The New York herald., 1921-10-05

1 'AlCt drEcSted mary dOOue lOr hccpiH6
disor derly house. She was arraigned
efore Judge Murphy in the Night Court.
md she .oi6 the story that she had been
| aging money to the police, and that she
| wouldn't squeal but the police double
| crossed her. She accused man named
| Skelly. Murphy advised her to go down
and see the District Attorney. Gov.
| Whitman
Tells OF Alleged Frameup.
| Mary Goode was rushed before the
| Grand Jury. She tried to get girl
named Ruth Bailey to say that she,
Ruth Bailey. saw Mary Goodc give $25
TO a man named Skelly In the Thirty
second precinct. Ruth Bailey asked her.
How will be able to identity Skelly?
never saw the man. She replied. oh.
| will take you out on tho street. He is
On post. aud l win point him out to you.
Ruth Bailey testified to It. Skelly was
suspended. and. I suppose to appeasc the
| press---at least some OF The was
transferred to Tottenville, Staten ISL
and"
Mr.. Brown again broke in. with the
hope OF preventing the inspector from
running on foolishly. Dwyer continued !:
1T was abou, a year before Gov.
Whitman saw fit to bring Skelly to trial,
left him under a cloud all that time. The
| day before the trial his lawyer said to
somebody who carried the story TO
| Whitman L will make a bum out OF
Whitman tomorrow on this case: my
client was on his vacation In Block ISL
and when Mary Goode alleges she paid
him this $25. That story was carried
| to Mr.. Whitman. What did he dot
Gov. Whitman went over on the island
where Alice Walker. who had been con-
4 xryou nxtAY
there and brought them over and they
were pushed In before the Grand Jury.
| Alice Walker swore she had paid money
| TO SkelIy. A new indictment was brought
| In against Skelly and a long time trans
| pired again before Shelly was brought
| to trial. think he was tried before
| Judge Seabury and jury which was
not out over five minutes when It
| brought in the verdict. Not guilty That
! man, all these two years under suspen-
| sion, under cloud, received not line
in the newspapers when he was proven
| innocent. Nevertheless, when he was
| first accused, there were headlines about
It.
The inspector told Of his troubles in
connection with another disorderly place
and said men then prominent in Repub-
lican politics had interfered. He took
up several points on which testimony
was given last week and denied that he
| had signed the contract for the apart
| ment house which he was said TO have
purchased in 115th street.
| Mr.. Brown then took UP the examine
| ton Of the inspector. The lawyer asked
about several small checks which the
| witness was unable to explain.
De France Hotel Case Up.
| ell Oh
| his interest In the De France Hotel. The
property was in the hands of a receiver
when no and others organized COM
pany to buy It. Dwyer had 607h shares.
| There were 1877 non-participating shares
which he held.
| "Was any police action taken against
| the hotel?" Mr. Brown asked, referring
to the time 1t was known as the Van
| Cortlandt.
eve kept 1t under surveillance all the
| time
The inspector said he saw Capt. p. J.
| Condeau, manager Of the 115th street
| apartment. last night at the Flanders
Hotel The committees subpoena serv-
| era testified tney had been searching for
| Candeau for q week and could not find
| him. -
,Your would-be detectives have been
around my home annoying my family.
my wife and children. and had to get
away and / went to tho hotel and took
| ROOM"
$50 that the annoyance would be suf-
| fered by them instead Of by your Mr..
| Brown asked
Before >Dwyer left the stand Christie
r. Bohnsack, reporter for the New York
| City News Association. arrived ana
| asked 70 be heard In answer tosthe in
sneotor,s statements. He said he know
Police Lieut.. James w. HaIleck when a
marine inspector for years. Bohnsack
was then reporting ship news and he
| took an interest In helping Hailcck get q
pronnotlon. Some time after Halleck
| made him O present of a watch and
chain. The bill to which Dwyer referred
provided for the policeman's promotion.
The reporter said he never received "a
red cent" for what he did to help his
| friend.
patrick r. DonneIly. marine superin-
tendent of the rsthmian Steamship Lines.
testified that James Dwycr. the inspect
or's son. shipped on one of the COM
pany's steamers last July as seaman
70 20 70 Bombay. The witness said he
ala not observe 'the boy" was III. The
inspector had testified young Dwyer had
gone away tor his health.
Mrs. O,Grady's story Of Two Girls.
Mrs. Ellen o'Grady gave this testi-
mony. illustrating how she was per-
secuted as Fifth Deputy Commissioners
m the Police Department:
TWO girls Of II years told terrible
story Of how two men had spoken to
them from their automobile In Fifth
avenue and taken them to an apart
ment. I Investigated and felt arrests
should be made. found the men were
wealthy. My assistants went to the Dis
trict Attorney, who advised an arrest.
Two policewomen and a policeman
went with the two girls to one OF the
mems offices to make an arrest Ex-
Inspector Hughes and Mr.. Hackett, sec-A
retary TO the Commissioner. came there
and prevented the arrest being made.
was summoned to Commissioner En-
rights office and asked why was or
dering the arrest No arrests were
made.
Following the catastrophe In the
Catharine street motion picture theatre.
where six children were killed. I directed
we must be more active In cleaning up
dangerous theatres. Capt Ammon
came into my office and said he had
como from Commissioner Enright's
office, where the Commissioner was
talking with Sidney Korn. known as a
motion picture magnatc, and another
gentleman. Ammon said:
""The Commissioner said to tell you
motion picture houses; that when you
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