New-York tribune., 1921-01-09
Three Men, in Each Place
for Days After Raids,
Taken Off Beats Left
at Mercy Of Robbers
Woman Clerk for
Kramer Suspended
5 Others Held on Extor-
ton and Revenue Stamp
Counterfeiting Charges

investigation Of the efforts to trace
stead law revealed yesterday one rca-
son why Police Commissioner Enright
has been without sufficient men to
police the city and to keep in check
the wave Of crime which he recently
admitted existed
Special detail" the recent Tribune
inquiry into police conditions disclosed,
was an assignment that took men from
fixed post or beat and so left certain
sections at the mercy of thugs and
burglars
And one special detail, al least in the
Sd Police Inspection District. under
command of Inspector William Boet-
tier, is the guarding of saloons for days
after an arrest for liquor violations,
three policemen a day being required
for each saloon.
1t has been a matter of common
knowledge that after raid on n dis
orderly house police have been kept
on guard continual y for a considerable
period OF time after the arrest. but it
is only recently that it has been found
necessary TO use police to watch saloons
day and night after the case has been
taken to court.
Saloon Guarded for Week
The continued presence of police in
. certain saloon in the Sd Inspection
District for more than week caused
the reporter yesterday to ask the rea-
son, and it was learned that a waiter
mad Deen arrested on charge of sell
ing drinks TO two policemen in plain
clothes, and that Immediately after
| ward a policeman in uniform had been
assigned to watch the place 1t was
learned also that several other saloons
IN the immediate vicinity have been
/ pulled and that three police each day
are required to guard each place.
1t is comfortable, even if tiresome.
ass gnment for the policemen, but they
% have an opportunity to catch up in
their reading. One patroman ycster-
day was backed up to a radiator in an
easy chair reading a newspaper, and
! beside the chair on the floor were sew
cral other papers and magazines which
appeared to have been thoroughly Pc
rused.
How many men arc required for such
special detail throughout the city could
not be learned last night, as no police
official could be found Who was willing
OF who was in q position to talk
While the police were watching sa-
looms from the inside, the investigation
into whisky rings and alleged frauds
IN the issuing of permits from the
office of Prob bition Director O'Connor
was carried on.
Intelligence Chief Departs
Elmer l.. Trey, chief of the intelli-
! gence service Of the Internal Revenue
Bureau, who came here from Washing
ton to confer with Chief Hugh Nc
Quillan Of the special intelligence unit
acre, returneG 20 Washington last
night. after saying there was nothing
Of Importance to be made public Chief
McQuillans squad was responsible for
bringing to light the alleged fraud in
Director O'Cornor's Office which has
resulted in several arrests and the dis
closure that 500, 100000 in liquor has
alone during the first year Of prohibit
tion by means of fraudulent permits
and fake hold ups and robber;cs
During yesterday Chief Trey let it be
known that Irene n Richardson, a
clerk in the Office Of Prohibition Com
missioner Kramer in Washington, had
been suspended pending investigation
Of information obtained in connection
with the arrest Of William f. Mccoy,
formerly attached to Kramer's Office
and later the information clerk in
OConnors Office, who awaits hearing
on charge Of an attempted conspiracy
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