The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-14
MRS.O'RADYQUITS
ASPOLICE DEPUTY;
CONDEMNS REGIME
Hampered in Every Way
and Treated Like a Dog
She Declares.
BROAD CHARGES MADE
Says Assistants Were Taken
From Work to Solicit for
Hospital Fund.
ENRIGHT ISSUES DENIAL
Commissioner Takes Issue on
Almost Every Point of
Subordinate's Story.
ENRIGHT ISSUES DENIAL


Deputy Police Commissioner Of her
sex New York ever has had, pushed
through the swinging doors of Com
missioner Enright's office yesterday
and slammed down her gold shield on
his mahogany desk. The metal ana
her voice rang together.
I'm through" she said.
"What?" said the Commissioner.
wheeling in his chair.
I'm through. / resign
With that she turned and hurried
out as swiftly as she entered; the
Commissioner looked after and SAID
nothing. Two hours later Mrs. OGrady
finished her packing up and left head
quarters for good. On the threshold
she said it felt good to be out in the
fresh air and free again.
AT Headquarters and later at her
home in Brooklyn, Mrs. OGrady told
n story covering the three years since
January %. 1918, when she was ap-
pointed TO the Fifth Deputy Commits
sionership at the instance OF her ola
friend. Mayor Hylan, and intrusteo
with special duties relating to the
trenic in women, offences affecting
women and girls. social welfare ana
the protection Of children. In the per-
Torrance Of these duties since jan
,,~ o, last she said she had been nam
,,,rd in every way. and had been
-catcd like a dog"
s-,urres Politics and incompetence
Her most serious general charge is
tbit the Police Department is ruled py
ro-rlcs and administered by "incom-
ne.onts and puppets" The most serious
speciac charge attributed to her is that
thr managers OF some motion picture
theatres hare received a promise OF I'M
nunity from police interference In return
for contributions to the fund that Is be-
inc raised for the police hospital. Mrs.
O'Grady was quoted as saying
.Nyhen nv detectives went to enforce
the law in a number of moving picture
houses the managers of these houses
showed them receipts stating that they
had contributed to the police hospitai
fund and said they had been promised
that no police action would De taken
against them" To NEW YORK HERALD
reporter last night Mrs. O'Grady denied
she made this charge. She said instead
she never had seen a cent of graft
She says that interference and hound
irg" to which she pictures herset as
having been subjected, began in Janu-
arv last. when she and her women
detectives tried to bring about the arrest
Of a dealer In stocks who was accused
lv n girl Of having taken the girl to his
nome on Riverside Drive and attacked
her. In a subsequent investigation by
the District Attorney it was said that
when Mrs OGrady's aids took the girl
10 the downtown office OF the accused
man to see IL she identified him, John c.
lIackett. then Commissioner Enrights
secretary, and Edward y. Hughes. re-
tired police inspector. happened to be In
thc Office and that the girl barely got a
rlimpse o. the brokes as he was de-
,artingN through side door rev
weeks later Haclkett resigned from the
l,olice Department The Grand Jury did
rot indict anybody.
From that time until the present.
saws Mrs O'Grady. she has been con-
stantly harassed in her work and things
came to such a pass that she could
not remain at her post and retain
her self respect She says that unen-
durable conditions reached climax
Yesterday when two of her remaining
women workers were taken away to
help raise money for the police hos
pital. and when word came TO her
from the Commissioner that her methods
Of protecting children by removing
them from movie theatres where they
were unaccompanied by adults or were
subject to evil influences we're too
strenuous.
Her minor complaints are that the
commissioner would not let her make
speeches telling OF her work. and that
neither he nor the Mayor, to whom she
appealed. would let her have new
automobile.
Mayor Declines to Comment.
Al CITY Hall Mayor Hylan had moth
ing to say about Mrs. O'Grady's resig-
nation and accusations AT Police
Headquarters, Commissioner Enright,
induging himself In one OF his rare
interviews with newspaper men, made
statement intended as specific denial
OF everything Mrs. O'Grady said that
reflected in any way upon his admins
tration. This will be found in another
column. The Commissioners said. for
example. that he had never given Mrs
O'Grady any orders on the subject OF
motion picture law enforcement. and as
y matter Of fact. he said. he regarded
her work as largely extra depart
mental and never knew just what she
was doing toward the enforcement Of
these laws
The fact and the manner OF Mrs.
O'Grady's resignation caused the biggest
stir at headquarters and through all the
city departments that has come UP in the
course of the Hylan- Enright administra-
ton. The bearing her action and at
ttude and her apparent disposition to