Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-26
Atkinson of First Precinct
Files Appeal From Trial
Board Ruling.
FRAME-UP DENOUNCED
BY DEFENSE COUNSEL
Action Makes Jobs of All Inse-
cure" Plea-Showalter Fined
and Reduced.

Testimony of prohibition agent that
he had made a sucker" out of Thomas
D. Atkinson, first precinct policeman,
marked a Police Trial Board hearing
late yesterday.
Found guilty of intoxication of duty
as a result of the statement of the
prohibition agent, Atkinson was recon-
mended for dismissal by the trial board.
Denny Hughes, the defendants attor-
ney, today prepared to file an appeal
with the District Commissioners. He
said he would ask that the dismissal
be refused and a fine ordered instead.
III such frame-ups are to be per-
mitted," Hughes said, mot a police
man on the force is sure of his Job. I"
Deal for Liquor Told.
Ralph S. Tag, the prohibition agent.
member of the Baltimore enforcement
unit, told the board he had been asked
by Lieut.. Oscar j. Letterman of the
flrst precinct, to aid in verifying rIlmors
That Atkinson was selling whisky. He
said he complied by approaching Akin
son March Z. He said he told the
policeman he was World War veteran
here to collect his bonus and wanted
a cheap hotel room.
AAC aBSHI JeSLlleQ ALklnSOn QlrecIeQ
him to a hotel near Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and Thirteenth street. He added
he invited the patrolman to his room
and then inquired where he could buy
a bottle Of liquor He said Atkinson
telephoned a bootlegger and procured
the contra5and.
Met BY Letterman.
Tag declared he had a drink with
Atkinson in the hotel and another In
a Ninth street restaurant. The agent
testified he got Atkinson to accompany
him to the Rialto Theater, ostensibly
TO give a drink to a night Waterman
with whom Tag was acquainted Let
terman, the agent explained, met them
there by prearrangement, searched At
kinson and found the partially filled
bottle of alleged liquor.
The board also returned a verdict OF
guilty in the intoxication case of c. E.
Showalter. payroll clerk, and fined him
500. DIN D. Rogers, a property clerk
tried with Showalter on a similar
charge. was found not guilty. Showalter
and Rogers had been under suspension
since they we're taken into custody
March by Maryland policeman on
the Washington Baltimore Boulevard.
ShowaIter on Beat.
Showalter was pounding a beat in
the eastern section of the city today
as a result of an order issued by Maj.
Henry @. Pratt, superintendent Of the
force, while Rogers was returned TO
No. station, despite his acquittal by
the board.
The shifting Of the clerks were two
Of eight changes made in the person
mel Of the department today, among
them the transfer of Detective Joseph
De Palmer, of Inspector T. r. Beans
vice squad, to beat in the tenth pre-
cinct. Maj Pratt would make no COM
ment on any of the changes. other
than to say they were made 'for the
good Of the department"
Luckett Given Place.
Harry M Luckett, chief property
clerk, has appointed Pvt. Richard r
Price, formerly in charge of the files at
police headquarters, to fill Rogers place
as assistant property clerk, while Pvt
Gilbert j. Pehturff, who has been aiding
Showalter with the pay roll duties, is
filling the latter's place.
Patrolman G. p. Flynn OF the tenth
precinct, has been named TO serve with
Inspector Beams squad in place Of De
Palmer. Flynn has been transferred to
the rolls of the fourteenth precinct
where De Palmer was carried on the
roster.
Pvt. Myer w. Wineberg, who has been
assigned to the Detective Bureau as a
chauffeur for nearly year, is trans
ferred under the order issued by Mai.
Pratt today to a post as clerk OF the
homicide squad.
The chauf1eur's position vacated by
Wineberg is to be fillsd by Patrolman
q. T. Stanton of the ninth precinct.