New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-13
HART|GAN PATTEO ON
BACK BY SYSTEM
Detectives and Patrolmen
Throng About Him as He
Starts for Sing Sing.
CALL HIM A "BRICK'
Policeman Convicted of Per.
Jury Cries Il Am Innocent"
as Prison Gate Closes
Behind Him.

benlnQ Hill.
With free use of sacred phrases
that recalled the line The devil can
cite Scripture for his purpose Patrol q
man John j. Hartiean protested his in
nocence anew yesterday before going
TO Sing Sing To don "A convicts stripes
and begin his sentence of not less than
two years and six months and not more
than three years and six months FOR
perjury resulting from his loyalty 70
the System"
Hartigan's loyalty to the system
was rewarded with a quasi-ofhcial rec
Ognition at Police Headquarters, for
when Sheriff Hamburger took him there
10 be photographed and measured for
the Rogues' Gallery detectives and po-
licemen thronged around him. patel
him ON the back shook his hand and
told him he was brick.
Reporters were not permitted TO Wi
ness this Humiliation Of Hartigan,
and were barred from the room where
he was measured and photographed.
Newspaper photographers who tried to
take Hartigan's picture on the street
outside Police Headquarters We're
threatened with arrest. one police
man, in full uniform, took off his rub
Der coat and threw it between HART
gan and the cameras.
JuIius's Ire Aroused.
This last was too much for Sheriff
Hamburger. for the little Sheriff turned
10 the policeman and said.
This must stop. This is my job II
you don't get out of here I'll arrest
You"
The Jealous member of The Finest"
then withdrew and skunk into Police
Headquarters
When Hartigan reached the Grand
Central Terminal similar scenes were
enacted. a score OF detectives doing
their level best TO prevent the news
paper photographers from picturing
tnell convict brOtncr
1t was 2.4J in the afternoon when
Sheriff Hamburger finally delivered
Hartigan 10 Warden Kennedy. who as
signed him 10 cell not far from the
death house. where another Of the "Sys-
TENS members. Lieutenant Charles
Becker. is confined. Just before the
prison gate closed behind him. Harti-
gan declared: Il am innocent, / am
being crucihed"
il was while be- was IN the Tombs
that Hartigan gave out an Interview
declaring his innocence Not content
with a mere protcstation Hartigan. "A
convicted pcrjurcr. called upon his
Creator 10 witness the truth" of what
he said. and spoke sobbingy of his
son and wife. and tearfully told of~be-
ing made brave by the nigf ,ly prayers
of his child. and 10 crown it all-took
out a set OF rosary beads
why" exclaimed District Attorney
Whitman when these things were re-
lated To- him. "Hartigan 9wore that he
never saw Inspector Sweeney since he
had been in the TOmhs. although he
had almost weekly visits from him.
Every time I suspected Sweeney had
visited him | would ask Hartigan il he
hadn't seen Sweeney. h. would cX-
claim. + swear ON my Wifc's soul.
swear on the head of my boy. | swear
on thousand Bibles that haven't
seen sweeney. This he said not once,
but several times"
The only thing fresh i'm Harticans
interview was that ne admitted that II
was he wEo. at Inspector Swccncys
direction wrote on a typewriter the
rramcd-up charges OF immortality
against Sipp that We're used by the
police in a futile effort To get Sipp out
Of District Attorney Whitmans hands
when ne had Sipp in Atlantic city.
Says 'Hartigan Lied.
while suspected IIartigan of hay
ing written those charges against
Sim" said District Attorney Whitman,
Il was never able to prove IT, Harti-
gan lied To me there, too. He de-
clared time and again that he knew
nothing about them. Probably he'll
admit that he took the money from
Sweeney t. Walsh before he stops.
II was learned last night that the