New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-10-27


THE ASSEMBLY COMMITTEES INVEsr6AfioN-r'f
prpy,ry w,RDFN's TESTIMONIAL PRISONERS
STORY OF TIE INTERNATIONAL BANKING COM
PANY.
1be Assembly Committee for the Investiga-
t,on Of Crime met yesterday Ludlow street JAIL Dep
ny Warden Gardner testified that there had been cny
three deaths the prison since tho building was CON-
struced one being case OF snicde during TIC PSe'
three years Mcratb had been tho only man u" escape
In this case, Officer D0wney, Who was new Keeper
passed the prisoner at the time OF locking
up under the suppositlon that ho we a VISITOR
Perbans the system admitting visitors, the witness fai'
might be improved but had worked wen during the
years had been in Office. The jail was KEPT opch' 'e
witness said until IL p. and some prisoners are "
lowed TO stay up uut that hour hut the ccildoos are
not left open except in OF sickness The united
States authorities had the right TO send prisoners the
but the witness could not explain why Fifty cents
per day should be paid for county prisoners ana
20 cents for those OF the United States. lie
thought 80 cents was not enough. lie
had no recollection OF any hardsPs suffered by prison
ers at the hands of the city masbas The aI'sts bs
these officers not as frequent "a they were eeloe
the law amended There were four lnil.a -, n, Us
prisoners now in the Jail, who had been ioI @
Than Mr.. Gardner was asked II IL Wou 20, W.
very easy thing for the prisoners to combine anu Oyer,
power the two keepers and TINS effect TIER clrape bt
be declined 10 stating that he iboneh u w not
fair question II was not safe he SAIL however or
large OF prisoners tn br in the yard al one ie
Roberts and Gleason, the alleged bond foIgers were
renleStPd tO appear before
tbp former stating thar mis- sOmeWhHt roihpn-
Gated and In the absence of his counsel he preferred
not 10 give testimony. Gleason declined ON the ground
that he was a codcfcndant with Roberts victor Dem
zak. who had expressed desire 10 reappear before M
Committee TO testify in regard TO the INTERNATIONAL
Banking Company OF this city was called. lie stated
that he arrested June ID 1919 on achare ~ iDeI pre-
fcrred against him by John j. Slnnger Ills coiis'i
made n motion TO vacate the arrest, but IT. was MOI
granted lie had also tried to bring the case 10 trii
thus far without success During the months
OF February and March. 1879, the wiz
ness said, lie had been for 40 days the agent
OF the International Banking Company The COMPANY
began business at Bower and Chaiham-st ID 10,
tn prncipal transactions being in what the naa2crs
called European premium government bonds These were
sld the pay being taken In installmens. These bonds
the witness said fact nothing more than premium
loans aud lottery tickets. Al the time the Wltcss APP
piled for the agency he informed by Morris Rereh-
berg alias Bower who the principal manager OF the
Company, that acting under char Ter granted ny
the state of New York. but since that time NJ had hu
that this was tho The Interest on me bonus
which they was drawn upon very comphcate'.
lottery system said he had complaint TO MAKE OF
the officers Of the JAIL either IN regard 10 tue treatment
or food he had heard complaint from any OF
the prisoners. -, in, 49,,
At the couci,son OF the testimony the Committee al
jOurned to the City Hall AT III a. H. to-day