New-York tribune., 1921-10-30

not only of New York City, but of the
State of New York"
When Mr.. Whitman saw q copy Of
this statement, he said:
Becker was not framed. His guilt
was proved repeatedly in the courts.
| There is no occasion for Inspector
Dwyer to challenge anybody. Ifhe has
any evidence it is his duty to submit
it Immediately to the District Attorney
or the Grand Jury.
"lf Becker was framed the persons
who framed him are guilty of murder.
There IS nc statute of limitations
where the crime of murder is con-
cerned. If Inspector Dwyer knows that
Becker was framed and does not sub
nit 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"
Inspector Dwyer is fifty three years
old, is married, has four children and
lives at 436 Seventy second Street,
Brooklyn. He was educated in the pub
lie schools, travelled around the world
four times as an officer in the mer-
chant marine and in the United States
Navy, whence ne was honorably dis
charged in 1891 as chief quartermaster,
He re-enlisted as seaman when war
with Spain broke out. He saw action
in Cuba and entered the Police Depart
ment soon after the close of the war,
when he was honorably mustered out.
He became policeman in 1896, a
sergeant in July, 1908; lieutenant in
December, 1905; a captain in July,
1912, and an inspector in August, 1912,
taking charge of the 4th Inspection
District of Manhattan. He was later
placed in charge of police reserves.
Former Mayor Gaynor's so-called
curfew orders regulating closing hours
of cabarets early in 1913 brought In
spector Dwyer into various clashes
with Mr.. Whitman, District Attorney
at that time and later Governor. There
was spectacular raid on "Ton "
Healeys restaurant on Sixty-sixth
Street by Dwyer and fifty policemen
early one morning in August, 1913, to
close the place at 1 o'clock. The affair
wound up in a happy manner with a
beefsteak dinner given by Healey to
the newspaper men who covered" it,
and Inspector Dwyer was the guest of
honor.
Nurses Take Action
Just before revelations disclosing
Inspector Dwyer's connection with the
apartment house at 403 West l15th
Street had been made before the Meyer
committee tenants in. the house filed
suit against the lnespector in Septem-
her, charging abuse and mistreatment,
The suit was filed by Miss Ethel
Schwinger in behalf of seven nurses.
The Inspector replied that he was not
member of the Park Court Realty
Company, which owned the building,
but that his son, James, had an in
terest in it.
The Inspector admitted as a witness
before the committee, that he had pur-
chased the property on March 20, 1920,
and that he had laid out only $4,000 in
cash, all his savings, on the property.
He said he finally assigned all his in
terest in it to his son James before
the latter shipped as "an able-bodied
seaman" on a tramp steamer for Bonn
bay. India, on July 81 last.
1t also appeared from the testimony
before the committee that attempts
we're made to cloud the purchase of the
property by series of impersonatons.
Inspector Dwyer, according to the rec
ord, had been introduced to the ten
ants of the place as William Leslie y
James Dwyer, his son, to whom he says
he turned over his whole interest in
the property, was known to the house
holders as James Miller"