The New York herald., 1921-10-05
Police Inspector Asserts
Meyer Committees Motives
Are Crooked, Aided by
Reptile Press
VENTS IRE ON WHITMAN
Says Brooklyn G.. @. P. Lead
er Got $4,000 for Pushing
Detective Bill; Accuses (
Newspaper Men.
WHY MRS. O'GRADY QUIT
Ex Deputy Testifies Police
Protected Two MilliOnaires
Who Lured Girls-Ac-
cuses Enright.

John F. Dwyer, police inspector,
furnished dramatic ending to a
sensational day at the Meyer com.
mittee's hearing in City Hall yes.
tcrday when he took the witness
stand and in answer to the allega-
tions made by witnesses regarding
his own misconduct attacked the In.
vestigators and assailed their mo-
tives: denounced the reptile press,
which, he said, was trying to ruin.
him, and defied the committee to in
vestigate long series Of bribery and
oppression charges which he recited
in detail.
Overwrought and almost at the
point Of breaking down, the inspector
assailed and challenged the commit
tee through long statement In
which he told what he said was some
of the inside story of the old Tender.
loin police days when he was czar
Of the district.
The inspector dared Elon r.
Brown. counsel, to summon Charles
F. Murphy. Republican district leader
in Brooklyn, whom he accused of
having "got $4,000 for putting
through the detective bill" He
named newspaper men to whom he
accredited great influence, and de-
clared their failure to force him to
let up on disreputable resorts led to
attacks by the press which have not
ceased. All this was supposed to
have happened years ago.
wasted Schooner of Whiskey.
Charles s. Whitman, former Dis
trict Attorney and Governor. was the
special object of the inspectors
wrath. Mr.. Whitman tried to get
him drunk. the inspector said, and to
plot the downfall of gamblers and
others, but the inspector was too
canny to drink the schooner OF
whiskey" offered him. instead pour.
it down his shirt front and keeping
all his senses.
Reviewing half dozen notorious
Tenderloin cases, the inspector en-
deavored to show in each how Whit
man had sought an advantage. This
led to bad feeling, he charged, and
from that grew the animosity of the
Republicans and the press now bent
on running him.
Altogether it was such a remark.
able anomaly of disconnected affairs
that IL held the audience spellbound
while the members of the committee
and counsel sat gasping in astonish.
ment. The Tammany members were
plainly in discomfort. They tried to
suppress the inspector. But he would
not down. Evidently he was under
a severe nervous tension as result
of the several days examination con-
cerning his administration OF the
police reserves.
After IL had gone on for half an
hour and the Tammany men were in
a cold sweat Elon r. Brown, senior
counsel, gently and kindly advised
the inspector he was making a grave
mistake. That did not halt him.
Even before the inspector stepped
upon the witness stand and began
hurting his defiance the committee
rad experienced thrills enough to
last for one days
Mrs. O'Grady Makes Charges.
Mrs. Ellen A. O'Grady, formerly
Deputy Police Commissioner, stirred
the investigators by charging that.
wealthy men against whom she had
gathered evidence of vice were pro.
tected by the Police Commissioner.
She had proof that two wealthy
Brooklyn men whom she designated
as Dempsey and Seaman" had
picked up young girls in Fifth ave.
nue. and lured them to their apart
ment, and charged that police pres
sure was exerted to save them.
She was bounded out OF the depart
ment. Mrs. O'Grady said. after she
had given the order for the arrest OF
the two "millionaires" whom she ac-
cused of corrupting the morals of the
young. But even before that time,
she said, she had got in bad by de-
regulation Of disrcputable
motion picture resorts. and declared
that a "magnate" in that industry was
with Commissioner Enright when an
order came from his office that she
must ''let up in her crusade against
the bad men In the movie business.
When her assistants attemptc-j to