Evening star., 1934-01-12
FATE Of POLICEMEN
SOON TO Be KNOWN
NiaI Board Concludes Hear
ina of Bauer and SchIei-
ebert Charges.

The fate of H. G. Bauer and Rudolph
Schleichert, liquor squad policemen &C
cused of accepting bribe. rested TODAY
with the Police Trial Board, with Ver-
dict expected to be returned tomorrow.
The officers were acquitted OF the
charges in District Supreme Court.
The case was given to the Trial Board
members-InspectorS o. T. Davis. chair
man; James F. Beckett and Thaddeus
r. Bean-late yesterday, after intima-
tions were made that some body who
even outranks Senator" might be
drawn into the proceedings.
The intimationS were made by Harry
Whelan. defense counsel, in objecting
to questions by Elwood H. Seal, assistant
corporation counsel. The prosecutor
was pressing Bauer to reveal the per-
son he meant when he testified that
some one, other than Henry r. Milton,
head of a large bootleg ring, might have
framed" him.
s"At this point" said Whelan. 'I wish
to request that this Trial Board go into
executive session. This line of question
ing might embarraSS some official and I
don't think the board wants names re-
vealed publicly simply because this de-
fendant has an idea some one other
than Milton might be framing him."
CHAIRMAN faVOrS ActiOn.
Seal protested that he had no desire
to protect any one and Chairman Davis
declared:
IF there's any bombshell to flop, let
1t burst
well, Mr.. Seal" Whelan retorted,
you were mighty generous to protect
the names of two Senators yesterday
and this might be somebody who even
OutrankS Senator"
The Senators, whose names were not
revealed were drawn into the case
Wednesday, when Alfred H. Dudley, one
of Millions many rum runners, testi-
fled he had made a delivery of liquor
to the Senate Office Building just be-
fore he was arrested October % and
that he had two Senators interested in
obtaining an appointment Tor him in
the Police Department.
AT Whelans insistence, he and Seal
conferred privately over the line OF
testimony the assistant corporation
counsel was seeking to elicit from Bauer
and then Seal told the board that II 1t
became necessary he would like to have
permission to recall the officer to ques-
ton him further with respect to the
alleged frame"
Bauer had traced his activities with
the liquor squad in apprehending boot
leRReTS anu SdlU he Ildu Decll pal III u
larly anxious to arrest Milton.
Tells of Locations.
Milton's headquarters were in a FASH
ionable Sixteenth street apartment, ac-
cording to Bauer, and he maintained
''storages' and offices" in the 16O0
block of Newton street. at Nineteenth
and Park road, on Ingleside terrace: In
the 2600 block Ordway street, and -four
or five other places" In six years. 30
automobiles belonging to Milton had
been seized.
I For a year Bauer had been trying tc
get sufficient information to arrest the
ringleader, Ire told the board, and dur
ing that period had knocked OIL four
or five of his runners, and seized their
machines. When he arrested Dudley,
he thought he at last was close to
Milton and, acting on information from
Dudley, went to one Of Millions places
in the 1900 block of L street, hoping to
catch the liquor magnate.
He met a woman there who said she
was Milton's wife, he testified, and later
talked to Milton on the telephone, but
he never actually saw the ringleader
until he was hailed into court on ex-