Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-29
WOMAN'S CHARGE
OF POLICE GRAFT
STARTS INQUIRY
Miss Campbell Says She Paid
GraveIy to "Protect" Dis
orderly Houses.
ACCUSED POLICEMAN
SUSPENDED BY PRATT
Inspector Bean Receives Prepared
Statement of Charges
Against Officer.


made yesterday in a Police Court trial
by q woman who said she paid Spots
wood r. Gravely. second precinct police
man, hush money to continue opera
ton of disorderly houses.
District Attorney Leo A. Rover this
morning announced that he has had
issued a summons for Miss Elizabeth
Turner" of the 1900 block of w street,
to appear before the grand jury next
Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Miss Campbell today gave
O prepared statement to Inspector
Thaddeus r. Bean of the Police Depart
ment in an effort to have GraVely
brought before the Police Trial Board
On graft charges. Grayely was sns-
pended at noon by Maj. Pratt superlh-
tendent OF police.
Gravely this morning was cloSeted
for some time with Inspector Louis j.
Ston.
Woman OutspOken.
Both inspectors refused to tell news
V,aper men what occurred at their con-
ferences with the principal figures in
the graft charges, but the woman was
o1tspoken, following her conference
with Bean, on what she had told the
police oficer.
Miss Campbell made her first &C
es,sations against Gravely yesterday
afternoon in Police Court trial before
4 tiIrv on a charge of assault on GraV-
civ and on Effa L. Casepper, ponce
vron1an. She was found guilty OF as
aaultinR the policewoman but acquitted
On the charge of aSsaulting GFayely,..
she told the court that when she
lived at q house on N street near
Twelfth she frequently paid Graveiy as
much as $50 at a time for protection
AGAINST police raids. She said she paid
the policeman. who was then precinct
detective at the third precinct, Sew
eral times q month"
When the guilty verdict by the jury
IN the case of asSaulttng the police
woman was returned yesterday, she re-
marked to the court, How can girl
make q living IN this town that's fuAl
Of grating policemen?
She told the jury that In spite OF the
fact that she paid .Grayely regularly,
the raids on her place continued; that
Crayely had led raids upon her place.
and that after the last raid she and
six girls had put up $225 collateral and
forfeited the money.
Makes Signed Statement.
This morning she said she made q
telling him all she told the court yes
ter6ay afternoon land more besides"
She said she has been in conference
with Representative Andrew j. Mon
tague of Virginia and was aided In
preparing her statement for Inspector
Bean by him. She said she has an
appointment to outline her case to Rep
resentative Montague next Tuesday at
the latter's ONCE in the House once
a~nA tAnav7 Aee1frAA 1N Rem
resentative Montague that II there Is
any foundation in her charges he VIII
ask for q congressional investigation
Of the Police Department.
Miss Campbell was accompanied on
her trip to Inspector Beams ONCE by
q girl who gave her name as Helen
Taiasz. The Talasz girl told news
paper men after the conference that
She corroborated ali MISS Canpbeh' S
EtAtenentS before Inspector Bean.
- Miss Campbell also told the news
s,aoer men that she related to Inspector
Bean the incidents which led up to
her arrest on the charge OF assaultins
Grayely.
TraIIed by Policeman.
gne said that after the last raid on
her n street house last Fall she decided
to leave washington and went to
Florida She said that Gravely told
her before she left that # she ever
reb,rned TO try to ''outsmart" him he
would get even with her even If he had
70 plant liquor in her car.
She STAYED in Florida for several
months. she said, and then returned
to washington to stay with her parents
on w street.
She declared that on the day Of her
arrest, July 81, Gravely, who was then
. second precinct policeman, followed
her as she drove her automobile home.
She said that she arrived in front OF
the w street apartment house, Alighted
from the car with Miss Talasz who was
riding with her, and went into the house.
After about 10 minutes, she said, she
came out and found GfaVely standing
outside, his car parked nearby. She said
Gravely punched her In the face and
Knocked her back into the vestibule of
the apartment house, when he tried TO
grab her, she said.
Then, she says, she was placed under
arrest and taken to the second precinct
although the encounter occurred in the
eighth precinct.
Denies Accusations.
Gravely today branded the woman's
tale as false He denied ever accepting
any money from her, or ever raidine
her apartment while she was there. He
said he did raid an apartment which
he believed she leased, but did not md
her there. OF the woman's charge hC
attacked her first, he said:
II met the woman near Thomas
Circle on July IL, and she invited me
to spend several hours in her apart
mcnt. Since had recently talked tc
Assistant United States attorney, Johr
r. Fitzpatrick about picking up womer
and going to their apartments and Their
getting q disorderly house warrant
against them, accepted her invita-.
ton"
He added that when he arrived al
the apartment, he placed the woman
under arrest. He said she vigorously
objected and forced him to half carr!
her to the second precinct. THE triI
TO the apartment" he said. was made
in my car, and not in the two cars, Al
this woman claims. ! never followeS