New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-29
CAYNOR TO FIRE"
WALDO, IS REPORT
Mayor and Tammany VIII SacFl-
flee Police Head in Plan to
Clean Up" City Before
Fall Campaign.
APRIL | JOKER IN LETTER
Whitman Balks Plot Of System
10 Get Several OF Its Paid
Agents on Juries Before
Which Accused Grafters
Are To Be Tried.


Are To Be Tried.
Tho avalanche of evidence. confess
sioue. convictions and exposures which
District Attorney Whitman has brought
down about The ears OF tho Police De
par'mcnt has at last convinced Mayor
Cayuor it was c'rc1mstantially report
cd Yesterday, that the administration Of
that department under the sensitive
young man he mas kept at its head
was not so perfect rs he would have an
jhc people believe au the time.
Iu fact. SO convinced Of this had his
honor become the rumor went. that he
had braced himself to perform another
public backdown in the shape Of an
announcement that Rhinclander Wal
dos resignation as Police Commission
cr h1J been accepted and his successor
selected
Commissioner Waldo'S successor was
said to be a man fully capable Of
handling the job TO cverybody's salts
faction and cleaning up the depart
mcnt. fo' ne was To- be. above all
prot6Se of that we'll known exponent
of all civic virtues, Tammany Hail
The purpose of tins was to give Tam
many chance 20 make big. strong
play in these last months of its hold
ON the city go+ernment of seeming to
~pun of" the big job OF cleaning mp the
city So that il could 60 into the fall
campaign with q whole sky fun OF
good campaign thunder.
Fat Job for Waldo
rs o. the disposition Of Waldo the
.umor forked in two directions. one
was Chat he was to be let down easy
hv being presented one of the rat
Jobs which was i'm the power of Tam
many 10 give. so that it would appear
no had not been forced out but had
left the department gladly 10 employ
his talents elsewhere.
The other hanks back 10 the Mayor =
letter of March % To Waldo notifying
him he had revoked the all night liquor
licenses of forty-six hotels. In that
letter he said:
Il have revoked all of those licenses.
to take effect April ! next. II viii
then be your duty to see that every
one is out of these places by / o'clock
every night and that the lights are
ont and the doors locked.
FINALLY" his closing paragraph ran.
81 am well aware that many Of these
places will try now to bride the police
to allow them To keep open after |
o'clock. / therefore put this matter
in your hands and YOU will delegate il
to NOBODY"
The April fool joker in this is said
10 be an the fact that il Will be hui
manly impossible for Waldo To enforce
this order so thoroughly that there
will be absolutely no violations. Where
upon the Mayor viii be in position
10 announce that h. was at last aware
that Waldo is not al he thought he
was. and therefore he was ready TO
wash his hands of the Commissioner.
How faweaching and carefully laid
were the plans Of the system" 10 de-
feat Whitman in his work Of smashing
IL was revealed yesterday by the an
nouncement Of the discovery that it
had succeeded in planting" its agents
in the special panels drawn TO try the
graft cases. and had almost got one Of
them on TO the Hartean jury
At about the time the Hartiean
panel was drawn the District AttOr-
ney's men were bending every effort
10 locate a Harlem gambler who. IL
was thought. could give valuable tes-
timony against the inspectors in that
district who have since been indicted.
All Efforts 10 find this gambler failed.
SYSTEMS Taesman Frightened.
Thirty other investigators were care
fully looking 1to the records Of all the
men on the special panel OF two nun
dred drawn for the Hartigan trlaL
They discovered that several of the
men on the panel had been placed
there through the influence OF certain
Tammanv district leaders So hot 5id
their activities become about one of
the men whom they had come TO sus-
pcct that he became frightened aud
went 20 Whitman cOnfesSing that ne
was in the employ Of the system" and
had been put on the panel 10 be Of
whatever service he could in case ne
squeezed through to the jury box.
II was then discovered that he was
the very gambler whom other Of the
District Attorneys men were looking
for. As result of the revelations ne
made Il is understood there will be an
investigation Of the influences sur
rounding the selection of these special
panels.
The police officials indicted on Thurs
day on bribery charges by the grand
Jury were arraigned before Justice Sea
bury yesterday. They were Sergeant
Peter J. Duffy. charged with bribery,
and former Inspectors John j. Muir
tina John j. Hussey and James +.
Thompson. each indicted on two
charges Of bribery.
Hussey did not enter his plea, asking