The evening world., 1906-03-08
JEROME WAKE EUP!
PUT JURY FINERS
BEHIND THE BARS
Public Demands that He
Should Get to Bottom
of Tillinghast Case.
WHO'S BEING SHIELDED?
Confession of the Railroaded
Victim Can Be Used to Find
/ the "Man Higher Up"
ONE WITNESS is IN FEAR.
Judge Seabury Develops the Case
Against Traction OfidalS-Bar
. Association May Get Busy.
ONE WITNESS is IN FEAR.

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bsa ntnety-year-old mother mere cdr
oumstance-ohe real issue is whether the
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
controls Distrdct-Attorney Jerome.
Ths effect has been that few men
nave dared speak out their knowledge
"a Judge Samuel seabury, of the City
Court, who is conducting an independent
Investigation OF the jury bribing scan
dal. Judge seabury has not the power
70 promise immunity from prosecution.
By putting Tillinghast away the Dis
Erict-Attorney in a measure success
fully closed UP several channels through
which the traction sewage might have
lowed His attitude has stirred the
New York Bar Association to its
eantre. Joseph II. Choate and other
lawyers not affiliated with the traction
ring have started an agitation which
4 likely to cause an upheaval In the
Bar Association.
An instance that shows how the
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
eorrals its witnesses was brought to
light to-day by E. F. Higley of No. lS4
Herkimer street, Brooklyn. The follow
ing letter, which comes from the same
bureau OF the railroad which corrupted
Tillinghast and applauded the work of
Bagg. is as follows:
New York City Railway Company,
Lessee Metropolitan Street Rail
way System.
New York, Jan. g, 1905.
-. B. Higlsy, ESQ:
Dear Strive have your name as a
witness 10 an accident which occurred
ct Third avenue, between Twenty
fourth and Twenty-fifth streets, on
March 10, 1904, at 40 p. NJ This case
may be reached within a short time
now, and 1 would like to know If you
pay all lost time and expenses. An
early reply will greatly obige.
- ''w. NORMANDY"
He Feared jerome.
Nr. Higiey at first was reluctant to
Jerome may get after me" he said,
"and put me in a cell alongside of
Ttllins hast" Higley was genuinely
alarmed. He went on:
''If Jerome was in the pay Of the
1eLroD0utAn Street Rallying Company
be could not have served their interests
TSeSe he % Is. p TheR Rulttag t66 5ingn55 5sF
what was done to McAuliffe, the wit
ness, who was beat up and murdered
Although Judge SeaIbury has no de-
Ssctave bureau. he has managed to col
isct sufficient evidence to pave the
way to the Grand Jury room. He will
probably conclude his preliminary prob
ing by the end Of this week He then
has the choice either to issue a war
rant or turn the evidence over to the
Distriet7Attorney, with a demand that
With the confessions of Tillinghast
and Bagg as basis, Judge Seabury
others have been subpoenaed to- ap,
pear before him at the City Court
,AIeS Smith. court officer in Par
Court, was examined by Judge Sea
bury. Smith is said to have denied
ing prison stripes, and an, agent, Of
pany together Smith is veteran
court officer with wide acquaintance
with the interests Of the city at hear
might have been more productive il
revealing the methods of Supreme
PatrieE J. travis, former superlnten
dent OF the construction department o
the railroad, has already admitted tina
TiIfnghast was on the ,company's pay
roll. This was about three years ago
Other witnesses being examined b,
Judge Seabury are John 7. Little, for
meray an attorney in the employ o
+
and Daniel W. Patterson, both OF whom
are now associated with. James /
ouackenbush in the legal department o
the street railway.
Public Demands Action.
Meantime letters are pouring into tn
oEice or The Evening World with petl
ton slips cut from these columns an
duly signed, prepared for forwardint
% GOV. Higgins.
sng his utmost to defeat the pardonin
o5 Tilinghast was indicated by the mel
vouB shifting Of his cigarette from on
hand 30 the other when he was asked
state one good reason why the cor
aessed bribe-taller should not be release
and allowed 10 testify against the bribe
givers before the Grand Jury.
81 have nothing to say, Is the knot
hole through which Mr.. Jerome crawle
from the firing line.
Many OF the petitions sent to the Coy
sFmor by way of The Evening Worl
have extra comments thrown in. 'Kee
Manhattan street. Give EN- hell" "
Schuerdffeger, OF No 228 Grove stree
writes In red ink.
''It is up to Jerome" writes PresIder
Tall Esen Morgan, OF the Internationt
Correspondence School of Music. No. 10
Broadway. Punish the big briberi
not the tools hired to do their crimin.
work. Push this case. Don't drop It,"
Hundred and Twenty y-afth street, write
strongly: Glad to see you now, as a
ways, espouse the cause Of the POI
man. Tlllinghast should be free and II
fake DiBtrict-Attorney in stripes"
Former Congressman r Rlwland B. NJ;
hany writes from Buffalo n. y: %
rect Gov. Higgins also to force Jerome
hand"
BY special delivery letter, marke
crush" comes a signed petition irol
William N. Amory, OF No 3 Wllliai
6tresE There are petitions from Fift
avenue ana pettions from Wall stree
ana petitions from the Bronx.
Mr. Jerome again has the public eve,
sae same eye that looked upon him vii
saFor one day last November,