New-York tribune., 1903-07-10
p,rH DOCK BOARD PLUMS.
Al Seemed to Come the Way Of
Charles r. Murphy.

..i~.sr+ District Attorney Clarke yesterday
-.,r-oed his task of trailing the Tammahy
ter 70 his lair Little by little Mr.. Clarke
= nu,np I'D the evidence necessary to make
-.,r,ncing case of wilful neglect Of duty against
ia Dock Board when the time comes to
,r,sent It to the grand jury
Yesterday afternoon Mr.. Clarke had Mr. Daily
,reober Of the firm Of Holbrook' Cabot d
-, one Of the contracting firms building the
-. ss a witness at the Criminal Courts
p,faine He said that he had developed the
..,,ouing information through Mr.. Days testi-
mony:
IT, March 1899. Edward 2 Cunningham OBJ
,siraa the filling in contract between Nine
.es-tb and Twenty fourth SITS, on the East
p,,er The contract price was $145OO. Gun
,i,ebsm held the contract dormant for about
yssr and then sold It 10 Holbrook. Cabot q
DsIv for $4,000 Cunningham paid the city
o,l,, 81 800 on the contract. and the purchasing
,,-nnanv took Up the $4,000 balance Cum
rirgban, was paid $50 900 in cash. of which
s27 500 was profit.
What I want to know" said Mr.. Clarke IN
relating the facts is why the city did not get
this S27.5OO instead OF Cunningham? II the
contract was worth $4,000 why was it sold
70 Cunningham in the first place for S17,5Oo?'
BARTENDER WITH TAMMANY UNCLE.
Cunningham is said to have been bartender
At Third-ave. and Fourteenth-st., in Charles +.
Murphy's district. It is understood that his
UNCLE, ex-senator Cunningham, got the filling in
contract for him Many filing in contracts, Mr.
Clarke said were being investigated.
The letter book Of the Dock Department shows
the letter assigning the Twenty-ninth-st. dock
10 Joseph Egan, written and signed on Novem-
Der s inserted in the book between two letters
written on December L, 1901 Mr.. Clarke says
he would like to know if the New-York Con-
fracting and Trucking Company really existed
Ee said that under the corporation law one
half Of the capital stock, in this case So'oVo'
should be paid in before the expiration Of a
year, in default of which the corporation ceases
70 exist. He declared that there was positively no
record in the County Clerks Office to show that
the law was compiled with in this instance. so
that in case the corporation ceased TO exist
Murphy and Gaffney were doing business. not
as a corporation but as individuals In this
event. he said. the charges against them would
assume a much graver aspect
WITNESSES THAT DISAPPEAR,
Mr Clarke yesterday looked up the connec-
tons Of Richard J. Couch. one Of the three cor
porators Of til New-York Contracting and
Trucking Company. Mt Couch was bar
keeper, supposed 10 be in the employ Of Charles
F Nurpn-. n a Second ave. - loon NIr Clarke
has tried il vain TO get hold Of the books of the
GaHney-ACurphy Company. Ny Couch has dis
appeared. Other people have left town suddenly
70 escape The heated Germ. Some Of them are
personal friends Of Charles F. Murphy, who re-
ceired substantial favors from the Old Dock
Board
One of the "6isappearars' is Philip DonohUe,
president of the Anawanda Club Charlie"
Nurphys XVIIIth District organizato on. Mr..
Donohue ls also an undertaken, and has the
bath house privilege at West One-hundred-and-
ffty-ffrh-st- Mr.. Donohue and John J. Murphy
are associated in the Steel Clad Reversible
Broom Company.
THINGS THAT CAME MURPHY's WAY.
The minutes Of the board seem 10 show that
Catharine Smith was cleaner on a recrea ton
pier. Then she was dropped from the paw
rolls. Later Catharine Smith appears as the
lessee Of the e-hundred-and- d-fifty-ffth-st
hath house which before then Mrs Shook had
haa Mrs Shook was willing to pay a fair
rental Tor her privilege. She was not wanted
there After this bath was IN nominal posses-
SION ot Catharine Smith for time, the Dock
boaro transferred il 10 Philip Donohue Charles
r. MuTphy's personal friend. Everything
sooner OF later, seemed TO come back 70 Mrrnhv
IIe statements Of counsel that Mr.. Clarke was
giving ont information TO the public which was
pIe'uo414a4 70 the defence in the inquiry. Mr
eia-Ae sald yesterday, were unfounded, as he
had o perfect right 70 make ANYTHING nublic II
me cases Of Gafney and Murphy which he
saw nj They are under arrest. and their case,
are now in public form The rest of the doct
inquiry. which is stin secret, Mr. Clarke said
WAS being kept secret, and information bearine
On il was carefully guarded.
Charles f Murphy was behind the railing al
Iammsny Hall yesterday. between II a m anf
,. n When reporter suggested that it wa.
So; -P - @ AllL 20 say something about the ex
Soy ~ oy me old board seemed to round 10 at hi!
UoSlslep ne smiled affably and said:
lFe nothing 70 say"
asked al sumner! ne wal
Nearily. U4Phy' soihe"ha