The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-16
FIX FOR RICH PAWNDROKER.
CttGHT COOKING 4 Defence,
PLEADS GIILIl or THEFT.
Harlan said 10 Have Backed the Dean.
GoslIn and kellogg SwlndIes-Elab.
crate Plans To Bu, John ID. Aiahrr and
DetectlN es AMI Railroad the " rous Man

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DetecuN es ami Railroad the wrong Man
Edward VI Harlan. rich paWnbroker.
pleaded guilty in the General Sessions
Yesterday Of criminaly receiving stolen
goods. Before he il sentenced tomorrow
District Attorney jerome will submit to
judge Foster affidavit5 charging that
Harlan tried TO bride Detective Sergeants
hlnsler and Duggan x-Assemblyman
Maher and Others to construct Il chain OF
perjured evidence that would enable him
TO escape. Harlan, it is said. got wind Of
the fact that an effort was being made TO
trap him and pleaded guilty He had been
under bail but was feaTested on Tuesday
night, Mr., Jerome having heard that
Harlan was considering trip to some
other climate. There are two indictments
against him. one for larceny and another
for receiving stolen goods He was ar
rested in October last for having in his
possession a number Of chanois skins
that had been stolen from De Yonge in
Duane street. He was again arrested
on Dec. 81 and Detective Sergeants kinser
and Duggan found in his pawnshop, at
400 Hudson street, 800 yards of silk that
had been stolen from Stern & Stern at AS
Broadway
When Harlan was indicted. as Detectives
Kinsler and Duggan swear he offered
them $4,000 apiece If they would arrange
their testimony at his trial so that it would
he apparent that he had bought the silk
without knowing that II had been stolen
When Harlan couldn't make any deal
with the detectives he sought the aid of
ex-Assemblvman Manner, according to the
testimony in Mr. Jeromes POSSESSION.
Harlan made several propositions to
Maher The first was that no make an
affidavit that kinsler and Duggan went TO
Harlan and promised that II they got
$1,000 each their testimony would be so
Indifferent and incomplete that he would
be acquitted. II Maher made this affidavit,
Harlan was to give him 5000.
Then Harlan had another plan. He
wanted Maher to find some woman who
would hire a room from an Armenian
named Melik, who keeps furnished room
house in West Sixteenth street. Harlan
said he would get several rolls Of silk,
put original Stern Il Stern tags on them
TO identify them as having been stolen
from the silk firm and then plant the
silk in the woman's room. When this had
been accomplished the woman was to dis
appear. Maher was TO get a detective.
or two if possible and have Melik arrested
as a fence. Then it would be brought
out that Harlan had innocently bought
the stolen silk from somebody else.
liarlam's scheme was an ella Oorate one.
Maher knows a couple OF keepers In the
Tombs Frank Burke was locked up there,
having pleaded guilty TO stealing the silk.
He was 20 he used as witness by the State
against Harlan
Harlan proposed TO Maher that he find
out the keeper who had charge of Burke's
cell. Then Maher was TO reach" the keeper
and get him to swear that he had heard
a conversation between Burke and Maher
in which Burke said that il was TO Mek
hat lac hah ha III ni oil Il hat ha
District Attorney had promised him i'm
munity il ne would swear that Harlan.
and not Melk, had bought the silk from
him. Harlan wanted it brought out that
IT was plot on the part OF the District At
torney's Office to railroad him.
Harlan agreed to pay the keeper $3.50
for the false afida Wit The detectives who
arrested Melk were TO get $500 each. Maher
was TO be looked after. too.
Mnher listened attentlvely to Harlam's
propositions and promised 10 think over
the scheme. When Harlan left him. Maher
went TO John McCullagh and told him what
Harlan wanted done. Mr.. MoCulngh told
Maher 10 lose no time in informing Capt.
O'Brien OF the Detective Bureau. Capt.
q Brien pa ssed Maher along to Mr.. jerome,
who lost no time in getting after Harlan.
Maher agreed TO meet Harlan last Fra
day a. Harlams home. 1873 West i32d street.
For some reason, there was slip up but
another appointment was made for Satur-
gay night ~ 1dDfI = llOlIts lO1 frtSl .NlutiN~
ii ghth stree Ell. Harlan was on hand. SO
were Special Policeman Reardon of the
District Attorneys Office and Detective
Sergeant McConville. They were con-
ceaied in a room where Harlan and Maher
conferred. MRher wanted Harlan scheme
told all over again, and he told H. Har-
lam insisted that the money he was willing
to put up ~ the start was small in com
parison TO what would he coming if he es
capped Jail. Maher pretended TO enter into
the scheme, but no money passed.
AZ the District Attorneys Office il il said
that Harlan has backed the +. s. Dean
Company, Alfred r. Go-in and James b.
Kellogg On the trial Of DR.. Kennedy on
The charge OF having murdered Dolly Rey
nolds. Harlan was mentioned a. friend
OF the Reynolds woman.
II was recalled yesterday thai shortly
after his arrest Harlan showed great
interest and generous impulse toward
the Young men in the District Attorneys
office. Frank A. Lord. one Of Mr.. Jeromes
assistants returned from few days yaod
ton 10 find beautiful gold watch on his
de-lt. The caSe of the watch had picture
of HARLAN. Attached To the watch was a
card sayinR that II had been sent with the
compliments Of Edward NJ Harlan. Mr.
Lord promptly returned the watch without
thanks As Mr.. Lord had nothing to do
with the case against the pawnbroker 1t
H. thought that Harlan had been mis-
informed or else thought that il was the
proper thing 10 hand out presents indie-
criminately around the District Attor-
ney'E Office