New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-14

counsel for Joseph Egan. said last night that he
had asked Corporation Counsel Rives for an
adjournment. because of his pressing business
ensagements and that his request had been
refused.
TO FIGHT FOR DELAY.
The Tammany men will fight for DELAY. he
cause there is strong probabi that when
'iie case comes TO trial all the cid dock COM
'iiSsloners viii be put on the stand
me complaint in the Egan case up to-day
"eioTe justice Scott. fatty charges conspiracy
ana fraud. on information and belief. against
Joseph Esan. lessee Of the buIl<head between
i"eHtN-elghth and Twenty-ninth sts who. it
is alleged. tried to defraud the city in the es.i-
mated sum of S577,Ooo. It also charges that
Egan was at the time and now is in the employ
OF William II. Burke, who was secretary Of
the Dock Board under Commissioners Murphy.
cram and Meyer: that the dock commissioners
by resolution. awarded a three year lease to
Egan- that Egan and others altered the official
minutes so as To make il appear that instead of
. three year lease thirty year lease had been
awarded: that Cram and Meyer signed this
alleged fraudulent thirty year lease: that Fgan
and others changed the specified rental in the
alleged fraudulent thirty year lease from 81. $50
a year to $50 year.
In the trial Of this case Charles r Murphy.
have 10 take the witness stand and explain
how IL happened that the city's leases were
tempered with
Thomas c. O'Sullivan. counsel for Egan also
Is counsel for Naughton & Co. Daniel F Nc
Mahon. chairman OF the Tammanv Executive
Committee. is 4 member of this firm OSulH-
van is slated TO be Corporation Counsel If Tam
many wins this fall 1t * predicted that If
Tammany wins nothing more will be heard os
the Dock Board prosecution.
The Egan lease Is a reuaTka bic illustration Of
hniG az a RolT1 4
At that time and still is i'm the employ Of
William II. Burke At his coal ward in Harlem
fled an application for lease of the bulkhead
between Twenty-Seventh and Twenty eighth
occurred. y came to the knowledge of the
Dock Department that the Erie Railroad had
bought block the North River waterfront
for a freight ward. Inquiry hy employees in the
Dock Department confirmed this report. It was
understood at the time that the Erie company
had bought the block between Twenty-sPventh
and TWentr-eighth SITS This would make the
bulkheaG Immediately in front of their plot eN-
tremev valua ble. Egans application was for
the bulkhead Immediately in front of this block
The old Dock Board gave him q three-Near
lease. Then a most remaTk Ole th!ng nap
pened The minutes were 50 changed as 10 make
il appear that the board had granted thirty
year lease But that was not all. another altera-
ton was made in the minutes. changing the To-
cation Of the bulkhead lease from between Iwen-
tz-seventh and Twenty-eghth SITS to one be-
tween Twenty-eighth ana Twenty 2inth sts
This change was made after it became known to
certain persons in the old Dock Board that the
Erie had bought not the block between Twenty
seventh and Twentv-eighth SITS. but the one
i,rc- north he; Neen TWenty-eiChth and Twenty
ninth ets Then Jim the Penman." whoever he
was thought il would be good business policy
10 shave down the rental price from Sl.@to "a
year for thirty years to $40" a year