Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-14
TO CASE
OF POLICE CAPTAIN
BurIingame Declares Won
ans Charges Are Aftermath
of Staples Trial.

The Gibson subcommittee of the
House, which for several weeks has been
quietly investigating charges against a
police captain, today decided to turn
the case over to the Office of United
States Attorney Rover.
The accusations, involving the hon.
esty and conduct of the captain were
made by Mrs. Helen Baylock. a palmist,
who, apparently, has left Washington
and is understood to be N her way to
Abeline, Tex, to confer with Repre-
sentative Blanton.
The committee reached its decision to
shift the inquiry to the United States
attorneys office at an executive confer
ence with Maj. Edwin B. HesSe, superin-
tendent of police, at which the charges
were discussed. It was at Mai. HesSe's
insistence that the committee agreed TO
turn the case over to the prosecutors
office.
$4,000 Involved in Charges.
According to Representative Gibson,
Mrs. Bayiock first made her accusation
to former Policeman Orville Staples.
who was dismissed from the force after
a sensational trial last year at which
Representative Blanton appeared as his
counsel. Staples then sought Mr. Blan-
ton to relate the palmist's story, but
finding that he had returned to Texas,
then came to him, Gibson said.
A ring alleged to have been taken in
a raid and given to Mrs. Baylock, and
a sum of $14, 900 were mentioned in the
woman's charges, according to Mr.. Glib
SON. The money was said to have been
hidden away in q safe deposit box.
Mr.. Gibson said he did not regard
the charges in a serious light at the
outset, and a subsequent investigation
by his committee and a Bureau of Eff
cheney attache had not caused him to
change his mind. A check-up on the
place where the ring is alleged to have
been taken in a raid, he declared.
showed that the place had not been
raided, while Mrs. Baylock had refused
to turn over to the committee a num-
Der of unsigned typewriter letters she
claimed to have in her possession.
Gibson said he wanted the letters In
order to try and locate the typewriter
on which they were written.
The charges are Of such a nature,
however, Mr.. Gibson said, that his COM
mittee did not intend to drop them en-
tirely. The committee, he said, would
give the district attorneys ONCE any
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the investigation.
Burlingame Would Meet Charges.
After the executive meeting with
Mai. Hesse, MI. Gibson issued the fol-
lowing statement: Maj. HeSse sug-
gested, and the committee agreed, that
under the circumstances the district
attorneys once is the proper place for
the immediate handling of the charges,
We do not. however, mean that the
committee surrenders the right to pursue
the investigation in its own way"
Capt. Guy Burlingame of the second
precinct described the charges as IAN
aftermath of the Staples case" and de-
clared that he is ready to meet them.
Burlingame, q member OF the police
trial board which tried Staples, pointed
out that during the trial threats to get
him. had been made and he expected
some bareback from the case, but not
in the form that 1t has come.
Burlingame denied he has $4,000 Sc
creted away in a safety deposit box.
Blanton, at his home in Abilene, Tex,
wired that all references to him in the
case were wholly unauthorized"