Word: plainclothesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...which crashed last fortnight. Policemen. First puddle Counsel Kresel dipped his hand into was the Women's Court. Month ago he held a three-day hearing, piled up an ugly heap of evidence against crooked policemen, their parasites and prey. Last week at a departmental investigation of 18 plainclothesmen, Counsel Kresel's star
Immediately 700 police were sent to scour Queensborough. That night, patrolmen dressed as women sat with plainclothesmen in parked cars wherever lovers were known to hold trysts. Suspects were arrested in New York State, New Jersey, even as far away as Philadelphia, but the Misses May and Ring failed to recognize any of them. More wild, coded notes to the police and the Journal kept special police squads rushing about Long Island and Westchester, to no avail...