The New York herald., 1921-08-25
DETECTIVE INDICTED
FOR BRONX MURDER
Haggerty Rearrested in
Magistrates Court in
LazarO Case.
PATROLMAN ABS0LVED
Moran Believed Guiltless of
Clayton Shooting in
Third Avenue.
SAY GUNSON WAS FRAMED
Rebecca Melaydo Swore She
Would Get Him, Testimony
at Police Hearing.

jeremiah Haggerty, Bronx detective,
who is charged with the shooting of
Joseph Lazaro on August IA, is under
Indictment for first degree murder.
When the adjourned homicide case
against Haggerty was called yesterday
by Magistrate Simms in West Farms
court. w. b. Dobbs, Assistant District
Attorney of The Bronx, said the Grand
Jury returned the indictment on Tues
day night.
Haggerty was rearrested and taken
TO the Bronx county Jail to await ar
raignment before Justice Martin in
Supreme Court.
The Grand Jury heard Joseph Palla-
zola, who was with Lazaro when he
was shot The witness repeated his
statement that Haggerty demanded
$500 for protection against a liquor
charge and accepted SIS from them be-
fore the shooting. Patrolman Halle OF
the Wakefield station, who found Pal
lazola and L.azaro soon after the shots
we're fired; DIR. John Riegelmann, med
ical examiner, and Rosalie Lopresci
also testified.
PatroIman Moran Absoived.
The investigation ordered by Com
missioner Enright into the shooting on
Monday of Edmund Clayton at 1913
Third avenue, in which Clayton hrst
named Patrolman William ]. Moran, Jr..
OF the West Forty-seventh street sta
ton. was closed yesterday by Inspector
Thomas v. Underhill of the Fourth In
spection District. The inspector said
he was satisfied by Clayton's testimony
and that OF others that Moran had no
connection with the affair. He asserted
the investigation established that Gay
ton was shot by some unidentified per-
son standing inside a billiard hall, and
that Moran had not been there that
day
Sergeant Major Walter II. Valance
Of the 1o4th Field Artillery. OF which
CLAYTON is a member. was questioned
Nv the INSPECTOR He said that when
CLAYTON arrived at the armory after the
shooting to report for duty. he told con-
flicting stories.
Joseph Scheska, proprietor of the BILL
Hard hall, was certain Moran had not
been inside the place that day, and he
was equally certain that the shot which
wounded Clayton was fired by some
person in the building.
CLAYTON previously had said he was
shot while facing the front door, ana
that he saw Moran standing on the
corner. He told the inspector yester-
day that he was standing in the door
Iookinp IN when struck The bullet hit
the fore part of his leg.
story Arose From Confusion.
CLAYTON said his first story was sthe
result of confusion following the shoot
ing. and that when he arrived at the
hospital he was too much upset to tell
coherently what had happened.
Moran declared he must have left the
vicinity before the shooting took place,
because he knew nothing at all about IL.
The only charge now pending against
the patrolman is one of absence without
leave Moran says he became Ill and
asked a cousin to report for him. De-
tectiyes of the East Sixty-seventh street
station now are looking for the man who
shot Clayton.
At the continuation of the trial OF
Detective John j. Gunson before Deputy
Police Commissioners Leach, simon ana
DAILY. at Police Headquarters. II was
testified that Gunson, who Is suspended
on charges of protecting disorderly
house and accepting a bribe, was
framed"
Detective Thomas Albauch OF the spe-
cial service division, said that while ne
was in the corridor of Jefferson Market
court on December IL, 1919. he heard
Rebecca Malaydo, who has testified pre-
viousiy at the trial, remark that she
would frame Gunson II II took the rest
OF her. life Similar testimony was given
by other policemen. Miss Melaydo oe-
MED making such a statement. Inc case
,css adjourned until Wednesday.