The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-28
TO Be JEROME'S BUSY MONTH.
TRIALS AND INQUIRIES SET DOWN
FOR SEPTEMBER.
A special Grand Jury VIII ne Looking Into
Equitable Affairs. and the Hummel
and Mathews Trials Arc Fixed for
Sept. lS--B0th Promise Surprises.

and Mathews Trials Are Fixed fO
Sept. ls-Both Promise Surprises
In week or 80 all the machinery Of thu
criminal law conferred In the Criminal Courts
Building will have been thoroughly oilec
and set in motion for noteworthy series
of trials. Never before. the clerks say have
40 many important cases been schedule d
for single month as in September.
In addition to the trials of Lawyers Hum.
mel Mathews and Lewis Jarvis-Wic kee
the affairs Of the Equitable Life ASSURANCES
Society under its old manag cement will
probably get pretty thorough ventilation
in the Grand Jury room and the District
Attorneys Office. II is almost certain
that special Grand Jury will be empeneled
for the Equitable investigation.
It Is the opinion Of Mr.. Jerome and his
advisers that the Equitable case Is too in
voved and intricate for regular Grand
Jury to handle and at the same tiuo intend
to the routine affairs Of the county. Either
one or the other would have to be shunted
aside Mr.. Jerome realizes fully the i'm
portance and magnitude Of the Equitable
case. but he does not believe that the Tombs
should become overcrowded and the crimi-
nal business Of the county allowed to pile up.
1t is known that Mr.. Jerome has been
quietly digging into the Equitable scandal
and he has accumulated considerable
material to form the basis for Grand Jury
proceeding. He has examined several
persons who are directly involved, or who
have a knowledge Of the schemes Of the
old Equitable management and their legal
representatives. 1t Is not improbable that
while the Legislative committee is con-
Quoting its investigation a special Grand
Jury will also be in session. Mr.. Jerome
Is under stood to have every confidence
in Messrs. Hughes and McKeen, counsel
for the Armstrong committee, and there
is not likely to be any friction between
these two forces. So on or about Sept. IL i,
or maybe before then. some action may be
expected from Mr.. Jerome.
OF the three trials in which lawyers are
. the defendants, that Of Abraham H. Hum
mel has excited the most interest, although,
since the disclosures made by John W.
Wooten and May f. Trimble, it is not I'M
likely that the public will be treated to a
.eurprse when Armitage Mathews, secre-
tary Of the Republican county committee,
is put on trial. The case Of Thomas Par
malice Wickes will be OF more than PASSING
interest.
Since Capt. James Morse of Maine, uncle
Of Charles W Morse went before the Grand
Jury and gave a new version Of the Dodge
Morse marriage and divorce tangle which
resulted in the indictment Of Hummel.
ex-Justice Edgar l.. Fursnlan, BENJAMIN F.
Stenhardt. Charles F. Dodge and Edward
Bracken, private detective, the com
pexion Of the prosecution s cases against
Humme has materially changed.
k1 sr ,tNv Ia IN,
directly and innocently, for the complics-
tons that followed the attempt to upset
the Dodge divorce. He says that he hired
Hummel to investigate that divorce and
that the litigation that followed cost him
$4,000. He has told Mr.. Jerome who got
the money. 1t is understood that he will
supply the evidence that will show how it
or course Capt. Morse will be a witness
against Hummel. He will not be the only
interesting witness: Charles +. Dodge,
supplied with new false teeth 80 that the
his testimony. will tell the story of his fight
to Texas; Of his efforts to keep out of this
jurisdiction OF who prompted him to fee
and supplied him with money, urging him
on to dissipation that came within an inch
Of killing him, and Of the fight that was
Court to keep him from the clutches Of
Jerome.
But the trump cards OF the prosecution
will be Charles W. Morse and Mrs Dodge
Morse 1t can be stated on authority
other than the District Attorney that Mr..
nesses against Hummel. Mr.. Morse has
been in France most Of the summer. Mrs.
Dodge-Morse has been in the same country.
Samuel Untermyer, Mr.. Morse's counsel.
has been abroad, but he will be Rack in
dime for the Hummel trial 1t is quite
NJ lint hos NJ
Morse and Mrs Dodge-Morse on the other
side, but whether he has or not makes
little difference. as the District Attorney
has been assured that they will do every
thing in their power to aid the prosecution.
At the present time there is nothing to
the date fixed, Sept: 49, Mr.. Jerome is
ready and anxious to have it over Several
times he has stated in court that it was his
wish that such an astute lawyer as Mr.
Humme,, with twenty-five years OF prac-
tise at the criminal Tar, should have the
himself
There have been 80 many delays in this
case however, that many persons think
that II Mr.. Jerome brings it to trial before
the year is over he will have accomplished
sss beens made BY the 30 forces
that would interfere with the trial, De
Lancey Nicoll will appear for Mr.. Hummel
The trial Of Armitage Mathews. Abe
Griber's handy man in the Twenty first
Assembly district has also been set for
Sept. Is. Mr.. Jerome's object in fixing
the Hummel and Mathews trials for the
same date was to enable him to 60 on with
one should there be any legal obstacle
to the trial Of the other. Mr.. Mathews
says he is ready for trial and confident that
be will be acquitted.
Something OF the charge against Mathews
has been told in the trial OF John w. Wooten,
who was convicted OF stealing a 81 900 |
check from David Rothschild, and out
lined in the indictments against Mathews,
Wooten Rothschild and Samuel l. Fer
Slson, growing out Of the looting Of the
Weise estate.
Since Wooten and May F. Trimble, who |
was stenographer in the Federal Bank, |
nave taken the District Attorney into their |
confidence it Is understood that additional |
evidence has been secured against Mathews
The Trimb!e girls testimony at the Wooten |
trlal was such that Mr.. Jerome had strong /
suspicion that she committed perjury, |
and it is understood that that suspicion has
now now been verified by the girl herself. She
has has implicated a we'll Known lawyer
not Mathews--and even before Mathews
u tried that lawyer may find himself
subject for Grand Jury Investigation.
a, Mathews will be defended by Black,
1U,cott, Gruber d Bonynge. Ex-Gov.
Black II ia understood vilI haye Charge |