The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-05-02

time and ri try TO &c, In touch with In
spector sweeney and get the money to-
gcfher'
Monday morning | was put on trial at
Police Headquarters for INSTRUMENTATION
fRouss told nc there that he was expecting
a telephone call about the balance OF that
money. Then ! went to court and there
met Johnny IIartigan. VINO said rye got
an envelope from the captain with $3.50 In
it' refused to take it In the Criminal
Courts Building because I was AFRAID
was being watched. I told Hartigan to
give II to my brother Jim, and they went
across the street to a saloon.
"Sipp was not in court and I was DIS
charged told Rouss that the $3.50 was
on It's way down to his Office and that the
man bringing il told me that $3.50 had al
ready gone across. lie said he knew all
about II, that Newell had told him Husse>
had said II would he $1,000 My brother
gave me the money in Rouss's Office and
] gave II to Rouss.'
Continuing his story on the direct
examination in the afternoon, Fox said
that he read IN the papers Of Sipp's
return to New York and on January
Is Louis j. Grant and Tom Lloyd ac-
companied him to the Criminal Courts
Building and Fox gave himself UP ON
the indictment which had been found
against him on Sipp's testimony. He
had asked Lloyd to try to get bail for
him, hut although he surrendered him
self on Wednesday. he was not re-
leased until Saturday on $1,000 cash
hail. Tho witness was not allowed to
tell whose money this was. II IN still
unclaimed in the hands OF the city
Chamberlain, where ii was deposited
by Mr.. Grant. now dead. Grant said
. I..A
desk in an envelope marked Bail for
Fox The witness continued;
walsh susEests aIO.OOO Fund.
~ saw Walsh again the following
Wednesday. lie said he was sorry | had
been kept in the Tombs 40 long and that
I ought to have been taken care OF. |
told him | had every reason To believe
that | would he convicted II went to
trial that | had no money. and what
would become of my family IL I went
away? He said. Gene, think YOU oush,
to get at least $4,000. and Will see
about it. In the meantime I want YOU
to get In touch with somebody who Will
convey message to Sweeney and the
other inspectors that II you're not taken
care of YOU will not stand for trial
II saw Rouss on December IS. He
said Thompson hadn; called up. That
night / was called to telephone near my
home. and Thompson. whose voice knew
asked mo IL | could NEE, him that eve
ming. We made the arrangements over
the telephone and met Thompson at the
Nincty-sxth street subway station. some
where around : o'clock
He told me he had talked with my
lawyer and that he was willing to help
me. but hadn't Yet talked with the other
men who had followed him in the inspec-
sion district I can guarantee YOU will
get SI25 month while YOU are IN
trouble he said.
Il told him that would satisfy me. IL,
said he thought II was a fair amount. ano
that he had helped me out of the Tomhs
He said he would the other men tn.
next day and see me the next night In th'
same place. We met again the next night
lie said he hadn't vet seen the other nei
of whom he had spoken. They were tn,
men who had succeeded him in command
Of the district. n" said
Tell. Thompson H-Ii >au-ai
Tho next night after that met Thomp
eon at Nincty-tifth street and Riverside
Drive He told me he had been talking tt
the other men and that they wouldn staiit
for any such sum a. $4,000. which nae
been suggested that II was hard TO get any
money, hut that they would give me th'
s125 a month | told him 10 stop righ
there that it would not satisfy me.
The next saturday night | met hin
again in the same place. he said
have in my pocket $500. two years sal
sry. TO give YOU I told him was golni
n alone--that was gong 10 spue"h Ii
sald' " you "' ~" 81 "a ! i.f
pape' ~ ,,,au,i''s sIondsv ,nornInp m,
'asa came nm for trial The jury wa
empane,led and after the noon recess
pleaded guilty To the charge OF brlp-rN
The confessed collector OF protector
money wiped his face and eyes with M
hand as he finished his testimony on th'
airac, and MIR. clark turned him ov.l
Iohnp y S,,ncbt.,d for cross-.xam
r.,.r ,,,ucbarid'. Fire.
In reply to MIR. StanchneIu questions
ne said that ne hau never ""
cent OF graft before 1908. but lived en-
,irelv on his salary as a policeman. II.
ia ha r.v,r say Summers ColleC
graz" ,,o,.,. =,
Dl' u" l,ua, ay.r on,
Thompson y rNr'N uo''', ,,'a
I"cted. al'ef tdN'nS "u' ~.
turned over 70 a,S',' ,', "o'' =, ''' ,hs IN
spector; ,. .,.,n ..u .o, l.. ,,f
..r, - % ,rhomnsnr, ue did