New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-08
Grand Jury Refuses to IndiCt
ExiIed Hotel Man, and Will
investigate Two Officials
High in Department.
WOMEN ADMIT "FRAME-UP"
Testify They Signed Afidavits
Just to 0blige-New Angle
of Scandal Brings in Sub
ornation of Perjury
by Grafters.

The General Sessions grand jury. be-
fore which the peculiar case instituted
by the police against George \. Sipp
was presented yesterday. did not in
dict the former owner of Harlem
Raines law hotel. More than that. it
practically decided that the police case
against the man who had accused the
police Of grating was so peculiar that
if would bear further investigation
with view to finding out whether
subornation Of perjury has been COM
mitted by a lieutenant and an inspec
tor in The Police Department.
out of the maze of double dealing
and contradiction which the police case
against Sipp exposed yesterday these
pertinent facts stand out:
That the two women induced by some
one in the Police Department TO make
accusations against s'pp did not know
what they were swearing % when they
subscribed to the affidavits;
That the alleged criminal act by Sipp
had first come to the knowledge of
some one in the Police Department in
July, 1909. three and half years ago.
but the man who heard the story at
that time kept silent about II until Sipp
aeeused the police Of graftino
hno that high official Of the Police
Department did attempt to persuade
drop his accusations against police
prafters. in return for which he offered
to have the police charges against Sipp
dropped.
The grand jury is far from satisfied
with the Sipp case as il stands now.
There is no question now of proceed
inc further against Sipp. That angle
Of the case has dropped to insiGniri-
cance compared TO the question Of
whether the New York Police Depart
ment attempted TO commit subornation
Of perjury 10 intimidate a man who
might expose the grating of some Of
the highest officials of the department,
Police Witnesses in TansIe.
Morris Grossman, detective at
taehed to Inspector Sweeney's staff
and Martha Miller and Georgiana Ris-
niger, the two women concerned in the
alleged case were the witnesses heard
by the grand jury. and when their COM
bined testimony had produced nothing
more than an astounding mass OF de-
mails and contradictions of one another
District Attorney Whitman was in
formed that the police had no other
evidence TO present.
The three witnesses were before the
grand jury altogether for about three
hours. II was said the grand jurors
themselves took the deepest interest
ia the case and examined both the
women and the police officer at lsT 9Th
An examination Of the affidavits sup
posedly made by the two women dis
closed contradictions even in these
written documents and the testimony
OF all three witnesses was said to have
been entirely at variance with the alle-
cations as set forth in the afiidavits.
Altogether the session of the grand
jury disclosed what was apparently
the most complete case Of bungling on
he part of the police that they have
exhibited since the famors record of
he night of Rosenthals II irder, when
hey inscribed three incorrect numbers
or the murder car" on the blotter
and arrested the only man who gave
the correct number
Meanwhile. Edward j. Newell, Sips
attorney, who has conferred with the
former hotelkeeper in Atlantic City.
has been in communication with one of
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