New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-27
GRAND JURY T|[TS PUT
MAYOR IN BAD HUMOR
c;tv's Head Is Said to Have Told
Crime Wave ProberS Their
Task Was Useless.
FIRST WHITMAN GETS A JAB
c.vnor Avows to Investigators,
II Is Added, That He Could
Not Be Run" in This
Police Matter.

Navor Gayner went yesterday before
he grand jury which is investigating the
.,ns and police conditions of the city.
.,d after sharpening his rapier on Dis
=, Attorney Whitman before entering
-. Grand Jury room he is reported TO
,,ve made a speech TO the investigators.
..,ine them practically that they We're
.nssged in a useless task.
D;strict Attorney Whitman met the
y.vor in tho hallway of the Criminal
Sopr,s Building when that official ap-
,.s-ed there at few minutes after
o,,,ock and cordially remarked:
I'VE have had some distinguished
,r.nd i,rv witnesses recently-yesterday
a, carnegie and to-day the Mayor of
the city
"yes" the Mayor shot back at him.
.ves | was very much interested in
-.ading in this mornings papers what
W Carnegie said before the grand jury"
BEFORE that the Mayor had greeted Mr.
whitman with cold and formal hand
sbake and though the District Attor-
nav as host. was evidently trying 10
make things agreeable for his guest II
seemed as if the Mavor was not in an
sgreea bic frame of mind.
The little passage at arms between
,bs Two officials was at first reported in
substance as follows
Things have come 10 a pretty pass In
this city. Mr. District Attorney. when
rsrson reads what is likely to trans
wire before the grand jury before that
tdy meets" and the response was said
N have been: That is not so. MIR.
Msyor"
But according to the only officlal
s,a,srent which was secured, il ap-
reared that the Mayors only thrust was
his ironical comment that he had read
Mr. Carnegie's remarks before the grand
Jury.
Csynor Returns to Grand Jury.
Evidently the Mayor held 10 the IN
ference which he put into his remarks
10 MIR Whitman. for. after he mad le1t
the grand jury room and started ooWn
IN the elevator he returned 10 the rooni'
asked 10 be taken again before that
hody and requested the foreman TO have
..r. Moss. the Assistant District Al
tornev and George Gordon Battle. the
special prosecutor promise secrecy re
sarding his testimony. This Moss ana
Battle did.
From what has developed Of the con
duct Of the investigation to date, how
ever il was known that the Mayor was
asked specifically about the case Of In
tpector OBrien--the delay in reaching
decision on. which was put fatty up TO
the Mayor by Commissioners Cropsey.
That and other specific questions. 1t is
reported. Mayor Gaynor brushed aside
with the remark that he could not re-
member details.
During most Of his hour and quarter
session in the grand jury room the Mayor
dealt in generalities, pointing with pride
10 ms treatment of the plainclothes men
question and his system for enforcing the
excise law
One OF the Mayors long dissertations,
II was reported. ran. in substance, much
Ike some Of lis previous public remarks
On the police situation. and practically
as follows.
There are many persons trying to run
the Mayor in this police matter, but they
can't ] have done good and systematic
nh rDzls f,.t nd
though / am gaining ground slowly l
think that | have made fair start
II was added that the Mayor went on
10 say that he believed he had absolutely
crushed out police graft. he thought the
excise situation was better now than ii
had ever been and that there was no
gambling. declaring that the city was
Conspicuous by it's lack OF crime and for
lis personal liberty.