New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-17

lice officials based on their desperate
attempt TO bride Sipp to keep away
from New York. al a time when they
knew he was wanted as a grand jury
witness.
Sipp himself. at his home in Harlem
enlarged upon this point last night. and
made public for the first time the fun
story Of the rings" plot TO keep him
away.
Eight days before his arrest. Sipp said
a lawyer came to him at the continental
Hotel. in Newark and told him $3.50 "haa
been supplied" and $3.50 more was coming
il he would take a trip South. The No'
additional came on the following Monday
as promised and the $1,000. less the $500
held out by the lawyer as Zee, was
given TO Sipp.
~ that time. Sipp says, he was willing
10 "go South" FOR the sake OF protecting
his friends in the Police Department
The scheme was that he was 10 take the
Merchants and Miners boat from Phila-
delphia to Tampa, Fla. but Just as he
was about to follow out the arrangement
ne WAS tipped on lildl tl' B'iAN' i'''N
planned to "double-cross' him by having
him arrested as soon as he landed from
the boat in Tampa
The charges, Sipp says he was told,
were the same which were afterWard pre-
ferred against him when Deputy Commits
sioner Dougherty obtained HIS arrest In
Atlantic City. but Sipp said last night
that the turning point in his case, where
he decided 10 lend his aid TO the District
Attorney rather than to his friends in the
Police Department. came when he learned
OF the frame which was to be
worked on him IL he took the boat for
Tampa.
At the same time. Sipp said. a lawyer
appeared at the Newark hotel with an
affidavit for Howard Sipp to sign The
two Sipps examined the paper. and found
il was to the effect that Howard had
never paid or witnessed his fathers pay
ing any money 10 Fox Young Sipp re-
fused 10 sign.
The purpose was. OF course" said sipp,
"to destroy Towards value as corrob-
orative witness, and il was from that mo-
ment that I began 10 be suspicious that
Inc DOlft NOulu 30 " dllil'oA bAis A''' So
to discredt me in any way they could.
Says Fox Knows Who Got H."
The former Harlem hotelkeeper asserted
that Fox could tell exactly where the
graft money that he collected went TO-,
and FOR that reason he added. the sys-
tenn was panic-stricken since Fox has
been put under actual arrest and indict-
ment.
THE best proof OF this fear on the ,art
Of the system. said Sipp. rs that in
place OF the thea that we're sent 10 me
from the time ! testified before the alder
n en- until a few days ago, I am now re-
ceiving all kinds OF communications from
all kinds Of people. begging me not to
mention the name OF Captain This and In
spector That. They are beginning 10 real
ize now, for the first time. that Mr.. Whit
nan is going 10 get them, and you'n see
them getting sick and applying for leaves
of absence and that sort Of thing by the
wholesale soon"
When Sipp saw a copy OF Mayor Gay
nor's statement in an evening newspaper.
I'm which the Mayor dashed him unmerci-
fully. he declared he bore the Mayor no
ill-wiIl for that, and added that as mat
ter Of fact he had always been great adj
mrer OF Mayor Gaynor.
He had been so interested in Mayor
Gaynor Sipp said. that he called up st.
Marys Hospital, in Hoboken, every day
during the time the Mayor was confined
there after he was shot.
Il consider Mayor Gaynor the best
Mayor the liquor dealers ever had" said
spp. Didn't lie order the police not to
20 into saloons. because he knew that II
they did the liquor dealers would have TO
pay them to keep out"