The New York herald., 1921-10-29
Woman Deputy's Tale of
Mayors Refusal to Aid
Her Work Is Told.
MEN IN RIGHT ESCAPED
Queens Voters Give Fine Re
ception to Candidate at
Three Good Meetings.


date for Mayor, charged last night
that William Randolph Hearst told a
deliberate lie when he said that the
decent men and women OF New York
should vote for Mayor Hylan because
the Mayor has driven vice from the
city. In speeches in Queens Mr.. Cur
ran declared that Mr.. Hearst is lying
and trying desperately to reelect his
seven cent fare tool Hylan, just as he
worked with might and main to put
over the ten cent fare transit plan in
Boston,
He succeeded there" Mr.. Curran
went on, land under the Hearst plan
The Boston people have worse transit
service than they ever had before. And
they have to pay a ten cent fare for it.
Hearst handed them that. Hy'an and
Hearst. between them, tried to sell to
New York city this gold brick three
wears ago, but they failed. Now they
are trying once more to fool our people
into believing that Hylan drove vice out
OF New York. They will not succeed
We are on to them, and our day is
coming
Mr.. Curran declared that Mr.. Uearst's
statement that Mayor Hylan has rid
New York of vice is so far from the
truth that it is ridiculous. He told his
audiences the story Of Mrs. Ellen
O'Grady to prove his point. and how
Mrs. O'Grady was forced to resign be-
cause she found that her fight against
vice was blocked and hampered at
every point by men close to Police
Commissioner Enright.
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Deputy Police Commissioner Ellen
O'Grady tells Of conditions at Police
Headquarters under Commissioner En-
right. but it is q story that has It's
parallel in almost every department
where Mayor Hylan has placed ia
vorite. According to Mrs. O'Grady. q
friend Of Commissioner Enright could
do no wrong. What mattered the fate
of few young girls? The all protect
ing shield of the favor of the Police
Commissioner was placed squarely be-
tween the evildoer and the law when
that evildoer was lin right at the City
Hall or at Police Headquarters.
Mrs. O'Grady's Own story.
Here is the story that Mrs. O'Grady
tells: On complaint Of woman who
said that her daughter was becoming
wild and unmanageable. she assigned
policewomen to investigate the case.
AS detail by detail was worked out and
laid before her she had three young
girls brought into her office and ques-
toned separately. Two of these girls
were II years DID, said Mrs. O'Grady,
and they told horrible story of two
men who had taken them into an apart
ment in New York These were two
very wealthy men-well known men. l
believe, at least one Of them Is very well
known
What did Mrs. OGrady do? What
would you have done had you been in
her place? She ordered her police
women to arrest those men. The police
women went to the office where the
men were, and there they found Mr..
Hackett. secretary to Police Commits
sioner Enright, and eX-lnspector
Hughes, Enright's closest friend and
boon companion for twenty years, the
man who made million dollars. The
presence of these officials naturally
confused and bewildered the police
women. They reported back by tele-
phone, said Mrs. O'Grady. that Hackett
and Hughes had prevented them from
arresting the men through their actions.
The rolicewomen reported that they
didn't say not to arrest the men. but
there was so much of their shutting
doors and taking them to one room and
shutting doors that these men got away.
Cant you see what was going on:
Can't you understand the way Mrs
O'Grady felt, trying her best to make
this city little better and little safer
for young girls. and being blocked by
the very men who should have been the
first to go to her assistance?
"She reported to Commissioner En-.
right. He asked me whether they were
good girls testified Mrs. O'Grady. i
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they black as ink any man who had
anything to do with them was guilty OF
q crime
Mayor Ignores Her Complaint.
Mrs. O'Grady also told her story
to the Mayor, she testified. She went
right to the Office of Hylan at the City
Hall and told him the whole sordid
truth how Enright's secretary and En-
rights close friend. ex-inspector
Hughes, had blocked her efforts to ar
rest these two men. Did Hylan move
one finger to bring these men to justice
when he had the facts from Deputy
Police Commissioner, whom he had ap-
pointed to uphold the law? He did not
MRS. OGrady went back to Police
Headquarters, disappointed. She knew
she was right. But she had run against
q stone wall of the Hylan-Enright meth
DDS of taking care of their friends.
After enduring this for year and
getting no help from Hylan. Mrs. O'Grsdy
resigned. and Enright's friends once
more breathed freely.
ut took Mrs. O'Grady three years to
learn her lesson. The people of New
York have had nearly four years to
learn the same thing.
"Imag gine your own daughters and sis-
ters in the clutches Of the net that the
former Deputy Police Commissioner tells
about. Imagine a policeman or a po.
licewoman hurrying to their help. Think
of the friend of Enright. his secretary
ir more authority Is needed. outside the
door with his hand uplifted: Keep out OF
this or Enright will be after you: it's a
friend OF his In there Think of the
useless appeal to the Mayor, Hylan. who
says he has suppressed vice. How many
other in right friends are there?
Now, do you think that Hearst lies
or tells the truth when he says Hylar
drove vice out of New York? Hylan says
Ask McTnness.' say, Ask Mrs
O'Grady'"
Mr.. Curran's speeches last night were
made in the high school In Broadway
and Whitestonc avenue. Flushing ia
maica Training School. at Hillside and
clinton avenues. Jamaica, and the Lyceun
Building. North Hampstead road ant
Springfield avenue, Queens village, all ir
Queens.