Word: opperman
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...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 action. He jumped up on the platform beside the two culprits and, his voice shrilling with indignation and reproach, exclaimed: ". . . this morning you have two traitors [indicating Opperman and Foran] before you, two contemptible and disloyal men, men I can't find words strong enough to denounce! Judas betrayed for 30 pieces of silver! They are worse than Judas! They not only betrayed their trust but tried to put the blame on another member of the department...