Evening star., 1934-01-11
Attorney for SchIeichert and
Baur Tells Board Of
Valuable Service.
SEAL DECLARES MANUAL.
GRANTS PROPER POWER
Whelan Says Officers Framed" Be-
cause Of Loyalty to Duty and
Denounces Millions Methods.

A plea to dismiss trial board action
against H. q. Bauer and Rudolph
Schleichert, headquarters policemen,
on the ground of former jeopardy, was
overruled today by Inspector o. T
DAVIS, chairman Of the board, which is
trying the two officers on bribery
charges.
Bauer and Schleichert had been ac-
Quilted in District Supreme Court of
the charge. Defense Attorney Harry
Whelan, IN lengthy and eloquent ap-
peal to the board, argued that the de-
clslon OF the jury in the court of record
was plndlng on every one in the coun-
try from the President down, including
the Police Trial Board. He cited the
District Code, which provides that a
police officer convicted of bribery in
the Supreme Court automatically is
dismissed from the force and that, in
his opinion, if police officer is ac-
quilted, no action should be brought
before the board.
Elwood H. Seal, assistant corporation
counsel, who is prosecuting the case,
told the board it was sitting in a dis
ciplinary function and that. by the
police manual. it was empowered to
pass upon District Supreme Court ac-
tions affecting policemen.
Peril to Officers Seen.
whelan said if the board found the
officers guilty after the court had ac-
quilted them you will make it unsafe
for every officer in the Metropolitan
Police Department"
You can destroy an officer by taking
a gun and killing him." Whelan said;
you can destroy him by planting
money on him or by discrediting him
In the eyes of the law.
Henry R. Milton, in making his for
tune in bootlegging, wanted TO get rid
OF Officers Bauer and Schleichert.
They could not do it by bribery; they
could not do it. by cajolery, by plead
Ing that Dudley, the man arrested by
the two officers. had wife and chill
dren. and was trying to obtain an ap-
pointment to the police force, so they
decided to frame them. Now. IL YOU
gentlemen of the board find these off,
GERS guilty, you are going to ask their
dismissal because they annoy Milton,
because they hurt his business
Bootleg Kings" Methods.
The defense attorney pictured Mil
ton as a bootleg king who hasn't
nerve enough to deliver whisky him.
self" but who has waxed rich by max
--Ao ObA4CAo WO1 1OT he pointed
out Milton had owned so AUTOMOBILES
which police had seized In the past
SIX years Of his operations and that
the conviction of Bauer and Schleichert
would be welcomed by every bootlegger
in Washington.
The officers, in addition to being
charged with accepting $50 bribe not
to prosecute Alfred H. Dudley, Millions
runner, also are accused of conduct
prejudicial to the good of the Police
department. Bauer is charged also
with using profane language in the
presence of a superior ofiter and
Schleichert with refusing to obev s,I-
perlor officers command.
Lieut.. George Little. head OF the
police liquor squad, told the board the
two officers were among the most active
plain clothes men in the city in the
enforcement Of the liquor laws and
were to be important witnesses in a.
single prohibition case involving % de-
PENDANTS. He called them two out
standing men of the force.