The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-16
GAMBLERS SPY UNDER CIRCUIT?
AMINEROF ACCOINTS DROPPED
PENDING INQUIRY.

Complaint Made 10 jerome That He's
an Agent Of the sullivan POolrOom
Syndicate and Got GfOut 10 Hold Up
Vice Bills-Has Been on Sick Leave.
Eugene j. Cumiskey, an examiner OF &C
counts at $500 year in Comptroller
Grouts office who for about a year has been
drawing pa and doing no work for the city,
was suspended yesterday by the Comp
troler pending investigation OF a complaint
laid before District Attorney Jerome to the
effect that Cumiskey is mana ging Zig
Tim Sullivans alleged syndicate OF pool
rooms. Cumiskey has been on sick leave
from the Comptroller's Office because Of
eye trouble. He denied Yesterday that he
is In any way interested in poolrooms.
Cumiskey also denied statements to the
effect that as an examiner of accounts he
has pa ssed upon bills of the District Attor-
neys Office for ferreting out secret vice.
Mr., Circuit is on record as declaring that
he is opposed to spending any Of the city's
money for this purpose. Once he gave to
the newspapers copies of bills sent in by
county detectives and policemen, in which
one item in the disbursements OF the in
ing stocking money"
1t is now ale ged that Cumskey was at
the bottom Of this action by Mr.. Grout.
Replying to this Cumiskey, in letter to
the Comptroller yesterday afternoon, said:
The records of your OH ce will show that
for period Of upward OF two years have
not passed upon any bill emanating from the
District Attorneys office. A you are aware,
! have been suffering for some time p,ast from
me 10 undergo one surgical operation, and
my physician informs ME that II will shortly
require another N order to preserve the sight
Of the eye. court the fullest investigation
into these charges, and would respectfully
my leave of absence be continued Without
pay.
Dls;.it. Attorney Jerome said yesterday
tina. he had in his possession several checks
,.rawn tc the order Of Eugene lumiskey and
i"dCrr.y' -, him.
The are such as would be given in
p'ymen. G: y gambling debt" said MIR.
Jerome. There are several others that
] can Get # | want them. Whether This
S'rnishey is the man the Comptroller pays
as al e1aIniner of accounts in his office
do no. personally know. Neither have |
any evidence that he ever passed upon
my bills.
II he is the Cumiskey who runs a tele-
phone poolroom at Bond street and Broad
way he would naturally be int crested in
bills sent il. by county Diet ectives. agent
OF the Citizens Union and policemen who
have been investigating vice. In n biz
Office like thai Of Grort s there is an entente
cordidle which would insure the pns.i. q
along from clerk TO clerk of CONN o. =
over such bills which would be Of partic, lar
moment to any one who was running a
poolroom or was agent for a system as
the Cumiskey l have in mind was. I do
know thar there has been ontinual hos
tility in the Comptroller's Office to nv bills
of this nature, and when ! spent S5A to OBJ
tain evidence that resulted in the indict
ment OF Capt. Foody and his dismissal
Grout held up the bill until went into tfe
Supreme Court and mandamused him int o
paying IL
Mr.. Grolt said early yesterday that he
did not know that Culniskey had been alb
sent from his work longer than few weeks
IF | find upon investigating these
charges that there is the least basis for
them. said Mr. Grout, Il will dismiss him
Immediately"
Cnmiskey was appointed by Bird s.
Coler. on May 10. 1893 In the city direct ory
his address is given as olD West Eighty
fifth street, where he is not known. He
lives at Sheepshead Bav