New-York tribune., 1908-02-28
NhNTJEROME REMOVED
GOVERNCR GETS CH4RGES.
METROPOLITAN Stockholders Sag He
Has Lost Peo uIe's Confidence.

1uS LoSt ~ .cit q SOhF F'e''
,-,s-res against District Attorney wiuiam Trav-
.rs Jerome were flied with Governor Hsshes yes
-s-s,ax by William Il. King. chairman OF a Cum
,oi,.ee af stockholders of the Metropolitan street
Railway Company. With Nj King at the uiie
were 7 Bum the treasurer o. the CUM
,,littee: George L. Degner, member and two q
to-saeys for the committee she committee So
married its accusations as follows;
FIrst-That numerous crimes, some of them ,, q
great magnitude and al of grfe IKE p1gr pGInfv nv
corporations and their officers .anG agents, 49,, .
.l,l f fl,ese crimes hTs been brought TO
the knowledge of the District Attorney whose auS
II is 10 present such evidence to the grand jury,
obtain indictments and place upon tTlal those
Tg1ird-That in these cases the District Attorney
has either suppressed evidence from the knoWied6e
in such 8 rnannr as 10 lead to wrong conclusions;
thereby preventing indictments and proper Judiell
There were tnenty-tlIree specifications of al
legged derelictions duty submitted to the Gov
ernor. The last, coming from men who said they
had been friends of the District Attorney and de-
claring that he had sadly disappointed them was
intended to De a clneher as evidencng the SIN
cerity OF the attack 1t was. IN part as follows;
BY reason Of the above facts. which have
been brought into marked prominence through
the existing depressed condition Of the country
Hir- Jerome has lost almost completely, we SUI
of New York A large proportion OF the cIti9ens 9i
inrs toward ar Jerome may be. have, never
theless, been led by these facts TO belleFe uiat
criminal and not the attorney and the protector
The undersigned was the chairman of the Nomi-
nstors Committee who proposed hlTn 10 me people
rnittee we're then supporters Of Mr. Jerome. We
feel toward him no i'll Will but We respectfully
York thar. by reason Of his neglect Of duty as
passed
Mr. King signs the arTaignment as chairman of
the committee This body is composed Of Nh. King
J. Blum, George L DeSner. Nathan H. Heyrnan
John Il Parsons and William Mas
JEROME TREATS CHARGES LIGHTLY
When seen at his office yesterday. Mr.. Jerome did
seem take the charges seriously They were
tha; he had neglected TO prosecute for alleged jury
fixing the Metropolitan and Third Avenue rail-
was; neglected prosecute for alleged false teSt
nony Witnesses in behalf Of the Metropolitan Rail-
way: his attitude in regard 10 life insurance cam
paicn contributions; disregard of bond syndicate
transactions the Equitable and Mutual Life COM
1anfeS: failure t. prosecute the Metropolitan Sec
rrties Company for its method Of acquiring control
of the Metropolitan Street Railway; failure 10
prosecute in connection with the payment by An
thony X Brady William & Whitney Thomas
= Ryan Thomas Dolan. F. A b. Widener and
William !. F-kins of Sl1,652 each. received from
the Metropolitan Securities Company for the Wall
& Cor1Iandt Street Ferries Railroad which the
committee called a paper concern and failure to
prosecute Paul u Cravafh and others for an al
legged conspiracy by which the New York City Rail
NAY Company. ii was alleged. was robbed Of mil
lions b. the Metropolitan Securities Company. Then
follow allegations Of failure prosecute other
officials OF the New York City Railway Company.
Attention is also caileG TO the alleged disclosure
before the PuLlic Service Commission october
= 1917 that "on June 3 lel3 Thomas T. Ryan took
ys4 p9 from the treasury OF the Metropolitan s.
c11rtties Company. and again August Z. 1903,
that he further OF S2s.5eo.' The
Port continues: on OCtoboU 10, t'e7 il dis
closed before the Public Service Commission that
$50 500 had been taken from the treasury of the
.TGra hr sla
said company the 1iTm OF A 4. Ryan & Bros,
sens Thomas T. Ryan. brokers' in payment of
zee shares of Metropolitan Street Railway Com
pany stock d price IN excess Of lis actual
value"
The committee also objected TO an alleged OK
precision Of dzrespect by Mr.. Jerome regarding
lie judiciary, made al a dinner in November. 1$5
and then arraigned him for his failure 10 secure
an Indictment against the New York Central Off
oIals conditions that led 10 the tunnel
disaster Of January ? 1902 The document OF ac-
ousatien closes with a reference 10 the campaign
contributions 10 elect Mr. jerome and the infu-
erce these may have had in the conduct of his
offce, ond also speaks Of an assistant who, It is
alleged an attorney for Thaw,
ANSWERS To COMPLAINTS.
M Jerome sand tlrat he had answered most OF
The complaints in the administration OF Governor
Issreins That there should have been just twenty
1f'-ee articles of arraignment he characterized
kick the shins. He says in q statement:
Many Of the matters COZ tanned in these charges
have been explained fully IN a letter winch IS on
gins All this stuff about the Mutual Life dis
oussed fully in the report The Metropolitan Sc
81 was formed was Ia pay dividends out OF con-
tIsctual obligations, 80 as not 10 pay them out Of
That ss4.eOe which it is asserted taken
MetTopoiiSsn eri1es ti s't Company Vas inlest7
gated very carefully by the jast grand jury and
1as accounted for by Ryan as being money ex-
pended in investigating d raid on the Ne1ropoH-
tan by the same people who were behind getting
up the TelchnanH and herteI report Speaking
oI the further sum of S-e-5"o- which these com
when tke Metropolitan Securities was organized
in cash This capital was afterward increased
10 S5o.e"o Gee The s$0-o0o was fully paid stock.
ss'l "a S'' ,d Ill fe,n 1g Wa -, iP 3if PIE - 20 L c @
Al-is on" i'ot ,i l''lI Sl-e l--3l5S E4e .s
= relation 10 that payment because he felt that
prosecution if the circumstances should seem 10
warrant IL Therefore the items were left un-
explained in the records Of the Public Service
Broe so9s Of 7fomss + RAN yam " Ht = rnon2 ,i ai Il
en purchases Of securities 10 them - brokers,
current market values al the time OF purchase
Mr. Jerome. speaking of the criticism he had made
OF she judiciary a. the City Club dinner. said he
expressed those sentiments in his private capacity
aad then he shifted the suit which Adrian II
.joline and Douglas Robinson. receivers of the
New York City Railway Company. brought against
Metropolitan officials ana called attention the
TACT that the Metropolitan Securities Company
owned every share Of the stock OF the New York
,ity Railway Company. and that there was a vast
difference between a civil action between
oeivers and creditors and the question of criminal
liability. especially when those shares so
owned His statement continues:
70 show how loosely these charges have been
gotten up il IS only necessary 10 refer this iteIH
Of $4,000 represented b. check drawn 10 the
poitan Securities Company and paid 10 II. Ii.
lreeiand rs President n reality that check was
for only Sio:oeo for additional Disbursements in
that transaction referred 10, and i those Who had