The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-16
JEROME IN
 CONSPIRACY Charges Made Against District Attorney. MIscoNyERsIoN OF MILLIONS Virulent Attack is Made by William N. Amory.
 
MIScoNyERSIoN OF MILLIONS
Declares that He Intends to Ask Gov ernor Higgins to Dismiss from once the Public Prosecutor
 of New York.

New York, Feb 15.---A special to The Tribune from Albany, says:
 Charges. including subornation of perjury. bribery of lawyers, miscon- version of millions of dollars and the enlistment Of District Attorney Jerome into conspiracy to whitewash the of lenders, were made against the Metro politan Street Railway Company and its officials at hearing before the As sembly Committee on Ways and Means yesterday.
 William N. Amory of New York. for merly treasurer of the Third Avenue Elevated Railroad Company, and who has been fighting the Metropolitan for several years, made a viruAent attack on District Attorney Jerome. 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 stockholders and the public. The company, he charged, bribed judges. Juries and witnesses.
 Jerome in Conspiracy.
 Information of this in many cases and especially in one case where he himself furnished the material, had been sent to the District Attorney, said MT. Amory. but instead of acting to convict the offenders he had entered into conspiracy to let them escape Because of this. Mir. Amory declared he intended to ask Governor Higgins to remove the District Attorney.
 The Foell<er resolution asking leg islative investigation of street railways of New York and particularly of the recent merger of traction interests in New York brought out these charges. A legislative investigation, Amory said. would force Thomas F. Ryan and his associates to "disgorge" thirty or forty millions. StiIl the Metropolitan was so rotten financially because of It's frauds that not even a combination with the financially sound August Belmont road, almost it's equal in moral iniquity. could save the system long.
 Robbed Stockholders.
 Saying that financial statements is- sued by the Metropolitan Company and It's representatives,. and aied with the various State and city departments were false and misleading MT. Amory wont on:
 Somebody made s4.6OO profits in 1903 in discounting $e6O,0O0 of the per cent notes of the New Yor< City Railway Company by the Metropolitan Securities Company.
 In another instance in 1908 MT. Am ory charged that President Vreeland obtained $11.000.000 from the stock holders of the lnterurban Ito pay for the Third avenue stock" which had been paid for years before. Proof of this. which he laid before Jacob S"hiff, he said, enabled Mir. Scniff toff rec res titution of Se.000.o00 from Thomas r. Ryan fir. 1908. Of S12.000,000 collected at the, same time for electrifying the road about sS00O.000 was spent for that purpose. he said. He added: q think I can furnish information te 'dlug to show that cn certain occasion i, a ropolitan stockholders money as part of the political assessment of a certain supreme court justice
 Severe Indictment.
 ''If the district attorney of the coun- ty of New York wrrc honest and fera- lo ss, as he himself has often declared, it woutj na' Ice necessary for me to were honest enough to fulfill his cam paign pladges of 1901 and follow tho trails of wrongdoing and ccrupti, II intn the otiice of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company; if he possessed the the most dangerous, Inc most vindictive and the most powerful influences at work in the communIty'| quote hls own words--the necessity for an in- vestlgatlon by the legislature of the acts of this hand of heartless criminals would not exist today
 But because the chief criminal pros ecutor had put premium on great crimes, because he has used the power of his office to protect rather than pun ish big criminals and because the civil courts are inadequate to supply the remedy. appeal to this committee.
 Knows the Facts.
 T declare that Jerome Is fully ad- vised of the guilt of the Metropolitan managers; I declare that he has in his possession legal evidence sufficient to convict them of great crimes. declare that he told James A. Osborne and me that he was satisfied as to their guilt and that the evidence was suffi- cient to convict I declare that Je- rome subsequently, entered Into con- spiracy to allow these criminals to ts- cape; declare that in furtherance of this end he suppressed the facts and de- liberateIy issued an official statement, which is proved by the records to have been willfully false"
 No action was taken on ithe resolu- tion. Another hearing win be held next Wednesday. at which William M Twins, recent Republican candidate for mayor, and many other New Workers will argue against the merger.