New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-24
The Aeolian Company
JEROME DEPENDS OFFICE.
Says He ConUicted Garfield on q
BIameS Grand Jury.

In a chain of speeches that extended from hi.
| home precinct the lower East Side to the Har
| lem River. William Travers Jerome last night con
| tinued his savage attacks on bossism and laid
| special stress explaining the attitude OF hi:
! Office in certain notorious cases.
Leaving out the generous kissing Of Mr.. Murphy
| of Good Ground the most startling development
OF the evening was Mr. Jereme's confession that
he had convicted Richard Garfield. gambler,
| pure and simple bluff. He declared that If Can
field had not pleaded guilty TO get off with fine
he would have beaten out the prosecution and got
off scot free. This. Mr.. Jerome said, would have
given every other gambler in Manhattan the fight
ing
paign began Mr. Jerome was questioned about
the Darlington building disaster He put the blame
for conviction the police. who let the chief
offender escape. The only other man to blame had
turned States evidence
He told how time and again he had gone before
the grand jury 10 urge indictment of the d.
rectors OF the New-York Central and Hudson River
Railway Company for the terrible tunnel disaster.
He said that the vote which he got for the ndict-
ment of the directors pitiful, and that the
most the grand jury would do was to indct the
engineer. He also explained HIS lack Of action in
the Slocum case.
In the first speech of the evening in the arraign-
ment of boss rule he rdicued the nomination Of
his opponent, Mr.. Osborne. in far 1t repre-
scented a choice OF a free convention. He brought
by William F. Mcintyre who. he declared. was
of OIborne's bitterest enemies. owing to a
peculiar mix up in the Molineaux murder trial
1t at friendly little meeting in the New
Henry Hall. No. 40 Henry-st., q couple of blocks
from Jerome's East Side fat under the auspices
of the Hamilton Athletic Club. that this
thrust at Osborne was brought out:
''It is hard for me to say anything about the man
who is running against me-" began Mr.. Jerome.
He was my friend and he has a complaint
against me because I call him a puppet. But
he take what Is offered to him a silver salver
by the Boss without delivering the goods? Did that
Democratic convention want him for District At
torney? Not a bit of it, Why the btterest
enemy he ever had stood up and put him in nomi-
nation-a who was very closely identified in
the MolIneaux case in the public mind
At Amsterdam Hall. IN West 44th-st., there were
turn that it was time before Mr.. Jerome
had chance to turn loose on Patrick F. MCGOWAN.
Of this city If Mr.. Mcclellan goes higher up?" de-
nanded Mr.. Jerome. Il don't know whether Mr..
know ANYTHING about him and 1 don't know any
one who does. What MCGOWAN he is, whose Nc
He declared that TO be ruled by boss like
Murphy who had worked himself up, would not be
bein@ ruled by the boss's boss-J Sergeant Cram
He fntimated that Mr.. Murphy might have am
derna nded to know who gave Cram the right 10
rule New-York.
Hail on East 125th-st.. where people were packed
in like sardines Mr.. Jerome's speech brought out
his stand on the insurance matter.
declared (which are hideously and brutality wrong
th In, 0 that seem to come within the law ANY
Interference on my part at this time would be
Of Information hard and fast and seriously inter
fered with Mr.. Hughess work. 1t is more impor-
that nroteCt widows and orphans than that the
guilty be Immediately punished