Evening star., 1937-02-24
GOV. NICE DENIES
GAREY'S CHARGES
Former Police Chiefs State
mentS,Before Senate Called
"UtterIy False"
BY the Associated Press.

ANNAPOLIS. February 24.-Gov.
Harry w. Nice today described as ut
terly and absolutely false" a state
ment made by Maj Enoch B. Carey
last night that the Governor had Or
dered him to cross the ice to Tangier
Island the night that Sergt. Wilbert v.
Hunter died.
The Governor also revealed that he
consulted Brig. Gen. Amos w. w.
Woodcock, president of St. Johns Col
lege. and friel.d Of Maj. Carey, before
he appointed the commission to inves-
tigate the Tangier Island expedition.
He said that @ !. Woodcock named
the personnel of the commission ex-
cept in one case, DR.. Dwight Mohr
The Governor also declared that the
charge he had played politics in the
State police department was "ridicu-
lous."
Nice Comment.
Maj, Carey made the charges last
night when he appeared before a
Senate committee appointed to inves-
tigate the police department.
Commenting on the majors state
ment, the Governor today said:
THE statement by Maj. Carey that
I ordered him to cross the ice with
Sergt. Hunter the night that Sergt.
Hunter died is utterly and absolutely
false.
He sent me radiogram which in
itself indicated he had sent it after
he had taken 100 men across the ice.
He called me up the next day and told
me some citizens were organizing a
voluntary movement to carry sup
plies
That he would that night, in the
face Of the binding storm, and against
the advice Of watermen who knew
conditions, make that trip is some
thing Of which never dreamed. I did
not know the trip was being made - &"
Denies Playing Politics.
THAT politics was played by me in
the police department is ridiculous.
Il maintained and so told him that
the chaotic condition and disorganiza-
ton were the result of a belief that
certain men, with whom he had sur
rounded himself were the virtual COM
manders of the department and that
impression had to be destroyed and
the influence of these men broken up.
Five Maryland State Senators will
meet again tomorrow night to hear fur
ther testimony in their probe of the
State Police Departments probe
which already had dragged the names
of Gov. Harry w. Nice and other high
ranking Marylanders across a back
drop of petty politics and alleged
broken faith.
Last night Maj Enoch B. Carey,
recently deposed State police super
intendent, broke a year-long silence
which he-trained Gin the spartan
school of West Point"-had imposed
on himself
In low, measured tones, he told the
committee that mot temperament,
gentlemen, but honor" forced him
from the State police superintendency.
Carey did not raise his voice as he
charged, in the tomblike stiffness of
the packed Senate chamber, that:
Petty politics, and his refusa, to play
petty politics. had driven him from his
post as superintendent of State police.
That Gov. Nice had ordered "in
clear-cut manner" the ill-fated relief
expedition to Tangier Island which
cost the life Of Sergt. Wilbert v. Hunter
on the ice of Tangier Island.
That a trusted subordinate had taken
from his files a confidential letter and
given it to State officials "out to ges"
him.
That politicians had attempted to
run the State Police Department.
That close advisors of Gov. Nice had
been "out to get" him ever since the
Tangier Island expedition inquiry.
That William P. Lawson, Repub-
lican State chairman, was to recon-
mend men who should be given jobs
as State policemen.
Tested by Alienists.
That three nationally known alien
lists had examined him and gave q
report which countered a report Of
three National Guard officers" that
he was "temperamentally untitled"
for the post Of State police super
intendent. The three National
Guard officers were members Of the
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