The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-13
FIRE STAMPEOES WITNESSES.
MAKERS OF HEARST PETITIONS
1--we AT BROADWAY CENZRAL.
District AttOvney's once Asks Etse Marshal
70 Look Into It-On the Track OF
''IlIgheF Up''-JeTOHe N~oHaSnat0FS
AuFoarneti by Some Forgery Seekers.

10 Look Into It-On the Track OF
4. ..TfyxAeY Upy,-JerOme N~oBInat0rs
AppFoarheTf by Some Forgery SeskeTs.
There is an impression in the District
Attorneys Office that the hresiR the Broad
vay Central Hotel on Wednesday night
NAT have had something TO. do with--the
invesNleatfano of. the signatures" to the
Y ~patifion that nominated William R. Hearst
~forAfayor, on which there were Q 500 names
It was learned yesterday that Ben iamfn
n. GoidberEeT, the commissioner OF deeds
who has confessed that he had charge or
aetting ND the Hearst petition and many OF
the petitions form. o. Aldsrmen'an and Assem-
4 biynaen, has been living at the Broadway
I Central at the expense of the county since
he waA arrested. Two copysts- employee
by Goldberger in taking names, from the
Gifv Record and Joseph O. Klefh, ono OF
= sns, nots<iss. Wa tick th1 aeennUledg-
{ msnts, have. been living with. Goldberger.
They have been watched, by detectives
from the DISTRICT Attorneys office
IJnriuR the excitement after the disoov.
ery Of the three fires and the sounding OF
the fire gong, Goldberger, Klein and the
two cdpyists raced downstairs. Detectives
Hamnsand, Dillon, Roberts and Martin,
chased them and caught them on the ground
floor. None Of the witnesses attempted
TO getbo the street.
When. this information was brought TO
Assistant District Attorneys Kresel and
Wtitessde yesterday Mr., Whiteside asked
Fire Marshal de Malignon to make a
thorough investigation. Mr.. de Malignon
eaid that he already had q couple OF his
men wotR4uE, but they had learned nothing
definite. He said that he would probably
be abIs to make a report this morning.
Deputy Fire. Marshal McGough, who
: scent yesterday with Capt. Stephenson, OF
the Mercer street police station invesslgat-
ing THO fires, viii nave a tuTtneL mseso.sa.
Headquarters in East Sixty-seventh street
5 Several Of the employees OF the hotel nave
been subp9naed to appear before MN
\ David Oliver, husband OF Mrs. lsaoe !!e
Oliver, the woman who was struek on one
stand in the Broadway Central. Inc
walters. and bellboys in the hotel are ne
The man higher up" lie being sought
by the District Attorney Once IN tne m
~vestigation Of the forged petitions. 1t was
said Yesterday that only a little more cyl
dence was needed TO land the man WHO
engineered the whole- thing nthaayr5
Gulatto, who ran for Assembly on the Re
~ IoltHC4n yCNeJ ia ItG Il OIh q 'ChAI
district, Endorsed by the VI o., and was de-
feafed, was Questioned again yesterday;
From what Mr., whiteside has learned
GoldberRer was "a mere tool.
ii seems TINT somebody Is Interested
IN irving to show that there were forged
names 10 the petition that nominated DIS.
tYict Attorney Jerome. A number OF
persons have been going around question:
ing men who signed the jerome petition:
II they found out that the map was one OF
the Jerome nominaters he was asked 70
sign the following blank:
Z - -, being duly sworn, deposes
and says that he is a citizen OF the United
States, and resides at - - that
deponent did not on the - day Of -
sign a petition which purports 10 be his sig
nature, placing in nomination for the office
OF District Attorney one William Travers
; Lrome, under the emblem ofthe black square,
known as the Jerome Gominators Emblem ,
and IL deponent's signature appears on said
petition it is in every respect a forgery and
was not signed with his knowledge or con-
sent.
The men who ara making the canvass
are accompanied by notaries. In some
instances jerome nominatCrs have been
asked to sign the above blank as soon as they
said they had signed the Jerome petition.
Then they read over the blank n used
warm words.
II was said at the District Attorneys
Office Yesterday that there was no fear about
the genuineness' of the Jerome petition.
Particular care was taken in getting. II up.
There were 1000 rames on Mr.. JNrome'+
petition. No indication has been made by
the canvassers as to VIII is behind the effort
to show that Mr.. Jerome's petition was a
forgery, but there has been some easy
guessing in the District Attorneys ofloe.