POLICE "GRAFT."

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1745, 9 May 1913, Page 5

POLICE "GRAFT."

SIX INSPECTORS FOUND GUILTY. Dy Telegraph-Prtßa Asuoolation-OopyriEht (Ecc. May 8, 8.10 p.m.) New York, May 7. Six polico inspectors have been found guilty of "graft" in connection with tho investigation which is lieing conducted by District-Attorney Whitman. They have been remanded for eontence.

"WHEN ROGUES FALL OUT." There is consternation in tho Now York Police Department (says "Tho Outlook"). Ono inspector and three captains (two cf them former inspectors) aro under suspension on suspicion of being links in a chain of wholesale graft. It is rumoured that a civilian official near the top of tho Department is also implicated. No ono knows where tho next blow will fall. There is good ground for liopo that the long-awaited uncovering of tho mysterious workings of tho "System" is at last at hand. Tho revelations which liavo already como aro the result primarily of the Rosenthal murder. Two invest igationsof police conditions were undertaken, and aro still under way. Ono is carried on beforo a special grand jury by District Attorney Whitman; tho other by a commiltco of tho Board of Aldermen—tho Curran Committee, with Mr. Emory R. Buckner as counsel. Appeared ono day before tho Curran Committee ono Sipp, tho keeper of a disrepiitablo hotel in tho Bronx. Ho testified that ho had been in tho habit of paying police graft regularly. Ho named Patrolman Eugene l r ox as tho collector of tho graft. Fox Mas suspended and put on trial. Sipp disappeared. (Ho subsequently asserted that ho had been bribed to do so.) Ho was found and brought back. Fox, cornered, confessed, implicating Captain Walsh as tho man next "higher up." Walsh, cornered and a sick man, confessed in his turn. . Tho three men, Swce. ney, Thompson, and Hussoy, whom ho implicated as his "men higher up" wero the present and former inspectors of tho district in which his precinct lies. Tho three and Walsh himself wero suspended by tho Polico Commissioner, and charges are to bo preferred against them. It is said that District Attorney Whitman is besieged with offers of further confessions. But it js also reported that ho is declining the offers, which ho feels ho does not need. Tho situation is clectric. Anything may happen at any moment. Tho roffues aro falling out, and honest men, policemen and citizens alike, may at last liavo a chanco at their otvn. Tho District Attorney is doing yeoman service in the work of destruction. The Curran Committee is laying a broad foundation for the work of rebuilding., Tho people of Now York may yet have ,a police force which they can once more call "tho finest," if they care enough.