Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-09-04 | Page 3 | Bogus Detective Held for Fraud

BOGUS DETECTIVE HELD FOR FRAUD BALTIMORE Sept 4 JP Detec Detec Ive Uve Murphy of Headquarters found himself in the tolls toils of the law today Magistrate James R. R Cadden having ordered him held under 2500 bail bailor for or the grand jury on charges of blackmail misrepresentation and false pretense He was docketed at central police station not as Detective Murphy the he name by which he was known to Henry lenry Kroener but Kroener-but but as William E. E Willis a painter Police Captain John Cooney said Willis representing representing himself himself himsel as a de de- accused Henry Kroener of a crime in October 1932 ever since has las been exacting tribute from Kroener Kroener Kroe Kroe- ner ncr under threat of prosecution and andIn andIn In n this manner has mulcted Kroener of about What particularly aroused Captain Coone Cooney was that his name and that of Inspector Stephen G. G Nelson Nelsen had f figured fig In the dealings Kroener holding hold hold- Ing ng a number of receipts given him by Detective Murphy and signed Captain Caplain Cooney or Inspector Nd- Nd son son- According to these Captain Cooney Cooney Coo Coo- ney fey once had received 25 for withholding with holding prosecution of Kroener and at another time Inspector Nelson had lad received 75 Kroener told police he had protested protest protest- ed his innocence when stopped by the detective in October 1932 on accusation accusation ac ac- ac- ac of assaulting a man and was let go when he agreed screed to pay 25