New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-07

District Attorney Clark, and guided by
Senior Warden Fallon and Warden
Hanley, they filed through the corri-
doris. making no comments. They
found Hyde in the "Cummins shack"
where he has been confined since the
first day Of his Incarceration.
This they ascertained to be a two
story frame building; one big room
downstairs used as a storeroom for
drugs and three rooms upstairs, one of
which Hyde occupied. the other two re-
naming empty and unlocked. Two
clothes closets opened off one of the
empty rooms, closets pretty well filled
with wearing apparel On this floor
also was a bathroom.
Find Hyde in ShirtsIeeves.
In Hyde's room the grand Jurors dis
covered an ordinary iron bed, two
straight backed chairs and a large
table Uttered with papers and law
books. The windows looked out upon
the prison yard and had no bars In
them. The floor was uncarpeted
Hyde. who was in his shirtsleeves,
donned his coat with a smile.
They visited next the cell from which
Reynolds Forsbrey. the murderer, es-
capped. This cell is in the solitary con-
fnement section OF the prison, apart
from the main building. An attendant
showed the callers how Forsbrey had
leaped up and caught board in the
roof Of his cell. from which ne had
wriggled up into the ventilator shaft
and then climbed down into the car
penter shop. In the carpenter shop, II
heavy plank as battering ram, and
with II had knocked loose one OF the
bars in a window leading TO the court
yard. Through this window he escaped
into the courtyard and over the wall to
temporary freedom.
In their trip through the main prison
the grand Jurors came across Joseph
&. Robin seated before the table in his
cell scribbling industriously. Usually
at this time, about noon. Robin is en-
gagged I'm the room set aside for him
in the Criminal Courts Building
The grand jury had intended TO ex-
anime more witnesses after returning
10 the Criminal Courts Building, but
when luncheon was over II was deemed
best 10 adjourn until Monday morning.
In the morning the city editor and night
city editor of Tho World" had tes-
titled 10 the faith they put in the truth
fulness OF Eduardo Broker. the reporter
who quoted william j. Wright. Deputy
Commissioner OF Correction, as saying
that he. Wright. had received from
Tombs TRUSTEES an account OF a con-
versation overheard between Robin and
his sister. which led him TO believe his
friend Hyde innocent.
Wright Produces Witnesses.
Wright, who has vigorously denied
under oath that he ever said any such
thing came down to the building early.
accompanied by Martin c. Wright. his
son. and John J. Martin. secretary to
Edward Lazansky, Secretary of State. |
He said Martin and his son had been
in the room with him when Broker
came 10 see him, and they wanted TO
go on the stand before the grand jury |
To deny that he had ever said to
Broker anything which the latter could |
construe into a statement OF the kind !
he printed
Martin. Wright said, had come down |
from Albany voluntarily to testify. The
Deputy Commissioner was proportion
ately put out when the foreman OF the
grand Jury failed TO answer his request
that his two companions be allowed to
tell their story. They will go on the |
stand on Monday, however. II was
learned whether in response or not to |
an indignant letter penned to the fore
man by Wright could not be ascer-
tanned
II seems that the Wright home. at
No. 243 Lenox avenue. was the scene
last Sunday evening OF little party
when Broker called upon the Deputy
Commissioner Martin Wright, his son,
said he remembered that while they
we're all at dinner the telephone rang
and his father got up from the table
to answer II. He heard his father say:
Il can't quite understand you. You'd
better come up To see me-"
A little later, he said, Broker APP |
peared. Young Wright remained in
the room while his father talked to
Broker. and Martin, Lazansky's secre- |
tary who made one of the Wright |
party, stood in the doorway, interested |
in the interview. they said, because he |
had been a newspaper man himself. |
They said Broker jotted down four |
in a notebook, but they |
denied Deputy Commissioner Wright |
had said a thing TO the reporter about |
the possession of evidence which had |
led him to believe in Hyde's innocence. |
What he did say. they remembered,
was. AS a citizen and as an individual |
have the same right as the four SUI
preme Court justices who testified for