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guilty n the prosecutor would guarantee
suspended sentence.

guilty n the prosecutor would guarantee
a suspended sentence
Again Mr.. Whitman refused because
I sentence is a matter for the court. Mr..
| Whitman also declined to agree to ask
| for suspension of sentence until the
| plea of guilty had been entered and ne
knew what help Newell could give the
! state
1t is understood that Newell admitted
! TO MIR. Whitman that he had received
! 81 200 from "a member OF a firm of law
! yers whom he understood TO be acting
on behalf of Policeman Fox; that he
passed 800 OF this on to Sipp. his own
client. keeping $500 for counsel fees
| that he knew what the money was for,
| and that on the night OF December 20.
| the night before the money was passed
| to him he met the then Police Inspector
! James T.. IIussey I'm Silsbee's restaurant.
in Brooklyn, and had dinner with the
former inspector and present captain.
At this point of his story, IT is under
stood. Newell baked at telling what Mr..
Whitman suspected he could tell.
Newell. admitting his meeting with
liussey, was unwilling to implicate the
former inspector or any other police
known for some time OF the meeting
between Hussey and Newell and has be-
lieved that the arrangements for the
transaction were made at this meeting.
| There already had been two meetings
between Fox and another of the Harlem
inspectors. said by Fox to have been
cX-lnspeCtor James +. Thompson. at
which. Fox says. the arrangements were
made with him.
whitman Takes Firm, stand
District Attorney Whitman had little
10 say about the conference yesterday,
but that little was to the point. II
Newell maintains his present attitude.
the prosecutor says. the felony indict-
ment against him will be brought to
trial on Thursday morning. Mr.. Whit
man and the members of his staff are
| confident Of conviction. Having no
doubt on this score. Mr.. Whitman has
| taken the position that he will dictate
| the terms upon which Newell may
come over 10 the side of the State and
that he will accept nothing but the
| complete surrender which he dema nded
| yesterday.
At tho conclusion OF the conference
matters were still In the air, and Newell
and his counsel will call on Whitman
again to-day. Acquaintances of Newell
predict that eventually he will come
around to the District Attorneys terms.
The District Attorneys interest in
| Newell lies in the fact that he thinks
Newell can assure the Indictment and
probable conviction Of eX-lnspector Hus-
sey on a charge Of brblrg a witness,
| which is one of the thirteen indictments
! now stnding against eX-lnspector
Sweeney.
Another matter in which the District
Attorney believes Newell can be of as
| sistance is in rounding mp and knitting
| together the whole story OF the Police
! Departments activity In the Sipp matter.
1t liz understood that Newell is ready
now to implicate the lawyer who passed
the money to him, but Mr.. Whitman is
not satisfied with that.
Likely to he Disbarred.
While the District Attorneys office
has admitted its interest in Newell. II
was pointed out by members Of the
staff yesterday that the police officials
whom 1t is desired to reach with
Newelrs help have been accused al
ready before the Grand Jury OF recetv-
ing graft, so that Newell is not so
necessary to the state as to warrant
taking him on his own terms.
In any case II Is expected that the
felony indictment will cause Newells
disbarment. no matter what disposition
| finally Is made OF his case.
| Another man who has short time
in which to make up his mind what t0
do is Policeman John j. Hartisan,
formerly OF Sweeney's stan, convicted
of periury Hartigan has TODAY only
in which TO admit that he took an en-
velope from Inspector Sweeney TO Capt.
Walsh on December 30. He will be
sentenced tomorrow by Justice Sea-
bury.