The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-05-06

the character they are, have shaped
their testimony so that II VIII accord
with whatever tho District Attorney
believes to he the facts.
Walsh "Rottcn" In Wind aud Heart.
capt Walsh, who testified against
my client. is Il man whose mind and
heart have become rot'ou and corrupt
through low associations and CRIMINAL
practices. He has pleaded guilty to
charge of bribery and you know that
II is his dearest and almost single
hope to escape imprisonment. He says
he Is a sick man. though ! do not
believe he is as sick as he prcterds.
walsh admitted that he believed his
only hope Of escapinc punishment lay
in giving Mp somebody higher up
Walsh too is in the mercy Of Sipp to "A
great extent; they had had crimIna' re
lations as hribe giver and hrihc taker
and Walsh was bound to be swaycd by
sipp's animosity toward Sweeney.
walsh testified with absolute rock
tessncss and disregard for tho truth.
He talked Ike an insane man. He
testified before the Grand Jury that
ne paid Sweeney while Sweeney was
In Brooklyn. and then corrected his
testimony and made It Murtha that he
paid. Can you imagine Il more de
PRAYED witness than that
Mr.. Battle went over the testimony
Of the Sweeney family as to the in
spector's whereabouts on the night of
December - and uclttled the impor
tancc of their inability To- describe his
movements ON any other day in the
wear. lie insisted that capt. Walsh
had sent for llartiEau, who is now IN
Sing Sing for perjury for insisting that
Sweeney had not sent him 10 Walsh
Mr.. Battle finished his address at
$3.50 O'Clock with a mention ut the
policemen who were shot 10y gunrcn
on Saturday night.
Justice Scalury save the jurors tive
minutes In which to stretch th".r legs
and then Nh Wclman took Mr.. Battle :
place before The jury.
wciimnn calls II Petty Larceny.
Mr. Wellman began 10y seeking to
free the defendants Of any suspicion
Of being police graft,rs.
Have thes. men taken graft" he
asked capt. Walsh says that he pad
graf, to them but he admits that not
a living soul ever saw him make the
payments.
self and he says n" picked out It clean
honest patromau. Eugene FoA. ana
made a CRATER out OF him. The most
astonishing thinr to me in tins trlal Is
the amount uf graf. collected 10y Walsh,
s,,pposed from what | had read that
we would hear Of millions in gratt--and
Walsh SAYS II reached the Srea, total
of s4O0 "a month
"lf that Is what 1t amounts 10 ne
is accusing these inspectors "i peut
larceny II that was all n" graft there
was how did Walsh keep up his tstah-
lishmcnt-his automobile and his couh-
try house? H. couldn't have gwen
cent to any of these inspectors ana I'VE
the way he did
IN Walsh you are dealing with an
admitted perju-er. He admits he lied
20 the Police Commissioner, and 1t was
only when Fox had confessed that lie
decided 10 save himself 10y accusing
men higher up. Walsh says now tha'
he paid these four inspectors, but when
he was before the Grand Jury he said
he had paid sweeney ;or hire" or four
years and forgot the others.
There + no doubt in ms mind that
there was a conspiracy to kccr S.pp ou
Of the state for time n which capt
Walsh was the chief conspirator ant
these inspectors had nothing 10 do wiz
It. Newell and Rouss say It was WalS
who raised the money. and my opinion
Is that Walsh furnished the who.t
amount You have Walsh trying to gc
Sipp TO stay ont of the state anc
Sweeney moving heaven to get HIN
back into the state. don't car,
whether the charge against S.pp was
outlawed or not, or whether II Was true
or not. or corrohorated or not, II show!
that Sweeney was trying 10 gc' S!pl
back into the state.
Fox in his testimony Kept mention
ing they continued Nh Wcllmar
ITS an expression they use down ot
the Stock Exchange-'I wonder wha
they are going to do In this case
thought he meant the four inspectors
But Walsh testified that Fox told hin
they could get rid of Sipp II they
had a little money-and he referred t.
the lawyers. Walsh asked how muci
they wanted and Fox said $1,000
And still they referred to the law
yers"
Mr.. Wellman then gave tho defence
explanation os Hussey's tclcphon,nj
from Siisbe's restaurant. whore he ha'
met Newell, on December IS.
Newell" he sa!d. had known Hus
sey for twenty-n!nc years and had 20
him his first promotion In the Polio
Department. Hussey was sought ou
by Newell. who asked him n there wa
charge being worked mp against SipI
Hussey said he didn't know but woul
try to fnd out. Newell told him h
thought Walsh was stall,ng about IN
money. That Is Hussev's ntroductio
into this case.
'Hussey went TO the telephone an
returned and said; That is all r!gh
the money will be paid tomorrow
VIII you put him In prison for that
There were only two things he coul
do, call up Walsh, as he did. or go I
the District Attorney with tho story
He did what any man here would hav
done under the same circumstances
As for Hussey not taking the stant
MI Wellman said that II Walsh ac
cused Hussey of graft and the ca.
came to trial Husscv would hn found
the witness chair