The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-06
TOHUSH UP HAGAMAN'S DEATH
OBJECT OF ALLEGED OFFER OF
BRIBE TO JEROME,S AID.

wanted Garvan to Agree TO Announce
That the Death OF the Man $780,.
900 Of whose Money Went Quickly to
Flower Was Due to Natural Causes.
The examination OF George j.. Mills,
law partner OF the son OF DR.. r. C. Flower,
the great American mining stock promoter,
was begun before Magistrate Pool in the
Centre street police court yesterday morn
ing. Mills was arrested on Friday, charged
with bribing Detective Sergeant Brindley
and with attempting to bride Deputy
Assistant District Attorney Caravan to
destroy six indictments for grand larceny
10und against DR.. Flower
u will be recalled that the District At
torney Is at present engaged in an investi-
CATION into the death OF Theodore Haga-
man who died in his apartments at the
Waldorf Astoria some three years ago,
after an illness Of several months, during
which he was attended by DR.. Joseph
Heald, who had been associated with Dr.
Flower. After Mr.. Hagaman's death, Mrs.
Hagaman. to whom he had handed over
his money, invested something more than
$4,000 in one OF DR.. Flowers mining
specialtiee.
Hagaman's body was exhumed. but the
District Attorneys Office rather de.paired.
owing to the length of time the body had
been buried, Of determining the exact cause
OF death. 1t came out in the Mills exami-
nation yesterday morning. however. that
Or. Flower W nted chiefly a report that
Hagaman died . natural death.
Brtndley was the firrt witness. He said
that by previous arrangement he and Mills
met IN Hams restaurant on March 81. and
after couple Of drinks. according to Brind-
ley, Mills said:
DIR. Flower Is very anxious for me
to zee Garvan personally. Flower has
hired high-priced counsel and they are
trying to drag the thing along in the hope
Of getting fat fee. know a better way
to manage q thing like this. however, and
II will be mich quicker. was an Assistant
District Attorney onoe and I know how
such things are arranged. As TO the in
dictments. they could DO misplaced or
lost or destroyed and others could be SUBJ
stituted which might easily be demurred to.
As to the Hagaman matter, that can
easily be arranged. and that's what we
want. Garvan could say that. after a
thorough investigation, he had found that
Hagaman came to HE death from natural
causes. Flower could have done all this
himself once, had he only known how such
things are fxed up. He was In Caravans
ONCE . few weeks ago and tho two had
things all to themselves. Had Flower
only known enough, the whole thing could
have been fixed I'D then and there. The
trouble with Flower was that he was too
slow.'
Brindley told Mills be would Sc what he
could do and agreed to meet him the next
Day. Both men kept the appointment.
10 R:e.rs thy scs DOVE to buainsss Ailis.
'Brindisy. you arc ) prsssy good sort Of a
sssS eae b. easse n:as g ,s De-. q
By whinh yYu can make . lot, more than
s. .pisnty q money in il for both Of US.
1mQu . mining company in which there
= barrel Of money and, II you'd like,
Fqsee that you got In on the ground floor
II b evidently hard for anybody. once
for any length Of time. from mining propo.
attSou. After brindley.. according TO his
story. bad stolen the indictments and hxed
up The Hasaman matter, he was TO be made
e A. mil!i k, BY Investing his: his profits in
Thsn Brindley told how the deal was
concluded. BY his receiving 1l,7s0 and
nnls getting the indictments. That con-
GUIDED the direct examination and he was
ss1 u ,6 a.1d Sy s1 ..ns S1s5sv
esvsra questions, Steinhardt asked him
II be knew Andrew D Meloy. Deputy
Assistant District Attorney Kresel objected
70 tho question and Steinhardt snapped
Il want to show that this Ia dirty, con-
tsmptible conspiracy. inspired by Meloy
ard patched In the District Attorneys
Tho question was allowed and Brindley
L. al De lAI
that Be had had q telephone Conversation
with Meloy. who told him that Mills wanted
to meet Garvan.
Mr.. Garvan was next called. His testi-
mony showed that the Dist riot Attorney first
tribe, that Mills had In mind an attempt
% bribe the District Attorney or one Of
his assistants.
Meloy came to the District Attorneys Office
.S to lay sTe isd q
Of the directors Of the Lone Pine Mining
Company betwe on Mills and another Ac-
cording to Meloy. the substance Of that
conversation was that Mills said he believed
10 try 1t. Caravan added that Meloy re-
peated part OF Mills's remarks, as follows:
Il know Caravan can be reached. He's
got deal on now over something or other
with Lawyer Hart. You know his father
money . while ago, and Caravan wants to
get al the stun he can to help the old man
out I am going to the District Attorneys
ONCE TO have a personal talk with Garvan:
Mr.. Garvan' said that as soon as this
alleged conversation had been reported
70 the District Attorney. Detective Sergeant
Brindley was assigned TO the case and was
told to get into touch with Mills. After
brindley had reported. Mr.. Garyan made
Q report to District Attorney jerome.
On cross-examination, Mr.. Steinhardt
asked Mr. Garvan II he had reported to
Mr.. jerome just to show that he couldn't
Be- tempted.
Not at all, said Mr.. Garvan. Il wasn't
tempted. It was my duty to report such
matters to my chief
sOh,' said Steinhardt. Then you Just
went TO your chief to show your purify"
Mr.. 0srvan said that such a thing wasn't
necessary, and then asked Magistrate Pool
II Mr. 6teinhardt couldn't be induced to
confine his questions to the subject IN hand
At the conclusion Of Mr.. Caravan testi-
mony, Mr. Steinhardt asked for an adjourn
ment. saying that he wanted to put Dis
trict Attorney jerome and several other
persons on the stand. Magistrate Pool
Adjourned the case until this afternoon