Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-19

specifically refers to is to the effect
that I intended to investigate the dis
trict attorneys office.
Now that both you and your i'm
mediate superior, Commissioner Proctor
l.. Dougherty, are reading the daily
papers with such absorbing interest, you
will, of course, be able to fully appre-
ciate the fact that I, too, am following
the daily news with an eye equally
attuned to detail and the veracity of all
personal quotations.
Therefore, when this newspaper
reached my doorstep yesterday I, of
course, perused its pages Gas you prob
ably did alSo) with exceeding care.
The following Is one Of the first para
graphs to meet my eye, which same I
will quote verbatim:
Gives Quotation.
"'Allen frequently has been quoted
in the newspapers, however, only to
deny that he was quoted correctly when
he was questioned about the matter by
his superior officers. Commissioner
Proctor L. Dougherty said yesterday
that he would be surprised II Allen did
not again use this defense
IF Commissioner Dougherty is quoted
correctly you WILL of course, realize that
he has declared that he will be sur
prised' il I do not deny the quotation
which your letter concerns itself with.
regardless Of what original statement I
made. In other words, If I really said
l was going to investigate the District
attorneys Office then Commissioner
Dougherty would be surprised If I did
not lie out of It,
You will, of course. realize that such
an insinuation upon the part of a su-
perior and directed toward a subor-
dinate would be serious matter If the
insinuation itself was untrue.
Not Called Before.
Therefore, I must take this occasion
to inform you that have never before,
to my memory, been called upon by your
Office to certify as to the correctness of
any newspaper quotation attributed to
me. 1 am sure your records will bear
me out in this. Therefore, If the article
appearing in yesterdays paper quoted
Commissioner Dougherty correctly you
will realize that my hitherto good name
has been seriously impugned and I
would most respectfully request, in turn,
that you ascertain from Commissioner
Dougherty if he was correctly quoted.
LAS for my remarks about the dis
trict attorneys Office I am perfectly
willing to admit that received several
to the effect that they were afraid that
they would be unable to secure justice
from the district attorneys Office, be-
fore whom I informed them they must
appear to obtain criminal proceeding
against Moffatt. When I asked them
for their reasons for this attitude they
informed me that they had heard that
he was indicted several years back and
had never been brought to trial. Also
he had been indicted since that time,
they said, and has not yet been tried.
Therefore I unhesitatingly informed
them that would look into that angle
of the affair also.
Now to specifically answer both you
and Commissioner Dougherty permit
me to say that expressed to Capt.
Doyle and certain newspaper men my
determination to investigate why con-
dition should be allowed to exist where
man under indictment should be per-
mitted to operate for two years after
such a man should be allowed to con-
tinue in a business already cited in
complaint to the Police Department and
to the district attorneys office. J
Still Doing Business.
Furthermore, if you have been cor
rectly quoted in the newspapers you
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my information to detective headquar-
tiers, where specially trained men could
have been assigned to the case. Now
your records ought to show that your
trained men already had knowledge of
this mans operations in that he was
arrested on numerous occasions. But
he Is still doing business at the same
office in the Hill Building at Seven
tenth street northwest.
las far as the improperly of my
any particular Offices is
I wish to state to you here and
now, or to any one else that may be
concerned in this matter, that I would
and will investigate any one whom ]
suspect of transgressing the law. And
will continue to do so as long as
am a regularly accredited policeman,
whose sworn duty it is to uphold the
law. My only concern in following the
above course will be to avoid exceeding
my authority and to report such facts
as have gathered to my superior OFF,
GERS after / have first assured myself
that have secured enough evidence to
warrant police action.
Approval Expected.
mo doubt this attitude on my part
will meet with your hearty approval, be- |
cause I am sure your first concern Is
to bring criminals to justice.
I'm closing I would like to get back |
to this quoting business once more. J
notice that you were quoted in The |
Evening Star as saying that your hands |
we're tied by the District Commissioners |
in regards to disciplining me. Il
really wonder If this attitude on your