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The Challender story semsin many ways reenactnrent ot the.story rank The, Outcast . YAno woot, mn dut ooidres. cemnwho ws d intopalmosttatnightand ADetective's Efforts an outside ageneyto exposo corruption cently was thesubiectot a movicand D In Breaking a Big Cas tetive Challender ktcys anadposterot the Weren't Appreciated Mr.Serpico ot courstwasbearded, unconventlonal character,whereas, Detee .tive Challender shorthalredclean Big Shots Were Indicted shavenandsctipulously.conservttive inat tire and demeanor, He has a pretty blonda wife, tidy home in a modest suburban de. But James Challender Is velopment and tour ttractive children.P Back on Hubcap. Patrol mueh likeMr.Sexplco,Deteetive Chalender bew the whistie on a,case of corzyption that caught hell for'it. Displaying a'Serpico' Poster Clue ot the Cashed Cheek The clue that setDetective Challener ontohisbig case was cheek tors150 By JONATHAy KWITNY : E StaReTSJOCRNAL made out byutchersunon offictalto the 1963.gubernatortal campign otWiam.Ca MERCERVILLNJf the New Jer Mll.In May t9?1 Detective Challender's su Soy State Poltce encountered a really ,big pertors assigned him to Investigate why the case,Detectlye James Challenderwas cbeck was cashed at,the Garden State Race- Lkely s any trooper to track t. track-not the placewhere the averege.gu. After graduating.rst inhis clats from bematorialcampaign does its bankng. the state police academy.n igshe worked Within year, DetectiveChallender had ouo. Buea syaer ou. gononn fem y : discovered.bwndreds ot thousands ot dollars commendationafter another..Wnle .on in simllar checks, all cashed at the race . menial. duty patroling the New. Sersey. trek-whteh haprtned to be owned by u urnpikeh covered a $2.s mlion.mar juana.haul.and was promotedto the crim nal-nvestigatlon section. There, hehelped Crane, whom Gov. Cahill had appolnted obtainevdence that convicted a state judge state treasurerafter the 169 election.Most ot brbery and spearheaded the detecfive of the checks came from engineers:contrag work that led to labor racketeering indict tors and others who did busless with the mints.against leaders of the meatcutters' state.Th hecks were made ut to aCahill and.tronworkerstnsons. campaign tund whose name was slightly dil Followingletter ofpratsefrom State ferent from that of the official.campaign fund. r=' igent cedicatlon to duty andcon Detective Challender'found that .compa. entious investigative eltorsand hs.re- ceipt of .an.unusual$7s0 bonutDetective Invoices orprotesslonal services froma Challender.was.promotedto theprestigtous Cherry Hil, N.J., publie relatons tirm, I et isnsny u gun sowgs aofeut. ..Wrter's Associates. This allowed the donors oq.. to deduet their campaign gits (whiehn in the b6 really big case which fvolvessoeof the case of corporationswere apparently illegal b7C Mzgest pontictans and govemment .contrae. tors in'New Jersey... taxes (which also apparentlywasillgal, Detective Challender then located a key ent Fall From Grace Ard it was only stx months Jate that pafgn worker named Szanne Phtlips. Detective Challender abxuptly fell' from! In a state where Democrats were being graces oneot the state'sleading detee marched off to all witn monotonous,regu. larity the revelation.ot corruption.n Repub e o dun o u Aun Detective Challencer turned over nts expio mahent assignment, but is frequentlysh d from one postto another along the tu $ive evidence and waited.But theheadhines o on didn'tcomt. siberaHis.wife complainspf tension tn the houseHe batestheturpikeandf a an bates nis.Job.inevitablyhe : brings probewhilen the criminalinvestigation ome ofsthomewith himNancy Challen ectlonIn.August.i92. whilt st on the *seh.suddenywonhis.long-hopdforf fTHE WALL STREET/JOURNAL: promotton'to tHe.msjot crhmes uit,Nor :.mally, aecordmg to. Mrs. Challender,.hel 4as.happeneonthebg.case.he cracked would have.continueddespite.the transierto o .w..n. e bn.uct.t.tato hmH woronapaign.corrupton.nttbetn yestigatlonwas conpicte.(he state police wont.comment.on whetherthenormal.po Icy.s.to allow. troopers-to completa ongotn for-hoinrs ata time by,his superlors Detec unvesigations.. before.. being..transferred.. tre ChaMenderwontallow.binaseit ca bekn But DetectivChallenderwatotd toleare Pla ?