Evening star., 1934-01-14
POLICEMEN FOUND
GUILTY TO APPEAL
District Commissioners Will
Get Cases of Suspended
Liquor Squad Officers.

Attorneys for Harry g. Bauer and
Rudolph Schleichert. suspended liquor
squad policemen, whose dismissal was
recommended yesterday by a Police
Trial Boards which found them guilty
of accepting a bribe, will appeal to the
District Commissioners on behalf Of
their clients on Wednesday or Thursday
Of this week.
The case will be the first involving
Police Department disciplinary action
to be brought before Commissioners
Melvin c. Hazen and George E. Allen.
Harry T. Whelan and Joseph Kelly,
lawyers, who obtained a verdict Of not
guilty for the policemen when they were
tried In District Supreme Court on an
indictment charging extortion, and
later represented the pair before the
Police Department disciplinary body,
have indicated they will carry the case
into the District courts if the Commits
sioners do not see flt to reverse the
decision of the trial board.
VIII Attack Witnesses.
The attorneys said their plea for re-
versal will attack the credibility Of
three complaining witnesses in the case,
and will stress a point Of law based on
the regulations Of the Police Depart
ment. The regulations order automatic
dismissal of any officer convicted in a
court of accepting q bribe or attempt.
ing exortion Whelan and Kelly Will
insist that exoneration on those charges,
therefore, should be followed auto
matically by restoration to duty on the
kf~-A kal NJ
and Schleichert in the courts here en-
titles them to that privilege.
In addition to the customary con-
tention that the trial board verdict
of guilt is contrary to the evidence. the
defense lawyers will repeat the argu-
ment given Inspectors Ogden T. Davis,
James Beckett and Thaddeus Bean,
maintaining that the policemen should
be believed, rather than their accusers,
Henry r. Milton, admitted bootlegger,
and one of his liquor runners, Alfred
Curtis F. Shields, q friend Of NIL
tons, who was another key witness for
the prosecution, is the third person
whose testimony will be attacked IN
the appeal.
Claims Bauer Called.
The chain Of events which led to
arrest Of the two policemen originated
with the arrest Of Dudley on liquor
charges ON October % last. Milton
said he later received telephone call
from Bauer Offering to tak over tn the
negotiations while posing as Milton
himself. Shields asserted Bauer and
Schliechert agreed to "go easy" on
Dudley in court for $50, to negotiate
return of the automobile seized In the
case for another $50 and to keep then
hands of Milton's liquor operations II
each.
After q conference with District At.
torney Leo Rover and police ofhctals
a trap was set for the policemen. Capt
James E. Bobo and two other night
INSPECTORS Of the department hid IN q
parked truck while Dudley delivered
$50 In marked money, inclosed In twt
envelopes, one placed inside the other
at Eighth and l. streets on October 80
The accused officers contended they
had been promised information regard.
ing the activities Of another prominent
bootlerrer here, and believed Mtltor
vas sending them the information IN.
closed In the envelopes they received
the morning Of their arrests. Their 0e'
tense also featured argument that TN
policemen had cost local bootlegger,
thousands Of dollars In fines, copnscatet
cars and stock losses, and that the1
were framed" 10 end their police Co.
reerS.
More than twoscore liquor cases u
which Bauer and Schleichert are tn
principal witnesses are now pending y
local courts, and they are also star VII
nesses for the prosecution In . hquol
conspiracy action involving 20 PERSONS