New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-01-27
IS IT A. CONSPIRACY?
GRAVE RUMoRs: ABOUT CITY OFFICIALS.
THEIR NAMES CONNECTED WITH THE CHECKS
SAID TO HAVE BEEN GIVEN BY LUCY

THEIR NAMES CONNECTED WITH THE CHECKS
SAID TO HAVE BEEN GIVEN BY LUCY
MCCARTHY FOR PROTECTION"
II the reports which were floating about the
District Attorneys office yesterday are true the
Grand Jury will soon present indictments that
will reveal a shocking conspiracy on the part OF
some Of the Tammany otllce-holders in the city.
The threatened revelations were said to hang on
the evidence furnished by Mrs Lucy Mccarthy.
who was arrested the charge OF keeping a
disorderly house In West Forty-ninth-st. In De-
cember but who escaped conviction and Is alleged
to have paid $1,000 in four checks upon the prom
ise OF somebody to protect her in her business
The woman has bden before the Grand Jury IN
company with Police Superintendent Byrnes' ana
the rumors have declared that the incriminaUhg
checks have been used evidence to substan-
tate her story of hlaclmail
The case has made a great deal Of talk among
lawyers judges and politicians In the city. II
was said last night that police justice a clerK
of one of the police courts. politician VINO
left Washington under cloud not long ago ana
is now the counsel for one of the departments
Of the city government. and another lawyer
whose practice had been confined chiefly to the
police court ware involved in the charges Vi
consplracy and might be arrested before morn
to be only one Of several in which persons who
had money to pay for immunity had been apie
to purchase It from the police court ring. Inc
ca SOS were 20 managed that the arrested persons
were either discharged in the police court or
were held to BAIL and the papers switched OIL
from the track to the District-Attorncys Office
and the Grand Jury room. Search was made Tor
the persons mentioned in the reports last night'
but they could not be found at their homes
at a late hour.
District-Attorney Fellows yesterday contra
dlcted a statement which was contained In one
Of the reports to the effect that he had stopped
the investigation of the alleged conspiracy Tor
political reasons. lie also discredited report
that the papers in the case OF Mrs. Mccarthy
had not been sent % the Distrlc,7,AIlornseE
office. The rccords show that the disnlssai OF
the case In the police court had been recorded
IN the Office. Mr.. Fellows said he could give no
Information about a matter Which was Delns
considered by the Grand Jury until DEFINITE
action had been taken. Superintendent Byrnes
also refused to tell anything about the case i0f
the same reason.
Assistant strict-Attorney Lindsay called al
Police Headquarters late yesterday afternoon ana
had a conference with Superintendent Byrnes-
After he had gone away Mr.. Byrnes sent LOT m
spect0r McAVoy The Inspector renamed with
The superintendent some ,ime and then left Head
quarters. The Superintendent refused to state
The object of the Assistant Dstrlct-AttOrhey
visit II rumored that an arrest might ne
made last night in connection win the case
which took Superintendent Byrnes ana the
woman Lucy Mccarthy before the Grand Jury
this week. II was also rumored that MI LINDSAY
had handed some indictments TO the Superintend-
ent but this could not be verified.
John c. MunZnger the lawyer. VINO was couh-
sci for Mrs Mccarthy after her recent arrest.
has said that he had heard reports coupling his
name with the appearance of the woman before
the Grand Jury. but he could not understand
why such reports should have got abroad. lie
had received n fee from tn, woman for MS pro-
fessjonal services. but the sum was neither sooo
nor S. 900 He had stated his intention 10 oifer
his testimony at the Dstrlct-Attorneys once,
hut no was not at the office yesterday Tho law
YER Also suggested that the report had been In
tended as a blow at his brother Louis. the fort
Warden. who has been warm political friend
OF Police Commissioner Sheehan.