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Show lira BACK 01 blT POL! LiE FORGE Leaves Government Secret Service to Reenter Municipal Mu-nicipal Employ. Detective Herbert Leichter is baek at police headquarters after a period of I probation with the United States secret j service. Mr. Leichter turned in his badge and bowed himself out of the government service last Monday. Questions as to the occasion for his discontinuance in the service were met v.itb non-committal an-wers at the secret service office. J. Parley White, chief of police, admitted admit-ted last nie;ht that Leichter had onc back on the city pay roll as a member of the detective force of the police department. de-partment. Detective Leichter left the city detective de-tective force about three months ago to take the secret service position. He had worked much with tho secret service serv-ice officers as well as with those of the department, ot justice, and it was understood un-derstood that tiio opportunity offered for him to get into the secret service was a recognition of demonstrated efficiency effi-ciency in investigation work. Shortly after the city commission was reorganized and Commissioner Scheid was made head of the public safety department, de-partment, government support for Joseph Jo-seph ( '. Sharp in holding to his post as chief of detectives was solicited. It met with frank statement that no federal fed-eral agent would think of interfering in local polities. Detective Leichter, however, found occasion to introduce the chief under whom he was working to Commissioner -v'neid. Soon thereafter other members of the city commission were given the confidential information that the government, gov-ernment, had requested that Mr. Sharp he retained in the interest of investigation investiga-tion of alien enemy matters in this city. Not long afterward Mr. Scheid went to San Diego, and there met Martin K. Mnlvey and offered to him the position posi-tion of chief of police with the provision pro-vision that Joseph (.'. Sharp must be retained re-tained by vccriest of the federal government. govern-ment. Mr. dalvey refused to accept ti.e pn-ition with any such condition. Commissioner Scheid came back and announced an-nounced That he and Mr. Mulvey had not iie. n able to come to terms. Questioned later as to whether or not a reoucst had been made for the retention reten-tion of Mr. Sharp by a government representative. rep-resentative. Mr. Scheid declared positively posi-tively that it had. Asked if he had ouostioned whether the request was one of go ern-re;:t con -ern or possibly 0f personal interest. Mr. S. hei.i took the high ground that he would not presume to inquire into the motives of a government gov-ernment agent. |