New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-08
JAMES R. KEENE'S DENIAL.
HE KNEW AND HELPED DAVIS, BUT
NEVER DECRIED B. R. T., HE SAYS
JOHN PROCTOR CLARKE ANSWERS THE
DISTRICT ORNEY-REQUISITION
MADE FOR GOsIIN

MADE FOR GOsIIN
All Il desire to say is that so a 1 m
concerned human being lives who has
ever had suggestion from m O speak or
print or disseminate anything In respect of
the securities of the Brooklyn Rapid Tran
sit Company of any other financial cor
pora'ton.-tFrom James 4. Keene's statement)
James X keene says that he had absolutely
nothing to do with depressing Brooklyn Rapid
transit stock in December last, or at any other
time He gives the lie to Charles T Davis the
indicted publisher of The Wall Street Review,
who says that he has known Mr.. Keene for
thrty-one years, by saying that he has known
DAVIS less than year. He asserts that Davis's
sole claim on him was for information furnished
him tMr. keene) concerning the cost of the
manufacture of leather when Mr. Keene held
nifty thousand shares Of Leather Trust stock
For this information he paid Davis 81, 900. and
remained his friend
AS The Tribune stated yesterday the greatest
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company centres now
III the performances of Charles T. Davis and
Alfred L. Goslin. Daviss record is long and
peculiar one. and surprise was expressed yester-
day that he should have been able to establish
friendly relations with Wall Street brokers of
experience. Davis who is in the Tombs in
default Of 1000 bail, asserts that he has
done him many favors." He will have an op-
portunity the witness stand to make good
that assertion. Mr.. Keene has repudiated him.
after once saving him from prison. The fact
that Davis is in desperate straits, that he has
been repudiated by powerful friend and
that 1t lies within his power to give the State
assistance by telling all he knows about the
forces which inspired the small fry" TO raid
Brooklyn Rapid Transit. is what invests the
riprati ion -ba
with unusual interest.
JAMES R. KEENEs STATEMENT
Mr. Keene was requested by the newspaper
men yesterday afternoon to make a statement
with reference to Davis. At 9 o'clock last night
ne furnished the following:
Ny first knowledge of Charles T Davis was Soma
tne IN July or August Of last year l had never
seen MIN before that time nor ever heard of him.
the sPeciqJ Grand Jury. viz, Alfred R, Gosn EG-
sGhe ken T. FqckeT 4 Harry J. Alexander, Warner T
before to-day. ! never knew them, nor had com
t4Tough any human agency. Davis was the editor
he Wall Street ReTeT IN H ~ was s'aGs as6 TenTe Gaea
ssented 10 me as having been Government employe
works upon the statistics Of the export and manu-
facture OF leather, which in that trade made rim
shares of the preferred stock of the leather com
facts in regard to nanufacfuring pTots WhcR
had failed TO obtain from the company in which I
he roannfacture nrcrred and he fHrnjsbe5 Toe ba
dT5 IN tL ~ 1q @ M diT + % 1+ IT tii
had respecting my investment by clearing up
comprehend. For this service l sold bought
some stock for HIM, which resulted in profit OF
over 5000 and subsequently gave him at his re-
quest $1,000 more in compensation for this service.
and the fact that he was part proprietor and
editor OF a paper whiGh & in my view gave him "a
Gus times bought and sold one or two hundred shares
as he IL,
paper, which was struggling for existence as new new
transactions, running from July or August 1888 un-
I'll December22 dd not exceed three th0qShd J saaTs &
Brooklyn Rapid Transit, and in the transaction of
fhe ms nterTa Igr Called at my once frequently and
regarded him as d straightforwairo man .,Iae re
who represented large tanning interests IN various
their Intercourse confirmed my opinion of him
MR.. KEENE SAVES DAVIS FROM PRISON.
commenced violent attack against STOCK * Ex7 X
change firm which bd for e aded the rs and e m no
formed him when next saw hiIn I'm that suGh P1 Pre-
and that if they were continued I did not wish
him 10 present himself at my office. He explained
terest of honest speculation. and that the u men
specuIation The result Of this controversy with
them that he was arrested an9 on DeoeIn931 DEC {
bn from i the ignominy of prison and at time
When the small speculative account which ne had
showed a loss Subsequently the decline in the
Nah pro Had not covered the stock that
time he would have had 70 Is credit ABOUT Slou"99
some me- money to him TO tide over the exgencies
of the suit above mentioned, had gwen t lnstruC
From that time until December q never saw or
heard from him, directly or indirectly when ne pre-
sented himself in the hallway OF my once ana ana
Transit for him which was two DAYS aILer @ me tne
been about the Street Thinking that had acted
hastily in covering his stock and destroying me me
possibility of his making proht' L. IN Vlew os er me
circumstances consented 10 90 II az IIe T1inf,
time strongly advising him against II, ana ana aenhs @
him that in my opinion the STOCK was no. c go @o
al the price I know nothing of the facts upon
which the Grand Jgy % nay have a know
nothing against him at all, and ! would De sorry
desire 70 saw is that far as l am concerned
no human being lives who has ever had q sug-
envthing In respect of the securities Of the Brook-
iyn Rapid Transit or Of any other hnahcai cor
The reason for making this statement is that an
interview appeared IN Ihe Wori1 1, LEVI TeWsp4PT .TI
one OF their reporters respecting this matter.
DISTRICT ATTORNEYS CHAGRIN SHOWN.
District Attorney Gardiner and mis- staff gave
rather striking evidence yesterday that they felt
the slight put upon them when Governor Roose-
welt took out of their hands the investigation
of the alleged conspiracy against the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company and placed 1t in the
hands Of John Proctor Clarke. Deputy At
torney-GeneraL When Mr.. Clarke was first
appointed. Colonel Gardiner expressed himself
as delighted" Yesterday. however, Assistant
District Attorney Unger showed that after all
the wrath of Mr.. GARDENERS staf was just bot
tied UP for the time. Mr. Unger gave out a
statement for publication. and remarked. among
other things that the entire investigation of
the I,,rv had been merely a slanderous fishing