Twenty-five hundred citizens of New York City last week attended a testimonial dinner, to Grover Aloysius Whalen for his work as the city's Police Commissioner. The morning before the banquet Mr. Whalen went to Police Headquarters as usual to attend the daily "lineup" of suspected criminals before the detective force. Two police detectives, Frederick Opperman, 25, and John Foran, 34, reluctantly mounted the little stage. The charge against them was that they had tried to extort $25 from the proprietor of a small speakeasy on Staten Island.
Instantly the Commissioner leaped into angry...
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