The Washington times., 1912-02-12
BRANDT IS NOW
ON WAY TO FIGHT
FOR HIS FREEDOM
Will Tell Jury How Police
Officials Compiled "Crimi-
81 nal Record" for Him.

NEW YORK, Feb. 12-Folke E.
Brandt, former servant of Mortimer l..
Schiff, who has served five years of a
thirty-year sentence for burglary In the
first degree. will reach New York this
evening to be present tomorrow when
the fight for his freedom will begin.
He left Dannemora prison, where he
has been under close confinement, at
1914 this morning, and should reach
the Grand Central Station at S:33 in the
evening. He will be taken at once to
the Tombs, and at 10:30 o'clock tomor-
row morning will go before Justice
Gerard in the supreme court, who will
hear arguments on the habeas corpus
that was the means of getting Brandt
out of prison.
e.. For Reopening of Case.
While the justice is considering
whether the writ shall be continued or
dismissed. counsel will 20 before Judge
R5salskv in general sessions, where
Brandt received his long sentence, and
move for the reopening of the case.
In the event OF the motion being
granted the court will be appraised of
the fact that the prisoner Is now in the
Jurisdiction and an order will be issued
renanding him to the Tonlbs to await
the action of the bench.
So Brandt has two strings tc his bow
in the etfcrt making to keep him here
until his case has been adjudicated in
stead Of sending him back to Daune-
mora, which might involve a long light
to yet him out again.
And while Judge Rosalsky is hear
ing the argument of the lawyers, he
NJ o kn
secret inquiry on the part Of certain
jurists and legislators with n view of
deciding If grounds for impeachment
exist.
The most startling exposure yesterday
Z in the conspiracy against Brandt was
this:
william w. Mclaughlin, then police
inspector in charge of the detective bu-
: reau at police headquarters, it is said,
handed to Joseph B. Woodbridge, then a
detective sergeant, the false report in
eliminating BrUndt, as thief and fcrger,
and Woodbridge signed 1t without a
z question.
4 II Woodbridge made any investigation
4 into Brandt's antecedents 1t was most
s9Perfcisl He did not search Tfa -four -four
Jersey, and Connecticut - for Brandts S
record. The report says he did.
Mclaughlin, his immediate superior
called Woolridge into the detective bu-
MIN and ordered:
Sign this, Woodbridge"
And Woodbridge signed it.
Trusted In Mclaughlin.
Woodbridge supposed that McLaugh-
{ lin would indorse the report. as is al
( ways done by the chief of the Detective
Z Bureau when such document is to be
used as legal evidence. Had McLaugh-
lin signed the report Woodbridge would
have been relieved of all responsibility.
Woodbridge, duped by his superior Of
flcer, did not know until Friday that
Mclaughlin did not sign the report,
This paper, which put Brandt in the
light of an habitual criminal, was ham
died most cunningly at Brandt's farcical
trial.
Woodbridge did not have to swear to
the truth of any accusation made over
his name.
He was required only to swear that a
letter read by Judge ROsalsky was a
true copy of a letter he had sent to
Inspector Mclaughlin.
Woodbridge is infuriatad that he has
."been made the goat" to use his own
language. But angry as he is he does
not want to involve those who were his
friends; he does not want to "squeal,
the deepest disgrace in every police