The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-26
CIRCUIT SETS DEYERY GOING.
EN-CHIEF or POLICE TELLS 4
BANK NJ RGLARI STORY
With . Finance Department End--As 10
&, Z. Money. He Never Get . Nickel:
hut He'll Take II n Ne Cen Get II. Or
Tamrnany's, Either. 4. Denial. Too.

Tammany's, Either. 4. Denial. Too.
Comptroller Grout declined yesterday 20
be more explicit in his charge chat Mr.
Devery ia in the pay OF the Citisens Union
than he WAS In his speech at the Brooklyn
Academy Of Music on Saturday night,
What l have to say on this subject,
said Mr.. Grout, Il prefer to say from the
platform, and I shall have more to say
about it before the campaign is over.
Who was Devery's man Hunter, to whom
you referred o. being the go-bet ween
between Devery and the Citizens union3'
AN l will say about him at present is
that he is the Hunter who is on Devery's
staff and who can usually he found at
Dsvery's headquarters
-The only Hunter / have on my staff,
as that fox-faced renegade puts It,. was
Devery's comment on this. is Wallace b.
Hunter. There he Is, standing right there.
Talk to him az much q you like
Wallace b. Hunter is about IS years old.
tall and husky, with light brown hair and
mustache On Saturday night, after he
had heard OF the Grout charges, Big Bill
said that Hunter never had more than
10 cents in his life and didn't have money
enough to buy liver for his dog Yesterday
Mr.. Hunter was dressed quite 1 Ia mode
and wore diamonds. He said
~ never got q cent from the Citizens
Union or anybody representing the It'll
zens' Union in my life. III make an ami
davit to that effect and III bet Mr.. Comp
troller Grout won't dare swear 10 any am
davit to the contrary.
Never In my life did ever have any
kind Of traffic with that outfit and never
knew anybody connected with it, except a
| man named X. J. Trabert. who is now
, secretary or something like that for the
Citizens Union in Brooklyn. In 1902 he
and l we're with the Greater New lork
Democracy and were making carttah
speeches In the Twentieth Assembly dis
trict for Duffy, Sheehan's candidate for
Alderman.
II left Sheehan's organization because
everything there was referred to the ex-
ecutive committee, which was composed OF
John c. Sheehan. There was no show for
anybody else. Trabert got out also and
went to the Citizens Union. joined the
Devery forces. But there was never any
bargain between Trabsrt aad me. and he
never gave me a cent Of the money OF the
| Citizens Union or of anybody else.
"Oh. cut it out" exclaimed Devery,, i'm,
! patiently, "cut il out. You'll he talkin
your head OF about nothin' In minute.
Now, young man, put this in your paper
and say said it;
Il never got Il five gent piece nor any
other sum from the Citizens Union, or any
other political outfit. The money I'm
spendn' ia Devery's mpney, and DeveryH
! get back all he's spent. Don't worry about
fhat-and some suckers'll make good to
me- Put that in.
But while amt had none Of the goo
goo stun or the grafters. graft yet, I'm
perfectly willin' to take it. The quicker
the Cts 60 down into their silk SOCKS ana
unload into my kick the better I'll like 1t.
Even Murphy can send his money over
here and we'd receive it Hospitality. Once
we get either kind Of dough, IN use 1t to
! beat the brains out Of the ducks that sent
4 they've got 9ny tn that can Ss s aaa The
quicker get it the better I'll like it. Whisk-
ers Grout is Just fool liar and III give 200
TO the poor to buy coal with II hc can prove
the truth of what he says. Yes. IN do
better'n that III meet him on any plat
form ne may select and he can make any
EN-. II l don't show 'em to be false 10
the satisfaction OF the audience or TO a
committee III give 5000, to be deposited
before the gabbin match, TO o. dispensed
among the poor. providin' Eddie the Fox
will pay the same forfeit II he loses Lose, s;.h,
years ago the Pawling Bank, / think the
Pawling National Bank. at Pawling, N; y,
was robbed. A lot of bonds were taken
The man who took the bonds from the
thieves to dispose of is q clerk in high stand
Ing in CIRCUITS Office He wrote to the pres, :
and he never has returned them. The
president OF the bank has the letter and
I've seen It, >.
Here's another thing, and all these ain t
charges; they're facts, After the bank
had been robbed this man had to get out
1 l.. Ia In hay ia
the price of the ticket that would carry
him as far as he thought he ought to go,
40 he touched friend Of his friend, Little
Tim Sullivan, for a hundred.
-One night last week this man who lent
the money caught the fence with Little
Tim and told him it was about time he
paid the loan. The fence gave up fifty
and begged of until after election ON the
other fffy. A Comptroller Of the city OF
New York who keeps such man in his
Office to zee that nobody runs OF with the
vahables of the city is fine man to make
charges against anybody
Thomas F. Smith, secretary OF Iammany
Hall, bolstered up the Comptroller charges
with this statement
IL believe the charges are true ana
believe the job was cooked up by Hunts
acting for Devery, and A.. I. McNuiy
Deputy Commissioner OF Correction, act,
ing for the Citizens Union. Hunter used
| keen HUI Tie Tts'duIdilt III
street. McNulty has been with about
every political movement that promiseo
Finally he landed with the Citizens
Union and got Job. He gave IA dinner
last spring In Hunters saloon, at which
The Devery boom for Mayor was launched
shortly after that Devery leased the Bug
House and Hunter, who had never beer
known to have any money before that
paid for the furnishings. Where did h'
vet the necessarily McNulty was witt
he Citizens Union at the time OF a boon
for Mayor other than that OF his owl
crowd. at a dinner which he gave, Huniee
Immediately afterward fouTished roll
Where did he get it,"
r, Fulton Cutting was laid up IN bee
with a cold yesterday at Tuxedo and c9ul'
not be interviewed City Chamberlain
Egin X. l.. Gould, however, who was treas
urer of the Citizens Union when the al
legged deal with Devery was made snid
SNo such deal rs that told OF by Mr. Grol
could have been put through, by under
ground or other methods, without M,
Knowledge No such dea was arranged
The Citizens Union, neither directly no
indirectly through its own officers OF agent
ATTAINED for the work ever made any hin'
! - n Jaal with Deyery or ever paid I'm u