The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-02-17
JEROME IS GUILTY
Of GROSS NEGLECT
IS ACCUSED BEFORE COMMITTEE
OF SURPRISING EVIDENCE
FURNISHED HIM.
HIS HEAD MAY FALL
He Failed to Expose crookedness in
the MetropoIitan--officiaI APP
peals to Legislature and
Asks Jerome's Removal.

Asks Jerome's Removal.
New York. Feb To- VIM, N Amory
Of New York. formerly treasurer Of
the Third Avenue Surface Railway
company, and who has been lighting
The Metropolitan for several Yeas
made virulent attack on District At
torney Jerome yesterday before the
As: embly Committee on Ways and
Means Amory submitted figures
which he said proved that frauds
amounting to millions Of dollars had
been perpetrated by the officers OF
the Metropolitan system on its stock. !
holders and the public. Tie company
h. charged. brbed Judges juries and
wifnesse. Information Of this IN many
eases, and especially in one case
where he himself furnished the ma
teria had been sent 10 the district
atto.ner. said. dr AmorH but instead
Of actiog 10 colvicl the etfenle,s he
had entered into conspiracy 20 Ter
them escape Because ot This Mr.
Amors declared he intended 70 ask
Governor Higgins to remove tae dis
irict attorney
The Foelker resolution asking for
legislative investigation Of The street
railways of New York CITY and par
licuarly Of the recent merger Of trac-
ton interests i'm New Yrk brought
out these charges. A legislative inyes-
tigation. Amory said would force
Thomas f Ryan and his sociates to
"disgorge" $50, 10000 OF $40,0o9ool.
Still he Metropolitan was 20 rotten
financially because Of It's frauds that
not even combination with the iinan-
cially souud August Belmont road, al
most lis equal in moral iniquity, could
save the system long
Makes Special Charges.
Saying that financial statements is
sued By the Metropolitan company
and its representatives. and filed with
the various state and city departments
were false and misleading, Amory
Went on:
Somebody made s. 100000 profits
in 1875 IN discJunJine 100000 of the
three per cent notes Of he New York
City Railway company, owned by the
Metropolitan Securities company
In another instance, in 1903, Mr..
Amory charged that President Vrce-
land obtained $l1,00d.0oo from the
stockholders of the Interurban ITO
pay for the Third Avenue stock
which had been paid for years before
Proof OF this, wlucu hc laid before
JACOB H. ocnIU he sad, euauird Mt. !
Schiff 10 force restitution Of $G,000,0o0
from Thos +. Ryan in 1858 or Sl2-
100000 collected at the same lime for
electrifying the road abour So 100000
was spent for hat purpose, he said.
Il think ! can furnish information
tending TO show that on certain oc-
casiou Thomas T. Ryan put up $1,000
of Metropolitan tocHholders money
a. a part Of rhe political aase sment
required fo~ the nomination Of cor
tain supreme cou.t Justice
If the al trict attorney of the
county of New York We're honest and
fearless. as he himself so often has
declared. il wouId not be necessary
for me to appear before this commit. .
tee
Hits Hard at Jerome.
"If he were honest enough to fulhlI
his campaign pledge of 1901 and fol- .
low the trails of wrougdoinc and cor
uption into IA offices of the Metro
politan Street iaiway-if be possessed .