The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-07-27
d WAS JUST STRINGIN
HIM ALONG" SCHREITER
SAYS IN POLICE CELL
Accused Council Secretary Says
Money Talk Was All on
Detectives Side
HE ALWAYS CALLED ME- UP
Alleged CRATER Says He Has
Clear Conscience and Isn't
Worried a Bit
HE ALWAYS CALLED ME UP

Il was stringin' him along, abso-
lutely stringin' him along" said Ed
die Schreiter, council committee sec
retary, arrested as a CRATER, with
wave OF his hand, as he talked with
group of newspapermen in the cell
block OF the central station, Satur-
day morning.
He had spent the entire night pac-
Ing the corridor, disdaining TO lie on
the hard plank of his little cell. and
given Inside roaming" privileges by
kindly doorman
Had just about as much sleep as
II had been sittin' up at an Irish
wake" said Eddie.
Worried? Not a bit Why should
l be2 ! have a clear conscience.
feel that | have done nothing wrong
Yes, money was talked about, but all
on Brennan's side. He always called
me up. l never called him up. was
just stringin' him along.
Now suppose | wanted to make a
damn fool of you. for instance.
would string you along to a certain
point and then" Eddie assumed an
heroic pose-"I would say to you.
Nothin' DOING can't be bought,
and if ] am, it'll be six figures. and
the first one won't be a one.
How about the list of aldermen
which Burns says he has, and says
that you furnished him, with their
various prices quoted?" he was asked.
Nothing TO It; I'll deny that" re-
piled Schreiter But let's take
broader view OF this thing. IL did,
furnish such list, what would that
get me? Where would l come in?'
You'd probably come in jail, said
one Of the interyiewers.
Well that's so, said Eddie,
thoughtfully. But my conscience
would be clear, wouldn't it,"
Eddie's story of his getway showed
how carefully" the springing of the
trap was worked He had received
Brennan's telephone call to meet him
emphatically that he didn't know
that Brennan was going TO try to
hand him some money
II had dismissed that matter from
my mind. was through Sur y
him." says Eddie. But wa 4
into the corridor and there stood De-
tective Bert High in the nall. There
were some other men standing in the
hall. | says 70 myself, This is
trap | beat il. | went into another
office, asked a few questions, and then
went back to No. 800 IN the city hall.
Pretty soon, Brennan called me up
and said. i thought you were coming
over here
Mr. Brennan, replied, very
calmly like that, If you have anything
TO say to me you can come over here
and say 1t to me in my office Then
Bert High came over"
Schreiter said he couldn't under
stand why he was held while all the
others were released except that
Brennan knows he has nothing on
Schreiter. and is going TO make him
suffer as much as possible. Schreiter
couldn't figure out why Judge Con-
molly refused TO order his release. He
says his attorney, John ID. MacKay,
and Schreiter's brother were prepared
to furnish Mr.. Breitmeyer-not the
former mayo-as bondsman, last
night when they leaned that Eddie
was TO be refused bail for the present
Asked II he wanted to deny that
he had ever offered to deliver the
necessary aldermanic votes for
jackpot of $6,S00, Schreiter said he
would rather not talk about il at all
but added, "Yes. I'll deny that"
How about the price list OF alder
men that Burns says you gave him.
I'll deny that, too"
How about the statement that the
Wabash was held up for money on
the Seventh-st. closing matter?"
THE Wabash was never asked to
pay any more than any other proper
ty-owner in like circumstances. All
resolutions read the same, making the
petitioners agree TO pay all necessary
expenses or some such wording
There is no difference in the Wabash
resolution than in any others"