Evening star., 1952-01-16

Policemen on Private
Jobs; Ends Testimony
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$1,000 bills In that same envelope.
@. Any doubt that those bills
were $1,000 bills?
A. No. sir.
tMaj. Barrett testified Mon
day that he had never in my
life" had a $1,000 bill or even a
$500 bill. Later, under ques- /.
tioning from Senator Welker.
Mr.. Lowe admitted that he may
have been mistaken and seen
only one 81 900 bill. He said he
assumed" that other bills back
of the $1,000 bill he saw were
also $1,000 bills.)
The questioning continued.
@. Did you have any CONVERSE
ton with him (Barrett) about
keeping quiet about the transac-
ton?
Didn't Wish to Retire.
A. He asked me to please keep
the deal quiet because there were
q number of people in Washington
who would like to get him out Of
Office, and he did not wish to
retire. I told him when the deed
was given it would be made Of
public record. He said that was
all right, he could fix that and
didn't have to worry about pub
licity.
@. Did he say for how long he
didn't want to retire?
A. Several years.
Mr.. Lowe testified that, after
the contract, Maj. Barrett visited
the farm almost daily-except on
week ends-and that he usually
was accompanied by other police
officers.
He was asked If Maj. Barrett
later indicated he wanted to cancel
the contract and what efforts he
made"
A. He made several efforts by
way of blackmailing me and my
family and. rather than let them
become involved. I personally went
to his Office and signed a release
to give him back his $1,000.
Nature of BlackmaiI.
@. Tell the committee what the
nature Of the blackmail was.
A. He sent a detective to Win
chester. Va, to investigate my
record there. He sent a detective
to Frederick, Md. who spent an
entire day at the courthouse try
ing to find something out about
me. He sent detective to Emer-
gency Hospital, where my father
was employed, and made damag-
ing threats. He threatened to
have my father fired =. If the
$1,000 wasn't returned. He
threatened to have police in any
part of the United States follow
me and threatened to have much
of my personal life published inl
the newspapers, and I didn't want
to go through that so I decided to
give him the $1,000 back.
Later Mr.. Lowe testified q de-
tective told him that "the major
demanded my copy Of the con-
tract. I
II informed him I was unwill-
ing to surrender my copy until all
three copies had been assembled /
and destroyed at one time" he
said.
Gave Contract to Attorney.
j @. Did you give that copy of the \
contract to the major? 3D.
A. 7 gave it to Mr.. Boyer. (Mr. \
loves attorney at Frederick).
@. Did you ever see it again?
A. I never saw it again.
Senator Welker then questioned
MIR. Lowe sharply about the situ-
alton surrounding the contract
and its surrender. Mr.. Lowe de-
MED telling Barrett that $2.500I
was due from the Maryland Roads
Commission on the property.
He said that instead he told
the major that 81 ,539 was tied upI
in court litigation in a suit with
the commission.
Senator Welker asked Mr.. Lowe
how many times he had been ar
rested (Mr. Lowe said twice. and
how many times he had been con-
victed in court (Mr. Lowe said
once).
The Senator also asked how
many times Mr.. Lowe had been
sued for debts in his community,
and Mr.. Lowe replied that he
couldn't recall.
May Offer Lowe Record.
Senator Welker said he might
offer Mr.. loves police record to
the committee; but later he told
reporters that. if he did that. it|
would be when the committee was
in closed session.
Inspector Covell was questioned
about two occasions when Jew
boy" Dietz brought whisky to his
home at Christmas. This ques-
tioning followed:
@. Did you ever have occasion
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