New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-22
RIES AND POLICE.
RIMORED PLANS OF THE PARKHURST
SOCIETY.

THE GRAND JURY. IT Is SAID. WILL BE ASKED TO
CONSIDER EVIDENCE OF COLLISION BE
TWEEN OFFICERS AND EAST SIDE FIRE
BrGs-LIsS ACCUSED OF TRYING
To nRrBE WITNESSES.
When the Grand Jury OF the Court Of oyer and
Terminer resumed its abors at lo:% NeSueru'y
large number Of witnesses were in attendance. sew
oval wore franz the East Side. The East Siders
seemed +, be more or less under the command OF
the Parkhurst society agents. DenneU "hi"es
and Lennon. The majority OF them were '"no''
and resided in tencments in which SUSPICIOUS "'es
have occurred in the last year. IL was Fepoie'
that the Parkhurst people now making Vlsor
Gus aitemp, 10 prove that the police OF the East oue
precincts were in league with the principal mem
h.rs NJ tho Fas, Side gang OF ncendiarles. Max H.
(;rAuer louis HOFFMAN. Ida lieoermah' 'a'a'
Silvermeister the alleged leaders OF the gang WIN,
II viii be remembered. have been coh''V'e" anu
sentenced to long terms OF imprisonment
Assistant Dlsrict-Attorney DAVIS. when seen !"
relation to the matter, secuted the lhea' ne 'o"
tended that an attempt OF this kind on the part OF
the Parkhurs, society without his knowledge "ou'd
have been utterly impossible lie sa'd' nave
handled all of these incendary cases ana All.
sure that II any such move had been cohteihpIa'ed
| would have been consulted. do not Sc" tha' the
police would have been OF any particular value 10
the nrah1ps least not enough to warrant them
In taking them into their confidence or SHARING al!
Cf the.- ill-gotten gains.
At the same time however. others VINO are III
position 10 be fairly well posted in the matter in
sist that such Is the Intention oil the FarNnu'S'
y, ople.
The rey Or Parkhurst had consultation with
Foreman l.eggett OF the Grand jury yesterday
afternoon and f. -. kenneson o. pr Parkhurs'
society. was IN Mr.. llndsay's office IN the AFTER
noon.
Shortly after Iss the burglar, hal confidently
announced to some acquaintances that ne was
working with the Parkhurst trying to con
meet the police with the hrebugs. Fire Marshai
Mitchell entered the Criminal Courts building a'-
companied by Simon hosenbaum. the police IN
former upon whose testimony Grauer was con
prisonment. and man named Fox me re wSnt
at once TO the ONCE OF Assistant
- thc reach he'd tne one door ana Mr. h havf
came out Mr. Mitchell was asked II he had hedrd
ANYTHING about the rumor that IN" police ha'i
acted in concert with the nreDugs ana perm t =,
hetn ~ work without interruption from them lie
replied that IL all news TO him. ana that ne
had no, heard Of IT, lie then turned to Rosen-
baum and asked him II he had heard anything
at'"t +, RosrubluIn al once became much eA-
ritcd and n his broken English finally san mar
Ilss had come 10 the place where ne was sihpoyIId
a few days before and told MIN that n n" "Cni
60 "a" criminal court %hd sM@sf may hr np
ic4mru % Jet the hrebuss alone Il" W"uId pay
FoT said ina, las, ueht several women had come
=, him ani informed him that L,ss had been to
them AMI wanted them 10 swear 10 hhNluS pa
;hr TWO DETECTIVES money. Fox added mat ne
knew % others who had similar rKpeIiyn,ys
1, This Nh Davis asked Mr.. Mitchell. Fox ana
Eoseuhaufn TO com" into hiS private ollie Later
colonel Fellows was told II IN. stories OF L,ss
actions and he sent for Assistant blE-
trict- Attorney Lindsay. who has charge oil thr
Grand Jury ~ = result. u Is understood. none ~
f,e witnesses that Idss has anything - DO WIN
viii hD permitted TO testify hefor" thai bo1y hhul
mn examination has been mAd" INTO the mat IT,
Moses Oppruheim-r. the clerk of coroner li"D"I
"a nos. resignation caused quit" STIR yesterday
80. ,i.o a witness before the Grand Jury. II IL
.lup,erI he has been summoned 10 explain IN"
., fftre 81 the transaction between himself ana me
eccentric Coroner. which h" mentioned ~ Ms letter
- resignation claiming he had advanced sum OF
none, the Coroner a. a loan.