New-York tribune., 1912-02-17
.SCH|FF PLANS TO FIGHT
|. TO KEEP BRANDT LETTER
Never Was Mailed. but Said TO
Be Most important DoCu-
ment in the Case.
MURPHY NOT TO BE CALLED
Cans Declares Neither He Nor
Mortimer L. Schiff Has Asked
for Immunity-Bar Asso-
cations Part.

Nineteen letters belonging TO Folke F..
Brandt. It developed yesterday, were
found by the detectives in his East 42d
street room when he was arrested.
Fifteen OF them were destroyed as un-
claimed property after the period pre-
scribed by law for their preservation,
and four OF them. the most important,
found their way through either the po-
lice or the private detectives to Morti-
mer l.. Schiff's counsel
OF these four letters, the District At
torney was advised yesterday, three will
be produced for his use in the investiga-
tion. but the fourth. which is by all
means the most important OF all the let
ters that were taken from Brandts
room, will not he given up until every
possible legal obstruction has been swept
away
Mortimer L. SChiffs advisers let 1t be
known yesterday that Mr. Schiff would
20 to almost any extremity before sur
rendering that letter.
This letter, over which the Schiff legal
array is prepared to make i bigger fight
than over any single item or incident Of
letter written by Brandt 10 "A member Of
the Schiff household, but not mailed. 1t
is understood that IT was sealed and ad-
dressed, ready for mailing. when the de-
tectives took Brandt into custody. II is
known that this letter is easily the most
important document I'm the entire Brandt
case-that on II. I'm fact. hinges the basis
of the whole movement 20 have Brandt
spend thirty years of his life I'm prison.
Other Letters of Servants.
The other three letters which are in
the possession of Mr.. Schiff's counsel
were written by servants in the Schiff
household to Brandt, and referred in
fattering terms TO Brandt's position and
influence in the household. or the fif-
teen letters which were destroyed every
one. so far as is known now, were SINH
lar TO the three letters described above.
John Taylor, the police detective who,
with Joseph u. Woodbridge, arrested
Brandt. was asked by the grand jury
Yesterday about these letters. From his
previous statements il is known that
he told the investigators that he had
taken all the letters found in Brandt's
room under specific orders from Inspec-
tor Mclaughlin. Taylor said he gave all
the letters to the property clerk AT Police
Headauarters. but IL is now known that
four of them were delivered into the
hands OF Mortimer L. Schiff's counsel
Alton y. Parker and William Church
Osborn we're named yesterday as the
men who had dined with Governor Dix
when he was in New York city on jan
uarv 30 last. Charles f. Murphy, the
leader of Tammany, who was named In
some newspapers yesterday as the man
who dined with the Governor on that
date With tile intimation that it was
Murphy's influence that persuaded the
Governor 10 deny Brandts appeal for
clemency and seal the papers. did not
see Governor Dix on his visit to New
York on January 20.
District Attorney Whitman yesterday
asked The Tribune to say for him that
Charles F. Murphy will not be called be-
fore the GRIND Jury in the Brandt case.
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