New-York tribune., 1911-04-05
GRAND JURY HEARS
CQRR|GAN TODAY
Maujstrate Tells Whitman He Is
Ready with Facts and Figures
of Crime Wave.
MAYOR AGAIN ON DEFENSIVE
Refutes Allegation of Wholesale
Excise Observation-Disclosures
Conference Takes a Hand.

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Magistrate Joseph T. CorriGan VIII give
first hand Information TO the grand jury
to-day regarding the police conditions. To
which he made reference IN his pubuc
letter alleging maladmnistration of inc
Police Department and in his address
At the luncheon Of the city Club on sat
urday.
lie called Yesterday ~ tho District At
torney's ofnce in response TO an INVITA-
tior. and sad ne would Nc ready to-day
70 submit facts and figures 70 thc grand
,urv in support Of his statements that the
police force was demoralizod and that
the city was At the crest Of wave ol
crime
Mavor Gavnor made an effort yestor-
day 10 refute Magistrate Corrisan
cherce that the excise law was beins
Naerantly violated throughout the city
hv writing 10 Chief Magistrate McAdoo
that Police Commissioner Cropsey had
discovered on Sunday in special IN
vestiSa.ion of liquor conditions in the
ci,v that only twenty-seven ont OF a total
OF it. q "a tdih'UN NAL'ol'' '''N
also pointed out that during tho lime
tha. Mr. Cropsev has heen commissioner
he has caused the arrest of 1.43o disor-
der,v women. Of whom 1857 were con-
victed.
"SeueaI Book" Not Book At AL
Assistant District Attorney Frank
Moss. who is I'm charge Of the inNes'ies-
tion before the grand jury. visited Police
HEADQUARTERS yesterday to gather data
for nresertstion 10 that body. The IA
nous "soueal book was not found thore
~ him. for tho reason that 1t turned "''
20 he not a book hut an elaborate card
,ndex system for keeping record OF COM
plants and their disposition.
When tho grand jury meets to-day its
attention will be called to concrete
illustration OF the manner in which inc
rolice under Commissioner CrOpscy fSlled
10 arrest an offender.
The case is one ot which the grand jury
has already heard something NJ. r.
Coldberger. proprietor Of the intcrns-
,ional Hotel at West and Clarkson
streets told on FRIDAY how one of his
guests had been robbed Of so through
,hs medium of Confederate so bill. lie
told how he had appealed In vain to tho
rolice to arrest the man who. he SAID
committed the larceny.
Mr.. Goldberser has succeeded since
then in finding The man, and he has been
held in $1,000 bail for the grand jury.
While the police were declaring they
could do nothing Goldberger's book
reoper aud Nautilus Kuck. the victim
az tho hunco game. traced Henry Nc
Manus and trailed him until they found
2 policeman and caused his arrest. Cold
berger Is wondering why Commissioner
Cropsey could not have assigned one OF
his detective force 10 do tho work that
his bookkecpe: did.
Payments TO Police Alleged
II Is expec;cd that the grand jury will
take cognizance Of tho charge made by
Alfred G. Farrell. an attorney, and agent
for Mrs Tvclina Bcrning. Of No. lob
West Attn street. he has signed an
affidavit that Samuel Marks one Of
the prisoners taken in raid on an al
leged gambling house at that address.
had stated that the house and others IN
tho same street were protected from po-
ice interference by weekly payments Of
500 each TO alleged police agents. The
affidavit was submitted to Magistrate
Murphy, before whom the prisoners
taken in the raid were arraigned.
The Methodist Conference at its re-
sumed meeting in Calvary Church yes
,erday adopted the following resolution:
Since there is the widespread preva-
lcnce Of crime in New York City, high
handed. shameful and shocking. we here
by protest against the lax enforcement
Of the excise law. especially with refer
ence to the prohibited hours on Sunday
and other days.
while we d. not impugn the good mo-
tives Of Mayor Gaynor, We are not sur
rrised at the present carnival OF crime
whom we remember how lenient his ad-
,oinistration has been 10 the saloon. the
rarent of crime
The resolution was adopted at the re-
quest of the Rev. Ferdinand c. lnglehart,
Of Dobbs Ferry. city superintendent OF
the Anti Saloon League.
Tho Mayor cut of all tie PLAIN
clothes men," hc said. and the police IN
uniform can do nothing
Deputy Police Commissioner flynh
said last night that he believed there
was no foundation for the statement
credited 70 tho alleged proprietor oi the
Mace which he raided on Monday IN
West 44th street. that he had been CIV
ing 500 a week 10 one OF the commits
sjoner's men for protection. Mr.. flynn
added that ne had asked Brown. which
was the name the man gave, If 1t were
true that he had made the statement
and that tho man denied cmphaticaliy
that he had done 80, Flynn declared
he wss satisfied that there vas no truth
in the story. and that he would drop the
matter