The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-07
TURNS DOWNLOTS
. OF EASY Money
U. S. Attorney Wise Could Pick
Up Fortunes If He
Would.
BRIDES ARE PLENTIFUL
Would Be Required Only to Ad-
wise Fines Instead of
Jail.

New York. August 1.-TWO years
and four months ago Henry a. Wise
was appointed United states District
Attorney for the Southern District Of
New York. During that time he has
| secured cash payments to the govern
ment of S5,500.00O. and his Office ex
! penses have been less than 100000
! His friends declare that there is no
other government official who can APP
| proach this record
Just before Mr.. Wise came into Of
! fee the fees of the department were
abolished. Had they not been abol-
ished Mr.. Wise. who has the best
record for convictions of any United
States district attorney for this dis
trict. would have proflted by over
100000. His actual compensation for
the two years was $4,000.
I ITS really less v.>n that" said Mr.
wise yesterday. II am paid with
| Washington checks. and to get them
cashed costs me $40 year, so you can
| figure my salary at $3.50"
In one case called to the attention
of the court. Mr.. Wise showed that a
bribe of $4,000 had been offered TO
! him in the trial of the United Wireless
| Telegraph Company. He sent the in
dicted men to Jail.
In several other cases offenders have
would advise the court that fine be
imposed instead of Jail sentence. In
, variatly he has brought these cases
! to the attention of the court and Sc
! cured convictions.
! Some Big Collections.
Here are some of the cases in which
Mr.. Wise has collected for the govern
ment: From the sugar trust 100000
| II. J. Duveen, s1;2l5,OOo; II. 6; j. Rosen-
ha (
wire trust. TO date, 100000.
! Besides these there are pending other
large settlements in the wire trust.
I lumber trust, leather trust. box board
| trust. Benjamin Duveen and the mag
azne trust.
MI Wise has not lost one big case.
! The entire record OF his office is TWEEN
, ty-hve cases in which verdict of not
guilty was returned against some 500
| tried or settled by the payment OF a
! line. Each week sees a flow of $500
and $1,000 bills into the office OF ths
| clerk of United States Commissioner
shields, and 1t is joke around the
Federal building that the banks have
10 send there for large bills because
of the number used to pay fines.
| MIR. Wise has made II exceedingly
| dangerous TO operate sct-rich quick
schemes in New York. and hy his ef-
forts has protected thousands OF In
vestors throughout the country. He
mas secured jail sentences for several
| bucket shop men. promoters of fake
! schemes and officers of corporations
| who simply wish TO sell stock and
get out.
To a reporter Mr.. Wise said:
| IF | was 10 pick out the best thing
have done in the public interest it
would be something to which little at
tention has been given in the public
press. believe that have done more
real good in crushing out a number of
these fake medical concerns than in
anything else.
| One year ago the newspapers OF the
West were flooded with notices of va
! rious concerns In New York that would
guarantee to cure anything. I have
now secured jail sentences against two
of the largest firms. and the manager
of another has pleaded guilty and is
awaiting sentence.
Men and women throughout the
! country suffering from rheuma III N
or kindred complaints would be in
duced 10 send their money here for a
| sure cure instead of visiting a local
! physician. There were numerous pa
thetic instances where man in the
| last stages of consumption would be
induced to send his entire earnings
to one of these firms and would re-
ceive in response box of absolutely
worthless pills.
IT do not think that this will be
done any more. In each case we have
tried we have secured Jail sentence.
for the persons indicted. 1t Is luck,
I am not a Judge. or l believe would
find that some of these quacks were
guilty of murder. We had testimon,
in one case OF poor man who sen,
his weeks earnings to New YORK
concern and received bottle OF pill.
that would do no good. He kept or
using these pills. and a the same time
injecting all those around him. when
any physician would have told hin
what he should do for nothing or al
most a 81 fee"
An to Prison Sentences.
In regard to the action Of the courts
recently in accepting fines from de-
PENDANTS in smuggling cases or where
the charge was violation of the anti
trust law, the district attorney de-
clined TO make any comment
81 cannot criticize the judges" he
said. en- open court have again and
again declared that a jail sentence
should be the only penalty, but the
Judges probably know better There
IS no doubt that the poor offender is
being sent to Jail and the rich offend
er given a fine. hut the judges prob
ably have some good reason for this
] can make my plea In court aud car
get an answer in court, and that's al
there is to the matter"
Mr.. Wise is a grandson of Governor
Henry a. Wise. OF Virginia. He V as
graduated from the Virginia Military
Institute in 1896 and later from the
New York Law School. He was MAJOR
in the Fourth United States vo,i,rtce:
Regiment during the Spanish War, and