New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-09
Counsel for Girls Hints at Pros
ecutiOn f2r Person Who
Took Them.
POLICE CLEARED 50 FAR
Gleason Admits Keeping the
Missives Day or Two Be
fore Delivering Them to
Ex- Judge olcott.

q chorus girl? Who gave them TO 4. II.
Gleason, Of counsel for the former?
when we're they taken from the Varuna
apartment house? In whose possession
were the letters between the time of
heir discovery and their delivery 10
some one in the employ Of Mr.. Stokes?
And. hnally. what has become of the
missing nine? are five questions still un-
answered. still shrouded in mystery. a
police investigation yesterday and the
testimony Of the Ansonia house detcc-
tive Notwithstanding.
Robert VI. Moore. counsel for Miss
Graham and Miss Conrad, made this
statement with emphasis last night:
ii certain that the package OF Nj
Stokess letters TO Miss Graham were
not found in the girls apartment on the
afternoon Of June Q. two days after the
shootine, as James Cumming Nj.
stokess house detective, said. He swore
he found those letters behind the trunk
In the sitting room. As l told repre-
sentative 4 The Tribune on June II,
went in person 70 the apartments on the
morning Of the 9Th. saw Nr. Bloom,
the superintendent Of the building told
him who l was and that ! had come 10
search the apartments and asked him 70
come with me TO see that l did not take
anything away. 10 be witness. He
did 50. and in his presence made a
thorough search.
u moved the trunk behind which Cum
ming svore he found the letters out into
the room. and ! can take my oath there
we're no letters behind It and no Stokes
letters in It."
Even more significant is what Mr..
Moore said in addition, which follows:
Taken Night OF Shooting, He Says.
u am morally certain that those let
ters were taken on the night Of the
shooting following the arrest Of the de-
PENDANTS, and I am going 10 find out
who took them before I get through. 1
am also certain that the letters pro-
duced by the District Attorney were by
no means al Of those turned over by
-IllE O-- a. II -@~tl4N Q44h44lN u ~ SUM-
one also at present not certainly known
IN Mr.. stokes's employ. OF course, be
Heve the District Attorney produced at
the magistrates hearing every letter h.
had
'I do not think that any Of the letters
would ever have reached the District
Attorneys office at all had not their
sudden and mysterious disappearance
created such a stir and had not subse-
quent developments indicated that the
defence had strong suspicious that they
had reached an agent OF Mr.. Stokes.
In regard 10 the question Of who took
the letters from Miss Grahams trunk
for they were undoubtedly found in her
trunk and not behind it-snd gave them
10 a Stokes employe l may have my
own theory This / will say, that evil
dence which will be developed later Ill
20 far 10 furnish an answer incidental
ly I might add that the taking Of let
ters or anything else from that apart
ment and not turning it over 10 the po-
lice or the countys prosecuting officer
constitutes crime and lays the guilty
person open 10 prosecution. II my the
ory holds the person in question may be
open 10 something else As Well
In connection with determining upon
some particular person the act OF
taking and delivering the letters to a
Stokes agent, the chronological order Of
T. .,t hp
apartment house on the night Of June I
is considered Of prime Importance. IT is
believed that once this order is legally
established it will be q simple matter to
place the act upon one Of several pairs
OF masculine shoulders.
Magistrate Frcschi. who has been con
eucting the hearings in the case, has
been deeply interested in the testimony
egarding the disappearance and reap
ltarancy OF the letters. OF such i'm
portance did inc consider it that he for
mally called it TO the attention Of the
Police Commissioner. who Immediately
Narted an Investigation of the part the
detectvcs and police played. The mag
srstc IS considering whether it is not
hs duty 10 take some action in regard
70 Mr.. Cumming testimony Cumming
twore that \. II. Gleason was with him
Whtn be took the letters, and, in fact.
advised him to slip them into his pocket.
II appears Magistrate Frcschi said,
that iu this instance there was moro
man simple trespassing done. They had
no more right 10 walk into that apart
ment and seize those letters thau you
or J."
Il now seems certain that counsel for
We defence do not intend making tho
cumming testimony basis for charges
mot FOR the present. Future develop
mehts may change their attitude how
eyc-
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