The sun., 1895-03-15
GRAND JURY MYSTERIES.
gELtA YTcoLAUs AND DIR. PLRk-
HURST ExAMINED AGAIN.

| Everybody supPoses that Supsrintsndent
Byrnss's Tre.t-eut Of the woman who
sued George could tor siOoO check
Is Under Investientior -Pnrkhur-t Msn
| Try 90 Get Evidence out OF the Rutners.
| The Extraordinary Grand Jury OF tho Court
| OF Oyer and Terminer was not ready To report
yesterday. II Is surinised that the delay Is
caused by the efforts Of DR.. parkhurst and his
| agents, to present additional evidence against
police officials.
Gordon Lindsay, formerly salesman for X. G..
Williams & Co, who is under arrest for robbing
that firm, was again taken before the Grand
Jury by deputy sheriff. What the object of
his examination 10 could not be learred, except
that II 10 the general opinion that tho Parkhugst
society is trying It's utmost to get tip evidence
for the Indictment OF SUPERINTENDENT Byrnes
Iella Nicolaus, the star witness Of the Park
hurst society against Superintendent Byrnes
also appeared again before the Grand Jury.
She and her husband. Al Ruhman, were nc
cuscd by Lindsay and other arrested employees
OF X. {. Williams d Co. OF receiving some OF the
goods stolen from Williams Il 90. II is sup
posed that she was called to gvo addi-
tional testimony about Superintendent Byrnes's
dealings with her since she brought n suit
against George j. Gould to recover a $4,000
check. She and her husband both testified be-
IoTe tno uThnu jury. Dr. lhrRnurSt was q VIII
ness again, and he accompanied to the Grand
Jury room an elderly woman dressed in black
and heavily veied. This woman talked to Iella
and her husband, and IL was said she was for
mer boa ardnR mistress OF the Ruhmans. She also
went before the Grand Jury. The Ruhmans
and the elderly woman left court together. Ii is
said that the elderly woman's house was one of
those to which tho police tracked the Humans,
compelling them to change their residence
again.
Louis Butner and mis- father, Harris Butner
were witnesses before the Grand Jury. Louis
Butner says that few days ago the crook Liss.
who according to Detectives Jacob and Nc.
Manus was used as decoy by Parkhurst agents
in the attempt to entrap the detectives, called
on him and asked him and his father to testify
before the Grand Jury that the old man had
given $3.50 to Detective Jacob four years ago to
suppress information about a crime old Butner
was charged with. Old Butner said that lie
had never committed n crime, and that neither
he nor his son had ever seen Jacob. Yesterday
morning Agent Ryan and another Parkhurst
man called at the home of the Butners, at ~ Es-
sex street, and insisted on both father nd son ac-
campaigning them TO the Criminal Court build
we're probably subpGnss. and the Butner. &C.
conpanied them. The agents took Butner and
his son TO Assistant District Attorney Lindsays
office, and there. il is alleged. tried get them
to sign a typewrittsn statement. Mrs. Butner.
who 10 in a delicate condition. accompanied her
into MIR. Lindsays Office, but was not permit
ted. Liss was on hand with the Pnrkhurst
men. and he tried TO get Butner to make some
sort of a statement. After while Butner and
his son went before the Grand Jury and testi-
fled. They would not say afterward what they
had been questioned about. AS they lett the
building Liss and Parkhurst agent trailed
after them. There were several Central Office
detectives around the Grand Jury room, and the
movements OF the Parkhurst men were watched.
Butner collects rents for the original Harris
Cohen of Baxter street. Cohen said last evening
that Butner was /. reliable man and that he
never knew him to be guilty OF crime.
Judge Henry X. Beekman Of the Superior
Court was in the Grand Jury room for some
time yesterday morning. He was witness but
nobody could be found who could even guess
what he testified about.
Detective Sergeant Armstrong, who arrested
Lindsay. Scott. and Rosenbrugh for robbng the
Williams firm of cigars and groceries. had
long consultation with Police Justice Mcmahon
in the Tomhs yesterday. He told the Justice at
the examination on Wednesday that he could
get corroborative evidence that the Ruhnlans
had received part Of the stolen goods. and Il is
believed his confab was in regard to this. All
three prisoners. in statements made at Police
Headquarters, said they had given some Of their
booty to the Humans.