New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-15
Harlem Police Captain. Aided
to Witness Stand. TcStifics
in a Weak Voice Against
Sweeney's Messenger.
WHITMAN HAS TRUMP CARD
Trials of Reduced Inspector,
Under Fifteen Indictments,
and Others Accused in
Sipp Bribery Case
Next on Schedule.


Next on Schedule.
The case against John j. HartiEan
the boyish looking patrolman who ad-
mitted he was the messenger who car
ricd the $3.50 message" 10 Patrolman
Eugene r. Fox. was completed before =
jury IN Justice Sea burys court yester-
day. Hartigan. who is charged with
, perjury. will put in his defence to-day
and II is expected the issue will go to
! the jur, late this afternoon.
] For the prosecution Yesterday Cap
tain Thomas w Walsh was the chief
witpoSs. although the states case was
clinchod as much 10y the corroborativc
! evidence Of Mrs Walsh and Mcnl
! Michel. q professional nurse. as by tho
testimony Of Walsh himself.
For tho defence II is expected Harti-
gan will be the chiof witness. although
James 4 Donnclly. his LAWYER. init
mated last night that he might call
/ Dennis Sweeney. the former police in
Spcctor. now on bail under thirteen in
dictmonts for grating and other
charges
As had been the case in an III" NIX
trials District Attorney Whitman has
handled. it developed Yesterday b. had
held out his trump card 10 spring = Il
surprise on the defendant. In iIartI-
gan's case this bomb proved to loo
douhly corroboratlNe evidence Of q visit
{ by Hartigan TO the Walsh homo, during
which Hartiean admitted he had car
ried an envelope from sweeney TO
Walsh on the morning of December 80
but has sed his sole complaint against
the evidence - Mrs Walsh before the
grand jury on the ground that ne
, HartiganJ had not known the envelope
contained money
Hartiqans Trial a Starter.
Iiartigan's appearance as defend
ant marks the beginning of tho actual
trial Of cases growing out OF the police
corruption which District Attorney
! Whitman has heen laying bare before
grand juries j. leads by natural
sequence up "a tho trial OF SWc"ne> ON
The Indictment charging MIN with dis
,uading q witness. or q person about 20
become q witness. from "utrrIus th,
jurisdictions which is in itself 81 folony.
1t is likely. viewer. that aftor the
Hartigan trial and before Swooncy
himself Is brought to tho bar the trials
of his alleged collectors pstrolm"n
Robinson and Duff. ~ well as that of
Edward J. Newell. the lawyer involved
IN the Sipp bribery. viii Doe pushed
through
The p,riur, Wltn which Hartsan
was charged centred soieiy on the fact
that he sWoie before the grand jury
that when he went from sweeney s.
Office to Walsh's home ON the morning
of December - he did not carr, e mes
sage money or envelope f.om the in
spector 10 the captain. Walsh svore
that ol the $3.50 sent go FoA bv llarti-
gau that morning TO bc used by FOX
~ keep SIpp "ut OF Tho state. $500
vas in an envelope which iiartigan
brought to him from Swccnc,. and
that ho added $50 to that fund
His wife. who gave her name as
/ Nellie \. Walsh. corroboratcd tn" cap
tain 10y relating that Hartiean came 10
their house that dal ana handed an
envelope to her husband. which when
onened IN the presence of thu thre" of
them was found 10 contain eight 500
hills She testified. as had Captain
Walsh. that Hartigan said he had been
sent over by the inspector
Mre Walsh appeared IN court ia a
purple silk dress. = black coat with A
frir collar and cuffs and new spring
hal of purple straw, topped with q
purple plume. She presented con
,rast with the appearance of her hus-
band. whose worn looking gray suit
Of civilian clothes he wore in the half
slovenly fashion Of the man accus-
toned 10 uniform.
Walsh Whispers Testimony.
Walsh was 2 sick man. iIc had to
ho helped INTO the Ciimlnal Courts
Finding lie was forced To- rest on "a
cnuch in the Districl Attorneys oGi Q
for fifteen minutes before he could
composo himself after his journey from
his Harlem home. and in the Judges
chambers lust before he entered tho
courtroom he was forced Ia lie down
for another quarter Of an hour His
,hvsician. pr William II. Upton. at
tended him every minute. and Walsh
loaned hcavil, on the doctors arm
- he made his way slowly TO the
witness e:and.
In ,hc witnosa chair hc sank down
ike spiri,lces thing. and Amos
every answer hc made on direct AMI
cross examination had (" hc read TO
tho urv BY the stenographcr. Walsh
made no attempt TO tax his scant store
of strength by talking loudly enough
! for tho Jurors TO hear him. hut satisfied
himself with whispering replies which
uere heard only by the stcnographor
and Justice Scsbury.
Those who saw him in his apparent
weak condition expressed grave doubts
,, :. whether lle would ever recover
~uGicicnt!y - testify against Sweeney.