The New York herald., 1921-10-30
DWYER QUIYSP0LICE;
ASSALS MANY FOES
Inspector Bitterly Attacks
Whitman, Senators and
Meyer Counsel.
CALLS PROBE A SHAM
In Sensational Statement
He Defends Record and
Invites Libel Suits.
BECKER FRAMED, HE SAYS
.Grotesque,' Comments Whit
man; Meyer Will Await
Committee Action.

Police Inspector John +. Dwyer upon
the eve OF his retirement on a pension
after twenty-five years of service, yes
terday put forth a statement bitterly
assailing the Meyer committee and ex-
Gov. Charles S. Whitman and chal-
Jenging the committee to let him sub
n,ft 70 It evidence which he says he
has that Police Lieut.. Charles Becker,
who was put to death for the murder
of Herman Rosenthal. was framed"
Inspector Dwyer was under fire be-
fore the Meyer committee a month
ago. He says he is retiring because of
poor health: that he is not running
away from the committee, and that
ishes its work.
II am in a position, having devel-
oped the evidence within the last two
weeks, to prove that Becker was
framed-framed without the shadow
Of doubt" said Dwyer in his state
ment, "and am prepared, and challenge
the Meyer committee. to permit me to
put that in evidence; also ex-Capt.
Dominicx Riley and number of 9TH
ers.
"As police officer Of high rank and
twenty-five years. experience know
thoroughly the law concerning libel and
my responsibility Hereunder. now
challenge publicly all of the people con-
cerned in the crime to which have
referred to take criminal action against
me for libel.
Vital to Law Enforcement.
'"The Becker case particularly, as af-
fecting law and order and our civiliza-
tion and humanity, is proper subject
of inquiry by the Meyer committee. 1t
vitality affects the enforcement of the
criminal law. including the duties and
responsibilities of the two most power
full departments in the city Of New
York: the Police Department and the
District Attorneys Office. and If the
Meyer committee fails to investigate the
frameups that I herein publicly charge
1T will prove conclusively that their in
vestigation from the beginning was q
sham and n fraud on the people, not
only of New York city but of the State
of New York"
Ex-Governor Whitman. when this was
reported to him. said:
Becker was not framed. His guilt
was proved repeatedly in the courts.
There Is no occasion for Inspector Dwyer
20 challenge anybody. If he has any
evidence 1t his duty to submit it i'm
mediately to the District Attorney or the
Grand Jury.
"If Becker was framed the persons
who framed him are guilty of murder.
There is no statute of limitations where
the crime of murder is concerned. If
Inspector Dwyer knows that Becker was
framed and does not submit the proof to
the proper authorities he is guilty of the
crime of suppressing evidence and is
an accessory to the crime of murder.
Inspector Dwyer's statement is gro
tesque. That is all have to say"
Senator Schuyler Meyer. chairman of
the committee of the Legislature, said
last night. in Milford, Conn. that as the
committee had adjourned to the middle
of November It's attitude toward In
spector Dwyer's challenge could not be
determined until then and after con-
sultation with the committees counsel
Personally, Senator Meyer could not
see that Dwyer's charges came within
the scope of an investigation of the
present city government of New York.
Recovering From Pneumonia.
Inspector Dwyer. who recently has di-
rccted the police reserves. was i'll of
pneumonia last spring and has not
wholly recovered his strength. He had
told friends some time ago that he would
retire as soon as he had served the
requisite twenty-five years. He passes
into private life at 12 :01 o'clock to-
morrow morning. Six typewriter copies
Of his statement were taken to Head
quarters and given to reporters by a
patrolman from Dwyer's office In the
old Greenwich street station house. II
was unsigned. The parts of 1t not
already quoted follow:
II had planned to retire on the 10th
inst, the day on which / had completed
my twenty-five years of service without
a blemish, except false statements given
tc the press by former Governor and
District Attorney Charles s. Whitman in
connection with his attempt to frame me
up on various occasions, and the ex-
plotation by a portion of the press of the
false and poisonous information given to
it by Whitman, together with the lying
efforts of a h.debouud partisan commit
tee and it's counsel, which tried to fabri-
cate by untruth, deceit, chicanory and
distortion OF facts that was other than
III nOIleSt lilh1 una idltniul W my uutleS
as a police officer.
II am not running away from the
Meyer committee nor it's counsel, particu-
larly Senator Elon II. Brown, Leonard
w. Wallstein and cx-Deputy Police Com
missioner Frank Lord. / will remain
right here in New York until the COM
mittee closes it's work, although such ac-
tion is seriously detrimental to my health
and injurious TO my future business pros
poets.
Praises Police Force.
1T feel II Is my duty. not for myself
alone but for the reputation of the
Police Department, through all the
grades OF which / have passed and
which ! am convinced Is the finest body
of men In the world. II given an OPP
portunity by the Meyer committee
am prepared to prove that its chief
cvunsef, Senator Brown, deliberately
told personally into the record three
deliberate, material falsehoods and that
his assistant counsel. ex-Commssioner
Of Accounts Leonard w. Wallstein,
under Mayor Mitchers administration,
attempted to influence the testimony OF
lPatroIman John w. Suffer and Ser
geant William o. Jones In the case of
Abraham Plaut. convicted of bribery be-
fore Judge Cropsey in Brooklyn
Inspector Dwyer testified before the