Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-23
NEW CRAFT CLUE
IN BANK DEPOSITS
Grand Jury to See Accounts
of Man Close to
Waldo.
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1t necessary to rent a box nv. safe
deposit vault. He also opened a bank
account, the first he is known to
have.
About the same time that the civil
ian rented the safe deposit box the
inspector of police also rented one.
The inspector, who previously had
been content with a single bank ac-
count, opened two additional ones.
These accounts have been extremely
active during the last three months.
Guard Safe Deposit.
The district attorney knows the
number of visits paid to the safe de-
post boxes, and has insured against
further tampering with the contents
by putting guards at every place
where the inspector hid his belong
ings. 1t will not be safe for anyone
to attempt to go into those boxes
now. Whitman is looking up the Law
to see what process he may invoke
to get at the contents of the boxes,
the contents of which are largely a
matter of surmise.
What authority the district attor-
ney has for opening the boxes will
nave to be ascertained through court
action. However, there is nothing to
interfere with his guarding the
vaults. The bankers are In sympa-
thy with his efforts to show up civic
corruption, and they have extended
every facility to Whitman. His men
are on duty in at least three places.
At present they cannot interfere with
anyone who opens the boxes, but
they can exercise a curiosity that
may prove embarrassing to the own
ers of certain repositories.
How Records Compare.
A strange thing about the accounts
of the suspected civilian and the in
spector is that a comparison of the
bank records with those of the safe
deposit company in which the civilian
employee has a box show that on
every date that the Inspector with
drew any considerable amount of
money from the bank the civilian
within a few houry made a trip to
his safe deposit box. In some weeks
as many as ten visits were made by
the civilian, and there are 40 weeks
when he did not make at least three
visits.
The inspector and the civilian en-
ployee long have been close friends.
They live within a few blocks of eacn
other, and have been seen together
frequently. Their cases will not only
be the first considered by the grand
jury when it begins its graft" in
quiry, but will figure prominently in
the John Doe proceedings before JUS
tice Golf. beginning September 3.
The police inspector has visited his
safe deposit box as recently as last
week. He evidently did not know
that it was being watched. The
civilian has not visited his box since
August 6. He is reported to have
taken something from it on that date.
He was watched at the time by a
man acting for Mr.. Whitman. He
evidently knew that he was watched
for he has not been near the box
Since.
Raiders Are Held.
Charles c.. Steinert and James c
White, the policemen who were in
dicted by the grand jury in connec
ton with the arrest of Jack Zelig,
were arraigned before Judge Null
queen today. They pleaded not guilty
TO the indictments charging perjury
and were held in $4,000 bail.
District-Attorney Whitman an
nounced today that the discovery of
two more bank accounts of Becker
brought the grand total of his de-
posits during his eight months as a
raider up to $125, 000.'
These new accounts We're in the
names of Becker and his wife, and
both were drawn out on July 81, the
day after the arrest of Becker.
Mrs. Becker, from reports in the
observation-disclosures possession, did two
busy days work on July 81 and Au-
gust /, travelling from zank to bank
Withdrawing her husbands "sav-
ings." The deposits during April
last, spoken of by Jack Rose as the
best month Becker ever had" con
tinued to show the gambler knew
what he was talking about. In two
days of April at different banks
Becker deposited $4,000.