TOWNS AND CITIES
Bawdy Boston (Cont.)
A prime exhibit of "Bawdy Boston" (expose article in Plain Talk by Walter W. Liggett (TIME, Dec. 23) was Oliver Bridge Garrett, onetime "million-dollar cop" of the Boston police force, now a pensioner of Massachusetts taxpayers. Investigator Liggett reported that, with no visible income beyond his $40-a-week salary as head of the vice squad, Patrolman Garrett used to maintain a blooded-stock farm, a racing stable, a Cadillac, a Marmon, a Chrysler, a wardrobe of $150 tailored suits. Suddenly, last August, Patrolman Garrett was reduced to a...
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