New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-10
THROWS LIGHT ON
STOKES'S LETTERS
Bloom Tells How Detectives
Searched Girls Apartment,
and What They Found.
DENIES CUMMINGS STORY
Deputy Commissioner Dillon Re-
opens Investigation, and the
"City's Detectives Must Be
Cleared or Punished -

| Cleared or funlSHeu.
Tho package of letters from ". p. y.
Stokes to Lillian Graham was found ny
detectives attached TO the West oStn
street police station on the night OF tne
shooting. examined and placed by them
I'm narrow pasteboard box and taken
from Miss Graham and Miss Conrad
apartments.
These statements were made to Trib-
une reporter yesterday by John Bloom,
the superintendent OF the Naruna apart
ment house. Deputy Police Commis-
sioner Dillon sent Central once detec-
tive TO ask Mr.. Bloom 10 visit Police
HEADQUARTERS to-day and give In person
his story of the happenings on the night
Of June I, to himself and Commissioner
Waldo.
| reporter left the Varuna with toUr
detectives Of the 6Sth street station AZ
or about 0 o'clock that same night one
Of the four carrying the pasteboard ooH'
Tbav went across the street TO a corner
sa,oon and had a drink. Three Of tho
detectives remarked that they were go
ing back 10 tnc sldlioh "'''''
fourth took the box and said he was go
ing uptown. About two hours later INC
came reporter visited the station hlinse''
and was told that the box Of letters "a'
there hut none Of them was materisl OF
relevant to the case.
Dillon Begins Investigation
Dan,,tv Commissioner Dillon. whom
Commissioner Waldo ordered on Sa'O'-
dav to investigate the part the city n'-
I..ot,ves pIaved in the letter mystery ana
-. % sieen until he had finished IT,
heard something that brought MN irPi"
his cool summer home in Rocka"sy 10
the sveltering city in a hurry yesterda"
morning. He went at once TO the Va
runa. made a personal examination ~
the girls apartment, talked with Bloom.
expressed the opinion that If Robert NJ.
Moore. of their counsel, and city detec-
tives had made the examination they
have described it would have been i'm
possible for Cumming, house detectivs
| of the Ansona. 70 find any letters be-
| hind q trunk and went 70 the 6sth street
police station. where he put Detectives
| Mccormick, Sullivan and others on the
carpet.
| Commissioner Dillon then sent for Bi
cycle Patroman Tilly. the first police
officer TO reach the scene of the shoot
| ing. SO impressed was he with the value
| of Mr. Blooms testimony that he sent
detective from Headquarters with the
| request that the superintendent OF tho
| Varuna appear at Headquarters tris
morning and tell his story to Mr.. Waldo
and himself
| Instead of the police investigation h3,--
| ing practically ended on Saturday, events
| of the day gave it a renewed impetus.
and it was considered highly proba ba
| that Mr.. Dillons formal report 10 Com
| missioner Waldo would be OF different
character than the one he contemplated
making after Saturdays Investigation.
| Rumors flew thick and fast yesterdav
of prosecutions of those who may he
| finally proved responsible for placing the
letters in the possession Of the Stokes
agent and the melting out Of punish
ment Of some kind. 4 person connected .
with the case pointed out that action
could come from one or more Of the fol-
low sources: Magistrate Freschi the Po-
lice Department or Miss Graham,
through her counsel
Those Guilty Would Suffer
Commissioner Dillon. after his return
10 Rocksway late YESTERDAY afternoon.
said he would prosecute the work of in
vestigation until the conduct of the po-
lice officers involved was made perfectly
clear, and he said n evidence or ueS'i-
gence or colusion were found. tho~s
guilty would suffer
II was understood that the Commits
sioner had summoned ono or more news
paper men who were at the Varuns tha
night OF the shooting To appear befo-s
him and tell him what they knew II
was also understood that he had infor-
nation to the effect that several report
ers werc I'm the apartment shortly after
Mr. Stokes was shot, and he WAS anx-
ous to question them. Their evidence.
however. will throw no light on what BE-
came Of the bundle of Stokes lettery
Letters Returned, Police Said.
Detectives at the West 6Sth street sta
tion told a reporter from The Tribune
several days after the shooting that they
no longer had possession OF the letters
taken from the girls apartments. They
were not material TO the case" they said.
80 we put them back" On Saturday.
after much search. Commissioner Dillon
found the "immaterial' letters in the
station house itself
AS the situation now stands. Commls-
sioner Dillon has discredited Cummings
story that he found them behind the
trunk: counsel for the defence refused to
believe it and the police said there vas
no truth in II.
Mr. Bloom told his story OF tho hap
perings of the night OF June yesterday
evening Besides making tho statement
thu. the detectives got the bundle Of let
ters he said positively that the letters
were found in Miss Grahams trunk. and
that TO the best Of his knowledge neither
Cumming nor A. III. Gleason. OF counsel
for Mr. Stokes. got in the girls apart
mcnt that night. lie particularly wanted
il made clear that under no circum-
stances would he have permitted pr-
vate detective in the employ OF Mr..