The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-11
POLICE CRAFT
WITNESS HERE
New York Official Is
Persuaded to Give
Testimony
Several Said to Have Taken
! Refuge. in Hiding Here
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That Bridgeport as well as many Of
the surrounding towns and cities is
now and has for the past month been
the hiding place Of refugees and wit
nesses in the police graft scandal in
New York city, has but recently came
to the ears of the police.
One New York city official whose tes-
tinony is wanted In connection with
the "jobbing'' or planting of a gun
upon the famous gangster, Jack Zelig,
is now in Bridgeport, where he is said
to have been visited both by promi-
nent New York poaee captains and
members of District Attorney Whit
mans staff and is known to be a guest
of we'll known local hosiery.
In fact as late as yesterday after
noon he was in conversation with
Frank Moss, counsel to the Curran
Aldermanic Investigating committee,
and is said to have consented to re-
turn to New York on Thursday next.
volun tarily, to tell what he knows of
the incidents preceding the alleged
planting. of a gun by Policemen White
and SSteinert, members of Becker $
squad, upon the person Of Zelig.
That members of District Attorney
W1hitman's staff as well as the gam
blers made famous in the recent
Becker and Mary Goode Investigations,
New York police captains whose acts
have been criticized in the press, and
former members of the famous HespNr
club have rend dezveued here In private
meetings is matter of current com
gment in sporting circles. InfoFunantS
of The Farmer assert that as many
as fifteen individuals involved IN the
present graft inquiry have been here
at one time.
while the whereabouts of but one
witness, George A. Greenberg, an in
spector in the New York department.
OF sewers is known 30 the police.
others are said to have secured osten-
SibIe positions about the town in the
various cafes, while still more FORUM
ate refugees, who are in regular receipt
oe funds, are living at the better ho-
tells under assumed names. One is
said to reside. in Stratford, where his
features are not so likely to be OBJ
served by detectives, and several more
are said to have taken refuge In Dam
bury. UP to this time. regularly es-
taiblished uaYnunication with certain
of the New York police and politicians
Is said to have been maintained
When seen in a, local restaurant this
morning by a reporter for The Farmer,
George A. Greenberg admitted his
identity, and the fact that he had not
only been in communication with va
rioue members of the New York police
force, but had been seen in person by
Assistant District Attorney SiTln, OF
New York He also admitted having
promised to return and testify before
stance of Attorney Moss, but he abso-
lutely refused to make any personal
stat teuent upon his connection with af-
fairs there at the present time.
When asked concerning the status
of the various witnesses seeking ref
uge in Bridgeport the city authorities
| admitted knowledge of their presence,
but said that they have been closely
watched during their residence here.
| that they had committed no aots
against the public peace, and as no
warrants had been issued against
them, police action would be unwar-
ranted