The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-02
Labor Notes.
NEW YORK FRAUDS.
Another Startling Chapter Com
menced Yesterday.
Waite Said to Have Made Full Con-
fession, duplicating Others.
Ex-Aidermen Waite and Kirk Ar
rested.

NEW YORK, April 1.-Ex-Alderman Chas
B. Waite has been arrested AT 8 O'Clock
this morning, Inspector Byrnes, armed with
warrant issued by Judge Cowing, was, in
company with Detective Philip Reilley, OF
the District Attorneys office, in waiting at
the Grand Central depot for Waite. WheI
the train on which the ex-Alderman had
come from Essex on Lake Champlain, drew
into the depot at 915 O'Clock, they hurried up
to it. As soon as the portly form OF the
late hotel keeper and Doodle alderman .,l "a
emerged from the drawing-room car. the IN
spector stepped up to him and said. MT.
Waite, we want to see you" The eX-Alder-
man, who was not in the least disconnected,
seemed to understand the purport of their
mission even before. the warrant was pro-
duced, and he was Informed that he was un-
der arrest. A cab was ordered, and the par
ty driven at breakneck pace, down to the
brown stone court house at the upper end OF
the park. Here they alighted on the Cham
bers street side, and hurrying into the build
ing by the ground floor entrance slgnaled
the elevator They entered and were quick
ly landed on the first floor, where they pro-
ceeded into the reception room of the Dis
trict Attorneys office. They were met By
Assistant District Attorney NicOll, who eS-
corted them into Col. Fellows private office.
The door of this room was securely locked
after them, and everybody denied admission.
Judge GilderSleeve, who has been the chief
mover in the plans laid to bring Jake Sharp S
aldermen to justice, entered court this morn
ing, shortly after 10 o'clock. When asked as
to what he knew about the matter, he said |:
81 know that he was arrested on awarrant
issued by Judge Cowing."
''Why not on warrant from you|
Because | have been in correspondent e
with him. He is the man who wrote the
two eventful letters to me-
haf n lnttpfC
they from?"
s''They were written at Essex, on Lake
Champlain, and in them Mr.. Waite offered
to tell all he knows about the Broadway
bribery"
the ex-Alderman had made a complete con-
fession, which not alone implicated himself,
but Alderman Jaehne and several other
members of the board of 1884. The warrant
on which Waite was arrested was issued late
yesterday afternoon by Judge Cowing. The
moment it became known that Waite was In
custody, the politicians in and around City
Hall were dun bfounded. From lip to lip
went the query, "Who will be betrayed?"
Detectives were seen in every corridor, and
flight, if contemplated by any, one, was rem
dered almost impossible. :. There Will be
scattering of the gang" said one Of the
knowing ones, 'and Byrnes will be able to
tell the guilty by their anxiety to lay low,
now that Waite mas come back to squeal
s'But has he come back to squealT1
''If he is the chap who wrote that letter to
Judge Gildersleeve, he is going to give the
whole snap away This is the universal be-
lief"
The Commercial Advertiser publishes a
three-column confession, as it calls it, of
Waite. In it he states that for securing the
election of Alderman Kirk as president Of
the board of 1884, he was permitted to name
the railroad committee, and he named men
who had their price and could be worked"
He, himself, did not receive dollar, but for
his services was to be appointed fire commits
sioner. He says the railroad committee vot-
ed on the Broadway franchise bill, as he de-
sired, but he never offered them cent al
though he thinks Jaehne, Dempsey, DeLacy
and Cleary each got $4,000. District Attor-
ney MARITIME denies that the ex-Alderman is
under arrest, but no one is permitted to see
him, and Inspector Byrnes has him in charge.
[LATER.]
1t is positively stated that warrants were,
this afternoon, issued for members of the
board of aldermen of 1884, known as fran
chise aldermen. This evening, William P.
Kirk, ex-president of that board, was arrest
ed and conveyed to headquarters. The
charge against him is bribery,