New-York tribune., 1909-05-19
JACKSON RACES
AT MR.. JEROME
HE MIKES SETERAL SERT-
Gus CHARGES.
Er-AttorHey. General after Filing
VitriOlic Report EHdeaUors to
Haze 1t Uithdra1cn, but Fails.
IBy Telegraph 10 The Tribunal


mer Attorney General Jackson was to submit a
report to the Legislature an hour or two before
it adjourned sine die last month. That report.
hitherto unpublished. contained attacks OF ths
most bitter nature District Attorney JsrOms
OF New York County and soma OF his friends.
To such extent did the former Attorney
General go that apparently he desired to cor
rect or change some OF his statements for. since
the report sent to the Public Printer. Wig
orous efforts have been made by Jackson 70
withdraw both copies. He succeeded in with
drawing one. but the other copy now is in ths
hands Of the Public Printer and has been put
| in type.
Jackson. going back to the abortfve Ice Truss
prosecutions, declared that the District Alter
ney, as soon as the Governor ordered the Attor~
ney General into the case, sought to discredis
him with the grand jury in every possible way
Mr.. Jerome. he says. tried to show that en~
ployes and political friends OF the then Attorney
| General were interested in ice stock. and thsa
the Jackson prosecution was prejudiced. or im~
proper. Jerome also. he said. had him shad+
owed by detectives and denounced him as q
CRATER.
Perhaps the most startling OF Jackson's as
sertions is that in connection with the Vidaves
arrest in the Hamilton Bank case. which. he
says, was merely another attempt to discredit
| him. Howard Cans, a close friend and formers
| deputy Of Jerome's. engaged for proper fsa
/ to have Montzomery' a bank official thsn
/ under Indictment, sit down TO private dinner
| with the District Attorney. in which svena
| Montgomery need fear further prosecution
/ Of the pending Indictment"
| This was to cost $1,000 said Jackson. who asa
serts that the dinner actually took place. and
nothing further was done with the Montgomery
/ indictments until that individual refused to pay
/ Cans and hired another lawyer. Then Jerona
| dug UP some further indictments against Mont
gomery. declared Jackson
JACKSON CHANGES HIS MIND.
The history Of the report here has been very
| interesting one Jackson was i'll during large
| part Of the legislative session About the mid
| die Of the last week Of the session he came to
| the Attorney Generals Office here and began to
| make I'D his report which was completed. sent
| TO the Legislature and ordered printed as pub
lie document just before final adjournment
| Evidently between that time and about a week
/ ago Jackson changed his mind He sent TO
1 clerk in the Attorney Generals of1cs who had
| served under him and asked To have the report
| Withdrawn and sent 10 him for correction II IS
the custom for the public printer to permit
| slight changes corrections in figures or the ike
| TO be made But the entire copy was with
| drawn
| A day or so later efforts were made 70 obtain
/ a
house Of the Legislature. The public printer re-
fused to let that be withdrawn. Immediately had
| it set into type. and retains IT now TO protect
himself Also he holds receipt from the clerk
| for the copy withdrawn
The clerk acted on Jackson's request entirely
| without the knowledge Of Attorney General
| O'MalIey. AS soon as that official learned Of the
| transaction he ordered the clerk Immediately 70
| have the copy Withdrawn returned 1t has not
been returned up to date, although the with
dravaI occurred about week ago
THOUGHT OF CRIMINAL CHARGES.
| The report recounts in glowing terms the
achievements Of Jackson for several pages be-
fore pIunging into the attacks on Jerome Those
begin when the history Of the Ice Trust is
taken up. Under the head OF Indictment OF
the Ice Trust Jackson says:
The accomplishment OF even an Indictment
against this arrogant and evil monopoly.
strongly fntrenChed by the distribution OF Its
stock in influential quarters. attended by
,,,,,s1ai dff7cuItfes and subjected the Attorney
General and his assistants to cOwardiy ana ma
licious personal attacks by the DISTRICT Ast95 AT
ney Of New York County under cover OF Ms
In revenge for his being displaced by the At
- 5i:at and nuIiify the efforts OF the AttJr-
nev General TO enforce the laws s1ter the Ils -
trict Attorney had refused TO act II IneLs s neu
been any hope Of redress. under eNisulIIs 90
cIr,s+ances T would have preferred cnarses
against this official and prosecuted him IN thS
criminal courts
But Jackson declared that he did not care 20
do ANYTHING the purpose OF which could DE- ms
construed and made TO look like personal re-
,-erge He asserted that he obtained evidence
which. "to my mind sho"eu NIolse'OiiS VI Jul
criminal laws
These papers he sent TO Jerome Then the re-
mort takes I'D at length the correspondence with
Governor Hughes in which Jackson complained
that Jerome for three months had held I'd the
case and then had replied that he knew Of
nothing which occurred since the summer OF
1905 which made II seem possible to him that
investigation by the grand jury at that time
the winter of 19O7-would reveal any facts not
previously presented
JACKSON'S JURY TROUBLES.
Jackson requested the Governor to order him
to appear before the grand jury in New York
County to supersede Jerome. prosecuting the
case on what he represented to the Governor
as sufficient evidence to warrant special pros
ecution This request was granted Then he
describes his troubles with the first Ice Trust
grand Jury impanelled in January 1905 Of
which he says:
II was represented by the District Attorney
that this was some sort Of extraordinarily in
telIigent grand jury, specially qualified and con-
high finance" that they had started inquiry
into the merger Of the street railways Of New
York City but would lay that work aside 10
give me an immediate opportunity TO present the
Ice Trust case: and he said this just the
Jury for that work. and he offered all the
sistance in his power. which was his duty. under
the statutes to render
accepted his statements in good faith up to
that time. assuming him to be sincere. and at
least willing to have any difference in opin-
ions as to the law settled by the courts.
I was not then aware that he had already