Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-11-18 | Page 13 | Tenderloin 'Czar' is Hopelessly Insane

Tenderloin Tenderloin zai s' s st I Hopelessly o e ess t Insane NEW NE' YORK TOniC Nov o 17 B By o U. U P. P P.- P. Now New Yorkers and others who vho have been following New York police history his his- tory were surprised to to o orea rea read In the I New York papers that John F F. F Dwyer former police inspector is i I I hopelessly Insane in a a. New York I hospital lie Ire is said to have a abrain abrain brain tumor I oY d Dw Dwyer er was known years years- ago as asI I The Czar of ot the Tenderloin lIe He lIeI was originally an officer on a South I American liner and left that service to join the navy during the Span Span- pan pan- j I American ish war A At Its close he became a a. policeman and anal was adI ad ad- I wanted until 1912 he was ma made e poI po police police po- po lice iCe inspector and was ordered by bythe bythe bythe I the then police commissioner Waldo Waldo Wal Wal- alI do to clean up tip the tho Tenderloin I At the head of Dwyer Raiders the Inspector spread terror among the residents of the light rod district dis dis- I which then consisted of ot gambling gambling gam gam- bling bung dives doubtful cabarets and other resorts resort whose character was not even in doubt Dwyer used strong strong arm arm methods and was cenI censured censured cen cen- or praised for them in aCcor accordance accord accord- I ance ante with how tho the person talking regarded police methods and the tho Tenderloin I Dwyer was retired on pension In 1921 and the same year his wealth came under the investigating ling eye of the Meyer le legislative Ing committee Dwyer told the committed committed com com- of ot successful stock speculations speculations specula specula- which the committee believing believIng believing ing or not did not c controvert by testimony After the committees committee's sessions DW Dwyer er Issued a statement which was widely circulated stating that Police Lieutenant Becker Deccer executed ex- ex for the murder of ot Rosenthal gambler had been framed