New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-10
NO JURY FIXING PROOF.
Jerome Tells Gouernor Why He
Could Not Make Out Case.

r,strict Attorney Jerome sent TO Governor
,,seeins yesterday q long letter explaining why
!, h.d been impossible TO make a case against
:, officers OF the Metropolitan Street Railway
r.r,nsny. or any counsel employed by the COM
~ on Jury fixing" charges. The letter tells
!, setaiI Of the work performed for the COM
.srv by William II. Tillinghast who is serving
ss,utenoe on Blackwelrs Island.
NJ Jerome says his Office first became aware
.. the case Of Tillinghast through confessions
,,ss. by Louis e. Julian. discharged employee
!, ,he Metropolitan Street Railway Company.
re,.r Tiuinehast made confession TO one of
ur Jerorae's assistants naming Stanley BaEg
.s the only Metropolitan employee who had paid
t,-n for work in the jury box AS the uncorrob-
orsted confession Of accomplice OF no
,-slue as evidence Bagg summoned and
letter also made a confession.
aerr said that as an investigator for the Met
,,oiitsns law department he assisted Daniel
X Patterson in the preparation Of case which
-as tried in the City Court in January, 1901;
.h., Tininghast was employed juror in the
eco and was instrumental in having the jury
give q verdict for Mr.. Patterson. aud that he
landed ever 10 Tillinghast $40. which Mr.. Pat
,s-son gave him for the juror. Regarding the
,-enssction Mr. Jerome says
Tlirghast had no recollection Of this spe
az transaction Bagg could suggest way in
,hich this statement could be corroborated. and,
a. .-ue Il was not sufficient basis 10 institute
c-niual proceedings against Patterson. because
psgr and Tillinghast were accomplices and there
Vas no way Of corroboratins their testimony.
s,eg also said tina. Tininghast was Juror in
.h-se Metropolitan cases tried for the company
a. he city Court II. January. 1902. by M, Nc
.o,b. Of the conpany's counsel although Filling
tss was not on the regular parel, that Mr. Nc
che. consented 10 the employment OF Tillinshast
ss Juror and tina: he arranged for the pay
-nsrt Of Tilinghsst after the verdicts had been
.ound in the companys favor. Bagg said he
.sIked with Nj MoCabe alone and that Mr.. Nc
csbe wrote 20. X, by McCabe." on a voucher
reading General and special expenses, $40"
Baeg said he took the voucher TO the company's
Office. received the $40. and paid the money over
70 Tilinghast later at the Broadway Central
Hotel In q similar way, Bagg said, Mr.. McCabe
arranged for the payment of Tillinghast for work
as Juror in the Supreme Court in May. 1904, Till
inshast al that time receiving $50. Mr.. Jerome
said on this subject:
From the above il is apparent that the only
crime shown by the relations of Tillinghast and
Rsgr with McCabe was the crime of bribing a
Juror and in this Bags and Tiinghast were &C
completes. and therefore their testimony against
NcCsbe was valueless for a criminal prosecu
that suggested itself IN regard TO the relations
q NcCsbe with the transaction was 10 obtain
from the railway company the vouchers in ref
erence 10 which Bagg testified Application was
made 10 the railway company for the vouchers,
and Il was learned that amounts Of this char
scter were paid out by the cashier from the
petty cash fund. and slips were turned over by
him rs voucher in his accounting for his hand
ing of the fund, and at the end Of the year.
being merely petty cash slips, were destroyed.
i was. therefore. impossible in any way that the
District Attorney could think Of TO assure any
CONFORMATION n the testimony OF Bagg and Til
Anghast IS against any officers or counsel in the
employ of the Metropolitan Street Railway