New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-22

IL is believed the Tammany lawyer
need never face jury II he will agree
To aid the District Attorney.
Sipps Accuse Newell.
The story told By the Sipps. in which
they were mutually corroborative. was
that Newell brought 500 TO Sipp at
the Continental Hotel, Newark, under
an agreement that Sipp would 20 from
there 10 Philadelphia and take a
steamer for Tampa. Fla.
Neither the Sipps nor any one else.
so far as IL known. accused Newell Of
furnishing the money involved in the
deal and II is pretty well understood
that the fund, which was originally at
least $1,000. was put up by two and
possibly three high police officials
Mrs. Sipp was able To testify that the
lawyer in her presence called one OF
these police officials on the telephone
and conferred with him about the
money and the purpose for which it
was to be used, as well as about the de-
tails Of handing ii over 10 Sipp.
Sipp himself. il he testified in ac-
cordance with his previous stories. told
thc grand jury that, although he ac-
copied the money and at first intended
TO carry out the bargain by sailing for
Tampa he learned later it was the plan
of the police TO have him arrested when
hc discmbarked from tho boat AT the
Florida port. when his presence so far
from New York would make it appear
that he was running away, and would
thus initiate against him.
District Attorney Whitman had been
confident for several days that he had
clear caee against Newell. Although
he aims at high police officials mixed
up in graft more than at side issues of
this rat,irc, it IS certain he will prose
cute Newell vigorously. unless the law
yor decides to lay bare all the facts I'm
his possession.
System" After Witnesses.
Tho question OF intimidation or
epiriting away OF witnesses has been
the greatest problem the District At
torncy has had to face in his dealings
with police corruption from the incep-
ton Of the Rosenthal case. Starting
with the murder Of Rosenthal, Which
was i'm itself the most defiant attempt
of all by the system" to silence wit
Nr Whitman haS
had to face that same question in
varying degrees at every step OF his
police inquiry.
In tho case of Eugene A. Fox, the
patrolman indicted for bribery on Sipp's
testimony, the District Attorney is sat
islied from the results Of his inquiries
,n date that the 5000 cash bail sud
denly furnished for Fox last Saturday
after both Mr.. Whitman and Justice
Gofr had left the Criminal Courts
Huilding came from practically the
same sources that supplied the $1,000
getaway money 70 Sipp.
Because Of his discoveries along that
line. il is probable that Mr.: Whitman
will go before Justice Goff to-day with
a motion that the bail On Fox be in
creased from 5000 to $4,000. The
District Attorney does not think II
beyond the bounds Of possibility that
the same forces which so suddenly fur-
nished 5000 in cash for Fox's tenn
porary release. might raise a much
larger fund to send him away to some
n-extraditable country with COM
Portable purse.
While Fox was not the rings" only
collector in the rich field Of police graft
in Harlem, and while it is now report
ed that he dealt at least part OF the
time through a go-bctween who ham
died the money on its way to higher
police officials, il Is the belief In the