New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-04
Wire Tapping Graft Case
Will Go to Grand Jury
This Week.
INFORMATION NOT
FROM THE FORCE
ClairvOyant Inquiry Expected TO
Go Over Until Wire Tapping
Probe Is Ended.

Il
! ping and fortune telling graft did not so
before the grand jury yesterday, It was
| said that the case against high police Of
! fetal was practically complete and would
probably be presented to the grand jury
within week
Like the case against Dominlck Riley
who was indicted on Tuesday, the second
case does not depend upon information
given by any member of the Police De
TArtmcnt The District Attorney believes
| that an indictment will follow in this case
as quickly as il did in the one presented
on Tuesday.
The inquiry into the protection alleged
to have been bought by Clairvoyants VIII
probably be postponed until after the com
pletion of the bribery case against the po-
| lice official who is said to have been in on
| the easy wire tapping money.
Mrs. Jane L. Burnett. the wealthy wom-
an who put the clarvoyants in the power
| OF District Attorney Whitman, is to leave
| for Stroudsburg, Penn. to-day. Her hus-
band, Roger l.. Burnett. is a resident Of
! that town. She had talk yesterday with
J Frederick j. Groehl Assistant District At
! should be needed. She said that she met
! :he clairvoyants who necced her through
newspaper advertisements. They advised
| her, she said. TO buy property which she
! had at that time under consideration.
! she did not take their advice. but learned
| later that if she had done 50 she would
| have prcfted by it.
! Convinced that their advice in bust
ness matters was sound. she was induced
| TO invest large sum in stock. The stock
| turned out to be worthless, she said. and
| she lost $4,000. The total amount Of her
losses through clairvoyants had been ex-
| aGgerated. she said. as it did not exceed
| $4,000.
! Albert j. Carter. alias Curly" was in
! Consed yesterday at the report that he
| lad furnished information TO the District
| Attorney and had assisted In preparing
the case against Dominick Riley. I'm his
| Indignation Curly" delivered a homily on
the ethics Of wire tapping and graftcrs.
! It's all the same game" said Curly"
Suppose We do take a guys farm or his
/ house and lot-we promise him somethin'
and he don't get it, does he? Well. sup
posin | was payin' money for protection
! the cops took my money and promised
me somethin' didn't they? Then suppose
: they turn around and pinch me-it's all
| the same graft, amt It? Suppose I'm
/ goin' to souawk? If the sucker squawks
because we don't keep our promise he
gets the ha ha,' don't he?
! Il didn't say nothn'. and ! wouldn't. I
stood at the door an kdded 'em while
they was squawdn' to Groehl an En-
| bree ! told 'em | hadn't got nothin' to
squeal about.
Frank Tarbeaux was the first fellow
10 squawk He amt a regular CRATER.
anyhow. He's just cheap card cheater
and like that. lie wasn't in on but one
trick, and he got pinched and didn't have
the nerve to stand pat What does a fel-
low like that know about real graft. any
how? He pulls off trick for $1,000 or so
and swells around about it, but real
prafters that are pulling down $4,000 or
| $4,000 a week-they don't squawk.
"McRae followed TarbeauX. What else
| could he do? There was Tarbesux. who
had given Whitman a lot Of names and
dates and places and Whitman calls Nc
| Rae in and asks him about those names
and dates and places. what could he do?
lie couldn't make a sucker out Of a feller
like Whitman, could he?
IAN ! want Is to be brought TO trial
right Off They amt got nothln' on me,
anyhow. They had me IN a lineup FOR
forty-fve minutes and Jones couldn't pick
me out Couldn't say ] ever took cent
from him. Anyhow, CRATER that's been
pullin' down good money ought 10 be
ready 10 take his chances.
eve lived off my wits for ten years OF
my lfe-and 1t was good Twin, too !
guess ! ought TO he willin' 10 give up two
or three years I'm payment. hadn't /?
done more Twin in those ten years than
most men do In thirty.
Now. / got a family 10 look out for. I
got restaurant, an l don't want the
name of no Jack Rose ! amt made
any squawk, an / don't want the name
Of IT, 1t amt good for business.
81 spent nine weeks in the Tombs. Gee!
| Wasn't / glad to get out. done hun
dred yards in nothin' fiat All / been
dom down here since then was to get Il
friend Of mine out on bail / got him out,
an they slapped a subpoena on me. They
been slappn' em on me ever since. !
can't help that, can !? ] got a pocket full
of 'em now. Got so many / put in my
spare time playin' solitaire with 'em. |
amt dom any squawkin'. though. just
hang around to Kid the rest Of the
bunch"
Chief Magistrate McAdoo began his in
vesugation yesterday into the cause OF
the failure TO serve the warrant on Frank
n Wolf clairvoyant Wolf said when he
was arrested last Thursday that he had
been paying for protection, and that de-
tectiyes who knew the warrant was out
for him had passed him in the street with
out batting an eye.
| CAPTAIN John j. Tunney, now attached
10 the Old Slip station, was at the magis-
trates office under subpoena. lie was In
charge of the detectives I'm the West fifth
street station during part OF the fourteen
months the warrant was unserved. lie
was asked why 1t was that the warrant
If not served, had not been brought "a
the attention OF the Board of Magistrates
twice a month for renewal. He said he
had turned the warrant over TO Detective
Kalbfeisch. Kalbneisch Will be examined
by Magistrate McAdoO.
If the investigation shows any neglect
or djsobedience of orders on the part OF
policemen Magistrate McAdoo will ask
Commissioner Waldo TO make charges
against them.
Dominick Riley was arralgned yester-
dav before Judge Swami in General Ses-