The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-18
MAY Be ARRESTED
Croker Likely to Be
Apprehended For
Contempt.
WON'T CALL PLAT1.
Mazet Commission Will Con-
fine It's Investigations
to Democrats.
WON'T CALL PLAT.

You were 1000 shares short on Man
hattan?" said Mr.. Moss, repeating
question that on Saturday Mr.. Croker
refused to answer.
i well, now 1 will answer you," said
ahe witness. IT was not. That never
& happened at all. If you had acted as a
gentleman, as you are not at this pres
ent time, the other day I would have
told you
Mr.. Croker said he was short on no
shares of any stock.
Mr.. Mazet asked Mr.. Croker: Don't
you know, as a matter of fact, that the
opposition to the passage Of the AS
toria gas bill was, by reason Of the fact
that you and your friends and the
members of the democratic organiza-
tion, held stock in the New Amsterdam
Company, which was a rival compa-
81 don't know it is true; they may
and may not; 1 don't know said Mr..
Croker.
Mr.. Hoffman asked Mr.. Croker if it
was not because that bill gave a fran
chise worth $2O,0O0,0O0 without dol
lars consideration that the city au-
thorities opposed it, and Mr.. Croker
said he thought that was the reason.
When Mr.. Moss said that Mr.. Croker
had found that in business matters,
like that of Peter Meyer q Co, mem
bers of the organization could help
each other, Mr.. Croker said angrily:
you are trying to make us out a pack
Of thieves in one combination together,
and you can't do it"
sand you think that these questions
indicate that persons who do these
things are thieVes?" queried Mr.. Moss.
ssThat is what you are trying to get
att said Mr.. Croker, thoroughly
aroused. At say that the people Of
the city of New York, when they voted
for our ticket, voted to put in an or
ganization, and they believe that orga-
nization should run this city. And
when you were put out of the police
board. that is what you were put out
for. because you were not an organiza-
ton man"
There was applause A man in the
front row clapped his hands and Chair
man Mazet had the sergeant-at-arms
take him out of the room.
Mr.. Moss remarked that 1t was eVl-
dent that Mr. Croker realized that "se-
robustness of the occasion" The Tam
many leader retorted: mot very Sc
rious. 1 am not going away. 1 am
going to stay here until the circus is
over.
you are not going to Europe?' said
Mr.. Moss.
II am going to be here to see how
long you are going to stay; you can
have me any day you want" replied
the witness.
Il am glad we Shall not interfere
with your trip" sad Mr.. Moss.
you have interfered with it pretty
much" was the retort.
"What personal estate did you have
when you went to make your aftida-
Wit in the tax Officer" asked Mr.. Moss.
Nothing" said Mr.. Croker.
THAT is what I meant when I asked
you the question, perhaps by an OBJ
jectionable term, whether you were not
broke when you came back from Eng
land" said Mr. Moss.
.'No. sir, I was not" responded the
witness. And he added: Il brought
back some English money with me, -
whereat there was laughter.
you want municipal gas plant now,
don't you?"
sYes" said Mr.. Croker.
with contracts carried out by mem
bers of the organization"
YES"
"Tammany right clean through"
"Tammany right to the ground was
the emphatic answer.
ssYou want the whole business?"
ssYes"
''Everything you can get?"
ayes. the same as you got under
Roosevelt exactly" and there was
laughter at this reply by Mr.. Croker.
Il think, Mr. Croker we Will sub
poena you for the time being for a
week from today and if there be any
thing to change our plans we will let
you know before that"
The committee then adjourned until
Friday.
Richard Croker may be arrested to-
Gaorrow. Contempt proceedings are al
most certain to be introduced against
him in the near future, and 1t is prob
ably that fact which leads several of
the evening papers TO make the state
ment that the warrant for arrest has
already been made out and that it Will
be served tomorrow.
In the session of the MaZet legisla-
tive Investigating committee today, Mr..
Croker was again the principal object
of Mr. Moss examination, and the most
important development was the prob
ability that the Tammany chieftain and
John F. Carroll will be the subject of
contempt proceedings before the state
legislature shall adjourn All during the
evidence today, Mr.. CruRer barred the
questioning of the counsel of the COM
mittee and refused to satisfy the MEM
bers with the amount of information
he was willing to give regarding certain
matters which he classified as person
all affairs.
An adjournment of the committee
YVES taken this afternoon until next
Friday morning, and Mr.. Croker was
subpoenaed to reappear before the
session next Monday morning. BY the
initiative of Mr. Moss, many of whose
questions Mr.. Croker repeatedly re-
fused to answer and with whom he had
several sallies that came very near
being personal, the chairman of the
committee took such action as would
leave Mr.. Croker in technical contempt.
It was stated tonight that when Mr..
Fellows, of the committee. left this
afternoon for Albany he had iEstruc-
lions to prepare papers adjudging AIR.
Croker and John F. Carroll in CON
tempt
Assemblyman Hoffman offered a res
olution to have certai prominent men
summoned before tho committee be-
cause of a rumor that "a certain law
arm" by and with the assistan1s OF