New-York tribune., 1912-02-27

world and sl of you;
Lovingly,
p s This is a free country and have
right 10 Love you II want but II Is UP 70
YOU II you want to think anything OF me
and consider me as friend '-- L
For mercy don't show this to your hus-
band or anybody ,
Let me know your thoughts throught
note, please. it would make me happy.
Three days later came the letter asking
for a recommendation. Here IT is.
Thursday. Il Feb. o..
Hotel Victoria. 5th Avenue 27th street and
Broadway New York. George W.
Sweeney, FrOp.
Mrs. NJ. L. Schifr
Dear Madam
Pardon nv liberty. but I must write this
few lines Al ] want to say Is concerning
my own person, -.
me. after the eve Of d. II Feb.-l am very
POOR Madam. and ] cannot afford nor stand
for months vacation as l nave TO HontS
| had Just send most of my money Holils
ia nv father of my last months wages SO
when MIR Schiff send me away the oniy
money had was the 2oS hi give William
to me.
You know madam that hven you en-
gagged me for the first time you may per
haps remember that my references Wnere
first class. -so, ,e
Now | will ask YOU ndddm 10 pdrlOH illp
and for mercy write me a reference, you
know II ! was honest. sober, willing, IN
dustrious or a good waiter. You kno"
which / was -.
for to suit you and I have spendt about
months in your services. And must state
some reasons why | have no reference
during that time the Empioymsent sa byrou
If ! do not gett place soon do not no
what it will become of me and my dear
Fader who is about SO years. Please madar9
realize the fact as well as Mr.. Schin;
know that my feelings towards you Madam
took the best Of me but don't judge me 10
hard I ON young and do not see things as
thi Hoping 10 receive some answer j nave
the honor 10 sign
LAURENCE DE FOULKE
1856 East IS Street
M- schifs statement is concerned chief
" with the attacks he says have been
made on his honor and tho honor Of his
family.
schiff Attacks Whitman and carmody.
After saying that he had hoped for an
opportunity to make his statement under
oath in a public judicial proceeding but
was prevented by the Attorney General and
the District Attorney upon a preteTt so
llLlNN llloA tNtiF AHN N'l i'A '''' N'ar'''
It's absurdity 7 refer to the contention Of
the Attorney General and the District At
torney that witnesses voluntarily testify
ing before Commissioner Hand Al their
own request and expressly waving immu-
nifty. might none the less obtain immunity
from prosecution in case the pending in
vestigation before the grand jury should
furnish evidence Of a conspiracy 10 defeat
the ends Of justice" he continues:
I have reached the decision 10 make this
statement very reluctantly because / nat
urally shrink from making public my pri-
vate affairs. But for a month some news
papers Of the city have been full OF false
charges, insinuatlons. innuendoes and e.. So
character from almost every conceivable
source.
MIR Cans and / have been accused Of
conspiring TO defeat the ends Of jnsdce, ~
dishonesty influencing an upright Judge,
Of "railroading' an innocent young man TO
state prison 10 serve a long sentence, or
inducing Brandt by false promises OF
leniency to plead guilty OF crime which
he did not commit and, finally, Of nhu-
manly seeking by improper methods 20
keep an innocent man In prison after his
innocence had been proved.
Every one who has had anything TO do
with the conviction Of Brandt or the op-
position 10 his release, from the Judge
who sentenced him and the Governor who
caused his arrest has been subjected 10
INSTRUMENTATION and abuse.
Bulletins OF supposed proceedings in the
grand jury room have appeared almost
daily in the newspapers without contra
diction public officials have Wed with one
another in supporting the efforts of
Brandts counsel 10 secure his freedom.
and this confessed thief emDezZleT, forger
and confirmed criminal has been held UP
before the community as martyr Ell
titled 10 public sympathy and support
Worst Of all. by Craftily devised innuendo
and insiuuation more effective than direct
statement certain newspapers have sought
10 attack my honor and 70 create an I'M
preston that my efforts 10 secure Brardrs
conviction and 10 oppose his applications
for clemency were designed 10 hide SONS
mystery which. II made public. would dis
grace and degrade me before the com
munity.
TO retute the cowardly statements re
Gently made by counsel employed for
Brandt by newspaper, and widely circu-
lated in some Of the newspapers that II
was my counsel and I who first dragged
the name Of Mrs Schiff into this case one
has but 70 read The New York American"
and certain other newspapers, beginning
With the issues % January q. 1912. ] have
therefore decided ,hst in self protection
and I'm Justice 70 all those who have
been maiSned during the last month Of
hysteTia I should make this statement Of
the facts.
Later Mr.. schiff refers to threat from
Brdndt, III March ~ lndf day after his
commitment TO the Tombs," no says, Il
received q note from Brandt, asking me
10 visit him. ! did not go, but asked Mr.
Cans to SEQ him, which he did on tho fol-
lowing day
Cans Sees Brandt for sohift,
"Mr Cans reported 10 me that Brandt
had said to him IN substance that II the
charge was pressed he would make re-
Election on Mrs. Schif. Mr.. Cans warned
him that he had better not tell lies about
anybody
Again Mr.. schiff says.
On the afternoon Of March p I received
a call from j. G. Rosenthal, a lawyer J
sent for Mr. Cans Mr.. Rosenthal stated
the Brandt case by reason OF the fact that
Fischer Hansen was trying 10 get II away
from Brandts first lawyer Mr.. Bayliss,
because Of the notoriety, and had offered 10
act without pay. Mr.. Rosenthal proceeded
10 saw that Brandt was now claiming that
he had secured admission 70 the house
with the assistance OF Mrs. Schif and at
her invitation, and that she had given him
the two diamond pins which he had been
accused Of stealing, and that Mr.. Rosenthal
had come TO give this information 70 me
as an act OF courtesy
Mr. Rosenthal said that while he did not
believe this story 10 be true, II might be-
come public II there were a trial. and that
II might therefore be 70 my interest not TO
prosecute Brandt but 10 give him an op-
portlInity 10 90 away and never come back.