The New York herald., 1921-10-24

career has included 4 CONVICTION or per-
jury. Imprisonment In the Tombs and
a subsequent reversal of verdict at the
hands of the Appellate Division. since
which he has been restored to duty In
the upper Bronx inspection district.
Inspector Henry Is one Of large num-
ber of high police officials who are not
sverse TO taking "a nier'' now and then
--or habitually--in the Street. Recent
testimony before the Meyer legislative
committee revealed him as speculatively
active even during the period when he
was occupying a Tombs cell pending q
stay OF sentence and for a year before
tho indictment against him was dis
missed. In one transaction the inspec-
tor ap! cared as having taken down 10
his brokers $500, In a deal involving the
purchase OF stocks costing S35,OoO.
Again. during the dark days Of his in
carceration, he sought from certain
steamship interests. 10 which he had
been friendly in the matter OF pier polio
ing. gratuities amounting to $500, and
en- the same day sent down $4,000 70
his Wall Street brokers TO cover his
accounts.
Albert Behning. piano manufacturer.
who Is organizing business men in OPP
POSITION to the reelection Of Mayor
y
the nearly four years of Mr.. Hylan's adj
m!nistration there has been practically
one unsolved' murder for almost one
day in every four The loss from burg
larry has amounted to hundreds or MIL
ions of dolsrs. and companies which
deal In burglary Insurance have wound
up, In spite Of advances In premium
which the peorle have had to pay
Robbery with violence has correspond
inriv increased"
When the Meyer committee began to
probe the Police Department last Sep-
tember some of the revelations 1t made
were these:
That Allan A. Ryan. formerly brok-
er. whom Commissioner Enright had ap-
pointed Special Deputy Police Com
missioner. serving without pay. as an
act of friendship carried through in En-
rights name a flyer In Morton Pete.
as a result Of which the son of Thomas
Fortune Ryan sent to Enright his firms
check for a profit of s12.0s3. 1t was
a gift, Mr., Enr!ght said.
He maintained, however. that the trans
action was a genuine and not fictitious
one Another gift from Ryan was u
Stutz car, which Enright testified was q
present to his wife.
That former INSPECTOR Eddie" Hughes.
whose account with the same brokerage
Arm In 1918 was only $1,000. SO pros
rered as the head of private detective
agency after his retirement from the
police force that his account the next
year had mounted to s1l5,000; that
Hughes two years after his retirement
bought the Suffern estate of Thomas II.
Ryan. one Of the finest in Rockla 4
including a residence OF TWEEN
five rooms and fifty-six acres of gardens
and improved lands. and that the Hughes
bank accounts showed deposits exceed
ing S1.069.000
Called Fifty-Effty Partners.
James Auditore. wealthy contracting
stevedore, testified that for services rem
dered by the Hughes agency in guard
ing piers and shorefront property In
which he was interested he had paid to
Hughes more than 100000 In single
year; that ne. Auditore. had started
Hughes in business and that Hughes had
told him he and Enright were to be
'fifty-fifty" partners. Hughes and En-
right, under oath, both denied unre~
all Auditore's charges.
That Inspector John +. Dwyer, COM
the police reserves mad former
" in charge of the Tenderloin district,
rad at least $4,000 in Wall Street deals
within too years that an uptown apart
ment house was bought at cost of
sl54,000, title vesting in the name Of
Dwyer's son, James, and that "the boy"
sailed soon afterward for Bombay that
the inspector. according TO his own testi-
mony. paid 100000 cash in making the
purchase.
That discipline had become so lax
that in. scores sof, cases. which the Meyer
coumitteea, found in the police files.
policemen guilty of extortion, bribery,
co ercion, theft assault and other crimes
had escaped with punishment ranging
from mere reprimand to loss of pay
for from three to thirty days
That transfers or appointments In the
uniformed force were frequently made
upon requests or suggestions coming di-
rectly from City Hall or from Tammany
district leaders, as was Indicated by
scores Of letters subpmnaed from the Of
fetal files, bearing such signatures as
that of Grover Whalen, Commissioner
Of Plant and Structures and formerly
Hylan's secretary, or of Thomas j.
tThe) McManus. Tanmany district
leader.
Military Glory for Hylan.
That Enright desired to have the
Mayor escorted about town by a spe-
cially drilled cavalry troop of thirty
four mounted men and six motorcycle
policemen, and that "the band and field
music be trained in salutes to the Mayor.
|. e., flourishes and ruffles. these being
the same as the honors paid to Major
General OF the army"
Among sensational police episodes
apart from the Meyer inquiry were
these:
The indignant resignation on Decem-
ber 13, 1920, of Ellen O'Grady. Fifth
Deputy Police Commissioners. who ae-
eused Enright of ''hounding her and
treating her like a dog" She charged
hat politics was RAMPANT within the
that she had been curbed
IN her efforts to check vice in motior'
picture theatres. and that Eddie"
Hughes and another man close to En-
yisht had baked her attempt to cause
the arrest of two wealthy men on
charges made by young girls
The forced resignation n few weeks
'ater Of Enrights secretary, John c.
lia ckett.
The dismissal on March 10, 1920, of
Third Deputy Commissioner Augustus
Drum Porter after his indictment for
, lleeed neglect of duty in connection
with a vice raid. On Porter's trial the
tr,ry disagreed and last April Judge
Rosaisky quashed the Indictment
Indictment by the Whitman Grand
rury Of Police Captains William A.
Bailey and Percy NJ Dubois on charges
,f receiving unlawful fees, and of De-
tective Sergeants Owen. Horan and
others on similar accusations