The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-15

no gambling on the premises az Inspector
Brooks found none at Canfeld's. Magis-
trate Brann promptly discharged the pris-
oners and to the detectives said:
Every time jerome makes one OF his
spectacular raids. you policemen stand
on your heads. One raid by jerome makes
the whole police force SILVER. You had no
more right to break into this club room
,had you had TO break into my private
house.
CANTIELD's CIVIL sui.
The criminal proceedings against IN
spector Brooks will be- the first move made
by Garfield. la the next one. and 1t Will
follow the proceedings in the police court
by az short a time a. possible. the art coll
lector's attorneys will institute civil
action against Brooks. Jerome and Second
Deputy Police Commissioner Piper III the
Supreme Court. The complaint III the civil
.uit is made for Mr.. Garfield by Forbes j.
. Hennessy, one of his attorneys, and sets
forth that on the night of Dec. 1. 1902. the
defendants "maliciously intending TO injure
the plaintiff unla wfully and wilfuly Jointly
destroyed and injured certain property
of the plaintiff, consisting OF lace curtains
and woodwork OF the value oil
X.Ols" Wherefore, as the law provides
IN such cases the plaintiff demands judg-
ment against the defendants for triple
damages, or 38yO5i.
These actions will be the stint Of Mr..
Canfeld's lawyers to-day, but it will be
only a beginning What they purpose
doing in the future they decline to say.
One Of them remarked yesterday:
'We don't care to give information TO
the enemy. but | may say that we regard
these proceedings as only the skirmi-hes
before the heavy fighting. Whether Mr..
Garfield be gambler or not, he is an Ameri-
can citizen, and a. such he has rights under
the law and the Constitution. These rights
he will fight 10 maintain, cost what it will.
JERoME's NET PULL oP WITNESSES.
Mr. Jerome will return the art collectors
fire az 1890 O'Clock on Tuesday morning,
Nearly "A score of fnanciers, professional
men and men Of wealth, leisure and social
prominence have been subpTnaed 10 appear
before Justice Wyatt in the Court of Spec ial
Sessions at that hour and give testimony
i'm the matter Of the people of the State OF
NevsNYork against Richard A. Garfield
The persons who have been summoned 10
appear III this proceeding include Jesse
Lewiesohn. Junior member of Lewissohn
Bros, bankers, and Arthur A Ho,sman,
senior member Of the Stock Exchange house
Of A. A. Housman 4 Co, almost well
known in London and Berlin as in New
York. One of the attorney for one of the
men summoned said yeste rday that he had
learned that as a result of a talk between
Reginald c. Vanderbilt and his lawyer
and Mr. jerome a few days ago Mr. Wander
bit would escape being served with a
sutI Pua.
MEMBERS or VANDERBILT PARTY KNOWN.
The same man stated, however, that ac-
cordng to his informato on Mr.. Jerome now
had the names of several young men who
were with Mr. Vanderbilt on the night Mr.
Vanderbilt was reported 70 have lost some
thing like 100000 in Canfelds. 1t may
do no harm now to state that Mr. Vanderbilt
did not lose anything Ike 100000, and that
whatever he did lose was not lost in Can
fields, What money he lost went to the
proprietors Of game in West Thirt eighth
street, 10 which Mt Vanderbilt and party
Of friends were invited by. young man
prominent on the tuif and in society.
This young man, il is stated is one of
those subpenaed TO testify on Tuesday.
and il he appears his credibility WILL in
all probability. be savagey attacked.
ANOTHER OF THOSE UNDER sUBPfNA.
Another member of the party who visited
the Thir1v-eghth street house on the night
In question is the younger son of one Of
the weathiest railroad and turf men in
the country and the son-in-law of "A man
conspicuous in national affairs. He will
be asked before the Wyatt hearing II over
what he knows about Canields place
A relative Of this young man. when ne
learned that the District Attorney wanted
10 question the young man about what he
had done in a gambling house, is reported
TO have said:
The District Attorney has power to
do many things under the law but il man
sees tit TO gamble, can afford to lose and
does no one any harm by his act, the Dis
trict Attorney is going 80 far out of his
way to do his duty when he asks such a
person TO testify 10 his own criminal acts
that he must blame no one if the public
regards him az seeking only to make HIM
self notorious, do not know that the boy
was ever in Ianheld's. He is of age, how
ever, and knows what he wants to do. If
he asks my advice snail tell him to do his
duty as an American citizen, but to avoid
As much az he may anything that will CON
tribute To the vanity and Grassland repu-
tation of New York's Carrie Nation
Will ADVISE BANKERS NOT TO ANSWER.
The attorney for one of the bankers
subpGnaed made this statement;
This whole business snacks ~ much
Of the cheap that | am sure the reaction
will give the District Attorney enough to
chew on for many moons. No one of all
the men summoned by the District Attorney