New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-15
before. the Curran aldermanic commit
sipp's Story s.uns swesney'


sipp's Story stuns Sweeney
sipp.s version of this part of the al
fair was that Sweeney was stuns i"'C
action by his unqualified Statements -
the inspectors negligence before 'no
Curran committee, but whatever the
reason il was brought out tha'
Sweeney began his hunt for sometnlns
on which to base charges against Slpp
Immediately after Sipp testined' inc
affidavits of the two women produced
nv Sweeney's man, Grossman, toge'Hel
with the evidence presented by Gross
man himself, were thtowh out by the
grand jury, with the intimation 'ha'
the whole case was a police frame
up.''
The formal filing Of the indictment
against Fox win be the first acuon OF
tho grand Jury to-day: The arson
cases. will. engage. its attention TO-DAY
and election cases tomorrow. accord
ing to expectations, SO that'1t Will DE
Friday before the graft exposures
started by Sipp will be tale>n up gam:
Those who have followed the deVel"
opfifents or the police graft scaAdai
since the Essential murder claim that
the police trial of Fox will be discon-
tinued, in view of the. criminal charge.
brought against him by the grand jury.
According TO Commissioner 3 Waldo's
policy in the Becker. and subsequent
cases, the Indictment automatically
suspends. a police officer. and it is not
believed the police trial will be con-
tinued now. especially. in view Of the
fact that the police made one earlier
effort to hamper the District Attor-.
ney in he Fox case and failed,
Aside from the direct charges OF po-
lice graft which resulted in the indict-
ment of Fox, it was learned that Sipp
had received from a mysterious source
$1,000 on the understanding that he
would not come back to testify. The
money was brought to him while he
was in Newark. a few days after he
had testified before the Curran COM
mittea Sipp asserted that the money
came to him from a lawyer friend OF
Fox, the patrolman whom he accuses.
Edward j. Newell, Sipp's lawyer, said,
however. he had never heard Of any
such gift or bribe, 10 his client, and
Jacob Rouss one Of Fox's lawyers, also
denied the truth of the story, so far as
his knowledge went,
Denies Fox Will rSquesl" -...
Rouss also denied the repeated ru-
mors that Fox was preparing to give
whatever information on graft he had
TO District Attorney Whitman. Fox
knew nothing of the charges made
against him by s!pp, Rouss declared,
and therefore had no Information for
the District Attorney.
1t was learned. however that Fox,
after he was transferred to the West
152d street station was seen two and
three shines a week in and around the
district of the, East. 126th street sta
ton, and that on every such occasion
he always went into the most elaborate
explanations possible TO explain his
presence in the district of which Sipp
had accused him of being the col
lector"
The story told by Sipp, on which the
indictment. OF. Fox. was based, was that
for the two years ending January !,
1912, he had paid 500 a month to Fox
as protection money for his actiVi-
ties as owner and manager Of the Bal
tic Hotel, a Raines law establishment,
which he sold out to a syndicate headed
by Max Hochstlm in the latter part Of
1911 In return, Sipp swore, his place
was never Taided by the police.
Thomas j. Dorian, who. under the new
ownership, succeeded Sipp as manager,
swore he had continued the graft pay
ments to Fux up TO and including De-
cember 1, 1919.
Sipp and mis- son, who spent Monday
night at the Hotel Navarro, in Newark,
came into New York by taxicab under
the guard of Assistant District At
torney II JiGroehl and two county de-
tectives shortly before noon yesterday.
IT was expected the police would make
"a great effort to subpoena Sipp as a
witness for the police trial of Fox, set
for next Friday. and it was thought
possible they might even attempt to
arrest him on lanew charge. in spite of
the bunglinG failure they. made of their
previous attempt to-have him indicted
on a charge thrown out by the grand
jury.
Police Await the Sipps.
The Sips arrived, at the Criminal
Courts Building at 1870 o'clock, and
they, found a. crowd of, dXes hundred.
awaiting them. Something less than
n. dozen police officers in plain clothes
from Police Headquarters were in the
crowd armed with subpoenas, signed
by "R. Waldo Commissioner" COM
manding the presence Of Sipp and his
son at Headquarters next Friday at
he Fox trial.
Sipp had been advised by his own
lawyers that these subpenas were not