New-York tribune., 1909-02-04
ANOTHER SNOW ARREST
EDW4RDS STILL SEEKING
MAN HIGHER UP"
Loss to City Thas Far This Year
Through Graft in Tickets May
Reach Sl5 900.

Determined to break up the snow removal
! graft. Commissioner Edwards of the Street
| Cleaning Department caused one more arrest
| last night. making total of ten, and will prob
! ably ask for warrants for six or seven more men
to-day. All snow removal contracts are to be
| revoked, and the department will hire teams and
| labOrers in place Of those which have been sup
| piled by the contractors.
| The loss to the city thus far this year may
| reach $4,000, although the exact amount can
not be determined until Commissioner Edwards
! and his men have thoroughly Investigated all
! the evidence they now have in hand. Their
work has been simplifed by the statements
made by David Jacobs foreman for DAILY & Nc
Bean, who is alleged TO have been the principal
figure in many of the sales Of bogus snow tick
cts.
n. A. Smyth, Assistant District Attorney. has
the prosecution of the case in charge, and Com
missioner Edwards and Deputy Commissioner
Hogan had a short conference with him and
District Attorney Jerome late yesterday after
noon. Just before Mr. Edwards reached the
Criminal Courts Building Mr. Smyth caused the
arrest OF Daniel Leahy, foreman in Stable H. 1T
48th street and the East River. Before his ar
rest he had undergone q searching examination
by Mt. Smyth He was arraigned in the Centre
street court before Magistrate Krotel and held
in 81 ,0G0 for examination to-day The charge
is that he sold bogus snow tickets to David ia
cobs February 1 and 2.
Most Of the frauds far uncovered were in
the 9Th and Sth districts According to the
statements now in the hands Of the Street
Cleaning Commissioner. efforts We're made 10
extend the grating to tine 7th District There
the conspiratoTs ran into q snag in the person of
Superintendent Gunther, who refused to stand
for anything that locked crooked and. for fear
OF exposure those IN the graft syndicate dropped
all efforts to fix him" in quick time.
SEEKING MAN HIGHER UP"
One man the authorities anxious to find
IS said be related to OF the best known
Tamuany men in the city. According TO one
story, the man was to have been with Jacobs
when $1,000 worth Of snow removal tickets were
TO be purchased, but he failed to keep the ap-
pointment. Another was that he get the thou
sand dollars for the tickets and has not been
seen in the city since.
The system by which the city has been de
frauded indicates that, one man or group Of
men controlled the scheme. The identity of this
man higher up IS of the things that Com
missioner Edwards is determined to find out. It
has not been due so much to the fault Of the
contractors, the Commissioner said yesterday,
as TO the fault of the system. which he said was
bad and unserviceable throughout
Commissioner Edwards had 10 appeal to Com
missioner Bingham for help yesterday, one
of the results of the graft arrests. He asked 70
have some of the prisoners sent up TO Stable A,
at 18th street and Avenue c, so that he could
pay off some Of the men. mostly bread line re
cruits. who were to be paid out of the emergency
fund. There was from 81 TO SIS due each Of
these men, and they wanted the money. Com
missioner Edwards had asked the Board of Esti-
mate for 100000 and got $4,000 When he
tried to make this do there was trouble.
The Commissioner got all the emergency men,
who needed the money most. together at Stable
a about 10 o'clock. But before they got their
money they had 70 be identified and the men
who could do this were locked up at Police
Headquarters. Close 70 thousand shovellers
were on hand. About two-thrds Of them got
into the stable. and the first three got their
money. Alexander Bremen and Thomas r
Bremen. deputy city paymasters, were on the
Job. They were just handing out the money to
the fourth when Mr.. Edwards. over the
telephone told them to stop until their foremen
appeared identify the men. Then he got
some of the prisoners to help in the identifica-
ton.
sHOVELLERs IN ANGRY MOOD
Bernard J Costello one Of the city employees
said he could not Identify anybody, because the
books were not present They had been seized
by Mr.. Edwards in his raid the night before.
James CIearv was also unable to do anything,
he said. because he had to have the numbers of
the men. and these n the books. Alto
gether fewer than twenty men got their money,
and the bringing of the prisoners only served
10 infiame the waiting men.
Finally the men were told tC return to-day for
their money They did not like that and
beginning to get ugly. when two patrol wagons
from the East 22d street station arrived. The
noIice then cleared the stable. Prisoners and
naz-noasters with the money, were bundled into
the wagons and. whipping up their horses. the
drivers went through the crowd and got away in
eafe+y The police who remained drove the
crowd away.
Twelve witnesses were before the grand jury
yesterday Several of the witnesses had 10
undergo A further examination by Mr Smyth
after they got through with the grand jury.
4 n,ong these were Leonard Mclean, of Daily &
Mclean and George AtwelI. general supern-
tandent for this company. Deputy Commits
siorer aogel also had his turn. G. di Marco has
the contract for the snow removal in The Bronx.
There are no irregularities suspected in his
tIe has had the contract since the time of Com
missioner Waring. Di Marco visited Commis-
sioner Edwards yesterday, and assured that
his work had been above reproach.
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