New-York tribune., 1912-12-31
CAN'T FIND S|PP,
50 FOX IS FREED
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though the police claimed at first TO
have been in communication with Sipp
and although he was actually seen In
Police Headquarters by reporters. II
developed later that the police had
either failed or neglected to get SO
much as an affidavit from him.
Hope Lies in Whitman.
When the case was called In the
Tombs court the police were forced TO
confess that they had failed to pre-
pare any kind of a case against Fox,
and in the adjournment which was
granted they made frantic possibly
efforts to find Sipp. but failed.
II Sipp is found, and It Is believed
that when District Attorney Whitman
takes up the Fox case again, after the
police finish botching 1t, the missing
witness will easily be found by Mr..
Whitman's men, Fox can be rear
rested.
Former Judge William NJ. X. Olcott
appeared as counsel for NANNY"
Mas yesterday, when the lawyers for
Mas. Wolf and Skelly asked Judge
O'Sullivan for permission TO inspect
the grabd jury minutes. Judge OSul-
livan pot the argument on the motion
over until January and announced
that he would give the District Attor-
ney until January 10 to file an an
swer.
The aldermanic committee endeav-
ored to solve the riddle OF Form 20"
again yesterday, through a further ex-
animation of Captain John d. Orrnsby,
now OF the Madison street station. but
formerly OF the 9th street station.
Form 20" is the monthly report of
places suspected Of being disorderly
houses or gambling houses sent in by
captains TO the Police Commissioner.
BY that the Commissioner is supposed
TO get an idea of the vice and gambling
situation in each precinct, but the al
dermanc Investigation so far tends to
show that by customs of ignoring the
letter of the rules which have grown
up around Form 30" the Commits
sioner actually derives little benefit
from the form.
When Emery II. Buckner, counsel 10
the aldermanic committee. informed
Captain Ormsby yesterday that during
the fourteen months he was commander
OF the 9th street station there had been
256 disorderly houses and 123 gambling
houses complained If either by citizens
or by patrolmen's reports, which never
got on his monthly report under Form
20, the captain said the number was
excessive.
He explained that when complaints
we're received. from whatever source,
he investigated them personally. some
times, he said complaints Of disorderly
houses proved on investigation 10 be
nothing more than an attempted re-
Venge by one woman on another after
neighborhood quarrel. other such
complaints proved 10 be cases Of fur
n;shed room houses which were entirely
respectable except for one girl who took
men TO her room.
Scores Of Complsnsnts Ignored.
The girl would. be arrested, he said
ard the landlord would disr ssess her.
and such a house would not be put on
tn. suspected list"
Mr.. Buckner said there were twenty
two alleged disorderly houses in the
10Th Precinct while Ormsby was cap
tain there, against which there were
five or more complaints each, and no
one of the twenty-five houses went on
Form %"
He added that there were siXty-five
alleged disorderly houses in the same
precinct in the same period of time
against which there were two or more
complaints each. and none OF the sixty
five reported on Form %" and 169 al
legged disorderly houses against which
there was one complaint each, and no
one OF the 169 on Form 30"
The captain had previously explained
that an alleged disorderly house was
not put on Form 80 until an arrest
had been made there, and although he