Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-09
KIDNAPPING RING
|. IN DETROIT LAID
|. TO POLICE OFFICIAL
Detective Testifies Victims
and Others Hold Inspector
Garvin Responsible.
REVELATIONS INTEREST
PROSECUTORS OFFICE
Sergeant Asserts Racket Has Flour
ished Since Bomb Squad
Was Organized.
By the Associated Press.

oy tue associated Press.
DETROIT, February "a statement
That Inspector Henry j. Garvin, head of
police bomb and crime squad, was held
responsible by victims and others for
the activities of Detroit kidnapers was
made before a police trial board today
by Detective Sergeant Max Waldfogel,
called as a witness in the trial of De-
tective Adolph Van Coppenolle.
The kidnapping racket appeared and
1ourished in this city after Garvin'S
squad was organized In 1927, the detec-
tive sergeant asserted, but before that
time abduction for ransom was prac-
tically unknown.
Waldfogel's attack on Garvin and his
story of police dealings with the under
world eclipsed In sensational charges
and IN innuendo the testimony yester-
day of Van Coppenolle.
Prosecutor Interested.
The story of Van CoppenolIe brought
Prosecutor James e. Chenot to the trial
room with an announcement his office
is deeply interested in the revelations.
Waldfogels testimony caused the
board to order SummonSes issued for
relatives of persons kidnapped in the
epidemic of extortion and murder
which but recently subsidized. The de-
tective sergeant had asserted that rela-
tives of kidnapped persons had told him
time and again that they believed Gar
win was behind the crimes.
For the last nine years, Waldfogel
told the board, he has been a member
OF the black hand squad, commanded
by Inspector Robert A. Mcpherson.
The black hand squad formerly hand
led kidnapping cases. It was not until
n ina -
squad and the assignment of investi-
cations OF abductions to it that there
were many such crimes in Detroit, he
asserted.
Tells Of Garvin Plot.
Much of the testimony had little d.
rect bearing on the guilt or innocence
OF Van Coppenolle, who is charged
with conduct unbecoming an oficer.
The charge, made by Harold H. EN-
mons, new police commissioner, was
based on stories credited to the detec-
tive after Garvin was wounded by
gaHssters on January 2. Van Cop
penolle, who had been quoted as say
ing he knew Of plot against Garv!n
engineered by MACPHERSON, under whom
he was serving at the time on the
black hand squad, denied making such
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having plotted against Macpherson and
asserted that Garvin was marked for
death for having double-crossed gang
Sters.
Familiar With Kidnapping.
Waldfogel said that he was familiar
with every Jewish kidnapping" which
had occurred in Detroit and that there
Is pretty general rumor among the
Jewish people that Garvin is at the
head OF it," referring to the kidnapping
racket.
Among the kidnapping cases referred
to by the witness were those of David
Cass, whose murdered body was found
In Lapeer County; Jackie Thompson.
0-year-old son of a real estate on
orator; Max Rubin, former business
agent for the Motion Picture Opera
tors Union, and a man referred to
only as Forty Grand Ike"
The detective was followed on the
stand by Ray Gagnon, who was presi-
dent OF the union in the Fall of 1928
when Rubin was kidnapped. He as
serted that Garvin threatened him and
Rubin after the union had been warned
OF a kidnapping plot, and that the in
spector refused to furnish protection
for Rubin after first promising to do SO.
Waldfogel promised Commissioner
Emmons to provide two men he de-
scribed as nothing but bootleggers,"
who, he said, were forced to nav "a 600
to bondsman in order to obtain ex-
emptlon from arrest by Garvin's squad
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