New-York tribune., 1921-10-01
{ olice Forced
City TO Pay
For Joy Rides
Continued from naga one)

right, Inspector John +. Dwyer's sl54
coo real estate deal and Inspector
Dominick Henry's stocl, ventures. He
spoke of Hcnry's receipt of $500 and
his attempt TO explain it away by rea-
received it he was buying S2l 900
worth of stock
He questioned the motives Of In
| spector Dryers posing as "William
! Leslie" in his secret acquisition of the
4 $l54,O00 property, and expressed the
: opinion that the whole affair seems to
have been managed either through the
/ police force or through members Of
! the police reserves.
"lt is not wholesome practice, -
concluded Mr.. Brown, "for members of
the police force to be dealing on mar
cir or IN stocks generally. No other
class Of citizens Of like salary are able
to make any such investments. Nc
man can watch the ticker and the
criminal at the same time. The habit
ual receipt of gratuities and inordi-
nate profits and the engaging in spec
ulatIon which almost amounts to bet
ting, work a very bad effect upon men
ia official positions.
head OF the Police Department is an
Advertisement TO the lowest officer in
the ranks that he may also look to in
crease his income in the same manner
and by methods which amount to eX-
tortion."
Downing Makes Denial
Senator Bernard !. Downing. Demo-
cratic member of the committee, dis
putcd the correctness of the greater
portion of Mr.. Browns conclusions,
denying that the evidence showed that
the police officials had indulged in stool,
speculations on margin and insisting
that nothing had been adduced to show
that any member Of the Police Depart
ment had received money for the pro-
lection OF criminals or houses of pros
titution or gambling establishments.
Before plunging into the stolen car
scandal, Mr.. Wallsten dwelt for mo-
ment on the finances of the Police De-
partment. letter from Commissioner
Enright to the Mayor being produced
in evidence in which The commissioner
said that saving Of 100000 might
be shown in his department. Through
Leo ]. McDermott, former purchasing
agent for the department and now an
shown that the budget for 1918 was
$19,394.61S The expenditures for the
year. however, were S199l4,S79, an in
crease of about $500, 900 instead of
saving of $500,000.
Figures submitted showed that the
motor equipment purchases of the de
partment for the period between 1913
and 1921 were forty-eight passenger
automobiles at SA8 ,0T5 276 motorcycles
for S120, ,71S; q patrol wagons for S21.-
937, and six motor trucks for $2O,V0S,
total of $211,439.
System Of Fuel Supplies
M McDermott then described tho
routine with respect 20 the issuance of
gasoline and oil supplies to depart
mental cars, saying that department gas
stations were stationed at various
places throughout the city, and that the
drivers signed receipts for the amount
of gas and oil required, which were
registered against the car making the
reQuisition.
He said he was able to obtain only q
portion of these receipts issued for
1919 and 1920, Lieutenant Park, in
charge of receipts, saving that he could
not find all of them. and gave McDer
mott all he "was able to get" 1t was
fNom these available receipts that Nc
Dermott said he found that large guam
titles of gasoline and oil had been
issred to stolen cars.
These were cars that were reported
TO the department as having been
stolcn?" asked Mr.. Wallstein.
at would be a car that had been re-
covered by some detective who claimed
it to be a stolen car. It may not have
been reported to the department" ex-
planned Mr.. McDermott.
Mr.. McDermott then produced sta
tistics showing that some of these cars
had been in use for five months run
ming and had plentiful supplies of
gasoline and oil at the city stations.
Ae referred to a stolen Buick car that
had got 1929 gallons of gasoline
and 2lG quarts of oil between May and
September of 1919. A Dodge car re-
ceived 1856 gallons of gasoline and II
quarts Of oil in the same period, and
stolen Packard received Sc gallons
OF gas IN two months. Hupmobiles.
Cadillacs, Oldsmobiles and other cars
were shown to have received hundreds
OF gallons for several months use. The
tota distribution of gasoline and oil
TO the stolen cars during the five
monhs named Of 1919 was 4,06O gal
IONS OF gasoline and 5l6 quarts Of Oil.
Department Rules Violated
On the basis Of 80 cents gallon for
gas and IA cents quart for oil, Nc
Dermott said that this would amount
to $lzl8 for gasoline and $8256 for oil
-i 4i N''oi IlOtt mere tcStliloQ rhat the
rules of the department provide that
stolen property is to be turned in to
the property clerk Immediately upon
recovery. The department maintained
repositories for this special purpose,
he added
In the period between October and
November Of 1920, Mr. McDermott
went on, he Sound that nine stolen
cars had used a total Of 1888 gallons
oi gasoline and l42 quarts Of oil. He
SAID that the Withdrawals of fuel and
oil Invariably Increased Just before
week ends and holidays, one car hav
ing having been shown to have used
pineteen gallons of gas on the day be-
lore Memorial Day.
with respect to the matter of false
bids, number of documents purport-
ing to be bids for printing work done
for the Police Department ard osten-
sibly signed by heads of printing firms
were submitted in evidence. rnc Of
these bids purporting to have been
signed by Samuel Rabinowitz, nresi-
cent Of the Burland Press. wax do
c!ared by him on the witness stand vcs-
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