The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-14
MRS. O'GRADY QUITS
AS POLICE DEPUTY
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take the public into her confidence MAJ
have upon the threatened investigation
OF the Hylan administration by com
mittee OF the Legislature was not over
looked by the many commentators.
Rumors that all was not we'll between
the Commissioner and his Fifth Deput,
have been blow ng about headquarters
for several months, but never got into
print because official confirmation coult
not be obtained That these rumor'
were well founded was acknowledged
yesterday by Mrs O'Grady herself. She
said that she had been on the point
OF resgning two years ago and
that since then she often had been
in a frame of mind to leave the de-
partment She did not admit this
but 81 Is fact that her relations
with Commissioner Enright have been
exceedingly formal, II indeed they have
had any direct communication at all Cor
the last two months. This was caused
by feeling on her part that she was be-
ing hand capped in the making of certain
raids that she contemplated, after her
detectives had gathered what they re-
garded as good evidence.
When she returned to her office-on
the second floor, down the corridor from
the COMMISSIONER safer turning in her
gold shield Mrs O'Grady was well nigh
hystericaL She told her office staff
what she had done and they crowded
around her and wrung their hands She
was saying There are n thousand and
one reasons" and 1T has been iutoler-
able" when reporters entered At about
the same time Joseph :. Faurot. the
Fourth Deputy, came in. Mrs. O'Grady
exclaimed II am a gentlewOman am
not going to take anything out of here
] did not contemplate such n thing as
this. l did not even bring suitcase
10 pack up my belongings"
But Faurot withdrew after explaining
that he had merely come after some
records. Then Mrs. O'Grady talked to
the reporters, and later conflded a few
more words when they met her in the
corridor as she was leaving with her
daughter and secretary. Miss Florence
O'Grady. who resigned with her mother
Frequently she threw up both hands In
gesture denoting inability to find words
for all that was in her mind.
Work Neglected for Hospital.
since January, 1920" she said. IL
have been treated like a dog by Com
missioner Enright. That was the time
my women detectives tried to arrest a
man in his office for outrageous treat
ment of a girl. You remember the case
] refer to. Ever since then everything
has been thrown In my way. It Gull
mi ated this morning when Mrs. Mary
1a hilton. a policewoman. came into my
office and ignoring me told Acting Capt.
Anlmon that she wanted two police
women to help her work on the police
hospital drive. She wanted Mrs Sulli-
van and Mrs. Mccarthy, and also wanted
Mrs Isabella Goodwin (who is a first
grade detective)
Mrs Hamilton wanted these women
20 work for the police hospital, and
when / wanted women to search for
missing girls | could not get them. This
morning a man came into my Office and
said he had reported to the Bureau Of
Missing Persons that his sister had been
lost since September Ia. They prom
ised to send a woman detective. but did
not do so. and he begged me to send one.
There seem to be no women available in
the missing persons bureau. for they are
all working on the hospital drive.
Last month mother abandoned her
four children. I wanted woman detec-
tive, but couldn't get one. and had to
carry on the work myself Then they
have taken my car away from me. and
when l asked for one Commissioner En-
right said. You can't have a car
asked Mayor Hylan for a car and he
TOO, refused All this happened after
started TO investigate the workings OF q
man in his office Recently l was III
and four days pay was taken out OF my
salary.
This morning I learned that Mr..
Cohen and another man. who are in
terested in moving pictures. complained
about my detectives investigating NOV
ing picture theatres. ! have been told
that my work was too strenuous. look
ing after the morals Of girls in moving
picture houses, and told to go slow.
Permission was also refused me TO at
tend a conference in Washington.
II thought / could hold this position
until the first Of the year. but the action
taker this morning by Commissioners
Enright forced me to resign. He has
insulted me in my work on many occa-
sions. When exerted strenuous efforts
TO enforce the law in the dance halls
that work was taken away from me
have been hampered for a long time
] have been forbidden to make welfare
speeches at meetings of different assO-
Citations and have been bounded almos;
TO death.
ut is a crime against the public tc
let incompetent persons and puppets run
the department as It is being run to-
day. There seems TO be nothing but
politics IN the department, out they can
use me in politics. l could not hold
my self-respect and remain any longer
i have n thousand and one things to
tell about the department later on.
Now. I'm all tired out and need y
rest. Commissioner Enright has already
placed Commissioner IN my office "a
see that nothing Is taken out As II
that was necessary"
could stand IL No Longer"
As she was leaving the building in
Centre street Or. Carleton Simon. Specia
Deputy Commissioner in charge Of the
suppression Of the traffic In narcotics
shook hands with Mrs. OGrady.
"well, am leaving you" she said
There are some things person cannot
stand" Then TO newspaper men she
added: "Oh. when I think of the cryina
mothers asking that their daughters be
folnd, and my efforts meeting with nc
attention when there are no detective
women to work on such cases whom
think OF all the negligence / have oh.
served--oh. well. I could stand Il NJ
longer. / could write a book on tbs
things that have happened since / came
into the department. The COMMISSIONS
says I talked too much 70 the news
papers. but you men know that Tv'
ldone my work and you couldn't get any