New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-22
Inspectors Men Who Helped
District Attorney to Get Graft
Evidence Transferred "for
Good of Service"
ORDER CAME FROM WALDO
Policemen See in 1t Warning
from Headquarters Not to
Become Active in Assist
ing Exposures of
Vice Tribute.

Inspector John +. Dwyer of the 4th
Inspection District ran head on into ap-
parent disapproval from Police Head
quarters yesterday, when Commissioner
Waldo sent out an order tearing his
staff to pieces. Two lieutenants. one
sergeant and ten policemen of Dryers
staff were transferred, the lieutenants
being sent 10 desk duty in the East
10Th street and the Clinton street sta
tons and the policemen TO uniformed
duty in other precincts.
Back of the customary explanation.
Fer the good Of the service" the po-
lice politicians see in the wholesale
transfer. which left TO Dwyer just six
Of his former staff, the Headquarters
verdict on the activity of Dwyer and
the men of his staff in assisting Dis
trct Attorney Whitman in various
phases Of the graft inquiry.
Dryers men assisted Whtman's in
the most recent raid on the Avanel
Hotel, the Harlem place which George
A. Sipp sold to the Hochstim syndicate.
Dryers men again assisted Whitman's
in the ''Robespierre cases. the upper
West Side apartment house against
which the District Attorney has been
proceeding as a disorderly property
Punishment for Leonard.
Dryers man Joe" Leonard, a police
man of the staff who is among those
transferred and sent to pounding the
pavement in a warehouse district, is
known in the department as an expert
detective on overlapping swindles. and
the transfer order came out of Police
Headquarters on the same day that
story was published in the newspapers
that the District Attorneys investiga-
ton Of the overlapping graft indicated
that percentage Of the police protec-
ton money in that line was going to
an official at Police Headquarters.
In addition TO all this, the reduction
Of Dryers staff came practically on
the heels of the newspaper announce
ment that two inspectors one of whom
had not been involved in the graft ac-
cusations at ALL had conferred with the
District Attorney at his home on
Wednesday night.
Mr. Whitman aud those of his as
sistants who have had occasion to call
on him at his home outside of office
hours. and particularly at night have
known for some time that the surveil-
lance which was established when the
graft confession of Patrolman Eugene
F. Fox startled the system" has
been redoubled since the evidence Of
Jimmy" Wren. the ex-policeman coll
lector, and of Herman Michaels. the
gambler. brought the names Of former
Inspectors Hussey. Thompson and
Murtha into the limelight.
1t was talked openly among Dryers
men last night that he was the inspec-
tor referred to in the story of AN in
spector who had not been involved 10
the graft" calling on Whitman. at the
District Attorneys request, Wednesday
night, and il was an equally open de-
duction that the order ripping Dryer 8
staff 10 pieces was the response which
any inspector or other police official
might expect If ne persisted in an at
titude Of Willingness to help the
county prosecutor in his effort TO fer
ret out the graft in the department.
Dryer himself, when seen at the
Office OF the Fourth District headquar-
tiers by Tribune reporter last night
said he had nothing to say Police
regulations are strict upon that point
but they did not prevent Dryers men
from saying that the chief is all cut
up" and they did not prevent Dryer
from showing an air Of surprised ner-
vousness at the rapidity with which
the order transferring the most of his
staff followed the report that IAN in
spector not involved in the graft had
talked over police conditions with the
District ATTORNEY
Lieutenants Cooper and Fitzgibbons,
the ranking officers OF the inspectors
staff. we're rated as among the best