The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-04
GRANTOONTRADICTS M'CANN,
am FEAT EERTLLB WITNESS TELLS
MORE AND NEW TALEA


O,o Aren't = Prospective Tea Cents = BaE'
81 far Croker o. Aaueduct CeHent-An'
ether that lErs. Croker Sst Up ss Nlgh'
With the Booais MeCann Alec Ssys
ssrnnt Tela MIa that NE Eai.selr Wouls
RSv. psen Ra,rsa Up IL the Broadway
needing but for Croker-The Mayor
bsnv0 That,a n Lis-Nr. 0rant Adnits
that he Gave FIossIe Croker olS'oee as
n Provision for bic oodehud = Never
Wanted e be Counissioeer OF Eseuc
WorSs or Raised AnY Moaey for the
PuVposo-Ths Complaint 90 the Senate
Vylthsrav-u Except 80 90 Ivtns-Eason
CorroSoPatss The Mayor - Joseph II.
ChoaSa .JoIns Hourke Cochran as Coun-
GAl-Adiourned 60 Hay 10.
Mayor Grant and Brother-in-law Mccain
met face TO face yesterday before the Fassett
Investigating committee. The sessions took
Ali day, and at the end both OF the combatants
were stiN in the field and apparently as full OF
fRht % ever. Brothor-in-law McCann not only
otuck to oil he had said before, but ADDED .
lot Of new charges, and. furthermore. declared
that II he were prosecuted enough he would
tell either In this or somo other court, heap
OF other things that Mayor Grant and TAM
many would not like to have known.
Mayor Grant. for his part made general
denial OF all that McCann had said 90 far 90 1t
involved any of1cial or personal misconduct on
hia mart He proiessed absolute ignorance OF
nie =, az 90 In,.sSs "a d.ni.d that he had
tno st ~ , Sv ..ors,srv 70 Mrs Croker or
any one else to offer them Inducements 70
leave the country. He admitted that no nao
eiven envelopes containing $4,000 to Mr..
Croker's little child, Flossie. but said that the
number OF these envelopes had been two In
stead Of i've. and that they were purely and
simply gifts from Godfather Grant to godchiid
Flossie, and had had nothing wna.ever ,. :" ~
Croker.
ID. 1H SO 90 saS At
.,S .v -. .hn so,io. hayrsd tho doora and an
IN O'Clock the poloe pAtroo tne ooote ~ -"
%iso 'e 20. hall" ana Sorridors clear
,hss ~. rnsmSSr. Of the committee and others
Sovte9 me- buSinssS bo,oro It eould got into the
rom. when Cha,rmann Fassott a. last rap
80 man the deal there was not an inch Of
room lott and lawyers and others having to
move about from one part Of the room to an
other were compelled TO use chairs ior stopping
atonos and turn the tables into streets
M COCHRAN MAkEs THINGS PLEASANT:
Mayor Grant and Bourke Cochran came In
and :n tho other s memSors Of the committee. The
vhola marty WA smiling and IL was Whispered
$1,000 th.t n,u+ual undarata n dinnA had beam
StouuS SLss. Ne Cookr,n TouId maka
.a.,n.i.s ,o- hs,ino nrnreased his contempt
APOLOGIES tor having oApios'e ~ n.' sJ n,aas.
for the committee ~ various y. anu
once more IN niS oIa role on q nasander Fam
mEny1i.-.,.n.r Jobn T Adama was nm
E1s .STgnttos sentt n.iiod The COMMITTEES To or
da 6eh bnt vbiis he Sadionce was auietine down
M CoSsran rose 6STSd ana sRS TS spman Pas
::t va Boy os & s@iS S;Ss. end 0st'nA0u'
"a dVWn 1 Rs p wsSs aS h pu on
sys.y6ody v who AVA. WAS in anybody ese' way no
IN. dS 70 Ss a l.S
eossefasS AGAINST Mayor Grant and had BEEN guilty Of
ss isf % @ !1a
s 30 r S:sp ~ ss
ssssesd . assa:. The sonmi'!;: q having h.d any
iSse 10 wtthdrsw them and to profess that no such
'Ss sss'i:s nv Tias has
70 "a 3. other 4: A' to the
s1pSnss . rom III The ssstimoay river iass week
tSined the s,atsment that Tom. Adams had
been 6 p e Has a aSF the
sentences n we're sID TncE9,s x,o,s,.
bro.hsr.in Jaw MoCann came in while Mr.,
Adams was talking He looked vigorons epd
hss sn %Ai b s9% M m8 eseS
Mccain to the cSSir he was about 70 ask
D Isb foHn ssn aD1e1 F"'Se''
Il: NJ r ePhSs S M c ssis ai@' p
Then lot the examination 20 on" said Mr..