New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-18
Accounts of Commissioners
and Bosom Friend, Head
of Neutrality-suspicious.
ing HylanRe egime, Barred
Mayors Meddling
Forced Bugher Out
Auto From Allan Ryan to
Enright Mystery; Meyer
Inquiry Takes Recess

II was revealed before the Meyer
legislative investigating committee
yesterday that Richard E. Enright,
during the three years and eight
months he has held the Office of Pc
lice Commissioner, has deposited in
various banks total of s10o,421.79.
The Commissioner salary is
$500 year. He said on the stand
that when he took Office in 1918 his
total possessions amounted to be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000, including
farm in Steuben County, valued at
$4,000 and about $4,000 in Liberty
bonds.
Delving into the financial affairs
Of former Police Inspector Edward
P. Hughes, known to be ore Of Com
missioner Enright's most intimate
friends before and since Hughes's
retirement from the department in
1919, it was shown, according to the
record, the total bank deposits of
Hughes in the period between Janu-
NY /, 1918, and September Is, 1921 !,
aggregated s1,069,152.69. I
Hughes is head of detective aeenoy
bearing his name, and, according To ].
Auditore. a previous witness. told the
later that Commissioner Enright was
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was denied b. tie Commissioner later.
similar period Inspector Dominick
denry had made deposits totaliug S43,-
1880. This included, it was said,
sums contributed TO joint account by
his wife.
The Commissioner had said he ''could
not recall" any additional gifts other
shan the s12,083 check from Special
Deputy Police Commissioner Allan A.
Ryan, whereupon evidence was pro-
drced mining him as : the purchaser
81 S2,750 Stutz motor cay, which had
peen paid for By chetl Of Allan A.
Ryan. The alleged purchase, according
70 the record took place on March 25.
1918. The check was dated April 16
Enright Denies Auto Purchase
The Commissioner denied that ne rad
made any such purchase or that any
such car had been bought for him.
he said he couldn't understand how
his name appeared in the books of the
automobile firm as TIE purchaser of
sas car. He explained, however, that
about month before April Is, 1918,
tae day arranged for lis wedding, sew
efal friends, inctuding James H. Ward,
e-president Of the Bethlehem Steel
company, and Allan A. Ryan, had
gotten together to present his wife
Win wedding gift of a Stutz motor
car, and that the car had been present
"a 70 her on April Is. although the
Wedding was postponed, until November
ne denied emphntically that he had
ansfhing 70 do With the purchase of
S.s car or that It wa@ for him.
me Commissioner went into a de-
nied account of his deposits, saying
se had no money in any bank other
nan those named in the evidence. He
seeed that be had safe deposit boz
sad invited the comm fttee to exay the
y. he said his wife had bank ae.
.vuh'. but he could not recall what, o.
were tae bank was.
me Commissioner accounted for sC5.
~ ot his deposits by describing Ioa ns
relatives ard friends. and their re
gssposi' when paid. He referred tc
ne salary for the four years as more
ssn se<n s2s ,ooo, the Ryan check for S12,
s'3' various sums Of withdrawals anc
,yeoepos:ts, Il tTaraaction for ths
aa'gats Of Columbus involving ST.,
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