The New York herald., 1921-01-14
CAPTAIN OF POLICE
INDICTED THROUGH
WHITMAN INQUIRY
First Evidence in CityPrObe
Brings Prompt Action by
Grand Jury.
$500 GRAFT CHARGED
Payment for Protection by
Fur Employers During
Strike. Is Alleged.
ON TRAIL OF MORE GIFTS
Investigation to Turn on Other
Observation-Disclosures Of
ficer Is Suspended.
IN TRAIL OF MORE GIFTS


The first of series of indictments
expected by Charles s. Whitman in
his search for evidence of criminality
within the city government. was re-
turned yesterday by the additional
January Grand Jury. The whole case
was presented and the indictment
voted in a single forenoon.
The man accused is Capt. William
4. Bailey, commander of the police of
the Twenty third precinct. the old
renderloin. and member of the Po-
lice Department twenty eight years.
He is charged with asking and receiv-
ing money from fur manufacturers in
return. for police protection of their
factories and employees during last
summers strike. The sum mentioned
in the indictment is $500, alleged TO
have been paid to Capt. Bailey by
William Pike, assistant manager OF
the Associated Fur Manufacturers,
Inc, in the Tenderloin station house
on or about August u last year.
Capt Bailey went 70 the Criminal
Courts Building where he was arrested
and released in $4,000 bail. He Is TO De
arraigncd before Judge Grain III Gen
cral Sessions this morning. Late yes
terday afternoon nc was suspended from
duty by Commissioner Enright Capt.
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West Thirtieth street precinct.
The indictment was found under sec
ton 1926 of the Penal Law. This pro-
hibits a public officer from asking or
receiving a fee for the performance or
non-perforynance OF his duty. The Of
fence is a felony. The penalty In case
Of conviction is imprisonment up to ten
Years. or a fine up to $4,000. or, both.
Policemen n witnesses.
The principal witnesses introduced to
the Grand Jury by Mr.. Whitman wero
A. y, Leventhal treasurer. and d. z.
Mills. manager. of the Associated fur
Nrapufo cturers. Mr.. Pike. assistant
narager. ana sergeant and patrolman
OF capt. Baileys force. 1t is understood
that Mr.. pike adulitted 10 Mr.. Whitman
that he handed the $500 in cash 10
cant. Bailey. that Mr.. Leventhai said
he gave the money to Pike Tor that
purpose. and that Mr.. NILS SAID ne
kne,r Of the transaction. II did not ap-
near that any corroborating witness to
the actual passing Of the money was
produced.
1t was brought out, however, that
about the tifke OF the alleged feeling
Of Cant. Bailey he assigned some OF
his men to guard the fur factories and
their ioyal workers. Two OF these men
were the sergeant and patrolman. VINO
like the other witnesses. went oesoro
the Grand Jury under subpoena.
Mr. whitman seized the blotters and
thor records Of the West Thirtieth
street station yesterday by means OF
subpoeua duces tocum and had them IN
The Criminal Courts Building. There
two Of his assistants in tho quest. As-
s.s,ant District ATTORNEY James l..
smith and William Chi."ers. were az
work last night comparing the assign
nant of policemen as IL appeared on
TO policemen By the tur manufacturers
as evidenced BY the books Of the fur
manufacturers ASSOCIATION. which were
seized on Tuesday.
II developed, according TO the investi-
gators. that twenty or thirty OF Capt
Baiiey's subordinates we're in the habit
of receiving presents ranging from $40
20 $40 from the furriers as tokens OF the
latter's esteem. MIR. Whitman believes
these patrolmen and sergeants could be
indicted now, but nc considers them
small game compared with the quarry
whose trail he has struck. Tic turricrs
books indicate that one irm paid 70
various members Of the Police Depart
n,ent last srmrscr and fall s2,750. Mr.
Whitman said that The alleged $500 pay
men, 10 capt Bailey apparently was
only one OF many. lie added that evil
dence might be presented against othor
police captains
Does YOUR evidence point 20 anybody
higher than captain?" he was asked.
81 don't want TO say that" he an
swered.
with the Bailey case disposed OF for
the present, Mr.. Whitman turned his
flashlight in other directions. He
started to examine the suggestion Of
graf, In other city departments. This
was contained in bundle Of papers
handed 90 him BY Meier Steinbrink.
counsel for the Board Of Estimate In its
Investigation. and constituted all tho
suspicionablc matters Mr. Stcinbrink has
encountered thus far. Mr. Whitman has
no; sized it up yet. io said last night
he did not know how important it might
prove 10 be.
He admitted that other charges be
has heard and viii investigate include
assertions that tho police act as
feeders" for certain private detective
agencies and become extraordinarily
active when these agencies are retained
by business men beset BY robbers; that
policemen even receive pay from private
agencies. and that there are certain
restaurants in the Tenderloiu In which
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