New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-04

Fox, the physician said. Even on days
when the patients condition showed
such temporary improvement that he
was able to sit up for few moments,
DR.. Upton said he had not been per-
mtted to see a newspaper or TO dis
cuss the charges brought against him.
Walsh's illness is due to complica-
ton Of kidney and heart diseases.
District Attorney Whitman now has
six witnesses who will appear before
the extraordinary grand jury next
Monday TO present evidence looking
toward the indictment of the police
captain and the police inspector most
intimately concerned in the Harlem
graft on vice. George \. Slpp, Thomas
J. Dorian and Eugene +. Fox will be
three Of these witnesses. one Of the
other three is a woman whose name
and story Sipp gave TO Mr.. Whitman
Yesterday. Sipp also furnished the
name OF a man who Will likewise tes-
tify, and Dorian told the prosecutor OF
still another corroborating witness. Mr..
Whitman declined 10 give the names
Of these witnesses. because he frankly
admitted he was afraid they might be
intimidated by the system"
In addition to those indicated above,
the District Attorney will have also as
witness next Monday several persons
,.nGtar1lN hQ
would induce TO come forward.
Fox has not vet had time 10 do more
than sketch over in outline what he
can give TO Whitman. Although no
guarantees. inducements or threats
were held out to him. il is practically
a proposition of allowing Fox the
present week TO make good on his
story.
The convicted policeman--the first
ono in New York City's history who
ever pleaded guilty TO an indictment
for bribery and extortion--can give the
District Attorney the names of the men
10 whom he handed his collections.
From tho frcemasonry Of the graft
craft he can also give Whitman the
names of other collectors. and with
Foxs Information 10 use as club on
them Mr.. Whitman is satisfied he can
produce results in that direction in the
same way that he has with Fox.
Immunity for Captain.
This mass Of information OH the
,.l,., Of for
which is practically in Whltman's
hands now. Will undoubtedly over
shadow even that Of the days of the
Lexow and other inquiries. and the
District Attorney believes there is a
strong probability that one or another
of the high police officials who are i'm
plicated will follow the example set by
the present chief inspector. Max
Schmittbergcr. who took an immunity
bath by exposing the comparatively
insignificant police graft Of the earlier
DAYS
In answer 70 definite question put
to the District Attorney last night by
q Tribune reporter. Mr.. Whitman said
n the police captain Of whose indict-
ment he is now confident elects to
reveal what he knows Of the grafters
of the police system" hc Whitman,
will agree to recommend to the court
that tho captain receive immunity.
Fox has already told Whitman that nc
acted as the collector for the captain i'm
: n aH fran, March IfDs m nocop,har
1912. His total collections were approx
mately 500 a month. lie CAV, the Dis
trct Attorney "A detailed list OF the places
from which he collected this captain =
blackmail. with the specific amounts he
collected from each place.
Whitman has also been informed By
Fox that before his work M vice-gra ft
| collector he was an excise graft collector
| for the same and other captains and THAI
at odd times he collected some OF the
| gambling house graft in the same precinct
| and for the same captain.
According To Fox's story. however the
graft collection was carefully divided up.
and the same hotel, for instance. would
| have TO do business sometimes with two
collectors-one from the captain Of the
precinct, tit o'Hfl lIolll the inspector Ol
| the district.
| This Information is taken as the first
satisfactory explanation of the peculiar
fact sworn to by both Sipp and Dorian
before the aldermanic committee. that the
graft on the Avanel Hotel after the Hoch-
slim syndicate took over control of that
property from Sipp was unexpaiDably
reduced from N00 a month to $50 month
in 1912. Fox explained yesterday that the
inspector had become frightened OF the
crowd which took over control of Sipp' 3
old hotel. and decided ~ foresO collecting
from them, for a time at least The cap
tain, however, entertained no such scrt-
pies and kept right on taking his $50 a
month, even after the storm Of criticism
aimed at the police In the wake of the
Rosenthal murder. This captains collec-
tons. Fox said. continued undmlnished
right up to and including December. 1912.
OF almost equal importance to the Dis
trict Attorneys general graft inquiry. al
though not so sensational as the Fox in
cident, was the story told by Thomas j.
Dorian to Whitman yesterday afternoon.
Like Sipp. he dropped out Of town sud-
denly after the session on the witness
stand OF the Curran committee. but he did
not appear again until yesterday. The