New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-27
POLICE LET CROOKS
SLIP THROUGH FINGERS
Charges of S. E. LILLIAN, a Bos-
ton JeWeIIer. Laid Before
AIdermaniC Committee.
WARNED HE'D QUEER GAME
Victim of $4,000 Robbery
Also Arraigns Court for
Allowing Big Reduc-
ton in Bail.

Emory r. Buckue" counsel To the
| aldcrmanic Investigating committee. took
/ that body back over the trail Of the ROB
berry of Samuel Z. Ullian's iewclry store
| In Boston. for which Jacob and Joseph
Goldberg and Harris Rothstein were ar
rested I'm this city, in the course of the
| investigation yesterday
The committee heard from Mr.. lillian.
VINO was robbed Of $1,000 that because Of
| the miN-up following the arrest of the
| three men here. mIX-up which resulted
| I'm a case Of bail jumping, after that bail
! had been reduced generously. he got back
! just Slli worth of the loot that had b en-
| stolen.
| Another fact that stood out by repcti-
| ton In the afternoons work was that the
! city Of New York realized every single
cent Of $40 by the forfeiture of the sl5.OC0
] IN bail bonds, which were left behind
/ when the three prisoners skipped TO
! Europe
| Mr.. BUckner centred his attack OH Val
/ O'Farrcll. Duggan and Kinslor, the three
/ New York Central Office men who had
3 handled the Boston case Ia this city. and
d
/ ness stand in the investigation this after
/ noon at > o'clock to give their side OF the
story.
| According to Ullians story, Duggan
| told him that he had found $500 worth
| Of pawntickets on Joseph Goldberg, and
/ steamship tickets for Europe on each Of
/ the trio. but he did not take these things
away from the prisoners. nor did he
touch the large sum of money, almost
| $2,GDJ which nc found on Goldberg.
/ In the jefferson Market court, where
/ Magistrate Peter Barlow was presiding,
/ lillian wished to have the three men
I held In bail OF $1,000 each. but Moses
| Sachs, counsel FOR the prisoners. succeed
/ Cd in getting 1t fixed at $4,000 each. At
! Magistrate Barlow's house. two days
later. this was reduced to $500 each and
I on the day after that, lillian said, when
! the case was 10 come UP for a second
/ hearing the prisoners had skipped.
/ The Boston jeweller described in detail
/ how ne had been stalled at Police
. Headquarters by O'Farrell Duggan and
! Kinsler on the morning OF the day the
case was set for hearing before Magis-
I trate Barlow, and how, when he got there.
/ he found that Rothstein, one Of the pris-
| Oners had been released on bail Just al
the time set for the hearing.
! lillian wanted to make the round OF the
uawnshops with the detectives when they
/ went 10 search for the loot, but was dis
suaded by Duggan, he testified yesterday
on the ground that he d queer the game.
The Goldbergs. who were subsequently
caught by the Boston police In Austria
where they had been arrested the day
after their arrival for another matter
were recently sentenced in Boston court
| 20 twelve years imprisonment each. ROM
stein. who was caught near 81. refers
burg. also by the Boston police turheu
states evidence and got on with one year
Detective Duggan gave lillian naN'
exclamation OF the troubles OF a Ne"
york con when lillian wanted to know
why ne had not searched Rothsteih
house after he had found small portion
OF the missing iewelry in GOLDBERG
| house.
! We have no right to go into their
/ houses" said Dugsan, according to O'liai''
! because the Mayor is so strict we can
not 90 in without warrants" This was III
2 the tall of 1910
! Freeman O. Emerson, a Boston lawyer
/ who assisted lillian in the later stages
/ of his case, testified that Duggan, WheH
Emerson had openly displayed disrust oil
all three OF the New York detectives SAID
TO him:
why. were all right on this case. why
| was offered 5000 to let the prisoners 60
| II I'd been a mind to take IT,"
Mr.. Buckner read an affidavit obtained
from Jacob Goldberg in the Massachu-
sets State Prison on November ls' W. III
which Goldberg relates numerous CONVEX
4 eations brtwern Duggan and Rothstein.
| ali tending 20 accuse Duggan or reiatloHS
with Rothstcin which indicated colIlsioh
between the detective and the thlcl.