New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-04-21
ISLES'S STORY BACKED UP.
a WAITER WHO ATTENDED THE MEN AT
THE SINCLAIR HOUSE WILL GIVE
TESTIMONY
HE IDENTIFIES I

IN The BROokl.lN SCANDAL
District-A Attorney Marean now has both liv-
ing witness and documentary evidence TO
roborate the confession Of Frederick G. Isles in
/ the Brooklyn bribery scandal.
Patrick Wall. Of No. 3i2 East Thrteenth-st..
Manhattan. is a waiter al the Sinclair House.
He visited the District-Attorney's office yester-
day and said that he waited on Isles and two
men. who answered minutely to the description
Of William Hepburn and Charles NJ. Winant. on
March IL at the Sinclair House. the date when.
Isles says. Hepburn and Winant offered him
$4,000 II he would prevent the indictment Of
Theodore r. Willis and Police Commissioner
William T. Philips.
All The facts regarding the letter said IN have
been written by Winant guarded with the
utmost secrecy by the District-A;torney's office.
but that is thought to he the evidence to which
District Attorney Marean referred a week ago
when he told Magistrate Bremen that on the
examination he would have evidence To cor
roborate the confession Of Isles. AT the time
Mr.. Marean made this statement in court he
had experts in the Brooklyn Borough Hall COM
pairing tho penma nship # this letter with the
handwriting ~ Wnant Wnant. before he be-
came private recretary to Police Commissioners
Philips was for four years a clerk 10 the COM
mittees Of the Brooklyn Board Of Aldermen. In
that office ne wrote many committee reports.
ard he likewsc signed the warrants for his pay
with great regularity
AN INVESTIGATION BEGUN.
The Grand Jury yesterday began IT'S examna-
ton Of the charges against Hepburn and
Wnant Frederick G. Isles was on the stand
FOR two hours. and the letter alleged to have
been written by Winant submitted.
As nearly &c could be learned last nigh, this
letter is dated March H. and requests Isles 10
meet Winan' at Wnaat's house. No. - Cum
berland-s,. tho next evening at o'clock
Wirant vas then employed AZ Police Head
quarters in Manhattan and Isles was out Of ON
ployncnt The letter is said to have been
directed 10 Isles's housa. No. SIC Hanoock-st.
\ week or SO before this Isles and Winant had
not in front Of tho Court House In Brooklyn.
and Isles is reported to have said: Il am on the
Grand Jury and I'm out of work"
ISLES HAD DECLINED An OFFICE.
Ises had short time before this refused to
accept n place as clerk and stenosrapher % the
Republican General Commute" Putting these
things together 1t may be Inferred that some o'
the politicians who were interested In saving
Theodore r Willis and William f.. Philips de-
cided that Isles would be willing TO undertake
something that paid more than n clerkship.
Roth Assistant CITY Clerk Scully and Deputy
United states Marshal John Z. Thorne were
.uhrocnaeJ 70 appea- before the Grand Jury yes
;eriqy 20 identify WInants handwriting As
Nh Thorne was more familiar with X than was
Scully tho latter was not called. committee
report written by Windnt and his signature to
d warrant were shown 10 Mr.. Thorne. ana nc
svore that they we're written hy Winant Then
Professor Kinsey. tho expert on handwriting
explained the points ~ similarity between the
writing = tho committee report and that Of the
letter alleged 20 have been written by Wlnant
OHrsFN LETTERS TO BE MADE PUBLIC.
I, is said TIM, the reason the threatening let
tors received by Henry y. Ohlsen have been so
closely guarded by Captain Reynolds is that
they were written by either Winant or Isles
They were also submitted 70 the Grand Jury
Yesterday. Captain Reynolds said last night
hat he would to-day make a public statement
regarding the death Of Ohlscn. and that he
would allow newspaper men to examine the
Ohlscn letters
ONE or THE MEN A REGULAR CUSTOMER
Wall. the waiter. spent several hours in the
pis,rl-t-Atiorney's ofHce. and then sent 70
500 II he could IDENTIFY Hepburn and Winant
Re had already Identified Isles. There was a
rumor that he went before the Grand Jury in
tho afternoon. but District Attorney Marean.
while he would not deny this. intmated that
Wall would not 20 before the Grand Jury until
this morning
Wall pointed out the table az which his three
guests sat on the night Of the alleged attempted
bribery They had several bottles Of cham
payne. at 81 20 bottle. and oysters on the half
she'll He remembered the man alleged 70 be
Hepburn because he had been regular Gus
toner
The check Of the three mon. he said was
large on, Wall said that the two men who were |
with Isles seemed 20 be trying 10 make him do |
something which Isles seemed reluctant 10 do |
The men sat AT the table FOR about two hours. |
Wall said that ne heard little OF the CONVERSE
ton Isles recognized Wall AT once as the |
walter who had served them that night and |
seemed greatly pleased that he was corrooo-
rated
POLITICIANS WERE AT WORK
II IS understood that information has reached
District-Attorney Marean that certain poll
ticians Of prominence attempted 10 control the
March Grand Jury first through political preju-
dice Most Of tho members Of the Grand Jury
were Republicans. and the report Is that an
effort was made TO persuade them not TO in
quirc into charges made against the Republican
Office holders
Thomas Edwards foreman OF the Grand Jury,
Is the man who. II Is said. headed off this at
tempt Edwards himself is n Republican. but
he demanded that tho Grand Jury do its full
duty as citizens. Irrespective OF party afflia-
tons
charles NJ Winant appeared in Tho ADAMS
81 police court yesterday for examination.
and Isles was present to take the stand n
witness Winant's lawyer. David Welch.
not present but clerk from Mr.. Welch's office
Magistrate Br.stow that Mr. Welch was
engaged on an important case before the SUI
pr.ma Court and asked that the examination he
postponed for a week. District Attorney Marean
sn id that he was always ready 10 obge a re-
ennct a. Lie Inw,ver. but he did not want the adj