New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-07
Commissioners, Harry ". Newburger
10 interrogate Captain Walsh.

Courts building. Walsh, however, had
even then decided definitely that he
would deal with no one but Whitman.
and he told Newburger that the Fox
accusations we're all false. That re-
port went back TO Waldo yesterday
morning. but in the mean time Walsh
had confessed TO Whitman on Wednes-
day night, and with Newburgcr's re-
port that Walsh denied the Fox accG-
sations the Commissioner had the
morning newspapers yesterday con-
tanning the accounts Of Walsh's con-
fession to Whitman. As A matter Of
fact, Newburger had been gone from
the Walsh home less than an hour
when Whitman entered il.
Waldo Hurries to Soc Gaynor.
| New5urger was sent back 10 see
Walsh again yesterday morning. and
the captain then admitted 10 him the t
| the accounts of his confession 10 Whit
man were true. The new Third Dep
uty made this report to FIR. Waldo, ana
Immediately the Commissioner an
nounced the suspension Of Inspector
Sweeney and Captains Thompson ana
Hussey, former inspectors Of the same
district.
Walshs suspension had been an
nounced some hours previously. I'm
mediately after suspending Walsh
| Waldo hurried down 10 the City Hall
to see Mayor Gaynor, presumably to
report that "one little captain must
be added 10 the previous lone little
lieutenant" who had been discovered
to be grating.
II was natural. of course. that on the
very day the Police Department was
shaken from top 10 bottom by Walsh 8
confession a report that the Mayor
would fire his Police Commissioner
should be going the rounds. Waldo has
declared time and again that the sub
iect of his dismissal as Commissioner
cuss. and on which he would never
comment even 10 the extent of denial.
Neither the Mayor nor the Commits
sioner would say anything Of the nature
OF their tive-minute interview. but the
politicians who have followed the
moves in the police administration
under Waldo. particularly since the
! Rosenthal murder, declared that the
Mayor was only looking for some
strong man who would accept the
troublesome Job before letting Waldo
out.
The three big suspensions of the after
noon. Sweeney's, Hussey's and Thomp-
! sons, came so sharply on the heels OF
Deputy Newburgers second visit 10
| Walsh that il was takon for granted
that Walsh had implicated all OF them
so deeply in the graft net that Waldo
was satisfied that action should be
taken against them. Walsh's own sus-
pension was not announced until after
| Newburger had called on District At
torney Whitman the first thing yester-
day morning.
1t was 2:45 p. NJ. when the Sweeney
Hussey- Thompson suspensions were
announced by the Commissioner, and
apparently some tip-off Of the expected
trouble went out to the parties con-
J cerned. AT any rate. Sweeney was
cleaning out his desk when the sus-
pensioD order arrived i'll Harlem. Hus-
soy, in Far Rockaway, reported sick
on his station house blotter al 2:iJ
D. H.. exactly eight minutes before the
| suspension notice reached that station,
and Thompson said goodby TO some
Of his lieutenants at the Lee avenue
station. in Brooklyn, about an hour be-
fore the notice Of his suspension ar
rived from Headquarters.
| Finds Corroborative Witnesses.
Meanwhile District Attorney Whitman
was carrying through another attack
through the John Doe" authorization
Of the designation which provided the
extraordinary term of the Supreme
Court over which Justice Golf is pre-
siding.
John J. Hartigan, the plainclotnes
imam Of Sweeney's staff, had been called
down to the District Attorneys office.
Hartigan. II is understood. tried TO lay
all the responsibility for his stunt as
money bearing messenger on Captain
Walsh's shoulders until confronted by
Fox. who swore that Hartigan
was not only Sweeney's man but
that Hartigan had stated TO him
that he came direct from Swecney's
office when he brought the money down
to the Tombs.
That fattened Hartigan out some-
what. but Whitman decided TO let him
have a little time to think over serious
" the danger of perjury before going
after him again, and dismissed him
with an order to appear at the District
Attorneys Office again to-day.
James Phillips, a clerical man on
walsh's staff, was another Of the sup
porting witnesses. who will support
Fox and Walsh, who was called TO the
District Attorneys office yesterday.
Phillips, it is said, can support Walsh
particularly upon the vital point Of the
division OF graft money with Sweeney.
and possibly with other inspectors, with
whom Walsh divided before Sweeney
lappeared In Harlem.
These two, Harugan and Phillips. ac-
l.