The New York herald., 1921-10-05

Hughes, former police inspector, VIII,
b now head Of thriving private de
ective agency which does a big bust
pess policing piers and who Is an in
innate friend OF Commissioner En-
aght. interferred in company with th'
commissioners secretary. Mr.. Hackett
Ind the arrests were not made.
Testimony dealing with other phases
pf police administration developed ,ha
Mayor Hylan's private automobile il
listed among the twenty-eight car!
maintained by the Police Department
1t the city's expense. These cars. op
grated by prominent city officials wh'
receive big salaries. are supplied will
everything down to tires and even new
bodies. The cost of this maintenance
IN 1920 was sl1,954.
Motor Cars Kept UP by City.
Among those who avn the cars thus
Kept up by the city. and the cost In
zach instance. according to the testi-
nony. are /: Mayor Hylan. $3.50; Com
missioner Enright. s2.6s4; THE Mayors
pffice." $2,763 Inspector Underhill
1881; Commissioner David Hirshfield
$3.50: Inspector Thor. s4s6. and many
others The special deputies also re-
ceived automobile supplies.
II was brought out that the Hylan
administration discarded the system OF
public letting for automobile tires and
gave all the business to a Brooklyn firm
which. according to the police record
was the only firm guaranteeing 5000
miles for tires" The same records
showed that the police kept no account
Of the mileage of cars to check up on
The guarantee ard that other firms bid
ding for the business gave 5000 mile
guarantees.
Numerous small contracts aggregat-
Ing many thousands were given out by
the police for supplies, repairs In police
stations. painting. plum bing and other
work In violation Of ths charter. The
rule which forbids department head
letting a contract for $1,000 or more
without public letting was circumvented
by the simple scheme of splitting jobs
costing. say, $4,000 into four items and
parcelling them out separately a short
time apart. The favored contractors
got the work.
Late In the afternoon, after the COM
lnittee's record had been filled with this
mass Of testimony, all tending to show
abuse OF the police power or waste and
bad administration. Mr.. Brown sud-
denly switched to Inspector Dryers
case. In less than ten minutes these
three important bits Of evidence were
In the record:
That Inspector Dwyer was half
owner Of the Hotel de France. in
Torty-ninth street, known formerly
Is the Van Cortiandt and by several
other names In recent years. and that
the directors Of the company were
Ferdinand Delenne. John J. Hayden
and John Dr1scoll.
Books Fail to Show Transfer.
That there is no record In the
books OF the Park Court Realty Com
pany, the corporation organized to
take over the apartment In 116th
street purchased by Inspector Dwyer.
of the transfer OF 106 shares of the
stock by Inspector Dwyer as he has
testified was made.
That the signatures OF James r.
Dwyer, son Of the inspector. on a
lease was not in his handwriting. in
the opinion Of Albert Briggs. paying
teller Of tho Empire Trust Com
pany. which handled the Park Court
Company's business. Briggs said he
knew James r. Dwyer's handwriting
and would not pass the signature.
After flashing this important testi-
tnony the inspector was again sum-
moned to the stand. He said he would
like to make a statement and produced
n sheaf Of papers. Pale and with voice
trembling he stood for an hour deliver
Ing his speech. He said in part:
II want to invite the attention Of thii
committee to the question that you
asked the secretary OF the Park Court
Realty Company, Did she know James
l. Miller? You didn't ask her II she
knew James l.. Dwyer. know what
the idea was, so that the section Of the
reptile press could spread broadcast
there was some trickery or deceit in It.
Hold on" Mr.. Brown interrupted. Il
am giving you the privilege Of speak.
Ing. and you will confine yourself 10
language which Is as parliamentary as
I use, and wish to say to you that
was asking in relation to an entry In
The check book Of James l.. Miller, and
! believe 1t was payable TO one OF your
sons That Is the reason l asked"
I'm your summary last week you
spoke Of my stock transactions and
want to say for your information, Sena-
tor. that I have been dealing In stocks
since 1890. i was a member OF the
Consolidated stock Exchange in 1895.
and at that time I was worth $4,000. ]
want to submit here figures showing
that an ordinary saving man with my
time In the Police Department would
have. X he had deposited his yearly
savings In the bank. now s24.413. fig-
ured out at compound interest at per
can't.
Says Newspapers Distorted.
sSome of The newspapers. and ]
am glad not all. distorted that 1884,
900 house to make II appear that paid
1884. 900 cash for II. did not do any
thing of the kind. You ought to in
because they are the super -governmen,
Of the city. and shall recite to you
how some OF them act.
"I recall the editor of one of these
papers. which Is most vicious In present.
ing this news at this time. asking me
when I was Commander OF the Harbor
Squad. II I was going out on the boat or
Sunday, II he could not accompany me
and said yes, ] would be glad to have
him He was the editor OF the Evcuiul
World. The following day he called me
up and asked siie II was going out the
following Sunday. and / said yes He
asked me II had any objection TO his
going and bringing his private secre-
tary with him. said no."
II am attacking system. an institu-
tion: am being attacked. went down
on the boat and found the editor and
his private secretary, a lady, on board
We visited the islands down on Jamaics
ra-v and refurnad IN tho v,ior ood tt ~.