and amounts
Of graft payments which promise still
more indictments Of Sweeney and
which rake certain the indictment OF
inspectors who preceded Sweeney in
the Harlem command.
Shea, who has been hsrried by agents
routinueh an fourth pugo fourth column.